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Bullet for Reds

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  • #32
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,222 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Richard308 wrote: »
    Not much you can track at dusk with light fading on a winters evening in the pissing rain. I spend my time practicing shooting so I don’t have to track and they drop on the spot..... �� drop

    Got a scent tracking dog?Youre supposed to have one as a qualified stalker.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #33
    Mellor
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    Uinseann_16 wrote: »
    And before someone says the swift isnt enough gun WDM Bell was fond on it for red deer and im sure theres very few men alive who are experienced as he was
    The fact that few are as experience or as good as he was is precisely why it's not a suitable caliber for the average person.


  • #34
    Richard308
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Richard308


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Got a scent tracking dog?Youre supposed to have one as a qualified stalker.

    Is that the way? Where does it outline that requirement may I ask? I cannot remember having to put in type of dog in my dhl application. I must have missed that part. I better ring the npws get them to hold my application until I attach a picture of my dog. ;-)


  • #35
    kunekunesika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭kunekunesika


    Average distance for me tends to be less than 200. Any further than 100/150ish and I'll try to stalk in and reduce the distance if its easily possible. Beyond 200 and I'll even crawl, which doesn't come naturally to me. I, ll also consider whether I using sticks or bipod. I only using a rangefinder, nó turrets or calculators.
    The best range is the one that works well for you.


  • #36
    Vizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Vizzy


    Richard308 wrote: »
    Is that the way? Where does it outline that requirement may I ask? I cannot remember having to put in type of dog in my dhl application. I must have missed that part. I better ring the npws get them to hold my application until I attach a picture of my dog. ;-)

    Oh deer (pun intended), most stalkers in the country are now operating outside their "qualifications":eek:


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  • #37
    cookimonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    Mellor wrote: »
    The fact that few are as experience or as good as he was is precisely why it's not a suitable caliber for the average person.

    The small bit, infinitesimal, that I have read of him, would also strongly suggest that not only was he a prolific hunter and a crack shot, he was also a shrewd buisness man who kept very detailed accounts of financial out goings on his commercial safaris.
    He endeavoured to get the best value per penny out of his equipment and his time. Purchasing rifles and ammonition that efficiently and effectively took his quarry with as little over expenditure as possible. I would suspect that he would have quickly dumped the 7x57 or 303 if he felt that he was not getting the financial returns needed.
    His belief in smaller more manageable calibres would endear him to the likes of Jack O'Connor while the likes of Elmer Keith, a proponent of using large caliber rifles, may not of seen eye to eye.
    W. D. M. Bell was indeed a legend and if only half of what was written was indeed factual he was an amazing individual who was larger then life.


  • #38
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,222 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Vizzy wrote: »
    Oh deer (pun intended), most stalkers in the country are now operating outside their "qualifications":eek:

    Do the DHS /HCAP?Small bit about having a dog .
    Belive it is also part of your agreement with Coilte,should you have a let too,or wwas.

    Also,if you are taking shots that you know are going into dusk and bad weather conditions or both....Well .

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #39
    DogfoxCork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭DogfoxCork


    lord! please close and banish this thread to the depths!


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