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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:27:46 PM EDT
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My boss served in WWII as a radio operator up in Greenland. He'd stand on the dock and wait for whitefish to swim near him on the dock. Then he'd shoot the water with his M1 carbine. He said the shock of the bullet would stun or kill the fish, which he'd scoop up with a net.
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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:34:29 PM EDT
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I see they mentioned VA's Clinch River. Good carp shooting supposedly.
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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:36:00 PM EDT
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My grandfather went fishing with grenades in WW2.
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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:39:29 PM EDT
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If it helps control rough fish and is safely done, I guess it's ok with me. Mostly bow and arrow with reel are used in other states and seems like it would be more fun.
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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:41:05 PM EDT
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Not many carp in the Clinch. Just those huge suckers. I've seen some very large redhorse in that river. Grew up on it's banks and own about 20 acres on the river. Not many still shoot fish, at least not as many as there were 10 or 15 years ago. 1917 Enfields were the old stand-by's. One friend shot with a .458 Win Mag for a long time, also a .416 Remington Mag. |
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Posted: 5/10/2004 7:43:24 PM EDT
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Thanks for the info. Any public shooting spots? CRC |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 8:33:22 AM EDT
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I remember reading about a Marine vet who was on Tulagi and they hunted sharks with a 1903 Springfield.
GunLvr |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 8:46:11 AM EDT
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That article seems to condemn the sport of fish shootin' Certainly a surprising stance from the New York Times.
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Posted: 5/11/2004 8:52:29 AM EDT
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I seem to recall an incident off the coast of Florida involving WWII fighters, live amunition, a school of sharks, and strafing runs.
Add it all up, and it equals bloody water, shark infested feeding frenzy..... Anybody else hear of this? (I want to say Chuck Yeager for some reason) |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 8:55:43 AM EDT
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I know guys in the Navy who claim they used to shoot sharks from the boat-er ship?-I guess they dump refuse out the back and the sharks go after it so they would shoot them for chuckles, I think with an M60. This supposedly happened years ago.
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Posted: 5/11/2004 8:59:52 AM EDT
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Would this require a hunting permit or a fishing permit?
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Posted: 5/11/2004 9:00:42 AM EDT
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Yeah, I got that drift too when I was reading the story. But like everything else in the news media, its more enternment than anything else. |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 9:11:00 AM EDT
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I have been fish shooting several times over the past two weeks.
Alligator Gar in a farm pond. Some of the bastards are 3 footers.  They swim up nice and slow in the thick weeds in a the flooded edged. All you do is move in slowly and make the shot. AR15 or a .40 Handgun. Both work well.  Concussion stuns them if you miss. Just scoop them up by hand and fling them on to the shoreline. Otherwise they can recover and swim away. I have some non-digital pics of them to be developed. Will try and remember to get a photo-CD as well. TRG |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 9:22:22 AM EDT
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I have done this as a child.We fished for Bass in a stream,with a Garand and purposely shot next to the fish so the concussion would stun them.If toy hit the fish,there wasn't much left to eat.
Also,my father used to fish empty handed in rivers/ponds when he was a young man.I have never seen it, but other people told me it was true.He would go swimming with friends at night and feel the small "caves" on the side of the stream, and stick his hand along the side looking for "sleeping" fish. He would then grab it and pull it out alive.Now and then he would find undesirable things like snakes and turtles,but it seemed to be part of the fun. Hard to believe,but I am assured it was true.I know in the south they do this with catfish,but this was Bass,much smaller than the cats they catch down south! 
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Posted: 5/11/2004 10:07:25 AM EDT
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In San Diego Calif, Wild Animal Park, they have this man-made lake(pond for some of you folks) that started out with zero fish life. But sea birds apparently dropped fish eggs into the pond, and they eventually hatched into little catfish, over the years with zero predators and fishing, these catfish became huge, the guide told us that she saw a catfish attack a duck, and the duck was gone in seconds. |
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Posted: 5/11/2004 1:28:09 PM EDT
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This might be a really stupid question...but you don't actually eat the bony things, do you? Dad & his cousins used to gar hunt when they were growing up in Arkansas. .22lr rifle, a spotlight & a bridge to shoot off of so the shots were straight down. |
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