nagantguy
09-15-2018, 02:49 PM
Like many I’m suffering from a disability to post photos here since the change.
So me and my Cur pup treed 7 squirrel today, I was a good enough shot to bring five of them home. With my self built self camouflaged accurized 10/22 that I wrote up last fall.
3 grays and 2 fox ; one of the ones who got lucky was a black squirrel.
So opening day of small game season has always been a special day for me; a time to test gear, make sure my range time isn’t in vain and spend time in the woods with Kin and friends and a good dog! Counting my blessings which are abundant and sometimes I’m to much of a baby and a hot head to see that clearly.
Another observation that I don’t know if I’ve ever said out loud is that fox squirrel are way harder to skin in my humble opinion, with about 6000 squirrels skinned to make my observations.
Something else came to my sometimes slow mind: a well honed Buck 110 is very hard to beat for an all around hunting knife. I have knives that may look better; might even be sharper but Buck nailed this blade style and it’ll stay sharp a long time and you don’t need a fixed blade for small critters and birds. But the 110 takes no back seat as a deer/ elk knife either; ask me how I know.
Something else on my mind this wonderful day is ; the wound cavities created by a 22 lr cci mini mag should be the bar for every company selling self defense ammo. I’ve thought this for a long rime but the 22 is the king of killing out of its weight class.
It’s the first day of season I feel like taking a legal limit with all the leaf cover still on and mast crops being spotty at best from a dry year is a wonderful day afield with a young dog who was born on my kitchen floor last May.
So hit to miss ratio is a closely kept secret but I brought home 5 and missed 2 and never ran the mag dry on this delightful little 10/22.
I wanted my daughter to go with me this morning but she had promised to go to her little brothers football game and I admire how she always keeps her word.
Thanks for reading about my day and random thoughts.
So me and my Cur pup treed 7 squirrel today, I was a good enough shot to bring five of them home. With my self built self camouflaged accurized 10/22 that I wrote up last fall.
3 grays and 2 fox ; one of the ones who got lucky was a black squirrel.
So opening day of small game season has always been a special day for me; a time to test gear, make sure my range time isn’t in vain and spend time in the woods with Kin and friends and a good dog! Counting my blessings which are abundant and sometimes I’m to much of a baby and a hot head to see that clearly.
Another observation that I don’t know if I’ve ever said out loud is that fox squirrel are way harder to skin in my humble opinion, with about 6000 squirrels skinned to make my observations.
Something else came to my sometimes slow mind: a well honed Buck 110 is very hard to beat for an all around hunting knife. I have knives that may look better; might even be sharper but Buck nailed this blade style and it’ll stay sharp a long time and you don’t need a fixed blade for small critters and birds. But the 110 takes no back seat as a deer/ elk knife either; ask me how I know.
Something else on my mind this wonderful day is ; the wound cavities created by a 22 lr cci mini mag should be the bar for every company selling self defense ammo. I’ve thought this for a long rime but the 22 is the king of killing out of its weight class.
It’s the first day of season I feel like taking a legal limit with all the leaf cover still on and mast crops being spotty at best from a dry year is a wonderful day afield with a young dog who was born on my kitchen floor last May.
So hit to miss ratio is a closely kept secret but I brought home 5 and missed 2 and never ran the mag dry on this delightful little 10/22.
I wanted my daughter to go with me this morning but she had promised to go to her little brothers football game and I admire how she always keeps her word.
Thanks for reading about my day and random thoughts.