I shoot a 300 ultra due to our fence lines being very long and the hogs get wise and cross a long way from the box blinds
Yep, after I posted that, I realized that we were talking about Texas. Not only is everything bigger there, but is usually a lot farther away.
Down here, a 100 yard shot on a deer is usually a long shot. That is why I like my .351.
Its got a, technically illegal for deer hunting, 10 round mag, and will put one on his butt up to 150yds.
I can grab it, and head into the swamp.
The 10 rounds means I don't have to carry extra ammo, and it will handle anything we have down here as far as I am going to see it in that close area.
I have a Browning .270 for the more open areas.
But down here in most places, more open is 200 to 300yrds max.
I can make the long shots.
With that rifle and scope, I can put 5 in an area smaller than the palm of my hand at 600.
And have done some 1000yrd shooting.
But I never get opportunities on game at that range.
I got a chance to do some hunting a few miles north of here many years back, and promptly ordered myself a Shepard range finding scope.
Up there, they still had mostly close shots. In fact, most of the guys I hunted with, used shotguns.
But there were some places that were interesting.
One morning, I was sitting on the top of a hill looking over a small stream about 200 feet down, at the hill on the other side.
As the fog cleared, I saw a nice 8 point feeding on some acorns.
I put the Shepard on him, and it said between 4 and 500yds. No way I was going to pass that one up.
Called the other guys, and they got in position. Took my time, waited until he picked his head up to listen, and put 130 grain corelockt just behind his head, dead center of his neck.
The rest of the guys were disappointed, they expected me to miss and they would get a shot.
That is still the longest shot I have made on game, except for a Di-dapper I killed when I was young at about 3/4 mile with a .22.
But I don't really count him, since there was only a minimum amount of skill involved.
I had my rifle set up like an artillery piece, and would fire a round and watch through binoculars where the bullet hit.
Then adjust my elevation and angle and fire another round.
Usually when I started getting close he would fly away.
But one dummy just sat there until I dropped a round right down through the center of his back.
For anyone who thinks this sounds very dangerous, you would have to see the area. At that point, the bay is about 10 miles across, and any boat, swimmer, or anything larger than a duck would be plainly visible.
Anyway you wanted to see the brush shield.
Well, I got some pics, but you are going to be disappointed.
First, it has not been used for about 5 years, and has been laying in my junk pile collecting leaves and rust.
Second, it was designed and built to fit one vehicle, an 8N Ford tractor, so its not going to be very adaptable to your situation.
Third, I literally threw it together in about 2 hours using what I had laying around. It worked, so I never cleaned it up or improved on it.
It started out life as a heavy one piece fireplace screen. I put two perforated pieces of angle iron inside so that the bottom ends would slide down inside a couple of pieces of steel pipe I mounted on the front of the tractor.
Then, I put a large piece of screen wire over it and extended it way out to cover the gap between the sides of the screen and the front of the tractor hood.
A piece of hardware cloth went over that to stop limbs and stalks from puncturing the screen.
The screen was held to the tractor sides and hood by a combination of Velcro and magnets.
The whole thing was about a foot and a half from the front of the tractor when mounted.
The fine screen was to keep small pieces of cornstalk and shucks from clogging up the radiator.
Just the brush screen on front was enough to stop anything from puncturing the rad, but the fine stuff would get sucked around the sides, so I had it around there too.
Adding a fine screen over a radiator will stop it from getting clogged, but there are two things to remember.
First, the screen will get covered and must be brushed off from time to time. Stopping the engine will cause a lot to just fall off.
Second, just the addition of the screen will impede airflow.
When I got the 8N, it had a piece of screen over the radiator inside the grill. And it often ran hot.
The key, is surface area.
By having the screen way out in front, and having it much bigger in area than the intake of the radiator, you reduce the restriction to the point that it is not a factor anymore.
Plus, the larger the area, the slower the airspeed in any one spot, and the less pressure to hold up trash. It tends to just bounce off and not stick.
Here are the pics. Like I say, it has been in an outdoor junk pile, so its not in good shape.
