A lot of Bull

[ollogger]

JOG Ive been more scared of women than any charging bull or bear

Funny i was just thinking of that dang bull as i was cleaning my Ruger Akaskan 454
wow that was awhile back but still pretty vivid in the memory!


Brad

[ollogger]

JOG Ive been more scared of women than any charging bull or bear

Funny i was just thinking of that dang bull as i was cleaning my Ruger Akaskan 454
wow that was awhile back but still pretty vivid in the memory!


Brad

[jkbrea]

Wow....thats some Wyoming as F stuff right there! In Sept, I walked into some cows and bulls free ranging on a heavily wooded mountainside while elk hunting. One bull wasn't happy. I had my 45-70 with me. He started coming uphill to me but suddenly turned about 50' away!

[AmBraCol]

A couple years ago a bunch of stock got into the gun club property and were tearing up the place in the middle of the night. The groundskeeper lives there and went out to run them off. One of the heifers got him down and did a tap dance routine on him. Laid him up for months and he's still not back to 100%. Rough stock is rough stock, bull, cow or whatever.

[JimT]

.45 Colt will shoot a big hole right through a bovine creature.

That is true Scott. I have done it myself. Last one I shot I used my 1st Generation Colt with Lyman #454190 and a full load of black powder. Instant drop and complete penetration of the skull, top to bottom.

[JOG]

Glad to hear you're ok! Charging angry women truly never scared me too much!
I could sprint pretty fast, especially when I was young!
Although I had a long legged 17-year-old African American girl charge me when I was 13 or so!
I just barely beat her in the 440! Her brother and I had had a donnybrook.
He wanted my lunch money, so I popped him in the face.
Johnny

[Bill in Oregon]

Didn't Elmer brain a charging bull with the old conical flat-point original load in .45 Colt? Where's my copy of "Hell, I was There"?

[horsesoldier03]

Glad you are ok. I read an interesting article the other day of a guy that had a neighbor that was alway very slow to remove his livestock once he told them they were on his place. He decided to run them into his on squeeze chute and decorated the cattle by using bleach and putting different WORDS and SYMBOLS into the hair using bleach. Seems it fixed the neighbor taking so long to remove his livestock.

[piller]

Glad you are ok. I read an interesting article the other day of a guy that had a neighbor that was alway very slow to remove his livestock once he told them they were on his place. He decided to run them into his on squeeze chute and decorated the cattle by using bleach and putting different WORDS and SYMBOLS into the hair using bleach. Seems it fixed the neighbor taking so long to remove his livestock.

That is funny!

[Walt]

Best way to stop a charging woman is to take away her credit card. Sound like bull?

[rossim92]

Sounds like a 4" 29 S&W ought to be about your minimum if that is a future possibility.

them 29's is a nasty gun i had one, but in the dirty harry setup, very accurate guns

[rossim92]

That was too close for comfort, glad all ended well.

how u enjoying the cold snap, pitchy?

[Old No7]

Best way to stop a charging woman is to take away her credit card.

Yeah, you're definitely going to need a BIGGER gun for that task!!

Old No7

[Streetstar]

Best way to stop a charging woman is to take away her credit card. Sound like bull?

[buckeyeshooter]

Having been raised on a farm where we had plenty of horses and cattle and from age 12 to my mid 20's having the duty to take care of the livestock, I have had the unfortunate opportunity to have like experiences. I never left the house for the barn (from age 17) without my Smith & Wesson 44 magnum. I also kept a Remington 700 in .308 Winchester locked in the tack room in the barn. My guess is we would have been dressing a bull as one staring me down would have received a 250 grain hard cast between the eyes as he charged. Then another behind the ear after he past. My guess is with my experience with fence breakers, I would have walked out to start with the .308.
I am glad you are ok. At my age of 65, I do not run fast and my dodging ability is limited, however, my eyes and trigger finger work just fine.

[J Miller]

Didn't Elmer brain a charging bull with the old conical flat-point original load in .45 Colt? Where's my copy of "Hell, I was There"?

I believe it was the UMC purple box ammo loaded with 40 grs of black powder.

Joe

[Rexster]

.45 Colt makes sense, in the places I am likely to be walking-about. At age 62, and becoming less fleet of foot, feral dogs are the major four-legged threat, and though the local feral hogs usually run, immediately, a home health care nurse was brutally killed by one or more feral hogs, in Chambers County, one county to our east, a few years ago, in her clients’ residential driveway. One of my mother’s properties, here in Harris County, where I lived during my teen years, has had loose cattle on it, from time to time, and on another of her properties, where she usually stays, a feral hog, being pursued by feral dogs, crashed through the wall of her garage. One of the largest feral hogs ever weighed, was shot in the adjacent county to the north, Montgomery County, near where my wife’s family has two rural parcels of land. (Actually, in Montgomery County, poachers, arsonists, and trespassers have been the greater perceived threats, making one’s long gun more important than one’s handgun. Empty cases, on the ground, have usually been 7.62x39.)

.45 Colt is versatile, to handle a wide spectrum of threats. Before I understood and accepted that my index fingers cannot quite reach an N-Frame trigger, for best double-action work, while using a best hold, on the grip, I liked the .44 and then .41 Magnums. When I did come to understand the importance of holding with a best grip, I reckoned that if I have to cock the hammer, anyway, to bring the trigger within reach of my index finger, it made sense to transition to single-action sixguns, for the times I wanted to shoot big bore revolver cartridges. Since the post-WW2 “transition” hammers, which I like, the more-modern S&W hammers are not ideal for me to thumb-cock. Even the “transition” hammers work best only with my more-mobile left thumb. So, I have been accumulating single-action sixguns, .45 Colt, since the mid-Nineties.

To cite the source, regarding the feral hog death: https://abc13.com/christine-rollins-cha ... s/5716849/

[jeepnik]

At 62 running was not a option yes most of the time when after a bull I took a 12 gauge but never had no trouble
Jack said it right when you get older you may get complacent, I knew better than that!!
the bull just brushed me enough to leave behind the blood & hair on my jacket, with a 5 shooter I didn't want to waste ammo I thought if he got me down I may be able to put one in his eye, after this I may just get used to carrying my ruger in 45 colt
I got charged by a over sized bear in Wis. years ago in back of my house & I had no gun with me, that lesson stuck with me for years, may be I will consider always carry a big dang gun!!!



ollogger

Pass on by the 45 Colt and maybe the 44 MAG step up to the plate with a 480 Ruger 475 Linebaugh or 50 S&W and maybe in a pinch the 460 S&W . Just kidding I am sure a 45 Colt with a nice hard cast 250+ grain bullet juiced a bit would do the trick . Although I must profess I am a more a 44 MAG person .

If a Ruger level .45 colt won't do it I doubt the .44 mag or either of the others would make much difference.

[6pt-sika]

At 62 running was not a option yes most of the time when after a bull I took a 12 gauge but never had no trouble
Jack said it right when you get older you may get complacent, I knew better than that!!
the bull just brushed me enough to leave behind the blood & hair on my jacket, with a 5 shooter I didn't want to waste ammo I thought if he got me down I may be able to put one in his eye, after this I may just get used to carrying my ruger in 45 colt
I got charged by a over sized bear in Wis. years ago in back of my house & I had no gun with me, that lesson stuck with me for years, may be I will consider always carry a big dang gun!!!



ollogger

Pass on by the 45 Colt and maybe the 44 MAG step up to the plate with a 480 Ruger 475 Linebaugh or 50 S&W and maybe in a pinch the 460 S&W . Just kidding I am sure a 45 Colt with a nice hard cast 250+ grain bullet juiced a bit would do the trick . Although I must profess I am a more a 44 MAG person .

If a Ruger level .45 colt won't do it I doubt the .44 mag or either of the others would make much difference.

Well seven years after I made that post my own options any longer are 357 or 45 ACP . But I still like a 44 MAG a lot more than a 45 Colt .