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Why is it bad, did he poop in the house?
Reminds me, I was there at a paper mill only about a hundred feet away or so and about forty feet higher when this happened. There was a safety shack and safety crew on the job. Often the first man hurt gets stuck with the safety job but in this case they had hired a specialist. I don't have a picture of him so just imagine a six feet tall dildo with a hard hat on one end and boots on the other. Whichever end doesn't matter!
The carpenters were working on a platform about 80 feet from the ground. One of them had found a blue jumpsuit just like they wore. Cast off rubber boots were easy to find, also gloves and hardhat. We were working with a material called rockwool, picture fiberglass insulation then make it ten times as itchy! The carpenter went to some effort putting together a beautimus dummy and stuffing it with rockwool. He watched until he saw the safety guy coming out of the safety shack a bit over a hundred yards away and with a whole unit worth of small enclosures and equipment along with water vapor to block the view at ground level, typical industrial plant.
The carpenter lets out a long drawn despairing scream as he threw the dummy over the side of the platform. The safety man froze a few seconds then tucks his head down and runs towards "the accident." No reason to be in a rush, the nicest thing somebody could fall on was concrete. Anything else you would probably be impaled, maybe slow roasted too. You weren't likely to care what after falling eighty feet!
As soon as the safety man tucked his head down the carpenter took off down the outside of the scaffolding. As soon as he gets to ground level he threw the dummy under a 25 ton cherry picker and flops out on his back where it had been. The safety man runs up and starts examining the carpenter. The carpenter raises his head a little bit and shook it. "Third time I have fell off of that SOB today! One more time and I quit!" Unfortunately safety people aren't noted for senses of humor and the carpenter didn't have to quit. I think he was out the gate in less than thirty minutes.
Hu
tomatoshooter
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He's thoroughly testing procedures to find the trouble spots. That's dedication.
Pretty accurate description of the safety prick.
We think alike. I try to have respect for the animal, varmint to big game. I tried the V-Max in .224 and .243 long range on prairie dogs; I wasn't happy. The J-4 benchrest jackets gave as good or better performance. I called up Hornady when I got home. The V-Max at the time didn't perform properly under 1600FPS in .243(6MM) and 1400FPS in .224 according to the good guys at Hornady. I think the Zombie bullets were supposed to perform at 1200FPS when they came out if I remember correctly. I have slept a bunch of times since I talked to the tech guys at Hornady.
Nice guys and real open and helpful I thought. One thing, the A-Max is another plastic nosed bullet but it was designed for cutting paper and they wouldn't even talk about numbers on meat despite it being a very popular bullet with the long range hunters at the time. Seems like they might have said it would be real inconsistent for some reason. At the time they were quite emphatic, don't shoot meat with the A-Max. "Everybody doing it" didn't make it a good idea!
Dan Lilja of Lilja barrels was big on long range hunting at the time and I talked to him too. He said when you got out past a thousand yards none of the bullets could be counted on to expand, hit the animal with something big to begin with. Of course all of my info is ancient, over twenty years old. I have found just picking up a phone and calling tech support to work well.
I lost interest in prairie dogs and similar critters when I found out that they were easy to hit with good equipment out to distances that the bullets wouldn't perform. Big bullets and burning up barrels doesn't appeal to me.
It is funny how many people fell in love with the .300's and 7mm and such for shooting whitetails down here in South Louisiana. Rare that you get a 200 yard shot unless it is on a fence row, a right of way, or a pipe line. Nothing bigger than whitetails down here but they can run pretty big. I remember a 12 point that dressed out at 200 pounds. These days they grow them off and harvest them. A lot of clubs grow out huge racks now on so-so bucks. Some do try to grow some well rounded deer but you still are usually better off with a quick handling rifle than a long range gun.
A stocky friend of mine bought a .300 magnum mountain rifle. Didn't take him long at all to get rid of it! Very lightweight and he put a lightweight scope on it. Granted, it was easy to tote the one-fifty or two hundred yards between four wheeler and blind, but it kicked hard enough to cross his eyes for the rest of the day! I think he went with a 7MM that weighed about three pounds more than the mountain rifle. A .308 is plenty and you have lots of factory choices for ammo, or did have in the good ol' days when you could buy ammo!
Hu
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Rusty in Montana
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I've got the big brother to your .243 I prefer the .244 or . 6 mm Remington I loaded up some Hornady 55 gr V max bullets for coyotes while out checking on my snare lines .
I shot 3 and they all ran off with no visible sign of injuries from it .
Then I went back to the 70 gr match BTHP Hornady bullets and coyotes started dropping again like they should ranchers like dead coyotes during calving season .
I also like the .25 - 06 Remington with 90 gr HPBT bullets for coyotes and deer also my little .222 Remington doesn't work well in our wind swept country but the other two make up the difference .
I shot 3 and they all ran off with no visible sign of injuries from it .
Then I went back to the 70 gr match BTHP Hornady bullets and coyotes started dropping again like they should ranchers like dead coyotes during calving season .
I also like the .25 - 06 Remington with 90 gr HPBT bullets for coyotes and deer also my little .222 Remington doesn't work well in our wind swept country but the other two make up the difference .