What a douche. I felt dirty after 3 minutes, but I held in there 'til the 5:50 mark. Wow
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What a douche. I felt dirty after 3 minutes, but I held in there 'til the 5:50 mark. Wow
I know it's hard to watch.
I don't have a Facebook page, but I do have Instagram, there is way to much blow stuff of your nose and onto the keyboard there to pass up. I like the old rat rod videos, trucks and the stupid people cheating death at every turn to ever think about giving it up. There is stuff there I chuckle way to hard at, whether it's been there done that or watched someone earn their shirt, I still chuckle often while scrolling thru the reels.
All my adult life I've considered a flat brimmed ball cap a possible target indicator. This punk did nothing to change that.
Phil Robertson and Billy F Gibbons have kept a lot of beard trimmers from being dulled prematurely.
And plenty think it's a requirement to make a popular shooting/hunting vid
And plenty think it's a requirement to make a popular shooting/hunting vid
I really want a 1903 Springfield, but I would go nuts if it wasn't at least MOA, which it probably wouldn't be. Love my Garand though. Had a friend, now passed, who hunted with nothing else.
In 2020 southpaw wrote the above and my reply is as follows:
I say that now, this is far from a hunting forum. While many followers are no doubt hunters, it seems as though most of the comments and post are about shooting paper at great distance with tiny bullets forming groups that would fit up a gnats butt. Or, we are regaled (thankfully only upon occasion) with stories of long, long, long shots on elk from one canyon wall to the opposite by a twelve year old using some new small miracle pill.
Relatively speaking, I see only a smattering of posts on successful hunting game at reasonably/doable distances. I will venture to guess that relatively few viewers/posters actually hunt and/or kill anything in the course of a hunting season and that's OK by me.
People complain about painful recoil. It's true if you shoot your 300 Win Mag off bags at the bench but not so much when focusing on a critter in the field. When I'm working up a load or setting up a new scope any of my magnum rifles, I shoot off of a "Leadsled" with 50-100 pounds of lead shot for ballast. I shoot 500-grain A-frames in my .458 and 300-grain TSX and/or A-Frames in my .375. I wear a "Past Pad" behind the sled and can shoot as many rounds as required with little if any discomfort (the recoil is spread over a longer time period as well). At the bench without the sled, the recoil is focused into your immobilized shoulder, standing or sitting in the field and away from the bench your entire body-mass moves back with the recoil.
In Africa I shoot both calibers standing either off-hand on close/quick shots or off of my special sticks on longer shots with no "felt" recoil. No "BS", when you are sighting on a Hippo or Cape Buffalo at close range and you jerk/pull/squeeze the trigger you (I don't anyway) feel the recoil or the hear the report (I do now wear hearing protection). (I'm going to Tanzania to hunt this September.)
Over the years I've posted several articles with photos on taking big/dangerous game in Africa and seen only a few others by site members so hence my assumption that there is little interest.
P.S. I've read over the years posts herein whereas the author has (typically) heard of other shooters suffering broken scopes or stocks while using "Leadsleds" to which I reply "Bull Squirt"! What you do learn is that when shooting big bangers you need to fully tighten the ring screws to keep the scope from lurching forward upon rifle recoil.
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No offense but I think you can cool it with the hating on people's choice of wardrobe. It's worse than someone's choice to hate on a 22 Creedmoor. I understand your assumed humor but I feel you're taking it a little too far joking about his hat being a target indicator. For the life of me I cannot understand why other people's choices anger people so much. This thread is about the misinformation/lack of information that's being shown by people today. The parody is that there's plenty of like biases present right here on this forum and this exact thread. I respect you and everyone but we should strive to keep our community much cleaner her on LRH.All my adult life I've considered a flat brimmed ball cap a possible target indicator. This punk did nothing to change that.
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I watched part of that video, a very small part, which got me thinking......does anyone know the IQ of a box of rocks?
What I don't understand is when people say that small calibers can't take down big game animals. Many deer across the US have been spotlighted and taken with .22 Magnums.
Also, there are quite a few people who regularly use .223/5.56 to take their caribou every season up here. Shot placement and proper bullet selection goes a long way.
Quick, jump in the shower. I'll loan you my decon kit if you need it.
I'm sure there is interest. However, most folks don't have the $$$ for an African hunt. They tend to focus on North American game. Having hunted in Africa, I can affirm that I've never felt a chill like hunting game that would rather eat you for lunch or trample you into dust just for the heck of it. Its hard to fathom that you just don't matter in those situations. They belong there, you dont.
