Pygmy

ROFLACGU !

The bad news is that he survived... The good news is the DUMCHIT took himself out of the gene pool.

Reminds me of my ex-wife...<<grin>>... Other than that..There are people out there that will pay good money for quality mounts. I sold three caribou mounts a couple of years ago because I no longer had a place to display them properly. A fellow that was furnishing and decorating his new log home bought them. I put the money in my "hunting trip" fund and hope to use it on a mule deer hunt this year if I draw the tag. Check on ebay..You may be surprised at how much your hog mount is worth. That's a very nice mount..

I took the class in 1962. It was in the local rifle/pistol club, which went downstream in the Agnes Flood of 1972. The club had an indoor 50 foot range, and the students all shot heavy barreled .22 target rifles, which I think were Remingtons and belonged to the club. It was the first time I had ever shot a rifle with a peep sight. There was no reguirement as far as hitting the target. I guess the shooting was just to help familiarize the students with handling a firearm.

Excellent pattern density for #4 shot.

Get out there on a nice, still morning, before daylight and listen. If the birds are there, they'll let you know.

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I'm with Steve on this one...I hear this story every year, but the only picture I have ever seen of a 'yote with a fawn was on this forum with a coyote carrying a fawn across a beaver dam. I have no doubt that coyotes eat fawns when the opportunity arises, but if all those pictures of them carrying fawns into dens exist, it seems like someone would have posted one...Or two...Or a dozen...

Just wait until you can smell grasshoppers on thier breath. Then you can kill 'em with skeet loads...<<grin>>....

Nice shot, Sky... One of my partners got one opening day of Pa deer season a couple of years ago that was more blonde than that one...It wasn't white, but a very pale yellow. I saw one that color while gobbler hunting in Maine a few years back, but it was out of shotgun range, and there was a turkey gobbling, so he was safe from me !

WAAAAAY too dangerous...I don't care HOW private you think your land is, it's a good way to get shot .. You never know when some rum dum is going to hear a bird gobbling and sneak in on you.

What are the dimensions of your tape target ? Looks like a pretty awesome long range pattern if the target is appx. the size of a gobbler kill zone.

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...No.. However I certainly don't care if the next guy does. If I were to shoot jakes most years my season would be over in the first few days. I'd rather let the jakers walk and hold out for an adult gobbler. If I want to eat turkey, I'd really rather have a Butterball. The two people that have permission to hunt my fiance's property both shot jakes last year. One of the guys is parapelegic and is happy to get a shot at any gobbler. The other guy is from Canada and only has a few days to hunt here, so he generally shoots any legal bird down here.

I have also heard that piebalds tend to be genetically inferior. The one that my friend shot on my property a few years back had a perfectly formed 8 point rack, but he was like a "minature" buck, reminiscent of a Coues whitetail. His rack was perhaps 10" wide inside and he weighed exactly 100 pounds dressed.

That thing is as ugly as a side order of s*** !!!! I suppose that beauty is in the eye of the beerholder, but that machine is YOOOOO- GLEEE !!

Reminds me of one of my old girlfriends. Good ol' " Peg leg Peggy".... NICE girl, but she couldn't dance worth a hoot...

One of my friends shot a nice piebald buck ( 8 point) on my property and had a full body mount done. He hasn't had any bad luck that I am aware of...<<smile>>. I have had a couple of opportunities to shoot piebald does that I passed up.. I have no desire to mount one and would consider it kind of wasteful to shoot one just for meat.. Lots of plain old brown does out there to shoot for meat. Might better leave it for someone who would like to have the mount/pelt as something special.. I have no problems with anyone else shooting one, whatever thier motivation.

Heck YES, I've had lots of experience with them... I've talked to them, played with them, done a LOT of fun stuff with them. A couple of them were purty CUTE...Hehehehe... Oh...wait a minute... did you say GHOSTS ?? I thought you said GOATS !! Forget everything I said..<<blush>>...

Oh come on, Culver...Wouldn't you like to see Doewhacker and Steve 863 in thier speedos..??.... NOT !!!! I'd have to claw my EYEBALLS out !!

I agree with G-man that it looks more like a woodchuck than a coon. Size comparison would be nice. The tracks also look much like a mink track, but mink tracks would be quite small.

Makes me wish I could fondle those long barreled Winchesters those dudes are posing with. They both look like they have 28 or 30 inch barrels. They may even be chambered for some cool older cartridges like .38-55 or .25-35or .33 Winchester.....

Apex....Sorry to hear that your rifle doesn't group as good as you would like. I personally have no hands on experience with semi auto hunting rifles. My only semi auto centerfire is a Garand M1. Perhaps you haven't found it's preferred bullet weight or load yet.. Of course, with today's ammo prices, it could get kind of expensive trying half a dozen different factory loads, with no guarantee that any of them will group as well as you'd like

Absolutely wonderful pictures, Wooly..Thanks for sharing. I am surprised that a tool such as you can get such great pictures.

It makes me feel glad that I am not standing downwind of that truck. You ever SMELL a dead coyote ? Even one stinks..I couldn't imagine being around a whole truckload of them.