Randall53

I do have a 22 magnum single shot but I havn'et shot it in some time. I've taken the scope off of it, but hey, it's an excellent excuse to go to the range...right?

I was not in the Military, but have heard many stories of friends and family. I saw this earlier and had to share. How to simulate life on board a US Navy Ship... 1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months. 2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls. 3. Repaint your entire house every month. 4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down. 5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high. 6. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints. 7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them. 8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back door so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them. 9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week. 10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed. 11. Raise your bed to within 6" of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in. 12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack." 13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. 14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up." 15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you. 16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500. 17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. 18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you. 19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one. 20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations. (Now general quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations.) 21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator. 22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs. 23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off. 24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (midrats) 25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose. 26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond. 27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox. 28. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time. 29. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket. 30. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long. 31. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking. 32. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears. 33. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front. 34. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty. At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.

Yes very true Hozzie. It's not like I'm gonna be shooting up the woods...LOL. Coyotes are not easy to call in after you shoot one or two. But maybe it will make them move to another area.

I'll go with the 44 marlin. She has a new pet now, a 1 year old australian shepherd and she can't keep her in all the time. I did tell her there's no way I can kill all of the yotes and will be lucky to get 2 or 3 of them. but if I hunt there every couple of weeks or so, maybe they'll get the idea they are being watched.

She's getting worried because she's already lost one pet dog to them. They lured her 12 year old dog off of her porch and attacked it. She had to have her pet put down. She was distraught for several months. She is a true dog lover, but hates coyotes.

I've thought about that too. I don't want any animal to suffer. There are houses close by, but there is an area behind their property where people hunt deer so I suppose noise is not an issue. My other options are 30-06 or 44 magnum. Both rifles with scopes.

I'm thinking head shots within 50 yards. My CZ will put one inside a dime size circle at 50 yards consistently. I have lots of HV hollow points.

5....yes 5 boxes of CCI Standard Velocity ammo for $3.29 each at Academy Sports in Hixson. They had plenty. I'm hoping for cheaper prices soon, but who knows, that may be the new cheap price.

That's what I get for posting before finishing my first pot of coffee....Ignore me and carry on!!! PS....the date is even in the link!! Duh-huh!

Does anyone use a 22LR hollowpoint for coyotes? My sister has a place that is infested and asked if I could try to kill a few. Any shots would be within 50 yards. I was thinking about using my CZ 455 setup.

If they could make one that would double as a crack or meth pipe most all of them would own one.....

Another Nashville-ite........... Just kidding...welcome aboard to the one and only TGO.

You're correct Raoul. They never acknowledge or apparently even see the words "law abiding" in front of "gun owner".

I would love to have one of these if the suppressor laws are relaxed!! They are $10 less than Buds and offers free shipping to boot. CZ 455 VARMINT TACTICOOL SUPPRESSOR-READY

This is nothing but another law for criminals to ignore. I'm amazed that the Anti's really think that criminals purchase firearms legally anyway. I mean GEEESSHH!!! http://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2015/02/18/texas-judge-strikes-a-mighty-blow-for-the-second-amendment-n1958657

I wish I'd bought a Savage instead of the Remington 783. It shoots good, but it's about 8 lbs loaded. I see the Savage comes in around 6.5 or so. That's quite a difference to a 64 year old worn out man like me.

BEWARE....TVA is playing with the lake levels it seems and has been causing some problems with the bigger bass boats unloading and loading. It was over 7 ft below normal summer pool for the past couple of days making things more difficult than normal. The normal winter level was usually around 6 ft below summer level. I don't know what's going on, but be careful out there. There has been lower unit and prop damage recently from what I've been hearing. Here's a good place to check the lake level before you come: http://www.chickamaugalake.info/Level.asp

I know what you mean, but I'd mot be watching it.....

Thank you Hozzie. I'd like to do that. Do you use the Eley Match?

I finally got my "We miss you" email today. Wheeewww!!! I was feeling slighted!!

Thank you for the invitation but I've seen what ya'll can do. I just don't have anything anything close right now. If I can find the right ammo, one that my rifle really likes, and trigger set-up I may give it a try. I need to shrink my groups by about half to even enjoy losing to ya'll....hahaha Where are your matches located?

I've seen these BR-50 matches at CRC. It's amazing how those guys shoot at 50 yards. Some have quite the setup!

I gave this a try today but was not successful in hitting 8 straight bullseyes. I got 6 one time then a flyer and got 5 several times then a flyer. I was shooting at 100 yards with my CZ 455 Varmint Evolution. I bought this gun from a person on here about 3 years ago, but I can't remember who it was. I have a Mueller 4 - 16 x 50 scope on it. I was using CCI SV 40 grain ammo and a Lead Sled. It was a bit breezy in the calm to 4 MPH range and changed direction about every 30 seconds it seemed! I tried to pick times when it was calmish, but that's the best I could do. I'd forgotten it was 8 out of 10 thinking it had to be 8 out of 8, I just read the rules again, or I would have kept shooting after the one flyer. I guess I'll try again on a calmer day. I also have to work on the trigger on this rifle. It's stock and probably around 3 to 3.5 lbs. I want it down to about 1.5 or so since this is my bench rest only rifle. I guess I'll do that during the next 5 rainy days and give it another try next week after the trigger adjustment. I did manage a few 3 shot groups inside a dime size circle in a target I made a while back, but that was at 50 yards and during calm spells.

YEP....they do a LOT of cuss'n!!!! I do really love to watch them though. I'm a lot like Dave. I've eaten a lot of squirrel in my days....but at my age I don't know if I could shoot me a mess o' squirrel or not. They are delicious though if cooked right.

Yep.....I was just making an observation anyway and didn't mean that you did anything wrong at all. I've seen a lot of that on youtube and all over the Internet....some even worse. I have no respect for PETA at all.