My first day of dove hunting was also the first day I ever chewed tobacco. I didn't get many shots off that day but I did learn not to chew tobacco.
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My first day of dove hunting was also the first day I ever chewed tobacco. I didn't get many shots off that day but I did learn not to chew tobacco.
hmmmm yesterday i had my pellet gun and a few matches and i shot the last match out of my gun and it hit a wall and it lit and i was like omg
Yukon - was it a strike anywhere type match? If it was, they will light as they leave the barrel of your pellet gun (friction). If you get shot in the butt with one of these strike anywhere match projectiles, it will burn right through you jeans and leave a painful burn on your backside. I can say this with some authority, as I was the recipient of one of these blue diamond bullets when I was young.
it did not light as it left the barrel but wen it hit the wall
So, Crash, I guess it is true when they say they have to build a fire under you to get you moving?
Not twice!:eek::eek:
I used to use a .22 for hunting all the time, on my way home from getting skunked I stopped to unload the gun. I emptied the tube and was about to take the one out of the chamber when I noticed a tiny... and I stress tiny, bird fly into a tree about a hundred yards away. For absolutely no reason I raised the rifle with one hand and without aiming let one fly in that general direction. The bird dropped out of the tree.. I actually felt really bad because I was raised that you don't kill what you don't eat or what doesn't need to be killed. I found the bird on the ground under the tree with a perfect hole through it's head and it's head was only about the size of a nickel.... all these years later and I still feel a tad bit bad about that... but it's not like I thought I would actually hit it!!
I bet I've killed hundreds of those little thumb sized birds in my youth. I considered it part of my training. Besides my dog at the time thought they were a particularly tasty delicacy. I sure miss that dog. His mother was an Australian Shepard/Beagle and his daddy was a captive raised coyote. What he lacked in size he made up for in hunting skill.
I thought you were somewhere in europe at that time fighting Hitlers Hordes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
My first pheasant hunt was an organized youth hunt in central California. I was first in a line of 15 kids with shotguns walking a field (with adult supervision). Part way across the field a pheasant jumped up about 75 yards out from the last guy and flew past the entire line. My dad, who was walking with me, sais,"Nobody's going to hit him. They aren't leading him enough." I thought my dad knew everything about hunting so I gave that bird what felt like was way to much of a lead and watched with amazement as he folded when I pulled the trigger. The really amazing part was how intact he was. We couldn't find a single hole in that bird. I guess 15 kids empting their guns in his general direction just scared him to death.
That shot kinda made up for the bloody stump of a bird I had in my vest already. Yep, I found out the hard way what happens when you fire before a bird gets far enough away from the muzzle.
Jay - I had just returned from Rome's first invasion of Britain. All the British warriors were lined up on the shore and mooned us all at once. It nearly blinded the lot of us. We were lucky to make it home.
Made me think of that scene from Braveheart where they mooned the opposing army......but they were Scottish.
I think that's where they got it. There were rumors they had Mel Gibson movies.
I have had a few amazing shots in my life so far. Once, a friend of mine and I were sitting on the roof of my house shooting birds with pellet guns. Well a sparrow landed on a power line some 200 yards away. An extremely far shot for a .177 pellet gun. Anyway i asked him if I could hit it. He of course said no. I took the shot and droped him off that powerline. neck shot.
My second deer was a pretty good shot. It was at a dead run at 4 or 500 yards. A practiaclly impossible shot. It was the last day of hunting so we were all shooting. lol. Everybody had emptied their clips except me. I took my last shot and it folded right where it stood. We walked up and couldn't find an entry hole. Flipped it over only to find a hole in the bottom of its ear. I shot it in the ear hole, without any damage to the ear, at 400 or 500 yards at a dead run. Never again will I make such an amazing shot.
Or the time we were plinking with our 10/22's. We set a beer beer bottle out at 500 yards and nobody could hit it. I ran inside and grabbed my potato gun. Shoved down a spud sprayed in a 14 second burst of hair spray and lit the fuse. Aimed about 10 feet high and let 'er rip. POW... ... ... SMASH glass everywhere. lol
Just before a particularly hazardous deployment A new NCO was arrived on station and assigned to the unit I was in.
At our deployment sight we were assigned areas to build DFP's. Part of that construction is making a sector sketch.
After all positions turned in their sector sketches. This new NCO went around to each position with a laser range finder to check the ranges to all the points marked on every sketch.
When we got back to home station he had us practicing range estimation for many weeks.
On flat ground the average person can't accurately estimate distance unaided beyond 100 yards. I was one of those people. After some very intensive training we were able to estimate range out to 400 yards unaided.
500 Yards = just shy of 1/3 mile.
Sarge - Move to General Chat
Two friends had moved to western Minnesota. They were doing a lot of pheasent hunting. As the three of us had done a lot of grouse hunting together - they wanted me to come out and try pheasent. When I showed up they warned me not to do any "snap shots."
When we would grouse hunt, I would get all the birds. More years hunting, I guess. I was much quicker to react than they were. I'd always share, but this was very aggravating to them.
I took their warning to heart, but after loading my gun and stepping into the ditch, a bird got up right in front of me and, I just couldn't help it - up came the gun and "Boom"!
My buddy yelled over, "None of that snap shooting - you'll miss them every time."
I yelled back that I thought I'd got the bird. He assured me I was wrong, but something was flapping around in the weeds. I tracked down and rung the neck of a nice rooster. As I walked back to my gun, I found another rooster, one I hadn't even seen. It must have got up right in front of the barrel. It had no head, only had one wing, and part of the tail. There were no BBs in the breast.
My buddy wouldn't say a single word to me until afternoon.
Ive made lots of good shots and missed a few.I had just put a new scope on my inline muzzleloader and took it to a local huntin clubs range.First shot at 50 hit the bullseye.2nd shot at 100yds hit it 1/2inch lower.No bore sight just screwed it in place.Still havent had to adjust it but I do check it early fall and late winter.Modern inlines ya gotta lovem.
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