[Sca-cooks] OT Hunting was Re: deer and turkeys

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I thought that one also some what matched the gage to what a person was
> hunting.  While I never hunted, my brother used to and with a 410... read
a
> very small shotgun.   If I recall correctly, he hunted small game with it.
> Deer down south, IIRC, are hunted in heavy brush with dogs and 12 gages.
> The 12s are loaded with either buckshot or slug neither of which will, as
I
> understand it, travel very far.

Actually, the gauge of the gun isn't particularly important, unless you're
going to extremes- I wouldn't hunt a dove with a 10 guage goose gun, or a
migrating goose with a .410, but I used to do all my hunting with a 12
gauge, until it got burned up in a house fire, and I got a good deal on my
20 gauge. Will likely go back to a 12 gauge, likely a Mossberg with the
changeable barrels, when I can combine finding one with the money to buy one
;-)

You can introduce a lot of variables just balancing the degree of choke and
the ammunition you buy, and you can upload and download even more when you
reload your own ammo, as I used to do. It really depends on how much you
want to get into the sport. Just realize, that no matter what you intend to
hunt and load for, you'll have the wrong ammo in your gun if you're allowed
to shoot at a variety of targets ;-)

> Tis odd.... my brother was the sportsman hunter and would bring home
dinner.
> I was paid for my shooting and only shot on the range.  Of course all my
> targets were man shaped.
>
> Daniel
> formerly a 1Lt. in the 3rd ACR

Well, I'm sure you could have brought home a few of them and had them for
dinner, although they're a bit high fiber, for my tastes ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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