The Coops

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norm posted this 17 March 2014

Jeff, The coops was an old chicken barn that Frank's uncle Will bought. It was long enough to be used as an indoor range.

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R. Dupraz posted this 17 March 2014

Cleaning the coop, one of my jobs growing up. Would have much rather shot inside of it ....... while it was still full of targets.

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badgeredd posted this 17 March 2014

My grandfather was pretty upset with my uncle and myself when we went out to get a couple chickens for dinner out of their coop. Seems he thought that shooting them in the coop was a bit too sporting of us. Boy! Was he ever POed at us!

Edd

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R. Dupraz posted this 17 March 2014

badgered:

Thanks for the reply. Brings back memories for sure. This was something that was always on my mind but never had the nerve cause of the consequences. Two of which no doubt, were the immediate loss of my young life and worse, my trusted .22.

Just wanted to see what kind of replies I'd get.

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John Alexander posted this 17 March 2014

I also cleaned a few chicken coops in my young life and would have rather been doing ANYTHING else including all the other manure removal from where the other animals hung out. I'm sure I still have some of the dust still in my lungs. John

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billglaze posted this 17 March 2014

A while back, I got the “Frankly Speaking” disk from CBA. Boy, is it a lot of fun, as well as educational. Lots of what to do, as well as what not to do. One of my regrets in life was not being able to meet him in person. I was, in fact, casting bullets at the time he was alive, but hadn't become a member of the CBA. My loss. I envy anybody who knew him personally. Want some educational fun? Buy the disc.

Bill Glaze

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. My fate is not entirely in Gods hands, if I have a weapon in mine.

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JeffinNZ posted this 17 March 2014

Ah ha! I suspected as much but was not sure. Good idea.

Sounds like I need that disc Bill. Thanks.

My late Uncle Bill used to have chickens. He kept them in the 'fowl house'. When we used to visit as kids we always wore our 'best' clothes. Uncle Bill always used to say “you can't go down the fowl house in your good mocker". “Mocker” was a colloquialism for clothing. Now because we always visited in our good mocker I NEVER got to see Uncle Bill's fowl house. To this day I still can't be sure he actually HAD a fowl house. Might have been a cruel joke.

Cheers from New Zealand

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mike0841 posted this 18 March 2014

I have the fortune to belong to his old gun club. He was a member of the Fairfax Rod and Club in Manassas,Va. for years. I moved to the area in 1989 but wasn't shooting at the time. My sponsor Rudy Reyes was a friend of his and tells me about him all the time. Rudy has some of his rifles purchased from his widow. I do get to shoot with Bob Sears as he is still around and kicking. Bob is one of the most knowledgeable cast shooters at Fairfax and a former CBA President. If I had met Rudy a few years sooner I would have been able to interact with Frank. My loss. I did get to meet John Ardito at the 2007 Nationals, also a real gentleman.

Mike

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delmarskid1 posted this 18 March 2014

My Dad had us clean the chicken coop and put all the dry stuff on the garden. The vegetables went nuts! That dust reeked of ammonia and burned our eyes and lungs. I did like pulling the eggs out from under the hens. They would kind of cock there heads to one side and give me the stink eye. I built a bullet trap out of plow parts to use in the machine shed. I can get twenty five yards.

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badgeredd posted this 18 March 2014

At the time I was all of 11 years old and my uncle was 17, so I figured if he could do it, it must be ok. WRONG! I think granddad was more POed over the added ventilation holes in the walls of the coop than anything else. A chickens head doesn't stop a 22 bullet very well I found. He wasn't really happy either when we shot a bunch of pigeons out of one barn...for the same reason.

Edd

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delmarskid1 posted this 18 March 2014

Cats would follow us when we carried .22's.

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norm posted this 18 March 2014

For you Frankly fans and 45-70 fans Frank Marshall Jr. had articles published in Gun Digest 38 1984 edition and 45 1991 edition. One about his Trapdoor and the other about a 45-70 on a Siamese Mauser action.

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tturner53 posted this 20 March 2014

I spent a summer on a Kubota 4x4 tractor dragging the chicken ** out of several large 'coops' at an egg ranch. It was often over 3 feet deep at the extreme end and of course liquefied by spilt water and urine. That's when I found out that flies like beer and will drink way too much. They can't walk let alone fly.