Snooker is a tougher game than pool. Most snooker tables in the USA are 10 feet long by 5 feet wide; in Europe some are 12 feet long by 6 feet wide with smaller pockets than a pool table. I suppose it is just what a guy likes to do. Here is a snooker table in this photo.
Looks like a good time. All i am doing now is getting the farm ready for the next deer season to open. Hunt crow until it cools down enough to hunt deer in the afternoons then hit crow hard on the late season. Your summers seem to be better spent then mine.
Been doing well lately. Young have all fledged, family groups are joining together into small groups. Shot 24 yesterday, 22 with one box of shells. Heavy cover, mosquitoes, knee high poison ivy, heat and humidity take a toll on the shooter but still fun. Young are very stupid and adults have become accustomed to not being shot at.
Ted
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Been doing well lately. Young have all fledged, family groups are joining together into small groups. Shot 24 yesterday, 22 with one box of shells. Heavy cover, mosquitoes, knee high poison ivy, heat and humidity take a toll on the shooter but still fun. Young are very stupid and adults have become accustomed to not being shot at.
Ted
Young and stupid crows make for a sweet morning, indeed!
Hoping to collide with many of them on Monday, 1 AUG, beginning about 15 minutes before sunrise.
BH--will you be out also?
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My self there aren't enough crows even in summer to attempt it unlike the 70s and before when the deal was you got up after sun rise and find the crows every mile or so scoffing up all the dead frogs and salamanders from the night before..you'd find a remote stretch of highway with almost no homes and you can guess the rest...best hit and run ever conducted!
Today it's too crowded and no crows anyways....to say nothing of the consequences...saved a few blueberry patches and gardens how ever!
22 out of 25 is 88% for an average, few guys ever get an average that high providing they are not just taking the gravy shots. If you can remember, what is the highest average with the most crows on any given day in your crow shooting career?
My best day was with a 20 gauge back in the early 1980's on a flyway shoot. I rolled 99 crows with 104 20 gauge hulls using a 7/8th's ounce load of either 8's or 9's = a 95% average. I took them as they came, but they were all soft shots, I was out of the wind in a bend in the river that Boyd and I used to call "Blood Alley" I had numerous doubles and some triples on that hunt.
Bob, This day I only took the "gravy shots". One of the benefits of shooting alone. Further, cover is heavy and wind direction is a constant. One can place the caller in a position where arriving targets will be the most vulnerable. All shots were on the tight side...i'd estimate 30 yards average. Modified choke and #8 Federal Promo loads. Travel a lot of cattle country and hunt old overgrown road allowances. Taller trees to the edges and a nice clear opening above put the crows in a great position for easy kills as they suddenly appear above in ones and two's. Just like a sporting clays range!
Ted
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