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Offline ironglow

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« on: May 13, 2004, 05:28:08 PM »
I like my chuck hunting, but I find there are two different schools of thought on the subject:

  1) Hunt woodchucks with a short range weapon...rimfire, bow, handgun etc.

  2) Shoot woodchucks, requires a long range centerfire rifle, where one sets up and waits for the long range shot to appear.

   Not putting either one down...I have done both...but usually end up "hunting" them with rimfire rifles.
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2004, 07:19:51 AM »
I haven't hunted woodchucks in a long time. When I do I use my Remingtom model 700 BDL in 223 Rem. It works pretty good.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2004, 02:40:30 PM »
NY hunter;
  I happen to run the historic blacksmith shop at the State Fair 2-3 days each year. I Camp at Duck Lake when I do.
   If you go north west of Syracuse, around South Butler , Conquest and Savannah....there should be some good 'chucking there.

   BTW: The historic Blacksmith shop is located in the antique carriage museum. I expect to be there on Sept. 1 & 2....stop by and say hello if you are at the fair.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2004, 07:50:43 AM »
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I expect to be there on Sept. 1 & 2....stop by and say hello if you are at the fair.

"Absolutely"
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2004, 08:06:33 AM »
ironglow, one more thing. I know you were in the Army, I also know your not big on labor union's, and I respect that, but when your at the fair check out the "veterans memorial"! The UAW was the driving force behind it. We our the local and state politician involved to get it done. Our plant has a huge amount of veteran's , specially Vietnam era vet's. The memorial is really nice, you can get a brick with you name and military service on it. Check it out!!! :grin:
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2004, 10:25:14 AM »
I prefer the long range method myself.Usually bring along my 22-250.Just picked up a 17HMR barrel for my Contender for short range work  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2004, 02:29:34 PM »
NY Hunter;
  I'm not against labor unions entirely, I just am against unions (or management), pushing their weight around.
   When unions started there was a crying need for them; should they disappear, there again would be a great need, because then the management would get too dominant.
  I get angry when teachers for instance, can hold an entire school system hostage (Buffalo for instance, is about to go broke, because of outrageous teacher's contracts) or refinery workers or longshoremen strike en mass, knowing full well it will put the country in dire straits.
   When unions block access to work places for non-union folks who are willing to work. We shoulds be willing to COMPETE for contracts and retain our jobs by our competency, rather than by what club we belong to.
   When union workers insist that all workers on their jobsite belong to the union; I view it as just the same were a group of Methodists or Catholics on a job and insist that all other workers belong to their church, or if they were all Irish and insist that the employer hire noone that is not Irish!
   I have no problems with any of the groups mentioned, unions, Methodists, Catholics or Irish are fine; I just believe that we should honestly compete for jobs.
    Believe me; I don't have much use for big business either, at least not the higher management; we KNOW how they can push their weight around.
  Of course, one galling feature is how the union bosses take everyone's dues and support Liberal candidate...whether the dues payer agrees  or not!
   
 I worked union in construction trades years ago, and it really bothered me that sometimes I had to waste time waiting for or hunting for a person with the right job description to plug in an air line so I could hook up my machine an get to work.
  Many hours were wasted waiting for a "stationary engineer' to show up to simply plug in a common air hose....guess I'm an efficency nut. I just figure that the boss pays me XXX dollars per hour, so I owe him an hours work for each hour of pay...LOL
 
   As far as the union funding a memorial for vets..three cheers for them!
I do hope that some of these political forces that are whining about some terrorist killers being "humiliated" don't make it so the fine crop of troops now serving don't start being viewed as "prison camp torturers"
   If you get to the fair on those days, you will know me by my handlebar mustache (that I've had for 32 years).
  I would be very pleased to meet you!

Salg;
  That way also is a test in the way precision shooting is required.
  I have a .17 HRM in NEF Sportster, along with .22 LR and .22 mag.
I have found the .17 flatter shooting and more accurate than the .22 mag.
In field use however, I don't believe it has the punch of the .22 mag where I have made comparable shots on woodchucks.
   The .17 HRM IS a fun gun to shoot though!
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