Gone Huntin'
I will be out for the last of the pheasant season the next 2 weeks .... Will post some pictures if I ever get this graphics program to work right. The Firebrand will be singeing the tail feathers of the nation's wild foul the next few weeks instead of singeing the bottoms of the elitist criminals in Ottawa. The sign has been hung on the door of the advocate office: "gone hunting"
posted by W.L. Mackenzie Redux | 6:38 AM
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The Pheasant have been co-operating by walking themselves into our game bags. Best October weather on record....great times, the gun dogs are hot.
12, 20-guage, or Sweet-Sixteen? Does it have a bayonet-lug?? For graphics check out Photobucket.com - they're free up to a point and easy to use.
12guage 2 3/4" Belgian Browning superposed over-under with skeet vent rib....was murder on the chickens this year. Put a buck in the freezer from 230 yrds with my Sako 7mm-08.
I inherited a 12guage 2-3/4" Belgian A-5 "Light Twelve" from my grandpa, your Superposed is sweeeet gun.
You know, I just sold a Sako 338 mag. I was disappointed in that gun for 2 reasons. Whenever I hit an elk at close range with anything but the best quality reloads (barnes X) the damn bullets blew up and hardly penetrated. As well, even after replacing the stalk, it was a one shot accurate rifle. The barrel got so hot after one round, that the shots immediately after began to create up to 1 inch per shot.
I liked the gun for it's feel and incredible trigger, but having to buy and reload only the best ammo to ensure a killing shot was a pain in the ass. An elk at 250 meters was an easy drop even with cheap ammo, but an elk inside 80 yards where the velocities were high was a wound and chase; unless I used Barnes X.
This was an old 60's Sako DT...it has a mcmillan hunter profile barrel,presicin fitted to the remilled reciever on it with a match chamber by a custom reamer. Head spaced to 1 thou and a Leo 10X turret scope on it...stock is a choat camo with integral bipod.
I have only 2 off the shelf guns and they are both shotguns a browning superposed and an ithica 800...the other is a custom made model 12 with a skeet choke that I use for chukers.
Hmmm: You know, my Sako was an 80's make. I'm not sure that the problem was "Sako" or the fact it was a 338 mag. I've spoken to a number of people who said their 338 mags were useless closeup.
I guess I can blame Sako for the ultra-fast heating barrel. Having a gun that can drive tacs, only while it's cold is really a shame.
And you missed all the excitement.
The pen is mightier than the 12 guage, isn't it? If you managed to get pheasants to surrender, you have proved it once and for all. That is, unless the pheasants could not take any more of our statist robber scumbags in Ottawa, and merely found the bottoms of your games bags in a frantic effort to find relief.
Well there may something to what you say Shaken. These birds WERE western and Albertan...some died with an expression of relief on their puss...perhaps they had enough and committed suicide by hunter rather than be "managed game" by Ottawa kleptocrats. ;-)
BTW: Last 2 weeks we went on camp for Hungarian partridge and Sharp tail grouse in the EID and Sask border lands...we did well there too. Spent last night celebrating the Stampeder's win over Redmonton and digesting a big feed of white wine-tarragon partrige in saskatoon sauce and some pheasant breast in portabello cream sauce...wild+basamati rice with shitake mushroom and pine nuts and the last of the fresh garden peas....creamed BC cherries in brandy for desert....of course there were copious amounts of my buddy's home made wine and some Alley Kat Oktoberfest beer to wash it down.
For a European import, those huns are great, the best in fact. Problem is, you need 20 to feed 7 people. Glad all went well Bill, and that you're back at it.
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