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It is a Volquartsen 'muzzle weighted' barrel. I bought it in 1994 or so and it is a shooting son of a gun. PH
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From this morning--1/16/2012
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No--Model 513 SA (sporter) with Stith Bear Cub/Kollmorgen scope in Stith mounts.
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Pic of my son, coupla years ago, on the Indiana Aug. 15 opener. We squirrel hunted, then bluegill fished on my buddy's property. The rifle was his grandpas. 39a circa 1955. maddog
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I shot these last fall in the early season. I usually use a shotgun when the leaves are thick and switch to a rifle later in the season.
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"We squirrel hunted, then bluegill fished"
Nice way to spend a day. I do it myself a couple times a year--sometimes I substitute smallies, trout, large mouth or catfish....
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(As usual I can't get the pics to show up.)
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"We squirrel hunted, then bluegill fished"
We did that on the last trip I spent with my best freind... Didn't think it was special at the time... I was wrong.
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I've kinda decided to get back to my roots a little more this year. Gonna be a whole lot more squirrel huntin'/bluegill fishin' this year.
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Good for you Maddog, I too hope to get some time to do the things I like. 1st we need to put down the laptop and stop talking about it and just do it
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You're right. However it's a might cold here abouts. May get one more squirrel hunt in before the end of January....if it warms up. My ole bones don't cotton to cold weather like they used to.....
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Our season in Ohio ends the end of Jan. too. Was 60ish today and was going to grab the rifle and head to the woods in hopes of getting another squirrel or two before the season ends. Well, it got cloudy, rained cats n dogs and had wind gusts of 50 mph. Hunt canceled..... Hope to get out before season ends. We'll see what the weather is like... I'm like you too, not about to freeze over some tree rat..
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Some of my favorite memories as a kid, were getting suited up and heading out hunting squirrels with my Maternal Grandfather. The Squirrel season in Kentucky came in around August back then, and the leaves and mosquitoes were thick.
The first season, he had me hunting with a Winchester 37 in .410 bore. I'd hit them and they'd run off. I did learn a valuable lesson about the usefulness of a greenbriar, while hunting with that .410.
The next season I was sufficiently grown up on soup beans and Bologna sandwiches that I pestered Papaw to carry a .12 gauge like him. He accomodated me, and traded for a Remington 1100, with a 30 inch full choke barrel. As heavy as a railroad tie, that shotgun put me in a position to play college football, I have no doubt, but when I touched off a highbrass load of SuperX no. 4 shot, squirrels were dead when they hit the ground.
I still remember the way he taught me to walk in the woods, and how to tell the trees by the bark and by the leaves. I'd give anything to be able to go squirrel hunting with him one more time.
When he was close to the end, and the cancer nearly had him, I was sitting with him one day in March, far from a squirrel season. He hadn't eaten to amount to anything in quite a while, and between his naps, he told me that he thought he could eat a mess of squirrel if he could get it.
Enough for me. I went to his gun cabinet and got a 16 gauge Remington Model 11. I picked up a pocket full of shells, and walked the ridge. In no time, I had three nice gray squirrels and I hurried back to the house. I had them cleaned and ready when Granny made it back home from her trading (Grocery shopping).
She made squirrel and dumplings, and we brought him to the kitchen table. I sat with him while he absolutely scarfed those squirrels. He could leave a shiny white pile of squirrel bones like no one I have ever seen.
When he was done, we took him back to the hospital bed he slept in, and he went back to sleep. He only made a few more weeks before he was gone, but I have never been so happy to have three squirrels in my life.
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CT, that was a heck of a nice story. Bittersweet, but nice.
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I've kinda decided to get back to my roots a little more this year. Gonna be a whole lot more squirrel huntin'/bluegill fishin' this year.
maddog I was thinkin' the same thing. Teach my grandkids how to fly fish for blue gills in a farm pond . . . just like my dad did for me.
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Well, got out yesterday for a midday squirrel hunt. Only 6 days left in the Indiana season. If weather permits, I'm gonna try to get out 1-2 more times. Normally I hunt with a .22. However, this woods was close to a couple's house, and with the possiblity of taking a rabbit, I took my little H&R pardner, 20 ga. The squirrels are soaking in the frig as I post this. maddog
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Hey ingwe, notice the "bubba buddy" on the shotgun? I use one on EVERYTHING! maddog
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