Love the not-so-subtle way Rob just cuts thru alla the BS and gets right to the heart of the matter! 
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Love the not-so-subtle way Rob just cuts thru alla the BS and gets right to the heart of the matter!
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Robrites
Heart, liver, back-strap....
It's huntin' season in these here hills!
I'm not much for offal meat but I'll take a nice juicy elk back-strap any day.
you really should try some heart some day. i was alarmed at what i had been leaving in the woods for possums & 'yotes...
Gross.
Give the scraps to the mutts.
Straps and scraps are all that's on Ohio deer.
Give the scraps to the mutts.
Straps and scraps are all that's on Ohio deer.
St. Phatty
Active member
You get a chance to watch a lone wild turkey eat dried blackberries on the vine
While you're walking to get the mail.
While you're walking to get the mail.
Not in SE Ohio.
Well they eat plenty of weed out that way!
I know. I fed em.
Damn it.
I know. I fed em.
Damn it.
St. Phatty
Active member
I tried taking a class at a rural community college.
It was like a high school run by the TSA.
I found a much more collegial environment at the local shooting range. There, there are people like a retired Marine sniper instructor, and the state police firearms technician, who seem to enjoy talking about firearms technology.
I am personally obsessed with finding the bullets that have the best BC, at each weight.
One example is the Sierra Palma 150 grain 308. Most 150 grain 308's have a BC around .4. The Sierra Palma has a BC of .505.
Of course, BC isn't really important till you are shooting at targets past 300 yards, and there are very few shooting ranges that have targets past 300 yards.
Of course, it might not be a rural-urban thing. I think if I lived in the city of Boise Idaho, people would be more firearms literate than in, for example, rural Sonoma County California.
Also I found a 69 grain .223 bullet with a BC of .375. Up till now one of the best compromises was the Hornady 68 grain with the BC of .359. Anytime you can pick up .016 of BC with a weight cost of 1 grain, that's a good compromise.
It was like a high school run by the TSA.
I found a much more collegial environment at the local shooting range. There, there are people like a retired Marine sniper instructor, and the state police firearms technician, who seem to enjoy talking about firearms technology.
I am personally obsessed with finding the bullets that have the best BC, at each weight.
One example is the Sierra Palma 150 grain 308. Most 150 grain 308's have a BC around .4. The Sierra Palma has a BC of .505.
Of course, BC isn't really important till you are shooting at targets past 300 yards, and there are very few shooting ranges that have targets past 300 yards.
Of course, it might not be a rural-urban thing. I think if I lived in the city of Boise Idaho, people would be more firearms literate than in, for example, rural Sonoma County California.
Also I found a 69 grain .223 bullet with a BC of .375. Up till now one of the best compromises was the Hornady 68 grain with the BC of .359. Anytime you can pick up .016 of BC with a weight cost of 1 grain, that's a good compromise.
I had a Remington 700 bdl w/a bull barrel, a straight 20X Unertl scope & mounts rifle was a .22-250. With factory Remington ammo I could drop 5 inside the X every time @ 200 yards, woodchucks out to 350-375 yards, again w/Remington factory ammo.
Could I have done better w/my own reloads?
I had all the equipment from A-Z, RCBS Rock Chucker... I bought it all to reduce the cost of my Weatherby Magnum shells, costing me a fortune, and this is back in 1979-80 prices. Then my uncle, a licensed firearms dealer starting getting me extremely nice deals on W'by factory ammo.the Rock Chucker went unused until sold to a friend.......
St. Phatty
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I had a Remington 700 bdl w/a bull barrel, a straight 20X Unertl scope & mounts rifle was a .22-250. With factory Remington ammo I could drop 5 inside the X every time @ 200 yards, woodchucks out to 350-375 yards, again w/Remington factory ammo.
Could I have done better w/my own reloads?
the Rock Chucker went unused until sold to a friend.......
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DAMN !! That's a double awesome post.
Weatherby brass is beautiful. Love the rounded corners. They should make lamps - or Cannabis pipes - too.
So true about 5 gallon buckets. Twice I have asked the local hardware store if I can have the old 5 gallon buckets when they have a "bucket sale". So then I get to go through stacks of hundreds of buckets to pick out the good ones.
It took me about 6 months to get the stuck ones apart. I didn't even try.
walked away from 2 buckets last week, ain't come this far in life just to pluck w/buckets.
Snook
Still Learning
I had a Remington 700 bdl w/a bull barrel, a straight 20X Unertl scope & mounts rifle was a .22-250. With factory Remington ammo I could drop 5 inside the X every time @ 200 yards, woodchucks out to 350-375 yards, again w/Remington factory ammo.
Could I have done better w/my own reloads?
the Rock Chucker went unused until sold to a friend.......
UNERTL! They were the sought after target scopes in the 50s/60s.. they still make them?Or do you just have a long memory??
EDIT: and yes, groups would have been tighter with worked up reloads..
When you live in the country and yer out walking the fields, if you happen to see a woodchuck nearby dive into a hole, you can go up to that hole and make grunting woodchuck sounds (similar to a frog)and that chuck will poke it's head out and 'talk' to you!
..... no, honest, I've DONE this before, it really does works!
and that chuck will poke it's head out and 'talk' to you!
..... no, honest, I've DONE this before, it really does works!
Ever been to a turkey farm with a million turkeys?
Gobble Gobble Gobble
Nope, the closest I've been to a turkey farm is seeing Sarah Palin interviewing on TV with live turkeys being stuffed into a de-heading machine in the background!!! ..... STILL trying to erase the memory
don't even bother trying, that bitch Palin's face is etched inside my mind as well.......
..... STILL trying to erase the memory
