Special bug rifle.....

L Ross

L Ross

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Muskrat, beaver, possum, coon, woodchuck, rattle snake, bob cat, barn pigeon, scoter, kangaroo, are the more, "unusual" fare I've sampled. The bob cat was bad. Sage grouse, is a bit uncommon I guess.
Normal stuff like antelope, moose, elk, bison, bear, yak, squirrel, rabbit, snow shoe hare, all manner of ducks and geese, pheasant, grouse, sharp tail, and of course venison is all very good. Woodcock, is well woodcock.
I wish I could get a young moose every year, Sue's and my favorite.
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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That's a hard one bison is really really good so is moose, so is cow elk.... I'd be hard pressed to pick one of the three all are top shelf in my book.

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Jeff H

NW Ohio
L Ross said:
....barn pigeon...
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My brother and I would bag mess of these from a neglected barn near our house when we were kids. We had worn out BB-guns which lobbed the BBs in a great arc you could see where the sun shone through the siding boards of the barn as said projectile slowly made its way to the quarry.

These under-powered BBs would merely stun the bird and we'd have to finish them, but six or eight made a couple meat and potato pies once we delivered the carcasses to mom.

Savory stuff.
 
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richhodg66

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Jeff H said:
30, 40 years ago, my brother trapped in that neighborhood. Once in a while, he'd get a 'possum in a 'coon set, so he'd carry it away from his set, but didn't want to drag it all the way home, so he took to tossing it onto the "porch" of a shack in the middle of the woods.

Next time he got an errant 'possum, the front door of the shack burst open when the 'possum thumped on the porch and he ran. Someone started hollerin' "STOP, STOP!" He wasn't sure if he should take a chance and stop or try to make like a moving target, half-expecting to get shot. Well, he stopped.

The old fella hollerin' came running up and thanking him for the meat. He tried to give my brother two dollars for the "gifted" 'possums.

There were (are?) some damned poor people in that area. Some damned GOOD people too. Most often they turned out to be the SAME people.
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I met a lot of pretty colorful, earthy folks while growing up there.

Between college and the Army, I had to find a job for a few months. Orkin hired me and the office we had serviced nine counties of some really rural parts. Met quite a few older folks, black and white, who lived quite independently way ut in the sticks. One elderly lady lived in a one bedroom small house which had been moved there and we got to talking and she related to me how glad she was she'd gotten her canning all done and that her grandkids had layed in asupply of firewood for her (the previous Winter had been rough for S.C.) because she would have been in a bad way with the ice storm.

She was more of a survivalist than the most die hard preppers we have now, though she never would have thought of herself as such. Didn't see any, but had no doubt she had a gun or two around and could handle one if need be. Nice lady. Rural living makes people tough, but at the same time doesn't seem to harden hearts.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Jeff H said:
My brother and I would bag mess of these from a neglected barn near our house when we were kids. We had worn out BB-guns which lobbed the BBs in a great arc you could see where the sun shone through the siding boards of the barn as said projectile slowly made its way to the quarry.

These under-powered BBs would merely stun the bird and we'd have to finish them, but six or eight made a couple meat and potato pies once we delivered the carcasses to mom.

Savory stuff.
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You must be a long lost Brother. The arc of an old Daisy BB gun. Target was the pigeon's eye ball. Mom took a casserole dish and lined it with an English meat pie crust and put in a bunch of veggies, dumped in some left over gravy, or cream of something soup, and diced up pigeon breast. Then cover the casserole with a top crust.
Eventually we would raise the barn pigeons taken from the nest and eat them as squab. Then we graduated to commercial meat breeds that get much larger than barn pigeons. My Mom is tiny and she would individually stuff the pound and a half squabs and roast them. OMG, what meals those were.
 
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DaveC

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New guy here, I know it won't solve the lathe issue for the OP, but I am going to give the .25 Flea a try. .257 instead .251 for the ACP. Not quite a straight wall case but I can live with that for the low volume shooting I do anymore. Its the Hornet out to .25 and cut down in length, will fit in a Single Six cylinder. I have a couple of three screws I have converted to centerfire, have a bbl. blank and I have a reamer from Manson. Problem for me is I have hit a brick wall in the time dept. If this worked out well I was cogitating on converting a .22 Honet CZ 527 to the same. Bout all I do anymore is think about things. Well at least I am still handsome. Wait, damn it.
 
Ian

Ian

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Primers? Who said primers, we don't need no steeenking primers, we got ROCKS!

This one had been killing small game since the 1840s, albeit it was longer originally and has worn at least three different locks, including two percussion.

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50 .315" round balls, an equal number of cut patches, two spare rocks, a turnscrew and a once-fired .30 Carbine shell will fit in a Copenhagen can in one back pocket and a flat powder horn in the other.
 
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PED1945

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I've hashed this to death . The 25 ACP just isn't going to be a thing unless I spring for a lathe .....which the time in my current life doesn't exist right now . It was a perfect replacement for 22 RF .........

A 32 is kind of the next step . Gobs of choices of pistols and a few rifles . Only I don't have a grand to drop on a Henry and I want to stay with a straight case for utility . I have 2 single shot options for a sleeve or adapter.

The looming question remains do I shoot the works and rent the 327 reamer just in case I score a bunch or do I just do the 32ACP that will give me that 500 rounds in a kitchen match box? This is like "just buy the 357 you're going to use it eventually" , vs "you're only shooting 38 Special and shorts why spend the extra money" .

Will the short chambers mess with accuracy enough to worry about inside 50 yd for small game ?
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Depends on what kind of bears you plan to hunt.
 
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