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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Not sure why but the other pic of the plate doesn't want to post.
Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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maybe you "had too much on your plate"
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Nyuk nyuk nyuk....badda boom badda bing
Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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I used paper plates as I'm old and my eyes aren't as good as they used to be. Both 50 and 100 yd was shot with the battle site. The planets must have been aligned as I'm a self professed non open site shooter. (I actually outshot buddy @ 100 yds. He was shooting a .308 Win Model 88 with a 3x9 Bushnell.)
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A friend of mine practiced for hunting season with them.

He'd make a fist, place it in the center of the plate & draw round it with a sharpie. Then he'd fill in the area inside the fist with sharpie strokes.

It simulated the "vital area" of a deer & the heart almost perfectly.
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Exactly my thinking! 5" target, lungs or heart! I think it's safe to say I'm a hunter, definitely not a marksman like some of the other members have displayed. While envious, it's a talent I will never possess but I'm comfortable with that. (I also can't golf!)
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HT: It must be a Prairie thing", cause round here we keep the deer heart! (Theres a fine in my camp if you blow the heart away! $5.00 & drinks on you!)

I'm like you - I hunt, & can't use a scope worth a darn! (Tired old 63 yr old eyes). But open battle sites give me all the "help" I need.

Deer give the term "fast food" a whole new meaning
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I like beef heart. And chicken and turkey heart. I'm not sure why I've never tried venison heart. Hoadie, do you have a favorite recipe you could share?
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Yep.One that works for everyone!

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Thanks Hoadie.
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Question. I was using those Imperial KKSP's. 180gr. I believe they were factory original. They cycled well in the carbine. I put the caliper on one. It was 2.93". Does this seem short?
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Here's a very traditional English one.

Umble pie, Figgy Pudding’s version…

For the pastry:

200g plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
100g butter  (cut into small, rough cubes)
large pinch of saffron
1 egg yolk
cold water (about half a mug of cold water will be needed)
 

For the filling:

6 strips of streaky bacon 
100g bacon lardons
200g venison offal also add venison scraps as available, but remove any fat. (kidneys, liver & sweetbreads work best; chopped & boiled for around 20 minutes until tender, then cooled)
1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen berries (raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc.) 4 dried apricots, diced.
1/4 tsp freshly-grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
10 cloves
1 tsp Mace
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
100g butter
100ml red wine
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, chopped
 
Boil the offal & spices (cloves, mace nutmeg & cinnamon) for 20 minutes and then leave to cool for 40 minutes. At the same time as you begin boiling the offal, If you’re using saffron to give your pastry a warm golden-hue, steep the saffron in a tablespoon of hot water for 30 minutes or so. By the time you come to use the water, it should have completely cooled.
 
Sift flour and salt into a large bowl; a metal bowl works best as it keeps the pastry cool. Put the cubes of butter into the flour, and with your fingers, rub the butter into the flour.  Keep rubbing until the mixture has the texture of fine, small breadcrumbs. Drop the egg yolk into a well and add 2 tablespoons of cold water and the (now-cooled) saffron water. Mix with a butter knife. Mix everything together, adding more cold water if necessary and keep mixing until a ball of pastry is easily formed.  Wrap the pastry in cling film and put in the fridge for around 30 minutes.
 
 Roll 2/3 of the pastry out until it is thin enough to cover the base and sides of the pie dish. Then line the dish with the pastry and arrange 3 bacon rashers one way and make a criss-cross pattern by laying the other 3 slices in the opposite direction. Put the pie funnel in the centre of the pie and around this put the cooled, cooked offal and the bacon lardons. Add the pepper, salt, fruits & nutmeg. Roll out the remaining pastry and use to cover the pie. Crimp the edges closed, using a little water to join the pie lid to the edges. You can use any leftover pastry to make leaves or more intricate designs! Brush the top of your pastry with a little milk or cream, just before placing in the oven.
 
Bake in  an oven at 180°C for 40 minutes. While the pie is cooking In the meantime, mix the wine, butter and thyme leaves in a saucepan. Heat until the butter melts then bring to a slow boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook down for about 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.
 
When you remove the pie from the oven pour in the wine sauce (if you have a pie funnel that allows this to be poured into the pie – even better! Serve hot with peas or other green veg.
 


Fresh from the oven…

 

The Results…

If you like liver, this won’t disappoint (but does anyone really like liver these days?). The liver and kidneys give a lovely flavour to the bacon and those juices seep into the pastry below. I think it would be better in future if the liver, kidney and lardons were all the same size, cut up very small, so that the flavours mix together far better. If all three meats placed within the pie resembled a large mince, I think the outcome could be quite delicious.

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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I had some range-time today with an old 303 Ross Rifle passed down from my grandfather to my father to my brother and now to me... I remember my father taking several deer with it and the last time he hunted deer was in the 1970s. There were two boxes of old ammunition, one Dominion brand 150SP probably from the 1950s and the other Imperial 174 RN probably from his last hunting expedition in the 1970s. The rifle is rather unique, a straight-pull designed and built before WW I in Canada.

The weather was forecast to be digustingly hot so we drove out after breakfast and hiked from the road to a sand-pit with a good bank as a backstop. It was comfortable weather when we set out but the exertion of setting up warmed us up well. The rifle shot very well even with the ancient ammunition except the groups were a bit low for the sights. I guess the ammunition is "tired" and needed to be retired. I fired some reloads as well with modern powder and primers and bullets. That was delightful. Recoil with one load was a bit painful with a steel butt-plate but the other was fine. Accuracy at 90 yards was certainly deer-killing. Once we figured out which sights to use, this beast was a pleasure to shoot. It was easy to see both the rear peep and the front post on the target and nice groups were had for rabbits let alone deer.

By the time we finished firing, the sun was baking us and all our equipment. Everything was hot to the touch and we were bathed in sweat. Biggest problem of the day was seeing with sweat running in our eyes. We retired to our air-cooled home and had lunch.

I'm going to try to use this rifle for deer in the fall if I don't get one with my muzzle-loader first. I would not hesitate to take a deer at all the ranges where I can see them clearly with this rifle. It's a pleasure to hold and shoot and it carries so much history and familial memories. Trigger, bolt, action, feeding, extraction all were nice. They just don't make rifles like this much any more and it's a pity. The "sporty" things and the black plastic rifles just don't appeal to me. A wooden stock and strong steel barrel with iron sights is the way Nature intended this old boy to throw stones.
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Pogson.
I'm not certain at all if you know this or not but,the Ross rifle has a pretty bad reputation for the bolt to inadvertently unlock after a round has been fired and discharge backwards into the shooters face. This is a small read from Wikipedia on the Ross rifle.

The rifle showed poor tolerance of dirt when used in field conditions, particularly the screw threads operating the bolt lugs, jamming the weapon open or closed. Another part of the jamming problem came from the bolt's outer face hitting the bolt stop, then deforming the thread shape. The bolt could also be disassembled for routine cleaning and inadvertently reassembled in a manner that would fail to lock but still allow a round to be fired, leading to serious injury or death of the operator as the bolt flew back into his face...
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Does anyone know what the actual facts are on Ross bolt blow back accidents? Seems to me there was another thread on this and it was very rare, and only one of the marks (or two?) could be disassembled incorrectly. Modification could have prevented this. The other more common problem was with variabilities in .303 ammunition (between Canadian and British) such that cartridges made to the high side of tolerance wouldn’t chamber. This could have been easily corrected by reaming the chambers. Mud in the trenches likely also played havoc with the fine machining tolerances in the bolt screw threads, not as easy to fix. This rifle was a superb target rifle but not a practical service rifle for the mud in the trenches in France.

My Dad had a Ross Military Match, in .280 Ross, that shot exceptionally well. I’ve got a 100 yard target he shot in the ‘60s that is sub MOA. He paid $600 for that rifle in 1966!! I wish he still had it, I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot it.

Other rifles in history had accidents, read about the 1903 Springfield burst recievers and bolt blow backs in Hatcher’s Notebook. No record of fatal accidents at that time, but 3 cases of loss of an eye and another 3 of “serious” injury. These were typically caused by a case head failure, something the Lee action handles well.





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