One of our hunting club members pulled off a great shot on running game recently.
After noticing some creature was attempting to make a nest in the seat cushion of his box stand chair, he armed himself with a Ruger Blackhawk .357 Mag loaded with CCI shotshells and made a late evening stalk.
As he slowly opened the door of his stand the beast charged with the obvious intent of inflicting severe bodily harm (or possibly fleeing the scene through the open door).
Managing to keep a cool head in the face of danger, he dispatched the charging critter with a single shot.
As you know, pictures are always required after a kill, so here's the trophy shot.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
Good thing he had a .357 magnum. You should never go under gunned. That thing could have torn him in two. Congratulations on a great shot.
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If that critter is what we had in camp one year, it is very very good it is now a trophy. We suffered a lot of damage to sleeping bag, and some wiring under the truck hood, along with it's food supply being stashed in all kind of nooks and crannies. It managed to get into places in the trailer i couldn't access; it had food stashed under the truck hood. It tried to build nest out of carpet. Our boy thinks it came with me when i left for home, and fell out on the highway. We haven't had any problems for years now.
Wouldn't bother me to eat a woods rat like that Timbercruiser. They're nothing more than skintail squirrels. But I wouldn't eat one of those trash dump rats for anything.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
Only a .357 Mag??? Any true hunter would never go out in the woods braving a noble creature like that with less than a .44 magnum. We owe it to the animals we hunt to use enough gun, not a little poodle-shooter .357. Jeeze, what kind of people do you hunt with????
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-Theodore Roosevelt
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But I wouldn't eat one of those trash dump rats for anything.
