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Suppressed .22 and gophers at all the remote dirt airfields in Montana and getting paid for it! _____________________________ Off finding Galt's Gulch | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Pleasnat Valley/Lost Prairie is where we used to go.  An endless supply of gophers.  ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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Yep. Sounds like you have been there too. | |||
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Gopher are so fun...then the rock chucks _____________________________ Off finding Galt's Gulch | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Yep. Rock chucks (at least the bigger ones) are tougher to kill with a 22 though. I get 'em around my place from time to time and it'll take a few good hits to put them down. I occasionally feel a bit bad about it as they are kind of like otters...sort of cute and playful. Then I remember how much damage they do and it's game on! Had one last summer that was destroying everything in my garden...until he wasn't. ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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It was stolen in about 1995 from a storage locker it was in, along with the Blaupunkt radio in an Alfa Romeo. Bought it in about 1968 at Dayton's Dept Store in Minneapolis, I think. The detachable 5-rd box magazine was a PITA that I never got past, so I never took it hunting. -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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| The Ice Cream Man |
“Long” distance with a suppressed 22 bolt action. Trying to hit at 100 yards, with a breeze, drives me nuts, in a good way. | |||
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When I lived in AZ, I attended a few SigForum " get togethers" at the local gun ranges. Met some nice people, shot a dozen guns that I'd never ever get a chance to hold let alone shoot Learned a bunch. Enjoyed beautiful weather. I sure miss those meet ups. Heck I don't even know if they are still members here. Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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I used to go to Bob’s Gunshop in Norfolk VA just about every Monday when I was considering getting into competitive shooting. I got to know the staff pretty well and as long as I had the range to myself, which back then happened often, the range officer didn’t care if I rapid fired. Life was much more simple and I miss the spare time I used to have before kids and work took over my life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Fox Valley, I had forgotten that range. I had many enjoyable days shooting there. I remember that was Farm country back in the day. | |||
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^^^^ Same thing happened to my club in southwest Ohio, Fairfield Sportsman. It was the largest gun club in Ohio. Been there 50 years. The township put in a whole bunch of soccer fields way, way, way downrange and the soccer moms bitched. Closed down the rifle range for years. I quit and joined another club. | |||
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Finally got a suppressed bolt action rifle and shoot a lot in my backyard with mg son ( it’s legal, we just want to be good neighbors) | |||
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many moons ago, at the end of our road, was a Continental Can (a paper company that owned a shiton of land) the fire road thru it was a bit of a dump area, not trash per say, but sometimes some contractors would dump some stuff like bricks and cinder blocks and other broke up or removed stuff, so a buddy and I would park at the road, walk up the fireroad and set up bricks, hubcaps, steel cans etc, and then shoot them when we waled back, mostly short range, good backstop on both sides, and learned that a Mini 14 is actually minute of cinderblock at up to 50yrd and 223/5.56 will break a cinderblock if you put enough rounds in the sides of the hollow bits, https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Memories of the summer of 1972. Northern Michigan with two friends. Shooting rats at a dump site. Leftover pizza from the night before, cold six pack of Coca Cola and probably a brick and a half of .22 LR. We had a great time, the rats, well they probably didn’t enjoy it very much. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Truly the most actual plinking fun in my life was as a kid in my backyard shooting my dad’s empty beer cans with a BB gun. I would spend forever doing that. You hand to aim at the top to knock them over otherwise the BB might just go thought them. It was funny later how many BBs were lodged in the fence pickets. NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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- Modest range (50-100 meters) with a bolt action CZ .17 HMR: Guy throws golf balls out and you try to hit them in a short period of time. (Shooting them off of golf tees was more satisfying, but requires a bit of walking back and forth) - Back in the early 90's when the dinosaurs ruled the earth and boys could be boys Walked out to the local construction site (Rifle slung and no-one cared or freaked. Light up a flare at ~75 meters and a few feet in front of it a bottle full of gas. This was with my grandfathers .22 bolt action. There was no doubt when you got a hit. These days, that would probably end up with arrest and charges against the parents to boot. | |||
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^^^^^ We shot 30 and 60 pound tanks of propane with tracers, Great balls of fire!! | |||
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