A tale of two bullets in the pics. Both subsonic 300 Blackout. Shot distance 42 yards. Cans full of hot water so my thermal can see them.
Top a Winchester open tip 200 grain. Bottom is a 190 grain Hornady Sub X. Not pictured are cans shot with 204 grain Hornady Black Amax and AAC 220 FMJ, each...
I added a Riflespeed adjustable gas block to my Blackout this evening.
This is the way. It eliminated my blowback problem where only the weakest loads were cycling without excess gas in my face or pop in my ear.
So far I’ve found that Hornady Blacks cycle fully (meaning they blow the bolt...
I have an adjustable gas block incoming for the Blackout. If this works to let me tune the packpressure for various loads when running the suppressor so as to minimize gas blowback, I’ll get the same gas block for my LR-308 and set it up to run supers.
I dumped some feed out for my free-range, semi-feral, sow. Some of the flock found it this morning. They only fed around it for about 15 minutes then they faded back into the woods.
I think its a bit of all of the above. Some of them likely could have done it (thrived with zero food from me) from day 1. Yet the years of natural selection has enhanced the trait.
The ability to forage for 100% of their food is dependent on other traits. The most dangerous place on the farm...
Thanks for the kind words about my book!
I don’t recollect how much property you have to utilize. What’s the max range the chickens can use?
This year I’ve fed my free-range flock the least amount I ever have on this farm. I throw them a little feed as a treat about once every 2-3 weeks here...
I used to think off-set sites were tacticool-fake. But this being my first AR pistol, I noticed how easy and convenient it was to cock it 45° and aim with it that way. So I added an off-set red dot and now I see the appeal. I have the advantage of a thermal but also the practicality of a red dot...
Not taking any lip from other hens… beating them down to the ground and putting her “boot” on their necks… sounds like the all American game hen.
What’s your rooster?
Good luck! I can tell you from my own failures… make your shot count. Bobcats learn quick from missed shots or otherwise being spooked. They can be oblivious until they’re not and they won’t be careless again in the same circumstances if they survive the hunt the first time. I’ve messed up a sit...
I see you’re in Utah. Are you sure you don’t have a panther (what you’d probably call a mountain lion or a cougar)? Not that they’re super vocal either. But when they do it usually carries a long ways and you remember it.
They’re usually quiet animals unless a female is in heat or two individuals are fighting. Are you sure its a bobcat and not something else? I’m presuming you’re hearing screaming calls at night. My gut reaction is that you’ve got an animal that screams frequently from the woodline, its probably...
Is she the one on top doing the pecking on the one of the bottom being pecked?
I’ve not seen hens fight that way. Mine always flog each other like roosters. One never gets the other on the ground unless its the end and death is near. They flutter their wings and kick and peck eye to eye...
A rooster will usually interject his body between the fighting hens and posture himself. It may not work immediately when he does it but he’ll keep doing it until they stop.
If she doesn’t quit, she isn’t beaten. At least for the duration of the episode. Does she eventually run away for a time...
Maybe it isn’t millions of years….
A lot of evidence is out there now that new vertebrate species arise naturally within a human lifetime. Speciation may be a fast process. We’ve only been paying close attention to the distinctions between similar species for a couple hundred years. My...
I did once have a wyandotte that seemed to have electrocuted herself on a live wire. No breath that I could see. I threw her on my ATV to bait a varmint trap with and she revived and went to running and squawking.
That was also the only time I’ve seen adult chickens appear to provide care for...