skeeterfogger
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22lr over 20g
It looks like a great rifle to hunt mushrooms withMy walkabout rifle would likely be this handi-rifle in. 204.
If we're talking varmints, not small game, this is most likely on my shoulder.
Once or twice a year, it's not uncommon for me to sit in my elevated box blind and run a predator call. Or maybe just sit at a good vantage point for an hour then slip on to the next one.
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My start within those parameters started with taking my Sheridan Blue streak on my trap line with me. I knew that - carefully - it could dispatch a beaver or muskrat if I needed to and also garnered rabbits at 8 bucks a pop.
When I first arrived back from Nam 2nd tour and a divorce when I got home in 71 I moved back to Big Sur Calif. as I had spent a few years in Monterey area and loved it . My first gig to recover from the as of yet named PTSD was an 1850s log cabin on a yet to be Molera State park where I was a Care taker until the state started development in 1973. I was literally propelled back to 1850s in this remote and beautiful primative seclusion for $200 a month and a 200 gallon monthly trailer of drinking water . My first purchase with my unemployment insurance checks for a few months was a Sheridan Blue streak with peep sight, 1000 5mm pellets and a Colt Nickle Combat Commander .45. The pellet gun gave me a couple fat quail or Rabbits when ever I wanted them. The Commander gave me sound sleeps , and a reputation to be feared in Monterey county That job lasted August 1972-may 1973 . I got a job as a ranch foreman on a large nearby Bigsur ranch that lasted 5 years and I completed college degree and Warrant Officer school in the reserves in that period. Here is the old Sheridan , with friends and the Combat Commander.. The Marlin 39, the Marlin .35 , the Ithaca 20 ga. the Ruger Mark 1 and S&W 34 snub and the .410 single barrel were added during this time period .