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<blockquote data-quote="DougsCamo" data-source="post: 1227634" data-attributes="member: 83401"><p>Great article, Glen! (Hope this reply only appears once since I was composing it and it disappeared in mid semicolon!)</p><p>I have several friends that still use 220 Swifts for our rapidly disappearing populations of groundhogs but haven't gotten into our rapidly expanding populations of coyotes.</p><p>When I was young, most of our legendary hunting and shooting authors were alive and producing articles on a monthly basis which I would read while waiting in a barbershop. I regarding them as gospel and for the most part they were.</p><p>Alas, life is a series of intersections....when I reached the intersection of the availability of a particular rifle, my income intersection was somewhere off in the distance!</p><p>That being said, another factor was that I was a child of parents raised in the Depression which always regarded a purchase with the eye of necessity; if a rifle was too big for small game for the table and too small for the legal taking of a growing population of whitetails, then it was considered a luxury and therefore was not considered.</p><p>My father relented somewhat in the early '60s and purchased me a rifle chambered for the "new" 22 WMR. I suddenly was armed with what seemed to be a laser beam when compared to a .22 LR!</p><p>Over half a century and tens of thousand dollars later, I have come to the conclusion that I should have taken up whittling (kidding). The real conclusion is the sadness that the days of seeing 30 and 40 groundhogs in an afternoon of roaming a farm on foot is long gone. I'm at another intersection.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DougsCamo, post: 1227634, member: 83401"] Great article, Glen! (Hope this reply only appears once since I was composing it and it disappeared in mid semicolon!) I have several friends that still use 220 Swifts for our rapidly disappearing populations of groundhogs but haven't gotten into our rapidly expanding populations of coyotes. When I was young, most of our legendary hunting and shooting authors were alive and producing articles on a monthly basis which I would read while waiting in a barbershop. I regarding them as gospel and for the most part they were. Alas, life is a series of intersections....when I reached the intersection of the availability of a particular rifle, my income intersection was somewhere off in the distance! That being said, another factor was that I was a child of parents raised in the Depression which always regarded a purchase with the eye of necessity; if a rifle was too big for small game for the table and too small for the legal taking of a growing population of whitetails, then it was considered a luxury and therefore was not considered. My father relented somewhat in the early '60s and purchased me a rifle chambered for the "new" 22 WMR. I suddenly was armed with what seemed to be a laser beam when compared to a .22 LR! Over half a century and tens of thousand dollars later, I have come to the conclusion that I should have taken up whittling (kidding). The real conclusion is the sadness that the days of seeing 30 and 40 groundhogs in an afternoon of roaming a farm on foot is long gone. I'm at another intersection..... [/QUOTE]
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