Members;

In the spring of 1997, my son & I went skiing at Vail/Beaver Creek.  At the time, both of us were professional ski instructors.  We arrived in the afternoon at Beaver Creek, got checked in & I wandered around some.  Asked a guy at the base lift if he knew where the ski school was.  He came over & asked me if I wanted a lesson.  By the time he finished speaking, I knew he was drunk.  He proceeded to tell me that I didn't need to go to the ski school, as he could do the job at half the price.  And I'd get the best gaw-dam lesson I'd ever had.  Told him nope, wasn't looking for a lesson & left.

The next day, my son & I rode up the lift with him & his girl friend.  I knew to avoid the skiing subject, so started talking about the elk hunting around there.  Come to find out he hunted elk with a .44 magnum pistol, AND he was a master reloader.  He took an' drilled a hole in the tip of his own lead cast bullets.  Just the right size to put a .22 round in base up, but with the rim outside the hole.  So's when you hit the bone on an elk, it'd fire the .22 back into the .44 bullet & explode it.  Make a hole on the other side of the elk big as a bowling ball.

We got to the top & unloaded & made damn sure we skied in another direction than the two of them went.

Your turn.

900F

 hey cb: i got 1 of those things to drill out a hollow point in a cast bullet. got it at a gun shop back in the 70s it had about a 3/16 drill that came with it. i made afew but never shot anything with it.

  about the funnyest thing i seen was a few weeks ago at a big bore shoot when the guy had a box of 100 reloads and only 13 had primmers in them. they all had powder and bullets seated.

Was at the gun club in the early '70's shooting trap. A friend wanted to borrow a box of shells for another round, he was a little short on cash to buy a box from the club. I told him to grab a box out of my truck. When he shot at the first bird, that gun gave a pretty good roar, belched smoke and set Ray back about 3 feet. He had taken a box of loads I had put away in the glove box that I had made up for geese, an ounce and a half of number 2's and 4 1/2 DE of AL 7. AL 7 was about the smokiest, dirtiest shotgun powder available at the time, but it did the job right proper. I don't believe he hit more than 2 or 3 birds in the round, but I give him a lot of credit for going the full 25. Nobody else hit well either - too busy laughing.

DC