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Damn, if I could have only been a fly on the wall. edit to add: only if the house was free of flyswatters.
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Gunner! I learned a lot on that and surrounding ranches. Pulled several pretty stupid stunts there in the younger days. All the old folks are gone now. And the days of the occasional car on the county road are long past.
Matter of fact it's still open range thru the place and the cows do get out there on the road. One morning, as my old bud jokingly tells, a city slicker drove up to his house to alert him the cattle were out on the road. His simple reply was "they belong here, you don't!!!!!"
I killed my first deer on that place and his mom taught me how to dress and skin it out.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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A moment from this evening. No shooting today but lots of talking And drinking. Same windmill and tank there behind me in about 1973.
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KW, I feel the same way when I get back by the old family homestead, a lot looks different now but strangely remains the same as it ever was.
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It's nice to have backyard ballistic critters on your place. Saturday night it was a big sow. And last night he nailed a big black boar at dusk with some BP loads he worked up. Too dark to get a pic of that boar last night.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Load, distance, bullet performance? Details, please.
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485 grain flat nose 20-1 bullet 60 grains FFG 60-75 yds. Light; dusk Both pigs ran before dying. Boar walking straight on at 60 yds. Bullet hit between shoulder and neck and went completely thru body front to back, and out the stern. Pig still ran anyway.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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That load is a killer, and easy on the shoulder. It is going to be hard to improve on it. One of my favorite loads for a 45-70 is a 480 grain flat nosed bullet over 66 grains of 3f. I used it for everything in Africa in 2010. The 480 grain flat nosed bullet is one of the best.
Thanks for the update.
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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In the 45-70, yes. It gives 1242 fps over the Oehler. Just about perfect.
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OK, thanks. I always thought u used 2F or 1F.
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Thanks Sharpsguy! He texted me this morning and said he's got it singing pretty withthat 2f load. So I suggested for him to stick with it!
In the old days I shot nothing but 3FG. But I pretty much shot nothing but flintlocks. Primed with it too.
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I use 73.5 3F for the .44-77 with a 485 gr and the .44-90 bn. A 105 gr of 3F in the .44-90 bn is a tack driver and puts a Bison on his knees and belly bigtime with a 485 gr RN.
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