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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : glyconny December 08, 2008, 04:03:58 AM
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I was invited out to a friend's cabin in mid wisconsin this weekend to assist in ridding his cabin of pests in preparation for the ski season. Summer and winter are the 2 seasons that he uses it primarily and it hasn't been used since early Sept. It has been unseasonably cold in these parts and when you get an early cold snap like this the critters use desperate measures to get comfortable. He's made it to the cabin multiple times to find squirrels squatting in his cabin, having found multiple ways in this 60 year old structure. This is the 2nd time I've been here to help him, and the last time we used .22 LRs to do the job. That was before I got the AG bug. I told him that I was bringing some new AG's that I just got and wanted to try out, and he was bit apprehensive, ribbing me a bit by saying, "you know these country squirrels aren't as easy to hit as your city squirrels, you sure they're enough gun?", "We'll see, I have a feeling you'll be singing a different tune when we're done" I replied.
Well the weekend was lots of fun, though, we didn't harvest nearly as many tree rats as anticipated. Driving in, we saw plenty of em', but once we got to the cabin it's like they remembered us from the year before and made themselves scarce. I brought a TF79T HPA expertly modded by our own DanoinTX, and a Bruce Cox made 2250 that is earmarked as a Xmas present for my nephew, although I will most definitely be getting one for myself, as Bruce does an excellent job and I love his stock. Both of these new shooters were wearing out my basement range, and exceeded my expectations in terms of accuracy. I had to limit the 2250 to shooting from the cabin, as it was too cold (20 degs) to take out, unless i wanted to make co2 snow. I hit a tree rat at 30 yards out and about 20 feet up the first day with the 2250. Perfect head shot with a pred, dropped from the tree and quickly expired. Shortly thereafter we decided to take a hike along a ravine, I brought the 79 and took a squirrel at 40 yds, again with a perfectly placed fuse box shot. The second day I tallied 1 more with the 2250 and 2 more with the 79, though my cam died, and I forgot to bring the charger, so no pics on the second day.
I had tallied 5, and my buddy with his terrific Savage .22 rimfire got the same for the weekend. He was very impressed with the power and accuracy of my "little bb guns", and I think we may have a new member to our AG family. BTW there was a local outfit that we took our squirrel tails to in return for some great fishing lures made with squirrel tails.
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Great pics and a great hunt,,, sounds like you and your buddy had a great time.
Jeff
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I need friends like that....need me to help them take out some pesky home squatters. Excellent shooting with your little bb guns.
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Nothing like getting up to the cabin in the wood's to do some critter control.:) Great shootin and pic's glyconny, sounds like you and tour buddy had a GREAT! time up there.:) Ed
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Very nice !!! Good to see the new hardware is earning it's place...I was eyeballin that TF for my Daughters X-Mas but she decided she wanted a Hanna Montana Electric scooter instead.(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-frown.gif)
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Very nice!! That country thing sounds fun.. great pics and shooters..
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Glad to see you're enjoying the TF79T pal, she is a great shooter, I bet the squirrels will remember the "Black Death"....haha!!!
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I'm glad you guys had a great time,...but I'm even happier that we may have a new convert powder-burner amoungst our ranks,....."BB-Guns Rule"!!!!! tjk
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Thanks for the kind words folks. Brent, The 79 is remarkably accurate, but I'm certain it is no match for anything with Hannah Montana on it in my daughter's eyes either. The best part is that because its regulated at 850 psi output, I get well over 100 extremely consistent shots between 3000 and 1200 psi. I'm not sure of the exact number yet, because I fill to 2800 and shoot it down to 1800, and get around 100 shots and haven't experimented with different fill ranges yet. I'm sure it will continue to blow me away as far as efficiency, consistency and accuracy go. The Bruce Cox 2250 is chock full of a lot really nice mods and parts that Bruce has designed, and his stock is awesome. I couldn't be happier with either of these two shooters. BTW my pal has asked his wife for a Mac1 prepped Disco for Xmas...... the conversion is nearly complete.
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Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun and you converted yet another powder burner person into an airgun believer. Good shooting btw. Those 2 guns of yours are definitely dead accurate and in the hands of someone that knows how to use them. I love hunts in the snow! :-)