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How about an ATV pulling an old metal row boat with about 250' of rope. You could mount your target with some fence posting, etc.

A fellow could pull the boat fast up to 25 MPH with an ATV 4 wheeler such that when the ATV passed and cleared the hunter the initial shot could be taken at 35-50 yards and the second closer.Best the hunter have a tree or similar object between him and the roped ATV/target for safeties sake.

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You need a better method than this to approximate the stress of a DG hunt.

My recommendation is to straddle the tow rope.

The fellow with the ATV stops if you hit the "X" ring and squeezes hard on the throttle if you don't...

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Did treat a fellow who says he got fired from a job killing cows for a slaughter house when he showed off by shooting his personal handgun and messed up killing a cow. He tried a shot to the head, miissed the brain and the cow tore fencing up as well as got loose,creating a general panic with the other employees before it was dispatched!!

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Good heavens!! I can only imagine the mayhem that thing would have created in the confines of a kill floor. I'm thinking that if I was his supervisor I'd have sent him packin', too!!

I have 5 butcher sheep on-the-hoof that need to be packed on ice soon, I'll try not to make the same mistake!

By the way, Shakari, your general suggestion in your first post about shooting lots of game for practise with the DG rifle is well taken, but in the USA, opportunities for such shooting are extremely limited. For example, the nature of most varmint shooting {where large numbers of critters, albeit little} are shot calls for a highly specialized, accurate rifle, particularly when the target is small and the ranges extended. Some areas have large enough pig populations for fellows to get some real shooting in, and of course there are some little critters like ground squirrels that are shot up close and where an iron-sighted rifle {or somebody's DG rifle} can be used as I do on my place, but the guy that gets lots of opportunity to shoot large numbers of decent-sized game or even butcher stock for that matter is a rare one indeed, so maybe the next best bet might be Hoppdoc's Boston Whaler with a Longhorn Steer head wired on the bow!!

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What are the Rosary, the Cross or the Crucifix other than tools to help maintain the fortress of our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God?

Edited by 9ThreeXFifty7 (15/01/08 04:07 AM)

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