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To: naxetevitan; Travis McGee
A few times a month, I’ll go out at night and just fire the shotgun. Maybe once. Maybe twice. I like to do that between 1:00 and 3:00 am.

I think you live next door to me. ;)

I live next door to a grain elevator served by railroad tracks, so mostly when I touch off a round, it's a .22 at a grain-stealing mouse, sometimes a rat. Occasionally, I have to make do with the handgun I carry, so other nearby neighbors are used to that.

However one evening last year we had a whitetail dear- in season- wandering down the RR tracks between the light of the full moon reflected atop the shiny steel rails. I had the choice of a couple of my rifles out the back door, but happened to use my son's .303 SMLE. Worked fine.

Only shot so far this year: a .22 through three paint cans in a row so I could blow the pressure out of them, recover the agitator balls [slingshot ammo for stray neighbor dogs, coons and possums] and then pitch the empty cans in the burn barrel prior to recycling. But the year is young.

158 posted on 01/10/2012 10:45:40 AM PST by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy

RR tracks are great “suppressors” for urban and suburban target practice.

Brings back college memories. Down under the trestles, the train roaring overhead, “the range” is now open for the next minute.


164 posted on 01/10/2012 12:31:37 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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