[Jabberwalker]

... and the RPG is so OTT ...

[ShepherdsDog]

I remember going gopher hunting with my Capt. from cadets. He was an avid collector and local QC. His cousin ran riding stables in the Duck Mountains and had a PMU contract. We got to use his BAR to make pink mist out of the little vermin that infested the pastures. Most of the time it was just me and a couple friends with .22s shooting gophers

[Jabberwalker]

We do that to ground hogs in this part of the continent ... big, fat (but wily) gophers, really.

[Hyack]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

.308 is my usual because anymore the .50 draws too much attention.

You think the .50 cal draws too much attention....




This must be the attention whore from Hell!!....

[BartSimpson]

I'm sure it is!

The thing with the .50 is they're illegal in California now and even though mine is grandfathered it's no fun to contemplate some dipshit with a badge confiscating it 'until we figure this out' because once it's gone I know I'll never get it back.

[Hyack]

Is it only .50 cal that are illegal, how about something a bit bigger like .55 cal?

Something like the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle??

[BartSimpson]

Yep, the turds banned every rifle over .50 caliber.

Fortunately for me my Solothurn 20mm recoilless also came with a smoothbore for grape. <--- No kidding, swapping barrels was all it took to make it legal. I just leave the rifled barrel off unless I go to the range in Nevada.

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

andyt andyt:

What a good idea. Think I'll go to the SPCA and get myself a bunch of unwanted cats. Lots of vacant houses in Vancouver owned by foreign investors, might as well put them to use. 50 bucks buys you one pass thru the house - kill the most cats, win a prize.

Except, cats aren't chasing people in urban neighborhoods.

$1:

Coyote attack in Edmonton prompts police rescue
Police used a helicopter to help rescue a woman and her three dogs Thursday night in Edmonton after a pack of seven to nine coyotes attacked one of the dogs while on a walk in the southwest area of the city.

The woman called 911 at 8:20 p.m. after falling down a six-metre embankment in the Riverbend/Terwillegar area while trying to save her dog.

Police used Air 1 to light the area, while tactical officers rappelled down the embankment to rescue the woman, who was unhurt.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ ... -1.2572437

And this shoot fest will prevent that? Doubt it.

We have coyotes all over Vancouver. So far I don't recall any attacking people. If they do, shoot the ones actually doing the attacking. Even in your case, the woman wasn't attacked, her dog was.

[andyt]

fifeboy fifeboy:

Coyotes are smarter than people! I have a friend who is ( or was--he is in his 80's now) a cowboywho worked one of the larger community pastures in western Saskatchewan. They said they had yotes eating up their calves, (he was not impressed when I suggested they were probably feeding on already dead carcasses.). They got the Gov. to build "sniper towers" all over the pasture. They were stunned that only a few yotes were taken. They just avoided the towers when someone was in them. The are smarter then we are. When global warming sends us back to the Permian, yotes will be working the shore of the swamp and if global cooling sends us into the Pleistocene, they will be chewing on lemmings in central Alabama.

Off the topic, but crows are smart too. They know what a rifle looks like, won't leave their perches when a farmer just comes out with a broom pretending it's a gun. But let him have a real gun, away they go.

[Jabberwalker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Yep, the turds banned every rifle over .50 caliber.

Fortunately for me my Solothurn 20mm recoilless also came with a smoothbore for grape. <--- No kidding, swapping barrels was all it took to make it legal. I just leave the rifled barrel off unless I go to the range in Nevada.

Oh, good. You'll still stay safe when that Cuban/Nicaraguan army invades and occupies your country.

[Jabberwalker]

Whenever I went outside into my Grandfather's cherry orchard with a 410 bird gun, the Starlings dining on the cherries would ALL hide themselves deep in the fruit-laden trees, apparently aware that I wouldn't shoot into the fruit.

Cripes, those are smart birds! ... like crows and ravens (even smarter, those Northern and Western ravens.) They are certainly smarter than dogs.

[andyt]

crows can pass on information from generation to generation. Experimenter with a mask scared some crows. Then went back when the next generation crows were there, and they all reacted with alarm when he wore the mask, not when he didn't. Ie daddy crow communicated to kids to look out for guy with mask.

[2Cdo]

Crows in Petawawa know to follow the troops around and open pouches on the rucksacks to get food. Never ceased to amaze me the number of troops who would store food in those pouches even after being told not to.

As far as coyotes go, shot one a couple of years in behind our house and left his carcass in the trees for his buddies to ponder. Shortly after that our dog caught one and killed it right beside the house.

Haven't seen a coyote on the property since then.

[Hyack]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Fortunately for me my Solothurn 20mm recoilless also came with a smoothbore for grape. <--- No kidding, swapping barrels was all it took to make it legal. I just leave the rifled barrel off unless I go to the range in Nevada.

A 20mm smoothbore.....the ultimate punt gun.....

lets go duck hunting someday

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Yep, the turds banned every rifle over .50 caliber.

Fortunately for me my Solothurn 20mm recoilless also came with a smoothbore for grape. <--- No kidding, swapping barrels was all it took to make it legal. I just leave the rifled barrel off unless I go to the range in Nevada.

Them 20mm are the cat's ass. There was a reason why pretty much everyone by the middle of WW2 had installed them in their fighter aircraft, and then moved even further on when they started putting 38mm in the early jet fighters like the MIG-15 and F-86 Sabres. The Germans actually took it even further when they experimented with putting a modified 75mm in the belly of a JU-88 bomber to use as a tank-buster on the Eastern Front. I read somewhere that they had some success with it but the inability for a reliable rapid-fire from a calibre that large meant that they had to stay reliant on the already-proven 20mm's that they'd slung under the wings of the JU-87 Stukas and Bf109 mainstays. Would have been totally wicked though to see a JU-88 appear over a Soviet tank column and start popping the motherfuckers open with no more difficulty than shooting a .22 through a sheet of newspaper.