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d45/70
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Posted: 4 November 2008 02:32 AM |
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The granddaughter and I went out shooting to day. She is 9 and did all the carnage!!!!
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WildBill
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Posted: 4 November 2008 03:37 AM |
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Ya know, that looks like fun.
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Old Grunt
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| Joined: | 25 October 2008 |
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Posted: 4 November 2008 03:56 AM |
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WildBill wrote: Ya know, that looks like fun.
Bill
It sure does,now I know how me and the kids are going to despose of our halloween art
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SCSlim
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| Joined: | 2 May 2008 |
| Location: | Boise, Idaho USA |
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Posted: 4 November 2008 04:53 PM |
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There's 5 little punkins with painted-on faces sitting on my front porch. I was gonna take them for a little one-way ride today, but it's raining here, kinda cold and windy (and I wanted to vote, then watch the election coverage on Fox News), sooooo ... maybe they'll get a reprieve until tomorrow. But their fate is sealed one way or the other.
I don't have a young 'un or a 10-22 to do the honors, so I'll have to do them myself with a heavier artillery selection. I'm thinking 100 yards, .30-'06, 165 grain Ballistic Tips at 2800fps. The gourds are only about 5" in diameter, so that should be a decent challenge at that distance.
Oh, the humanity and all the pumpkins ...
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guntech59
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| Joined: | 25 March 2007 |
| Location: | Carthage, New York USA |
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Posted: 8 November 2008 04:43 AM |
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SCSlim wrote: There's 5 little punkins with painted-on faces sitting on my front porch. I was gonna take them for a little one-way ride today, but it's raining here, kinda cold and windy (and I wanted to vote, then watch the election coverage on Fox News), sooooo ... maybe they'll get a reprieve until tomorrow. But their fate is sealed one way or the other.
I don't have a young 'un or a 10-22 to do the honors, so I'll have to do them myself with a heavier artillery selection. I'm thinking 100 yards, .30-'06, 165 grain Ballistic Tips at 2800fps. The gourds are only about 5" in diameter, so that should be a decent challenge at that distance.
Oh, the humanity and all the pumpkins ...
C'mon, with a scoped rifle, you should go to 300 and give the poor things a fighting chance!
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SCSlim
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Posted: 8 November 2008 04:13 PM |
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You're probably right, guntech. Give them punkins a sporting chance. Trouble is, where I shoot, the dry wash only runs straight for about 200 yards, then takes a sharp left behind a side hill. I haven't mastered the art of bouncing shots around corners yet - at least not accurately. Besides, that area is wide open BLM land populated by range cattle, cowboys, hikers, chuckar hunters, and an occasional ATV/dirtbike rider high tailing it up the wash from Hemingway Butte, so the ricochet shots are not really safe. Used to be less crowded out there, but those days are no more. In fact, I pretty much have to go out during the week to have a chance of having the place to myself for safe shooting.
I'll set the gourds out at 200 yards. That's where the scope was last zero'd for with that particular load. Guess we'll see if my late son (God rest his soul) knocked it out of kilter when he took it on a hunting trip a couple years back. Damn, I miss that kid.
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guntech59
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Posted: 10 November 2008 08:51 PM |
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SCSlim wrote: You're probably right, guntech. Give them punkins a sporting chance. Trouble is, where I shoot, the dry wash only runs straight for about 200 yards, then takes a sharp left behind a side hill. I haven't mastered the art of bouncing shots around corners yet - at least not accurately. Besides, that area is wide open BLM land populated by range cattle, cowboys, hikers, chuckar hunters, and an occasional ATV/dirtbike rider high tailing it up the wash from Hemingway Butte, so the ricochet shots are not really safe. Used to be less crowded out there, but those days are no more. In fact, I pretty much have to go out during the week to have a chance of having the place to myself for safe shooting.
I'll set the gourds out at 200 yards. That's where the scope was last zero'd for with that particular load. Guess we'll see if my late son (God rest his soul) knocked it out of kilter when he took it on a hunting trip a couple years back. Damn, I miss that kid.
Please let me know when you do, I need some instruction, also!!
Sorry to here about your son. He must have been quite a (young) man.
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SCSlim
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Posted: 11 November 2008 05:04 AM |
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Thank you for the condolences.
Brian was in his prime and he was from his childhood my best hunting and fishing buddy. Sadly, his choices in life led to a rough road for him, but he never lost his heart of gold or willingness to help another out with even the smallest of tasks. A broken marriage was the last straw for him and he shot himself, a year ago this past March. I can't imagine the pain and despair that he must have felt, and worse, that there was no other way he could see to make it stop.
I miss him every day, as do his mother, his son and little girl.
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