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Blkvoodoo

05-09-2010, 07:21 PM

Damn, so far I haven't seen a Walmart in Cali that sells nector of the gods :(

I know for sure they sell the usual stuff ( AB, Miller, and a few 'lesser' brands, I couldn't tell you if or what micros or imports they sell.

I severely dislike Wal-Mart, it was the closest place to get a bike helmet for my daughter ( she wouldn't ride her bike she got for Christmas with out one, 6yrs old and smart like that !!! ) and I got fishing license' for the wife and myself ( also the closest place, how redneck is that ? )

I don't like WM's practices or products and try to avoid going there, even if it means paying a little more. ( $98 for a 2liter of Coke isn't quite what I had in mind though :eek:)

traildust

05-09-2010, 08:16 PM

Did you you got some shot gun shells with the fishing license....HA!

Blkvoodoo

05-09-2010, 08:24 PM

Did you you got some shot gun shells with the fishing license....HA!

well..... I did get a BB/Pellet gun so I could teach my daughter gun safety and handling, we'll learn on this, then maybe get something a little louder.

everyone around here has guns, I want her to know when, why and how, something I was never taught until I was in my 20's

I did look at the rifles and shot guns though....

Eric McCarthy

05-09-2010, 08:43 PM

Our WM's up here in Va have a ton of beer sold in them, even the sister company Sam's Club has a shit load of beer. Best prices in bulk too.

traildust

05-09-2010, 08:46 PM

Oh man is she ever gonna have fun with that air rifle! I got one a few years ago and started my kids on the basics like you are doing.
I save all the aerosol cans when they go low and shoot those for fun.
Soemthing I have been thinking about is have a torch behind a spray can so that when the can is shot it gives a good show :D

Eric McCarthy

05-09-2010, 08:50 PM

Why not buy some paper targets? That sounds a helluva lot safer then aerosol cans and torch's!

traildust

05-09-2010, 09:16 PM

Why not buy some paper targets? That sounds a helluva lot safer then aerosol cans and torch's!

Booooooring :rolleyes:

You just gave me an idea:eek:

I'm gonna put a varmint taget in front of the can with a torch behind that. Thanks bro!

Eric McCarthy

05-09-2010, 09:29 PM

UMMM be sure to have wifey put 911 on hold when you do that!

traildust

05-09-2010, 10:37 PM

UMMM be sure to have wifey put 911 on hold when you do that!

I have a really bad ass Beeman. It's got a big scop and velocity of a 22 cal to sling lead accuratly across my property. I have hit many an unfortenate squirral in the kill zone at a distance they were not visable without the scope. My aerosal will be about the same distance. Safe with a really good show :D

http://www.beeman.com/images/GH1000.jpg

Eric McCarthy

05-10-2010, 08:59 AM

And this is a damn BB gun??

http://www.beeman.com/images/GH1000.jpg

Eric McCarthy

05-10-2010, 09:02 AM

HOLY HELL I just looked up Beeman air rifle online, they sell from 300 bucks to 3 thousand dollars! An actual 22cal would be cheaper!

traildust

05-10-2010, 09:17 AM

HOLY HELL I just looked up Beeman air rifle online, they sell from 300 bucks to 3 thousand dollars! An actual 22cal would be cheaper!

You are right, a 22 would be cheaper. But with the air rifle I enjoy the freedom of taking it any where I want with out the harassment of carrying a fire arm. The real major deciding factor was the ricochet. I can use the air rifle any where on my property an know for a fact I'm not gonna kill somebody a quarter mile away with a ricochet.

Eric McCarthy

05-10-2010, 10:37 AM

I didnt think a 22cal had enough ass behing it to ricohet off anything. I thought they are basically a glorified BB gun.

traildust

05-10-2010, 03:17 PM

I didnt think a 22cal had enough ass behing it to ricohet off anything. I thought they are basically a glorified BB gun.

One would think so but it did happen out here where I live. A school bus dropped off a load of mixed elementry kids to go home. The bus had just pulled away and the kids were walking home when one of them fell to the ground. The other kids noticed her fall and thought she was playing around and then noticed the blood from here head.

The police investigators were able to trace every ricochet point the bullet hit before Tammy Green unknowingly walked into it's path. They never caught the shooter but were able to tell it was a person way out in the desert shooting bottles.

Bulldog

05-10-2010, 09:34 PM

I didnt think a 22cal had enough ass behing it to ricohet off anything. I thought they are basically a glorified BB gun.

My brother and I hit a 2 liter coke bottle at 900 yds with a 22 magnum. I don't mean it was like shooting one with a 220 swift or 223 but we were able to hit one and it still had enough power to poke a hole in the bottle.

Never under estimate a 22 cal rifle. The warning on the ammo says dangerous for 1.5 mi for a reason.

Eric McCarthy

05-10-2010, 09:39 PM

Oh I know what you mean about under estimating a gun. I just thought that a 22 cal rifle was a weaker under powered gun. All guns can kill no matter what the size. I never really knew a 22 cal could travle that far and bounch off so much.

Bulldog

05-10-2010, 09:59 PM

In most cases the weaker and slower the bullet is the worse they are to ricochet.

traildust

05-10-2010, 11:15 PM

In most cases the weaker and slower the bullet is the worse they are to ricochet.

That's a really good way to state it.

Bulldog

05-10-2010, 11:23 PM

traildust

05-10-2010, 11:29 PM

Thankyou Traildust. I haven't done much lately but I have done a lot of shooting in the past. I even went so far that I have my own shooting range for about anything you want to practice with. It a one of a kind with steel targets all over it.

Please don't tell me you shoot skeet! It would bug me to no end that I can't afford to tavel to Georgia :(

Bulldog

05-10-2010, 11:45 PM

Please don't tell me you shoot skeet! It would bug me to no end that I can't afford to tavel to Georgia :(

I have a place that one of the little clay throwers can sling a double that will fly over a 100 yds. A single will fly between 125-150 yds. I don't shoot them much but it sure is fun. I got into target rifle and pistol shooting pretty heavy. Of course If it wasn't for the fact that bullets are so hard to get now long range shooting is a blast. You should see some of the looks I have got when I bust a 12 oz coke can at 900 yds with a 223.

I'll have to get some pics of my range to you when we get it cleaned up and all the steel painted back. The winter was hard on the targets. They look bad with rust on them. It takes a while to get the whole thing done though, I have 56 different steel targets that range in size from a one inch circle all the wat up to 3 life size and life like silhouettes. Part of it is just for 22 cal and the other will and has took up to a 500 Smith. It's not bunched up either, I take up 150 yds long and about 50 yds wide. It's pretty cool.

traildust

05-11-2010, 12:11 AM

I have a place that one of the little clay throwers can sling a double that will fly over a 100 yds. A single will fly between 125-150 yds.

Well, that really blows and now I'm sad :(

I really really want to go to Georgia now, damn!

I do enjoy picking off targets that can only be seen with a scope, or like in the Army days, a spotter with powerul bynoc's to see the target for you and voice over the adjustments needed to hit the target.

But for some reason I absolutely love skeet. I used to go to a range several years ago and the serious guys had over unders that cost twice as much as the cars they have.

I couldn't spend that kind a $$$'s and just used a side by side and I had lots of fun :D

Bulldog

05-11-2010, 02:15 AM

Yeah, I have seen guys like that myself. A man don't have to have all that stuff to have fun. All you need is a shotgun that you can hit with.

Eric McCarthy

05-11-2010, 08:07 AM

You boys were awfully bored this morning between the hours of 12 and 5am. Why the hell yall not in bed with the wives???

traildust

05-11-2010, 10:35 AM

You boys were awfully bored this morning between the hours of 12 and 5am. Why the hell yall not in bed with the wives???

Buddy, after 16 years of marriage, sometimes I'd rather be on the computer then on the ole lady :D

dusty-t

05-11-2010, 11:49 AM

Now that IS sad.:eek: Dusty

Bulldog

05-11-2010, 12:42 PM

My computer don't talk back and my old lady ain't going anywhere.
After 22 yrs If she ain't left by now she ain't going to.

Eric McCarthy

05-11-2010, 02:24 PM

Damn dont say that! My mom and dad divorced after 28 years together because pops was glued to the computer 24-7 talking to other women around the internet about our problems here at home.

Green Mountain Slim

05-11-2010, 03:14 PM

Eric, been there, done that, and they didn't help at all. Too worried about their own problems to give a damn about mine. Otherwise they just wanted to flirt and cause problems.

With what I've been through recently I can honestly say you have to be very careful about who you trust on the Internet. Shooting the bull is one thing, but real friendships are hard to come by anywhere let alone in Forums and Chat rooms.

There's also a forum for every interest you could possibly have. Motorcycles of every kind, boats, cars, welding, machining, Specialty metal lathes, hunting, and gunsmithing. All things I've been and still are involved with.

It always seems as though interests wane and people move on, but never really make that contact a good local club can generate.

Maybe I'm just too cynical at this point.

There are some good people here and I must admit I'd like to have a beer with a few and discuss other things we have in common. Maybe one day.

Eric McCarthy

05-11-2010, 05:32 PM

Ya know I've often thought how cool it could be to have an OTT meeting party somewhere to have some beers with the other fellas on here and share tractoring story's and tips.

On the flip side of this would be a location for the event since this is a world wide forum and it seems the majority of us live in the US and Canada.

Bulldog

05-11-2010, 06:39 PM

Eric,

I went thru the same thing with my parents They divorced after 20+ yrs also.

A big OTT get together would be a cool event. I don't imagine it would have a very good turn out though. Every body lives so far apart.

traildust

05-11-2010, 06:56 PM

Now that IS sad.:eek: Dusty

HA!...it really is :(

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traildust

05-11-2010, 06:59 PM

Maybe I'm just too cynical at this point.

Slim, you aren't being cynical, just realistic.

traildust

05-11-2010, 07:00 PM

My computer don't talk back and my old lady ain't going anywhere.
After 22 yrs If she ain't left by now she ain't going to.

That's pretty good, I like that :D

aquaforce

05-11-2010, 07:47 PM

I have a really bad ass Beeman. It's got a big scop and velocity of a 22 cal to sling lead accuratly across my property. I have hit many an unfortenate squirral in the kill zone at a distance they were not visable without the scope. My aerosal will be about the same distance. Safe with a really good show :D

http://www.beeman.com/images/GH1000.jpg

Nice Beeman. I have one but it is the .177 cal. The fps is only 800 and muzzle force like 7.6 lbs but I have killed more than 35 squirels with it with no prob. I like the accuracy and stealth of air rifles. That Beeman 25 cal is something I would like to get some day. That is one bad boy. :D :D :D :D

Bulldog

05-11-2010, 08:05 PM

I would like to shoot one of these as long as I didn't have to pay for it. It showed that these were on sale for $2600.

traildust

05-11-2010, 11:44 PM

Nice Beeman. I have one but it is the .177 cal. The fps is only 800 and muzzle force like 7.6 lbs but I have killed more than 35 squirels with it with no prob. I like the accuracy and stealth of air rifles. That Beeman 25 cal is something I would like to get some day. That is one bad boy. :D :D :D :D

The squirels were the primary reason I got mine. They breed like crazy and are very distructive. Sounds bad but I can not kill them fast enough. I take one out and two more show up. I have ground squirels and they tunnel under everything, get in my chicken coop and hord the scratch faster than the chickens can eat it and they also climb in the engine compartments of my cars and trucks. They will chew the wires up and cause big time problems.

It's literally a war :mad:

traildust

05-11-2010, 11:46 PM

I would like to shoot one of these as long as I didn't have to pay for it. It showed that these were on sale for $2600.

$2600, that's all? LOL's

The guys with those are expert marksmen and can punch the center out of a postage stamp verrrry far away.

aquaforce

05-12-2010, 10:04 AM

The guys with those are expert marksmen and can punch the center out of a postage stamp verrrry far away.

I love the accuracy of these guns!
If a squirrel runs away from me and scoots up a tree then peeks his head out just enough to see where I am...................... I can punch his eyes out and drop him off the tree DEAD at 25 yards. :D :D :D

I had to get mine because the tree rats were eating the siding off my house. :mad: :mad: :mad:

The war was hell for several months but I won.................... I cut all my trees down. :D

traildust

05-12-2010, 11:25 AM

I love the accuracy of these guns!
If a squirrel runs away from me and scoots up a tree then peeks his head out just enough to see where I am...................... I can punch his eyes out and drop him off the tree DEAD at 25 yards.

I had to get mine because the tree rats were eating the siding off my house.

The war was hell for several months but I won.................... I cut all my trees down.

Holy crap - LOL's :D:D

Our squirrels will stand on there hind legs and make a real high pitched, almost metallic, cheep sound when they sense danger.
Funny thing is, when they make that noise they will completely expose them self like a perfect target standing up and screaming "hay dummy with the air rifle-kiss my ass!"........ya buddy :D

Here is one I popped several years ago. I don't spend much time with the skin, just lay in a bed with borax for a week or two. Just make sure the dogs can't get to it, they will take the skin.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x40/gone2camp/bbq/junk/squeril.jpg