Incidentally, I just returned from my first hunting trip with the new rifle. :up:

Had a great time! I'll try to post some pics later tonight... :yep:

Well did you get one or was it a case of "huntin" not "catchin"? :D

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_01.JPG
It was cold in the morning... had to cover up my nose.

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_02.JPG
...and here's the results of my 30-06 on a live target.

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_03.JPG
She was a big doe. I watched her for about 10-15 mins before taking the shot. I was hoping maybe she had a buck following. She was alone. The left leg is just hanging loose there. The bullet mushroomed and blew apart that left shoulder.

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_04.JPG
I dropped off the meat at the processor Monday... should be able to pick it all up tomorrow. I've asked for back straps to be cut into steaks, the hams, loins and shoulders will be ground into hamburger and Italian sausage.

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_05.JPG
It was a clean shot. Here's the entry point on the right shoulder, the bullet mushroomed and blew apart the left shoulder and everything in between completely. ...the deer fell immediately, dead before she hit the ground.

http://www.xl-logic.com/pics/hobby/hunting_06.JPG
...spotted this turkey. Well actually, it scared the crap outta me. Came swooping down from a purch that was almost eye level with my tree stand; must've been 30 ft off the ground. I didn't know wild turkeys did that.

Good shootin youngster! :up:

You'll never taste a better steak.

Good shot there!

August, I like venison steaks, but after having Amerixan Bison steaks, they are truely a treat. The bison is rich, and very very tender.

Here's my favorite rifle, as it's easy to carry plenty of ammo, and the "peepsight" once dialed in is the best. I don't make long range shots.

http://www.memorableplaces.com/m1garand/

The top 2 pics are what I have now. It's a 1943 issue. I have 3 straight clips, and 2 banana clips for it. I just take out to the range now once in awhile. http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl08-e.htm

*Nomenclature Corrections Activated*

Clips are what a girl puts in her hair, what you have in your M1 Carbine are magazines.

*Nomenclature Corrections Inactive*

Yep. Since my heart attack I eat a lot of Bison because it's so low in saturated fat and it does taste pretty good.

Congrats on the doe m8, where exactly do you hunt? (State, County)

I hunt in Dawson, Georgia, but since its a little over 100 acres and half of it is a field, some in the woods we don't get much deer. We used to lease land from a farmer..but he doesn't lease it to us any more..he leases it to the "Florida Guys" :lol:
So..I am in my deerstand in the woods..to the right, in front, and behind is the woods and my land. To the left..is this. First it was a stick and a small tarp, second it was a metal pole, third is this..a thick wooden pole that will never come out of the ground.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k.../FckinTarp.jpg

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...3/BlueTarp.jpg

Hes so jealous that he puts a tarp on his land, to the left is his firebreak, where many deer cross..so now when a deer comes to me from the firebreak, he'll just turn around when he sees the tarp.

Pretty cold down here! I can't wait til the bucks start rutting, some already are, but they are the 6 pts and smaller.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...101908_005.jpg

The internal compartment of the Garand where the ammunition is inserted is the magazine; what holds the rounds and is inserted into the magazine is the clip. Both the Springfield manual and the US Army manual refer to it as a clip.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Magazines are what one reads while in the waiting room at the dentist's or doctor's office.

So this butthead next to you has tarped a pathway to keep the deer away from you? ...that's just wrong. :nope:

I was hunting near Fort Valley, GA.

Oh....the Garand.....yeah.

(CONGRATS to me!! I have landed on the square called "Dumbassery")

I saw M1 and somehow in my moronic interpretation of your post substituted carbine for the word Garand.

Yes you are correct. The Garand uses N-bloc clips. (Pats self on head for getting correct answer this time).

The Garand used badoleers. My WWII ARMY Uncle always called the mags for the carbine clips, and of course as a young kid, I had to ask why, and he told me of the time they were in a french barn, and the Wehrmacht had them surrounded, so he had to take his redcross stuff off and man a position, and they gave him a carbine, and told him to pass out clips to the others, if his area was clear, and grenades, and badoleers to the guys who needed them. He told me it was GI slang. So that's what I grew up calling them.

You mean "bandoleers"? The bandoleer he's talking about is a long cloth or canvas holder for the 8 round clips used by the M1.
Like so:
http://users.skynet.be/jeeper/ammop612b.jpg

Yep thats the ones! I had three ammo belts I used to carry while out hunting. Not trigger happy, but I like being prepared for anything like a nasty snow storm leaving me stranded, so I could still get food if needed.

Yes, he was always jealous of my family. My uncle owns this land besides him, which he pays to farm on it. He used to lease it to us, but until we shot deer he stopped leasing it to us.

These guys that come from Florida, pay him at least $1000 to hunt on his land. I've seen them walk through the firebreak, they would sit in the stand for 30 minutes, if they don't see nuthin then they leave. LOL, what a waste of money. They usually kill the baby deer and does.