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<blockquote data-quote="dgarrett" data-source="post: 1589169" data-attributes="member: 58686"><p>Cussing Cans. This is a bit long winded but I will get to cussing the can.. At the end of December one of my old lion hunting buddies called me around 8:30 in the morning asking if I wanted to run out and take a ride and look for a lion track with him..I said sure as I am stuck in the house most the time... We go for our ride and find nothing and are on our way out of a forest service road to go eat lunch at the bar... When he slams on the breaks gets out and looks at one lone little track on my side of the road... The only snow anywhere is just the small borrow pits on each side of this dirt road.... Well I get out and he has a bobcat track... He says well its 11:00 and we don't have anything else to do might as well see what the dogs think of it... He opens both doors on the dog box and out piles the 3 hounds... He calls them over to get them started...They take the track working slowly up the dry rock slide and get 400 yards up the steep hill and the first dog located on a tree.... We stand on the road worrying about the rocks and boulders they are bowling at us and after a bit of screwing around all 3 dogs tree.... He takes his pistol and heads up as I watch...Finally he shoots 2 shots... Then calls something down to me... I can't hear what hes hollering because the dogs are at 100 barks each...After 5 or 10 minutes I get it that he wants me to bring him a rifle.... I look in the truck and there is only my 30-378... My dedicated wolf gun... and his 7LRM with a can... So I pick the 7lrm... after all its just a bobcat... Littler has to be better... I start up the rock slide crawling with both feet and hands on the rocks at all times. My *** always higher then my head.. I am all crippled up have no balance and almost totally worthless on flat ground let alone a rocky slide steep hill like this... I cussed that can the 400 yard up that hill as the barrel end heavy SOB kept sliding and bashing into the rocks..That is my one and only time evaluating a can... And I am not impressed lol... Might help if his rifle didn't already have a 27.5 inch barrel on it or if I could stand up right... But that is my experience. On a good note I did get free lunch out of him at the bar that day..... Dave .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dgarrett, post: 1589169, member: 58686"] Cussing Cans. This is a bit long winded but I will get to cussing the can.. At the end of December one of my old lion hunting buddies called me around 8:30 in the morning asking if I wanted to run out and take a ride and look for a lion track with him..I said sure as I am stuck in the house most the time... We go for our ride and find nothing and are on our way out of a forest service road to go eat lunch at the bar... When he slams on the breaks gets out and looks at one lone little track on my side of the road... The only snow anywhere is just the small borrow pits on each side of this dirt road.... Well I get out and he has a bobcat track... He says well its 11:00 and we don't have anything else to do might as well see what the dogs think of it... He opens both doors on the dog box and out piles the 3 hounds... He calls them over to get them started...They take the track working slowly up the dry rock slide and get 400 yards up the steep hill and the first dog located on a tree.... We stand on the road worrying about the rocks and boulders they are bowling at us and after a bit of screwing around all 3 dogs tree.... He takes his pistol and heads up as I watch...Finally he shoots 2 shots... Then calls something down to me... I can't hear what hes hollering because the dogs are at 100 barks each...After 5 or 10 minutes I get it that he wants me to bring him a rifle.... I look in the truck and there is only my 30-378... My dedicated wolf gun... and his 7LRM with a can... So I pick the 7lrm... after all its just a bobcat... Littler has to be better... I start up the rock slide crawling with both feet and hands on the rocks at all times. My *** always higher then my head.. I am all crippled up have no balance and almost totally worthless on flat ground let alone a rocky slide steep hill like this... I cussed that can the 400 yard up that hill as the barrel end heavy SOB kept sliding and bashing into the rocks..That is my one and only time evaluating a can... And I am not impressed lol... Might help if his rifle didn't already have a 27.5 inch barrel on it or if I could stand up right... But that is my experience. On a good note I did get free lunch out of him at the bar that day..... Dave . [/QUOTE]
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