Everything posted by 686
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2021-2022 hunting thread
Also a shout out to the bogpod death grip as a tool for teaching young shooters. Clamp the gun in tight and let them focus on cheek weld, point of aim, and trigger discipline. The best part is they can’t wave the muzzle around everywhere when they’re excited or need to reload.
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Oh there was some luck involved, but she had her first experience with observing a splash and altering your point of aim, etc which was great. Regarding cutting the stock: Remove stock from rifle. I have a vice on my workbench and got the stock level in the vice. If I recall, the recoil pad was glued on, not screwed on, so I cut the recoil pad off first to see what the inside of the stock looked like, it’s hollow with a couple of holes for screws for a screw-on recoil pad, no surprises. Then I measured to where I wanted the length of pull to be and marked it plumb. (about 11.5”, which is what the pink .22 Rascal is). There is a way to measure length of pull that might be a good idea for you to do to get it as close as possible to correct for your kiddo. I used a circular saw to make the cuts, didn’t come out perfect, but ok. I then stuffed some old memory foam in the hollow of the stock and used a piece of a new foam shoe insole to make a recoil pad fitting the end of the stock. I used some black shelf lining vinyl type material to cover the foam and then fastened with electrical tape. Also used the insole foam to make a little cheek riser/cushion that is under the elastic shell holder which kinda hides everything. Not perfect but functional, and I’ll either buy a magpul stock for this rifle in a few years , or I’ll upgrade to a carbon Christiensen.
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Did some shooting this weekend; I’m rusty and going to need to get more time in before my elk hunt. Got both the kids shooting a 300blk that I cut the stock down on. Oldest hit the steel from ~270yds with subsonics using an estimated holdover as I forgot my rangefinder. She was stoked. Right handed but left eye dominant and shoots left handed. Watching your kids shoot a 22 off the porch is pretty great.
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Quite a jungle there. We’ve only had 8” of rain since thanksgiving at our place. I wouldn’t of had the patience to wait for the pig and would have shot the trash pandas on sight.
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Orangutans are fucking mean. Dude almost loses his toes in the next clip.:
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I think you are correct. Either the hunt planner I talked to gave me the wrong impression or I got the wrong impression. I surrendered the buck tag today, so we’ll see what happens.
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You can tell it was recorded by a girl because she didn’t dub Ukie techno music over it before posting
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@deadshank what elevation is your Idaho hunt at and what terrain? A factor for me this year - I partially tore my left calf muscle six weeks ago. I was on crutches for 4 weeks. It feels much better now but the Ortho specialist told me nothing athletic for 12 weeks or I’ll risk re-tearing it. 6-12 months for “full” recovery (never really back to 100% probably). So luckily I have my gear pretty well sorted out as I’ll need to be focusing on rehab and fitness this summer. Definitely don’t want to explode my calf during an elk pack out.
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77 and 771 around Pagosa Springs. It’s an area managed for access and not for trophy quality, so there are a lot of hunters, but my hunting partner has a family cabin there that puts us in a great spot where we can hunt all day miles off the trail and get a hot shower/cold beer/warm meal/soft mattress every night which makes it more enjoyable and less work. 35 sounds like a beautiful area. There is so much “point creep” right now for trophy areas - I know I’ll have to go landowner tags at some point if I want to get a really nice bull. Luckily I’m still in the stage where I feel truly thankful for any elk I can put on the ground, so I’m going to enjoy that for as long as possible. I also drew a mule deer buck tag which I’ll convert into a preference point and I bought a moose preference point as well - maybe in 20 years I’ll have enough points to draw a moose tag.
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Colorado Elk draw was today and I was successful again with a bull tag.
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2021-2022 hunting thread
My eyes aren’t great either. Good glass useable up to at least 16 power helps me a lot. The absolute highest magnification on a scope usually causes too much eye strain for me, so I back off the max power for what is really useable. My Swarovski Z6i 3-18 x 50 really reduces eye strain for me. Swarovski Z5 3.5-18 x 44 would be great glass. $1400, 1” tube, 16oz. weight Zeiss V6 3-18 x 50 fantastic $1800 30mm tube, 22oz. Zeiss V4 4-16 x 44 $1150 slight step down, 30mm tube, 22oz. There are boatloads more at lower price points, but when I put people behind my various riflescopes in the field in lower light conditions, they usually enjoy looking through the Swarovski glass versus lower end glass. My other scopes are mid-tier vortex, Sig BDX, and Nikon. If it is work/a struggle to get on target / see target / focus, etc. and you’re feeling eye strain off the bench in the middle of the day, it’s only going to be worse hunting in lower light conditions when your under pressure. My dad was being cheap years ago and took a 40 year old Leupold 3-9x40 scope on a hunting trip that he was struggling with as I described above, and it almost really screwed things up for us. We are in a golden age of optics right now. It’s really incredible if you think about it.
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Exterior passengers. That’s going to make a mess.
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Shit’s on fire again
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Hell yeah they geolocated the russians again off their propaganda news and picked off one of the big mortars
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Ukraine staying out in front of the grain issue, good:
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Great timing by the shooter putting that rocket through the gap in the trees behind the truck. Stugna-P seems legit.
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This guy got quite a banana in the tailpipe.
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Things just got a lot classier in Ukraine:
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I appreciate your optimism, but wheat, barley, and rye harvest starts in July. Hopefully they have plenty of silo space available to store if logistics aren’t sorted. The fact that we’re already talking about sending Harpoons, etc. means we’re taking it seriously which is great. Even if the Ukrainians sink another couple surface ships, I still feel like the psychopath Russians will stage their subs to try to torpedo the freighters. They still think they will get traction blaming a famine on us somehow. Whoever sends freighters and escorts needs to have a live video feed of the boats if possible and make a Don Corelone homage declaration that if a freighter should get shot in the head, or hang itself in its jail cell, or be struck by a bolt of lightning — then there will be blame cast upon some with boats in the Black Sea and no forgiveness. Haul the grain largely straight to Africa / Turkey and publish the whole thing and take a humanitarian victory lap. If I was the blockade running country, I would spring to have bags printed at the destination ports (like USAID does) that say something like “this grain was brought past Russian blockades by me at mortal risk to avert famine in your country. As-salamu alaykum. Go with God. May we meet one day as friends… (P.S. I would value your warm recollections of this event and forbearance regarding my future military or political maneuvers that may trespass against you, or those that have in the past. Very truly yours, etc..)”
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Nice Punisher logo. It really makes things easy from a graphic design perspective when you can just use all the American/western graphics without worry because your populous has little access to outside media to realize you plagiarize as much as possible from the entity you blame all of your troubles on. I guess imitation and flattery, etc.
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Ukrainians erased a decent size convoy here:
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Lukashenko is not a smart man. This makes me believe Zeihan’s theory that the Russian/Belorussian schools really only do teach propaganda anymore.
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Exactly. The Montreux Convention doesn’t allow non-Black Sea navy’s ships with guns larger than 8” to pass (missiles are in dispute I think), and closes the strait to all non-Black Sea navy access during a conflict. We’re not sailing up the straight unless something really changes, that’s why Turkey’s navy needs to go get that grain, and tell Russia that firing on the Turkish escorted convoy will be an act of war and will trigger Article 5 of NATO. Then we could help defend Turkey, and they could maybe grant us access to the Bosphorus to aid in their defense (per my understanding) without breaking the Convention. We have a Carrier Strike Group in the western Med right now. If Russia shoots at the Turks or sinks a grain freighter under escort, (likely using their subs which all put to sea about a week ago) I would like to see someone sink that sub in retaliation. That said, “this business will get out of hand and we’ll be lucky to live through it”.
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If tyrants want to drive their own country into the dirt while staying within their borders and the citizenry are largely ok with it (no civil war), there isn’t a great track record of success at turning these situations around. (Russia, NK, Iraq, Taliban, Somalia, etc.) Also, when we interdict, half the world sees us at the tyrant. It’s tough.
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This guy got his whole day ruined: