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Hit Anchorage about 2:30 a.m., slept a few hours in hotel there enroute from Jamaica to Kotzebue by way of Sterling to pick up the dog from kennel and check on things. Got here about noon, let the dog out into the yard and he soon flushed a cock grouse just outside the yard, said bird flying into the top of a spruce in the yard. I grabbed the single 12 beater off the moose rack, a load out of the target-load box and popped the bird from about 20 yards. Inch-sized gouge through the bottom of the keel. Most of the breast was still edible tho. I guess that 3 inch length should have been a clue..... I suspect the wife of "putting things away" again. OO Buck does work on grouse! Oops. 
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Campfire Oracle
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At what point did it fail? LOL.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Uhhh... it overpenetrated you maroon!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Guess I forgot the smiley face...
:P
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Oracle
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Kahuna
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... enroute from Jamaica to Kotzebue Bobsledding again?
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Tracker
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thats more like a tundra swan load
I Kill Things......deal with it..
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Campfire Kahuna
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Just realized he is up there where they can do that! I am jealous!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Ranger
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I'd drop down to 4-0 buck. Better patterns.  Yeah, I know...more cripples. 
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Campfire Ranger
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I've shot a few spruce hens with a 480 revolver, but not full power loads. A sedate 310 gr @ 700 fps. The only problem is I keep forgetting my mild load hits lower than the full power loads so seem to drill them in the chest vs. the head (thats my story and I'm sticking to it) Meat loss is suprisingly minimal, caliber size entrance and quarter size exit.
Need to start going on local hikes with my pellet gun now that we can hunt small game in our subunit.
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Campfire Ranger
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A buddy of mine ...a few years ago ..pulled a fast one on me ...I had walked under a narrow tree on a hill behind livengood ...I did not know it, but a grouse was on the top of the only spruce 20' of anything for tree for a 100yds....I heard "hey look up"! and was rite there to see what a 180ge .338 does to them at 100 yds ....30' circle of blast/mouse food...(ps I did give'm chit for waste..in my book/but it was quite a site)
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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So....your "buddy" shot into a tree feet above your head from 100 yds away?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Ranger
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30 feet up .....the bad guys shooting at us while we were in the army ....got a lot closer.
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Campfire Oracle
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So you shot back at your "buddy", right?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Oracle
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Not really picking on you ATV, but your "buddy" is an ass.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Oracle
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Had to google that reference.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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true... aint spoke nor seen in 3+ years....former buddy btw, i draw power from being picked on 
Last edited by atvalaska; 10/24/13.
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Reminds me of a story I heard. May have been here...
Out big game hunting with the wife and a grouse presents itself on the two-track. I'm packing the 270 and tell the wife I can't shoot it with the 270 because there'll be nothing left. We walk on and come across a deer presented broadside. I lift my rifle to shoot and the wife says "You aren't gonna put a grouse-sized hole through that poor deer, are you?"
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Campfire Oracle
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still not picking on you. Your toll booth will hit me heavy next time north!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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