Gun stuff. Tripod gun rest.

[vash]

Whoa. They are kinda expensive. Even the cheap attachment reamed you in shipping. Time to dig out my junk bin.

Found a few things and plunked down $1.35 in threaded fittings and viola! My old solid BOGAN tripod got a new job.

Turkey season is about here and I'm doing it with air guns. And my bow.






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[aigel]

You got access to a non gun area?

What's wrong with your knee? Shaky?

G

[vash]

Originally Posted by aigel

You got access to a non gun area?

What's wrong with your knee? Shaky?

G

not sure i quite understand. non-gun area?

i have a good friend taking me to a vineyard. he works there, and is the ONLY hunter. big famous vineyard. the biggest, DUMBEST toms i've ever seen. the grapes are in these huge field. in the middle of the fields are five giant trees. oaks. the birds roost there. we go in at night, set up a blind, a single hen decoy, and sit with coffee and joke around until they come down. much like BOMBS. i killed one with a bow last year, and it got me thinking...hmmm..pellet gun! i spent way too much $$ on a pellet rifle for this single moment. no shotguns allowed here.

my spot in Mariposa is 20 acres of turkey corridor. populations are down because of the drought. last year i got skunked for the first time ever. first time i went...3 days, 3 birds. so i has diminished. full weapons allowed. nobody hunts it but me. me moving north, makes this place a difficult one-day hunt.

this year, my wife is my wingman. she is working a Sonoma angle. co-worker has a cottage on 20 acres with a turkey problem. eating her flowers...i am 90% in...as long as i do it quietly. bow or pellet for sure. IF there are truly as many birds as this lady says...i'll call you.

and my shaky knee? no..i'm trying to prep for a hunt from a blind. i'm seated and need the gun rest.

shotgun sitting against a tree? low hanging fruit. i think a shotty is too easy. and loud. bow or pellet..bird down, keep hunting with the partner. a shot gun clears the valley.

[scottmandue]

I caught a show on cable the other day "American airgunner" or something like that.
Wow... air guns have come a long way... made me want to run out and buy one!

[vash]

My wife is trying to parental block that show.


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[ckelly78z]

I've been kinda looking for a powerful airgun for plinking target practice, and haven't actually thought about using my tripod, a SLIK universal-212 camera tripod that is fully adjustable from sitting to standing height.....thanks for the idea. I think my wife might get pissy if I started shooting her chickens, and peacocks, so it will have to be targets.

[id10t]

Should you not want to invest in a great pellet gun, CCI Quiet out of a 26" barrel (Mossberg 44US, CZ 45x Ultra Lux) measures in at 92db according to the phone app I have... 40grns moving at 700fps, and very accurate (sub 1/2" groups at 25 yards). I'd have no problems taking a head shot on a turkey at 25-30 yards with it.

[vash]

.22 is not legal for turkey here or I would have gotten a rifle.

I've (hijacking my own thread here) been looking at the CZ 455 American. You like it? I love the full size .22's


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[Evans, Marv]

Cliff. I have turkeys on my property very often. Sometimes they walk around the house. I'm not interested in shooting them. I only use my air rifle for ground squirrels and occasional target shooting. I did let a couple of bow hunters come on one time during the hunting season, and one shot a large tom. I've always been curious about how they tasted and what the texture was like. Do you cook & eat them? If so what's the experience like?

[vash]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Cliff. I have turkeys on my property very often. Sometimes they walk around the house. I'm not interested in shooting them. I only use my air rifle for ground squirrels and occasional target shooting. I did let a couple of bow hunters come on one time during the hunting season, and one shot a large tom. I've always been curious about how they tasted and what the texture was like. Do you cook & eat them? If so what's the experience like?

Amazing meat. The breast meat is fantastic. Taste like turkey but with the flavor amped up. The rest of the carcass is tough. You know how a domestic bird has those pin-bones in the drumsticks? A wild bird has 4x that amount. Very challenging to eat. You cannot go all Viking style with a wild turkey leg. The thighs are good. Chunked into nuggets.

I hot grill the carcass to brown it, and it makes the best bird stock on the planet. My wonton noodle soup is great. . I end up with a couple gallons that I freeze into quart bags. It never last long.

I pluck my turkey as well to save the collagen in the skin to melt into the stock. If not you can skin a bird fast.


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[lowyder993s]

You need 1 of these...

Marv...you have a bunny rabbit problem? Our fields are getting pretty slim!

[id10t]

Originally Posted by vash

.22 is not legal for turkey here or I would have gotten a rifle.

I've (hijacking my own thread here) been looking at the CZ 455 American. You like it? I love the full size .22's


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Picked up a 455 Varmint in 22lr last year, love it.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by vash

My wife is trying to parental block that show.


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LOL!

At the end of the show there were (facts here are subject to my fading 58 year old memory) four (maybe five) guys at a firing range with at least three badazz modern air rifles... one or two old school rifles... I think thye were all .22's
And...
A very old (think they said around 200 years old) ~.40 rifle!

[scottmandue]

I need one of these... don't know why, I just do!

[Evans, Marv]

Lowyder. Actually I was mentioning to my wife a few weeks ago that we don't have any bunnies around. I'm east of Alpine & haven't seen many anywhere at all. Maybe spring will bring a bunch.