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OUCH!!! very cool to see, but, I can't imagine how many broken wrists that will create... Would I shoot a 50 BMG rifle? Ya I'd pay to do that... Would I shoot a 50BMG pistol? Not sure you could pay me enough... nice pic though

I have been talking about using my 1911 for a short range hunting rig. I figure with practice it should be effective out to 50 yards or so, however, I was talking to my father the other day who told me about a little $300 conversion kit for just about any full size 1911. Take a look at this: http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/rowland.htm#kit It basically amounts to a new barrel, a new recoil spring and new guide rod and link spring. Field strip and reassemble with the new parts, maybe 1 minute. But it turns your 1911 .45 ACP into a compensated .460 Rowland with ballistics similar to a .44 mag. Notably better with heavier bullets. .44 mag. 180gr Hollow point at 1610fps (power factor 289.8) .460 Rowland 185gr Hollow point at 1550fps (power factor 286.75) .44 mag. 240gr Hollow point at 1180fps (power factor 283.2) .460 Rowland 230gr Hollow point at 1340fps (power factor 308.2) So OTPG, would this meet entry minimums? This is definitely going to be my next "pistol" purchase, well right after that Ruger .22 pistol I want...

That is SWEET!!! I have read about the place and would love to go there once, let alone join. Congrats on the space away from the monotony...

Yup, I used to camp every summer at 7-8000 feet in the sierra nevada range. Takes at least a couple days to remember how to breathe each time, and a bit more after that to get used to any kind of exertion... One sugestion that I have always found useful, Eat spicy foods, hot peppers improve your blood's ability to cary oxogen. Every little bit helps when the air is thin...

Personly I've gotta agree with the comment that what you are comfortable with is the best, as long as it meets minimum caliber or energy requirements if any in your area. I just purchased a 1911 last year and plan to use it for deer next year with special purpose handloads. Didn't use it this year because I wanted a full year of practice first to build confidence and learn my limitations with it. If you limit your shots to ones you are confident you can make, then use what you are comfortable with.

A friend of mine has the same pistol. We just went to a gun show together and he was asking arround about his, which is in much worse shape than yours. Popgun's info fits right in line with what we were told there. The basic consensus, regarding value, was that a fully functioning model was worth about $100 or so give or take a bit for cosmetics. If it is not functional, then the parts and labor to repair it make it worthless except as a parts gun. As for that the grips are apparently one of the most valuable single parts on the gun running about $20 per side, possibly more with a matched set in good condition.

Or maybe the deer would say it was a good hit cause they had a chance to get away...lol. Either way the deer still calls it a "hit", if you ask me though it is a bad hit. I am the 3D archery director for my archery club in Northern VA. When we hold a BuckBuster 3D shoot the scoring is as follows. 1 arrow per "animal" (target). Center ring (heart shot) 10 points. Second ring (lung shot) 8 points. Anywhere else on the "animal" 5 points. Yes Tom, you "missed" where you were aiming, but you "hit" what you were aiming at. If you shoot at a paper plate and hit the bale it is on, then yes, you missed the plate, however if you pick a spot on the bale and shoot at that spot but hit the bale outside the spot, you still hit the bale. As for your deffinition to lose a shirt tail, if you fired and did not recover the animal then you lose a shirt tail...sounds fair to me as it promotes ethical shooting, is. don't shoot unless you are sure you can make a clean hit. But I would call it a failed shot (which could include misses and poor hits or just a stuborn deer that picked a realy ousy spot to fall over and you can't find them) rather than a missed shot...just my semantics. Fun debate guys...even if I do feel it was rather clear cut .

Well guys...my season ended last weekend. Sorry to say, I got skunked again this year...what is it with me and this contest? Whenver I enter it I get nada...oh well. Good luck for next year.

Well done! What time of day did you take those? The lighting is excelent.

Why in the world is DirecTV making you work the holiday...are you in tech suport or just sales... I am a Crisis worker. Mandatory that we cover 24/7. I am working 12 hour shifts Thursday and Friday, but since the office is closed I at least get to do it from home... at least until I get called to the ER or a Police station to evaluate someone. Midnight now...I get off in 3 and a half hours...YEAH!!!

Left front: Cell; wallet; Blistex Right front: keys; germ-x; small folding knife Back pockets: usualy empty Cargo pockets: extra pens and any papers I am currently referencing for work.

I am in for sure. I can do US, Canada or Japan:p:D (feel better now TSBH?) OH and are we putting a price limit/sugestion or whatever...not that I have followed it in the past just want to know what # I am ignoring...

I wouldn't quite call them equal with steak, but they are realy good, this sounds like a great way to prepare them...

I go pure venison for chili and other such full meal type dishes, but for sausage I add 1lb of pork fat back per 3-4 pounds of venison. The seasoning I add for sausage is heavily sage based, gives a nice midwest spice to it and kinda blends the gamey flavor of strong venison.

"Tight" is a relative term, as long as the gun can print 1 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards it is tight enough for deer, even at 400 yards. I don't see an average (non match grade) semi shooting under an inch, though some will, but an inch and a half isn't to much of a strech unless you got a bad one. Honestly, Texas, no gun is a long range gun unless you know your bullet trajectory and are capable of shooting at long range. However the 30-06 is not as bad as you make it out to be. Factory Remington ammo with the swift Sirocco 150s lists a 400 yard drop of 21.1 inches with a 200 yard zero, still significant but manageable, and only 4 inches lower than a 7mm mag (17.0) with the same bullet, and only 2 inches lower than a .300 Win mag (18.9)with the 150 grain core-lokt round.

Absolutely! Sorry Buckee this is a bit of a tanjential hijack... As a parent I frequently pronounce gloom & doom over my children, and I fully intend to follow through, I'm not talking about idle threats that some parents make. However when the child appropriately makes amends for whatever disaster or defiant action they had wrought and turns themselves around, at least for a time, I recant the punishment in whole or part. In a sense that is how we adults learn as well, by facing the consequences of our actions or decisions sometimes when they happen, sometimes just in time to fix it by realizing we made a mistake, then changing to be better in the future. And, as I recall my bible stories, most of those times when God backs down, his decree was "Turn back to me or I will [...insert nasty retribution here]" God doesn't make idle threats, he does however show compasion.

This is precicely my concept of predestination. God is all knowing and exists outside of time, therefore he knows how everything plays out, aka predestination, however, just because he knows it doesn't make it outside of our power to choose. I am a therapist, I work with people daily whom my job is to predict what they are likely to do, now my margin of error is a bit higher than God's:eek:, however, I do still predict certain behaviors with clients I know well over time. Does my correct prediction mean that they didn't choose it, I made them do it? Of course not, just as God knowing what you are going to do before you do it doesn't mean God made you do it. Besides, like most Christians, I know who made me do it...the Devil. Oh wait no...just plain old me in here.

19.5 inch barrel eh...my 30-06 M77 UL rifle has a shorter barrel (16.5)...that must be a bear to balance without a rest...sounds like it shoots well, good luck with it this season!

I am loading some new rounds for my 1911 with 185 grain Hornady XTP bullets. I started loading them to the same OAL as the 230 grain ball factory ammo I have. The seating depth feels secure, but obviously it isn't as deep as the 230s. Any advice on which I should go by? If you have an opinion I'd like to hear the why, even if its just 'cause your dad or whoever you trust taught you to...

OK just gotta sound off on this one. I have seen the movie, and I agree that they allowed themselves to be killed rather than fight back because the missionaries knew their salvation was secure, while the tribesman would end up in HE double hockey sticks. Now I would in no means belittle anyone who says they would have shot them, for one thing, martyrdom is not for everyone...thank God! And second, no one knows what they would do unless they were there. Period! Now for my slightly deeper thought. If someone were coming into my house to harm my family would I shoot them...sure, if need be they are going out horisontal not me or my family. BUT is that a good comparison to what happened in the movie? I say no. The missionaries went into the tribes house so to speak, if they wanted to stay safe all they had to do was not go, no killing was necessary. They chose to go, with the full knowledge that they would not be able to fight back if it came down to it, without canceling out any chance of accomplishing the purpose of going. The missionaries invaded the tribe's "home" and posed a genuine threat to the tribesman as the tribe understood it(they believed that the missionaries were the ones who "killed" one of their daughters). If they had fought back they would have convinced that tribe once and for all that they were right to distrust outsiders and no missionary in the future would have ever had a chance to even say hello arround the spear in their gut. The most powerful thing that brought the tribe males to christ was what they saw the day they speared the missionaries. "I saw him jump the great boa while he was still alive!" is roughly the comment made near the end of the movie when the tribe's leader is talking to the son of the main missionary. That vision, whatever it was, would not let him dismiss the power of a living God. And ultimately it was that sacrifice that brought him to Christ. Now if you have not seen the movie I sugest you watch it realy carefully...but be warned it is not for the faint of heart and deffinitely not for the kids...it is very graphic, but very powerful as well.

Not sure if you already started to tear into it or anything...or if you have confirmed the problem. But in my Chevy suburban I have a leak in my power steering pump, every time it gets low the pump starts to scream when you turn. Since Chevys tend to share a master cylinder between brakes and powersteering, mine screams louder when I use the brakes especialy if I use both at the same time, like you mention. Hitting the gas boosts the power to the pump and quiets the scream. As soon as it starts doing that I add more power steering fluid and it goes away. Yours moy not be low fluid like mine but could be a bad pump. From the description of the sound it is exactly how I would describe mine, sounds like the truck is dieing right then and there...and even if that isn't the problem, it is a lot easier to fix first...or at least check:D, either a bad pump or low fluid. If that isn't the problem then move on to the bearings and such everyone else pointed out.

An update on my way previous post asking for encuragement... Hey guys, I was thinking the other day and remembered I had posted here several years ago about a problem I had with my former employer and a report to the Licensure Board...I've quoted part of it here...but it is time for an update... Well that investigation process took 2 years...however in February this year I got a letter from the state of Nebraska, where I had lived at the time of the incident. The letter stated that the state had decided to settle the matter with a letter of agreement, basicaly it is a contract you sign stating what the alegations were and what you have agreed to abide by in the future, as close to a dismissal as they get basicaly. The Letter of agreement does not attempt to claim they found fault, it simply lists the alegation as just that, an alegation, then quotes the state code pertaining to it and a statement that I will follow those codes in the future. As a member of several profesional organizations, I am required to submit anything of that sort to the profesional organizations ethics commitee for review. That review commitee sent me a letter that spoke directly to the verse God gave me 2 years ago. Here is a quote from that letter: "I have thoroughly reviewed the information you have provided, and find that you have acted in compliance with [professional agency] reporting requirements. Aditionaly...it appears that they[the Nebraska Attorney General's Office] are requesting you to merely report any loss of employment in the future. That being the case, I am not going to initiate an [agency] investigation into this matter and am considering it closed." The letter goes on to thank me for my honesty and professionalism in dealing with the situation. As it turns out, the portion of the complaint regarding the paperwork was apparently found ungrounded. Likely due to the fact that the company reported I refused to complete the paperwork when in reality they fired me with 5 minutes notice and refused to allow me to finish it. The only thing listed in the Assurance as a possible code violation was the technicality that I was unaware I should have reported my loss of employment. God is faithful and true to his word, my record is unblemished and I am now working doing mobile crisis work for the state of Virginia. As a side note, I need some documentation from that former employer and called them about 2 months after recieving that letter. The entire division I worked in has been "restructured" and there is not one single clinical person still in it that was there when the events occured to start this thing...think maybe the investigation turned over a few rotten logs???

Hey there...Cool already on the board. Well this area certainly isn't known for big bucks but it is known for lots of them so hopefuly I will have something to add to the team this year...Good luck and happy hunting...

I use the SST's in my reloads for my 30-06. Below is some pics of a test round I fired. I set up several milk jugs in a line and fired a round through them at 100 yards, the bullet shown destroyed the first two jugs (like plastic confeti), punched a large hole through the third and was recovered inside the fourth jug. It retained slightly more than 60% of its original weight. Which is similar to most of the rapid expansion big game bullets I have seen tested such as the Sirocco, and better than the standard bonded core soft points. definitely adequate for my eastern deer, but they might be a little fragile for anything larger.

I am personaly shooting 150 grain Hornady SST's in handloads for my 30-06. They seem to work well on deer and are accurate enough to give me 3/4 to 1 inch groups at 100 yards.