karlunity Posted January 21, 2015 Report Share Posted January 21, 2015 http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/australias-deadliest-sniper-ian-robertson-never-did-the-arithmetic-20150121-12urq2.html This is worth reading karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 That was a good read. I'd like to see a movie of him, or that Finn. Or Hathcock. Something historically accurate and not hollywooded up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Give you a lot more respect for the Lee Enfield No 4mk ll which is what I think that that gentleman was using. karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 He had some good tactics I'd never heard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted January 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Agreed...I like that part about being aggressive and keeping the rifle topped off. Karl FC..The hippy is worried about the chickens. I told her that you were stationed in Georgia. she asked who was looking after them ?...so How are the Chickens? : ) Next day.. How about I just tell her you ate them???? : ) evil karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 My wife insisted on giving the chickens away while I am at Benning. Quiet without them. I wanted to keep the cute bantams, but something very efficient was killing them. The birds were terrified. Even roosting in hard to reach places they were getting killed. I couldn't catch it. I threw the carcass of the only remain bird, after giving the 2 survivors away, into the trap. Nothing for a week or two. One day I was coming down the hill a d looked over - a cat! I shot that wild thing and fed it to the possums and buzzards. Electric netting is needed, but expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 My neighbor had birds for years. Chickens, turkeys, more. All the coon around here had "accidents." Let's just say we're "trapped out." I was leaving the possum alone because I didn't think they were aggressive. Turns out the possum were killing the birds too. He went out one morning and saw his birds horribly killed and mutilated by the possum and it was the last straw. He loaded them up and took them all to someone else he knew and gave them away.I know all about wild cats. We've had problems with them too. We have an outside cat that came with the house. Any strays have to get along with her. Or, let's just say that "Doesn't play well with others" is a capital offense around these parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Electric fence is the only good defense really. I wonder how the old timers managed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 I suspect "Dogs" had a lot to do with it, and keeping the coon/possum population under control with lead as well. My neighbor said that the coon would even reach through the chicken wire fence, grab a chicken and pull it though the little hole in fence. For a while, he was "catch and releasing" them, turning them loose about 2 miles from the house. They would just come right back. He recognized catching them again from the scars on their ears. Then he started releasing them like 10 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Thank you FC. I will pass the word. I like cats as a rule but a man has a duty to protect what is in his care. I would have done the same thing. Karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 As soon as that cat saw me I could tell it saw a human being that close as an enemy. The birds were so scared they didn't even want to leave the coop for a week at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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