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[Duckfarmerpa1]

Does anyone else find themselves bringing in copious amounts of hay with them daily, no matter how hard they TRY to leave it in the barn, the basement, wherever? It’s in my hair, even though I where a hat, it’s all over! In the egg baskets! Ugh! Gotta love it?

 

[B&B Happy goats]

OH NO! Trade IN a gun? Get a better pistol, sure, but a shotgun is SO versatile around the home and farm. I've got guns that I haven't fired in over 20 years. Come to think of it, I've got guns I've NEVER fired that I've had for over 20 years. Many of you suffer from (chicken, rabbit, goat, etc) math. I am a victim of gun math. Never met a gun I didn't like or could resist at the right price.

With my hearing loss and vision issues, my pistol grip 12 gauge is too much gun for my needs...got a pearl handled 38 special today ...and I love it.......

 

[thistlebloom]

Does anyone else find themselves bringing in copious amounts of hay with them daily, no matter how hard they TRY to leave it in the barn, the basement, wherever? It’s in my hair, even though I where a hat, it’s all over! In the egg baskets! Ugh! Gotta love it?

Yes. Especially when I cuff my pants up to keep them up out of the mud. Forget to unroll them outside then leave half a flake of hay all over the floor. Gonna get another horse to feed the floor sweepings to!

 

[Xerocles]

With my hearing loss and vision issues, my pistol grip 12 gauge is too much gun for my needs...got a pearl handled 38 special today ...and I love it.......

Aha! I spouted off without knowing the whole story. Pistol grip 12 ga. Unless you're a trained LEO, bad choice. Difficult to control and can break your wrist.
B U T .vision issues are usually aided by a shotgun. Point in the general direction and you're likely to hit SOMETHING. (Think, throwing a dart at a dartboard vs throwing a handfull of darts)
Hearing loss? Shame on you if you're not using hearing protection when practicing. You can get "Mickey Mouse" type ear protectors that have electronic decible dampers (increase your hearing kinda like a hearing aid, for hearing normal conversation, but instantly block high decible sounds (like a gun report) to a gentle "poof". Mine were on sale for $12.00.
And the .38 special will be as loud, or louder than your shotgun (shorter barrel, less attenuation, closer to your ears) well, anyway, louder.
And, if you're NOT practicing, but NEED to use the gun...then screw the noise and hearing damage...you got more pressing things to worry about.
I love revolvers, and I guess the site wouldn't allow it but I wish I colud see a picture of the new "baby".
NOW GET OUT THERE AND SHOOT IT! You wouldn't want to jump on the interstate without driving a few farm roads first. Find out what it does before you need it.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Aha! I spouted off without knowing the whole story. Pistol grip 12 ga. Unless you're a trained LEO, bad choice. Difficult to control and can break your wrist.
B U T .vision issues are usually aided by a shotgun. Point in the general direction and you're likely to hit SOMETHING. (Think, throwing a dart at a dartboard vs throwing a handfull of darts)
Hearing loss? Shame on you if you're not using hearing protection when practicing. You can get "Mickey Mouse" type ear protectors that have electronic decible dampers (increase your hearing kinda like a hearing aid, for hearing normal conversation, but instantly block high decible sounds (like a gun report) to a gentle "poof". Mine were on sale for $12.00.
And the .38 special will be as loud, or louder than your shotgun (shorter barrel, less attenuation, closer to your ears) well, anyway, louder.
And, if you're NOT practicing, but NEED to use the gun...then screw the noise and hearing damage...you got more pressing things to worry about.
I love revolvers, and I guess the site wouldn't allow it but I wish I colud see a picture of the new "baby".
NOW GET OUT THERE AND SHOOT IT! You wouldn't want to jump on the interstate without driving a few farm roads first. Find out what it does before you need it.

I woke up deaf in my left ear last year due to heredity hearing loss....I do use hearing protection. The reason I chose the pistol grip 12 gauge was because when I bought it I was rehabbing a former drug and alcohol house that I had bought for myself...had some pretty nasty people that in their drug fog thought they could still crash there. The pistol grip was suggested as the best choice as I could brace it against my body and turn and shoot. ..that was about seven years ago and I never had to use it...just let that beautiful slide sound by the door and I herd feet running down the drive way.
I chose not to carry a concealed weapon, but will keep this one at home for personal protection and when the wild hogs or the pack of pit bulls come around....and if I have to put a injured, sick or dieing animal at rest.
I have had to use my guns here in the last two years more than anytime in my life....this is some kinda crazy out in the country side part of Florida that the meth heads have migrated to,.... it's beautiful country, ....but really ignorant rednecks doing very stupid things...

 

[Xerocles]

..just let that beautiful slide sound by the door and I herd feet running down the drive way.

There are probably people on this site who are offended by talk of guns, and to you, I apologize. This is an animal site and not a firearms site. But if you will forgive just one more observation?
There are "instinctual" sounds. If you're walking in the woods and a rattlesnake starts sounding off, nobody says "what's that". You KNOW what it is. Likewise when a 12ga pump shotgun is cycled, that sound is instinctually recognized, and the "bad guys" know what's coming next. Exit, stage left!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

You may be very surprised at how many of the members have firearms ....
you don't owe me a apology, I am not offended.by your comments at all.
With my now being deaf in one ear, and having to use a hearing aide in my better ear to pick up sound, it creates another very disturbing problem for me....I can't identify where the sounds that I can hear are coming from...my hearing has no sense of direction..so walking in the woods is out for me now...carrying a shotgun would not be wise for me as I would be setting myself up as a threat to someone that I can't even hear....kinda like being "naked and afraid" ....so my gun only comes out when absolutely needed and when I am positively sure on what is happening....guess you could call it a handicap of sorts......but it sure drives me crazy when I ask my husband where he is and he say "I'm over here" ...like I can identify where his sound is coming from .....dang dummy
And the instinctual sounds don't exist in my world any more, I can't hear them .

 

[Bunnylady]

so my gun only comes out when absolutely needed and when I am positively sure on what is happening.

Isn't that, like, rules #1,2 and 3 of gun safety - know your target, don't haul your gun out unless you intend to use it, and don't even have a gun on you unless you are sure that you will use it if necessary?

Add to that list of instinctual sounds the sound of a bullet ripping through foliage a few feet to one side of you.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Rinse and repeat.....

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

Geez, I’m glad it’s sooo boring here in PA...although, Chris did wing a coyote last week....then we tried to call them back and sounded like a bunch of hyenas...