Lead Shot

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Lead Shot

#1 Post by mbonner »

How available is lead shot down there? I could not buy any in Winnipeg today and I need some for 28 ga loading. Is it available from Cabela's?. I'll pass a couple on the way down,
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Also check pricing at Guns Unlimited in Omaha.
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#3 Post by mbonner »

Thanks, Steve, I'll check that vendor out on my trip.
Regarding availability of Pure Canadian Rye Whiskey there is only one brand and it does not have any minature bottles, so I can't bring any of the latter along. Of the former, yes.
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#4 Post by mbonner »

Thanks, Steve, I'll check that vendor out on my trip.
Regarding availability of Pure Canadian Rye Whiskey there is only one brand and it does not have any minature bottles, so I can't bring any of the latter along. Of the former, yes.
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#5 Post by kgb »

Mike, I've found Forty Creek to be very, very nice. Alberta Premium is the one I can't find down here. We DO have Forty Creek and it's a great blend that I've gotten a friend of mine pretty much hooked on.

Guns Unlimited was advertising $33.50 for a bag of shot recently, I think it's Eagle brand, in sizes from 7.5's to 9's. Always worth stopping by there, I can run out there with you if the timing is right as you'll pass just north of me to get there.

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#6 Post by steve voss »

Damn. Those prices make me glad I bought 200 lbs. of STS magnum 7s a few years ago...at $14.35 a bag.
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#7 Post by kgb »

Brag, Brag, Brag!!!

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Now all we need is a good supply of birds at which to shoot...
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Amen! I thought that would last me several years and it turns out it may be more than a lifetime supply.
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#9 Post by mbonner »

Sounds like a plan, I can call you when I'm coming down I-29, Kirk

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#10 Post by Colonel Brown »

Right now, anything under $35 a bag, unless you're talking reclaimed shot, is a pretty good price.
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steve voss wrote:Amen! I thought that would last me several years and it turns out it may be more than a lifetime supply.
You are not hunting enough, among the game birds in abundance (relatively speaking).
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#12 Post by steve voss »

Bob, I admit I'm not hunting enough. It seems the closest birds to me are my few Chickens around here with a 3 bird per season limit and then it's hundreds of miles. Tough to do at 17mpg and $4 gas plus motels and such.
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#13 Post by sd/mt pga pro »

The truth we live with these days, I am afraid. I fear too that it will continue to get worst and more expensive as the seasons slip by.

Brown was so right when three or four years ago he was telling everyone on a number of boards that if they were ever to be part of the "real" good old days, to get out to the Dakotas soon before those days passed forever. For most of the Uplanders in the country, they have.
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#14 Post by steve voss »

I still remember going to Winner with my Dad a few years ago and in one half-mile draw having at least 800 birds jump...and we flushed more walking back with our limits. That was on a ranch owned by a former student of his that "wasn't good enough to charge to hunt on." Apparently they'd been run out of the "good" land. :D

Lots of younger guys around here think I'm making it up, but damn that was fun to watch.
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#15 Post by sd/mt pga pro »

Steve,

There are a half dozen places in SD I won't hunt a second time because the bird numbers are almost always so great that it is unfair to the dogs. Winner is one of them.

Until folks have seen hundreds and yes I mean hundred with an s on the end, they can't even visualize what truly high bird numbers are and how unfair they are to a good dog. So much scent masking a fall that a dog would be treated more fairly with his nose stuffed with vasoline.
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