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Eric ..Birthday boy

New uniform trousers-$70. 00
New uniform SS shirt-$50. 00
3 rounds of 12 ga. 00 buck- ?
A picture of me chasing a rabid fox through a golf course... PRICELESS !!!

That's right, went into work today at 1500, first call at 1505, rabid fox on the golf course chasing golfers with wild abandon. So off I go, like 100 times before, to destroy the animal, except this time, it's on a golf course. I arrive, meet up with the "PRO" who will take me to the beast and find him sitting at about 75 yds. from the cart path, right on a fairway. Can't drive any closer, so I'm now on foot with a Rem. 870 loaded with 00 buck #ad
and my gun bearer,a animal control officer armed with the ever trusty dog snare. After some small talk with the golfers on scene (mind if I play through I ask, breaks up the tension that's so thick that you can cut it with a knife) I approach this rabid maneater with carefully placed steps. Leaving out the gore, less I get attacked by P. I. T. A. , let's just say that I couldn't get any closer than 40 yds before the monster starts to run away, towards the "bush" (woods, that is). Now, knowing that a 12 ga. loaded with 00 doesn't pattern worth a I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER at 25 yds, less than 40 plus, I'm guessing that I hit him with maybe two pellets on each of the three shots, before he escapes into the woods, heavy thorn infested woods ( as I was soon to find out). I approach the unforgiving bush (woods that is again) and spot a blood trail. Hmmm, I think (actually, I was thinking O'I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER), now I have to go after the beast in his territory. So off I go, with my trusty gunbearer, following the spore. We follow the blood trail for over 300 yds, rough, rip the clothes off your back yds. , only to find the trail dead ends at the edge of a steep, 80 ft. drop cliff . Seems my quarry committed suicide before I could end the ordeal. Actually, I was not too happy to leave a wounded animal without finding him, but I'm confident that he took the leap as another 30 minutes of searching found no other possible answer, i. e. , the blood trail ended. Morale of the story, we sometimes do more than just harass the general motoring public and don't bring a SG to a long range fox hunt. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this short story, I found some humor in it as I looked over my uniform, torn and tattered from the "hunt".

Scott W.
 
All I can say is my uniform pant/ss shirts together cost a total of $70-80 dollars. Maybe you should transfer down here where rabid foxes have a better chance of getting hit by a lost tourist than shot by a soon-to be half naked policemen? #ad


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You go "Bill". It's "the Cinderella story" all over again! All I pictured reading this is Bill Murray - too funny! ROFL

Pat


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Brian, LOL, $80. 00 for a set, I wish around here.

Pat, how does it go again... " a man, licensed to kill gophers (insert foxes) at will" #ad


Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. #ad


Scott W.
 
Should have called in your SWAT personel. 1 shot with a . 308 at 100 yards would have been a piece of cake, plus it would have given them some practice. Thanks for sharing that. #ad
 
LMAO Scott. Good one.
The local police here dont take animal calls. Only the "animal control officer", and he works 8-4 Mon-Fri. All dog owners in my town know this, thus I'm the loonie that walks at night with the shovel handle in my hand. #ad

I was cornered by 5 dogs one day for over 1 hour, and I wont do that again.
Eric
 
Eric, you could always try pepper next time. Heck of alot easier to carry than a shovel, though we have had mixed results with O. C. and animals.

Semi auto (cool name) I am my own SWAT officer, we don't have a SRT in good old V. T. P. D. We are still very rural here, for NJ. Not too long ago, the cows out numbered the residents. Sorry to say that's not the case now. We are in the process of adding . 40 caliber rifles to our inventory, should help once we get 'em online. We still have several . 308 Rem. BDl sniper rifles in our inventory, can't be used because no one has received the proper training #ad
, it's all about liability anymore, and the supervisors want nothing to do with that.

Scott W.

[This message has been edited by Bigsaint (edited 05-17-2001). ]
 
Scott, are you refering to the . 408 Chey. Tac. rifle? That's one awesome looking rifle. I'd bet you could put down an out of control cow at a mile with that! #ad

I saw it in Precision shooting, and The Accurate rifle. (used to be Tactical shooter)
Two very good, highly reccomended mags. Lots of good articles from people that know what theyre talking about. Mike Lau, Norm and Rocky Chandler,Dave Lauck, John Feamster,etc. etc.
What kind of scope will be on it?
Eric
 
Eric, I wish. The State regulates how we qualify by the rifle caliber and we are stuck with . 40 caliber as our max, in my P. D. , right now. The rifle is the Ruger PC4 carbine, . 40 cal pistol cartridge. I'm still riding the fence on which scope to equip them with, but it will probably end up being either a low power, 2. 5 x fixed or an Aimpoint or equivilant red dot. They call these "Police Carbines" and while I'd rather have at least a 5. 56 mm or better yet, 7. 62, this is the best it gets right now and will be much better for barricaded suspects then a . 12 ga/cylinder bore with 00 buck. We should be able to hold off to 50 Yds. or so with the Ruger. Here's a pic.

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Scott W.
 
A dot scope should be OK for two legged critters. Theyre nice and fast too. Aimpoint, c-more and trijicon are all good names.
I think the 2. 5 would be good for animal control. You could get the 2. 5 with a long eye relief, and it would be sort of a comprimise between the two.
None of these should bust the budget.
I'll include a link to the Chey Tac, just so you could drool. #ad
http://www.extremefirearms.com/Pages/Cheytac.html
Eric
 
Good story, Bigsaint

I can just picture the young officer who came to my house, to disposed of a rabid racoon last summer, running through my swamp half naked. I'm sure he'd been killed by the rabid mosquitoes before the racoon would decide to turn on him.

I'd be more concerned about a run-in with rabid man, than a rabid fox though, the fox was probably more predictible.

Just think... If you were a bobby, you'd a been shootin' rubber bullets at that poor fox.

Glad to hear that you had a clean-up/back-up guy with you though. It could have been bad without someone to witness that you had good reason to run half naked while on duty. The TV news in Detroit would have had a riot with that prospect. #ad


Doc
 
Eric, well you did it, I'm drooling more than my dogs, and that takes alot #ad
. $7100. 00 per w/o scope, oh yeah, I'm sure they'll let me get a bakers dozen of these, LOL.

Doc, not sure about the rabid man thing, I'm getting pretty good at dealing with them, lot of experience #ad
. It's the rabid women that are hard to deal with #ad
. You are right, though, I'll take dealing with animals of any type over people everyday.

Scott W.
 
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