cowtownmike
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I done been thru the scruggles.
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 19, 2009 12:32:24 GMT -5
Plus that thing would look sweet on my wall. you might better tap the brake until you get permission to put anything on "your" wall. |
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 19, 2009 13:37:35 GMT -5
My question is this : How do you go hunting without making sure your rifle is dead on?
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Post by The River Assassin on Oct 19, 2009 13:47:16 GMT -5
Great recap, sucks you didn't get a kill
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 19, 2009 14:05:23 GMT -5
My question is this : How do you go hunting without making sure your rifle is dead on? Great question. It was such short notice I had to just load up and go. I should have stopped somewhere on the way to test fire a few shots, but figured it'd still be on from last season. I will never do this again. |
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 19, 2009 14:08:15 GMT -5
My question is this : How do you go hunting without making sure your rifle is dead on? Great question. It was such short notice I had to just load up and go. I should have stopped somewhere on the way to test fire a few shots, but figured it'd still be on from last season. I will never do this again. It seems you learned a valuable lesson from this. I look forward to seeing your future kills. |
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rp
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Now he's just a mean old bastard.
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Post by rp on Oct 19, 2009 16:54:34 GMT -5
This is not the first time Sully has missed a deer because he didn't make sure his rifle was on before-hand. So sad.....
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Post by The River Assassin on Oct 19, 2009 20:26:00 GMT -5
At least he has a good excuse, when I miss it's because I suck.
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 20, 2009 7:27:00 GMT -5
A couple thoughts...
At least when I missed, I didn't make excuses.
So this has happened before? Really? With all the hell I caught/catch from Sully about missing, and he has missed before?
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 20, 2009 8:25:47 GMT -5
I don't know how you guys were brought up and what your thought process is when you miss a deer, but we always had to tear a piece of our shirt off, to break us of the habit of missing. Having to rip off a piece of a new hunting shirt sucks.
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 20, 2009 8:27:16 GMT -5
haha!
I will do that. I can't remember which shirt I was wearing, though. If I miss again, I am tearing a piece of the shirt, though.
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 20, 2009 9:23:00 GMT -5
If I miss again, I'm ripping the freaking shirt off. As the days go by, I feel more and more pain about this. I really wanted that beast.
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 20, 2009 9:28:33 GMT -5
I know your pain.
Except, when I missed I knew I wouldn't have another chance. You at least get to go again if you want to.
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Post by The River Assassin on Oct 20, 2009 15:42:07 GMT -5
I don't know how you guys were brought up and what your thought process is when you miss a deer, but we always had to tear a piece of our shirt off, to break us of the habit of missing. Having to rip off a piece of a new hunting shirt sucks. When I was a little kid I was actually a pretty good shot. It was as I got older and started over thinking myself that I started to miss. Now I don't even think about it, I just point and shoot. So far it has worked pretty well. Not to mention my mom would have chewed my dad's ass if he made me tear up a perfectly good t-shirt. |
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 20, 2009 16:10:40 GMT -5
It's not a part of the shirt where you'll need much... Cutting the shirt tail is an age old tradition among shooters and woodsmen alike.
This is about all I could find on it.
The "shot" was manufactured in a gunsmith's shop by pouring lead into molds to make perfect 50 caliber size balls-and just a tad larger than 50 caliber. A "shot" had to fit tight so it would not roll back out. A loose fit would be OK if all you hunted was squirrels up in a tree-but what if it was a bear corning up a hill at you? The ball ould roll out before you could take aim!
These were purchased by the early Americans. But when the woodsman, Daniel, Davy and others used up their supply of "store bought" shot, do you think they stopped doing whatever they were doing and immediately headed back to civilization to get more bullets from the store? You can bet your coonskin hat they didn't. Usually they had a small supply of scrap lead and some recovered "used bullets" to hand beat into more bullets using the handle of their hunting knives, etc.. Now these weren’t perfectly shaped, nor exactly the required size to give a tight fit. So, they used a small "patch" of cloth, wrapped it around the poorly shaped bullet, slapped on a bit of grease, and shoved it down the gun’s throat. The small bits of cloth first came from the users clothing (until they started carrying a few along). The best place was one's shirttail. Now you deer hunters out there know where the traditional "shirt tail cutting" ceremony comes from when one misses or bags his first deer!
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 20, 2009 20:04:41 GMT -5
huh, I guess you learn something everyday.
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