Coast valve or Engine hand throttle?
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OrangeBuggy
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At least your camera is making someone else happy... A friend of mine a couple of weeks ago shot at a doe, missed her clean, and instead nailed his camera that was fastened to a tree across the food plot.
Oh my gosh, that's one of those priceless moments.
Mark.Sibole
Well-known member
Sucks to be a camera that day.In 30 plus of hunting this was the first year I retieved a bullet from an animal.I can now see why she dropped so fast.I sure wouldnt want to get hit by one.
Once my wife shot a mule deer doe in Montana. The deer was above her, on top of a knoll, at about 70 yds. from her. She shot her with a .30-06 loaded with a 165-grain Sierra BTSP bullet at about 2900 fps. The bullet hit the heavy bone joint in the anterior part of the shoulder. The bullet literally exploded... and so did the animal's entire chest. We lost a lot of good meat. I shot a few deer with that bullet and quit using it. It's a really accurate bullet, but the jacket and the core almost always separate and they ruin a lot of meat. I use two guns for deer hunting now: a 50 Cal. Hawken with T/C Maxi-hunter bullets (300 or 350 grains, I don't remember which and am too lazy to go check) over 90 grains of Swiss 3F and a dry felt wad; and a Ruger 7700 .338 WM. Yes, I know it's too big a caliber for whitetails, but I lived 29 years on Kodiak Island and I had to hunt Sitka Blacktail deer in the middle of giant brown bear habitat. Yet, loaded with a 250-grain Nosler Partition bullet, a heavy bullet made for moose and huge bears, it ruins less meat than smaller, faster calibers. And the deer drop instantly.
The spike buck I shot a few weeks ago with the muzzleloader fell within 5 or 6 yards from the point of impact. The bullet went through both shoulders and exited but hardly any meat was ruined.
But I hope these off-topic and somewhat gory details do not bother some of the non-hunters who use this forum. We hunters, I must add for their benefit, always try to find the calibers and the bullets that kill as cleanly and humanely as possible. We love and respect game animals, even though we try (quite often unsuccessfully) to kill them, believe it or not. Certainly we love them and appreciate them more than those who buy meat at the supermarket love and appreciate the cows, pigs, chickens and lambs that were killed to supply them with food.
thunderdome
Member
Me too tailrotor!