RE: New Year's Day, Yearly Author, Luke Littler, Kraken Suprise, Brass, Fire, Trailer, Darts, STEAK - Monday

@flemingfarm Nice job on the posting consistency! I cannot always catch them all but I try.

You may already know this but there is a heck of a lot of value in being able to shoot both right and left handed. Just something that I picked up on while growing up with firearms and try to impart to folks. Also learning to shoot moving targets (while moving) is a lost art in my opinion.

We used to go squirrel hunting on a river (we called it a creek but it was a river) and me and my brother would stand on the bow of the moving boat (each with a 410 shotgun) and bag squirrels all day long.

We both got extremely good at gauging the spread (of the bird shot) and could consistently put 1-2 pellets of it in a squirrel's head... thus not damaging the edible parts.

I think the most we got in one day was ninety of them. In all our years of doing it we only had one squirrel that we injured and got away. It still frigging haunts me that we were not able to dispatch it after wounding it!

The hunting was fun and all but the real joy came later after skinning, cleaning, cooking and eating them!

I grew up shooting black powder rifles from the time I was about 6 or so for a number of years. My grandparents made buckskin clothing and would go to rendezvous around California in the 80s/90s. I still have my skunk skin hat they made me. Won awards for my skins and hat too. I remember numerous times as a kid stopping along the highway and scooping up some road kill to take to them to skin and process for hats.

Wow you were a lucky soul getting to learn black powder first! I think that I was five or six when I got my first BB gun and eight or nine when I got a 'real' gun.

No clue what year this was but I was about 6 or 7.

Epic! I was not very talented with furs and skins but whoa I sure tried!

EDIT: LOL I just noticed that snub-nose black powder pistol! I bet that had quite the 'whomp' to it!

I think it is a .30 derringer and it was a little cannon. Impossible to aim!

Yup! Obviously meant for close quarter situations. Probably for dealing with the dangers of moose/bear/wolf/big cat and the more problematic two-legged critters!