Jesus, you walk away from your computer for five minutes…
Some asstard calling himself Rick O Shea mouthed off in comments to the ‘centerfire rifles” post below.
Well, Rick, let me clarify something for you.
BEING SURE OF WHAT IS BEHIND YOUR TARGET MEANS MAKING SURE IF YOU MISS YOU WILL HIT A SURFACE OFF WHICH YOUR ROUND WILL NOT RICOCHET.
Northwest Indiana is dirt and sand. At any angle I have ever shot, the soil absorbs the impact. But then, I’M SURE OF MY TARGET AND WHAT IS BEHIND IT.
And then there’s that huge difference between the ballistics of a centerfire rifle round, like a 45 long colt, and a muzzleloader round. Wait, there’s almost NO DIFFERENCE.
Fucktard. Every blogger I meet has good reading comprehension skills, what happens to some of these commenters?
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Hey Rick, ya wanna go hunting?
I’ve always said if a man can learn pratical applictions of physics his odds of survial go way up.
If a .22 can be shot in such a manner to go down range 5 miles that would be a minium for almost any round. Of course such a shot would be at a 45 degree angle up from the ground. For some of you, the ground is what you stand on.
If there is something behind your target the bullet will hit it. If there is nothing it will go down range until its energy is expended it hits soome that will stop it.
The worst shot is from the bottom of a valley to the top of a ridge. That guarantees a flyer.
If you don’t understand these concepts I don’t want you in the field when I am. One reason I’ve been using a bow for deer.
Although I did find some bozo on public land looking for coyote with an SKS, that made me a little nervous. Around here coyote usually show up in open fields in ranges of 300 yards or more. Not a good shot for the SKS.
This is not a statement againest the SKS. I view guns as tools and I don’t use a screwdriver to bury a nail.
Man that is a lot more than I wanted to say.
Ugh
PaulB,
You’re as educational as Og is!
I like!
Fiona,
I try in my little corner to shed some light from time to time. Although this is Og’s corner that he lets me us.
Have a great day.
I wouldn’t want to use an SKS at that range. I’d use something with a bit more “Reach out and touch someone” ability unless I was able to lure them in closer. I’ve never hunted ‘yotes, but I’m trying to get my wife’s grandfather to let try popping a few on his farm using an electronic lure (or staking our dumbass cat to a post if it pisses on the carpet again… just joking… yeah.. joking..)
They seem to be a bit ballsier around here: I had three of them pop out of the bushline not more than 15 feet from me last year while I was changing a tire at 2am last year.
Bastards ran before I could get some pelts via tire iron :)
SKS would be very good for that. My brother has them eating his cats and he is using a .45 to “touch” them. Ruger I believe. They seem to come up to the back door on a regular basis. As I recall he has 7mm to “reach out” with. He lives halfway up a ridge on a creek valley and the “wildeness” is down range into the valley. All the houses in the valley are on ridges, so it makes a nice gallery.
As far as coyotes go, I use the mini-14.
down here, they run in packs and the mini’s mag capacity makes for smooth kills.
Do you really want to know what happened to me, Og?
I deer hunt mostly in Ohio. OH is one of those flat and densely populated places where the ODNR tries, to the best of their abilities, to create hunting opportunities that are as safe as they can make ’em. But despite all their efforts such as restricting us hunters to using shotguns with slugs, we still experience our share of ” what the hell were you thinking” hunting accidents.I have a farmer friend who had a slug join him in his family room one day, without an invitation.His house is surrounded by open fields should have been sheltered by the hills on three sides.We still can’t figure out how someone could have shot at a deer and hit his house but they did.I have been in a woodlot in open farm country and had a slug come flying in and wack a tree 30 yards away. It hit the tree about 25 feet up and fell to the ground. I don’t know what the terminal velocity is for a one ounce slug but it would not have been lethal if it hit me.It would have hurt and really pissed me off. The woodlot sits by its self with nothing but harvested fields for thousands of yards in all directions. Some genius had to have fired at, and missed cleanly, a flying deer , to have sent that slug downrange into my woods. It still happened. It ain’t what you are shooting that keeps hunting a safe sport. It has always been the person behind the gun who makes it safe. We try to make all kinds of things “idiot proof” safe. It doesn’t work. alongs comes an especially gifted and talented fool who can overcome any safe device invented. Some day we may be able to return to a time when we held people responsible for being feloniously stupid. This ain’t one of those days yet I guess, eh Rick ?
More, was that you?
Well, but what if you miss the ground? j/k I couldn’t help myself.
That was me. Just a joke.
jees more, think before you joke. People here take their shootiing seriously.
Og, I meant no offense. I was referring to my childhood.
No disagreement here about the need to verify the background of our targets.
Chill, more. I will buy it as a joke, and you and me is OK. Be clearer it’s a joke, though, next time, OK?