Chairmen of the Politically Incorrect

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:34 am

Yup. I wouldn't be surprised if we instigated the whole thing. With the democrats in we are broke again, and the economy is in the toilet.
Time for a war!

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:25 am

Hey I won one!

Snowing hard at camp this morning. Won't amount to much, but has in Rangeley and Jackman I think. Unlike most, I detest snow during hunting season. Hate it.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:53 am

Depends on the snow….I love the soft snow that hangs on everything……it’s the crunchy snow that sucks……..when I was hunting, I preferred snow to seeing a buck because you always can’t get snow but I was able to get a buck, even on the last day of the season…..I just liked walking around the woods.

Well, here, it’s in the mid seventies….76………sunshine……..no wind……..just breaking wind,,,,,,

Those Jews really know how to do it…….

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:10 pm

That's the problem. The "soft " snow becomes the frozen crunchy, icy mess the next day. And then stays that way. It ruins all your advantages of snow for the sake of one day or less of "good snow". Not worth it (to me).
I find the "tracking" advantages to be of little value, at least how I hunt. This puts me in a bigger minority these days. Everyone now is a "tracker". It's the age of the celebrity hunters. They all have books out on how tough they hunt and track 260 pound bucks for miles up the side of some mountain north of Jackman. Yada, Yada, Yada. They all dress alike, use the same gun, and tell the same story.
My question is always the same....
So when you track this buck for 12 miles, crossing a river 4 times in a driving snowstorm, to finally shoot this monster with a half hour of light left, how did you get it out? There's always a lot of publicity pictures at the scene. I call BS.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:26 pm

52f with more heavy rain and strong winds forecast for later.

While the sun shone I zeroed my air rifle first bit of shooting I've done since I moved to this miserable place

I always looked forward to the first snow just so I could look for tracks of whatever posed a threat to my birds, be they stoats, foxes or badgers, I often found critters I had unsuccessfully looked for had walked right past my door

Never had to track a deer as the last two places I lived they were everywhere.

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:10 pm

The Gun Shop. Put a 32 SW H&R on lay away.

Little homeless handiwork.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:33 pm

Hey Jay…you’re getting like me with wild exaggerations…..”tracking 12 miles across 4 rivers”…

…..those shows are all the same and is no different than watching porn……you see one, you’ve seen em all…….rich guys in $7,000 hunting suits with $14,000 rifles with Nightforce scopes, sighted in and paid for by someone else all shooting in a heated penthouse 40’ up a manmade tower……when I hunted, it was on the ground with a antique rifle and open sights…..and a $29 hunting suit……AND I CARRIED THE ANIMAL OUT…….

My buddy Tom who went on an elk hunt went to the destination in a four wheeler, borrowed the host’s 7 mag rifle, shot the elk that was driven to him by other people, dressed out by other people and taken back to the lodge by machinery on four wheels…..the meat was given away and someone else mounted the head and shipped it back……because we are buddies, I laughed and told him, “that’s hunting?”

Now, on the other hand GK popping squirrels with an air gun takes some diligence and a precise hold……..

Fred buying utilitarian ?…………..shoot 32 shorts with 1.5 of bullseye and a cast 71 grain bullet.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:06 pm

Sadly, I'm not exaggerating. This what they write. These guys aren't on TV, but are none the less, "celebrities". Google Hal Blood from Jackman. I think it was last year or the year before he talked about stripping and crossing a stream over 10 times on one of his "tracking hunts".
And yes, you are correct. I see more every year of the "tower hunters". There's a power line in south Solon that is the snowmobile trail. When you ride down it there is a "house on stilts" every few hundred yards. It's ridiculous. Now, I use treestands, don't get me wrong, but it ain't like that. They did away with the minimum age for hunting here a few years ago. There is a FB page called Maine Deer Hunters where you see all this stuff. When you have 5yo kids shooting deer, there's more to it, I don't care what anyone says. It's all shoot houses and food plots.

And I know I'm a wussy, but I'd just love to see someone get a 200+ lb field dressed deer out alone. While still having to tote a rifle and pack. Not in some rolling hardwood stretch where you can see for 500 yards, but here. Where you can't see 10 feet. Where there's stretches of blowdowns where you can't even walk on the ground, but have to step from blown down tree to blown down tree. Bogs, alder runs, etc......
Take a better man than me.

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:14 pm

I have some of those 71 grs

Looks like this.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:01 pm

I hear you Jay, I too don't see the point in hunting with all the advantages that technology and wealth can bring plus boasting about it does not put hunting in a good light for a lot of folks these days.

OS what are the plans for the H&R it's not like you to start collecting blue collar guns ..... maybe an inexpensive vandal deterant perhaps

Thanks for the compliment Six but I doubt in this god forsaken place I'll be shooting any Squirrels but if I do I will be carrying them out myself.... that's why I'm a Squirrel hunter too lazy to haul deer

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Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:11 pm

First, I feel as though 12 is the youngest a person should be to hunt, actually 14 would be better if that kid was not raised in a hunting household. Just the other day 2 people were killed in Mn by armed youngsters.

I was told by an insurance broker that the insurance industry is behind all of these rule changes…….and if a few people die, so be it as their bottom line is more important.

Fred….I had one of those guns in the same caliber..shot great but the Winchesters and Colts kicked it out of the safe in about a month. I paid $85 for it around ‘95.

There’s too much money and leisure time in this country as many hunters around here donate their meat…..for me, it was savings on meat. We are in the death throes of a society. Even in Russia a mob of people ran out to where planes land looking for Jews to beat up

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:19 pm

Is this what the universities are promoting?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/shani-lou ... als-herzog

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:09 pm

Males early 60s onward try to decide as if they know. They should be watching, observing.

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:14 pm

gk, I buy basic stuff. You are in the company of connoisseurs who pretend to be backwoods rubes. They know and have high end Winnie’s and Colts.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:03 pm

Old Savage wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:14 pm gk, I buy basic stuff if it appears. You are in the company of connoisseurs who pretend to be backwoods rubes. They know and have high end Winnie’s and Colts.

Hey now! I ain't no coni........con......whatever you said. I just happened into my old junk. Nothing really special. It all came out of the one room shop with no plumbing I've posted pictures of here.
I'm not ruble, but I am backwoods.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:53 pm

Those Jews sure know how to do it….militarily and monetary……every third commercial is for Israeli donations…….

….while Gaza is fast becoming a parking lot.

I don’t know what I am…part backwoods, part drunk, part pretend W & C man, gas man, all truth teller…..

You guys see that “generator post”……MM never said a word to me in 16 years and as soon as he sees me make a mistake…(if it’s a mistake) he quotes me, then Scrappy from Montana jumps in, RUNS outside to take a picture of his generator then makes an attempt to pound me further but neither one made me any smaller, just more exposable to their ignorance. That Scrappy in his post a few months ago looks like he’s 80-85 years old….sunken cheeks…looks bad…..must be the 10 month winters……..

Post by **Old Savage** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:25 am

Well OW there

no coni con ruble but he is backwoods … he has caught the humor vibe from the gas man.

So gk, back to the story … growing up my dad had a lawn mower shop. In the desk was a 32 S&W top break revolver. H&R, S&W, I don’t know. Shot it down in the vineyard one day. Been looking for one since. This is the closest I have come.

Post by **Old Savage** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:44 am

Headed over to the home generator page there, quite the comedy. Have to think that all over with a beer at the golf course.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:37 am

OS, after the photos of the break-in I was wondering if you had something a little more valuable than a Zippo in your desk, I'd hate to lose anything to a thief but losing a high dollar S&W would hurt more than a H&R just kept for old times sake. Of course I probably watch too many movies where every dest draw contains a handgun...

The home generator post shows why it ain't always a good idea to ask for advice........

As for the backwoodsman's guns I always assumed that as they are important tools for the use of only the best would do...any old junk would do for wannabes.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:25 pm

Well OW is all by his lonesome today. Dad is getting over sinus trouble and wanted to give it a day. It was COLD this morning too. Dad rode up with me cause he'd left his truck here and was going to bring it home. He figured he would start his 4 wheeler and let it run awhile. It just didn't want to go, but after messing with it he coaxed it to life.
My little bike fired right up and i rode down the hill to cut 3/4 of a mile off my hike in. Made it into my ladder stand and sat a few hours. Never cut a track. Perfect.
Came back to camp to warm up.
Dad had a piece of carpet cut to go in the floor in his enclosed double stand so I figured I'd haul that down and put it on. Thought I'd sit here a spell. Wow! This is fancy! He should be warm in here. Its just a fabric cover with zippered windows, but still....it helps a lot.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:47 pm

Yea…I’d use a 2 stoke motorcycle too….lot quieter than crunchy snow…….zimmmmmmmmmm…..zimmmmmmmmm…….make sure you stay in first gear at high r’s………..back in the day in our little hideaway deer hunting spot there were some hillbilly locals who would come racing through on their dirt bikes…..it wasn’t my property so I couldn’t say nothing………then I thought about digging a few ditches but I knew it would come back on me and I didn’t want to hurt no one…..so I just settled on tying thin wire between trees at neck high…….by the end of deer season I had a whole row of heads on spikes…..even left their helmets on……

….and like dead deer, their tongues would hang out.

Cold here….high of 53 forecast……leaves are turning and in a week we will be in full color……then the dreaded winter comes…….we usually have nice weather until the beginning of December……..I’d have to say October and November are my favorite months with April and May a second runner up………no a.c. and only a little heat….

Jealousy is a strange emotion……..I’m not jealous of anyone, in fact I commend the rich man and I’m only a peon………..Bibi (Netanyahu) said it right yesterday, “ And their goal is clear — shatter that promising future, destroy all that we cherish and usher in a world of fear and darkness,"………………….he was talking about the Muslims……

It’s amazing that this world is only a heartbeat away from total savagery……Nazi’s, Unit 731, Nanking, Mexican cartels, Muslims, inner cities of the U.S., uncle Joe Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, all psychopaths, gun forums, …..

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:52 am

Until I got my hands on a Landrover all my hunting was dependent on my motorcycle usually a two stroke, oh how I miss those days, even the frozen fingers...

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Nov 01, 2023 4:32 pm

You and me both GK…you’re not alone……after 60, life is all “been there and done that”. …..if you lived right….. Just a couple of hours ago I was in Costco and this guy comes up to me and says, “hey Sixgun!”…….I looked at him perplexed and he said, “you don’t know who I am do you”?….Me, “nope, no clue.” Him, John, your old insurance agent.” And that’s when I recognized him and came out with the excuse, “oh S John, I always saw you in a suit and tie, not dressed like a redneck like me with a “Do Not Tread On Me” hat.” with a coiled snake on it…..

Seems like everyone recognizes me and I don’t remember them …….I do have a very bad facial memory.

Cold here …low forties and expected to get our first frost tonight.

Ole Jay is freezing’ while hunting…mid twenties……knowing him he’s probably in a t shirt, shorts, and sneakers with no socks.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:17 am

I have always had a rotten memory for names, embarrassing at times but I guess most folks don't register with me unless they own fine guns or are good looking females.

47f here and wet and windy yet again, lots of place flooded .

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:13 pm

Yea…ain’t that the truth GK……that’s why there are “chum names” like “yo dude”, “what’s happening bro?”, but with good looking gals, you don’t forget their names and the first thing you do after meeting them and saying good bye, and when you both turn around to go your way, you turn around briefly to look at their A. and each time you run into each other, it gets a little bigger.

Jay must be hunting diligently as he’s quiet as a church mouse, lugging around that $2 post 64 30-30.

Did you hear about the woman who asked her husband for $20,000 for breast implants and he told her just to rub toilet paper in between her breasts so she did this for 6 months. She finally told him,”what makes you think rubbing toilet paper between my breasts will make them bigger.”? He replied, you’ve been rubbing toilet paper in the crack of your A all these years and look how big that got.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:19 pm

Then he ducked...

Yes I guess Jay is intent on filling the freezer

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:29 pm

Yeah, I'm ok.
Never went in the woods today. It's been a long 2 days.
Yesterday morning, I fired at a small buck. It weren't much of a shot, and I wasn't going to fire, but I did. With the 2 dollar 44 Trapper (price those lately?).
Anyway, I'm cursed with this carbine for some reason. I did shoot a coyote a couple years ago with it, but I shot at one other deer but hit a 3" maple between us I couldn't see in the peep sight.
Yesterday, I just missed apparently. That thing shoots good too. It was on my weak side, but who knows. When I fire a shot, I'm done for the day. I looked and looked. Followed every track from where I fired. Then would come back and pick another track just in case I was in the wrong one. I was soaked. Both from snow covered low growth firs and sweat. Bad. I was exhausted, but satisfied I hadn't hit it. No hair or blood. Sucks. I hate that.
I took today off. Had a bunch to do. Dad had a Dr's appointment, so he wasn't going to hunt.
Went to the dump, ran down to my kids work and picked up a load of pallets. Picked up all the leaves on dad's lawn (I did mine last night), replaced the intake air tube on the kids 4 wheeler and got it running. Then I hauled the wheeler and some pallets up to camp.
I came home and figured I'd run up and make an appointment for Kristy's cherokee to get sprayed with Woolwax. Then I came home and took the Jeep and washed it and filled the fuel. I came home and started to rotate the tires. I was almost done, when I reached to put my hand on my hip and my heart stopped....
MY PISTOL WAS GONE!
Now, you boys know me pretty good, but I tell you, I'm pretty anal about some stuff. Ive carried a gun for over 35 years. I am extremely careful and diligent about my firearms. I also have a very steady nerve, and never panic or lose it over anything. I can tell you, I came as close today as ever.
I couldn't believe I could lose it and not know.....just couldn't. I had my Glock 19 on, and carry it in a kydex holster so it has the same feel whether the gun is there or not. I carry all the time and just don't notice a pistols weight on my hip. I never use a retention strap on a street carry pistol, but have the retention screw adjusted and lock tighted to hold it positively. The only problem I could see was I was wearing my Carhart jacket and it's a little short for concealed carry. It may have caught the grip and pulled it out but I couldn't see how.
My mind raced cause I'd been all over. First I looked in the Jeep, nothing. Then I remembered looking under it at the garage when I made the appointment for the Cherokee. I saw some drips and wondered if it was me. I jumped in the truck and drove about 80 up the road. A pistol laying in that gravel driveway would surely be picked up. I got there and nothing. I didn't go ask just yet, however. I went back home (about a mile) thinking maybe I lost it at camp, but thought I'd go look in the house first, as nobody was home. I ran in the house and there it was! Right where I'd put it on the table before I went out to mess with the Jeep! Usually, I just pull it off holster and all. Today, for whatever reason, I didn't.
Whoo! That took another 10 years off my life!
What a friggen day.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:44 pm

That’s unnerving……I still have 3 small handguns that are unaccounted for…I know they are here, just don’t know where. You probably do though…….

Is that Trapper an angle eject decent one or one of the sintered metal ones put together with super glue? I remember at CAS shoots they were problematic but most issues came from people who were not gun guys…..

nuttin’ going on here

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:22 pm

Yeah, I have em right here!

Yeah, the Trapper is that few years that have the decent blued receiver and link pin screw, but before they put the stupid crossbolt safety on. It's a good shooter and actually works great. It's just cursed.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:35 pm

Yea…..I too have a cursed gun…..my pre war standard .348……never saw a deer with it and I took it out for elk and didn’t even see a squirrel…..I shot a wild dog with it and about cut it in half. But in silhouette matches it has done well, using it for maybe 5 years with a few thousand rounds out of it…all cast at 1800…..it’s a near moa gun with a solid rest on a good day ….I did a trigger job on it to a pound and 3/4 and loosened up the forend tip so no metal touches metal…..the forend tip, not the dovetail….

My hunting’ days are over…totally lost interest

The 1886 in 33 has killed all kinds of stuff and mostly on the first day of hunting ….several dozen deer and the elk, along with about 6 foxes, several wild dogs, even a crow and a pigeon…….I was sighting it in one time and a crow landed next to the target so I shot it at 100 yards….

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:54 am

80s coming up, ducks at the pond and the desert.

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:50 am

Saw a guy at the course today with a Badlands version of the Bronco with the Sasquatch package $117,000. His friend said his daughter got a deal on another Bronco - $65,000 … yowser.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:10 pm

Most Ford products have been junk in my experience….nothing big ever going wrong but that ‘79 F250 4x4 needed something every two weeks and other people told me the same…….But…..We did buy a Ford Contour for mom and she drove it with over a hundred thousand and I think I changed the oil twice…..sold it to a guy at work and the engine went in two weeks but he told me it was his fault as his son drove it and wanted to see how fast it would go.

Keep those Bronco’s……Ford is just trying to get a piece of the Wrangler market. Wranglers are headache free……

Don’t really matter anymore……I don’t even need a vehicle……mom even shops with her phone and the deliveries come to the door. If I need entertainment, which is rare, I just go out in the back yard. My entertainment comes in the form of watching the Israelis bomb those sand N into dust.

52 and sunny

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:59 am

I had to cough up $1,980 at the dentist yesterday with more bills to follow...

and as yet I can still hear banjo music when I smile..

I have found two 16 gauge hammer guns that I would like to give a good home to but they are at the other end of the country and I ain't traveling that far, I have had several disappointments buying "sight unseen" so I will have to keep on looking. 12 gauge hammer guns are everywhere and boxlocks are almost being given away as only single trigger, multi choke O/U are wanted these days...

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:47 am

2G’s foe da tooth? You could have spent a lot of time in the pub with that…….or a heck of a weekend down at the T bar……hoes & coke…

Fill it or pull it….I said that 31 times and the only tooth left was right in the middle on the bottom and every time the boss would pee me off, I’d jut out my lower jaw….I was giving him “the tooth”.

Nuttin going on here…cloudy…damp…..cold…….miserable…….like me….

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:59 am

Oh man GK! That's a lot of shotgun money. But then again, once you find that perfect 16ga, you're gonna need you teeth in good shape cause you'll be smiling all the time!
Set 4 hours this morning and didn't see nuthin. I did see 2 partridge on the long walk back out to the bike.
I'm probably gonna wish I didn't blow it on that small buck thus week. I did switch rifles. Carrying my GSR now. Getting serious. Any more serious and I'll have to drag out my model 70. It ain't been fired since 2009.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:24 pm

Jay,
You should be to the point where the hunt is more important that the kill….unless your meat hungry……….was a time where I’d take a spike with 3” horns and I only bought a doe license for an excuse to go upstate for 5 days in my later years……then the deer had to have 8 points and then it was a revolver…then I gave it up.

In the seventies and eighties I’d get up at 4 and drive 35 miles to hunt squirrels with a 32-20 1892…..

Never did have a use for a bow.

Been sitting in the same chair for 3 hours trying to get the enthusiasm to get dressed to cut the front 2 acres……

As Old Savage says, I’m beginning to let the old man in………

Go for the big one bro…a 300 pounder with 14 points and 3” beams along with a 28” spread.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:10 pm

You're absolutely right buddy. The last few years, i almost dread shooting one. I love to be out here as much as I did when I was 10. I also enjoy knowing I "got one" if I want. I love to just watch them actually. That probably has something to do with my last couple "blunders".
However.....I still LOVE deer meat. I don't want to run out. I also really liked popping that 216 pounder back in 2019. Having the camp adds a new dimension also. Can't wait for my son, DIL, and grandkids to come.
Of course, my boy called Thursday, and my granddaughter broke her collarbone at school. That kid scares the hell outta me. She's an animal. Very pretty little girl. She'll make some guy miserable in 20 years.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:21 pm

“She’ll make some guy miserable in 20 years”……..ain’t that the f.truth! You ought to see what’s it’s been like with a full blooded Italian for 51 years…..she told me when we got married, “If I catch you F ing around I’ll spend the rest of my life seeing to it you live in a F tent.” Could be why I have all those Winchesters & Colts as I have a tendency to let my mind wander….

Yes,I agree…still love to be in the woods…last several times a few years back when I went to Gunny’s cabin I carried a Model 53 Winchester in 25-20 with a forward mounted scope that fits into existing holes……I talked to him last month and he said I’m invited for this years deer season but I’m gonna turn him down. His relatives completely rebuilt the inside, new walls, floors, stove, water pump, everything and as Gunny was a Marine D.I. he will have me walking on eggshells with cleanliness. He was like that when the cabin was a S hole. I like to kickback and throw my coat on the back of the chair if I want to…you get it?

I’ll take beef any day over deer meat. Besides, around here CWD is becoming common.

Yellowstone marathon on channel 554 on FIOS……cut the front 2 acres and ground up a mess of leaves with the Zero Turn……that thing spins the blades so fast the leaves come out like powder.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:35 pm

Haha yeah I get it. Camp.....
We don't have CWD here, but like the ticks, I'm sure it's just a matter of time. Now don't get me wrong, I like beef aplenty, but friggen deer meat is on a whole bother level for me. I freakin love it. And....it's good for you! Look at Uncle Ted Nugent!

Only thing in the same league is partridge. I saw 5 of em today. Have some hanging around camp, but I'm leaving them in case my grandson wants to pop one and have it for lunch. If not, maybe I can get Kristy to shoot one with that 29ga Parker my dad gave me.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:42 pm

“Uncle Ted” I like dat…. Back in my day, a bit before I was born we had “Uncle Joe” and “Uncle Adolf”.

The partridges I saw in Canada had no fear of people…..so one day I took out the 1892 in 32-20 and shot a mess of em for dinner. Didn’t see any moose so I had to shoot something…….I shot about 6 of them and when I brought them back to camp I told the guys I shot the “Partridge Family”.

Gained an hour of sleep…….

Like a summer day out there….mid seventies and all sunshine…..

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:02 pm

We have another kind, called Spruce Partridge. They are dumb as a rock, and you can walk right up to them. They are illegal to shoot but are difficult to tell from a regular Partridge. They aren't as good eating either. The meat is darker. I can't believe they aren't extinct.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:29 pm

Maybe that’s what kind of partridge I saw and shot……I can’t tell the difference and I didn’t even know there was a difference……..we were in Quebec and after traveling though some city, we got on back roads for about a hundred miles than a sea plane for a half hours ride. I really have no idea where we were…….this was in ‘77.

No radios in those days and halfway through the week the pilot would fly over the camp and if we needed anything we would put a red flag out so we put a red flag out and he landed…..we gave him a list…….some fishing lures and 4 cases of beer. This cabin was on a lake about a mile long and had all kinds of inlets where it would lead to another lake so it was easy to get lost so we just hung around camp, fished and drank beer, went on short canoe trips…..in other words, nothing……on the last day we had a shoot fest ….we all figured that after spending all that money we were gonna have fun…….I shot up 50 rounds of 33 Winchester, 40 rounds of 348 and a hundred or two of 32-20’s. My BIL had some of a whiz bang rifle…7 mag I think.

Kind of knew we were done before we started as our guide and the airplane pilot (owner of the business) started speaking in French as earlier the owner tried to extract another $500 from us and my BIL put him in his place. Another reason why we shot the place all to hell on the last day…..3/4 drunk

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:19 pm

We have two types of partridge here, the Grey or English partridge and the Red Leg or French partridge.
There was a French partridge strutting around the lawn yesterday, first one I've seen in this wildlife desert.

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OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:14 pm

Good chance it was Six. I don't know their range, buy I think there is more farther north. Around my camp is about as far south as I've seen em.

Hey GK! Should of popped him with you air rifle and chucked him in the pot for dinner. If they're as good eatin as ours, I surely would have!
Nothing like folding up a fat partridge with a nice 16 double on a cool October day.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:00 pm

Why would you use a shotgun on these birds if you can get close to them. You’d blow em to pieces. Here in Pa., we have grouse and those buggers burst from a tree and you have but a second or two to shoot……so you need a shotgun.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:21 pm

Spruce partridge are illegal to shoot here anyway. Regular partridge you're lucky to get WITH a shotgun.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:49 pm

Birds of all kinds in Montana. A vintage shotgun makes the hunt even better…

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:27 pm

Plenty here too. Doesn't really matter what you shoot em with I guess. The best part is eating them anyway.
We ride old roads and trails for them with the Jeep here quite a bit. They come out for sun and gravel for their crop. Lots of guys hunt em over a dog, which is really fun. I have a buddy that raises Llewellyn setters.
Probably my favorite game meat. Plus there is no fuss. Roll em on their back, stand on the wings, and pull the feet. Pulls the legs and guts out in one shot. Then just flip the breast out of the skin and clip the wings. Done.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:36 am

Partridge is my favorite game meat too and if I saw as many here as my last placed I might have been tempted. However having reared them when I was a gamekeeper I will only shoot them in the traditional way. Pheasants on the other hand I will take with anything as there are many more millions of them released every year.
My son in NZ is having a blast shooting things that the government want eradicated...

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