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Utah Bob
11-19-2009, 18:59
Fedex just delivered my Mosin-Nagant.:D Clear skies and mostly melted snow for tomorrow. A good day for shooting.:D
Dang, I love old guns! Nostrovya!
Blitzzz (RIP)
11-19-2009, 19:56
MERRY CHRISTMAS...BoB! Ho,HO ,Ho
Fedex just delivered my Mosin-Nagant.:D Clear skies and mostly melted snow for tomorrow. A good day for shooting.
The nice thing about where you live, is you can shoot on your land all day and the neighbors won't complain...I used to shoot off my front porch at targets across a small draw running through the yard...city folks wouldn't like that much...
mojaveman
11-19-2009, 20:57
Bob,
Fedex delivered to your house? I take it you either have an FFL or a Curios and Relics permit. Did you get a rifle or carbine? How about some pictures?
Utah Bob
11-19-2009, 21:11
Bob,
Fedex delivered to your house? I take it you either have an FFL or a Curios and Relics permit. Did you get a rifle or carbine? How about some pictures?
C&R. Got a 91/30. I like the 44s but the kick like a mule. I
l'll put up some pics when I get the grease cleaned off her.
Utah Bob
11-19-2009, 21:12
The nice thing about where you live, is you can shoot on your land all day and the neighbors won't complain...I used to shoot off my front porch at targets across a small draw running through the yard...city folks wouldn't like that much...
Yup. My range is about 100 yards from the house. The mem sahib doesn't like me shooting off the porch so much.:D
The mem sahib doesn't like me shooting off the porch so much.:D
Just tell her, you're updating your range cards. :D
armymom1228
11-19-2009, 21:47
Just tell her, you're updating your range cards. :D
Or getting rid of the skunks/racoons/varmits that are getting to near the porch.
What is it with some women anyways?? I sure as hel would rather have the sound of a gun being shot OFF the porch than AT the porch. I would tell you to come shoot off MY porch, but seeing as how I only have a step and the target would be my landlords kitchen window about 15 feet away. He might get a tad upset.
Not to mention I am something like 1500 miles SE of you. :p
Utah Bob
11-21-2009, 09:47
Or getting rid of the skunks/racoons/varmits that are getting to near the porch.
What is it with some women anyways?? I sure as hel would rather have the sound of a gun being shot OFF the porch than AT the porch. I would tell you to come shoot off MY porch, but seeing as how I only have a step and the target would be my landlords kitchen window about 15 feet away. He might get a tad upset.
Not to mention I am something like 1500 miles SE of you. :p
Actually, if someone shot at the porch she'd pick up the nearest piece of hardware and return fire.:D
She just doesn't want to wear ear plugs when reading in the living room.;)
perdurabo
11-21-2009, 19:10
Fedex just delivered my Mosin-Nagant.:D Clear skies and mostly melted snow for tomorrow. A good day for shooting.:D
Dang, I love old guns! Nostrovya!
Now you just need a plastic sporterized stock with rails and a bipod :lifter
There was a pristine M-N at the local Big5 for $99 a couple weeks ago, but the wife said no.
Now you just need a plastic sporterized stock with rails and a bipod
OUCH :eek: For shame. With a C&R ya gotta watch what mods you make. Would like to see some pics of your Noisy Maggot though Bob.
I really like the Old Iron in original condition.
Utah Bob
11-24-2009, 09:02
OUCH :eek: For shame. With a C&R ya gotta watch what mods you make. Would like to see some pics of your Noisy Maggot though Bob.
I really like the Old Iron in original condition.
Exactly. I'm not fond of modified war horses. :D
I love old rifles, too - used one this past weekend.
Just returned from a friend's place in southern Indiana - 136 acres of mixed woods and planting to encourage wildlife use and get the DNR to pay for the property taxes - house and barn sits about 3/4 mile back up on high ground from the main county road.
Late Saturday morning, I was taking a leak in an upstairs bathroom when I spotted a buck and doe meandering through a draw in the woods near the back of his property, heading for a nearby tank for water. I went downstairs and told my friend, a retired Infantryman and avid hunter, and he asked if I wanted to hunt him. The last deer I shot was with an M-16 in Northern Arizona in 1972 for survival reasons so I was game. Among his rifles, he has a nice unmodified M-1 Garand he bought for $65 from reserve stocks while assigned to the Transportation School at Fort Useless as an Infantry proponent instructor, so I borrowed it.
Went outside to the corner fence near the back of his house - the doe was ambling along but the buck was stationary behind a big walnut tree - he told me the rear sight was set center so I aimed a couple of inches to the left to compensate for my natural sight picture - slight downhill slope into brushy woods (worried a bit about their affect on a shot) at about 200-250m - I saw him sway trying to stay up after the impact and he fell after staggering about 30m - no expected second shot and the brush didn't seem to affect the path of the round - took the Gator down to the woods - I'd gotten a lung shot - missed the heart by a couple of inches - old eyes I guess - field dressed him and hauled him up to the barn to hang - sure was nice not having to drag or pack him out of the woods- left him with my friend for the meat and rack for his trophy room - 11 points and 18" spread - fairly young buck with really good teeth and thick, strong neck around 250-300 lbs. :lifter
We were supposed to be leaving to head back to Indianapolis for a dinner and were late because of the deer and I had to listen to my wife some about that - oh, well. ;)
Yep - love those old rifles - and personally, I'd love to have a nice issue M-14 out of WRS at Picatinny - just don't want to pay the current going $$ for one.
And, of course, there's always the humorous side of hunting for those who are really bored with it all...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeCtcgEq24
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 :munchin
RICHARD
11 point with an 18" spread. Not shabby at all, nice buck. Thick neck sounds like he's in the middle of the rut.
Utah Bob
11-24-2009, 17:14
Richard, I'd call a kill shot at 250 yards with Garand sights and old eyes a darned fine accomplishment! :lifter
Or getting rid of the skunks/racoons/varmits that are getting to near the porch.
More likely to be mountain lions or coyotes where he lives...
More likely to be mountain lions or coyotes where he lives...
That would be Mormons on bicycles and Jehovah's Witnesses where I live! :p
Richard's $.02 :munchin
Utah Bob
11-24-2009, 17:55
That would be Mormons on bicycles and Jehovah's Witnesses where I live! :p
Richard's $.02 :munchin
The LDS types are thick as skeeters around here. Utah's only about 30 miles.
They came out here on a recruiting visit once.
Somehow I doubt they'll be back.;)
armymom1228
11-24-2009, 18:03
Was he this deer Richard?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq5BQcOCJ6g&NR=1