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^ THIS ^ but i still shoot many crtters with a Hornet

Doesn't surprise me one bit as Ross took top IPSC honors in the world. '79 I think... Shooting a Pachmayer Gunshop built 1911/45 using 200 grain cast lead SWC's. One famous photo was him in mid air jumping off a 4 or 5 foot high wall w/45 pointed straight forward, finger off the trigger & off hand heading for the two handed grip, I figure to break the shot as soon as he touched down, maybe sooner.


I missed the date. Seyfried won the bronze in '79. He won the Gold in '81

Always enjoyed reading Ross. Got to talk to him once and he was a gentleman.

JB,

LOL.

Ross hated snakes and according to him when the trackers started playing with snakes he had a very hard line of keep that schitt away from me.

Everyone has their things.

Shooting Cape Buffalo with a SA revolver, cast bullets, and no rifle back up, no problem.

Snakes were just not his thing.

I too totally dislike snakes!! I've had so many close calls I can't have much luck left. Many years ago (back when a dollar would buy something) I had saved & earmarked $10,000 for a Cape Buffalo & Leopard hunt. After reading about & talking to some people (including Jim Carmichael) about the abundance of SNAKES in the "dark places", I mostly lost interest.

I have seen five total snakes in eight safaris, lasting up to a month. One was a harmless grass snake, but did see four black mambas on an 18-day trip to a hotter part of Tanzania--no doubt because it WAS hot.

In most of southern Africa the safari season is their winter, the coolest time of years, when snakes aren't very active. Have seen FAR more snakes per days spent in the field when hunting the U.S., even in October in Montana--many of them poisonous, including various species of rattlesnakes, plus cottonmouths and copperheads in the South.

While mowing the lawn last week, I dispatched a copperhead. Not with the mower! :-D

WV is pretty snakey in places, but I’m mostly not in those places in warm weather. Still, even in my yard down in the Shenandoah Valley, I watch where I put my hands ‘cause you just never know…..

My son lives near Richmond and killed two copperheads in one season right next to his house in a big subdivision.

Here is another funny Ross story.

Ross had a big barn and a resident flock of feral pidgeons living in the barn.

He had a rule that you could only shoot a pidgeon if it had absolutly no white feathers.

He said he was trying to breed an Aryan flock of all white feral pidgeons but it was really a way to not kill off all the pidgeons and not have a few around for "testing".

Took me almost three weeks to read this thread. On the Miss America 30/416R, his quote about getting a slow enough powder, "If we can't get something slow enough, we'll use nitro soaked charcoal briquettes". Or something to that effect. And the short termed thoughts of hitting his windmill or water tower. Figured the bullet would fly '20-'30+feet above it in mid flight.

His meticulous documentation of his experiments. Bullet deflection/Brush guns. Made multiple peg boards of same materials and shot lots of cartridges to back or debunk myths and wives tales.

His opening page in Nosler #? on the 378Weatherby. Not finding a blood trail, but lion clockwork at the spot of the shot.

Always looked forward to anything he wrote or Garry Sitton.

I remember the brush deflection tests and the lion clockwork comment, too. I always enjoyed his writing and feel a new kindred spirit of sorts with Ross since learning we share a severe aversion to legless reptiles.

Ross is the man. Always enjoyed his writing.

One of the best threads in a long time !

excuse me for interrupting the wave but another question about the hornet. I've been told by reliable sources. and actually one person on here that sometimes a hornet shoots better with small pistol primers. I guess that is probably powder dependent but this is the first time I have read of using CCI 450s small rifle primer magnums specifically for the little gun is this understanding correct?

What?

The 24hr CF hardly has any do nothing whiners that are jealous of anyones accomplishments.

It's all happy feeling and camaraderie.

You seem to be missing the chaos the certain narcissists here fuel.

I respect guys who don't want to come here to get into arguments over this stuff. I also respect guys who DO want to come here and argue over this stuff. It's all fodder for growing knowledge.

I have used both SP and SR primers, std and mag, in the Hornet. Experiment to find out what works best in your gun.

I’m not very smart and am only barely smart enough to know enough to admit it…. Several years ago my parents and I were hunting South Africa. We along with our PH were driving down a two track ( not sure they call them that down there) and saw a HUGE snake ( some sort of constrictor). Well, we may have had a few beverages, but the PH and I thought it would be fun to catch that big snake…. it was quite chilly and neither of us thought it would present any problem. He went to one side and I went to the other and we started closing in on the snake. When we were both about 6’ from the beast it lifted up and looked DOWN at us ( we are both 6’3” tall) and let out a hiss that could not be mistaken as anything less than serious. I don’t know who made it back to the Land cruiser first but I’m damn sure Carl Lewis would have been impressed by our speeds!

I ain’t two smart but I four shore ain’t messing with no more snakes in africa!

You just may be smarter than you think....

Wow! 10 enjoyable pages and no biggest dick contests.