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Post by Encore64 on Jan 19, 2017 5:49:24 GMT -5
All those books are good, but the J.D Jones book is exceptional. I gave $1 for one 25 years ago and its been the most expensive $1 I've ever spent.
Well worth adding a copy to any collection.
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Post by Robster on Jan 19, 2017 6:06:21 GMT -5
Agreed!!
And pic orientation is now correct...odd
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Post by Rimfire69 on Jan 19, 2017 8:10:29 GMT -5
Hunting with custom smallbores would be awesome.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 19, 2017 9:34:45 GMT -5
We can go smaller, game-wise too. My rice loads have made it possible to kill wasps in the house, mice at extreme close range, and anything between. Before rice loads, my lightest loads I called "frog smackin'" loads. Don't forget amphibious game ! My plastic BB's, airsoft pellets loading hasn't panned out yet. Wanted a rubber buckshot non-lethal type loading. Uses yet unclear.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 19, 2017 9:49:47 GMT -5
Admittedly, the odd payload loads I play with are not smallbore things. They make large bores applicable to smallbore chores ! I do have a Single-Six Convertable here with a 6.5" barrel that may be the deadliest weapon in the place though.
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Post by jayhawker on Jan 19, 2017 10:53:17 GMT -5
Many years ago used .45 Colt rice loads to practice fast draw in the basement simulating black powder blanks breaking 4 inch dart balloons. Was great fun. Shotgun primer, most of a case of rice, tissue paper wad.
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Post by whitworth on Jan 20, 2017 8:56:05 GMT -5
i hope you guys have a good section in there about squirrel hunting and chipmunks. Here you go -- plenty more where that came from!
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Post by Robster on Jan 20, 2017 9:07:58 GMT -5
Have you had any thoughts about writing about small bores? or is there not enough interest?
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Post by robrcg on Jan 20, 2017 9:09:11 GMT -5
I don't see an exit wound Max. You must have shot the chipmunk on the other side and the bullet didn't exit. What load were you using? 😊
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Post by whitworth on Jan 20, 2017 9:12:16 GMT -5
Have you had any thoughts about writing about small bores? or is there not enough interest? Actually I haven't. I rarely hunt small game anymore. That said, I need a break. I wrote three books in the course of five years and I'm tired. But it sounds like there is a book in the making here somewhere.
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Post by whitworth on Jan 20, 2017 9:13:31 GMT -5
I don't see an exit wound Max. You must have shot the chipmunk on the other side and the bullet didn't exit. What load were you using? 😊 Funny you should mention that. I was using CB caps. When I filed the noses down to flat-points, I did get exits on chipmunks. When they were left alone as round noses, they often didn't exit. True story.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 20, 2017 9:16:19 GMT -5
Full mount ? Rug ? LOL ! Dangerous game on my list. As boys, me and two boys,brothers, were hunting the wiley chipmunks of the forest. Well, a 5 acre woodlot. They had BB-guns and I had my trusty Crosman 760. Gotta use enough gun ya know ? This one 'munk was running down the length of a huge fallen maple trunk blindlingly fast. But boys are fast too ! Ploink, ploink, phhttt ! Went the weapons ! The mortally wounded chipmonk made it into the hollow stump at the end of the log and the charge was on ! BB-guns and pellet rifles should come with bayonets we learned that day ! The older brother got there first and shoved his hand into the stump only to withdraw it screaming in pain with the Chipmonk attached by his huge fangs to Frank's fingers ! After a few violent shakes, blood spewing everywhere(bit of an exageration there)the chipmonk ran up his arm and perched for just a second on his off shoulder, he was gonna go for the jugular, we knew it ! We drew beads on it in a desparate attempts to saves our friends life, while he screamed.."Don't Shoot !" It did end well, and Frank carried the pelt in his pocket until he started dating, it kinda smelled..
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Post by whitworth on Jan 20, 2017 10:03:58 GMT -5
And another of my chipmunk hunting exploits.....
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Post by lscg on Jan 20, 2017 10:25:17 GMT -5
and here I thought I was the only one that liked using CB caps.
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Post by taffin on Jan 20, 2017 11:04:56 GMT -5
Aaaahh....the big bore...the firepower, testosterone laden power, mystique, enjoyment of ownership, pride of marksmanship....LOVE IT!!!!! but seriously, my big bore gets to hunt only 3 weeks a year during deer season. BUT!!!......my smaller calibers get almost year round exercise! from horseback excursions and hound running/exercise in the summer months, my Single Six 4 5/8" barreled .22 gets the nod. When backpacking up in the Adirondacks, the .357 gets to make the trip due to potential bear or 2 legged predator issues. The .32 goes along with all my small game hunting excursion for the potential shot at a fox or coyote!!! So where am I going with this you ask! We need a small bore revolver book. Or a Hunting with small bore revolvers....ahem, ahem...Max Prasac? Are you listening?? 'm sure a lot of you have stock AND custom small bores that could grace the pages of a hunting with small bore revolver book. If there is a book out there already, I am not aware of it. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? Just putting it out there "SMALL BORE SIXGUNS, SEMI-AUTOS AND SINGLE-SHOTS" (50 CHAPTERS) IS IN TO THE PUBLISHER. IT IS BEHIND "THE BOOK OF THE .45" (60 CHAPTERS) AND "CLASSIC DOUBLE ACTION SIXGUNS:AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION" (33 CHAPTERS) . I AM NOW FINISHING UP A NEW "BOOK OF THE .44" (56 CHAPTERS). DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT ASKING THE OBVIOUS QUESTION!! PATIENCE! PATIENCE!!PAIENCE!!!
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