Deadliest catch - Shooting tote with Mini 14

[HOME DEPOT GEORGE]

I've personally used a bangstick on a 50# cobia that got off the gaff on my boat before I got him in the slush box. There are many stories about large cobia wrecking the cockpit of a boat. As for halibut I would hit anything over 100# with the bangstickas they are really foolproof, I don't know if I would trust myself on a boat thats pitching back and forth trying to shoot any type of fish with a pistol or shotgun .

 

[Erik M]

They do not shoot halibut. It was a shark, and that movie was The Perfect Storm.

I've never seen that episode, but I think it's odd that they just toss junk overboard. I'd imagine there'd be enviros boiling about this.

What about the episode where different crews were playing pranks on each other? They chucked a porta-jon and a junked out F-250 into the ocean. I always figured that would recieve some sort of reprocussion against the series but I never read that any thing came of it.

 

[mgregg85]

A friend of my dads has a charter boat in Alaska, he said he keeps a 12ga on board, used it to shoot an octopus once.

This is his story but I believed him, he wasn't really the bragging type.

 

[Vicious-Peanut]

What about the episode where different crews were playing pranks on each other? They chucked a porta-jon and a junked out F-250 into the ocean. I always figured that would recieve some sort of reprocussion against the series but I never read that any thing came of it.

The boats they were playing the prank on pulled them out, as they hooked them in with their pots.

 

[Birdmang]

They shoot for the halibut.

 

[Mandolin]

I know that in the book The Perfet Storm, it's mentioned that on some ships, the crew blast all sharks with a shotgun to avoid shark bites. Apparantly, one guy pins hte shark to the side of the ship with a gaff or somethign and another guy blows its brains out.

 

[Lanyard]

There were guns on every boat I worked on. Some for target shooting from the deck on a flat day, some for beach combing (bears), and some for the survival raft in the hope we could make it to the beach. I know that some of the bouy tenders would sometimes use a shotgun to break ice on the bouys before they dropped them off.

I've never heard of a Alaskan commercial fisherman shooting a big fish that was landed on deck. The logistics of a good shot make me queasy. Foul weather, pitching deck, tired crew, flopping fish and lots of ricochet surfaces.

 

[SomeDude]

I remember an episode where one of the captains was talking about the Cold War days. He said that Russian intelligence would disguise trawlers and the Reds would tail the crab boats. If you're in international waters you have to have some way to defend yourself.