Gun Control is Completely Useless.

[bobnoorduyn]

Isn't that the one with the thick hexagonal barrel? ...or octagonal ... can't remember.

I forgot too :-D, haven't had it out in a while, so I had to go to the basement and look, it is octagonal. Yeah, it came with milling marks on the barrel and brass pieces. The stock was pretty rough too. It was about $150 less than a complete model, but it was also a labour of love. I only stained and oiled the stock and it has maintained its finish, the brass pieces need to be shined up fairly often and the barrel needs to be re-blued every couple years. but the NS climate was/is hard on anything metal.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I forgot too :-D, haven't had it out in a while, so I had to go to the basement and look, it is octagonal. Yeah, it came with milling marks on the barrel and brass pieces. The stock was pretty rough too. It was about $150 less than a complete model, but it was also a labour of love. I only stained and oiled the stock and it has maintained its finish, the brass pieces need to be shined up fairly often and the barrel needs to be re-blued every couple years. but the NS climate was/is hard on anything metal.

..especially ships ...

 

[bobnoorduyn]

Nothin' like fresh possum bellies!

Hit a possum with that thing there'll be no belly, or much else left for sure, but it'll bring down a moose in short order.

 

[Hoid]

Hit a possum with that thing there'll be no belly, or much else left for sure, but it'll bring down a moose in short order.

So you would be shooting the possum in self defense?

 

[bobnoorduyn]

..especially ships ...

and vehicles, roads, patio furniture, psyche ...

So you would be shooting the possum in self defense?

I would be hard pressed to come up with a reason for that.

 

[Curious Cdn]

So you would be shooting the possum in self defense?

... because they are BUTT UGLY critters and we take 'em out for aesthetic reasons.

 

[Hoid]

Do we even have them in Canada?

I don't think I have ever seen a possum. They are probably fake news.

 

[DaSleeper]

I still have a .54 Hawken I built from a kit nearly 40 years ago, and it too is quite accurate provided you load it properly. I have to use a full 120gr of FFG (its max load) with a 230gr round ball. Anything less and accuracy drops substantially. Though much cleaner, Triple 7 powder just doesn't work well. Black powder is dirty stuff.

Mine was a replica, made in Brazil, The only animal I ever shot with it was a partridge, and no, I didn't damage the bird for eating.
I did the same thing I usually do with a high powered rifle and a bird on the ground, shoot in the ground about six inches in front, knock it out of breath with the blast of dirt, take a run for it and twist it's neck before it recovers.

Possums have started to emigrate to southern Ontario in the last few years....

You can always blame global warming heh?....:lol:

 

[JLM]

Yah the younger generation have much higher goals that their parents.

Yeah, because their parents were able to provide a higher starting off point for them!

 

[DaSleeper]

If anyone can pick-up City tv Vancouver, There is a good show at 2:00 PM that compares gun ownership between Canada and the US

I just finished watching it on City TV Toronto
Very interesting to see so many Young people interested in shooting sports even if there is not that many shooting ranges in Toronto.

It will be on the air in Vancouver at 2:00 P. M. eastern time

 

[Curious Cdn]

Do we even have them in Canada?

I don't think I have ever seen a possum. They are probably fake news.

We get them in our neighbourhood.

BTW, 1/3rd of the United States of America is to the north of where I live and there is still a couple of hundred miles of Canada left to the south of us. I live on the same latitude as Florence, Italy here, waaaaaay up in the frozen wasteland north.

 

[Cannuck]

Yeah, because their parents were able to provide a higher starting off point for them!

You keep telling yourself that

 

[Hoid]

so now we are over run with refugee possums fleeing from climate change. Where does it end?

 

[JLM]

You keep telling yourself that

No generation to date ever had it so good as your generation!

 

[tay]

At least 20 people have been killed, and dozens of others wounded, on Sunday by a gunman at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a law enforcement official confirmed with ABC News.


Gunman kills 20 during Sunday church service in Texas, shooter dead - ABC15 Arizona

 

[Curious Cdn]

so now we are over run with refugee possums fleeing from climate change. Where does it end?

My Uncle was a country Veterinarian and he recorded the first official sighting of an opossum in the Niagara Peninsula (in the 1950's, I believe.)

The big red Cardinal bird is another such immigrant during the same time frame. You are essentially dead right. Species are moving North as it gets warmer.

 

[petros]

so now we are over run with refugee possums fleeing from climate change. Where does it end?

Are you sucking the glass dick?

 

[Hoid]

At least 20 people have been killed, and dozens of others wounded, on Sunday by a gunman at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a law enforcement official confirmed with ABC News.


Gunman kills 20 during Sunday church service in Texas, shooter dead - ABC15 Arizona

Texas has the death penalty. Therefore this really could not have happened there.

 

[petros]

1 tag filled, 3 to go.

Bagged, tagged and hanging in the garage all within 80 minutes.

I love Saskatchewan.

 

[Curious Cdn]

1 tag filled, 3 to go.

Bagged, tagged and hanging in the garage all within 80 minutes.

I love Saskatchewan.

Gophers are easy to hit with a car.

They're a lot harder to pick off with a .22, though.