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20 round box of ammo = 20 deer......

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Clint was in his his mid 80's when I first met him while Antelope hunting in Wyoming. He reached the old faded worn cardboard ammo box of 30.06 from his coat pocket and carefully pulled out one of the eight remaining loaded rounds....inside were 12 spent cases. I asked him "are you sure you have enough ammo?" He smiled and explained that he only needed one round to do the job....each of the 12 spent cases represented one mule deer for each of the past 12 years....he thought there were still enough for a few more years of hunting....

Clint is gone now, but I never open a full box of ammo but what I think of that.....
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's a man that takes pride in what he does.

    Best!!

    Rugster


    Toujours Pret
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back when I was a children......You wouldn't think of wasteing a shell on a tin can or a paper target. 22 shorts cost 25 cents a box and they were hard to get. Once I had a box of 22's and had shot probably 12 or 14 of them and had accounted for 10 or 11 rabbits and squirrels. It was kind of a pride thing. Well to make the story longer the neighbor lady down the road called my mom and asked her if she would come down and shoot a snake she had seen in her tree. My mother took my Stevens Favorite and my remaining shells and started shooting the snake. Every time she would hit the snake it would wriggle and she would shoot it again. She shot all the rest of that box of shells on a poor defenseless snake and put me out of the hunting business for some time. Times have certainly changed.

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago Grandma told my older brother there was a bat in the barn. So he grabbed the 22 and off we went. Saw the little bugger sitting on a beam in the loft, pop-plop he was on the ground. The bat twitched so my brother took a second shot. He got a royal "whoopin" for using that second shell.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • Single ShotSingle Shot Member Posts: 17 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In my youth I had to use a single shot shotgun and a single shot 22 for most of my hunting. Still use a single shot today, TC Contender- 30 Herrett,22 hornet and NEF- 223, 243 for most of my hunting. It makes you learn how to shoot!!!

    It should only take one !!!
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In Jack O'Connor's classic Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns, he describes an old miner he knew in New Mexico. The guys hunted with a .30-30. His hunting clothes were a t-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. One box of shells was 20 deer. He never took a shot over 100 yards. If he didn't see a good shot, he went home and tried again the next day. Jack said that to this guy, going hunting was about like going to the grocery store.
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  • LightningLightning Member Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was always taught if you have to shoot it a second time then you shouldnt have shot it the first time.
    Take your time and pick your shot.
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    None of you good folk trained the "Hunters" we all hear about today. Its nothing for some of em to unload a full clip at a glimsp of "brown patch" in the woods........

    The best I've done was 16 out of 20 in one box.....One miss , three finish up shots right at dark.....didn't want to spend the night tracking..........Hardly gets cold enough to wait till morning in south louisiana..............

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where I come from we wait until two Deer are lined up so we can kill two with one shot.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    RugerNiner, getting pretty deep here.....Our deer are so big, if you stacked them up like that, it would take a 50 cal BMG just to make through to the last one....[;)
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't waste bullets on deer, I just kill them with my pickup.

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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    These are starting to sound more like fish stories than hunting stories, LOL.

    I once got 20 deer with one round, shot one and the other 19 surrendered. Top that........

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I caught one in a snare...........no guns involved

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Somebody said something about fish stories?

    I was in Pa. fishing the Susquehanna River and caught a Bass so Big I had to leave the boat in the water and take the Bass home on the Boat Trailer.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
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