Smorgasbord

[Winelover]

The other evening, caught a possum raiding the bird feeder. Made him into a good possum with the 10-22.



While the vultures were eyeing their dinner, a coon showed up in the middle of the afternoon.



Added him to their table, with a single shot from the Rossi 357 carbine. Load was Lyman 120 TC (9mm) bullet, taper crimped over 13.5 grains of 2400 in a magnum case.

 

[Intheshop]

Winelover,I'll assume your Rossi "likes" the 120 TC,...uhh,that's the reason for shooting it.

My question is "why"?Meaning,what is it about that bullet in your carbine that makes it work well?

Or,I could be wrong and you're just using up a big buckets worth....

 

[fiver]

I see a lot of the C-Boy shooters using a 120-125 T/C type bullet.
they feed well and have low recoil.
I have a 125gr rnfp that's almost shaped like a soup can with rounded edges.
I have smacked some small game using 38 special loads with it and it actually is way more effective than I thought it would be.
when the wife's MOM got about to the point of not being able to handle much recoil [or anything else] I set her up with a load of the 125's at about 800fps cast from some softer lead.
not the most effective man stopper ever but enough to poke holes in normal people and she could get off another shot or two pretty quickly.

 

[Winelover]

Rossi sighted in for NOE's 180 RNFP.......the 120 TC load just happens to shoot to the same POA at my expected varmint thumping distances. No need for a heavy for caliber bullet for that usage.

That same bullet works very well in both my 9 mm's.....and serves me as well, for practice, in the 357 LCR that is kept stoked with 125 grain Critical Defense factory loads.

 

[Brad]

Got any 'yotes down there that share in the feast?

 

[KHornet]

Being in the city, cant be shooting anything with powder. How some ever, a 17 cal
pellet rifle sits by the back door , and is handy for small critters.

 

[Winelover]

Plenty of yotes.......pose for pictures in the day time. Have them come by, while I'm deer hunting, but I let them go on their way. Don't want to disturb the deer with the noise of a gunshot or waste a $10+ arrow / broadhead combination.

 

[Rick]

John lives 15 minutes from me, I've never seen one here but he has them. But then he hasn't seen a black jaguar there and I have here.

 

[Winelover]

I have seen several Bobcats during the daytime.......

 

[Winelover]

Tarantulas too. This one is a male. Mating season is in the Fall and the males have reddish brown back.

 

[JWFilips]

I live in the suburbs but at the edge of town so I'm bordered on 3 sides by woods. In late 2012 I found a huge Fox den about 300 yds away from my house.
In the winter of 2013 started having problems with a big Mom fox....at first eating my out door kitties food then eating my out door kitties! Took her out one evening from my bathroom window in March of 2013 Guess her pups made it through the winter and started their fox duties patrolling at dusk. The second photo is a young adult taken in August 2013 at dusk at about 15 yards when he made a big circle around me in the yard. The third on was taken in September of 2013 ( his brother) who liked to run the perimeter of our property at dusk. The Big Dad comes around once or twice a year looking for his lady. Only hear him in the middle of the night or at day break every winter....now he is very cunning Only way I know he has been here is in the morning the out door kitties are all sitting in the trees!
Used My 22LR with CCi Velocitor ammo All dropped in their tracks

 

[Brad]

The coons, possum, and kitties wouldn't bother my wife but the spider sure would.
She would likely use a 12 ga on the tarantula and give him both barrels. That is after she climbed down from the ceiling. My daughter is worse.

 

[freebullet]

Nicely done, Winelover. Should have skinned the coon and made a short tail hat.

Beautiful fox...them things almost never stand still.

I wouldn't be having tarantulas round my place. Anything of the sort would have an immediate death sentence.

 

[Ian]

We keep "pet" tarantulas in the garden. My wife cried when she found one dead last summer (got too close to the perimeter of the house that we keep poisoned). They have a den in the rock wall and I can always tell when they're active because the hawks will be making repeated fly-bys. The hawks make me a bit nervous but they aren't aggressive. We always have at least two breeding pairs of foxes on the property, too. I like them better than dogs and they keep the feral cats away/eaten. I miss the wild cotton tails and roadrunners we used to have before the foxes, but there's only so much room here and I keep the other varmints like coons and possums trapped and shot.

 

[Brad]

If my wife spotted a spider like that in the yard we would have to move.

 

[Rick]

If my wife spotted a spider like that in the yard we would have to move.

If your thinking of a new house I can bring ya a box of nice ones, kinda sprinkle them around inside & out.
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[Brad]

No thank you.
She about crapped when one of the cats discovered a small snake in the house. He met a rapid end and was thrown out back to feed the coons. Had one of us stepped on the snake in the dark we would have needed new carpet.....

 

[Ian]

Brad's not gonna move now, too much lead and shop equipment!

 

[Rick]

Brad's not gonna move now, too much lead and shop equipment!

Well . . . Unless we deliver that box anyway.

Brad, if ya receive a box from Arkansas don't have the wife open it.
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[Brad]

I will make sure she doesn't. And don't forget, she knows where you live.