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Ripp, congratulations on your purchase, this is a very nice Colt that along with the Winchester 71 suits very well your new rancher lifestyle; do you also already have a full-size poster of The Duke in your home office ? By the way, please forgive this easy joke; I like a lot your SAA and I am a great fan of John Wayne!
Louis

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Indeed..

The movie "THE SHOOTIST" was one of my all time favorites with John Wayne.. All time classic. Another is "UNFORGIVEN" with Clint Eastwood.. or "OPEN RANGE" ..Kevin Costner..

I grew up on a farm/ranch.. so this is not unfamiliar to me.. we branded, vaccinated, etc 153 cow/calf pairs yesterday.. was a long day.. but that is done..

In terms of the Colt..thank you ..I did pick up a Ruger Vaquero as a truck handgun --just to plink with at the ranch.. have a pretty nice little handgun course set up..will try to take some pics this week and post..

Hope all is well with you and your family over there amongst this craziness..

Take care

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Pistol range I set up per our discussion..Its a start..
20200502_202634 by A Hoffart, on Flickr

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We don't get to do that legally either, John. I'd expect that farmers or farmer's kids with Restricted P.A.L.'s
likely shoot on their own land, however those (licensed farm kids) might not be plentiful.
I would if I owned acreage.

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THOSE comments make me realize how good we really have it here in terms of gun laws.. You don't get to shoot on your own land?? WTF??? Don't really want to get into another political rant, but that is some serious BS right there...

I was coming back from eastern Montana several years ago, early cold morning.. coyote was running on the other side of the interstate.. I whipped down the ditch across the oncoming two lanes of the interstate.. parked in the ditch on the other side, hopped out with my rifle and hammered him... granted that was illegal, but, several vehicles went by as I did that.. no one said a word.. Gotta love Montana..

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Ripp:
In Australia that's for handguns only: they are tightly regulated here compared with longarms.

Some jurisdictions here may require a minimum-size property for justification of the genuine reason to apply for a shooters licence, all necessary since the post-Port Arthur sh!tstorm, but for most of us a simple hoop to jump through.

In many ways we have it easier than you guys:
no hunting licences, tags, bag limits or seasons for pigs, goats, deer, buffalo etc. With property access, we just get stuck into it anytime we like. All good.

We do have a hunting season actually:
1st January to 31st December!

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Thank you for that explanation.. and yes, in terms of hunting licenses you certainly seem to have a more liberal (hate that word) hunting season..

I was thinking more of what was posted in terms of what is and is not permissible around the world anymore when it comes to firearms. Canada, just in the last week, made dozens of firearms illegal as well.. It seems governments around the world are certainly concerned about what is and is not acceptable for their civilian populations to have.. I find that troubling.. Seriously, what is the harm in having a target range?? Will one of the plates run after someone and kill them?? It all seems very odd to me and way to restrictive on personal rights. Guess its similar to what you feel about hunting seasons??

In the meantime, keep hunting I guess..

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