So I bought an inexpensive rifle to play with. I might have just gotten the one out of a few thousand rifles that was kind of in need of a lot of messing with to get it to shoot as I wanted it too, but then I'm not satisfied with an average rifle out of the box often. I'm one of those guys that like to tinker with them to see if I can get better grouping, so it was most likely just me and not the product! The forearm of the stock was too flexible for my liking, so I stiffened it up with an aluminum rod imbedded in it and glass bedding compound. The action rocked at least 3/32 of an inch on the front bedding block, so a good action bedding was done. The scope mounting rail wasn't fitting the action well, so I bedded it to the action and properly torqued the screws. The butt stock still flexes, but the forearm and action are stable. I made a muzzle break but then found one for sale that was threaded on the outside I then made a tuner weight for that. All of this was just for my learning and enjoyment. I like my break's ability to resist muzzle rise better than the boughten one, the boughten one does however have a can that redirects the muzzle gasses and sound forward keeping the blast forces from messing with any one on a bench near you or from messing with you when you have any solid surfaces to your side, as so many muzzle breaks get quite loud for the shooter under those conditions. The canister does cause you to feel a slight amount of increase in felt recoil, but it is still better then without a break. The barrel tuner was just for my curiosity and for a hunting rifle I would say mine didn't give me any useful gains but for target shooting and such would help a person close down their groups noticeably. The load development wasn't a big problem I looked at Nosler's load data picked a load they found to be accurate with my chosen powder. I measured the chamber and the distance to the lands for the bullets I wanted to use, then seated my bullets .062 off the lands for a starting point. I used some once fired brass in that chamber, from barrel break-in. I set the shoulders back .002 trimmed them to length, deburred the case necks inside and out, deburred the flash holes, cut the primer pockets to the same depth, and hand primed them. I ended with .015bullet jump to the lands giving me .750-inch groups at 100 yards now, instead of the 8-inch groups that I started with and many hours of enjoyment tinkering with a rifle that makes me have good days I accomplished something useful and my grandson can have another rifle he can shoot someday or sell if that's what he wants.
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An old male, an old female and a yearling female, four pups from the year and the coyotes are gone from that area till the fall migration starts. Snared coyotes don't do well in 95- and 100-degree daytime temperatures, as was stated in a movie buzzards gotta eat same as worms.
windypants
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Your pretty handy at fixing and building, and a lot of other things!
I was lucky enough to be born with the ability to see mechanical things and understand them, I guess. But that's what I went to school for in 1973 also. My mom told me she didn't really think that I was a kid, that I was a little adult and that it made her sad to see me not playing with kids my age but visiting with adults about work things. I told mom when I was in 6th or 7th grade that I would be a machinist or mechanic, then I found out about other things related to that. Sometimes it's a blessing and sometimes it's a curse but I sure do enjoy being able to figure things out and fix them. The learning about things, how they work is just plain enjoyable to me, I am now and have always been curious about most things in this world. I was in a class in middle school one day when a girl told me she was so bored with this class I looked at her and said I'm not smart enough to be bored there's just too much to learn, and that's been my way of thinking since I can remember. I haven't worked other than at my own stuff and pace since April 25th, 2017, they told me you can't retire on that day you have to wait till the end of the pay period. April 25th is an important day to me, and I still get called and asked how to fix somethings. I will explain things to almost everyone if they want to learn but there are a few that I won't help, no matter what the situation is. That's my evil twin inside of me, I said on April 25th, 1975, that I would do my best not to bring harm to others again, but I won't stop some from bringing harm to themselves. Yup I'm an a0987645 like that too. I was visiting one of my friends that is a minister one day when he told me that so and so had bad medical problems, I said well if anyone deserves that it would be him. He looked at me and said that's not very Christen of you to wish him bad like that. I looked at him and said I didn't say I wished it on him I just said that if anyone had earned it by being a bad person it was him. I do sometimes wish I weren't so hard a0098 about some people. I will forgive but I won't forget, I don't hold a grudge, but I won't give you another chance to bring harm my way either. Awh enough rambling on about stuff for now, wishing all a good evening and health. !!!!!
yes, 74Honker; a coyote fighting a snare on a hot day doesn't live long even if it doesn't kill it fast and with having a heated body they bloat and spoil really fast. In an hour they will be swollen and stinking, by the end of the day you won't want to be very close to them, by the end of the second day you can tell their sex but not much else.
No matter what it is that I'm doing visualization plays a part in it. If I'm calling, I try to visualize where the animal I'm after would be and why they would be there at that time. If I'm snaring or trapping, I try to visualize where the animal will mostly travel, why they would travel there and where they would be most confined to a smaller travel route. I try to look at it from their eyes. If I had to walk everywhere that I went, where would I most likely walk to take the most advantage of my energy expenditure. If I had to live outside without a house, where would I stay when it was cold or when it was hot, windy, rainy, snowy ect.. When I want to raise a family where would it be and what natural features would be the ones that I would want to take advantage of the most, water, shelter, shade, sunny hillsides, deep draws with food in them, seclusion from others that might bring harm to my little ones. It's the same with most others that are professionals at what they do no matter what it is that they are doing. Athletes visualize the games and what the possibilities are in how it will be as the game progresses, mechanics visualize how what they are working on works, does this gear turn this that direction to cause this to do that. If I'm driving what happens if the driver in that vehicle does that what should my reaction be. Our supper computers are running all of the time know it or not making split second decisions continually. It's mostly a matter of us training ourselves to think about what we are doing at the time to affectively use the information they are gathering at the time concerning what we are doing here and now. I'm calling now not buying my kids school supplies, I'm snaring coyotes now not servicing my truck, thinking about my supper or what my wife wants me to do tonight. It's called being in the here and now and if you study on the common factors that the best in their fields have you will find that their ability to be in the here and now is what separates them from the average person in their field no matter what field it is.
windypants
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Ive been seeing the adult pairs and singles out hunting occasionally, but haven't seen the pups traveling with them. Is that normal for this time of year? I haven't seen the pups at all since they left the dens.
It is pretty normal for this time of year that the pups will be laying up and not hunting with the parents yet. The pups are hunting on their own but it's bugs and things like that at this time. Sometime around the end of August or the beginning of September they will start to accompany the adults on hunts to hone their skills on bigger game then bugs and mice, they will then be hunting rabbits and animals larger like fawns or lambs. By the end of September, they will be doing a lot of damage to lambs if they have moved in close to the heard, most likely they won't be living in the same pasture with them but will be close by in some cover and probably a water source. Sadly, I have seen them kill 20 to 30 lambs in one night of fun and learning, at this time they will act like feral dogs and kill for fun if it runs, they will chase it grab it by the neck and kill it when they can. To them it's learning how to grab and kill, to us it's a terrible loss, and in the process several lambs will die or be torn up by the pups. They will also at this time be learning the art of stalking by laying and watching the adults as they are hunting larger prey, such as fawns but also the rabbits and prairie dogs. The pups have been taught a lot of discipline already by the adults with barks, growls and nips. Pretty much like parents in our homes, tell the kids to behave once or twice then give them a swat and if that doesn't do it give them a spanking. They have, as you have already noticed learned to lay out of sight and watch the parents and other animals while not being seen, or heard.
windypants
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As always, I sure appreciate you sharing your knowledge on here. This isn't sheep country, so I don't see that kind of carnage. There's lots of grasshoppers, mice, rabbits and birds to keep the pups fed until calving season.
This shows on the left side an out of the box new pistol at 21 feet. Below the center dot is my left-hand trigger hand 10 shot group with my carry pistol that has an Apex Tactical duty carry trigger and a Storm Lake barrel to the right of it is my right-hand trigger hand 10 shot group, with the same pistol, all at 21 feet.
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This shows a couple of different rifles the upper 3 shot group shows a rifle that needs cleaning if you look down the bore it has alligator skin just in front of the chamber. I don't know what happened it just quit grouping good after I changed to this new powder, I went back to my normal powder, but it still won't shoot good I cleaned it can you look at it for me. So, I shot a group after I checked to make sure I wanted to shoot it, checked the screws on everything Carbon ring, and probably copper fowling. The bottom shot in the center ring was the first shot then the six shots on the left side with the vertical stringing has a story to tell of its own, inconsistent powder charging or inconsistent neck tension, I will neck turn then so that I have .003 t0 .002 thousandths neck tension instead of .004 and weigh every load a little closer. Yup it will kill anything from 0-300 yards with the loads that it has now, but I just like to have fun with it. The other rifle will get a carbon cleaner soaking and cleaned well. then it will get a copper fowling cleaning then shot again.
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Dave ,
I think that you show a definite propensity to shoot better from your Right Hand .
Good Shooting !!!
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