Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[GrizG]

Yea, like mine! It started with bow season in October, early November went to crossbow, then on the 18th rifle up at my cabin and at the farm, but shotgun down here, and on 12/11 it will be Muzzleloader!

Rifle used to be only allowed in the Catskills and Adirondacks, but now it is rifle in most of the State except a few Counties that are either Shotgun or Archery only.

The wife thinks I'm crazy with changing up what I'm hunting with all the time!

So, I need to make sure the bow, crossbow, rifle, shotgun and muzzleloader are all ready to go before the season opens!

Yeah... I change which "deer rifle" I use quite a bit. Last year I only carried the flintlock. Flintlock this year too when I get out... Buy and install two new toilets tomorrow (I hope) and I should be free to hunt finally!

 

[GrizG]

Love it!!

I have a sweet .223 that surprises me with its accuracy, guess what company makes it???

I've got a few that shoot exceptionally well without having any gunsmithing. My '73 Remington 700 BDL 06 shoots everything into under an inch at 100--my good handloads go into half of that. Ruger 77/22 Hornet makes one hole... about .3" C2C at 100.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Better off using a 12ga slug.

Care to explain why you feel that way?

SR

 

[MechanicMatt]

I think SR is right, I’d rather use a 450bushmaster than a 12ga slug

I had the opportunity to use one while down south to fill my doe tag. That Ruger American is insanely accurate and anchored that girl right where she was standing

 

[MechanicMatt]

I loved my youthful days hunting with shotguns, but give me a rifle any day over a slug gun

Think about the benefits for a bit and I think you will come to the same conclusion

 

[MustangMike]

Flip a coin, which ever firearm you are more comfortable with and shoots better. Either option is more than enough within their effective range.

If I had a bear coming at me, I doubt I could shoot 5 shots any faster than with my 870, and that slug has a lot of energy.

I've heard that in Africa, some of the guides use shotguns as stoppers, makes sense to me.

 

[MustangMike]

Matt, the Hornady SST slug rounds shoot a 50 cal 300 grain slug at 2,000 fps.

Your 450 shoots a 300 grain bullet at 1,900 or a 260 grain at 2,200.

I doubt that anything you hit with either of them would know the difference!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Stihl nuts are bigger because their owners are always dropping them on the ground. Stihl wanted their nuts to be easier to find in the dirt and grass. LOL

I accept that.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Have not harvested a deer at that range yet, but I have done a high-power shoot at 600 yds with open sights.

Since there are potential shoots that far at the farm (and they are often the only shots), if I take one, I want to know what I'm doing. Measure twice, cut once!

Hopefully, if it comes to that, there is no fog and my rangefinder works!

.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yeaa, they are swelled up from being kicked in the nuts by Huskies!

SR

Cougars and Ducks found that out! Huskies won the PAC-12 !!


(my alma mater... 'Go Dawgs!'')

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Matt, the Hornady SST slug rounds shoot a 50 cal 300 grain slug at 2,000 fps.

Your 450 shoots a 300 grain bullet at 1,900 or a 260 grain at 2,200.

I doubt that anything you hit with either of them would know the difference!

recorded their show from American Made other day. their history. have not sat down to watch it yet....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Christmas cookies for all the hunters out there.

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at least it don't have a red nose!!!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

A .22 magnum shot to the head will do it.

Make it count to the brain. Otherwise you could very possibly give the animal a non lethal head wound, or a lethal head wound that leaves the animal suffering for days, or even weeks. Just to dye a slow painful miserable death! Like a blown off nose, fractured jaw, eye shot out and things like that. Not a fan of head shots, but that's just my opinion. To each their own.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Hopefully this pleases the crowd better

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i don't like any ash outside the hearth area. nor chips. sweep n vac on reg basis. btw, how did all that ash get there... ?

early season start of fire in LR couple weeks back. since then, mostly heat in morning, a/c in afternoon... this week in 70's! Winter has finally arrived!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

i miss my fireplace going. the cold weather. my new lil elec fireplace fills in the gap nicely... will be a up at wilderness cabin, til 48" wood burner gets in...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

A .22 magnum shot to the head will do it.

did it on Dateline last week!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Better off using a 12ga slug.

hasta hit hard! "OO-FF-F!"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Make it count to the brain. Otherwise you got a non lethal head wound! Like a blown off nose, fractured jaw, eye shot out and things like that. Not a fan of head shots, but that's just my opinion. To each their own.

Kodiak Kid: Real Stories From The Alaskan Outback....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Flip a coin, which ever firearm you are more comfortable with and shoots better. Either option is more than enough within their effective range.

If I had a bear coming at me, I doubt I could shoot 5 shots any faster than with my 870, and that slug has a lot of energy.

I've heard that in Africa, some of the guides use shotguns as stoppers, makes sense to me.

best defense for that is to ensure one never does!! per the Kid's refer to Bear Book: usually the bear wins! even when it is dead, it (can) still keeps on coming.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Love this guy's style! He's not mess'n around when it comes to git'n his scrounge on!