Get Ready -- The Alfalfa is Coming Down!!

[jds holler]

I went over to check on my fields yesterday, and the owner was out getting the rig ready to mow in one week. Several fields are already cut around here. I drove up to a little access road that borders one field and at a safe spot were I could see a hundred yards, shut the jeep off and set up to shoot. It's a spot with tall alfalfa on one side and sage and scrub on the other. A lot of back and forth movement.

The pics tell the tale. that's three spots on the road where there were serious kill zones. I kicked them together a bit for photographic purposes, but for the most part they lie where they die. My farthest shots were only one hundred-ish, and the 218 Bee splodes em pretty bad that close. 35 gr. V-max at 3000fps. The barrel got pretty hot on the ol girl, but it isn't the first time. jd

 

[Hal]

Great firing zone.
Any pictures or story on the .218?

Hal

 

[Hunter2678]

ohhhhh the carnage!!!

 

[CSLR grandpa]

I went over to check on my fields yesterday, and the owner was out getting the rig ready to mow in one week. Several fields are already cut around here. I drove up to a little access road that borders one field and at a safe spot were I could see a hundred yards, shut the jeep off and set up to shoot. It's a spot with tall alfalfa on one side and sage and scrub on the other. A lot of back and forth movement.

The pics tell the tale. that's three spots on the road where there were serious kill zones. I kicked them together a bit for photographic purposes, but for the most part they lie where they die. My farthest shots were only one hundred-ish, and the 218 Bee splodes em pretty bad that close. 35 gr. V-max at 3000fps. The barrel got pretty hot on the ol girl, but it isn't the first time. jd
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Jds Holler nice shooting, the young one just gotta go over to see what happened to their buddy.

I had a grave yard @ 100, 150, 200, 250+ this week 20P getting it done!

 

[jds holler]

Jds Holler nice shooting, the young one just gotta go over to see what happened to their buddy.

That is exactly what happens. Something about seeing and smelling their buddy (or brother) splattered in the road makes them sniff around just long enough to become bird bait.
I frankly feel guilty as all get-out.
jd

 

[jds holler]

Great firing zone.
Any pictures or story on the .218?

Hal

Heck, I can do better than that. I'll sell it to ya for a million bucks!

give me a few, and I'll pull up a pic of it. I never get tired of talking about it. Folks around here prolly get tired of hearing it. jd

 

[CSLR grandpa]

That is exactly what happens. Something about seeing and smelling their buddy (or brother) splattered in the road makes them sniff around just long enough to become bird bait.
I frankly feel guilty as all get-out.
jd

JD if they didn’t get the instant death they would die slowly from the poison were I’m shooting, farmer puts out a lot and still request shooting.

What gets me is when some farmers with the bait stations don’t secure them, they get broke by tractor work and then any animal gets the poison.

CSLR grandpa

 

[snert]

JD! Way to go! You are making me jealous enough to buy a plane ticket!

Post them photos of that rifle. I have more of those bullets should you need them. I am a click away.

I've been blasting garden raiders. Gotta do it after sundown due to the number of people and neighbors about. The 22 air rifle is zapping them well out to about 65 yards.

 

[jds holler]

Snert, you have no idea how many squirrels you've killed with those bullets! I'll keep your offer in mind, but I've got another 1000 that I got from a guy - supposedly v-max - but they've got green tips.
No big deal, they shoot pretty good. Sometimes I wonder how long that old Bee barrel will keep shooting minute of squirrel. Probably as long as my eyeballs can see em. jd

 

[jds holler]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the marriage of me and this little rifle. Winchester, Model 43, 218 Bee. Sold to me by a good man that I worked for at the time, for 90 bucks. It was an incredible blessing, because he had two sons -- but wanted me to have it. Said that if he didn't charge me something for it, they'd never let him live it down.

For my $90 I got the rifle mounted with a Weaver 2 1/2 power scope, a set of Pacific dies, and a thousand 45 gr. spitzers of unknown brand, and a butt-load of brass. Also a few boxes of loaded ammo, with the recipe on the box. The powder called for IMR 4227, and I've frankly never used anything else, except for light cast bullet loads with Green Dot for muskrat loads back when I was a trapper. (4 gr. I think) jd

 

[Tommie]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the marriage of me and this little rifle. Winchester, Model 43, 218 Bee. Sold to me by a good man that I worked for at the time, for 90 bucks. It was an incredible blessing, because he had two sons -- but wanted me to have it. Said that if he didn't charge me something for it, they'd never let him live it down.

For my $90 I got the rifle mounted with a Weaver 2 1/2 power scope, a set of Pacific dies, and a thousand 45 gr. spitzers of unknown brand, and a butt-load of brass. Also a few boxes of loaded ammo, with the recipe on the box. The powder called for IMR 4227, and I've frankly never used anything else, except for light cast bullet loads with Green Dot for muskrat loads back when I was a trapper. (4 gr. I think) jd
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VERY sweet piece you have there!

 

[jds holler]

These little rifles were made pretty much like a 22 long rifle, and I think most of us handle and shoot our 22's - the best. It's got a 3 round mag, but I usually shoot it as single shot, not wanting to jack my brass out on the ground.

It has shot a truck load of squirrels, jacks, muskrats, many called coyotes, and several distant ones -- and would you believe, deer.
The man I got it from used to go out with the fish and game guys on damage control deer kills, which in those days meant spotlighting one of the local hay fields and shooting as many as you could before they ran off.

Here's my grandson with his first coyote that we called to about 30 yards, and he stung it with the Bee.

That dog now waits for me at the Rainbow Bridge, and that boy just had his first son, and the Bee and I are still together. The coyote, well maybe he's hunting jacks up in the heavenly sage brush like I'll be doing some day. jd

 

[searcher]

That was certainly a fun day of shooting! I call my rifle barrel my "happy gauge". The hotter it gets, the happier I am....

Thanks for the pics

 

[mikeinct]

Heck, I can do better than that. I'll sell it to ya for a million bucks!

give me a few, and I'll pull up a pic of it. I never get tired of talking about it. Folks around here prolly get tired of hearing it. jd

A pic or two of a GH swatting afternoon.