Thread: What little pesties did you bowl over today?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the .45LC has a unique sound to it...almost like the .410 great wee round when used within its limits.
would be dirt cheap to load for too..the primer would be most costly bit now...

absolutely MD

i have a lot of time for the .45LC, its one of those rounds that because of its age lots of ammo is down loaded for older guns so its considered by many to be only a Cowboy Action Shooters choice . . but if your able to get +P ammo for it or reload its got a lot more potential.
These days i only use light bullets but there was a time i ran it at full noise with heavy bullets for Deer, Goats at close range . . on paper the numbers dont seem that impressive but Real world results up close and personal are devastating on animals, running game is smashed to the ground with a good chest shot . . sorry about the ramble, i get a bit excited when i talk about .45s

Originally Posted by rossi.45

i would say that a lever action when used by a shooter that knows what he is doing is only a little slower if that than a semi used by your average shooter.
keep the butt into the shoulder and your eye following the game as you cycle the action with authority as the rifle recoils and it is a thing of bueaty when it all comes together . . . R

Thank you. Do `t have a lever action experience, but has this idea since my first goat shooting. "The thing of beauty when it all comes together" as you said, may I see it as "feel the shots"? I think you know what meant.

This fat girl was stupid enough to stick her head up out of the long grass.

Hang for a bit before the labradors turn up.

So I'm on a relentless attack of the starlings, in the macs, around wool shed etc with 1322. They are way onto me and I've only got to step outside and the alarm calls go off, majority take off to other trees to watch, while a few, that have sussed places still in trees that are well covered, are warn those returning.
I'm going to hound them a few. more days with 1322, and then start with the tx200, sniping them out of the other trees they sit in. Don't want them back nesting next year.
This one was hopping between branches so pulled a snap shot, and was rather pleased with it.
Through the eye out the top of skull.

1322 firing JSB Hades 15.89gr
35ft up, 8 meters out from tree

Got some big as hares this evening, plus a dozen or so bunnies. Couple of these will be as heavy as I’ve ever shot I reckon. The dogs are well impressed, dogs’ dinner sorted for a fortnight. I took the .22LR and .223 Rem but ended up only using the .22LR, with S&B subsonic HPs. Had a couple of corker shots quite steeply downhill with the sun directly behind me, 127m and 116m. The sun lit up the wee 40gr bullets, both clearly visible all the way to the unfortunate hares on 16x magnification. Love seeing the arc of the trajectory, super satisfying to land this excellent ammo right were its intended.

Originally Posted by rossi.45

i would say that a lever action when used by a shooter that knows what he is doing is only a little slower if that than a semi used by your average shooter.
keep the butt into the shoulder and your eye following the game as you cycle the action with authority as the rifle recoils and it is a thing of bueaty when it all comes together . . . R

agree 100% and the difference between a semi and a pump is even less....all three work much better if you actully stop for split second and AIM... I for one have been guilty of spray n pray far too many times even with bolt actions.

Originally Posted by rossi.45

1st for the evening . .
92 .45LC Rossi 240grn. LEE bullet

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And you hit it with the factory sights too. It was only after I fitted a Lyman 66 to my Winchester 94 that I truly fell in love with it.

Yestys pestys....

Morning goose..

...and a arvo possum

With a side of mynah n plover (no pics)

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Dished out a few headaches last night with the 22-250 and 53g Varmageddons

Nice shooting. I usually find a a very small red drop of blood where I've shot with air rifle.
Guess your having no trouble finding where you hit.
Rather devastating for hares 👍

Yea knocks em down pretty good, meat saver shotsThis farm is rolling to steep so we just drive the tracks and shoot over the bonnet, which means i dont have to carry the heavy beast

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

And you hit it with the factory sights too. It was only after I fitted a Lyman 66 to my Winchester 94 that I truly fell in love with it.

Yeah they take some getting used to @Marty Henry . . . first time i saw the sights when the rifle arrived i thought WTF are these and started looking online to see other opinions, lots of negatives and chop the ears off comments. Decided to keep them and try to get used to them, which i did in time and now i dont think of them as being different or a problem.

i use a 6oclock sight picture with a little white space between the bottom of the square and the front sight . . . target was at 50yards, good to go out to 70ish yards with some holdover