Pygmy

Happy birthday Larry !! I hope someone gives you ten dozen hellgrammites for your birthday !!

The wind makes a big difference as does whether the shooter is facing in your direction or directly away from you.. The area where I hunt gobblers in Canada is lake plains...Very flat....It also tends to be quite breezy..There have been times when my partner and I shot within a few hundred yards of each other ( with 12 gauge magnum shotguns) and one or the other of us did not hear the shot..

My ex-wife and my daughter are both southpaws.. I used to tease them about being "handicapped".....Hehehehe.......

I know the OP said he did not want to change the rifle, but a good way to solve the problem is to replace the original gas plug with an adjustable gas plug...There are a couple on the market for less than $50..With one of those you can shoot any 30-06 factory loads with no worry...If you need to make your rifle " 100% GI" you can always re-install the original gas plug..That is what I would do if I were not a handloader...

If you fire normal factory loads in your Garand you will bend your op rod...I have done it, because I did not know any better..Most factory loads use relatively slow burning powders that have a steeper pressure curve than the powder the M1 was designed for. There are several Garand specific factory loads on the market, but most of them are loaded with FMJs...A search might turn up some Garand specific loads with hunting bullets. Another alternative is to buy military ball ( make sure it is non-corrosive) , pull the bullets and replace them with a 150 grain hunting type bullet. If you reload or have a friend that reloads. you can duplicate the original load the M1 was designed for, which is what I do. 46 grains of H4895 and any decent 150 grain spritzer will do the trick...

Another sign is large rocks turned over...They flip them looking for ants, worms and other bear delicacies.. I see this often up on The Mermaid's property....

He'll be a DANDY next year....<<grin>>......

Both the original and the remake were excellent.. The original starred Burgess Meridith as George and Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie IIRC... The remake starred Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie.. John Malkovich is one of my favorite modern day actors..

I was in NYC at the time that SOS was active...I had to spend an overnight to obtain a Mexican work visa for my job. I spent an overnight with a Navy buddy in Bayside, Queens, which was Sam's stomping grounds.. My buddy's wife was a pretty Italian girl and I remember her talking about how spooked everyone in the neighborhood was, especially pretty women with long hair.. It was summer of 1977 and had not caught Sam yet when I was there..

It looks like a good thing to whack a bad guy in the head with... But i'd rather have my .357....

I'm retarded...That means I can hunt whenever I want to.... Tell me again about the RABBITS, George....

Damn !! A lot of Jarheads here....Thanks a LOT for giving me a hard time every time I came in or out of the gate.... Funny. I never saw you busting the OFFICER's balls........<<grin>>.....

USNR 1970-76, PC3 Served 2 years active duty aboard USS Moale 1971-73...

Welcome, my friend ! Lots of info to be had here, and lots of fun, too, if you have a sense of humor...

Definitely a king... Looks, like you are catching on, Stoney !

Those high velocity bullets fly quite nicely across property lines... At least that's what I've heard.....<<whistling>>.....

That was my favorite Glen Campbell song too, Grampy...

I guess I better make the floor stronger and the door bigger...<<smile>>...

I'm going up this afternoon with a buddy who is going to build me an enclosed tower stand...He does the building, I help with the grunt work... We plan to lay it out today and hopefully get it built this month. I also need to get a couple of acres plowed/disced for my fall oats/clover plot, which I would like to get in the ground by the 1st of September.

Both of my fixed 4X Leupys are gloss, and so is my fixed 6X Leupy... KISS me, you fool...!!!

Sweet !.....I have about 4 acres into clover and this spring the deer hd it cropped down like a cow pasture...

My first Springer's registered name was " Dan's Dawg".... Of course we just called him "Dawg"....

I remember a movie line from a western... I believe it was William Holden....When a young boy asked what his horse's name was, he replied " You don't give a name to something you might have to eat.."...

Reminds me of that old song... " What a friend I have in JEEE-sus....Christ Almighty what a pal ! ..."