Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
The thought of shooting birds in flight with a rifle is a scary thing. Here is hoping you were someplace WAY OUT away from civilization, even then, you never know what is over the horizon.

I was taught by my grandpa to never shoot into the air except with a shotgun. I never shot at a squirrel in tree, unless there was a fat trunk behind him if I missed. It required some stealth and patience, but if I could not get a good safe shot, the squirrel would live to eat more nuts.
hemmjo; we grew up in different worlds you and I, Not sure what would have been considered as civilization to you but to us that meant towns, the closest one to us was 8 miles the closest neighbor was 2 miles if you cut across a field. Cities were considered un-civilization as no civilized human would be caught dead living in one.
us kids were taught that if you couldn't bring down a crow flying over the garden by age 9 with a .22 you had no business with one, except for the .410/.22 my grandpa carried on his tractor or horse every shotgun around our place were loaded with either 00 or slugs. way too much gun for boys under the age of 13 There was 1 double barrel 12 ga and a blunder buss that were usually loaded with rock salt those were kept by the doors the blunder bus by the front door because that was usually where people wearing suits came calling trying to sell something like insurance,
No one touched my dad's 44-40 or his 30-06 under penalty of the fist