jwp475
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Post by jwp475 on May 21, 2022 15:42:47 GMT -5
I this big tree limbo growing over my car port. Too high to reach with my poll saw, so I break out the 12 guage with 1 1/4 ounce of 5 shot and the .660 extended turkey choke. I shot it 10 times  To get it down  But down it came. |
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Post by jfs on May 21, 2022 15:46:07 GMT -5
You should patent the choke..... "tree limbs only" 
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Post by jwp475 on May 21, 2022 15:47:37 GMT -5
You should patent the choke..... "tree limbs only" With this choke and 1 1/4 5 shot it will cut a spray paint can in half at 15, 20 yards |
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Post by kings6 on May 21, 2022 16:35:10 GMT -5
10 shots of that load and that is what my reconstructed right shoulder would look like inside, not just the limb!
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Post by woody on May 21, 2022 19:15:34 GMT -5
I do that all the time trimming around tree stands. For the branches you just can’t reach. I call It the 870 trim saw !!!! But I just use trap loads.
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Post by bullseye on May 21, 2022 19:29:16 GMT -5
I've done it before when limbs have interfered with my TV satellite signal. It's cheaper than hiring a tree trimming service!
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Post by kings6 on May 21, 2022 19:55:35 GMT -5
Once a year and about two shots of #7 20 gauge to get the mistletoe is about all I'm good for with a shotgun. Except two other shots per year for my turkeys!
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Post by bula on May 22, 2022 7:33:27 GMT -5
Since the 6th grade, we/I have lived where I can shoot in the yard. Ballistic solutions to household, yard and landscaping problems is a real thing here too ! Glad to hear and see, of a successful outcome.
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Post by leadhound on May 22, 2022 13:32:28 GMT -5
Once a year and about two shots of #7 20 gauge to get the mistletoe is about all I'm good for with a shotgun. Except two other shots per year for my turkeys! Use to get sent out with a BB gun to harvest a sprig for the holidays when I was a little bit littler. |
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Post by jeffh on May 22, 2022 14:03:07 GMT -5
I remember a lone, abandoned telephone pole mucking up the view and the phone company refused to remove it, claimed it wasn't theirs.
Long time ago, while showing off my new stainless, 6" 357 Mag Security Six to my dad, while home on leave, he was grousing about that ugly ol' pole.
About a dozen rounds later, that ugly ol' pole was lying in the field and someone came and picked it up finally.
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Post by seminolewind on May 22, 2022 14:28:14 GMT -5
12 gauge, my favorite way to trim limbs around a deer stand.
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Post by flyfisher66048 on May 22, 2022 19:46:50 GMT -5
When I was at the Olympic Training center in CO springs as a skeet shooter, there was a big pine tree near the high house that made picking up the second target on doubles on that side of the field difficult. It was common practice to check fire our double shotguns at the start of each round. I introduced the other shooters to the concept of cut shells, federal papers with their two piece wads were the best. It didn’t take long for that pine tree to fall from repeated hits with 12 ga cut shells.
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Post by bula on May 23, 2022 7:39:57 GMT -5
When using shotguns on hanging hornet/wasp nests...MAKE SURE ALL BIRD DOGS NEARBY ARE KENNELED ! Still have flash backs of a GSP fetching a football sized nest still being protected by a million or 3 mad bees !
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