We recently had high winds here in Northeast Iowa. Lots of trees blown down. On out acreage we had two tree branches blown down, one right over our burn pile. The branches turned brown and Missus Fan wanted me to burn the pile. I told her it would light the tree on fire. Looked up and there was one small branch holding it up. Had a great idea. Opened up my Zanotti safe and got my 12 Gauge M12 Winchester Shotgun. Walked out and she said "what are you doing". I said "I'm gonna shoot the branch down". She looked skeptical. Went under it. Put the bead on the branch and pulled the trigger. It came crashing down. I looked at her and said "Darlin', always trust a man with a Winchester Shotgun".
Used a Winchester Shotgun to cut down a tree branch
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I shot down a small tree at our range with my .458 socom lol! It was in the way needed to go and i always wanted to shoot a tree down.
When branches grew in front of our satellite dish I trimmed with my 8ga. A nice little target load 1 3/4 oz of #7.5 made for quick pruning!
Had a pal who used to get mistletoe for our high school Christmas dance with a rifle.
Have a vague memory of my younger brother retrieving something — boomerang, maybe?— from a tree with a Remington 870. (Hmm. Hope it wasn't the cat...)
Have a vague memory of my younger brother retrieving something — boomerang, maybe?— from a tree with a Remington 870. (Hmm. Hope it wasn't the cat...)
I have a Winchester 1300 Defender and I am thinking about using it with bird shot to remove what looks like bag worms very high in a tree.
I like 7.62 x 54R for oaks.
I once used a 30/30 to remove a high limb that was blocking my vision down a long shooting lane from my deer stand.
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Cut down a couple saplings with handguns years ago......... They had popped up on the backstop of our little shooting range. They survived for a while but eventually got one with a 38 and the other fell victim to a 45 when I had targets set up in front of them. From there they went to the burn pit.
Tree oh eight
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I have had good success with the .22 Hornet on small trees.
Jerry in SC
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Used to knock mistletoe out of trees at Christmas with a .22 rifle.
10mm……. Always 10mm
30/30 = 20/20
I was pretty successful mowing down nippa palm with a mini-gun. 66 rounds per second (4000 RPM). I would not try that in my yard. I would have fun but the neighbors might complain.
I have retrieved R/C aircraft from a 70' pine tree with a .22 rifle. Just clip the limb it's caught on, and it all comes down.
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Not trying to shoot tree down it was behind target. Turn of the century Austrian 37 mm gun shooting aluminum round at about 400 yards. He has about 15 older breech loaders. They all function, and he just got an auto 40 mm grenade launcher. Waiting for when he shoots it as he is reloading rounds for it. Class 6 license of course.
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Deadeye Dick
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What's the season for trees, and is a permit required? Inquiring minds want to know.
Dick ya got one of those, just go for it, no one will ask to see any Paper Work you may Have !!!
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.
Alpo
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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.
YeshuaIsa53
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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.
