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Not a pic but a short clip....rock and roll!!!!

My new Spikes Tac.

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Plain and simple, Didn't want it to look like it could saw down a tree or a magnet in a junk yard. Colt HBAR, trigger work, ambi safety, LH grip, cut down front sight post and Hogue forearm. Burris scope mount and Redfield tactical scope. Shoot 5 into an 1" at 100 yds.

Coyote killer....

A rare bird. In fact it is a collectors wet dream.


I came across it in an armory I was in charge of overseas. It has been bouncing around a lot of third world countries for a long, long time.

Full auto fun for a little Brit girl

Nephew slaying rabbits with my lightweight AR that I built as my practical field piece:

Y'all eat them rabbits?

Not the jacks.

Cottontails yes, but cottontails get a free pass. I won't shoot one unless I am going to eat one.

What many who are not familiar with how the creatures of the desert work are shocked to find out how quickly all the dead jacks are cleaned up.

The badgers, hawks, owls, coyotes, etc make extremely short work of anything and everything.

The very next day after we shot all those jacks, this was all that was left:





Even the fur will get carted off to line the nests of critters. Not a thing gets wasted.

I have done night time summer hunts down old desert two tracks, killing a dozen or so rabbits, leaving them in the road. Heading back down the same dirt two track an hour later and find that every single dead jack has been carted off. Pretty common.

The high desert, AKA the sagebrush sea is chock full of animals most never see.

when I lived in Reno we had a blast shooting the running jacks. I had an SP1 at that time, I also had a blast with a smith and wesson 41. Wish I had that gun now.

As late as the 1930's southeast Kansas was full of Jacks. My Grandpa used to kill them by throwing his pliers. He'd always carry a pair of pliers in the front, chest pocket, of his bib overalls. Dad said Grandpa could grab those pliers and kill a jack several rows over chowing down on some corn plants.

Jackrabbits are a terrible menace to agribusiness. They can ruin a field of corn in no time, supposedly. This is all secondhand info, because by the time I was born in 1961, or at least when I can remember from, the jacks were totally gone from here. Whether it was pliers-flinging-farmers or pesticides, I know not, but I suspect the latter. It doesn't really make any difference, because they pretty much had to be eradicated lest a person go broke farming.

I've only rarely seen one in the wild. Many times I wish they were still around here, but it's not practical.

Oh, and my family ate them. It was depression-era Kansas, they ate a variety of stuff...

Here is my latest. It's only been to the range three times now but so far I'm very impressed with it.

It's a Colt that started life as a stock LE6720.

New parts:
Spikes Tactical L/W 18" SS fluted 1-8" twist SPR barrel
VLTOR flash suppressor
Troy TRX forend
Geissele Hi-speed DMR trigger
assorted Magpul bling parts
A.C.E. ARFX stock
American Defense mount
Leupold 2.5-8 MR/T scope

I really like this rifle. It's reasonably light at 6 1/2lbs (bare)and very accurate. It's easy to carry and comfortable to shoot. Out of all I have put together I think this one is my favorite so far.




Terry

How's that SPR barrel shoot?

A rancher I knew in the Hill Country of TX "barked" a jack rabbit's skull with a .22 hornet. Since it was stunned and not dead, he decided to keep it a while. He staked it in the front yard on a 20 foot string. Overnight, every piece of vegetation in that 20 foot radius was gone. He was certainly a believer in killing every jack he saw. They're a pretty prolific critter. I've eaten snowshoe hare, but not jack rabbits. Supposedly there is too high a risk of bubonic plague to mess with jacks. I have no idea if that is grounded in reality or not.

Extremely well. So far I've only tried 69gn SMK's and Varget but it loves those. Most groups (when I didn't screw it up ) have been sub-MOA.

Here is a little bit better picture of it.



Terry

Latest PSA build.

there is a number, and I thought it was under 10, that matched a cow on jacks...

IE 8 jacks can eat as much as a single cow or some such.....

I know most ranchers don't care for em.

I liked seeing em around here but they went away for some reason we never could figure other than fire ants. but then we would only have 1-2 of them generally on the place.