Shooting for hours

[Spark Master]

Hi All I visited family in Indianapolis over easter, and got to shoot for 2.5 days. I brought my Stoeger X3(177) and All Weather Trail NP (22).

I can not blame the Guns I am new and my shooting needs practice. The best group I got in the 22 was 3/4 inch at just shy of 60 feet, shooting dwnhill at a  dead USPS approved steel mail box. I shot way over 200 rounds in 22 and it dieseled until maybe the last 50. I am 3 owner and I think the kid poured a hole quart of pell oil into it. I need to make a rest for it, (paint roller type) as it is just too heavy to hold over time. Shooting bipod/tripod,  perhaps, not sure yet.  It will be a home brew, for sure.

I do not have a smart phone and forgot my camera, so I have no pictures, sorry about that, I did collect a number of  spent "buttons" . That is the pellets would hit and go down or back towards me a few feet.

The cocking was not an issue, but the trigger did seem to get better by the last 20-30 pellets. I was shooting over a railing so the best most comfortable way to shoot was a towel on the rail my hand as a cradle under the barrel, no grip except the firing hand. I am not a tall person and would LOVE to cut the stock down about 1-2 inches. If this were a wood stock I would do that, but this is the plastic stock.

I maybe a so so shooter, but it was a hoot! And Dang those oranish red squirrels you guys grow in Indiana are huge, season opens in a few weeks.....maybe a road trip is in the future!

ciao

[north country gal]

Good for you. Always nice to spend some time shooting air guns and, as you probably discovered, that "just one more shot" thing is hard to resist. Don't worry too much about your shooting. The idea of shooting air guns is to have fun and it's sounds like you did.

Those orange-red squirrels were probably Fox squirrels. They do get quite a bit larger than Gray squirrels. Hunted them quite a bit in my younger days, often with a Sheridan Blue Streak.

[Spark Master]

Good for you. Always nice to spend some time shooting air guns and, as you probably discovered, that "just one more shot" thing is hard to resist. Don't worry too much about your shooting. The idea of shooting air guns is to have fun and it's sounds like you did.

Those orange-red squirrels were probably Fox squirrels. They do get quite a bit larger than Gray squirrels. Hunted them quite a bit in my younger days, often with a Sheridan Blue Streak.

They definitely look plump enough. AS I tell my kids anything tastes good....with the proper sauce! I have had wild game, usually not worth eating, unless you must.....but squirrel is basically cute rats, but a long soak in whole milk then floured in flour fresh thyme, fresh SWEET marjoram , lightly sauted for color, and cooked in a beer sauce..... hey the Belgiums eat it. They trap big huge water rats and cook'm in beer. The UN says if the locusts eat the crops, eat the locust. Lo fat high calories.  Can it be worse than okra? (now I did it)

[Spark Master]

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[mentolio]

Spark Master: amusing video, shame it's three years old, otherwise I mighta donated to the startup and tried the sausage...I wonder how much nutria those guys have left?

[Spark Master]

Spark Master: amusing video, shame it's three years old, otherwise I mighta donated to the startup and tried the sausage...I wonder how much nutria those guys have left?

Try sending them an email!! I can't believe it tastes that great. As a former cook, and I worked in a wild game restaurant, most things are so so  or not very entertaining to the pallet. Lion and Rhinos, and bears oh my. But really lion and rhino are best left uneaten. They are tougher then shoe leather, and don't taste very good. I mean if that is all there is, so be it, you eat it.  But a generic chicken will taste much better, even an old one (stewing hen) will be easier to eat then either of those.  I have never had bear, but venison is tsty, and one day I will try squirrel. I have had rabbit imported from China, it was tough and tasted pretty vile. Frogs legs, yeah kinda like chicken, years back I had rabbit and it was nice and tender. Kinda chickenish. When my kids said that I made all kinds of stuff and yet I never made rabbit I said, "well a perdue oven stufffer on sale is 69 cents a pound, and domestic rabbit is 6 bucks a pound , plus we would need two , guess what dad is going to make?" When I got around to making the rabbits from China, they all tried it, declared it inedible, and we just dumped it in the trash. The recipe is one I used for chicken, and should have been nice.

But if those things are eating roots of the swamp plants, then they will taste like the swamp. But, like you, if I could try it I would once at the very least. I try to give stuff the tasters rule of 3.

1st time it could be the chef had a bad day
2nd time could be the product was just bland, or spices just didn't work
3rd time if it isn't tasty then I know it is the product, not human error,(my "buds" or the chef's skills).

And every few years I may try it again.

ciao

[north country gal]

Trust me on this one. If you plan to eat squirrel, do not shoot the old ones. When my bother and I were kids, we shot an old white at the muzzle Fox squirrel with our Sheridan. The old guy was huge, the biggest we had ever seen. We decided, right then and there, to play pioneer and cook that squirrel over an open fire on the spot by skewering on a stick.

Well, we'd have had better luck chewing a truck tire inner tube. Great memory, though. One I'll never forget.

On the other hand, have cooked many a squirrel when camping by quartering them, then wrapping them in aluminum foil filled with barbecue sauce, burying in hot coals and letting them as long as needed. Makes for very tender eating.

[Spark Master]

Trust me on this one. If you plan to eat squirrel, do not shoot the old ones. When my bother and I were kids, we shot an old white at the muzzle Fox squirrel with our Sheridan. The old guy was huge, the biggest we had ever seen. We decided, right then and there, to play pioneer and cook that squirrel over an open fire on the spot by skewering on a stick.

Well, we'd have had better luck chewing a truck tire inner tube. Great memory, though. One I'll never forget.

On the other hand, have cooked many a squirrel when camping by quartering them, then wrapping them in aluminum foil filled with barbecue sauce, burying in hot coals and letting them as long as needed. Makes for very tender eating.

but do they taste good?

Lion and rhino are not tasty, and as advertised, tough as old shoe leather. All the venesion I have had was game farm or hunted in place with lots of oak trees and apple/fruit trees. With pigs, acorns are supposed to make them tastiest.  There are many many many black oaks as well, maybe deer can get throught thme, but I can not see it. Tree rats are equipped to eat them.

If I ever get around to hunting and trying it, I will remember:

When they're Old and Gray, leave'm lay

But Young and brown, we all chow down!

The nuns at my grammar school are rolling in their graves over that one!