Prized weapon

[skorpion]

Ah...  Good deal!  How'd it taste?

You'll lose some wounded animals if you hunt, at least if you do it with weapons.  It's just how it goes.  Make every effort to make good clean shots, and do your absolute best to recover anything you shoot, but you'll still have some disappointing, gut-wrenching mistakes you'll have to deal with.  It's an unfortunate side to hunting.

It's one of the things I like about falconry.  Either the bird makes a catch, or it doesn't 99.9% of the time.  It's awful rare to have something get wounded that doesn't also get caught.

tasted great, also, about the wounded animal thing. i had shot a deer last season with my bow but it turned out to be a gut-shot. the day after we followed the blood trail but she had just gone so far (over a mile) we decided to give up on it that day. the day after that we headed back out only to find that it bled to death with her fawns next to her. was just horrible to know that i shot a doe that had some fawns to take care of and died a slow painful death.

[Tupac]

tasted great, also, about the wounded animal thing. i had shot a deer last season with my bow but it turned out to be a gut-shot. the day after we followed the blood trail but she had just gone so far (over a mile) we decided to give up on it that day. the day after that we headed back out only to find that it bled to death with her fawns next to her. was just horrible to know that i shot a doe that had some fawns to take care of and died a slow painful death.

I can't bring myself to shoot a doe.

[Sonicblu]

It can still be your prized weapon Skorpion...  Just don't try to make it more than it is.  They're a lot of fun, and a great way to get started.  

I shot many a pellet and bb through my 760.

Had a friend of my parents come over to the house for dinner ( I  was 12 I think ) He told us he could shoot through the center of a lifesaver if we threw  it in to the air. We believed him until we thought hmmm maybe he is just missing. So he pulls out a pack of solid mints of some kind same size a lifesaver, we threw those into the air, he hit all but one of them.

Any way he did it with my 760, Lost count of the cicadas Ive killed with it though.  

Brings back  a lots of memories.

[skorpion]

I can't bring myself to shoot a doe.

they taste better than bucks IMO. normally i dont shoot a doe if i see it has fawns, but if i dont see any fawns within my FOV i shoot. (i have 20/10 vision so i can see quite far in an open field) normally i'll pass up a doe if its early in the season but if its late in the hunting year (in early january) ill shoot anything that crosses my path.

[mtnman]

I shot many a pellet and bb through my 760.

Had a friend of my parents come over to the house for dinner ( I  was 12 I think ) He told us he could shoot through the center of a lifesaver if we threw  it in to the air. We believed him until we thought hmmm maybe he is just missing. So he pulls out a pack of solid mints of some kind same size a lifesaver, we threw those into the air, he hit all but one of them.

Any way he did it with my 760, Lost count of the cicadas Ive killed with it though.  

Brings back  a lots of memories.

LOL, I showed my son how to do that with a pellet rifle and marbles a week or two ago.  He about crapped his pants...  I'd been able to do it with a .22 rifle 15 years ago (we live out in the middle of nowhere) but hadn't tried it in a LONG time. 

He was also impressed that I could cut poker card in half by shooting it on the edge at 50ft (standing, off hand) with my flintlock rifle.  His mother told him I could do that, and he didn't believe her.

[PFactorDave]

you know how rare that BB gun in that pic is to me? the scope was made by my granfather, he did it before he got heart surgery just for the heck of it. also, he fixed it up from when he was around 50 years old. all the parts are his in that thing.

i also have pics of my 3 favorite guns all in one, the top one is the least accurate but holy crap does that thing zing the pellets, i shot at a rabbit and the pellet bounced off a rock and hit a tree and dug itself about 2.8 cm into the tree.

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now if i can just find my dang M1911 airsoft gun, its laying around somewhere. probably in the basement with all the other stuff we havent unpacked yet.


(sorry, i had to fix the mistake. i just dont like when people spell my name wrong when its right in front of them. just a small pet peeve. nothing too big.)

The top one, the pump pistol.  Is that the .177 cal version? I know that they made a .22 cal pellet version of that pistol.  My brother had a .22 cal version, but they are rare around here because the .22 cal pellets are controlled the same as ammunition for a standard firearm.  Here in Illinois, you used to need a FOID (Firearms Owners ID) card to buy.  That may not be the case now days, I'm not sure.  We had one of those revolvers too.  CO2 power, shoots .177 cal pellets.  Pretty accurate.  Never had one of the P38 BB guns but I remember when they came out.  I had a pellet pistol that looked like a Beretta 92.

Hang on to that scope, if it was your grandfather's.

This is a youth sized .22LR that belonged to my grandfather when he was a boy.  When I inherited it, the stock was broken at the wrist.  This photo was taken after I finished repairing the stock.  My youngest daughter likes shooting this rifle.  It gives me great satisfaction that she is shooting the same rifle that my grandfather shot at about her age about 90 years ago.  I think that, in some way, it connects her to my grandfather, who she never really knew.

[skorpion]

The top one, the pump pistol.  Is that the .177 cal version? I know that they made a .22 cal pellet version of that pistol.  My brother had a .22 cal version, but they are rare around here because the .22 cal pellets are controlled the same as ammunition for a standard firearm.  Here in Illinois, you used to need a FOID (Firearms Owners ID) card to buy.  That may not be the case now days, I'm not sure.  We had one of those revolvers too.  CO2 power, shoots .177 cal pellets.  Pretty accurate.  Never had one of the P38 BB guns but I remember when they came out.  I had a pellet pistol that looked like a Beretta 92.

they all shoot the .177 round, the top one is sold in 2 variants that look the same but shoot different rounds, the first variant (pellet gun) shoots .177 shots and the second variant shoots .22 rounds and that one isnt very hard to find up here in oshkosh, theres a store across the street from the place where i shoot my bow that sells both variants for a good price.

[RichardDarkwood]

I had the one in the top of that picture skorpion. Mine had a shoulder stock. What was fun is shooting q-tips out of it, and bird seed.

[skorpion]

I had the one in the top of that picture skorpion. Mine had a shoulder stock. What was fun is shooting q-tips out of it, and bird seed.

mine has a shoulder stock, but i didnt like it so i put it away in the attic. i like the pistol grip on that instead of trying to treat it like its a rifle grip.

[mechanic]

they taste better than bucks IMO. normally i dont shoot a doe if i see it has fawns, but if i dont see any fawns within my FOV i shoot. (i have 20/10 vision so i can see quite far in an open field) normally i'll pass up a doe if its early in the season but if its late in the hunting year (in early january) ill shoot anything that crosses my path.

I have 20/20 vision and I find it very hard to spot a fawn kneeling in the grass. I'm not arguing about your hunting, just a comment.

[skorpion]

I have 20/20 vision and I find it very hard to spot a fawn kneeling in the grass. I'm not arguing about your hunting, just a comment.

i usually go hunting in corn/soy bean fields. they typically stick out once its all been harvested except for that one nice little spot they like to stay by

[G0ALY]

I have three that I really like.

The first is a Hatfield .50cal flintlock. Made by Tom Hatfield great-great Grandson of Moses Hatfield from the Hatfield & McCoy feud. It has one of the purtyest pieces of wood for the stock. It shoots great, but I’m too nervous about banging it up to take it into the woods too often.



This is an 1864 Springfield .58cal musket. It was pieced together out of the parts from a couple of muskets back in the 1960s. The gunsmith replaced the first couple of inches of the barrel (including the breech) so it is actually a pretty good shooter. You can see where two separate stocks were joined under the first band. This is the rifle that I use for deer hunting.



Finally, I have a very small derringer that was given to me by my Grandfather. It still has the original deerskin holster.

[skorpion]

I have three that I really like.

The first is a Hatfield .50cal flintlock. Made by Tom Hatfield great-great Grandson of Moses Hatfield from the Hatfield & McCoy feud. It has one of the purtyest pieces of wood for the stock. It shoots great, but I’m too nervous about banging it up to take it into the woods too often.

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This is an 1864 Springfield .58cal musket. It was pieced together out of the parts from a couple of muskets back in the 1960s. The gunsmith replaced the first couple of inches of the barrel (including the breech) so it is actually a pretty good shooter. You can see where two separate stocks were joined under the first band. This is the rifle that I use for deer hunting.

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Finally, I have a very small derringer that was given to me by my Grandfather. It still has the original deerskin holster.

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now those are some cool looking guns, the first pic was probably the best

[fbEagle]

1896 Savage.303 lever action

[Shuffler]

i dont think a little co2 gun would kill anytihng at that speed.
they are just bb guns, I have a pellet gun and i will agree that it is not a toy, and go bird hunting with it all the time, BUT if your calling me a lier im calling your little air guns toys then.

i dont even think you have ever shot a real gun.

yes i will try to give you pics of mad dads BAR and for plus ill show you how to feild strip one

You can kill a man with a BB gun. They are not toys. Even the spring loaded one can be dangerous.

Year back I had a Crossman Pump 177 rifle and a Pump 22 pellet pistol. Had a lot of fun with those.