Nope. I am not man enough to stand up under the recoil of a fifty
caliber machine gun cartridge. I cringe every time I have to sight in
one of the African rifles I make for people going on safari for elephant
and cape buffalo.
Years ago, I fitted a 45/70 barrel to a single shot shotgun frame. It
is an old cartridge, being the same one that Custer's troops used. Not
a long range cartridge, too slow and too heavy, but I have killed a
pile of deer with it over the years, along with several hogs and
bobcats. You can see a poor picture of it on my web site,
www.cliftoncustomrifles.com
Right now, we have the place up for sale. If we get our price, we
intend to move to Montana or Wyoming and spend our last days shooting
prairie dogs and coyotes. If it doesn't sell, I will still retire in
March. I have three varmint guns I want to build for myself when I
close the shop. If we stay here, I will spend most of my time reloading
and developing more accurate loads for our rifles, and maybe shoot a few
crows off the watermelons in early summer. That is about the only long
range shooting you can get around here and the farmers welcome you
because they have a hard time selling melons with holes pecked through them.
I have customers who say they shoot six hundred rounds a day at a good
prairie dog town and never seem to put a dent in them. The prairie dogs
carry a flea that causes black plague, so they do not want their numbers
to get out of hand.
350 yards, by the way, is still a long shot in my book.
Terry
Charles Perry Locke wrote:
Terry,
I bet you were not using a .50, were ya? I used to be a varmint
hunter...shot a .243 Remington 700. Longest kill - a groundhog at
350yds. Still nothing compared those Canadian snipers,though. Merry
Christmas.
Perry
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I killed a buck at sixty yards this afternoon and thought I had done
something, then I read this.
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