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To: yarddog
Like Walthers (although my PPK/S kicks like a darned mule) but I definitely think .22 isn't going to cut it for Smokey.

I don't really like field dressing deer either, but I have it down to a pretty quick procedure (dental floss, a folding 3" Buck and a plastic garbage bag . . . ) But once it's field dressed I have 2-3 friends who would help me butcher it for a small percentage . . .

25 posted on 07/31/2013 6:20:20 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

The last deer I killed was with the gun I happened to have on me. It was a Glock 17 loaded with some of those old nylon clad HPs. Not a very hot load but I hit him exactly right between the eyes.

I had to go to my parents house (I was visiting) and got Daddy’s Honda 4 wheeler. When I got back to the deer, to my surprise it was still moving. I had to shoot him again. It was a spike but really large. In fact so heavy I could not get the gambrel up without help.

My parents who both grew up on a farm did most of the dressing and cleaning. It turned out not to be very good and they turned it into sausage.

I determined then I was not going to kill anything else except for snakes etc. I am not opposed to hunting, I support it as it is good for the game to have pressure on it. I just no longer enjoy it.

I do still enjoy walking through the woods tho and want to have something in my pocket just in case. That is usually one of the little Hungarian copies of the Walther in .22 LR. The little thing is very, very accurate.


33 posted on 07/31/2013 6:32:03 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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