Quoheleth
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You know...I saw one of those once, except it used a knitting needle. We use those down here for harvesting Boone & Crockett fire ants.
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44 mag = pea shooter
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You know...I saw one of those once, except it used a knitting needle. We use those down here for harvesting Boone & Crockett fire ants.
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koja48
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Good thinking . . . I gotta try that!
ZeSpectre
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Weeeel, one time I was out shooting Lousiania bayou 'skeeters with my trusty cut down, pistol gripped, Holland and Holland and durned if I didn't catch my string tie in the chamber.
Well when I fired that chamber it sucked me right in and down the barrel and the next thing I knew I was down range standing on a dead 'skeeter.
My friend Tex (who was kind enough to catch the gun before it dropped in the muck) kinda smiled and allowed that I was probably a mite light grainwise for 'skeeter hunting and I ought to hold a cast iron skillet out front as a flatnose next time.
Still after we hooked the tow-truck up to that skeeter and hauled it home I gotta say that Tex's 85ft long rattlesnake had himself a mighty fine evening snack. Shoot that ornery cuss was so calm after being fed we were able to saddle him up and ride into town.
Well when I fired that chamber it sucked me right in and down the barrel and the next thing I knew I was down range standing on a dead 'skeeter.
My friend Tex (who was kind enough to catch the gun before it dropped in the muck) kinda smiled and allowed that I was probably a mite light grainwise for 'skeeter hunting and I ought to hold a cast iron skillet out front as a flatnose next time.
Still after we hooked the tow-truck up to that skeeter and hauled it home I gotta say that Tex's 85ft long rattlesnake had himself a mighty fine evening snack. Shoot that ornery cuss was so calm after being fed we were able to saddle him up and ride into town.
HammerBite
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All my guns are nude.
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koja48
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Tex's 85ft long rattlesnake
It's a shame . . . the really big rattlers in Texas are about gone. Hopefully Tex's will grow up . . .
It's a shame . . . the really big rattlers in Texas are about gone. Hopefully Tex's will grow up . . .
You guys are all wimps. My EDC handgun is a derringer, but it uses a suitcase nuke as the primer. The actual propellant is six pounds of antimatter (for my light target load) behind a plug of tungsten six inches wide and two feet long. It's a snubby, of course. I didn't have to register it as a destructive device because the ATF and DOE agents got into a fistfight over whose department was in charge of regulating the gun, and I never got around to breaking it up. Or letting them out of the basement.
When I test fired it, the projectile ended up accelerating past the speed of light, going back in time, and clipping the corner off the Earth to make the Moon. It's a good thing I was aiming high, because if I'd blown up the Earth it would have created a paradox and destroyed reality itself, which would be the ultimate one-shot stop.
It kicks a bit.
When I test fired it, the projectile ended up accelerating past the speed of light, going back in time, and clipping the corner off the Earth to make the Moon. It's a good thing I was aiming high, because if I'd blown up the Earth it would have created a paradox and destroyed reality itself, which would be the ultimate one-shot stop.
It kicks a bit.
elrod
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As we say in these parts, "somebody gonna lie in a minute".
Vern Humphrey
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Bite your tongue! In my younger days, I hunted big game with no weapon at all, just the purity of my heart and the truth shining through my eyes.
But I ran out of mammoths and dinosaurs and had to quit.
ZeSpectre
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And to think all this time they've been blaming it on a giant asteroid and climate changes.
Vern Humphrey
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I used to tell my faithful Indian companion, Tonto, to go easy on the gas when we chased mammoths in our SUVs.
scott5
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I was out shooting the other day with my 44 mag. and it seem to shoot farther than my 357 mag ever did.
So I put a camera close to where it landed.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/139983main_impact_1600x1200.jpg
I'm happy with how my revolver shoots, but I don't remember the load that I used, just that it was a 300gr. bullet toped with a generous load of LiL Gun.
Happy shooting
Scott5
So I put a camera close to where it landed.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/139983main_impact_1600x1200.jpg
I'm happy with how my revolver shoots, but I don't remember the load that I used, just that it was a 300gr. bullet toped with a generous load of LiL Gun.
Happy shooting
Scott5
wanderinwalker
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Had a friend we called Jules once. Kind of cute as I recall. Not sure how you use that to measure power down in Texas. Unless it is how long you stay stone after she stares at you...
Anyway, I'm comfortable being a recoil wimp. 240gr bullets at 1300-1400 fps from a .44 Magnum are plenty for me. If I need more, a 300gr bullet at 1700-1800 fps from a .45-70 rifle is better.
Dravur
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hmmmm, i leave for a couple days
and I come back and find you all talkin about mouse guns. What is the world comin to?
Up in Montana, Nuns shoot .44 Mag. The rest of us go a might more powerful. You ain't never seen such a thing as the great Montana Prairie Dog. It stands knee high to the Sears Tower and has teeth like oak planks. To say that this critter is big is like saying the Pacific Ocean is a duck pond.
once, one of our dogs got carted overseas on accident. Some fool Englishman thought he found a new breed of Wolfhound. Anyway, the dog got loose, dug a couple tunnels and wouldn't you know, them darn english lined it in cement and called it a Chunnel.
Anyway, to kill one of these here varmints, you gotta go big. My varmint rig was based on a partical accelerator I got down in Texas. I rigged it up with some plutonium and commenced to firing. Some say it is hard firing a 18 mile diameter round gun, but I just let off with some "kentucky Windage" and blazed away. I admit, I lost track of a couple rounds and I sure as heck sorry what I done to North Dakota. It seems I blasted alot of their peiople back a few hundred years so they dont talk american good no more.
The other missed shot.... well, lets just say, Fort Peck Reservoir didn't just happen.
So, you can keep your wussy rounds like .500 SW and .600 Nitro. We use manly guns. guns that have more syllables in just describing the calibers than in all of Websters. Guns that make John Wayne proud and makes Hillary Clinton wet her polyester jumpsuit.
and I come back and find you all talkin about mouse guns. What is the world comin to?
Up in Montana, Nuns shoot .44 Mag. The rest of us go a might more powerful. You ain't never seen such a thing as the great Montana Prairie Dog. It stands knee high to the Sears Tower and has teeth like oak planks. To say that this critter is big is like saying the Pacific Ocean is a duck pond.
once, one of our dogs got carted overseas on accident. Some fool Englishman thought he found a new breed of Wolfhound. Anyway, the dog got loose, dug a couple tunnels and wouldn't you know, them darn english lined it in cement and called it a Chunnel.
Anyway, to kill one of these here varmints, you gotta go big. My varmint rig was based on a partical accelerator I got down in Texas. I rigged it up with some plutonium and commenced to firing. Some say it is hard firing a 18 mile diameter round gun, but I just let off with some "kentucky Windage" and blazed away. I admit, I lost track of a couple rounds and I sure as heck sorry what I done to North Dakota. It seems I blasted alot of their peiople back a few hundred years so they dont talk american good no more.
The other missed shot.... well, lets just say, Fort Peck Reservoir didn't just happen.
So, you can keep your wussy rounds like .500 SW and .600 Nitro. We use manly guns. guns that have more syllables in just describing the calibers than in all of Websters. Guns that make John Wayne proud and makes Hillary Clinton wet her polyester jumpsuit.
koja48
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Drav
Can you meet me in Montana to help me reload? My 500-Ton Liebert Crane is in the shop & I'm having trouble lifting the boat-tail hollow points up to my press. Bring a couple tons of Varget . . . I'm only gonna stuff a dozen cases . . . thanks!
Can you meet me in Montana to help me reload? My 500-Ton Liebert Crane is in the shop & I'm having trouble lifting the boat-tail hollow points up to my press. Bring a couple tons of Varget . . . I'm only gonna stuff a dozen cases . . . thanks!
tasco 74
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i keep wondering when this thread is going to get out of hand.....................
Outlaw Man
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My BUG is a Death Star I keep in a SOB holster.
Dravur
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Well...
Of course I reload and I can help you. We usually have to set the reloading equipment up the side of a mountian. It makes it more convenient to be able to drive to the top of the press.
We use a herd of rams for the....ram.
Sometimes we just load the cartridge with live badgers and wolverines, pack in a few hundred pounds of powder and top it off with the contents of the Berkely Pit. Yeah, its true, you gotta use it soon to keep the badgers from starving, but Ill tell ya. Its nice not having to gut the elk after you shoot it.
I dont think you have ever seen a gut pile the size of a tanker truck.
Now, back up or ill fix you with my Montana stare. It is a look that Clint Eastwood tries to use and John Wayne attempted. It is a look that makes baby jesus cry and can scare a vampire. It is known to make women faint and make liberals crawl back to their holes.
Look it up, it's true. I used it in Boulder once and the whole town cried.
Of course I reload and I can help you. We usually have to set the reloading equipment up the side of a mountian. It makes it more convenient to be able to drive to the top of the press.
We use a herd of rams for the....ram.
Sometimes we just load the cartridge with live badgers and wolverines, pack in a few hundred pounds of powder and top it off with the contents of the Berkely Pit. Yeah, its true, you gotta use it soon to keep the badgers from starving, but Ill tell ya. Its nice not having to gut the elk after you shoot it.
I dont think you have ever seen a gut pile the size of a tanker truck.
Now, back up or ill fix you with my Montana stare. It is a look that Clint Eastwood tries to use and John Wayne attempted. It is a look that makes baby jesus cry and can scare a vampire. It is known to make women faint and make liberals crawl back to their holes.
Look it up, it's true. I used it in Boulder once and the whole town cried.
koja48
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I re-read the posts. Sure you're from Montana, cuz there are only 4 seasons in the Big Sky??? Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, & Road construction. Can't have the stare down pat yet if you only made all 6 folks in Boulder cry . . .
Kimber1911_06238
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my poor little .357 seems a bit worthless compared to a .460 or .500
Dravur
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Not Boulder...
Not Boulder MT, Boulder CO.
I am from Montana, just stuck in Colorado
Not Boulder MT, Boulder CO.
I am from Montana, just stuck in Colorado
koja48
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'K, Boulder, CO works. I'm stuck in WA State, but do get home sufficiently often to enjoy God's Country. Why, there's still elk there I haven't scared yet . . .
arctictom
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A little more on thread , I have a 8 3/8 inch 460 and its a ***** cat, I took it to the range and blew through 25 rounds of 200 gr and 50 rounds or 45 long colt and some 300 gr 454 Casull . The Smith 460 ammo was very and pleasant to shoot . The real draw back to this hand gun is the weight , loaded it weights just under 5 lbs , and its a horse to lug around .
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