Pygmy

Geeze, Wooly, be CAREFUL out there.... That said, it's a good thing he nailed you in the face..Any change would be an improvement.... JUST KIDDING, Good Buddy.. Glad you weren't seriously injured...

Predate... Have you shot coyotes with the .17hmr at ranges over 100 yards ? I'm just curious as to how it performs on game that size.. I don't hunt predators much anymore, but I am always interested in terminal performance of any chambering on any game.

I just can't understand how REDSKIN is a slur, while "WhiteMan" or "Paleface", or even "Redneck" is not considered a slur.. I guess it's a good thing that I'm getting older and won't be around much longer.. I'm just getting SOOO tired of this " Politically Correct" bullshit.

I was in the fur business in college myself, but it was more of a hobby than a job...<<smile>>...

I'm retired. Best job I ever had. <<grin>>... However for 30 years I worked as an engineering technician in the R&D facility for a specialty glass manufacturing company. Prior to that, I worked as a grocery clerk at an A&P store, served two years active duty on a Navy Destroyer as a postal clerk, and worked a year as a laborer building pallets at a woodworking company.

I just looked in my Colorado syllabus, and they have a .24 cal minimum PLUS a 1000 ft/lb requirement.. That would rule out some of the older rifle rounds such as the 25-20, 32-20 and 38-40 plus a lot of pistol rounds.

I'd have to search around a bit Dan, but I don't think I ever recall the .24 cal being illegal, although it is minimum in some states. You're probably right, though...Some states have, I believe, a minimum energy requirement.

I never heard it used either, Growie, but I'm kinda naaive.. For years I thought the Mexican Border paid rent...

I have only tried 3 bullets in mine, the 270 Speer, the 250 Nosler BT ( now discontinued), and the 250 Barnes X. My current load is the 250 Barnes X at about 2500 FPS. Sub MOA accurate, reasonable recoil and shoots essentially as flat as a 30-06 180 grain load. I've killed a moose, two caribou, two whitetails and a coyote with that load. Everything I've hit with it has suffered an immediate gravity attack. It leaves silver dollar sized exit holes and messes up a whole lot less meat that smaller, faster, more explosive bullets. I'll have to load up some 286 grainers for it someday, just because that's the bullet weight with which the cartridge earned its reputation as an efficient killer of medium and large game.

Yup, that's the one... The little lady killed a BUNCH of critters with that rifle..

I read up on her, Dinsdale.. Quite a lady... That Mauser is WAAAAY cool, but I could no longer use the express sights.. I'd need a peep...

Geeze, Wildcat, where'd you get the picture of me and Wooly ? Wooly hasn't been posting some of our "special" pictures on facebook again, has he ?

Good story, and good recovery after the CLICK...Nice buck, too... You didn't say what happened to the cartridge that did not go off. Did you recover it ? If so was the primer struck ? Could it be that you forgot to load the chamber ?

Beatnik..Remember Maynard G. Krebs from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"...? An old joke from the 1960s.. How do you tell a MONKEY from a Hippie ? Give him a banana. If he eats it he's a monkey. If he SMOKES it, he's a hippie.

Why would anybody want to hunt Hipsters ? Are they good to eat ? Who would want to pay good money to a taxidermist to mount a flannel shirt ? PBR...You mean people actually DRINK that stuff ? I think it's time for my NAP...

Too much DISNEY when she was a kid... Unfortunately, she and others of the same mentality, are allowed to vote.

Wooly... Have you been visiting my ex-wife ?? Good luck if you have..Don't turn your back on the DONKEYS !

Hehehehehe... My Old Fat Father always said that anybody that wanted a goat, wanted it most, just before he GOT one... He said the same thing about donkeys, and he had both... My ex-wife has two donkeys...EVIL damn creatures...Thier main desire in life is to TORMENT any living thing that happens to be unfortunate enough to share a pasture with them. My daughter hates them...I pick on her by telling her that some day she will inherit her mother's donkeys, because the wretched things live FOREVER...

Back in my "former" life I had a stoker coal stove, and the cinders worked well for traction in the driveway, which was always icy in the winter due to several springs at the head of it. Now that I live in town and heat with natural gas, I buy salt for the occasions when I need to deal with ice.

I have done some hunting and fishing in central Maine, near Bingham. I was shocked to learn that the locals there COVET white perch, but scorn yellow perch. Some of them throw the yellows out on the ice for the eagles and ravens. I caught a bunch of white perch and they were quite good, but not as good as yellow perch, IMHO.

Good luck, Lee... "Nuff Sed"...

The barrels are interchangable between all 11-87s within the same gauge, of course.. The Sportsman and Premier differ from the SP only in finish.. In fact MOST but not all parts are interchangable between 1100s and 11-87s.

I do have an 11-87, but it is my turkey/goose gun...Never shot slugs through it. However my main deer guns for MANY years prior to the legalization of rifles here in Steuben were Rem 1100s. which are very similar to the 11-87. For many years I used a 20 gauge 1100 with a skeet barrel and a reciever mounted Weaver k 1.5 scope. Grouped well enough with Brenneke slugs to stay on a 9" paper plate out to 100 yards or so. I killed a lot of deer with it. Then when rifled shotgun barrels became available, I decided to take advantage of the accuracy advantage. Not many rifled barrels were available at that time for the 20 gauge, so I bought a 21" fully rifled cantilever barrel for my 12 gauge 1100. I mounted a Weaver K2.5 scope on it..With Winchester standard velocity BRI sabot slugs it shoots 2" to 4" groups at 100 yards. I killed a lot of deer with it. However beyond 100 yards, it drops like a rock. About the time that the present variety of long range sabot slugs became available, rifles were legalized here and I haven't hunted with a shotgun since. Your 11-87 with the rifled barrel should work fine...You will ENJOY the much reduced recoil of the gas operated action, compared to your shoulder busting 870. You may need an aftermarket trigger..I was lucky with my 1100s..Both of them had pretty decent triggers for shotguns..With today's selection of shotgun slug/bullet loads you should be able to end up with a gun that shoots well enough for clean kills at ranges well over 100 yards. Good luck.

You have a 722, Larry ? Cool...My first centerfire was a 722 , in .222 rem. I bought it used for $60 and sold it 40 years later for $600... That's about the only gun I ever made any profit on, except maybe the minty Swedish Mauser that I bought for $100 and sold a few years later for $300.

Yeah, I can't remember anything IMPORTANT, but my mind is filled with thousands of bits of totally useless data... Here's another limerick from that same issue of Playboy.. A hillbilly farmer named Hollis Used possums and snakes for his solace The children had scales and prehensible tails And voted for Governor Wallace.