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Out with the .45 again. Used shot this time and took advantage of the raw east wind and snow showers to sneak up on rabbits trying to get some sun between snow bursts.



The next rabbit was a bolter from thick cover, a 20 yard shot with about 5/8oz payload stopped it dead.



B.
 
Britsmoothy said:
...a 20 yard shot with about 5/8oz payload stopped it dead.

Perfect testimonial for lighter loads. In tight cover I'm also using 5/8 oz, but in a 20. I go so far as loading my 12 gauge with only 7/8 oz. Performance within 25 yards is so good, cartridge shooters can only dream of it.

Well done. You certainly have me pining for a smooth 45! :applause:
 
Good pictures and nice hunt, Brit!

Can I ask a question?

How in hades do you manage to wear that fur hat??

I mean, it gets minus 30 to minus 40C here, and I always wear me old English flat cap! It got to be a habit back home and the habit continues.
I Do have a fur hat like yours, but I get an awful sweat on so never wear it. Maybe twice for half an hour, but that's all.

Cheers,

Pukka.
 
Wonderful Nate! Looks like fun. :thumbsup:

I'm wondering if you are using the Skychief load in these smaller smoothies? :hmm:

If so, is it working as well in them as the larger bores?

Thanks for sharing and best regards, Skychief.
 
Britsmoothy said:
:thumbsup:
I can see how a .50" would be very useful too.

B.


I was gifted an older CVA frontier model by my oldest sister who knows EVERYTHING. I was very excited but noted bore was dirty (and gun bought or won n raffle in WI, "humidity") and when I mentioned it she assured me I was wrong and she had checked it. LOL, shes a school psychologist and retired USAF accountant. You could tell by a 1/100th second glance at the bore. I attempted to clean it up best I could with regular cleaning and then scrubbed with chore boy pads. Still feels rough but have yet to shoot. If its tearing patches and not accurate I may just have me one of them there smoothies made out of it. Nate yer having too much of the fun and I wanna get in on it!! :thumbsup:
 
RJDH said:
Good pictures and nice hunt, Brit!

Can I ask a question?

How in hades do you manage to wear that fur hat??

I mean, it gets minus 30 to minus 40C here, and I always wear me old English flat cap! It got to be a habit back home and the habit continues.
I Do have a fur hat like yours, but I get an awful sweat on so never wear it. Maybe twice for half an hour, but that's all.

Cheers,

Pukka.
I feel the cold and I guess living in a temperate climate makes me soft. Plus I have little to no thatch of my own left!

B.
 
Skychief said:
Wonderful Nate! Looks like fun. :thumbsup:

I'm wondering if you are using the Skychief load in these smaller smoothies? :hmm:

If so, is it working as well in them as the larger bores?

Thanks for sharing and best regards, Skychief.

Not tried it in this gun friend as I don't have suitable fibre wads.
I am just using thin cards.

B :hatsoff:
 
Nate,

Come to think of it, I think I was "frozedest" back home as well!
Could come in from ploughing at six, and it'd be 9 PM before I got warmed up.
A bloke from way up north where they can get it colder than here, said the coldest he Ever felt was when in the army stationed in England, LOL!
Pretty near died he was so cold. so yes, I'd forgotten about damp cold.
Minst, your fur hat looks Much better than a flat cap when hunting traditional!

Cheers

Richard.
 
RJDH said:
Nate,

Come to think of it, I think I was "frozedest" back home as well!
Could come in from ploughing at six, and it'd be 9 PM before I got warmed up.
A bloke from way up north where they can get it colder than here, said the coldest he Ever felt was when in the army stationed in England, LOL!
Pretty near died he was so cold. so yes, I'd forgotten about damp cold.
Minst, your fur hat looks Much better than a flat cap when hunting traditional!

Cheers

Richard.

I often wonder how a dry cold would feel :thumbsup:
 
Well here in sunny AZ (and at 7000 feet elevation), just last month it had snowed about 10" and I was out in the driveway at 9:00 AM. Temp near 0........shoveling quite comfortably in my T-shirt. That was the sunny part of the drive. About 1/3 was shaded and I near went in to get a jacket but just tried to split the time in the sun/shade. Many fond memories of my Pop out doing the same.

As I write it is blizzarding again, maybe gonna get 3-4 inches. In March us seasoned locals dont bother to shovel if under a foot.....will melt in a day anyway :idunno:
 
H-C,

The term is V common over the big pond!

Two sayings were used over there, offering different points of view;

"You can't grow hair and brains as well"

and conversely,
"An empty barn don't need thatching" !

All the best,

Richard.
 
Well done Nate with the normal sized bunny's. The older I get, the more the cold bothers me. The climate here in Northern Indiana is a damp cold. Does Jess help in finding the rabbits? And Richard, and the rest of us folicly challenged, they don't put marble tops on cheap furniture............robin :hmm:
 
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RJDH said:
H-C,

The term is V common over the big pond!

Two sayings were used over there, offering different points of view;

"You can't grow hair and brains as well"

and conversely,
"An empty barn don't need thatching" !

All the best,

Richard.

:rotf: :rotf:
 
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