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Offline SDale

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Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« on: July 06, 2008, 09:17:15 PM »
Well, I'm about 3 sheets to the wind right now and figue that I'd tell my hunting story for the month.

I usually work Grave yard, but since Friday (YUP! had to work the Holiday! I'm on a 12 day straight schedule right now.) I've been on Swing Shift, and the Pidgeon hunting was GREAT to say the least! At night, there's few that are roosting or returning to the roost, but on Swing shift while there's still Daylight, flying rats are around litterally in the THOUSANDS!

Long story short, me and one of my work buddies are only there in case of a machine break down and the machines have been running smoooooooooth for the last couple weeks. No Maintenance calls at all. SO, that means more hunting time! WOO HOO!!!


Over the last 3 days we've taken at least 250 pidgeons from the Pit area and from the Material Recovery Facilities that don't run on weekends. And when the sun went down we've bagged about 9 skunks and 2 possums before quittin time! My arms & fingers are sore from cocking & fingers are what seems to be permanently BLACK for loading Crosman Premiers in the rifles!

If Gene is on, he knows what I'm talking about!!! Dumps are GREAT places to hunt! As long as you have permission that is!
All the quarry was takien with either a Gamo Hunter 440 (friends), or my B30, Quest 800, Talon SS and/or my Crosman 2250XT


Pix of my hunting area soon to come!!!

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RE: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2008, 11:03:39 PM »
Sound's great Sam, looking forward to some pic's also. Dump's have alway's been good hunting location's, never know what's gonna pop out of the garbage.:) Ed
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RE: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 01:05:33 AM »
Hey welcome back Sam.  We missed your hunting stories at the dump!  Looking forward to the pics.

I 've had a couple of rat hunts at the transfer station where my friend used to work in the 90's.  That was a lot of fun.
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RE: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 01:21:38 AM »
Sounds like pigeon heaven,,,,, good shootin,,, I"m really lookin forward to the pics  !!!!!!!!!!     :)

Jeff
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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2008, 04:43:54 AM »
Sam, you are sooo lucky to be able to pop off a few rounds at the work place. Sounds like you have a great "fringe" benefit.One of the places I work has so many mourning doves that it dwarfs the #'s I see in my September dove fields. It's in the heart of the city though and all I can do is point my finger and say"Bang".

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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 09:04:45 AM »
It is a great Fringe benefit, but it's also a little dangerous. We have sort of a pseudo permission slip from the GM because of the bird problem, but if some animal rights AHole were to see us doing it, the company will disavow ANY knowledge of giving us permission. So we stick to the dark corners of the property hehe.

Not many rats here now a days. Not since they did a full pit scrape & cleaning. I remember when I first started there & they cleaned the pit, rats by the thousands scattered EVERYWHERE!!! It looked like something out of a horror movie! Now we're lucky to see one a night.

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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 09:40:52 AM »
You mean to tell me that 'peta" even hugs & cuddles up with germ infested garbage dump rats?? Geeezzze,, Tim.

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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2008, 10:57:12 AM »
YUP!

Offline gamo2hammerli

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RE: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2008, 02:18:20 PM »
I'm green with envy.  250 pigeons in 3 days....wow....I can't count that high.  Very sharp shooting.
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Offline fatback

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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2008, 12:54:40 AM »
Hell yeah that is definitely a great perk!! I prob wouldn't want to leave, after work and lunch hour hunts would be often.
Chris


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Makes ya wonder what they're thinkin' . . .
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2008, 06:00:44 AM »
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I'll bet PETA hates this ^15minutes ^in the spotlight . . . .

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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2008, 06:40:36 AM »
I don't think they'll be playin that at the next convention.
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Re: Great hunting.....AT WORK!!!
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2008, 06:50:23 AM »
VERY interesting "J" . Those weirdos shure are scary!! Tim.

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Certainly impressive what some folks will do for a $
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2008, 07:30:01 AM »
Ethical wouldn't be a term I'd use for that type of People though . . .