I keep 2 guns for hiking.

If you use a gun for its intended purpose your going to wind up in jail.

You can argue against it all day but no matter what your going to be viewed by the legal system
 
Joseph Loveland said:
Mastalerz I have a M6 and really do enjoy it. I've run everal test ammunition weights through it just ta see what it likes and doesn't like. I don't hike anymore due ta being disabled and this has changed my life greatly, but as my friend would say - Ya play the cards ya dealt!! I agree with ya on many points, as of now all I have is the M6 and we hit hard times so my other guns took a hit. I wish one day ta be able ta replace them, but I know it ain't gonna happen. I carry my CK8H and feel safe with this knife, but being 60 and disabled, well I don't know what's coming around that next corner.
I wish ya could find an M6 for I think ya'd like it, I love mine and so does my Cousin. He's a big knife guy and I've got more knives than him but he can sharpen them better than I can. I'm learning and since being here on BF I've learned a lot about knives and how ta sharpen them.
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Hey there thanks for the response and glad to hear your thoughts on it, if I was going to buy one that would probably be it! Sorry to hear about the hard times, but you seem to have a pretty positive outlook which is rare these days. Thanks for the input and best of luck to you!
 
rickc71 said:
Wow,I finally found someone to put on my ignore list. Thanks bonee! Nice attitude:thumbdn:
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Thanks for that. Before your post, I didn't realize there was an ignore list and now after this thread and others, I now realize I need one. You rock, sir!
 
I'm afraid I don't understand the purpose of this thread. So great you have a 22 and a 40 S&W. I'd just leave the 22 myself. It serves little purpose on the trail for you as I don't know the point of shooting a starling on the trail. Personally, a 22 works well for me and I don't own any $125 handguns.

Great that you conceal the guns. I think that's important as long as you are properly "licensed" for your state.
 
I tried not to post to this thread.... I had nothing nice to say but been thinking about it today. So dicided to post anyway..Why would anyone shoot a song bird?????????????? its part of what makes my stay in the wild so much better... I would rather wake up to the sound of a bird then any band out there period...I have the most respect to all the folks on this forum and I say that with all my heart. I meet a few and no matter our back ground or where we from. We all seem to get along so well when we get together. Most of us are in many way alike in how we think or see things, Be it right or wrong.
That said, It is the first time ever I had came across a thread of someone on here saying he likes to shoot song birds... For no other reason but its fun to kill them. What kind of thinking is that??? its so wrong on so many levels for anyone who proclaim they like the outdoors. Its even worse then the thread about people who leave garbage or ruin a camping site.. Talk like this and I wonder about some people having guns.
As for the .22 let the men who don't mind getting shoot with a .22 raise his hand....It might not be a one shoot kill or a 1000 meter round or what you take bear hunting. but no way I want to get shoot with it.
 
The European Starling is intrusive in North America and destructive to native birds, driving some to the brink of extinction. Killing them is generally considered a Good Thing. (Same goes for the English Sparrow, by the way.)
 
sasha, believe me, I am 100% on your side on this. I will say though that bonee is historee! He was banned for trolling. I think we were all tired of his attitude.

Let me tie the two ideas together, trashed campsites and songbirds. I was walking around a small local lake one day. Picnicking, boating, catch & release fishing.

Sometimes the fishermen leave snarled line around. I heard a scuffling sound in the bushes and looked in. A robin had gotten tangled in that line, a wing wrapped to its side, a leg caught, its body tied to the branch.

I could barely reach in that far, and by hand wouldn't be able to release it. But I was carrying my woods knife, a Cold Steel Vaquero Grande. Carefully nicking the line, I released the bird, who dropped to the ground, fluffed out its wings, and ran away.

At least one happy ending.
 
Cougar Allen said:
The European Starling is intrusive in North America and destructive to native birds, driving some to the brink of extinction. Killing them is generally considered a Good Thing. (Same goes for the English Sparrow, by the way.)
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Good to know.
-Most destructive animal on Earth


Esav Benyamin said:
sasha, believe me, I am 100% on your side on this. I will say though that bonee is historee! He was banned for trolling. I think we were all tired of his attitude.
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:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Many of his posts seemed to originate from awkward motivations.
 
I can't deny, I too used to dog on the HP22, until I traded a Spyderco Manix 2 for one. I quickly realized, that while it wasn't super high quality, it was certainly a notch above an SNS. Shot, and cycled every cheapo, Remington GB, I put through it. Accuracy was pleasantly surprising. Shot steel with it mostly, so I can't comment too much on accuracy. Sold it to a friend I had who used to be anti-gun. He enjoys it a great deal. Excellent warranty too if anything goes south. They say they'll stand up to several thousand rounds. I wouldn't know, only put 250 or so through mine. Meh I'm talking it up a bit, but for the money it is what it is. A pot metal 22 pistol, with a reasonable service life given the price.


 
Interesting thread. I could swear I have seen posts by the same guy on some other forums where he has posted under other names and has picked up a nick name. I'm mildly disappointed he got tossed because he always made me laugh (accidentally on his part for sure) and I'm sure he was just getting started. Clearly though the mods are on top of things.
Josh

Ps. I just read some more of his threads and am more convinced. Could this be "gunkid" of internet legend?
 
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whetrock said:
I can't deny, I too used to dog on the HP22, until I traded a Spyderco Manix 2 for one. I quickly realized, that while it wasn't super high quality, it was certainly a notch above an SNS. Shot, and cycled every cheapo, Remington GB, I put through it. Accuracy was pleasantly surprising. Shot steel with it mostly, so I can't comment too much on accuracy. Sold it to a friend I had who used to be anti-gun. He enjoys it a great deal. Excellent warranty too if anything goes south. They say they'll stand up to several thousand rounds. I wouldn't know, only put 250 or so through mine. Meh I'm talking it up a bit, but for the money it is what it is. A pot metal 22 pistol, with a reasonable service life given the price.


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I have one of these that I bought on a whim once because it was so cheap. I haven't fired it in a while, but it really isn't a bad little plinker. However, it's a PITA to clean.
 
I've shot an HP22 a few times, it worked. Getting the magazine out was like solving some kinda Japanese puzzle box, that kinda turned me off of them.

That and the full lifetime warranty, even if you didn't buy the gun.

bonee was a tool, but, as far as shooting starlings, they aren't listed as songbirds and not protected. they are an invasive specie and need to be thinned out.

They take nest sites from other birds and even push out eggs and young to do it. they cause structural damage to buildings and food crops and breed faster than native species.

In short they are a pest, shooting thems not for everybody, but there is nothing illegal about it.
 
I learned something new about the starlings, Had no idea they were listed as a pest. So I were wrong about what i said about shooting starlings.
But as for Bonee and his posts I still think he is not someone I would enjoy sharing a camp fire with.
 
j_d said:
Interesting thread. I could swear I have seen posts by the same guy on some other forums where he has posted under other names and has picked up a nick name. I'm mildly disappointed he got tossed because he always made me laugh (accidentally on his part for sure) and I'm sure he was just getting started. Clearly though the mods are on top of things.
Josh

Ps. I just read some more of his threads and am more convinced. Could this be "gunkid" of internet legend?
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Yeah he was quite humorous. The whole ponchos with two sticks becoming a raft was kind I funny. Didn't mind him, until one night he was posting thread after thread within minutes and not even responding to his own threads when people asked him questions. Mods warned him and he cussed them out openly in the forum. So banning him was probably the right thing to do. He was more of a doomsday prepped than an outdoorsman or survivalist. Also he was a self proclaimed Wyatt Earp/Blackbelt who could pop off group shots to the heads of anyone who gave him lip with his .45, place the others under citizens arrest, nail multiple starlings with his .22 from the hip and also an expert at using a sling from the hip to knock out enemies. Surviving sub zero temperatures comfortably without a fire or shelter simply by the use of a couple gortex rain ponchos and his mylar blanket (you don't want a fire or shelter because there are simply too many enemies around.). And sailing across the river on his gortex poncho and two stick raft with his mountain bike to escape the enemies burning down his town and the toxic glue fumes to down a bear easily with his 9mm double tap the head.

Edit: forgot about his canned crisco diet!
 
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