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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:10 pm Shame your Parker didn't have a chance to get in on the fun!
Well done and a full freezer to boot!

I’ve got until March 26th in Virginia

Regular Gun season goes out the first Saturday in January then there’s antlerless gun season in my county until 3/26/24 .

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wvfarrier wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:47 pm It sounded like WW3 on my farm in Mon county the last couple days

I was in a valley of sorts in Randolph county when I shot the doe at 08:15 I’d heard six shots of which two were mine .

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I’m sitting in my cousins I guess you’d call it a breakfast nook , tapping on my PC . The view isn’t bad !

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Got just about everything loaded up except for one cooler and a duffel bag that I’ll get in the AM !

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Good hunt and report! Man, that Full Stock MS is a rifle I lust over! Never even seen one around here, but if I ever do hopefully it'll be in my possession! :D Don’t mean to brag but I have eight Mannlicher Schoenauer carbines , 243 , pair of 6.5x54’s , 270 , 7x57 , 308 , 06 and a 8x56 MS . I’ve ki...

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Well, I would call that a good hunt! Always wanted a 6.5X54 Mannlicher. Closest I ever came was a Hembrug Model 1895 in 6.5X53R, but the bore was gone ... :cry: Some would say I shoulda held out for a bigger buck , but I’m satisfied . I mean heck the original game plan was 2 1/2 days so one can’t b...

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I’m fortunate in that my cousin offered his cabin and thirty plus acres for me to hunt . I call it a cabin but it’s actually a house someone built maybe twenty five years ago . So it’s quite comfortable to say the least .

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I’ve still got another buck tag I could fill , but the winds blowing pretty hard and it’s supposed to rain all day so you can figure out where this is going LOL’s ! My intent now is to pretty much get everything loaded up today , hook the trailer up , strap my treestand down on the ATV and strap the...

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Nope I didn’t kill anything with a Parker today but I had a Grade 1 10 gauge 2 frame with factory 26” barrels up the tree with me along with my little Mannlicher Schoenauer MC in 6.5x54 MS . Had a four point walk up to about twenty five yards of me and when I started walking away I let him have it a...

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Of the three or four places I’ve done tower shoots this one I was at Sunday has the highest birds . They had partridge and pigeons every bit of 50 to 60 yards up when they came over the shooters on the backside of the circle . When I e taken the 8 gauge guns only once did it go around the circle wit...

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gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:58 pm That's a good start to the season, I wish someone had used a Parker Hammer gun where I was gamekeeping it would have made my day..

You shoulda been there two or three years ago I had two guns but one was a Parker hammer 8 gauge gun .

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Going back to the same place 11/4/23 and will shoot the same load but in a Parker Grade 1 10 gauge top lever hammer on a #2 frame sporting 30” barrels that are more like mod and full somewhat lighter gun as well . I’m planning on doing five shoots at this place by the end of the year and use a diffe...

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Did a tower shoot in WVA 10/29/23 shot a Parker Grade 1 10 gauge top lever hammer gun 32” barrels tight and tight on a #3 frame guns a little over 9 pounds . Was shooting handloaded 1 1/4 ounces of #6’s pushed with 30 grains of SR7625 . I didn’t kill all the birds in the pictures just what I brought...

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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:05 pm
Yeah that Manton would be a boat load of fun to get shooting and to kill deer with it would be awesome.

I’ll console myself using my Parker with the masking taped slugs this year

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Have you looked for the Remington slugs lately? That's why I'm trying to get a load that works. Yeah that Manton would be a boat load of fun to get shooting and to kill deer with it would be awesome. I bought ten boxes two three years ago . I’ve not hunted the gun in over three years . I’ve actuall...

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There was a time I wanted to go up there for the expensive stuff ! Moose , Dall Sheep and Brownies but that time has come and gone . If I were to finally travel there now Prince of Wales island would work as I’m only intrested to kill a couple Blacktails now and like the idea of not needing to worry...

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Ysabel Kid wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:48 pm I dunno... neither man nor beast should be awake at 0430!

I’ve gotten to the point that 08:30 is to early for my comfort zone . Morning deer sits are gonna suck this season lols !

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When I was accumulating Winchester rimfire pumps I wanted an 1890 in WRF as well as a 61 in 22MAG but never acquired either . Now my only WIN pump is an 1890 in 22 Short my grandfather bought new in the 20’s .

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FWIW my slugs are cast from an alloy of 50% clip on wheelweights and 50% pure lead . I do not shoot these in rifled barrels but smoothbore only . Also all of what I load are typically in a shot cup , wrapped with mylar or wrapped with of all things masking tape . And for what I do with them it works...

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I’ve had or have a few old Crossman deals mostly 22 cal . But about a year ago a friend lured me into a couple air rifle shops looking at stuff that were in the 2K range and showing me videos of the makers in Africa killing eland and even a Cape buffalo . I thought this is neat ! So a week or two la...

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I have slug molds in the Lyman sabot slug design for the 10 , the 12 , the 16 , the 20 and the 28 . The 12 and 20 are American made the others came off EBay from an Eastern European group . None of these slugs have been tried in rifled barrel or rifled choke guns . Mostly in SxS but a few times in O...

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Only made one of his concerts at Nissan Pavilion in NOVA but I enjoyed it ! Not like a parrot head but enjoyed none the less . RIP

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Dove are usually in short supply in my freezer . Pheasant and Partidge seem to take the most room of the fowl and always seem to have enough quail for 10 or so meals by seasons end . Dove breasts with Cajun seasoning wrapped with a 1/4 strip of bacon and cooked in the oven on broil are rather taste...

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I quit shooting and eating them decades ago, preferring light-meated quail, pheasants and grouse, but it is fun to feel the excitement in the air nonetheless. Dove are usually in short supply in my freezer . Pheasant and Partidge seem to take the most room of the fowl and always seem to have enough...

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I quit shooting and eating them decades ago, preferring light-meated quail, pheasants and grouse, but it is fun to feel the excitement in the air nonetheless. Dove are usually in short supply in my freezer . Pheasant and Partidge seem to take the most room of the fowl and always seem to have enough...

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My son and his friends from school and church made the dove opener on a ranch every year. Until now. With everyone up to their eyeballs raising kids and running businesses they've decided not to meet together this year. . . My son might find some overflying his place, IDK. It is definitely a thing ...

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Frankly, I'm just jealous! I be on the road up to the deep Pacific NorthWET! I’d very much like to do a dove opener in TX , AZ and or NM but I doubt that happens . I know a judge from TX that’s going to Argentina in the group I’m in for February of next year . He comes up and does pheasant tower sh...

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Is your mill by chance a Frick or Farquhar ? Also what make is your power unit ? I fooled with traction engines and steel wheel tractors many year ago so it’s only natural machinery of this type still intrests me

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Pretty active day in my county of Virginia . Half hour before sunrise opens the first day of the early gun deer season and at noon dove season opens . It’s my intention to be perched in a tree before legal shooting time and hopefully be back by 10amish then get on the ATV and across the road in fron...

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Do any of you water quench when casting? For some reason years ago I started to quench and have continued to ever since. Frosted never bothered me as I'm just plinking for the most part. I water quenched some when we damage control killed bear and I water quenched some 0000 and 00000 buckshot but I...

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Incidentally my 8 gauge target/bird load is 1 1/2 ounces shot and 30 grains of Clays . Not a butt stomper and not a cream puff load .

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Not slugs this time ! Also using WIN hulls that fold crimp pretty well , the black Remington’s don’t food crimp at all they’re to thick but work great for roll crimps . Anyway I’m getting started making shells for the 8 gauge event to be held at the Vintage Cup . It’s 25 targets at the five stand a ...

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I think small frame .410 doubles are just sweet! My challenge with that my friend is my taste in sxs and superposed exceeds my wallet. I’ve sold my last BLR and looking to get into a 410, MEC Jr and reloading components for my sales price. I had a Browning Superposed BEGIUM made 410 that was skeet ...

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I have an Iver Johnson Champion but it’s a full choke and I don’t want to open it up. I like the idea of the Win 42 I seem to remember Old Ironsights having challenges with his 9410 Not interested in break action or semiautomatic. Whatcha all think? I bought a Marlin 410 back when they were first b...

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I think small frame .410 doubles are just sweet! My challenge with that my friend is my taste in sxs and superposed exceeds my wallet. I’ve sold my last BLR and looking to get into a 410, MEC Jr and reloading components for my sales price. I had a Browning Superposed BEGIUM made 410 that was skeet ...

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Until a couple weeks ago I had three 410 doubles . A Rizzini O/U with two triggers , a Crescent Arms SxS with two triggers and the old Iver Johnson Hercules SxS my mother gave my dad for Xmas when I was about 15 of course they were all used when we acquired them . My father never fired any of them b...

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I've only shot 1 animal with my BPS 10, I was on the ground and this deer decided it was coming on the trail I was on, I let it get to about 7 yards when I let the hammer fall. A 3¹/²" load of OO in the sinuses saved a lot of meat and no tracking- BANG- FLOP. Just the way I like it. :D I’ve sh...

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Nath wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:18 pm Say, would a 10g hull make a wrap for that slug?

I think it might be a bit much but I’ll test it tomorrow and see what I does .

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When it’s hot and I cast outdoors I’ll take a pie plate put some water in it and set my hunk of aircraft aluminum in it . Then each time I make a poor and set the mold down to harden I put it on top the aluminum . I can’t say 100% but I’m pretty sure it helps draw a bit of the heat from the mold and...

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Do you tumble them or anything to smooth out the sprue cut? No. Never have. I try to load them with the sprue cut up. Sometimes I am successful. When I first started making my own 0000 and 00000 buckshot I used to roll them between a piece of steel and a piece of aircraft grade aluminum , but I got...

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Set down today to load six more to try on paper again then I thought to maybe add ten more for actual use on living creatures . So I loaded sixteen total . Hopefully this afternoon or tommorrow I can try a pair from both barrels at 28 yards again . 78F78185-3799-4203-AD99-87B492430EFF.jpeg 03AFAA1F-...

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buckeyeshooter wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:24 am that is a very nice double!

Thanks I have a soft spot for Parker 10’s and have a dozen or so Parker 10’s at the moment .

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I have never had the pleasure of shooting an 8. But I have 3 10's. I can tell you the federal 10 gauge slug electrifies a deer with a chest shot. I have killed 8 with my SP-10 and they do not move when hit, just fall on the spot. My guess is you will get like reaction. I’ve plunked two with 8 gauge...

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When Charles Dalys were made in Prussia they made a drilling that was 10 -10 and 45-70 . It was a hammer gun by the way . It isn’t a Parker but I’d like having one .

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Teflon would probably work better but I bet it would be a real PITA to put on. Hmm, gotta think on this for an easy 'fix ' I have no issue with what I’ve got the elevation isn’t a big deal as they’ll hit higher when I shoot from my perch on a tree . As far as the left to right is concerned I can de...

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The double Parker on the pheasants i shot a good bit during a round of sporting this past Saturday . I was trying out a new to me load of Green Dot with an ounce of 7 1/2’s . Did pretty well actually . I carried three guns this one another hammer and a DH all Parker and all 10 as well as 32” .

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So glad you didn't have to cut down a Parker to make that 10 gauge Combo...... :lol: That thing isn’t mine I just borrowed ! If we can scoop up another 10 gauge H&R barrel I’ve got him talked into cutting it off and boring it out to 8 gauge . There’s more than enough meat in the chamber and bar...

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What do they measure with the masking tape wrap? This is a lot of work to get the ol 8 bore on paper. Hope they shoot well enough to kill Bambi or his mom. I started loading the Thug Slug in 20ga but not anything to write home about. I just ordered some 20ga sabots w/ bullets from Ballistic Product...

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Just came in from shooting two shot groups at 28 yards two from the right on one target and two from the left on the other . Think I’ll try them again just for chuckles and if they do as well or better I’m ready from West by God Virginia ! 3453D80E-2D80-4CA7-A32A-FF8533212E0E.jpeg 1F68EF5B-499D-4D58...

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Those sure do look businesslike to me! I’ve got molds for two 730 grain slugs this one that’s .775” and another that’s .735” . I’ve already killed deer with the .735” version in one of my tight chokes Parker 10’s , this .775” slug has proven its ability on paper in my short Parker 10 hammer gun tha...

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