I was sitting in the lazy-boy, doing battle in the ARPF, when my wife came into the living room. She said that she was getting her binoculars as she thought she saw a troop of hogs in the field across the road from our house.
My wife's eyesight is not that good, I figure she was probably seeing some cattle as it was close to dusk. She came back in the house and said that what she saw, was indeed hogs. I still wasn't totaly convienced, but got off the political forum and ran to my truck and got my truck gun as it was already loaded. My truck gun is a Scmidt & Ruben 7.5 straight-pull action rifle topped off with a 4x Redfield scope.
I got across the road in front of the house and settled in along the fence-line that parallels the road. Looked across the field and right in front of me was a herd of hogs about 175 yds out. I picked out a decent one walking to me at an angle and squeezed off a round. The sight picture at the shot put the shot too far back. The hogs took off across the pasture. The one I shot at had a small glitch to his hitch. I then picked out another hog and fired, and another, and fired again. I was glad to have that smooth action Schmidt working for me, cause follow ups were easy as pie. Had to follow up on the sow in the middle. The land owner showed up with some dogs just minutes later and we tried to put them on what was left, but strangely with no success. He must have thanked me 5 times for shooting these vermin, and encouraged me to hunt his place with my dogs. Good way to make a friend I guess.
Posts: 3494 | Location: Des Allemands, La. | Registered: 17 February 2007
Friend of mine has an acquintance that keeps his rifle next to his lazyboy. He apparently has a perfect view of not just the TV but also the feeder below the house. Seems his wife has learned to cover her ears at the sound of the window sliding open.
Good shooting Larry!
"....but to protest against all hunting of game is a sign of softness of head, not of soundness of heart." Theodore Roosevelt
Posts: 466 | Location: Just west of Cleo, TX | Registered: 20 February 2008
Yep, love the old straight-pull, and it is accurate. Makes a great knock-around gun. I'm thinking about getting me another LazyBoy with a rifle scabard, behind my bench on the front porch.
Posts: 3494 | Location: Des Allemands, La. | Registered: 17 February 2007
Originally posted by MOA TACTICAL: I'd be interested in hearing about your K31 scope mount.
I have a couple of K31s and they are among my favorite rifles.
I even have one that was unissued. Zero use, brand spanking new, with no name tag.
WOW, you must have some rifle there. I don't remember what the brand of the mount is, but I found it on Shooting & Collecting Surplus Rifles website. Go to the Swiss or Straight-Pull forum, not sure what it is called, and you will see what folks have done to scope their rifles.
The mount I have places the scope off-set to the right, which sounds bad, but you'd be suprise how well this works in practice. I hardly even notice it's off-set. The mount uses existing screws on the receiver, so no tapping or drilling, easy as pie to go in reverse. It is rock solid, and not expensive, about 70 dollars or so when I bought mine. I hope this helps, if not let me know and I'll do some more research.
Posts: 3494 | Location: Des Allemands, La. | Registered: 17 February 2007
Thanks, made my week actually. The 7.5 Swiss is such a neat round, sort of a 30x284win. I need to reload some more rounds, love to play with it. I believe it can do anything the 30/06 can.
Posts: 3494 | Location: Des Allemands, La. | Registered: 17 February 2007
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