Gobbler Nation

GLS wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 4:54 pm Your mobile home set up in the truck looks very efficient. Never, ever turn on your butane heater in the closed up truck cap and lay down on the cot thinking you'll get up and turn it off before going to sleep. After hunting all day and drinking a beer or two and laying down worn out with the heater on could be a recipe for disaster. Carbon monoxide is an odorless killer. You probably already know this but this bears saying. Gil

hookspur wrote: ↑September 18th, 2018, 8:10 pm Man, looking at your setup makes me appreciate my own van even more so than I already did! I don't know how you guys do it....my knees are aching just thinking about living out of a pickup truck. Youth............someday you'll understand.

Cove wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 10:04 am

hookspur wrote: ↑September 18th, 2018, 8:10 pm Man, looking at your setup makes me appreciate my own van even more so than I already did! I don't know how you guys do it....my knees are aching just thinking about living out of a pickup truck. Youth............someday you'll understand.

I get it! Some day I'll upsize. You need 4wd in that thing!

hookspur wrote: ↑September 21st, 2018, 6:21 am Agreed on both points, Dickie! Thankfully, Krispie's Fried Chicken doesn't have a low roof over their drive-through.

GLS wrote: ↑July 10th, 2019, 7:35 am Anyone see the VA hunt(posted last week) where he forgot to load and bird came in? He had an opportunity to load it after the first attempt to shoot, but it gun "clicked" and didn't fire. Since the gun uses the "inertia" system, ie, rotary bolt, I'm wondering if the problem was that the bolt didn't fully rotate into battery. That's happened with me and my former SBE. Twice on the same pair of birds that came running in to me years ago on my first SBE hunt. Dave's gun camera on both attempts showed one heckuva flinch when the gun didn't fire. Wonder how many of us have a flinch when we fire our Roman Candles out of our guns? I developed a flinch when I shot pistols competitively and they can be a booger to work through and it's nothing to be ashamed of. As for failing to load the gun I've had my share of boneheaded mistakes turkey hunting and probably far more than Dave. To test to see if you have a flinch, have some one load the gun for you and randomly not load it in a series of shooting without you seeing him load or fail to load. Dove loads are fine; no point in shooting up TSS. I've seen folks just about fall down on a skeet field leaning into the "shot" when the gun didn't fire unexpectedly. Gil

GLS wrote: ↑July 10th, 2019, 6:33 pm Seems I recall he shoots 1 5/8 oz in a 6 lb. gun. At 1100 fps, that's 46 ft lbs of calculated recoil. A typical dove load of 7/8 oz. at 1100 fps calculates out to 16 ft. lbs. Heavier loads are far worse and pack a wallop on the shoulder. Not taking anything away from him he's as good as it gets. The way I worked my way out of a flinch with a pistol when I shot metallic silhouettes with a 7mm TCU in a 10" TC was with a .22 barrel and Russ handing me the gun without me knowing if it was loaded or not. When I stopped flinching, we tried same with the competition rounds. Same could be done with a shotgun. A flinch can be a bear to get rid of. Gil