wildcat junkie

.30 REMINGTON BRASS

"Genetic engineering" has been around for years. Seedless watermelon, hybrid sweetcorn, etc are examples of that & are not harmful. It's when they develop corn that produces toxins that kill pests that eat it or engineer grain crops that encourage more use of pesticides that things get scary.

It is extremely prevalent on FaceBook.

Oh boy, this will bring out our own festering of trolls.

Shooting at "eye shine"?

That is true instinctive shooting. Using the point as an aiming reference is "gap" shooting. I tried it once, Great for known distances over level ground, but horrible for hunting or stump shpooting.

I too am right handed, cross dominant eyesight, keep both eyes open & shoot W/split fingers. Not crazy about thin gloves. I feel that a stiffer leather on the string fingers allows for a smooter release. I found that a lower anchor point helped a bunch with a left dominamt eye. I used a kisser button in the corner of my mouth which put my actual split finger anchor @ my jaw bone.

Sure did. Towards the end, they gave me the little pavillion for my set-up. I was quite popular W/the guys that ran the traditionl end. I met them @ Cloverdale..(Indiana) I also did a shoot in Grayling once. It was in the mid-high 90°F range & the buildings were like ovens. Never went back. Our season started out in Ocala @ the end of February. Went to the Mid Atlantic shoot in Baltimore every year from '94-'98. Buffalo was the end of the season. '97 was my last year there. My business name was "Quality Crafted Arrow Wood". We had a wedge display that held 30 dozen fimished arrows. It was quite a draw to the eye. We sold a loy of arrow making supplies. I was buying direct from Zwickey, Magnus, Rib Tech, Rose City, Bohning, Tru-Flight & Great Northern to name a few.. Mike Knefley (sp?) got too greedy towards the end & Denton Hill became a huge money grab. He wouldn't even let vendors shoot W/O paying the high entry fees. It was the vendors that made the shoots. Vendors got little time to shoot & all of the other shows allowed us to shoot free of charge.

When did you frequent Denton Hill? I was Heavily into traditioinal archery & had a booth @ Denton Hill fron '94 to '97. If you bought Port Orford cedar shafts @ Denton Hill during those years, you probably bought them from me & my wife. I purchased 13,000 raw shafts from Rose Hill in 1997. We were one of the top producers of cedar arrows in the late '90s

Your Kodiak Magnum bow is very short & not very well suited to a 28" or longer draw length. In the late '60s, early '70s short recurve bows were all the rage. Speed was the priority & a short recurve bow will generally shoot faster that a long one all thing being equal. The prblem is, a short bow will be more critical of form. If you are 5'10" or taller, a 60" or 62" bow will be more forgiving & still deliver adequate arrow speed @ the longer draw length of a medium/tall shooter. A 52" recurve will shoot an arrow faster @ the shorter draw lengths of someone 5'8" or shorter. The bow length must "fit" the physique of the shooter for maximum effectiveness.

Shooting @ known distances won't improve your instictive ability under hunting conditions. Get some judo points & practice in the woods/fields shooting @ rotten stumps, dadelion blossoms, leaves, etc. Do not estimate distance persee, but judge the shot just like throwing a baseball @ a small target. Try spot & stalk on cottontails or squirrels on the ground. Judo points will virtually eliminate arrow loss @ low angle shots. I have only lost 1 arrow W/a judo point attached. I hit a hardwood wedge @ an oblique angle & broke the point off.

Wisconsin did a study several years ago comparing recovery rates for traditional archery, compound bows & compound bows W/all the bells & whistles that were the rage then. (overdraws W/short lightweigt arrows) It was found that the bells & whistles users had the worst recovery rates, most likely due to stretching the yardage on shots & the poor penetration of the lightweight arrows. Traditional archers had a slightly better recovery rate than the regular compound users attributed to the shorter distances that shots were usually limited to. In the mid-late '90s, about 1/2 of the bowhunters in Indiana had switched to traditional archery. Many felt that instinctive shooting, at the ranges usually encountered, was more effective under pressure than trying to estimate yardage, pick a sight pin, allow for shot angle, etc.

I clamp the barrel in a wood jaw vice W/the muzzle pointing down slightly. I hang an empty milk jug over the muzzle. The foam will turn blue & eventually turn to a semi-thick liquid & run from the muzzle. The patches will come out blue if there is a lot of copper. Slight copper fouling will intially come out gray, then turn pale blue. My Dad's 1898 Springfield 30/40 Krag took several applications. I doubt that it had ever had a thorough copper removal performed on it in its 115 year history. Wipe-Out beats anything on the market. I found out about it on the Accurate Reloading forums several years ago.

Sounds like you need to mow your grass one last time before the snow hits..

.270 is .269" bore, .277" in the grooves/bullet diameter. All of the other cartridges listed are 7mm bore, (.276") 7.2mm (.284) in the grooves/bullet dimeter. 7mm, 284 & .280 all use the same bullet diameter, .284" or 7.2mm. We are only talking about a .2mm (.004") extreme difference here. Actually, the .270 uses the bullet closest to 7mm diameter.

Once I do my zero check before season, I do not touch a cleaning rod unless I get caught in signifiacant rain. Even then, I just run a dry patch through the bore to remove any moisture. A perfectly clean and/or oily bore can & usually does shoot to a different POI than a fouled bore. Since I routinely make shots between 200 & 250 yds, this can change POI several inches @ those ranges. After the season, I thoroughly clean the bore as described in the post above & run an oily patch through before storage.. While a "bore snake" can adequately clean a smooth bore shotgun barrel, it is woefully inadequate for a rifle except for a quick wipe. It needs to be followed up by @ least an oily patch. Eventually, copper will build up & need to be removed to keep pin point accuracy.

The easiets/best way to remove copper is W/Wipe-Out. No scrubbing. Just run a dry patch through the bore to remove excess powder residue, then plug the chamber W/a loose fitting patch & inject the expanding from into the muzzle. Let it soak for 20 minutes or so & wipe the bore. Repeat until there is no longer any blue (copper) on the patches. Reduces wear & tear from running a ramrod back & forth scrubbing W/a brush.

I always had my best luck after brutally cold nights that where followed by calm, sunny mornings. Wait until mid-morning for the sun to get high & hunt on the sunny edges of thick cover. Also, to increase your odds of seeing the little rascals, send the dogs into the tickest cover 1st, working your way towards thinner cover. You will be herding the rabbits to areas that will allow better chances of getting a shot.

One thing I learned about (my) Beagles. Never feed them before the hunt. They will hunt W/more determination when they are hungry. Besides, feeding a dog right before physical activity can be dangerous.

What were the wether conditions? That can have a lot to do with whether the rabbits are above ground & active during the day.

Seems that George had his human trained very well & was adept at handling him!

I'm not one that puts much stock in popularity votes, but since the village idiot brought it up.(As of the time I checked profile data before I started typing this post) Papist: 300 popularity vote for 1442 posts = .21 votes per post or 1vote for every 4.8 posts Wildcat Junkie: 167 popularity votes for 528 posts = .31 votes per post or 1 vote for every 3.2 posts. That means that the Papist only gets about 2/3 the amount of popularity votes per post as one of those he is criticizing. So, it seems that the Papist is not very well schooled in the practical application of math.

I always gauged the success of a bunny hunt over hounds W/the dogs getting to run rabbits & my getting to listen to it. The actual kill was just an added bonus. I usually didn't bother going hunting until there was adequate snow to makes the bunnies easy to spot.

Perhaps his foil hat isn't wrapped tight enough?

Once you're familiar W/it, porcupine poop is different & can be easily identified from deer poop. When I 1st move from the Southern Midwest, I didn't know the difference.