Pygmy

Nope....#6 shot applied to the HEAD AND NECK in sufficient density kills gobblers just fine at 50 yards or perhaps a bit farther...I have seen my buddy in Ontario kill too many long range gobblers with his Mossy 835 and # 6 shot to think otherwise. I used #4 shot for many years, but the last few years I have switched to #6 shot mostly based on his success with that shot size.. I still don't shoot much over 40 yards myself...Of course I just use a sissified 11-87 with a 3" chamber, rather than a real MAN's gun like one of those ass kicking 3.5 " monstrosities.

....No....Sounds like an operator problem to me.... If he is hitting birds and knocking them over and they get away, he is hitting them in the body, not the vital head/neck area.. PERIOD..

Cooper's hawk.... Cool picture...

I have a gay uncle whose first job was as a sock-tucker at a local hosiery mill. Then he got a job as a cork-socker in a barrel bunging factory. After that he got a job in a San Francisco bath house. I don't know WHAT he did there.

100 fps don't mean s**t in a shot load...Probably 200 fps doesn't mean much either... Anything from around 1000 fps UP is fine, and the load that gives the densest, most evenly dispersed pattern is the best. My 21 " bbl on my 11-87 kills them just as well as the 30" bbl on my Browning A-5 3" mag did, and it's a lot easier to haul around the woods.

Don't tell me...It's name was NUTZO !...

In the early 60s I worked at several different local farms for 50 cents an hour.. In the summer of '67 I worked for Steuben County clearing land for a county park for $1.50 an hour. In '68 I got a job as a grocery clerk at the local A&P store for $1.80 per hour.. From 1971 to 1973 I worked for Uncle Sam...Can't remember what I made there.. In 1974 I went to work for Corning Glass Works as a lab assistant for $130 per week.. Retired from there in 2004..

A large male weasel is as big as a female mink.. The LEAST weasels are much smaller.

A whole BUNCH !!

Super picture, my Friend...And YES the mink are mating right now..Lucky ********...

Me too... I forgot mine when I went up to Canada last spring and darn near got eaten alive.

ROTSA RUCK finding one like that....If you do it will be BIG BUCKS ! DEFINITELY a "sneak in the safe" item... May you fare well, Pilgrim....

Walter Brennan never had a bad performance in his life.. Neither did William Holden... I really liked Marlon Brando in his early roles, but he got weird in some of his later roles.. Gregory Peck is another favorite of mine.

In areas with certain cover and food sources, robins winter here in NY...I have seen them a lot along the eastern shore of Seneca Lake,in areas with heavy , dense evergreen cover and plentiful food sources such as multiflora rose and wild grape. I have also seen them in numbers in isolated areas of heavy cover here in Steuben County in January.

Even the FRAME is cracked !

A friend of mine ( now deceased) had a shotgun blow up while shooting trap. A double charge was suspected in that case. A piece of shrapnel from his Win M96 O/U flew over and KILLED the shooter standing at the next station.

Looks like a double charge..That's easy to do with handguns using fast burning powders that occupy a relatively small amount of room in the case. On the other hand, with most rifle loads, if you double charged a case it would overflow and be obvious. He's very lucky that he or a bystander was not injured.

Last winter it seemed like I saw nearly as many roughlegs as redtails. How about short eared owls ? I used to see them frequently when I lived out of town and could easily watch the hay/weed fields at dusk.

Good question and I really don't know the answer, however I strongly SUSPECT that unless the block required some disassembling of the magazine, it would not be legal. As an example, when you plug or unplug a tubular magazine on a shotgun, some disassembling of the firearm ( removing the magazine tube cap and spring retainer) is required. I don't think you could get away with simply pushing a dowel into the magazine from the breech end. I don't think that simply placing an easily removed block in a detachable box magazine would cut it. Again, however, I don't know for sure. just an educated guess.

Could be, Ants. I know that some primers are preferred because they are harder than others. I have always just used what what LR primers I had on hand ( usually Winchester) and between those and the Remington factory loads I fired before I knew better, I have never had a slamfire. I do admit it has made me a little nervous looking at the dimples in the primers of rounds that have been chambered but not fired.

The receiver on my M1 is also WWII vintage, Springfield Armory 1943.. The barrel, I'm not sure. Nearly all of the Garands have been rebuilt several times. The rifle was designed so that you could disassemble 50 of them, dump the parts in a pile, mix them up and then reassemble them and every rifle should function correctly and shoot within given accuracy specs..I think the specs were somewhere around 4MOA.

So that's why I didn't see any roughlegs this year...They are usually quite numerous here in SW NY during the winter..

Nice, Born !

I'm drinking a Labatt's Blue Light right now and LOVING it !! So THERE !! Nyaa, nyaa nyaa nyaa NYAA !!

The problem is that most factory loads use a powder that is slower burning than the powder that the M1 was designed for, resulting in a steeper pressure curve. This puts too much stress on the M1s op-rod and bends it. The action was designed for medium burning rate powders like 4895 or 4064.. Most modern factory 30-06 loads use slower burning powders like 4350 or 4831.