The fiasco!

[flashpoint]

Ruffed grouse is a challenge for me no matter what I am shooting!

As a child I spent a lot of time on the Great Bay, between Long Beach Island and the mainland. No bird hunting but lots of fish and crabs and rowing when the 25 cents worth of gas ran out.

Ahh, Long Beach Island is only 45 minutes from the house. Used to hunt Rail Bird on the marshes.

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

I spent Septembers on LBI, up near the lighthouse. My family went "off season" because we couldn't afford it otherwise. Had the place to ourselves. then I would come back and hunt the Atlantic Flyway for Brant, Geese, and ducks. Nothing like frozen sea water splashing into your sink blind!

Good times, well remembered.

ADK Bigfoot

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Hope you enjoy.

B.

WTG Brit! Beautiful country and fun post.
Flintlocklar

 

[Colterkid]

Thanks for sharing your memory with us. Sounds like you have many good ones in the field.
"Time may chain us down some, but time not strong enough to keep our memories still."

 

[flashpoint]

ADK, yeah, the Fall was the best time there when hopefully the Stripers would come in later. There was a guide named Joe Rizzo. We'd take off in his Garvey before light on the bay and he'd put us in a blind just tethered to one of those salt grass islands. He had already put the deks out. Then you'd wait for those strings of Brant and there would be plenty of Bufflehead too, and once in a while, if you were lucky, a Canvasback.

 

[jimhallam]

Well the Muppet in me is alive and well. I drove to a place and on arrival promptly realized I had forgotten the caps .
Turned around and went back for the caps. I controlled the anger and just enjoyed the ride.
So when I got back to the hunting ground first light had long gone. The cool north wind suits this place and the bright sun would have the rabbits out.
Sure enough it wasn't long and I had one in thick cover right in front of me but it disappeared down a burrow. It was as I was moving to the next stalk that I bumped into a buck rabbit running a doe. They stopped no more than 12 yards away in thick cover. The bright sunlight highlighting the cover so much so I could not see the bucks head except for that near orange patch at the back of the head so the sights settled on that and the trigger broke.
When the smoke cleared I thought I had missed but then I saw some brash twitch a few times, rabbit down.
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This place is covered with pheasants. Its tragic how this little piece of land sits between two large estates with large pheasant shoots .
The little 45 hurls 3/4oz of shot amazingly well. This pheasant I stalked into was hiding from me, I thought he had split on me but then from no where he erupted. The smoothrifle swung through and stopped the bird instantly at near 30yds.
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Remember those bullets I've been wanting shot of? Well I tried again with them today.
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Well just like as in the trade gun they were pathetic in the .45 also. First five and then seven were loaded and they are just wild. Good for crowd dispersal maybe but not hunting! Oh well, they were bugging me and now they are gone.
A good few hours out in the winter sun and welcome change from all the rain.
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Hope you enjoy.

B.

Our tortuous Firearms Laws would mean that using these bullets in a SMOOTHBORE would turn it from a SHOTGUN ("Section 2" ) into a Section 1 firearm. As the song says "Life gits teejus, don't it?"

 

[Britsmoothy]

Our tortuous Firearms Laws would mean that using these bullets in a SMOOTHBORE would turn it from a SHOTGUN ("Section 2" ) into a Section 1 firearm. As the song says "Life gits teejus, don't it?"

Which law is that?
The diameter of these bullets is less than .36" and I loaded 5 or more to comply with the law centred on a loaded cartridge.
I have loaded a Bess with 40gn 22 bullets in the past.
I know of no law that prohibits that!

 

[jimhallam]

Which law is that?
The diameter of these bullets is less than .36" and I loaded 5 or more to comply with the law centred on a loaded cartridge.
I have loaded a Bess with 40gn 22 bullets in the past.
I know of no law that prohibits that!

Thanks, Britsmoothy. I had assumed that the bullets were "bore diameter" as there was no scale on the pic. You are, of course, correct -- - grovel, grovel ;-)