Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
You carry another length of paracord in your pack to make a new gun sling.
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Peter
Treehouser
Or, you could fashion a new one out of the skin of a zombie, after you have shot it with the shotgun, garrotted it with the paracord, and decapitated it with the bowsaw.
MasterBlaster
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Or, you just braid it back...
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Speaking of which ,it's legal to hunt deer in Ohio using a freaking pistol in either .357 or 44 mag but not using a rifle of those calibers .Dumb dumb dumb .The rifle won't fling lead any farther than the hand gun plus it's much more accurate .
Evidently whoever the dummy was that got the piece of legislation introduced into the hunting laws would prefer to see wounded deer rather than clean humane methods .So much for that,back to the scatter gun
Didn't you mean the rifle will fling lead farther than the handgun? With a longer barrel, the velocity potential is greater. Granted neither of the two calibers mentioned is much on range. My brother-in-law killed a doe with the Marlin .357 I mentioned above several years ago. At about 40 yards, complete pass-through. What more can you ask of a bullet?
Here in Alabama, you can hunt deer with ANY centerfire rifle or handgun, but not a rimfire.
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
Hm, I wouldnt have been so inventive, I would have used the unbraided hank in the pack in the first place thereby saving me the hassle of braiding a new one. Of course then I would have to carry a deck of weatherproof playing cards so I would have something to do for a couple hours instead of the aforementioned braiding project.
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
Dude... Were your irony sensors not bleeping on my post...?
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Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Let me qualify that .I don't think there would be that much difference in range compairing an 8 inch barrel of a 44 mag pistol as oppossed to an 18 barrel used on a Ruger 44 mag rifle . Some perhaps but not much . The range even on a pistol is surprising but of course the trajectory is about like a morter shell .
My complaint with using a pistol for hunting is the fact it could or should be assumed that a rifle shot would be much more accurate than say an 80 yard shot from a pistol .I know for a fact the 44 mag rifle will drop one at a hundred yards because I saw my brother in law do it in Colorado .Much to my amazement I might add .
I understand what you're saying, Al, but there are changes in velocity anytime barrel length is lengthened/shortened. Here's a site I found that illustrates it in .44.......www.ballisticsbytheinch.com/44mag.html. Naturally, the faster the bullet is moving to start with, the greater velocity loss it will incur. This chart shows the .44 losing from ~100 to 150 FPS, but it was only moving at ~1500 FPS to start with. A .300 Winchester Magnum, however would start with over 300 FPS, and so would lose significantly more velocity if you chopped off 10" of barrel length.
I shoot a T/C Encore some, and you can buy barrels from 10" up to 28" in various calibers. When loading .44 Magnum ammo, you can custom tailor it to the length barrel you're shooting. A shorter barrel needs faster burning powder to achieve full velocity before leaving the barrel, while a longer barrel has more time to utilize full powder burn.
I shoot a T/C Encore some, and you can buy barrels from 10" up to 28" in various calibers. When loading .44 Magnum ammo, you can custom tailor it to the length barrel you're shooting. A shorter barrel needs faster burning powder to achieve full velocity before leaving the barrel, while a longer barrel has more time to utilize full powder burn.
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