If that ain't country..,

[GSF]

Today I was bush hogging my field. I saw a big ol field rat run and stop. I retrieve my 9mm Springfield XDS from it's holster and popped his but on the first shot then continued on bush hogging. I got to thinking, man - this is the good life, shooting rats from a tractor. Like the old song use to say; "If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ---."

[BeeMaster2]

Nice shooting.
Jim

[jalentour]

I'm bush hogging today. Hope I get as lucky!

[bwallace23350]

YOu know what they say a country boy can survive

[divemaster1963]

I been practicing shooting left handed. getting better. when everything goes south. country will keep going and cities will die.

john

[gww]

You guys are bad to the bone.  I used to rabbit hunt with my little ruger mark 1 pistol.  If I had to relie on it for food, I would starve to death.
gww

[Dallasbeek]

You guys are bad to the bone.  I used to rabbit hunt with my little ruger mark 1 pistol.  If I had to relie on it for food, I would starve to death.
gww

If you had to rely on it for food, you'd improve.

[BeeMaster2]

You guys are bad to the bone.  I used to rabbit hunt with my little ruger mark 1 pistol.  If I had to relie on it for food, I would starve to death.
gww

GWW,
if you take that Mark 1, add a Red Dot scope to it and get some buddies together and go shooting once a week, every week, you will be able to hit a silver dollar at 25yards consistently.
I have the Hunter and it is basically the same gun. They are very accurate.

[gww]

Good points.  It is acually the pre-mark 1 called the red eagle or something.  Made while ruger was still alive.  Fixed sites and shoots just a tiny bit to the left.  I don't do any better with the redhawk 44 mag which I have a reloader.  I use to shoot a lot but always open sites.  My brother in law has the red dot and it is better but I guess I don't care.  I have gotten cheeper and just can't make myself shoot as many expencive bullets as I did when I was younger.
Cheers
gww

[divemaster1963]

I miss my mark I . I had both the I and II. love them. wish I could find them at a decent price. I pick one up in a heart beat.



john

[GSF]

I love the challenge of iron sites.

When I was sitting up there on that tractor taking aim I was thinking; "There ain't no way I'm not gonna tell everybody if I hit that rat!"


[Living life one acre at a time]

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[divemaster1963]

I love the challenge of iron sites.

When I was sitting up there on that tractor taking aim I was thinking; "There ain't no way I'm not gonna tell everybody if I hit that rat!"


[Living life one acre at a time]

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Oh. so it was a lucky shot hum. ha ha. but still good practice. hickock45 on youtube. has video call drive by shooting on a tractor. pretty funny.

john

[GSF]

Love Hickock's videos I'll have to check that one out for sure. I try to send a couple hundred rounds down range every month with my pistol. Don't mean I'm good just means I shoot a lot.

It's been so stinking hot lately the misery index is too high to enjoy anything.

[Michael Bush]

I've shot up four or five hundred rounds in an afternoon of prairie dog hunting... and I don't shoot much... a friend used to be a competition pistol shooter in the Navy and he shot 1,000 rounds a day from his 1911 for decades...

[GSF]

After shooting a while my eyes gets tired and my accuracy begins to fail. I like ending on a good note.

I have some RR crossties in the back pasture with barbwire strung across the top. I hang pots, boilers, and frying pans from it. It's a ton of fun hitting them with a .22 rifle. You don't have to check to see if you've hit it because it'll cling and ping.

[Dallasbeek]

I used to shoot black powder rifles some.  They use suspended iron plates like that for targets.  One old boy was called "Big Bore" because he shot a .70 caluber rifle.  They always made him shoot last because when that big lead bullet hit the gong, it would take the gong, chain and all down range and everything had to stop while they hung it back up.  Sometimes, Slim Pickens was one of the shooters. 

[GSF]

Well I'm sitting on the back porch about 4:15am drinking my coffee and just listening to the sounds I hear. I hear this one chicken sound like it fell off of it's roost. I'm thinking, stupid bird. Then a few minutes later I heard some more wings flapping like one of them is repositioning themselves on the roost. I'm like hummm. Now my ears are standing straight up. A few more minutes later I heard one fly out the door. I'm like ut-oh this ain't right. So I grab my judge along with a high beam flashlight and walk down there. The chicken house and yard is enclosed top and bottom in an outdoor wire cage yard. I shined the flashlight in there and saw a small 'possum going back and forth. Needless to say, I love my judge.

[jalentour]

The only things I see from my tractor when I'm bush hogging is mice.  I'm too old to hit them with anything but a stick.

[BeeMaster2]

I have yet to see any wild  animals while running my tractors but my uncle used to say he would see hunters in the fields and the deer and pheasants would be walking just ahead of the combine the whole way until he was just about finished the field and then they would run for the woods.
Jim

[Joe D]

Jim, you can start the bush hogging around the outside of the field and work toward the middle.  As the amount of grass and weeds get smaller, they will start to run across the already cut part.  Back 20 years or so ago I carried a 12 gauge pump to shoot rats and snakes.  Half grown rabbits or smaller, I would stop the tractor, get off, and catch them.  Take em to the house for the kids to raise.  Lots didn't believe I could catch the rabbits, but you can stay between them in the cut part, work closer to them throw your hat over in front of them and they would run right to you.
The fellow that rents my fields now for hay has got up turkey and saw where deer have been laying in the back field.
Now I shoot snakes and things with my 9mm, maybe cheating a little, I have a green dot laser and the dot is pretty accurate.

Joe D