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Nice work.. you seem very familiar with these older guns... I have what I believe is a customized military rifle in 308. The only markings left on gun is...Fabrique Nationale Herstal Liege. Is that anything you are familiar with? I was always curious..
Is it a 98 Mauser?
I have heard of .308 chambered military Mausers & FN certainly has built 98 Mausers.. FN is a very well respected gun maker & they have contracted many many high quality commercial guns for Browning & Winchester just to name a few.
You can get a LOT of good tech information including markings on the site liked below. There are many on that site that have many times more experience than I do. A good portion of what I have learned came from this site.
I post under the same wildcat junkie username on there. you will find older posts about my Mauser on there. I have hunted with it for 5 seasons now, but the final finish as you see it was achieved just before last season.
I would like to get some simple checkering done on it to put the final finshing touch to it, but I don't trust just anyone with my pride & joy.
http://www.mausercentral.com/forum/index.php?sid=aebe4ce6ae6d075fe13bf135bb7b5522
This thread may help.
http://www.mausercentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11338
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Sadly my K98K is not matching. The stock and the rear sight have been replaced. the guy I bought it from said the original stock had Luftwaffe markings, but had been butchered when he got the rifle. Still a good deal..I paid $125 for it.
It is on display now at my local American Legion post, along with a type 38 and a type 99 Jap , a nice Longbranch 1944 Vintage # 4 SMLE and a Finnish re-arsenaled Moison Nagant (1917)..
As far as the Yugo is concerned, it is all matching and pristine. I know collector value is not all that high, but who knows what might develop..It was only a few years ago that you could buy truckloads of M96 Swedes in great condition for $125 ea. Try buying one now for less than $300, or probably more.
Since the K98 has already been "Bubba'd" it would be a good candidate. It's only 1/4" longer than the Yugo action.
I saw in another post that you also hunt PA. Do you hunt the Flintlock season?
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The really interesting stat is the one that shows BO wearers are less likely to be victims of accidental discharge.
While the anti BO crowds points to this as an absurdity ("magic bullet") that discredits the statistics, perhaps it demonsrtates that those thay wear BO have a bit more common sense than those that don't & are therefore more likely to employ good gun safety habits.
I never clinb into a ladder stand with my gun & I make sure there isn't a bullet in the chamber when hoist the gun up with a rope.
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And the point you made was...........Funny you should say that because that is just what i do with my pen's. Human Interaction..Every 7 days? Next!!!!!
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I have done it....when it's over its over. I play by the rules
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Yes I have passed on a high racked 12pt...and untold smaller buck and doe at last light and just after legal...I have past 10's and 8's plus numerous smaller buck and doe as they walked by during legal light on the neighbors land...ya no what ? life went on...I lost no sleep...... I'll not have, when my days on this earth dwindle to an end, any life regrets concerning this to dwell on.....
By the way...I'm also the type of person that has no desire to have the mounted heads of the deer I take lining my walls(BTW I've taken some very nice deer)...which is great for others...just not my thing....I hold every animal encounter whether it's killed or passed as a trophy encounter... tucked safely in my mind for later enjoyment.
Good for you guys, the rules are what this thread is about. More to the point, trying to change an archaic rule. I wasn't trying to excuse hunting beyond the legal hours. I was also just trying to emphasize that it already happens.
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I once had a doe stand still after being center punched through the lungs with a .535 round ball at about 150yds which is no slouch when it come to knocking deer flat even at that range. It did walk off while I was reloading & I shot at another deer in the group assuming I had missed the 1st one..
After walking over to ridge after the group ran off in a different direction, I found that the 1st deer was down & trying to lift her head up. The ball missed the ribs & went through the lungs cleanly.
Still, 2 hits at close range with a 30/30 170gr flatnose W/O a reaction would be unusual but I would say not entirely impossible. Giving the guy the benefit of the doubt?
Maybe the bullets didn't expand for some reason?
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How to propery bore sight a firearm.
Mount scope in the right position for eye releaf.
Locktite it down.
Grab targets and staple gun from garage.
Go to range.
Zero.
If you start out at 100yds, better to use the side of the garage instead of a small paper target to assure that a bullet is "on target" so you can make an adjustment.
Another thing. While shooting 1 shot & making adjustments at 25 yds is OK. I've seen a lot of guys shoot up a lot of ammo chasing 1 shot bullet strikes at 100yds trying to "save ammo". If the gun isn't a tight shooter anyway, coupling that with some people's inability to hold a group themselves really gets them puzzled as to why the bullet stikes never settle into the center of the POA.
I always shoot atleast 2, preferably 3 shots at 100yds & use the center of the group or eliminate obvious "flyers" when making adjustment. Usually 6 or at the most, 9 rounds is all I need to get completely dialed in.
I like 2 1/2" high at 100 yds, then I can hold on the center of the sweet spot just above the heart anywhere from 10 to 250 yds with my 8X57 & never be out of a sure kill zone.
I watched 1 poor guy burn up almost 2 boxes of ammo at 25 yds one day before we figured out he had the scope mounted 90° off. He had the windage on the top & elevation on the left side.
By the time I helped him get it back on the paper he was completely out of ammo & it was the evening before opening day. He was sighting the gun in for his son too. I felt sorry for them both.
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That it is possible to Jinx one's self...thinking on this...I put up a notice to donate doe from tags to ppl in need...get 3 calls....not one doe..donate buck...not size I would normally take..but no doe...total of 16 hunters hunting two prime areas...not a single deer taken but that buck...not one doe! Really what are the odds for all the time put in...Turkey hunting at camp this spring...had over 30 doe file by...and the place is loaded with acorns . And Apple's...then all my plots and mast trees.
Acorns are everywhere around my place & that can be a bad thing. Deer are spread out. Food is everywhere.
I usually see more bucks than does on my place but I've only seen one buck. fortunately he was a nice one.
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For you Camaro/Mustang fans. The part about the Chevy "Volt" is classic!
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Antlered get hung by the horns. Non antlered get hung by the neck. Call it what you like, but they do drain and wash out better. The head and neck area will swell if hung by the rear legs for the time needed for meat curing. For mounting purposes, not so good. Ask any taxidermist.
Never thought about doing bucks from the head for mounting purposes. Makes sense though.
dead things don't swell, nor do they bruise or bleed.......
I've seen this at the taxidermist. They look like the went 15 rounds with George Foreman.
The 1st time I saw it I asked what happened.
I don't think it affects the mount other than perhaps increasing the neck measurements for the form.
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Actually what is not reflected in these stats is the comparative percentages of those that wear blaze orange vs. those that do not. that overwhelming percentage of accidents involving those that are not using blaze orange is coming from a minority percentage of hunters, which makes them even more significant.
As to the argument as to whether blaze orange should be mandatory, I will leave that to others to debate. Like I said earlier, it would not break my heart if it became law, because like so many have already concluded, wearing blaze orange during a firearms deer season is pretty much the only sane thing to be doing.
However, do not think that the only victim in an accident are those that recklessly hit the deer woods trying their best not to be seen by fellow hunters, or those that think they are proving some kind of point about their "Libertarian" attitudes. There are families and friends left behind that have to go through the grieving process and frequently financial hardships when the breadwinner is suddenly removed from the family.
Also, the next time you draw a bead on a deer, take a look at the jumble of downed logs, trees and brush and ask yourself if you are 100% certain that tucked back in there, there isn't some fool hunkered down there in his camo suit. Don't see anyone ....right? Well that's because we have some pretty good camo these days and it does what it's supposed to do. But then too, think what your life would be like if as you pulled the trigger you found out he was there by the scream when he was hit. I wouldn't want to be thrust into that scenario because some hard-head is out there demonstrating his "rights".
Best post yet.
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Elk.
Nah, it's Big Foot!
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Really...How did you feed your birds? Had no human interaction i take it?
Once every 5 days filling a feeder isn't "hand feeding". As far as "human interaction"? No more so than planting food plots is "human interaction"?
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Have you ever seen the new Camaro rollout version? They have to tell him that a Mustang version already has more HP with similar results.
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Maybe he enjoys your Sarcasm .......
Hey, I'm flexable. I can be civil & polite or I can be an a$$hole if I choose to be.
The key words here are, drum roll.... "if I coose to be"! It seems some unfortunate souls don't have that ability to control their a$$hole factor.
If someone sets the tone, I can play it anyway they want.
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Just a compilation of stats (accidents vs. blaze orange usage). You make of them whatever you want. some are relevant, some are not. But for those that want to apply a bit of logic and reasoning, they do tell the story that not using blaze orange definitely puts you in the wrong column.
Logic & reasoning? That seems to be rare commodity, especially in the last 6 years or so.
And is it any wonder why even non-hunters that are not boo-hooing bambi huggers are getting a negative opinion about hunters?
The hunting/firearms related forums seem to be populated with a certain percentage of knuckle dragging loonies of the Ted Nugent sect that can only summon enough intelect to hurl insults & deny anything that resembles logic & reasonimg when it doesn't fit within their narrow minded view of the world as it should be.
I couldn't stand Nugent when I saw his slob hunting whack em & stack em trash years ago. The guy's a completely raving mad lunatic a$$hole that takes shots that no ethical hunter would take. Lord knows how many animals there were that ran off wounded & didn't show up in his white trash videos. He shits his pants to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war & poeple in the hunting community buy into his "patriot" bull$it?
He is not a good ambassador for our cause & the caliber of hunters that worship him are unfortunately the biggest loud mouths and they reflect on the rest of us. It seems that many in our community don't have the gray matter to realize this & they emulate his actions, thus causing even more public image problems.
I stayed away from these sites for quite some time because of this kind of drivel. Lately, due to my son's recent interest in deer hunting I have become more active. I'm sure he woiuld have a dim view of the conduct on these forums by the few imbeciles that make the loudest noises thus making all of us look like a bunch of ignorant beer swilling red-necks in the eyes of the non-hunting public.
I got news for you boys & girls, if we alienate the modertate non-hunting community they outnumber us & if we don't clean up our act they will exert pressure on the democratic process with results that we won't like.
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Wow Bubba some really outrageous statements……….
I thought he promised to stop posting on this thread?
Oh well, it is becoming quite entertaining, from an amusement standpoint.
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Black Powder last almost indefinately in a sealed can.
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A "retired" dog's life is rough.
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Really...You blame one part of something when there are a dozen other parts of the puzzle? Thats the problem right there. You nailed it perfect! You are ok.. ethical i guess... killing hand fed birds raised by humans but have a problem with someone..unethical i guess... killing a deer because of its rack? Nice
You dont think hunting is different for different people? You say we all should be proud and your right but we also all should have our own choices!.
"Hand fed" is bull.
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BTW: Max is my "one great dog" too. I feel that if a man has one dog as good as Max in his life, he is very fortunate. I'm sure your Springer holds the same place in your heart.
I got him as a "freebie" just before Christmas in 2004. he was 15 months old. That "free" dog ended up costing me thousnd$ in equipment, flight pen material, birds & double barreled shotguns before it was over.
For his own safety in case of having to spend a night in the woods, he lived in a 2 room insulated dog house before he retired.
Headed Home after a hunt.
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Sorry to ruffle feathers. The dog story is just an anecdote. He probably wouldn't have flushed ptarmigan either - unless they smelled like grouse - or capercaillie for that matter. He was my one great dog. I don't have any passion for grouse hunting since he died.
I have no problem with pheasant hunting on preserves. I do think we need to acknowledge what it is and is not. I do have a problem with people blaming predators for problems that are the result of poor, limited or changing habitat. That is the problem with pheasants in NY. Don't believe that predator control will fix the problem. Maintaining enough pheasant habitat to support a sustaining wild population would be prohibitively expensive. If you want to hunt pheasants in NYS go to a preserve.
I do have a problem with "farmed" deer. Not because I find it unethical. There seems an inherent dishonesty in comparing their racks to wild deer. I think the big rack thing has gone too far. Ecologically speaking, we should all be proud to shoot does. Hunting for me is about family, being outdoors and economics - food and protecting the crops. A big rack is gravy.
Habitat is the key. I had to keep feeders going to get birds to stay. If I could have afforded to develop some food plots, winter shelter & such they would have stuck around. Feeders suck because predators key in on them while food plots spread the birds around. Good habitat also reduces predator loss.
If I didn't feed, the birds would migrate to the North for some reason. I would see them in the neighbors field, then on the road to the north picking grit, then no more.
A (very) few would sitck around & they became quite wild. New York winter weather is nothing harsh to a Pheasant. They survive quite well in the wild in North Dakota for cripes sake. They are perfectly capable of surviving St Lawrence Valley winters if the have the proper shelter habitat. Freezing rain is death on them though. I saw wild birds frozen to the ground in Illinois back in the late '60s. I had my own Springer back then.
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BTW: On that 100% success day, the clients missed several birds before they got the hang of it. Max made about 15 successful points that day for 8 birds harvested. There were also hold over birds so the 8 that were released may or may not have been harvested.
I count 100% success as 1 bird harvested for every bird released. Some of he birds would survive for weeks, on a few occasions over a year on birds that I could identify as those that I hadn't released that season. A melanistc hen was an example of that & I heard roosters crow occasional for a few years after I quit. There were usually a few holdovers around after the season commenced..
Predators do get most of them, but the longer they survive, the better they get at avoiding predators. My birds knew what predarors were as I had to string a solar powered electric fence wire around the pen to keep coyotes out. I would often find their tracks in the snow around the pen. They soon learned not to get too close to the wire though.
Hawks & owls would get some of them in the pen. They fly over to get the birds to flush, then they hit them when they are against the net. I would find severed heads & some feathers but no bodies. One Cooper's Hawk got its feet tangled up in the net & died there.
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Fun, yes. However, very different from hunting wild birds. 70% success is very high.
My springer was trained on turkeys, woodcocks and grouse. He knew to ignore the chickens in the yard. Once a released pheasant showed up in the fall and went into the old standing sweet corn. I could not get that dog to go in and flush the pheasant. He acted like I wanted him to chase a chicken.
Read my post again. 70% was with my dog. Some client's that used their own dogs had 0% success & few much better. I only saw 2 "client" dogs that were able to "hunt" anything besides a food bowl.
So just because your dog didn't recognize pheasant scent it was the birds' fault? Do you really think he would have done better on "wild" birds?
My dog could scent & point wild grouse 40-50 yds away. It took me a while to realize that & circle farther ahead for the flush.
On my birds I had to train the clients to stay at least even with the dog as it cast & quickly cut off the bird from 2 side to keep it from running & flush within range. Max would point the birds & hold as long as he could waiting for us to pin the bird down before repositioning himself if need be. He was a very good dog. At 11 years old, he is now retired & laying on the coach.
I bought chicks of the the smaller "Kansas Ringneck" variety because they were explosive when they flushed & would fly much better than the bigger Mongolian birds which were like chickens. Some ill trained clients dogs would catch the big fat Mongolians. I never raised any more. My flight pen was located far away from the house or barn & there was only minimal contact as I feed & watered them every 5 to 6 days. It was also challenging to catch them with a large net even in the narrow confines of the pen and they had blinders on in the pen.
Don't judge every preserve with what you may have experiened at another. I didn't run my preserve for profit & actually lost money. It was mainly done for my dog's benefit. I did everthing possible to have challenging flight characteristics from my birds.
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This might be it. As I thought, an Israeli contract 98 in 7.62X51.
FN would definately be post war manufacturer as it is Belgium.
https://www.gunandgame.com/threads/ft-israeli-fn-mauser-308.51632/