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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Coydog
« on: December 04, 2024, 01:50:15 PM »
I got this one on two different cameras last week. Time to break out the thermal scope and do some night time cleanup.
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / The "oops" deer
« on: November 10, 2024, 05:50:57 AM »
I had two bucks following a hot doe this morning about 7 AM this big guy that I got a photo of Thursday and a smaller buck.
The doe flashed across a clearing 60 yards away and 5 seconds behind her the big ten point was nose to the ground trotting after her. 10 seconds after that, a smaller 8 point was following.
The doe crosses another clearing 40 yards away in about 2 seconds so I ready with the Ruger No.1 RSI (7x57) and as the buck showed in the opening I drove a 160 grain Accubond high and behind his right shoulder. I was sitting in a 6 foot tall mini tower blind so I was 15 feet higher than the deer, who were downhill.
The doe cut straight across the meadow that I'm sitting over and then the 8 point comes out spraying blood like a fountain. The 10 point must have given up the chase in the brush and let the 8 point pass him by before they hit the opening that I shot through.
Stevie Wonder could have followed the blood trail and the buck made about 40 -50 yards before he died.
I had a heck of a time loading it in the truck because it weighed more than I did.
The doe flashed across a clearing 60 yards away and 5 seconds behind her the big ten point was nose to the ground trotting after her. 10 seconds after that, a smaller 8 point was following.
The doe crosses another clearing 40 yards away in about 2 seconds so I ready with the Ruger No.1 RSI (7x57) and as the buck showed in the opening I drove a 160 grain Accubond high and behind his right shoulder. I was sitting in a 6 foot tall mini tower blind so I was 15 feet higher than the deer, who were downhill.
The doe cut straight across the meadow that I'm sitting over and then the 8 point comes out spraying blood like a fountain. The 10 point must have given up the chase in the brush and let the 8 point pass him by before they hit the opening that I shot through.
Stevie Wonder could have followed the blood trail and the buck made about 40 -50 yards before he died.
I had a heck of a time loading it in the truck because it weighed more than I did.
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Whacked another groundhog
« on: October 30, 2024, 03:12:50 PM »
200 yards from the basement door. Using the Hornady 60 grain V-Max.
I just bought a 16" barreled upper in 6mm ARC that I'm going to switch the scope and suppressor to. The 20" barreled 223 is just a little too long for my taste and I want to step up to the 95 grain Berger or Barnes bullets.
I just bought a 16" barreled upper in 6mm ARC that I'm going to switch the scope and suppressor to. The 20" barreled 223 is just a little too long for my taste and I want to step up to the 95 grain Berger or Barnes bullets.
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Senior crossbow season opens in a week
« on: August 31, 2024, 04:40:42 PM »
September 7th the Crossbow season opens but the bucks won't start their pre-rut until October so I'm not going to hunt until it cools off.
Here's my tree stand set up. The blue lines are the paths that the deer take to get to the feeder and salt lick. It's 34 yards from my stand to the Feeder and I've got every area ranged that I see from 13 feet up in the tree. The wind primarily blows from the south-east here and even if a northern storm comes in, I'm good.
Here's my tree stand set up. The blue lines are the paths that the deer take to get to the feeder and salt lick. It's 34 yards from my stand to the Feeder and I've got every area ranged that I see from 13 feet up in the tree. The wind primarily blows from the south-east here and even if a northern storm comes in, I'm good.
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / A couple of trail cam pics
« on: August 24, 2024, 04:58:27 AM »
Crossbow season starts next month
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Off Topic Discussion / MidwayUSA discount codes?
« on: August 19, 2024, 04:57:40 PM »
Anyone have any codes that work? I need to make a large order
Thanks,
Thanks,
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Rifles / The best reason to leave California
« on: August 19, 2024, 02:35:00 PM »
My coyote night hunting rig.
Thermion scope and a Banish 300 suppressor. This one's in 223 Wylde but I can swap it to the 6mm ARC upper for the heavier bullets. I'm considering getting a 300 Blackout upper and going subsonic though to keep from waking the chickens.
Thermion scope and a Banish 300 suppressor. This one's in 223 Wylde but I can swap it to the 6mm ARC upper for the heavier bullets. I'm considering getting a 300 Blackout upper and going subsonic though to keep from waking the chickens.
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Off Topic Discussion / 5.2 earthquake just south of Bakersfield
« on: August 07, 2024, 05:03:13 AM »
So it looks like the quake was centered near Mettler, where the Hwy99 starts at the split with I-5. Hope everyone is OK.
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Off Topic Discussion / What's the over/under on how long the cloud conversion takes?
« on: August 02, 2024, 05:44:52 PM »
We all know how well the software upgrade went. 
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Got a gobbler this morning
« on: April 23, 2024, 08:45:29 AM »
Called this guy and another Tom in from about 1/4 mile away this morning. He came in hot to my decoy and strutted up about 30 yards from me, so I let him have a load of hevi-shot. He started the flop and the other Tom ran over to investigate him. The other Tom had two beards so I regret being so quick to take this guy.
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Sighting in the turkey gun and bucks in velvet starting to show
« on: April 22, 2024, 03:57:34 PM »
I bought some Hevi-shot (Tungsten) and a new Primos Jellyhead choke tube and just sighted in the shotgun.
This load hits a full foot higher and a foot to the right of my lead load and recoils a lot heavier. Multiple targets showed over 200 pellets in a 10" circle and more than a half a dozen lethal hits in a life sized turkey head/neck target
Also, it costs me near $10 a shot with tax and shipping.
I also checked the game cameras and the bucks starting to show new antlers.
This load hits a full foot higher and a foot to the right of my lead load and recoils a lot heavier. Multiple targets showed over 200 pellets in a 10" circle and more than a half a dozen lethal hits in a life sized turkey head/neck target
Also, it costs me near $10 a shot with tax and shipping.
I also checked the game cameras and the bucks starting to show new antlers.
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Server Move and Outage Reports / Calguns.net is down, is this the upgrade?
« on: April 17, 2024, 05:13:32 AM »
I just tried to get on the .org site and got this message:
This page isn
This page isn
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Outdoors, Hunting and Fishing / Long distance goat
« on: November 24, 2015, 08:38:14 PM »
The first hunting post in about 6 years.
While I was in New Zealand last week, some of the guys were shooting at goats across the canyon. The white spot in the middle of the photo below is a cliff face at 882 meters (946 yards).
This is a white goat next to the cliff face at 58X magnification. Unfortunately when it was hit it rolled down behind the trees to the left, so I didn't get a good after shot photo.
It was hit with a suppressed 308 Win and the 175 grain Lapua Scenar.
While I was in New Zealand last week, some of the guys were shooting at goats across the canyon. The white spot in the middle of the photo below is a cliff face at 882 meters (946 yards).
This is a white goat next to the cliff face at 58X magnification. Unfortunately when it was hit it rolled down behind the trees to the left, so I didn't get a good after shot photo.
It was hit with a suppressed 308 Win and the 175 grain Lapua Scenar.
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Server Move and Outage Reports / 10/26/09 18:30 Down again?
« on: October 26, 2009, 06:32:42 PM »
I've never seen a site go down as often as this .net. It's pitiful.
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Server Move and Outage Reports / Down again 07/16/09
« on: July 17, 2009, 07:12:31 AM »
Well at least it's less often.
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Server Move and Outage Reports / 03/05/09 Again
« on: March 05, 2009, 12:22:45 PM »
Net off line again. Every other site works.
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Announcements and Suggestions / Down again, 12/03/08 @ 16:51
« on: December 03, 2008, 04:51:42 PM »
I don't know of any other site on the net with worse reliability than Calguns.
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Server Move and Outage Reports / Freak'in horrible 11-18-08
« on: November 18, 2008, 10:31:36 AM »
Every page I click on says "Cannot display page", click on anything and it takes 30 seconds to show that it cannot display.
Cannot even post to whine about it.
Cannot even post to whine about it.
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