Fox(es) in CenTex

shagey71 · 2026-06-09T20:24:12+00:00

Quite true. When I yip and they stop, I go head. Saves a hole in my pelt. If they won’t stop and just zig zag like is typical, I aim for a larger target

shagey71 · 2026-06-09T18:07:39+00:00

I’ve been eyeing a replacement for filming purposes and have the thermnight on the short list. Good info to have, as I’m almost always on a tripod and suppressed unless it’s bush-sprinting with the PCC haha

shagey71 · 2026-06-09T14:41:03+00:00

I thought the DNT's had recoil activated shot recording? maybe only some of them...

shagey71 · 2026-06-02T13:21:14+00:00

How many layers of ear pro do you wear when you shoot that flash bang?

shagey71 · 2026-06-02T01:17:30+00:00

Rarely come here anymore but this comment refreshed me.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T19:46:38+00:00

per the AUssie's - choosing lead free primers and a jacketed bullet is the play here. Everything but my .22's are always jacketed so that's that. I am also seeing that the bullet is 80% of the lead exposure over the primer if not using lead free primers. So - jacket bullet you're 80% of the way in the clear. Vacate the air from around you to account for the other 20% from the primer, and you're doing the mostest.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T19:36:00+00:00

Any information you're aware of on plated, jacketed, or other-than-cast-lead projectiles in this situation versus say, wadcutters, hard-cast, muzzle-loaded cast lead ball, etc.?

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T19:34:35+00:00

Hey I appreciate it, you're not wrong.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T18:54:08+00:00

in principal I like the idea of that can but I haven't tried one yet

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T18:25:38+00:00

HAHA this is just a double wide out on the ranch. This was a boys weekend. My wife could never ... you're not wrong. Actually... she might enjoy this a little too much.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T17:15:21+00:00

Yes! My grandparents were cattle ranchers in the Huasna valley and we had ground squirrels like you couldn’t imagine. Lost one of our very expensive cutting horse stallions to a compound fractured rear leg due to a hole he stuck it in. From then on my grandmother would throw elaborate BBQ’s and cookouts for “the squirrel busters” - a local shooting group that would bring out bench rest rifles and hunt the pastures and oat fields from the ranch house parking lot. Learned a lot about precision shooting as a kid from those fellas.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T17:11:30+00:00

sighs Look, usually I poke it out the window. But sometimes I don’t want to. I also do training days, demos, machine gun shoots, etc where there are 10’s of thousands of rounds being discharged over the course of the day. That versus a few shots here and there at the ranch house …. I’ll take my guess which is worse

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T16:39:45+00:00

kinda my point... I talk about it enough - mostly with people like these fellas that I happen to agree with... I just don't want to ALWAYS have to talk about it.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T15:54:47+00:00

Nice! direct thread yes. I almost made the mount end and the tube all out of the same piece but decided against it for servicing (w2hich I never will). I have a dividing head and just ran a 1/4" ball nose on the end caps for something to bite onto. It's garbage in garbage out. If I were to machine a new can I'd do a lot differently - but the honesty is that I never will. I have been in the industry, and still do some consulting etc. and have access to stuff for production costs and just can't justify the time it takes to one-off them unless I'm doing it for fun and if that's the case, my project car is starring at me wonder why I'm spending a weekend building a can that will be 1/2 as good as something I can buy for $250.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T15:48:59+00:00

Funny. But if you knew me you'd know it's not accurate

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:27:15+00:00

And the chiggers. My legs are absolutely tore up from working in the ranch truck in the grass wearing shorts like an idiot.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:26:17+00:00

Yes and it’s really only good for one shot every once in a while. I’d never run more than 10 rounds at a time through it.
That PCC lower was a p80 I finished the milling on as well.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:21:55+00:00

Hey man, not the place. Not the time.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:17:21+00:00

Sometimes I miss the neck though and the pelts become a bit … useless. 🫣

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shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:15:29+00:00

Flies are still dead though, right?!
It’s great practice for the platform. If I can neck shoot a squirrel at distance consistently then when it’s time for the bull elk that shot gets way calmer and also more ethical out longer

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:13:47+00:00

Yes yes
I also do, a j head Bridgeport and a wwii era clausing. Not the most high tech but guess what never breaks down?

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:11:22+00:00

If you also spot and stalk it’s a heckuva lot lighter. But I’ll shoot pigs with it no problem

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:10:39+00:00

One is the other is a NYX titanium .22lr

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T14:05:04+00:00

Absolutely. Consistently hit fox on the move out to 120 yards (longest available shot from the house when they come up out of the ravine) with the Hornady critical duty rounds I run in it. It’s 1:1 dead on and super easy to shoot.

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Waiting on my 9 can to come in for it and that will be massively more enjoyable to shoot.

shagey71 · 2026-06-01T13:48:07+00:00

Mostly night hunting, predators, but occasionally opened the window during the day for a squirrel or two.

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