ChattCat
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I may have seen part of that. I tuned in late. It kept shifting from some guys ice-fishing to some hunting caribou near the Great Slave Lake.
They confused me by saying something about Yellowknife, so I thought they were in the NWT. Maybe the Yukon. Guess it's a different Yellowknife. My Canadian geography is a bit shaky, eh?
What I liked is that the meat hunter used a No. 4 Lee-Enfield .303 in normal military form. They didn't mention his ammo, but one shot drilled through one caribou and dropped a second. The range seemed to be about 150-200 yards, as close as the man could approach on a snowmobile. He did raise the micrometer rear sight. The animals dropped on the spot.
This was impressive because TV almost never shows an animal dropping to a shot. Probably afraid of Pam Anderson and PETA going after them... You only very occasionally see firearms, even where they darned sure need to be present.
Anyway, I have one of those rifles in my closet. I'll take it out and admire it tonight; check to be sure that it doesn't need any oil. Mine's a No. 4 MK II made in 1952 at Fazakerly arsenal. I wonder if it spent time in Korea or chasing Mau-Mau terrorists in Kenya. Someone took care of it.
I wonder if this guy was shooting MK VII ball ammo. He may have an old military rifle and ammo for it from the govt., as a Canadian Ranger or some such title. But he is Anglo, not Innuit. Does Canada usually require softnose ammo for hunting? I don't know which province this is in.
They confused me by saying something about Yellowknife, so I thought they were in the NWT. Maybe the Yukon. Guess it's a different Yellowknife. My Canadian geography is a bit shaky, eh?
What I liked is that the meat hunter used a No. 4 Lee-Enfield .303 in normal military form. They didn't mention his ammo, but one shot drilled through one caribou and dropped a second. The range seemed to be about 150-200 yards, as close as the man could approach on a snowmobile. He did raise the micrometer rear sight. The animals dropped on the spot.
This was impressive because TV almost never shows an animal dropping to a shot. Probably afraid of Pam Anderson and PETA going after them... You only very occasionally see firearms, even where they darned sure need to be present.
Anyway, I have one of those rifles in my closet. I'll take it out and admire it tonight; check to be sure that it doesn't need any oil. Mine's a No. 4 MK II made in 1952 at Fazakerly arsenal. I wonder if it spent time in Korea or chasing Mau-Mau terrorists in Kenya. Someone took care of it.
I wonder if this guy was shooting MK VII ball ammo. He may have an old military rifle and ammo for it from the govt., as a Canadian Ranger or some such title. But he is Anglo, not Innuit. Does Canada usually require softnose ammo for hunting? I don't know which province this is in.
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