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Jim B. · #46 02-18-2013, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Pooka

Some scope buying advice for older folks.....

Being older than almost anyone else on Earth is not always as much fun as it sounds. One thing that suffers is your vision and your ability to see colors.

I have lost the ability to see some wavelengths of red, which is no big deal except that many scopes today have that point of light thing in them and it is always red. I just have to take someones word for it that there is a red dot inside the scope because it is invisible to me.

I have heard of scopes with green dots, but I have never tried one.

The point of this is: If you are of advanced age you may want to consider not going with a scope that depends on anything red lighting up inside of it since it is just a matter of time before you will wonder what is wrong with the scope. The answer will be the scope is just fine, but your eyeballs are getting worn out.

I guess I am lucky to have learned to shoot without a scope and I have never found one that was of any advantage to me. I also can't get the hang of that shooting a pistol while holding it with both hands thing, so I guess it all depends on what you learned when you were first starting out.

One good thing to come of old age is your deteriorating vision does not make ugly women look so bad.

Air&Road · #47 02-18-2013, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

One good thing to come of old age is your deteriorating vision does not make ugly women look so bad.

Air&Road · #48 02-18-2013, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

Larry, I don't know. I'm not a shooter. I do know the alum organizer from Virginia, and I could contact him to perhaps allay my surface fears, however, being present at a skeet shoot or gun range, BOTH with live, active ammo being shot off, has inherent dangers - all unpredictable, unfortunately.

Here's a profile photo shot from the online alumni news - you would know more about what you see at work here, than me.

First of all, I'm curious about how someone goes to military school without being a shooter.

Secondly, I realize you did not take those pictures, so I'm being critical of someone elses photography rather than yours. They are fuzzy at best to start with and they would not enlarge enough for me to see hardly anything. From what I could tell, I could not see any safety hazards of any sort in the pictures.

On a skeet or trap range the rules and procedures are quite simple and quite safe. Basically no gun can be loaded until a person is at a station preparing to fire. Their shotgun is pointed down and downrange while loading. While NOT at the station in a firing position, the action must be open for everyone to see.

This is one of the many reasons that most sport shooters shoot a double. They can easily carry it with the action broken for all to see that it is empty and incapable of firing.

elchivito · #49 02-18-2013, 08:12 AM

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What's the issue with Coyotes?

-Peter.

None in particular, other than the fact that around here they periodically overpopulate and start causing problems. I leave them alone as long as they're not a threat. During spring lambing and kidding season there are sometimes more than the dogs can deal with. That's when I'll spend a week or two reducing their numbers. They become so bold that they are easy marks. I take no pride in it. It doesn't require much skill or cunning, and certainly no high tech gear. It just goes with the territory.

Air&Road · #50 02-18-2013, 08:35 AM

Yes, most of the time, they are there, but not a problem. It was 20 years ago or maybe more, when they got as out of hand as they are now.

Mike D · #51 02-18-2013, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

My coyote call is a rooster in a crate out in the middle of the pasture, me in the mesquites fifty or so yards away. Worked on a Bobcat recently too. No camo, no high tech. EZ PZ

Remarkably similar to my "sons" call. Whenever the wife and I need some extra help around the crib we place a chicken in the crock pot and apply heat. Danged near 100% effective!

Botnst · #52 02-18-2013, 10:30 AM

LOL!

elchivito · #53 02-18-2013, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike D

Remarkably similar to my "sons" call. Whenever the wife and I need some extra help around the crib we place a chicken in the crock pot and apply heat. Danged near 100% effective!

Difference is, I can use the same bird over again.

(although he's not too thrilled about it.)

Skid Row Joe · #54 02-18-2013, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

First of all, I'm curious about how someone goes to military school without being a shooter.

It's been a long time Larry, (late '60s) I handled and marched with an M1 weekly in Sunday parade, or Wednesday afternoon drill, picking one up from the armory, breaking it down to clean it and reassembling it in my room, but I have no recollection of spending any time at the indoor gun range. So, I can't answer your question, but there is an active indoors rifle gun range in existence there at this time, in fact a classmate of mine from my era donated almost $4K in the past few months to remodel the gun range at the school. I'm thinking it was totally optional to go shoot at the time I attended.

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Secondly, I realize you did not take those pictures, so I'm being critical of someone elses photography rather than yours. They are fuzzy at best to start with and they would not enlarge enough for me to see hardly anything. From what I could tell, I could not see any safety hazards of any sort in the pictures.

I've never been on a outdoors gun range, so I'm no help for you. But in one picture, there's at least two barrels in view - the person shooting I take it, and another barrel beyond, with the barrel at 45 degrees down. Spectators behind are rather close in each sidewalk behind each shooter, with plastic tubs in front of the shooter's positions, across the width of a 90 degree sidewalk.

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On a skeet or trap range the rules and procedures are quite simple and quite safe. Basically no gun can be loaded until a person is at a station preparing to fire. Their shotgun is pointed down and downrange while loading. While NOT at the station in a firing position, the action must be open for everyone to see.

This is one of the many reasons that most sport shooters shoot a double. They can easily carry it with the action broken for all to see that it is empty and incapable of firing.

That's nice information to know.

Gun Range pics from W.M.A:

Botnst · #55 02-18-2013, 03:50 PM

I wouldn't want to fire an M1 indoors.

It's hard to tell 3d in a 2d photo. That's why TV and movies are easier to make believable in 2d than 3d. In a 2d movie John Wayne swings a fist and strikes the guy with the black hat. In 3d John Wayne's fist misses by a wide margin.

Benz Dr. · #56 02-19-2013, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

Your personal views/ideas of we Americans as joining others and passively "not afraid of their own government," fortunately don't work here, in the *Sates.

We wouldn't be states, or *Sates as you call them, were we not armed to fight the oppression of the British.

Just for the record; they, the (British soldiers) fired upon us first. Fortunately, we fought them off and formed our own Country.

I'm glad we in the states, were armed.

You don't know Canadian history. We had our own little revolt back in the 1830's. Local armed men and some British soldiers put it down. Most of the supporters fled to the US where they picked up some followers and then they came back and tried it again. That attempt failed as well but it did bring about more self government in Ontario and Quebec.

If America wasn't born out of revolution, war, and conquest, it wouldn't be so paranoid, war mongering, or as backwards as it is today. If anything, your country would be a lot further ahead right now if your constitution was written during peace time. It brings nothing more to the table than a bunch of worn out ideas that cause nothing but friction between those who worship every word and those who see it for what it is but know that your nation needs to move on.

Besides, for all those who think they need to arm thmselves against their own government, how do you plan on sorting out those couple thousand nuclear war heads? Or, all of those fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers; high tech hardware that couldn't have been imagined in 1776.

And just to correct the record, no one knows who fired first.

Botnst · #57 02-19-2013, 12:41 PM

Yeah, it's America's fault for being so damned American.

spdrun · #58 02-19-2013, 12:47 PM

Constitution should be re-written. Bill of Rights should be kept. And expanded to encompass an explicitly-defined right to privacy.

Botnst · #59 02-19-2013, 01:04 PM

Dissolve the union and lets the pieces write their own constitutions. I have a feeling the right and left coasts would have a different document from the lower-middle and gulf coastal states.

cmbdiesel · #60 02-19-2013, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Dissolve the union and lets the pieces write their own constitutions. I have a feeling the right and left coasts would have a different document from the lower-middle and gulf coastal states.

Ain't that the truth....