After thinning the herd, ...

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After reading jimmymacs thinning the herd I got to thinking about whats next. I started thinning the toys out as well a few years ago simply because I've gotten to old and broken down and those 11-12lb rifles have gotten to heavy to drag around any where anymore.

I started thinking about all the places I have hunted that are not only great hunting but also beautiful as well, the kind of place where you could just go to and sit under a tree and watch nature pass by all day long. I decided that this time around I will take only a large hand cannon, no rifle for me.

I'm in my late 70's now and I beat myself up badly when I was younger but can with some effort still get around, so I started slowly getting myself back into the best shape I can last fall so I can do everything I am going to try to do. Where I live is very beautiful but also a lot of up and down hill. One of the best things about it this time is that I don't have to hurry for any reason, I can go as slow as it takes me.

So for me this is stage two of thinning the herd, ... I wonder what stage three will be?

 

[joshb]

“I wonder what stage three will be?”
The circle of life. A BB gun in the back yard, like you did when you were 10.

 

[nmkid]

Nope, I didn't have money for a BB gun. For me, it was a finely tuned slingshot with red inner tube rubbers. It was a death ray on lizards! If I did my part!

 

[Idaho-Lefty]

I'm "thinning the Herd" and will ONLY be Re-Placing Guns that, I THINK that, I "Need" with, "Dual Purpose" Uses.
Example,.. 6.5 Creed., 24" Braked, for Steel Practice And,. Deer / Antelope / Coyotes ( and Maybe, an Elk ? ).
130 gr. ELD-M's for "Play" on Steel,.. 143 gr. ELD-X Load for, Big Game.
Just Bought, a .30-30 Win, Marlin 336 ( Had a .45-70 Marlin before that, NO -Fun as It, Beat me Up, on the Bench ).
I'll sneak around, in the Sage Brush and Shoot Steel Plates to, 250 ish yards for, chits and giggles with, It !
2 nd Use, Whitetails, in the North Idaho "Timber" as it has, a 2x-7x Scope ( My "rational", anyway,.. LOL ).
PS; the Older, 336 Marlins, in .30-30 & .35 Rem.,.. ARE going Up, in Price, so, a "Good investment",.. TOO !
Could this Be,.. a Reason # 3 ^^^^

 

[JFrank]

“I wonder what stage three will be?”
The circle of life. A BB gun in the back yard, like you did when you were 10.

I’m NOT going to shoot a pellet rifle.

 

[Idaho-Lefty]

I Have, a .22 Cal RWS Diana model, a "Springer" with, a Burris 4X Pellet Gun Scope that, shoots almost, 1,000 FPS and It's "serious Fun" to Shoot,... Pests, Squirrels and Rabbits, with. ( Hits,.. very HARD ! )
I've Had it since, the 1980's and WON'T,. Part with it.
It's in my Top 5, 6 or, 7,.. SHTF,.. Guns,.. as you could put,.. Meat, on the Table with, it !

 

[snert]

A modern pellet rifle is a whole new experience. When I was 12 I got a Diana 45/Winchester 450. I loved it and still have it. I now also have two PCP airguns and they are a joy.

 

[JFrank]

I’d rather eat worms than give up my center or rim fire cartridges, I’ve trimmed the fat down to the ones I need but that’s as far as I’ll go until the wife starts selling her extra jewelry.

 

[DirtySteve]

I’d rather eat worms than give up my center or rim fire cartridges, I’ve trimmed the fat down to the ones I need but that’s as far as I’ll go until the wife starts selling her extra jewelry.

"Extra Jewelry" to a woman is like, "Left over bacon" to a man... Neither one exists..

 

[hoz53]

I’d rather eat worms than give up my center or rim fire cartridges, I’ve trimmed the fat down to the ones I need but that’s as far as I’ll go until the wife starts selling her extra jewelry.

no wife with any jewelry here but i cant imagine getting rid of all my rimfires and centerfires in my lifetime. Ive got a rws springer which is okay but i dont like it as well as the others.

 

[JFrank]

"Extra Jewelry" to a woman is like, "Left over bacon" to a man... Neither one exists..

Over the last 45 years I’ve probably spent sixty thousand dollars on jewelry maybe more cause a woman can rat hole that stuff for a long time before you’ll ever see it.
You are correct. None is extra !!

 

[precision1]

I’m NOT going to shoot a pellet rifle.

Shoot I'll take it all day.
Moma made me dress up for a funeral and while she got ready i killed a squirrel in the back yard with pellet rifle and it dropped blood all over me from pecan tree up above.


She beat the crap out of me and I had to change clothes.ill go back all day

 

[precision1]

Now if good Lord is willing I'll have a 308 30" with brux or bartlein barrel.
Shooting real small with good brass and alot of powder and bullets!

The lords cartridge.lol

Oh yes primers.uhgaa

 

[Medic505]

Sitting on the deck burning up the barrel on my Red Ryder is one of my favorite things to do. ETOH may be involved.

 

[ricco1949]

Nope, I didn't have money for a BB gun. For me, it was a finely tuned slingshot with red inner tube rubbers. It was a death ray on lizards! If I did my part!

I had a pump Daisy but my preferred weapon was a sling shot made from a peeled willow crotch with red rubbers and a shoe tongue for the pouch. Oh we cherished those old red rubber tubes.

If there has been taconite pellets along the RR in the 50's there wouldn't have been a bird alive in Waldo. We had to pick the roundest rocks we could find along the roadside or the river beach.

My friend and I had a blind under telephone lines and would set up for swallows sitting on the line. We could pick one off after another until one of us hit the line. We'd also shoot frogs around the ponds and grass hoppers everywhere.

Sometimes we would shoot a swallow nest down from the barn eve, the whole colony of birds would then swarm us and we would try wing shooting them as they flew past us and away. Not a lot of success but occasionally we'd score a hit. It was actually not as hard as you'd think since it was nearly a straight away shot....lots of near misses.

I know it probably not in vogue to mention these things today but it was a different world back then when we were 8-10 years old. I doubt we put a dent in the bird population even with our modest success.

Sadly my slingshot buddy died early but maybe those old slingshot days paved the way for a lifetime of shooting for me.

Still shootin' today....but bullets not rocks and now just paper for fun...and still searching for that mythical zero group.