Trappers Cabin Season 2 Part 2 Firearms

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where you guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance out there in the Pathfinder school back out here and the second in our cabin series and I guess the first thing we'll go over in this cabin series is firearms I had a guy asked me on the very first video if there's only gonna be trapping if it's going to encompass other things like firearms it's going to a compass everything around the cabin for the most part that we're going to do is just going to be day-to-day life but I think we should talk about some of the things that are in the cabin or used within the cabin because everything really needs to be multifunctional just like it is in your personal kit so if it's something that's in the cabin it should at least in some way shape or form if possible have a use when you leave the cabin if you were to leave for a two or three day Scout or you were to go out way out on the trapline and have to stay overnight you should be able to pull things from the cabin to create your kit just like you do from your house just like you would do from a Walton where you'd have a large amount of stuff there that you brought in by sled by ATV by horseback or whatever the case may be and when you walk away you take certain pieces and parts with you to build your kit it's no different in a cabin so what I've done is I've assembled my area that I'm going to use for my firearms locker and again we're restricted in Ohio to what types of calibers engages we can use their hunting and what types of rounds that we can use for hunting as well especially with big game or larger game like the white-tailed deer for a small game and for varmints like coyotes and hogs that are open season all year long and ground hogs you're not restricted in any of rifle calendars there you can use anything you want and for that I have an H and our hand your rifle 243 with a Leopold 3u9 scope on it a vented scope a vintage gun it's probably my favorite longer range type rifle and this is what I generally use for hunting things like kayo but I don't use it often because normally when I walk out of the woods I'm not carrying a rifle like that unless I'm specifically going to hunt but kayo

so the three main guns that I have that I use the majority of the time obviously bison

shot 12-gauge which we're going to talk about more extensively here in a minute why I professed a single-shot 12-gauge so much it's a shame that H&R nef are not making these farms anymore and they're pretty much defunct now but you can still find these things at gun shows at flea markets at pawn shops and things like that in the hundred and fifty-one hundred and sixty dollar range the days of finding these for 100 bucks or less are probably gone you might get lucky but they're not difficult to find we'll talk about chokes and things like that in a few minutes the other gun that I have here is a 410 single-shot H&R 12-gauge or any f12 or any up 410 and the 410 is really a good small game round it's great for squirrels great for rabbit and things like that I also have an adapter for this gun and this is important to understand is the adaptability of things but I have an adapter for this gun from short lane arms that will make it shoot 22 caliber dropped it so I have an adapter that will shoot 22 caliber from this gun as well it's just a 3-inch rifle adapter but it makes it perfect for a trap line gun if you don't want to carry a dedicated 22 rifle for the trap line you're carrying like a 22 pistol this will allow you to shoot that 22 ammunition from their 410 single shot as well and that versatility of that we'll talk about in a little bit more in a few minutes as well then I have an H & R single-shot bolt-action 22 rifle dedicated small-game rifle or trap line rifle but I don't tend to carry this too much on the trapline I tend to carry it more for only hunting small game like squirrel and things like that I'm a big believer in shotguns a lot of people profess the 22 for small game hunting but and I think the 22 is a great gun for sport hunting but I think as far as putting food on the table and not worry about being a great shot not having a big learning curve to be able to use it I think shotguns are the king and when it comes to actually if I shoot out it I want to make sure I hit it I want on my table shotguns are the king for that so now up here I just have a variety of ammunition for those guns and of course the 12-gauge being as versatile as is just the amount of loads of luminate you can buy for the 12-gauge makes it a very versatile gun you can use anything from each shot for birds and things like that to you know number four shot for things like geese and turkey and then you have six shot for a small game load double up buck is really not a legal round in Ohio to use for deer you have to use a single round ball but you can buy slugs as well so that versatility alone gives you a lot of range of uses for that single-shot 12-gauge when you combine that with subcaliber adaptors and being able to use it as a muzzle loader which we'll talk about in a few minutes that gives you even greater variation that you can use because if you're reloading your own shells or you're loading as a muzzle loader you can download it a little bit and still use six shot for small game loads so you're not blowing squirrels and rabbits to pieces with a 12-gauge at close range if you're hunting in things like that you can download them a little bit load a little left shot a little less powder make it not as heavier than charge and even use six shot for things like birds as well by adding a little more shot and a little less powder to give yourself a better pattern at longer distance there's a lots and lots of things that you can do if you're loading your own shells or if your muzzle loading that gun that's why I think the 12-gauge is such a versatile gun okay so back to this 12-gauge ramp for just a minute here you know the reason I like that to all gauge is because of my versatility I have a couple of adapters that I generally keep around for my 12-gauge one of them is an 8-inch rifle adapter for twenty two again that allows me to shoot the 22 caliber that shoots from my handgun out of that 12-gauge break open if needs be if I'm on the trapline I need a little bit further shot and I don't want to try to do it with a pistol I can do it with this adapter and it works out fine the other adapter I usually carry with me or at least having this cabin is a 12-gauge 209 shotgun primer adapter which turns it into a muzzle loader and so here's the key with this thing you can reload 12-gauge shells very easily and I have done videos on that in the past and you can do it with very simple tools and I generally tend to use black powder when I'm reloading my 12-gauge shells because it's more accessible you can buy it at Walmart it works just fine it does dirty up your gun but it's so easy to clean a single-shot 12-gauge because it's a through-and-through barrel now all you have to do is pull the swab through there and you're good to go the thing with this to a non shotgun primer adapter is it basically turns that gun into like I said a muzzle loader and allows you to load a shell in the gun by just putting a tune on shotgun primer in the adapter and shoving it in the back just like you're putting an empty shotgun shell in and then you load it from the front end but the fact that you can't reload 12-gauge shells especially high brass shells work the best but the fact that you can reload there's 12-gauge shells makes it very versatile as well now would you want to carry all of this stuff into the woods with you on purpose maybe during muzzleloader season yes if you're shooting a round ball and we'll talk about that in a minute but during normal circumstance it's easy enough to buy 12-gauge shells but for the long-term self-reliance aspect or the cabin aspect it's much easier store a large amount of primers a large amount of shot and large amount of this type power then it may be to get a whole bunch of different types of shells and that's the key to that is that with the shot you have some variability we'll talk about that right now

so again I'm using pyro Dex RS power to reload or muzzle load my 12-gauge all right

and I always use six shot that's what I keep around six shot I don't use eight if I'm going to use this six shot on a heavier load like I'm trying to hunt turkey or something like that with it then I will put a load and a half in there the six shot and a normal load of power that way I've got more lead in that pattern for things like turkey that I may be shooting at the distance the good thing about shot is shots difficult to recreate round ball is very very simple if I have a lead ladle to melt that lead into and pour down 11 lead is not that difficult to get there's lots and lots of places that you can find lead and recycle it by melting it down and pouring it into some type of a mold like this square mold ingot mold here then you can keep that on hand or you can take your sick shot and you can melt it down and turn it into round ball and that's the key to this whole thing is if I have the shot I can always make round ball it doesn't work the other way around I can't take a bunch of round balls melt them down and try to make shot because that's very difficult to do but making a round ball is very easy you can buy these round ball molds from a place like track of the wolf and if you've got a modified choke 12-gauge you're sitting at 71 caliber so you can decide what you want to do or what you want to buy as far as a round ball mold because they come in lots and lots of different sizes and I'm not going to tell you which one is the best for you because it really depends on whether you're going to patch that ball or not patch that ball for me I buy something that's very slightly undersized from 71 caliber and I use a chewed ball mentality because I don't have a rifled bear

in my gun so a patch doesn't really make a lot of difference when it comes to shooting a round ball out of a smoothbore but a chewed ball of allows me to not use a patch use a tight ball and it gives it friction against the walls of that gun coming out so I get a straighter flying ball by using two ball mentality and I've done videos on that as well it's basically taking a very close to size ball to the inside diameter of your gun 71 caliber in the case of a modified choke taking that ball and molding it and then roughing the exterior of that ball up with a horse of rasp on a stump to give us some knurling very much like a golf ball would have that actually grabs the inside of that barrel what is coming out of the barrel it's being shot so just a couple implements you can buy these lid labels very cheap at flea markets and antique stores yard sales things like that again you can find led to recycle or you can use shot and a round ball mold it's probably going to be one of the most expensive things that you're gonna buy because they're probably about 50 bucks but it's a one-time buy you can make as many round balls as you want after that so the versatility of that alone makes a 12-gauge such a powerful self-reliance gun that I would never ever be without one because I can change quick load in and out if I'm hunting I can use small game loads and I can carry small game loads or I can carry slugs depending on what I'm doing and again minding the laws that you have in your state and the seasonality is important I can carry a 22 adapter in a sleeve in my shop bag or in my Harbor sack so that if I'm using that gun on the trapline and I need to shoot a 22 out of it I can but if I'm hunting small game while I'm not there trapping which I do often times just to put food on the table I have that ability as well because I can throw a little six shine that gun while I'm walking around store bought manufactured ammunition and then if I come up on something at my trap that I need to put down it's easy enough to shoot a 22 shell out of that gun if I don't want to use my side or to put that animal down again the advantage of this is to a nine shotgun primer adapter means that I don't necessarily have to blow reload shells but I can reload shells again I've got videos on that but I can also use this as a muzzle loader now you'll have to check with your department national resource your law enforcement people in your state I have done that in Jackson County with my guy and he's told me that during the muzzle loader season if I'm hunting with my 12-gauge and I'm using a 209 shotgun primer adapter and I have no other shells for that gun on my person and only what it would take to load that gun with black powder in other words powder wadding round ball and those type things and no finished shells of any kind other than you know what I have no finished shells basically for a muzzleloader season I'm legal to hunt with that in my area of Ohio again you'll have to check that in your area but that makes that gun not only versatile for shotgun season it also makes it versatile for muzzleloader season and then I can use that gun on the trapline to put animals down and I can hunt small game with it during the season as well so that okay shotgun becomes huge to me that's why it's the main gun in my arsenal and I just have backups to it basically with the 410 with the 22 and then the only reason again I even have a 243 is for longer range coyote hunting which I very seldom ever do 99.9% of the time that 12-gauge in that 12-gauge alone will do everything I need to do and it will kill any type of game there is in the state of Ohio

now the one thing is probably worth repeating at the end of this video is that the simplicity of maintenance of the single-shot 12-gauge is another key element to it I've done videos in the past where I've taken that 12-gauge apart and cleaned that thing in a creek bed before it's not difficult to clean you can take the forearm drip off of that thing with a screwdriver and basically pull the barrel completely off of that thing and do whatever you want to clean that barrel whether it's hot water creek water whether it's pulling some type of a cleaning solution through that barrel but you can basically just drop bank line through there tie something on the other end of it and pull it through that barrel like a bore snake and the simplicity of maintenance a time gun makes it that much more powerful as a self-reliance type firearm I made can vary with self-reliance out there's a pathfinder school I appreciate join me for part two this cabin series will talk about the types of guns that I have and the other gun that I have that I didn't discuss too much is a 22 caliber wheel gun I have an H and R and I have a Ruger I generally carry the Ruger single six as a favor as a favored gun the H&R has an extra shot because it has seven shots instead of six

and it's also double action but it's in mint condition I try not to beat it up too bad so I use my ruler single six where I don't mind beating it up I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you very thing you do for school for family for business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys