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hillbille
went out to the cabin this morning to change cards in camera's and to sight in shotgun and rifle. got one of those cheap chinese reflex sights I put on a break barrell pellet rifle it has 4 different crosshairs/redotts and is red and green. I mounted it on the shotgun and at 25 yards would just flat out covered a pizza box. did one at about 15 yards and it was lot tighter, maybe a 10 inch circle with dent/black smudge from wad. killed a pop can at about 35 yards put at least a dozen pellets in it. was just to windy to hunt most of trees were almost sideways, good thing is the leaves are almost all gone. gonna have to go back out first of week if I can find some help, the roof blew off my stand, it was only glued to the 2x4 rafters with a little squirt foam added for leak protection, I found one panel about 50 yards from stand. kind of suprised me it made it through the winter, but yesterday we had some good wind/rain storms roll through. only good thing about being retired, is I don't have anything else to do, but gotta find another body to help get panel back up tree and in place, think I will stretch a tarp over the roof this time and nail/tie it to the sides to try and keep this from happening again, had a window open, and I think the wind rolled through and the roof was the easiest exit.......
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  • Sam06
    We are getting a frost this weekend, I will be shooting a few for chow.
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  • hillbille
    Sam06 wrote:
    We are getting a frost this weekend, I will be shooting a few for chow.

    thats what I'm after, 5-6 to put in crock pot, with little beef broth, end of day pull meat off bone, make gravy, pour over biscuits and pig out.... I get the craving every now and then but once or twice a year will last me till next year
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  • Sam06
    You bet

    I will be out with my 22 Bolt gun Iron sights and subsonic lead ammo. I am going to take my dogs and I am sure they will get one or 2.

    My bag limit is a self imposed 3 because that is about all I can eat.


    When I lived in LA I loved squirrel hunting on this place I had permission to hunt. The guys who owned its Grandma loved Squirrel. I would go out in the morning and shoot wood ducks or teal and leave them on her porch, then I would go squirrel hunting. I would shoot 8 to 10 and leave them on her porch the in the evening I would try and shoot some more ducks.

    Granny would clean all that and have them ready to go it only cost me 2 squirrels and all the heads, because Granny liked squirrel brains and the tongues :lol: She would coot the heads and crack them open with a spoon and eat the brains. She was about 90 and got along fine. She was a true Cajun and didn't speak English all that good. She could cook too. She made the best fried catfish I have ever wrapped a lip around.
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  • hillbille
    My grampa ate the brains, but he used a nutcracker to get in the heads, I was just a little tyke, but I will never forget the sound of those skulls cracking/crushing and I can still see him sitting there smiling and digging em out........
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  • Smitty500mag
    hillbille wrote:
    was just to windy to hunt most of trees were almost sideways,

    That reminds me of something funny that happened to me one day back in 1964 when I was hunting squirrels. It was very windy that day so I sat down and leaned up against a small pine tree on the side of a hill in the woods. I sat there looking around for squirrels for about 30 to 45 minutes and finally decided it was just to windy to do any hunting. So as I stood up to leave at that very moment a squirrel jumped out of the top of that little pine tree and landed on the ground right in front of me and took off. He had been sitting up there the whole time. It startled me so much that I didn't get a shot off. I think I heard him laughing at me as he ran out of sight. :D
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