Thus… the season did a thing.

Infidel 762

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Another Christmas, and Christmas smells are in the air—the kind that pull you back to childhood mornings, the simple sounds of youth. But it feels like a decade of old versions of ourselves have faded into the cold. Time doesn’t explain; it just moves, quietly asking what still needs forgiving.

We change, whether we mean to or not. Nights fall heavy, and somewhere in that weight you realize you’re not who you were… and that’s not always a loss. This season, change came as a new rhythm, a new shotgun, a new way of learning.

Nothing grows without weather. Even the brightest seasons need rain. Cold hands, hard wind, the patience to let a method prove itself—this is how progress is earned.

And maybe that’s the gift—when everything slows just enough to notice: the breath in the cold, the quiet between moments, the shinning in the light, lifting me up, laying me down, the sense that you are exactly where you’re supposed to be. Maybe this is how we disappear into who we are becoming—letting the past fade, letting something truer take its place.

Merry Christmas


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Sweet hat! Merry Christmas, Jeremy!

Nice to see you getting back to crafting your writings amidst progressing your predator hunting craft. You are exceptional at both, sir! Well done.

I'm getting a crazy urge to get one with a shotgun. I haven't done that in a few years now. I think when we get a bright moon back I'm going to give it a shot.
 
(y) (y) Obviously you've had the patience to make the switch to the smoothbores. Just never could bring myself to give up the rifle.

Not really—just kind of winging it for now. TSS is expensive; what I’ve found, I’m paying about $16.25 a round for FOXTROT #4 TSS. Admittedly, I consider myself a novice when it comes to choke constriction. One of the coyotes was at 64 yards, broadside, and it dropped. After I took that pic, I called another one in to about 55 yards. It was facing me, and all I could see was head and neck. I shot and he dropped too, but then got back up and limped off into the brush.

I’m also realizing I need to carry a rifle—I let two get away that were standing just outside my comfortable shotgun range.

Any of you shotgun experts think I run the risk of blowing a .670 Indian Creek choke out of the barrel of a Remington 870 shooting #4 TSS?
 
Not really—just kind of winging it for now. TSS is expensive; what I’ve found, I’m paying about $16.25 a round for FOXTROT #4 TSS. Admittedly, I consider myself a novice when it comes to choke constriction. One of the coyotes was at 64 yards, broadside, and it dropped. After I took that pic, I called another one in to about 55 yards. It was facing me, and all I could see was head and neck. I shot and he dropped too, but then got back up and limped off into the brush.

I’m also realizing I need to carry a rifle—I let two get away that were standing just outside my comfortable shotgun range.

Any of you shotgun experts think I run the risk of blowing a .670 Indian Creek choke out of the barrel of a Remington 870 shooting #4 TSS?
When I drop dog's with my smoothbore it's usually when their on the run and at very close range to keep them from destroying the mojo decoy.
I've never dropped a dog with a shotgun past 20 yards.
Unless there's snow on the ground I wouldn't be able to see them much past that, so hat's off to you for dropping them past 50 yards.
SJC
 
@Infidel 762 your writing is superb my friend. I know I have changed a lot in my 34 years. Life has not always been kind, some of it my doing. It has taught me to let go of my ego and given me a large dose of humility. I am closer to being the man I want to see when I look in the mirror. Congrats on the smooth bore kills and happy hunting. Merry Christmas to all!
 
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