We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:08:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:58:16 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97323 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97323 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:12:34 -0600 The neighbors would like that.
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I admit, until the predation gets unbearably expensive, I'll stick with giving 'em a sporting chance.

I'm weak that way.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97282 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97282 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:09:20 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97281 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97281 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:53:20 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97277 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97277 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:37:17 -0600 Lower tech, an old fashioned bouncing betty hooked to a fresh piece of meat.
Just have to keep your own animals away from the kill zone.
I may have been Air Force, but I had two brothers in the Marines and two in the Army.  They sort of rubbed off on me.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97276 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97276 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:23:11 -0600
For that range I wouldn't feel comfortable not using a scope on an animal*.  When I hunt (and I consider pest elimination still in the 'hunting' category) I want everything but the target unbothered and the target dropped as quickly and cleanly as possible.

*Targets and adversaries take their chances.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97270 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97270 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:13:02 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97268 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97268 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:52:57 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97265 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97265 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:31:14 -0600 Range cards and calibrated scopes - even if your natural tendencies might run more to indirect fire. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97260 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97260 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:35:59 -0600 beautiful pictures! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97259 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97259 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:32:58 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97255 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97255 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:54:34 -0600 You missed and by the looks of it...it brought a friend along this time. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97253 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/an_ice_castle_m.html#comment-97253 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:43:36 -0600