[AT] O.T.--shootin' skunks (357 vrs 38)

Fri Aug 25 13:01:03 PDT 2006

Shooting up in the air is more risk that I am willing to take. I would
hate to injure someone or destroy someone's property.

I have shot coons in a tree with a rifle. Only when I could use the
trunk of the tree as a backstop. Shooting a high power rifle without
knowing your backstop is a recipe for disaster.

Evey if you are in the boonies there are cattle etc to worry about.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Weaver <Rick_Weaver at hilton.com>
Date: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:16 am
Subject: RE: [AT] O.T.--shootin' skunks (357 vrs 38)
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I guess if you're in the boonies you can shoot indiscriminately and 
> notworry about where the bullet will land.
> 
> Mythbusters had a show a few weeks ago on whether a bullet fired up
> would come back down fatally.
> 
> The answer is, if you fire it straight up to where the bullet 
> begins to
> tumble on the way down, it would smart a lot but not be fatal.
> 
> HOWEVER, if the bullet is fired enough horizontally to where it
> maintains a ballistic trajectory, it will still be potentially fatal
> when it hits.  In this case the bullet never loses enough velocity to
> begin tumbling.
> 
> So, it isn't wise to shoot a rifle or handgun into the air with a 
> rifledbullet, unless you're shooting straight upward (a hard feat 
> to get that
> right anyway).
> 
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Greg
> Whittaker
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:00 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] O.T.--shootin' skunks (357 vrs 38)
> 
> I guess no one hunts raccoons in the NW?  They are typically treed 
> withdogs 
> and shot from the tree with a rifle.  Shotguns play hell with a pelt.
> Bears 
> are killed the same way but with bigger rifles.
> 
> Greg W.
> Wolverine Mi.
> 
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> From: <DAVIESW739 at aol.com>
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> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] O.T.--shootin' skunks (357 vrs 38)
> 
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 8/24/2006 12:16:14 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> > gwhittak at fbconnectu.net writes:
> >
> > Mini-14 Ranch in .223 Rem with FMJs for coons.  Soft points make  
> toomuch
> > mess.
> >
> >
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> > Really you shoot a .223 up in the air at night with no way of 
> telling 
> > where
> > the bullet will come down.  Boy I'm glad I don't live near you.
> >
> > Walt
> >
> > PS I bet if you found a bullet in your window you would be screaming
> like
> > hell at the Idiot who shot the gun.
> >
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