So i managed to jam a Howa

[Big_E]

Well we were young kids who didn't know any better. Besides too many of those danged things caused a lot of telephone pole damage. Bird Law be damned.

**From my research I can only conclude that it may be a ptarmigan. Just tell us the Sapmi word for it, google can do the rest.

 

[cacoltguy]

The videos you posted on Youtube look fine to me. I don't see any problems.

 

[dataDyne]

Everyone hunts these birds this way, some with even larger calibres. There is practically no chance of hitting anyone, it is not like i would shoot towards a village

Also, since i could not replicate the problem, i do not care about it any more
But, i would like to emphasise that it was two or three failures to extract and eject the case, not feed it into the chamber.

Wikipedia says that they are called § Tetrao urogallus birds

Here, watch a hunt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3ENTBAN30&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0KWzPynvy8

 

[cacoltguy]

Wow that's pretty interesting. I've never seen any kind of bird hunting like that before. Looks pretty challenging.

 

[Dr.Rob]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Capercaillie

Big birds that stick out like a sore thumb in winter.. no wonder people hunt them in such remote places like Sapmi.

Looks like Biathalon is good training for that kind of hunting.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Um, FEDERAL refers to the US
to someone from northern Scandinavia, I'm rather sure they aren't all that concerned about some idiot in washington...
they have thier own people, in their own capitols.

 

[viking499]

If I remember, the Howa has a 1:12 twist. The Tikka will be 1:8. Keep that in mind if you have a particular grain of bullet you are planning on shooting.

 

[Davek1977]

Shadow 7D Said:

Um, FEDERAL refers to the US
to someone from northern Scandinavia, I'm rather sure they aren't all that concerned about some idiot in washington...
they have thier own people, in their own capitols.

Which would be fine if I was referring to the OP in my post regarding the migratory bird act. I was not. It was obviously directed at Big E who mentioned using woodpeckers as target practice with a listed address of Boise, ID, which last I checked was still in the US and under the jurisdiction of the Migratory Bird Act.