Fishing

Trying to get as much fishing in before the boys go back later this week. This is tonight's fishing trip...totally maxed out on our limit. More tomorrow night

Can you tell they get on really well?

 

Something fishy going on here......





Very nice!

 

those are some nice fish there....

if you havent already you should take those guys out ocean/bay fishing, its a blast catching those big salmon and sharks. Rays are really fun to catch as well. My dad took me a while back in Humboldt Bay, little south of you guys, and we had tons of fun. Definitely an experience if they havent gone yet.

 

We don't have the kit to do ocean fishing, but we get plenty of big salmon and steelhead coming back up the river. Looking forward to the fall chinook run now

 

So we went fishing again tonight and maxed out once more with 20 rainbow trout. Then we maxed out at Baskin & Robbins *grins*

 

Looks like you all had a barrel of fun, Lev. I'm usually lucky if I catch anything, LoL. Around these parts, you really have to either go out in a boat, out of the metro area to catch much in the way of fish, unless you happen to get lucky.

 

That particular spot we just discovered this week. They are planting 3,000 trout per week in it at the moment...you just can't NOT catch fish While we were there this guy came up and started fishing near us. He wasn't really clued up, so my husband gave him a few tips and set his line up better with kit. Turned out he was the guy who owned all the land in that area, including where a couple of businesses are sited. Really nice guy. Nice to make friends while out fishing

 

Good to see someone who really wants to be a dad to his kids. every time I have to go to court with my ex I get treated like dirt because so many guys there refuse to act like a father. Props man, and nice cathes too

Calltaker

 

this is how we fish in my town!
http://originalalamo.com/images/okienoodling.jpg

 

Calltaker - I am sorry society treats you this way. People are so quick to assume and criticize a situation that they can barely begin to understand a lot of the time. I get it constantly, and it is very hurtful and assuming. As we said in a previous thread, when life gives you lemons, you just gotta keep making lemonade Happy squeezing

 

Its a form of self praise,some people need to feel they are better than others and the only way to reach that conclusion is to point the finger at someone else who's situation is different

 

True that. Funny thing is I find that I do a similar thing. Once in a while I happen to have the TV on when Jerry Springer comes on, and I say to myself, "Gee, my life isn't so bad as this person's" LOL... the original trash TV has uplifiting qualities


*edit to fix typos, still on first cup of coffee*

 

Last night we took the boys up the mountains to shoot the rifles. They'd never even seen one before, let alone fired one, and got on just great. Both were in inches of the bullseye...naturals

The last photo is a little blurry, but captures Tom's "Holy crap!" expression perfectly after his first shot lol.

 

Lucky little guys,what kind of rifles are those Lev,I love guns

 

The one Tom was shooting was my 30-06, and the one Nathan was shooting (little guy) was a .22 automatic.

 

I'm always hearing that you say it like thirty 'o' six,what does it mean,30 inch barrel six shots,0.30 caliber six shots,enlighten me

 

30-06 pronounced thirty aught six is a .308 inch (7.62 mm) caliber rifle, also known as the 7.62 x 63 mm, if that helps at all ( darn metricated Brits )

 

I have a thick cissy pad on mine, so his shoulder is fine. So far he avoided the black eye....I think we've all been there and done that one at least once

 

.30 caliber 1906 series.

that is what .30-06 is.

 

That only works on a couple of calibers. For instance .45-140, which is huge, is 140 grains of powder and there are others out there that are other naming conventions.

It's quiet a bit to keep track of at times.

 

140 grains is the weight of the projectile not the the charge

 

I think it is the weight of the powder charge on this one.

.45-75, .45-110, and .45-140 all shoot pretty much the same actual slug, but they have 3 different cartridge sizes.

And .45-140 will make you hate shooting a rifle in a hurry.

 

A different cartridged size wouldnt chamber in a rifle,the cartridge size has to be constant,if you read Tims original explaination as the grain size goes down the velocity goes up,the opposite would be true if you were using less charge therefore

"The only explaination for the increased recoil in the 140grain round is the weight of the projectile" <dump this I mixed two posts up

EDIT have you switched over to .45 revolvers Burning monkey,I know different sized cartridges can go in revolvers?

 

You are forgetting basic physics.

Force = Mass * Acceleration

More powder equates to more acceleration in the slug. More acceleration in the slug means more force, in both directions.

There is also 3 seperate parts to a 'bullet'. The actual slug or projectile, the powder, and the case. .45-140 is a bigger 'bullet' than say .45-75 but that is because the case is longer and wider at the base. The actual slug is the same size, or at least really close to the same size. Another example is that the slugs from a .45-70 and .45-110 are totally interchangable, whereas the brass cases are not. You can use the .45-70 in the .45-110 but not the other way around.

It's kind of like the .38 and .357 comparison with pistols.

And no, I am still talking rifles for the most part.

 

It was loaded with a 220 grain round or 150 grain round

and the charge was 45 grains of smokeless powder 140grains of powder is a shitload the kind of charge a .50 machine gun would take

 

140 grains of black powder.

Way less powerful than smokeless powder and yes, it is a shit load of powder. You don't see many, if any, rifles made for .45-140 any more. And there are only a few made in .45-110 anymore.

The .45-140 was used instead of some thing like .50(not machine gun) to hunt buffalo. It was used so that people could use the same .45 slugs, but yet really but down a buffalo easily.

 

where dya get black powder from ,its used the same smokeless powder for 100 years,irrellavent 140 grains of weight of black powder or smokeless powder would roughly take up the same volume inside the cartridge

Do you have a picture of one of these .45 140grain rounds,is it a high velocity round like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:.303ammunition.jpeg

or similar to a pistol round

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:357_Magnum.jpg

If its a high velocity round the cartridge has to be EXACTLY the same size,i'm not so sure about rifles that use pistol rounds like underlever rifles from westerns

Can anyone else clear this up,I'm too tired and I want a resolution before I sleep

 

I don't have an image, but I do have a link;
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_9_46/ai_64259211

There is an image of .45-110 on this page about half way down;
http://www.trackofthewolf.com/categ...Id=2&subId=190&styleId=931&PageSize=10&Page=2

And as far as how do I know it's black powder? I just do, there is nothing in the name that would tell you it's black powder.

The other thing that I know, is that with the .50 BMG for example, most of the brass casing is empty space. The powder charge takes up around a 1/3 of the space of the brass casing. This is to give enough O2 for the powder to burn.

 

Yeh I can definitely see how one of those cartridges could vary in length burning monkey

You brought up another point now that the charge needs O2 to burn,black powder,smokeless powder all carry thier own oxygen in perfect ratios,I know about half charges the SAS use them in the Iranian embassy seige to stop the rounds going through walls,not to give the powder more oxygen

Black powder

2 KNO3 + S + 3C → K2S + N2 + 3CO2

 

You are right about using half charges, but there is way more room than needed inside those casings to provide air for the powder to use up. That is what loading 'hot' shells is all about. Adding more powder and/or a 'hotter' burning powder or a powder that burns with more gas(not smoke) being given off in a shorter amount of time.

EDIT: And sorry Lev for side tracking your thread with all this ballistics talk.

 

Not a problem...it's semi-on topic as I did start the sideline issue of guns

 

I'm not sorry Lev

Mankind check PM

 

Nope. There is no "s" on the end of my last name

 

HAHA...that is just too funny. She is our daughter!!! What a strange way to find out about it heheh..wait till I tell her!

 

I'm totally serious. We just called her. She was at the Camp Out this morning, entered her name into the draw, and didn't know until we just called that she had even won anything!

Now let's see if you can find our other 6 kids lol

 

I had the very same thing with our car dealer friend....we e-mailed each other within 1 minute the very same car (which I bought) but the URL was from 2 different sources. Obviously it was meant to be

He rang me this morning to see how I was getting on with it, just as I had started an e-mail to him

 

Maybe it's the fish in it (how's that for getting a thread back on track HAHA)

My husband and his fishing buddy just got back from another successfull maxed out trout fishing jaunt

 

Paulie "his windpipe is cracked,well thats it for him" And paulies shoes in the forest "mix it with the relish"

 

I`ll leave you here you one shoe c**kS***er

"Dont you leave me here kid" "what your a doctor now" lol,paulies voice is just plain funny imho,prolly my fav character

Sorry lev

 

No you're not Rikky....you said so earlier.....

 

god bless the mighty USA... but you guys dont come close to extreme sport fishing on the north coast of OZ....

Your always welcome at my place!!!! Darwin Australia

 

we can use those fish for bait....hehe

 

Hi all, I just joined the forums and was glad to see a fishing thread in the lounge!

We are getting ready for the fall fishing here in the Chesapeake Bay area.

Stripe bass migrating from the bay to the ocean are my favorite catch.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1928/21pounderroger1rr.th.jpg

This one weighed in at 21 lbs but they come much larger.
He was sitting in the cooler all night so he lost some most of his color.

And I would love to do some Australian fishing there nitecrawler,

Can I stay at your house? - lol.

 

I thought I was sorry,I guess not,but its the thought that counts

Welcome to the forum estimator,Nice fish,waaayyyy bigger than levs,see if Lev can give you some of hers for bait

 

HAHA....bass are meant to be bigger than trout (unless they are steelheads). Actually we catch chad here and use the eggs for bait for salmon, and the meat for crab pot fishing.

Welcome to MGs, Estimator - nice fish btw

@Nitecrawler - on my way out to you for the Aussie summer.....reserve me a room

 

You should try fishing down South. The Redfish and Speckled trout in Louisiana are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also would give a boost to New Orleans and the areas that really need it after Hurricane Katrina

 

re;fishing. some nice fish you got.i just joined majorgeeks i do river fishinging most weekends. i live in uk

 

Whereabouts are you in the UK? I never got into fishing when I lived there. I love it, though