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Rio, you must have a dead critter grave yard that is huge. I could bury one occasionally, but you stack them up every day!

Windfall, I hunt every day about 8 months of the year, some day's i don't get anything some day's i kill the hell out of Predators, I am addicted to predator hunting, and Trapping. and have a big area to myself to hunt and trap. just lucky I guess. Rio7

Out checking water this morning, see dirt flying out in the road, what the hell is that?? drove up to about 10 ft away, and the critter looked at me like go away i'm busy, so i shot him. Rio7

That Ruger has seen its share of use!

RS

Ripsnort, My Ruger .22 is beat up from riding in my Jeep for over 25 years, it quit shooting last year??

Kaywoodie and Ed to many letters, tore it down and did their magic on it and got it running again,

It's killed a couple of dump truck loads of critters over the years,and still shoots better than I can if I use good Ammo. been thinking about buying a new one but don't know why??

Rio7

Hunting heavy Black brush Shotgun works Great !! Rio7

Nasty smelly Mange Rio7

No pic as I didn't carry my phone this morning. 1 sow coon came to the call.

10 gauge Federal Premium #5 did the trick.

10 GA.

You got her that's what counts. Rio7

Yep, hopefully save a few turkey eggs.

What kind of 10bore were you shooting? I have a 26” SP10 thats hell on waterfowl but I haven’t shot it in years.

BPS.

Got it for HS graduation. Gave it to my buddies boy last year. I killed a little bit of everything with it in 29 years I had it.

Killed a lot of turkeys with it that could have been shot with a .410.

I was at the house yesterday when Camera #2 pinged. The family units will often linger, so jumped in the Mule for a mad dash and then made a quick hike. They'd left already but were circling back toward the camera, as I could hear them about 80yds into the woods. Managed to put a 77TMK on a sow with a nice "whump".









Didn't have time to fool with this one, so I drug her out for additional coyote bait to the pasture.




Was dropping her off when the phone pinged again from Camera #1, about 3/4mi away, but I didn't have a green light with me and dusk was rapidly approaching. Will go see if he and I can reconnect in an hour or two.

Glad you are the one to have those problems. Damn fun hunting but I don't wish those bastards on anybody.

Caught this Critter Chittin on my back porch. Rio7

Pregnant female came to a Howl. Rio7

Must be coyote breeding season because I looked out the window this morning and saw one in the field behind my house. Grabbed the .270win, stepped out on the front porch and peeked around the corner of the house. Here came at least 4 of them straight towards me. I could tell it must have been a hot female they were chasing. She stopped at about 60 yards from the house and I dropped her. The second in line took off across the field right to left and I rolled him at 115 steps. That shot is definitely up there with my all time best.

Buzzards got to them before I could get a picture.

How frigging long before you thought about a pic?

Very hungry buzzards.

Brother and I went out last night and sat a while on a hot spot. Had a sounder come in about an hour after dark. He'd never shot a hog before, and thought it was cool to get it done with digital night vision (Wraith) on a suppressed AR-10. I enjoyed watching it happen through the thermal handheld monocular. He hit her with a typical lung shot you'd make on a deer, which is a touch far back on a hog, but the plus side was that she ran nearly right up to where we'd parked the Mule on the woods road. A 10yd drag is a good thing