I agree. I used to live in Ca too and had several bad attacks. I'd wait til after dusk and spray them.
Type: Posts; User: chrisw
Forum: Processing wild game
I agree. I used to live in Ca too and had several bad attacks. I'd wait til after dusk and spray them.
Forum: Processing wild game
I'm in VA so no Americanized here yet, just pockets of hot older feral stock that doesn't have much Italian in um. I'm still newish and building. Hoping to have 30 survive winter and 115 going...
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ok, I guess my ethics are different than most of ya'll.
sorry but when I see a guy buy a mag Tuesday for $9 and then sell it Tuesday night for 45, I was taught that's not Christian, its why...
Forum: Processing wild game
LMAO- I get stung often, but I don't worry about every piece of protection part, um, actually most of the time. And perhaps more, I have some hot hives from local black feral bees I've caught.
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Forum: Our Town
In Virginia, the Wounded Warriors is government sponsored and is a quasi-government agency. They are paid out of the commonwealth's budget to provide services to ALL VA claims. I was...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Thank you! Luckily with the tracers, the load specified is only 56,000 PSI, so about 15% under max. I should not have used tracers for my example- since they are different, but my plan for...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I'm a new reloader (for cartridges cases at least- shotgun for over 20 years). But in the past year or so I've worked up maybe 30 or so loads using ladders. I've tried 3 shot steps but just ...
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when I took my class in NC we where required to shoot the pistol we planned on carrying as a legal requirement. I took it so long ago...
luckily for VA my hunter safety is all that's required,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
well... I was talking of burning 10 bullets here and 20 bullets there.
As to ladders, I'd say 100-200 rounds is the bare minimum if I'm lucky to find the right powder/seating depth...
LMAO. I do use a spear gator hunting but for deer? Maybe if they are tame?
I love my crossbow! I have some spinal cord/brain birth defects that have gotten worse with age and actually have pretty much stopped hunting until I got a crossbow. Now I've taken deer and...
thanks all for the great answers! I've got some thinking to do...
oh, thanks especially for the tip keeping it lighter! I really like my shoulder...
Forum: Processing wild game
Anyone in SWVA want to start or work out a lease or pollination contract or something so I can keep some hives on your land?
thanks!
Chris
I don't mind learning more advanced techniques. I've loaded shotguns 20 years so maybe its time to learn. I guess that was my point behind my question, is there 1 or 2 consistent "good slugs" or...
Hi!
For my birthday I got this real nice rifled barrel for my 870 and I'd like to start loading some slugs but reading several years worth of posts I'm ending up very confused.
which...
Forum: Our Town
heck, I just want to call out these idiots buying a 10 buck mag yesterday and trading/selling them for $30 today in our own forum.
say what you will but this is just wrong in my eyes.
heck, in...
Wow, I'm down in Dublin! Bout, 45 minutes I guess.
wow- just amazing! Um, where in WV are ya? I love to trade lead?:twisted:
nice!
I've got a rifled 12G myself but the kid just has the smooth bore. I'm impatiently waiting!
I guess I need the .600 lee round ball for his smooth bore and have you picked the best ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
yup- I've got manuals galore! I just wanted t make sure that just loading cheap loads for tin can kinda shooting is if I can just load the minimum listed and run with that. I've got my "go...
Forum: Our Town
or teach classes charging enough to buy yourself a few new toys!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
sorry if this is in the wrong area- but I just see reloading equipment, or Cast loading...
hi!
often I find partial boxes or, in this case, some .223 53g tracers and would love to just load...
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eh, seems like a waste then, when you could post the same item here with a MUCH higher audience.
I wonder how this would do in my 870 12g. They sure look pretty!
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |