bird hunting???

[Flagg]

stray cats? like you before, I hated stray cats. one time I went home alone very late. our garage hallway was very dark as well as our garden set. then I saw this cat staring and raising her paws at something ... alas! the biggest black snake I ever saw wrapped around one chair of our garden set. the cat was aggressively poking the snake and I ran inside my car scared sh!t. after some 15 minutes or so, the snake slithered down the floor tiles while the cat chased it into the darkness.

stray cats have some use, after all. they're part of a foodchain that I still dont understand yet. but I'm very grateful.

Buti ka pa sir oldblue, those deym cats caused 50k worth of damage sa amin... :swear: Yung snake, 1 P20 FMJ lang yan.

[orly_andico]

i was reading in some web site that you have to head-shot a jackrabbit with a .22LR in order to get a clean kill. a .22LR has about 3X the stopping power of an airgun.

so if you airgun a cat.. you will hurt it moderately, and it'll run for the hills. but it will not die for a long, long time... and when it dies, it will die of LEAD POISONING. :D

side-topic. a typical air rifle in the mall costs 6000. the marlin 795 costs 12500 at hahn (.22LR semiautomatic rifle, with box-type 10-round magazine). not too far yung price, yun nga lang the licensing. ironically this rifle sells for $90 to $120 in the US. more than X2 yung price dito..

a .22LR would also conceivably be OK in case you get robbers in your house (yes, yes, everybody says the .22LR is good for nothing, it won't stop a robber, but it's better than a broken bottle or a rusty bolo, right?) i mean yeah it won't stop a robber but the marlin 795 is semiautomatic and if you empty the entire magazine into the robber it will probably stop him..

[Flagg]

Awww, what do I do about stray cats?

Mga robbers, ala problema, naka-corbon me.

[scarab]

....yikes! kelangan pala ng license ang .22 air rifle. meron pa naman ako nun. i used to hunt maya birds sa mga power lines.

[nicolodeon]

The .22LR can stop robber or any low-life who tries to do mischief in your home. It's just knowing where to place the shot - and it's definitely not at the low-life's body. While the caliber of a gun does play an important part in terms of stopping power, it's the placement of the shot that is important.

FYI: The .22 is the most used caliber of assassins for the longest time. It doesn't give out a loud bang (like the 9mm, .35 and a .45). When shot at the head of a person, the little bullet does not exit out. What it does is it ricochets inside the skull lots of times, therefore reducing the brain matter into mush.

[orly_andico]

OT.

i was watching this episode of CSI. the head shot with a .22LR revolver (to the back of the head) the bullet just went under the scalp and ended up near the ear. Di man lang pumasok sa skull.. that's one heck of a tough skull!! tigas ulo talaga.

although i assume a .22LR rifle would have enough muzzle velocity to crack that skull.

kaya nga it makes me wonder.. i read somewhere that your "doctrine" is more important than the caliber of the weapon. lalo na kung untrained ka, di mo naman kaya gumamit ng .45 tapos yung mga 9mm and .380 don't have the stopping power if they hit the body.

so kung ganun mag .22LR ka nalang and practice a lot to improve your "doctrine." at least mura bala ng .22LR so you can practice as much as you want. does that make any sense?

[ogpro]

so kung ganun mag .22LR ka nalang and practice a lot to improve your "doctrine." at least mura bala ng .22LR so you can practice as much as you want. does that make any sense?

Yes, that is pretty accurate. You can own a 44 magnum, but if you can't hit your target, that 44 magnum is just a lot of noise. The practical aspect of having a 22LR is varied, but most often it is for the economy of use. With a 22LR you can practice a lot cheaply. What is reccomended tho is, once you are proficient in pistol shooting, you can move up to a bigger caliber and the same "doctrines" or principles apply. If you're a good shooter with a 22LR, chances are that you will also be good with a 9mm, you'll still need to practice with a 9mm of course, but the basics have already been ingrained by shooting a lot with the 22LR.

i was reading in some web site that you have to head-shot a jackrabbit with a .22LR in order to get a clean kill. a .22LR has about 3X the stopping power of an airgun.

While it is true that jackrabbits are very tough animals, they will go down even while using an airgun with a well placed shot. This is true with most animals. Jackrabbits are just really tough, I've seen one hit with a 9mm that still ran.

side-topic. a typical air rifle in the mall costs 6000. the marlin 795 costs 12500 at hahn (.22LR semiautomatic rifle, with box-type 10-round magazine). not too far yung price, yun nga lang the licensing. ironically this rifle sells for $90 to $120 in the US. more than X2 yung price dito..

Yeap, you're forgetting about 4K extra for licensing. The problem with that is, once you get a 22LR, kesho marlin or anschutz pa yan, it can never leave your home. They stopped issuing permits to carry. You can't even legally hunt with it. So yung 16K na ginastos mo, in essence, pang bahay lang sya. Mejo useless.

[ogpro]

^ Thanks dude.

[Negus]

I don't know where to put this but here goes:

Leopard turns the tables on hunter
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUYl4KONYA"]YouTube- Leopard attacks hunter[/ame]
note: the leopard was shot the night before while going after a bait.
The hunters track the next morning only to be attacked by a wounded leopard.

you just don't f*ck with a leopard. he's lucky it didn't get him in the jugular.

the full episode: http://www.huntingwiththepros.com/hw...08_africa.html