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I have one of those "worthless dogs with so little prey drive they can be called off quarry". I've worked really hard to get that level of recall and I place a lot of value on it. Frankly, from my preferences if my dog didn't come when I called regardless of what it prefered to be doing I'd be likely to let it there. That's just me. As far as small size, come hunt with me some time. I have tubes that a dog with a 14" span won't be able to navigate, especially early in the season. I hunt a lot by myself, and in a lot of places where there's a good possibility of getting into undiggable
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Wow! Guess we have no reason to complain over here. Last fill-up with 87 octane regular gasoline here was $3.89 USD/US Gallon. If my math is right converting to liters and GBP works out to about 0.52 GBP/L. Diesel is about 25% higher than gasoline here. Not sure how you folks do it there. We have so many people here complaining about the price, our more liberal legislators have already threatened to nationalize our oil companies.
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I got a kick out of it myself. It certainly sounded like something he might have written when he wasn't attempting to buy cheese, find the Grail or manage a hotel.
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What??? Did they close the Ministry of Funny Walks and let him return the parrot? If John Cleese is providing British policy, you folks are in worse shape than I imagined. And by-the-way... John Cleese never wrote/said it anyway! http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp :friends:
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I'd stick with a good quality bolt action .22LR for a first one as well. The Ruger 10/22 has a lousy trigger and usually gives modest accuracy at best out of the box. To get reliably good accuracy from one you end up spending more than your original purchase price for a new barrel and trigger. It's a great gun for plinking tin cans on a slow weekend afternoon, but I wouldn't recommend it for serious hunting.
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"A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level." "Some days you're the dog. Some days you're the hydrant."
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I have a Mossberg 500 for 20 years now and am happy with it.. They're not the fanciest nor highest quality, but they perform well and hold up fine. Handling, weight, recoil are about on par with a pump shotgun. The tang safety works equally well for both right and left hand shooters and is right where it should be if you shoot doubles. For the money they're a pretty good deal.
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The Remingtons are good. Howa has a good reputation, but never used one. Don't know enough about the CZs to have an opinion since they're not seen very much here. I use a Savage 12BVSS in .223 and love it. Most of my shooting is either prone or sitting, and I have a bipod mounted. The stock on the 12BVSS is great for shooting from those positions, a little heavy for carrying and shooting off-hand, but workable. I like the Savage so much I bought a second one, the model escapes me in the wee hours, in .308 for long range shooting on deer. The Savage Accu-trigger is the best I've used
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1 Ltr Paint Tin Full Of Peat At 100 Yards With .22 Hornet
bshadle replied to a topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
When I was a youngster and just getting started, my Dad made a point of impressing on me the power of a firearm. He filled an empty five-gallon tar bucket with water and crimped the lid down with the two dozen or so little ears, then stood back 50 yards and shot it. The results certainly got my attention and taught a lesson I'll never forget. -
I've had success giving the dog Dramamine about an hour before putting it in the car. Several different vets have given their okay on it. Use the dose depending on the size of the dog - small dogs get children's dose, larger ones get adult dose. Generally found that after a doing it for a while, several weeks to sometimes several months depending on how often you take it out, the dog gets used to the car drives and no longer needs it. So far it's worked for me on three different dogs.
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Been using mine for a little over a year now and quite happy with it. Only had to use the locate setting once when the dog pushed into a thick woods at the end a field and went to ground before I could push through to follow. Even that setting worked well enough. I hope to Gawd I never have to use the 40 ft setting for a dig!
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You can spin a tale, Ditch. Loved it.
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You are correct, and should not shoot military 5.56mm in a civilian .223 Remington chamber. The Wolf ammunition sold here is labeled .223 Remington though. I've never personally miked the rounds to verify that they're not passing off 5.56 as .223, but that would that be illegal labeling here. If the Wolf on your side of the pond is labeled 5.56, don't buy/use it. Wolf is sold by some pretty big name retailers and in fairly high quantity here. I gotta think that it was causing problems I'd 've heard about it by now. The only problem I've heard about the .223 Remington designated roun
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Most of my varmint shooting is on groundhogs and the shots are a fairly relaxed pace. I have the time to set up and make certain of my backstops, so pass-through isn't something I normally worry much about. If that's an issue for you, you might check out the Nosler Ballistic Tips (NBT). They just about explode after penetration and rarely exit exept for short ranges, <100 yds. Even then they tend to come out as a mass of fragments that don't travel very far. On this side of the pond we can mail-order 'em if they're not available local. Not sure how that works on your side.
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It's the steel case. Some folks over here are playing around with reloading steel with mixed results. First, the steel is harder than brass and will play h*ll with your dies and put more stress on your press. If you use carbide dies you might get away with it for a while, but dies and presses are expensive. Brass is cheap. Second, steel doesn't have the elasticity of brass so you run into issues of both improper resizing and metal fatigue. IMO, it's not worth the risk.
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Speer spitzers are a classic and you won't go wrong with 'em. There're plenty others on the market that might outperform them slightly in specific circumstances, for example if you're shooting benchrest competition or stretching your shots out to where a .223 wasn't really designed to shoot. Frankly, for general varmint work within 300 - 350 yard range just about anything I feed my .223 seems to work about the same. That's one thing I like about the caliber - it's not real fussy about ammunition. The American Eagles are dirt cheap over here, I'm still working on a couple cases I bought
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I don't reload and shoot only factory loads, so can't say much about charges. For most shooting within 300 yds I use American Eagle 50 gr. JHP. A few places I hunt offer shots in the 400-500 yd range. If I'm going those places I switch to Federal Premium VSHOK with 40 gr NBT. Both group well from my Savage 12BVSS with heavy fluted 26" barrel. The 40 gr leave the barrel at 3700 fps compared to the 3325 for the 50 gr, so shoot flatter and carry a little more energy downrange. They cost about 3X the price of the American Eagles, but sometime you care enough to send the very best. You
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Sounds like you're possibly looking for a black powder cartridge rifle, probably an original. Can't help much with suggestions on that. Pedersoli is making some decent quality reproductions of muzzleloaders as well as some of the more moderern black powder cartridge rifles such as .45-70 They do have a double rifle, their Kodiak Express, a percussion cap muzzleloader, that's available in various calibers from .50 - .72 http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/ArmiCatego...247&lang=en Not familiar enough with your firearms laws there to even have a hint about what's involved with a purcha
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That's a pretty wide open question. What are you looking to do with it? What sort of game do you intend to hunt or type of shooting do you want to do? Flintlock, caplock, modern inline? Off the shelf calibers range from at least .32 to .75 that I'm aware of and both larger and smaller in custom or semi-custom made. Are you looking for new or used? Not trying to stir anything up or give you a hard time, but there's a wealth to choose from in blackpowder firearms.
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Too early for groundhogs and weather too nice for fox. Just needed to get out and blow the stink off. Checked dens a few places. Didn't find anything home. Did find this though. It'd rained the evening before, so the tracks were since then. Looks like someplace to check back on next time the weather's ugly.
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Those are usually the Gray Fox, Blue. They're not protected everywhere, and are considered a game animal/furbearer here in Pa. Some of the best terriermen hunting them here are located within a few hours of me. They tend to prefer rock dens to earths, and doing well on them takes a special kind of dog as well as a special kind of man.
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Browsing a local forum and came upon this. Don't know if you'd find it interesting or not. Some fascinating stuff available from their main page as well. http://cartridgecollectors.org/30-06intro/
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There's a lot of wisdom in that, and I agree with most whiskey most of the time. I was told at a young age that if the whiskey is really good, you have to hold your nose when you drink it. Otherwise, if you smell it before you taste it your mouth waters and dilutes it too much. But some just seem to benefit from that splash, JD being one of them. Other bourbons are just fine neat. Wild Turkey, a particularly smooth one, won't even stand up to a splash IMO.
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Ditch, Now that you're becoming such a connoisseur, let me offer up a suggestion. It'll be considered blaspheme by some, but the next time you have a go with Mr. Daniels try adding a splash of water. About 1/3 is about right. But for Gawd sake, no ice. It takes out the bite and allows the bourbon flavor to shine through. And for those times when you're drinking purely for effect, the lowered alcohol concentration is absorbed more efficiently.
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That's not exactly hunting though, is it?