Supporting our Second Amendment rights

Going shooting with the wife tomorrow. She hasn't shot a rifle or pistol in ages, so we'll do both. I'm fine tuning both my scoped Mini-14 .223 and SKS (iron sights) 7.62x39 for hog hunting next month. We'll also shoot a couple of 9mm pistols.

I like my Mini-14 and it's a great little shooter, but the .223 isn't as good a hunting round as the 7.62X39. At least not for hogs. I did shoot two last year with it. The first round dropped a sow straight down since I hit her through the heart. The herd of 15, another sow and the rest 30ish pound piglets began running. I fired 3 more shots and hit a piglet. The round hit it left of center in the chest and exited out it's right hip. It broke from the herd and ran 25 yards before dying. A 7.62 would have had more probability of dropping it dead in its tracks.


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Good shooting, Tex. Wild hogs are a plague. My family has totaled 2 cars in the past year on them.

 

Good shooting! Love my SKS. Ruger, if I remember correctly, makes a 7.62x39 variant of the Mini-14.

 

You can "support our second amendment rights" all you want but what you just posted about is exercising your second amendment rights.

 

Have fun "shooting".

oh wait you mean with guns.

 

Yes they do and I hear many people like it. Unfortunately, I've also read that many have problems with the Russian-made steel-case ammo feeding properly in them. I've never had a problem with either my Mini-14 .223 or my SKS.

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We should support our Second Amendment rights. I'm exercising mine tomorrow and encourage you to do the same.

 

I had a problem with feeding in the SKS when using aftermarket 30 round magazines. I went back to the stock fixed magazine and have had no problems since. Interestingly, I think I could (with some practice) load and fire 30 rounds faster using stripper clips with the fixed magazine than I could fiddling with the 30 round removable ones.

 

My SKS is stock and I've never had a problem with it. Yes, the many after market mods look interesting, including the detachable magazines, but they looked like to much work for too little gain.

10 rounds and a stripper clip are fine for me. If the SHTF, as the doomsday predictors like to call it, then there will be plenty of M-16s and other weapons laying around.

 

I do. Twice a month the at the range. Not much point in CCW if you can't hit what you aim at.

 

Agreed. Staying proficient is the responsible thing to do....plus it's a lot of fun.

 

I bought mine new/unissued packed in that awful cosmolene. I'm a tall guy, and the stock on mine was clearly designed for men of smaller stature. So I bought an aftermarket nylon stock for it. I have a Colt M4 .223 for the zombies.

 

A necessary mod. My SKS is a little short, but that's why I like it for a brush gun.

Nice pick for the Zombie killer!

 

Pics of the rifle?

 

My SKS before I removed the scope and replaced the receiver cover with a plain one. The others are a Mossberg 500 and Browning HiPower.



I don't have one of my Mini-14 but will take one this morning.

In the meantime, my last annual "fun" photo with the grandkids on the 4th of July:



What impressed my step-son-in-law (ex-Navy) the most was that I had 3 rifles with bayonets.

 

My Mini-14:

 

Nice hunt. I want to kill a deer this year with my glock 21 45cal. I hunt behind my house. I have 116 acres. I killed 7 last year. Limited on bucks and took 4 does. Killed two 8 point and a 10. The one 8 was bigger than the others so he went on the wall. I would love to have an AR. Would also love to hunt hogs. Do you have to wear rubber gloves when you dress those wild hogs? Something about a disease they carry, I heard?

 

.45 is a great round for short distances. Definite knock down power!

Yes, wear good latex or nitrile gloves. Those are nitrile ones in the picture. About $15/100 count. A good idea when dressing any game. Hogs, rabbits and others carry Trichinosis, plus other diseases: http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/diseases-wild-pigs-public-health.html

 

I have some friends that own a landscaping company here in Tn. They go to east Tn and hunt hogs with dogs. I've been invited everytime they go it just hasn't worked out where I could. They also have a couple bear hunts a year they attend. I'm really wanting to do the hog hunt. Is their much difference between the feral hog and the domestic hog as far as taste. I love venison and rabbit as i great up rabbit hunting with my grandfather. I have a blind set up behind the house where I get 20 yard shots on the deer as they walk right down the trail so I'm looking forward to the glock hunt. I've limited on turkeys behind my house the last 3 years as well. My biggest tom to date is 27 lbs and a little change. Double beard one at 12 1/4 and the second beard 8 5/8. I've got the game, just no hogs lol.

 

It depends on the size of the hog; the larger it is, the stringier and tougher the meat. Sows are sweeter tasting than boars because they are more particular about what they eat since they are either pregnant or nursing most of the time. Boars each whatever garbage they can find. It's not that the meat from boars isn't edible, but that it takes much more work to become tasty. Grinding them up for chili and pork burgers is easiest. The best advice I've had that proved true was only taking home sows under 24" at the shoulder and piglets. Very sweet meat. Nothing extra needs to be done to it. Better than store bought!

Hogs are said to be extremely smart, and they are, but as one wise hunter told me, "about 90% of that intelligence is strictly geared to finding food". Which is why they are vermin; they tear up crops, rip up stream beds, ruin fences and a host of other destructive behavior.

Check the laws in your state, but in Texas, there is no season on hogs, but I prefer cooler temps for comfort. They're vermin, not game, so it's legal to kill them and leave them. It's a crime to shoot a game animal and waste it.

 

Forgive me cause I'm not use to the hogs and have no education about them. When we hunted rabbits you always waited till after the first good frost to hunt them. The cold weather killed the parasite. Is it the same with hogs or is the triganosis a blood disease that can't be killed without cooking? I hate to see anything killed to just be left there. If i dont need it to eat it walks. I'm not a trophy hunter either. I kill mature deer and just got lucky when the nice 8 walked out. Cost to much money to mount them and it's a shame not to mount them if you kill a nice one.

 

I have an SKS as well. I wanted a Mini 30 but between the up front cost (twice an SKS) and the sometimes problems with cheap ammo I went with the Chinese product from 1957

Eats the cheap Russian ammo every time. And like you say, with the stripper clips I can get off 30 rounds pretty darn quick - not as fast as a functioning 30 round mag, but I can't imagine a scenario where it would make much difference.

And what this has to do with the second amendment is since a goodly proportion of Americans have functioning battle rifles any foreign invader will be facing a "well regulated militia" of 30 - 40 MILLION.

 

With stripper clips, I can get off 40 rounds WAY faster than if I was using 30 round magazines.

 

I have wanted an M1 Garand for a long time but the ammo is so darn expensive....about a buck a shot here in Alabama. I can get 7.63X39 for 30 cents, and sometimes less.

I live less than 2 hours from the CMP south store. Visited it once, they had functioning M1's in good shape for $525. For about $900 you could get one that was practically like new.
They also had ammo (Greek surplus) that if you bought in bulk it was considerably less than a dollar a pop.

lol.....I had to get out of there quickly before I reached for my credit card.......

 

just got my ruger 10/22 re-scoped yesterday for 200 yds. going to give it the old navy float test today at a neighbors farm as he has enough space and distance for me to shoot a small target. I used to be able to hit a target at 200 yds from a fixed stand. Gonna see if I can do it again.
BTW, found a small gunshop waaaaaaay out in the country that had 5 "buckets" of .22's. Bought them all.............lol

 

Great find! Still no joy on my backorder.

Good thing I still have most of a brick of .22's left over.

Have fun shooting!