Living and working remotely, often tools were used in fashions that they were not intended. I carried a prewar Colt Woodsman in my truck for 45 years at least. I used it so often to shoot holes in things my employes called it my drill press.
Used a Winchester Shotgun to cut down a tree branch
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This has probably been about 40 years ago. Me and my younger brother were coming back from hunting one day, and ran over a patch of soft sand. And there we sat with wheels spinning.
We went out with our shotguns and shot branches out of pine trees. Jacked up the back of the car and put the branches underneath the rear wheels. That gave us enough traction to start moving and we rolled right out of the sand.
We went out with our shotguns and shot branches out of pine trees. Jacked up the back of the car and put the branches underneath the rear wheels. That gave us enough traction to start moving and we rolled right out of the sand.
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A 22 RF! You get to shoot more!
I had a 460 Wby necked up to .510 using a 707 grain solid. On a friends heavily wooded property we would practice by cutting down trees.
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I used to just throw sticks up into the trees for pecans.
Then along came the BB gun.
Then along came the BB gun.
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Had a cousin who many years ago would give his fireplace chimney an annual sweep with a 12 gauge using orchid (blank) cartridges. (The orchid shot is often used here in orchards as a bird scarer). Anybody else do that?
I was target shooting with my father probably 40-45 years ago. We came across a smaller pine tree covered in small pine cones at the base of a hill, which afforded us a backdrop. We had my father's Model 18 (which is now mine), and he started shooting the pine cones off the tree. He would shoot six and then I would shoot six. After a couple rounds, he was shooting six pine cones and,when I shot, no pine cones were falling. He was laughing his a%* off at my poor shooting. He finally stopped laughing when the top of the tree fell over with a ton of pine cones on it.
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7 1/2 works well on soft woods. Not so much on hardwoods, even with IM choke. If you've got a backstop, rifled slugs do better.
9mm.
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In one of Dick Francis's murder mysteries - Proof - woman that runs a pub. She had just had the chimney swept a couple weeks earlier but it wasn't drawing right. So she stuck at 12 gauge up there and pulled the trigger. Not a blank - bird shot. Big wad of soot fell down into the fireplace. "I'm going to kill that sweep!!"
A friend has a terrible well. Very high in iron that plugs the perforations every couple years. I would run 20' of primer cord down the well on a rock and shock it back to life. Keeping an explosive license got too troublesome so I surrendered my license of 30 years. Now when the well needs impact to loosen things up we just shoot down the well with a 30/06 and he is back in business.
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30-06... I discovered this fact when a friend... that had a bunch of 30-06 that was just a little bit hot for his Garand... so he let me use his BAR to empty the brass.... I chose a tree as a target.. like many.. I always wanted to chop down a tree with a machine gun it did work well... one of many great days with my friend... I miss him..
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Many years ago when our son was young we would go out in woods and fields and get a Cedar tree for Christmas. Instead of an axe we would take a shotgun and he would shoot the tree tree down. More fun than chopping with an axe. #4 shot works better than #8.
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Years ago, in Shooting Times. I think it was Skeeter. Might have been Bill Jordan. Might have been Charlie Askins. But I think it was Skeeter.
Border patrolman. He and his partner kept their pistol shooting skills up by tacking a target to a tree and shooting at it at about 50 yards with 38 wadcutters.
Then one day as they're firing away, the tree fell over. They had cut the tree down with 38s.
Border patrolman. He and his partner kept their pistol shooting skills up by tacking a target to a tree and shooting at it at about 50 yards with 38 wadcutters.
Then one day as they're firing away, the tree fell over. They had cut the tree down with 38s.
In our neck of the woods, we routinely use birdshot to clear high limbs blocking shooting lanes around our deer hunting tree stands.
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What goes up must come down. Be thoughtful. Just had to say it.
