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Offline handirifle

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« on: October 10, 2005, 08:51:06 PM »
Mac1170 sent me a PM (checkin up on me), yes I still lurk here nearly every day.  He was wondering if I was getting ready for deer season.  Here is what I answered.

Well sort of.  I got tags for up north but looks like I'll not have time.  I do have tags for bear  and it is statewide so I'll go local for that.

Also gonna try bobcat this year and do some coyote hunting.  Haven't done that in a long time.

Am gonna tryout my 17HMR on the cats.  I figure if they are very large I'll go for head shots and if in the 20-25lb range it will be heart/lung with the 20gr gamepoint loads.

How about you guys?
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2005, 10:10:02 PM »
Handirifle

My son and I, will be heading over across Montana to hunt mule deer.  I'll be using my 45-90 and toting along my Marlin 336CS .35 Remington as my back up just in case something goes wrong with the Rolling Block.

Supose to go elk hunting later in November as well.  :D
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2005, 11:22:02 PM »
Heading out for the pheasant opener on Saturday with my nephew.  Also gonna get in a squirrel hunt with a buddy of mine in a couple weeks.  Deer season is a few weeks off.  I plan on buying the multi zone license, then I will be able to hunt north in the rifle zone and south in the shotgun zone.  I really want to get out with my 45-70.  I feel like a little kid again.  This will be my first hunting in many years.
Good Luck, Handi.
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2005, 01:41:50 AM »
Good to see you post here again Handirifle.
Me, I am actually finishing up my groundhog run. With the weather getting cooler, they will be more scarce soon. Just got one yesterday with my 17 HMR. I love the little Hummer. Strange thing, and I don't mean to get to graphic here, I took a head shot at it from 100yards. It plowed head first, absolutely brain dead. Yet for about a min it was still kicking and spining circles, with it's head on the ground of course. Nerves and reflexes are a strange thing on animals that you know are dead on the spot.
Anyway, yeah..deer season is soon and I am still working out the kinks with my 30-06 UltraComp. I think I will put a Choate stock on it soon.
Good luck on with the Bobcats, bears and yotes :D
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« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2005, 06:13:06 AM »
Hi all,
Thanks for the welcome.

I sure miss hunting squirrels, the county north of here has a season, but not this one.  Maybe stoke some FMJ rounds in the 17HMR and head north?

As for pheasant, haven't seen one anywhere near here for years.  Not since developers built over all the alfalpha fields :cry:
Haven't shot a groundhod since I was a kid.  Always used the 22LR I carried for my trapline.  Funny about the headshots.  Mine just dropped like a stone.

Montanan, good luck with that BIG bore deer hunt.
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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2005, 09:33:28 AM »
I'll be going after a mule deer bucks with my bow, whitetail buck (unless I get one with my bow), mulie doe and cow elk with my rifle and coyotes.  Work this year could be a blessing or a curse. in my day job a project I am involved with has a go live date  Nov 14 which has the potential of messing up my 4 day cow elk hunt thats 8 days later, and I may not get my weekends to hunt deer either.  But my other job is probably ending so i'll be able to take my days off and hunt coyotes through the winter :).
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« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2005, 09:43:04 AM »
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I'll be going after a mule deer bucks with my bow, whitetail buck (unless I get one with my bow), mulie doe and cow elk with my rifle and coyotes.  Work this year could be a blessing or a curse. in my day job a project I am involved with has a go live date  Nov 14 which has the potential of messing up my 4 day cow elk hunt thats 8 days later, and I may not get my weekends to hunt deer either.  But my other job is probably ending so i'll be able to take my days off and hunt coyotes through the winter :).


Hope it all works out for the best for ya.
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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2005, 10:35:14 AM »
Best of luck to you Handi ....I will be off Elk Hunting next week.


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« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2005, 12:22:33 PM »
Good to hear from you handi :D

I'm in full "tinker" mode with my aught six barrel. Fred M's devcon trick is the cats behind. But, alas, I've taken to much off the latch lug and am now fiddling with that. The first attempt at devoning the shelf worked great.............for about 5 minutes. The latch scrapped of the epoxy :(  I've dimpled the surface to give the devcon a better "bite". If that doesn't fly...well I'll find a welder. My swede is in shape for the deer opener (another month away.


This Saturday is our archery opener. That and the NEF 22-250 for coyotes will keep me busy. Fall turkey season is winding up. Ya gotta love this time of year :grin:


Take care and hope you find time to get to the woods.


Rick
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« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2005, 01:00:41 PM »
I've been trying to get my Lyman Great Plains .54 to shoot for two days in prep for the early ML season here this coming weekend.  It patterned instead of grouped and was shooting about a foot high.  I discovered that one of the barrel hangers had broken a weld, and that was allowing the muzzle climb to pull the barrel up a bit on firing.  So off to the welding shop I go.  They befuzzled it up naturally since I was paying money for it.  The weld broke.  I ground it off and took it over to Badnews Bob's place and had him weld it.  Naturally since it was free, it held just fine.  Back to shooting.  I was happy when the first two shots went a foot low.. Progress..   Then they went back to random patterns again.  Checked weld.. still holding... shot a few more times... still random patterns..

This rifle has earned the prestigious title of ......"Trading Material".  To the back of the safe it goes till I need trading material to offset some of the cost of my next purchase.

No ML season for me this year.
Ian
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« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2005, 02:25:39 PM »
Sorry to hear that, Ian, I've never known a GPR to not shoot good and have met many, many shooters on the trail with them that showed good accuracy against me!!! My best friend and shootin partner has beat me many a time with his, course it was one of those new fangled perc...percu...persuc.....er... cap guns!!! :)
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« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2005, 02:46:43 PM »
Don't tell me you shoot one of those flinchlocks !?!  LOL

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« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2005, 02:54:35 PM »
Yup!!! That's all I shot, cept for a double barrel 12ga caplock for clay bird shoots, and that was boring, so I started using my .62 cal smooth bore flintlock trade gun!! Sold the 12ga to a friend just gettin into the sport. Even my pistola was a .50cal flintlock!!!
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« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2005, 05:48:26 PM »
I'm not big enough to play with you fellers, mine is only 50cal. :grin:

It IS a cap gun though.
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