ccmdoc
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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A good friend said this tree was going to fall on me if I kept shooting 900 grain .620 CEB #13s at it.
Just call it "CCMDoc's Tree Service"
Tree pruning implement in hand:
First 4 shots from unscoped 375FL, off hand 40 yards
Here are some glamour shots of a bit more than an hour's worth of shooting my Verney-Carron 600NE and Verney-Carron 375Flanged Magnum NE ...
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Verney-Carron 375Flanged, 577NE & 600NE
Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow
Edited by CptCurl (09/09/11 09:37 PM)
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Ben
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Awesome! Too much fun! I've knocked over some trees practicing, but none that big!
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mehulkamdar
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LOL! What a way to chop a tree down! And there's a scientific aspect to it as well - rifles that can knock trees down can do this to game as well!
Good hunting!
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ccmdoc
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Thanks for the kind words.
Elephant in Namibia this November ...
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.224WBY through .416WBY plus 600OK
Verney-Carron 375Flanged, 577NE & 600NE
Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow
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mauserand9mm
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It's amazing what the big bores will do. I was out pig hunting with my 458WM bolt gun earlier this year and had a mixture of loads, ranging from sub-sonic lead (good rabbit load) to "normal" 500gn FMJ loads. After getting a couple of pigs, and heading back to the car, I tried out some of the FMJs on inanimate objects.
I shot a large rock, which disintegrated, and found a chunk of the fired projectile - it had blown apart. It was too hot to hold in my hand, even after the minute it took me to find it.
I then shot at a 5" tree branch with another 5" branch behind it, expecting that the second branch would allow me to find the spent projectile - wrong! The projectile went straight through both without any signs of expanding, but I guess they are not meant to, are they?
(Note: I made sure I had a safe background in both cases before I did this. The rock was in the bottom of a dried up section of waterway - I fired down into it, and there was a far side steep sided creek bank behind the tree that was inaccessible for me to try and recover that projectile, I didn't bother looking for it but probably should.)
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ccmdoc
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It's amazing what the big bores will do. I was out pig hunting with my 458WM bolt gun earlier this year and had a mixture of loads, ranging from sub-sonic lead (good rabbit load) to "normal" 500gn FMJ loads. After getting a couple of pigs, and heading back to the car, I tried out some of the FMJs on inanimate objects.
I shot a large rock, which disintegrated, and found a chunk of the fired projectile - it had blown apart. It was too hot to hold in my hand, even after the minute it took me to find it.
I then shot at a 5" tree branch with another 5" branch behind it, expecting that the second branch would allow me to find the spent projectile - wrong! The projectile went straight through both without any signs of expanding, but I guess they are not meant to, are they?
(Note: I made sure I had a safe background in both cases before I did this. The rock was in the bottom of a dried up section of waterway - I fired down into it, and there was a far side steep sided creek bank behind the tree that was inaccessible for me to try and recover that projectile, I didn't bother looking for it but probably should.)
Great fun doing this sort of stuff and you're right, need to have a good, safe, certain backstop. Behind that tree the ground rises sharply upwards. The is the shooting lane we have been using since 1963. The amount of gilding meal, brass, bronze and copper in that hill must be nearing a ton 
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.224WBY through .416WBY plus 600OK
Verney-Carron 375Flanged, 577NE & 600NE
Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow
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Sville
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As a Forester I must say, that your Pine is of bad quality!! I think you must shoot some more on something better..... 
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CptCurl
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Those are two fine rifles. Good luck with your November hunt, you lucky one!
Curl
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NitroX
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One tree down, 999 more to go! 
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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
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ccmdoc
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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As a Forester I must say, that your Pine is of bad quality!! I think you must shoot some more on something better.....
While I've not heard complaints about my wood in the past, I do agree I am in need of higher quality targets
Thanks for the kind words, Curl.
NitroX - making matchsticks one tree at a time ...
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NRA Lifer; SCI member
.224WBY through .416WBY plus 600OK
Verney-Carron 375Flanged, 577NE & 600NE
Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow
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FATBOY404
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Nice rifles mate.
That 375 shoots well.
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