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Mountain Men a .410 to stop bears???????
Big Chief
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Old feller was going off in Montana to sell his buckskin clothes and homemade knives/wares, but worried about his wife at home alone with grizzlies about. So he sets a old tin can on a stump and he is showing her how to shoot and defend herself from bears with a single shot .410 shotgun. I really just hope she is recoil sensitive and she knows how to use 12 ga with slugs or a .45-70 rifle.
I like most of the characters on the series, but some of their antics are beyond amazing. Like the one in North Carolina who owes over $80,000 (In back taxes I assume) then says gas is too expensive to drive into town so spends hours hammering out horseshoes on an anvil to protect them from the pavement with only a few hours left until the courthouse closes and a few days until he loses all his land.
Don't know what happened there, but the next episode said a friend loaned him the money (or $40,000) and he is vigorously trying to sell lumber he cut to pay him back.
I know they are paid several thousand dollars per episode to do those reality shows and naturally they have to stage a lot of the crisis's to keep it interesting and make something happen out in the wilderness.
Some of the scenery is really neat and some of the things they do is awesome using old time skills and back breaking work, I know. They must have good laugh away from the cameras, these ole boys and gals didn't just fall off the turnip truck into the survival/wilderness game they chose to do to make a living.
I like most of the characters on the series, but some of their antics are beyond amazing. Like the one in North Carolina who owes over $80,000 (In back taxes I assume) then says gas is too expensive to drive into town so spends hours hammering out horseshoes on an anvil to protect them from the pavement with only a few hours left until the courthouse closes and a few days until he loses all his land.
Don't know what happened there, but the next episode said a friend loaned him the money (or $40,000) and he is vigorously trying to sell lumber he cut to pay him back.
I know they are paid several thousand dollars per episode to do those reality shows and naturally they have to stage a lot of the crisis's to keep it interesting and make something happen out in the wilderness.
Some of the scenery is really neat and some of the things they do is awesome using old time skills and back breaking work, I know. They must have good laugh away from the cameras, these ole boys and gals didn't just fall off the turnip truck into the survival/wilderness game they chose to do to make a living.
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Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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I ain't heard of that one..............another Bigfoot could this be the evidence they need at last to prove its existence?
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Not just Bigfoot, those stupid hillbillies chase any made up critter. It probably won't be long before they are combing the river breaks looking for the Deer Lady in my area.
Dad 5-31-13
Deer Lady a distant cousin to a Mermaid? Has her tail on her butt, not at her feet? :tooth:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
She dragged her brother into the brush. The bear walked right by them and she stuck the muzzle in his ear. I reckon even a .270 or a .327 would have worked in that little scenario.
Damn it you made me choke on my Hoegarrden!
Dad 5-31-13
I am a little fuzzy on the exact details. I think she may be a cousin to the Goat Lady who lives IN town. The Goat Lady is a (more or less) normal looking old woman who is bat guano crazy that raises and sells goats.
Dad 5-31-13
Okay, ya got me, I'm busted.
Cant be Buffy in drag then........... Goats aint for selling, to him it would be like selling his girlfriend.......................ah....................yeah, that.
Isn't that the oldest profession? Nobody ever said "Pimping is EASY!"
Dad 5-31-13
There was another story of a guy treed who only had a 9mm (S&W 39?) who emptied it on the skull of a bear shaking the tree he ran up and they all bounced off, but eventually the bear got bored and wandered off.
Both cases, they are lucky to be around to tell their tale.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
I doubt this tale on more than one level, but there's no doubt that it would take a 'pair' to try it. :tooth:
You only hear the success stories.. No one is left to tell the story of failures...... They got 'et!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
I'm sure it did happen. An old woman shot and killed a big grizz with a .22 when I was stationed there.
Every year some Eskimo's go out onto the ice and just disappear. Maybe they tried that same shot...... With a different ending....
:uhm:
6" barrels push 225gr bullets to about 1200 fps and a 115gr bullet (non existent in .44mag) would have to be going 2350fps to match the momentum of a 225gr bullet at 1200 fps.
Gimme the .44mag over the .410 Brenneke ANY day.
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One of my favorite Farsides!
Keep us posted about the show, bear vs. .410 should make for some good TV.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
His quarry was not going to eat him. Mash him into toe jam yes, not turn him into a turd.
Dad 5-31-13
Gauge/Bore: 410
Shell Length: 3"
Slug Type: Silver Rifled
Slug Weight: 1/4 oz
Ballistics Information:
Muzzle Velocity: 1755 fps
Muzzle Energy: a whopping 781 ft. lbs.
Bear medicine? Only if that's the only thing you got...
Just look at Sons of Guns.
None of that crap happens in a legitimate gun shop.
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― Douglas Adams
Pace off 20 paces with Jerry, you with your .410 and Jerry with his .44, yell "Draw", I am not going to bet against Jerry.
Welcome BTW, how do you pronounce your forum name?