Re: Well HELL Guys.

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 9/19/2022 9:44 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> So are these the silent death throes of ASA?
> NO ONE (?) has anything to talk about?
> For the first time in YEars business has slowed down for me.
> On one hand, I'm afraid I'm going to get used to the slower pace and then get soft and not want to get up off my ass when it gets busy again. but on the other hand, I'm kinda enjoying the time to do some of the things that I always say I'm going to get around to - - - - and never do.
> I ordered in some parts for my old Crossman air guns and trying to get them working again.

I just put new seals in an original first year .22 Model 1 phase one
yesterday.  I think I bought it brand new in 1981.  It conserves a
little air now at ten pumps.  I'm debating using only 9 pumps, or
upgrading the hammer spring to get a couple more FPS.  I guess I need to
take the ProChrono off the shelf and see what kind of velocity its
giving me.  I'm hoping for a little over 600FPS with  Crosman 14.35
grain Premier or Premier hollow point.  The Premier hollow points are
amazingly accurate at speeds upto 1100 FPS (BAM B-50 PCP.)  I figure
they should be fine at 600.

A few years ago I decided to grow a winter garden.  Blackbirds and
grackels loved me.  They sat there staring at the dirt waiting for
seedlings to pup up.  I found a .25 caliber 25.4 grain pellet at 900+fps
(PCP rifle) would blow right through a grackel and kill the one standing
behind him too.  Yes they are covered under the international songbird
treaty, but it also clearly states depredation work is legal. Best part
is the moderated Marauder is super quiet.  The sound of the action and
the pellet smacking a grackel eating a seedling are louder than the air
blast of the gun.


I've got someones damn pigeons shitting on my roof all summer that I'm
determined to get rid of in spite of my wife. problem is,  I figure the
damn things are going to roll down off the roof where they're roosting
and I'm going to have to get up on the damn ladder to dig them out of
the gutter.

Flying pigs are tasty.  Its worth it.  Chop them in nice size breast
chunks, throw a thin layer of cream cheese in a half jalapeno shell,
give it a wrap of bacon and roast them.


> .
> Don't know if I mentioned it here or not but last year, before deer season the guys I go deer hunting with found some remains of a couple of fawns that were taken down by Coyotes. So someone went out and bought a "caller" and one night we went out and sat in the dark for a few hours freezing our cajone's off with this machine screeching eerie squeals.

LOL.  I found lip squeaking and twilight worked better for me.  Long
shadows until not quite dark, and not quite dark until a little after
sunrise.  In Az we can only hunt from can see to can't see anyway and
shining is not allowed.  In the desert I have lip squeaked Coyotes from
nearly half mile away.  The other thing is coyotes like sweet fruit.
Grapes, watermelons, etc.  If you can setup near fields/vineyards you
can often catching them coming and going in the wee hours.  Adult
coyotes are pretty smart.  If you are setting up on a shooting lane they
are already suspicious.  Anything you do/smell/look like that isn't
natural can spook them.  I do have an electronic caller, but I only
turned it up a little loader than I can lip squeak a mouse noise.  Then
I turn it off for a while and watch for movement.  Constant scanning
with my eyes.


> .
> Anyway, since then, after reading up and watching YouTube videos, we've got a better idea this year on how to set up a watch and use the machine. but the hilarious thing is, while I was sitting in the dark last year, it dawned on me what a freaking idiot I was. Not only wasn't I going to see anything in the dark, even if I did, I wouldn't have been able to get a shot at anything anyway. I use open sights. I've always hunted in the brush and been that good a shot that I never needed a scope. I never gave it a thought that you can't use open sights at night. I was the only one without a scope but nobody else in the group gave it any thought either. (stupid, stupid, stupid)

Generally scopes are worse in the dark.  You need a night vision scope.
  I've got some pretty decent light gathering scopes that are still okay
until well after sunset, but I still think they are pretty much useless
in the dark.  I'm not sure I understand what was happening there.

> .
> Jeeeze! What an idiot! So this summer I had a 50mm light gathering scope mounted on my Remington 30.06, after all these years and, If I can fit it in the budget, I'll be ordering a Thermal Imaging Monocular before the season starts.

What range are you shooting?  30-06 is a lot of gun for a coyote.  I use
.22 mag out to about 125 yards, and .223 out to about 300.  If I had any
confidence in hitting way out there I might use 22-250, but I remind
myself that .223 is a 600 meter gun and it shoots just a bit flatter
with a varmint round than 30-06.  Of course early season varmint work
means the pelts probably aren't worth anything anyway, so blowing bigger
holes in them is no big deal I guess.


The cheapest ones that I see that  can can pick up an image at 100 yards
start at about $600.00. and you know I'm not going to get that one. So,
so far that's $800.00 for the scope and probably another 8 for the
viewer, just so I can sit in the dark and freeze my ass off. Oh well,
what the hell am I working for if I never spend it on the things I want.

Better you than me, although the years I ran traps I sure froze a lot of
nights in the desert.

> .
> Another thing I didn't think about is the type of ammo I (we all ) were using. If any of us did get a shot at a Coyote, there probably wouldn't have been anything but a head and a tail left. We were all loaded with 160 grain. So I was able to locate some 128 grain 30.06 varmint ammo. Not easy to find.

welcome to alt.security.varminters

> .
> Anyway, hope this post helps strike up a little activity here.


Why thank you.  I've been thinking about upgrading my shop video
surveillance, but since I'm now just a lowly consumer I didn't think you
guys would talk to me...  LOL.



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