Ray,

Golf and selling your guns! Ha, that's another funny one.

Are you practicing your comedy writing? This and the "canned hunts" - very funny!

Les

Amazing coincidence...

I just heard that Walter was taking up golf.....

"...I just heard that Walter was taking up golf..."

In that case, I am giving up golf

Well, maybe one more DG safari, but thats it! finito, finished, retired, and maybe a plainsgame hunt now and then in RSA or perhaps one more Aussie venture, but thats it I'm through with this stuff....I shall retire to a country gentleman status..

Ray, your last post reminds me of the famous scene from "The Jerk" with Steve Martin...

"...one more DG hunt, and that's all I need. One more DG hunt, and one more plains game hunt, and that's all I need! One more DG hunt and one more plains game hunt, and another plains game hunt, and that's all I need!..."


I am sure I would sound exactly the same (as Steve Martin) if I manage to live long enough to consider retirement from hunting!

Cheers,
Canuck

I'm selling some of mine, too, but just to pay for some others. See my auctions on AuctionArms. But Ray, golf? golf? GOLF? Hell, man, there isn't even anything to eat when you finish a round of golf. WhattheHell good is that?

Golf? It's just a waste of a good rifle range!

I can see it now! Ray trying to find his golf ball:



-Bob F.

We actually used to do that when I was muuuuucccchhhh younger. Had a 500 acre back yard at a rental house in the country. We'd tee off with all the old golf balls we stole from a golf course water hazard, then shoot with the varmint rifles! Talk about fun, and little targets - whoa!

We have "Rope and stroke" team ropings in Idaho...You head and heel 4 steers and then go play 18 holes of golf, the combined winner takes home the money....

One is required to play golf with boots and spurs on, or whatever he wears to rope in...Some rope in shorts with golf shoes, golf cap and some play golf in Wranglers, spurs, hats and boots with a golf shirt on! One never really knows what to expect in the way of dress, but a ton of beer and varied types of spirits is involved and that has a lot to do with the dress and the final results.....grin:

If you win, makes little difference, you will not get home with a cent of your winnings, your expected to pay for refreshments....By then you don't care.

The only benefit I can see with golf is if it's used in a constructive way:

The wimpy golf guy hits the golfballs out, while the hunter shoots the balls with a shotgun as if they were claypigions!

Erik D.

OK Ray,

As long as you promise to check in here regularly to keep us all on the straight and narrow.
Enjoy!
Russ

Ray: That sounds an awful like some of our "sports" up here in I.F.

Atkinson,
Yep, I know precisely how you feel about golf.
I still hunt a lot.......... but have been practizing a modified version of golf for a long time. Airborne golf that is. I assume that is the golf game you may be talking about too uh?
Fire the ball in an oversized slingshot with 5 feet long handle mounted on a base. Man do they come out fast..... like superfast teal and unlike clay targets, they do not slow down very fast.
Puts an entire new dimension to proper gun mounting form with a smooth swing and slamming the trigger the instant the picture looks right while following through. For additional challenge use an extra tight full choke and see the white snow coming down.
Practise with gun down in the ready position like in international skeet. It has all the basic elements of the boring version of ground golf such as focus on the ball, swing smoothly with the body from the hips or knees,follow through etc. Slingshot the balls in different angles up, low over the ground and what ever tickles your immagination.
I always thought it makes me a better rifle man on running shots.
Great practise for that planned birdhunt and for quick reaction with that double rifle of yours when you got to react instantly and with precision to any sudden charges of DG.
And..............old golf balls are cheap to recycle this way.
Check it out and enjoy the sport of airborne golf!!

HI,

I hope you hang around MR. Atkinson,would be awful here without you,Kev