HW/Weihrauch Black walnut season HW50S 177

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wsjones

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It's black walnut season here at Weedy Hill Farm. We have a ridiculous abundance of black walnut trees. Thanks to the red & gray squirrels they pop up like dandelions everywhere. The nuts are still hanging on the trees, green and in their husks. They make wonderful plinking targets.

This one is 41 yards from the back deck railing shooting bench to its base,a really challenging distance for me. This year, shooting from sandbags on the rail, I'm hitting them consistently with H&N FTT's.

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Greenarrow said:
Our tree is loaded with them this year. Unfortunately the tree isn’t in a place where I can safely shoot the nuts off of it. It’s a beautiful tree but messy.
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When I said abundance I meant thousands of them, literally, from mow-able seedlings to over-mature fencerow ones slowly dying of old age.

As for safely shooting up into the tree behind the house and old barn lot, any pellets I will land on our own property. We have 39 acres and nearly all of it to the back if the house.
 
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Gather some up in the fall. I love black walnuts. As kids we used to crack them with Dad's large workshop vise.
A favorite target of mine is the seed balls on buttonwood (sycamore) trees. Puff! when hit and the fuzz flies. Shoot off hand standing and the target is quarter size. Great squirrel practice
I don't eat a lot of sweets but brownies with black walnuts? MmMmm! I could definitely eat one of those.
 
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wsjones said:
It's black walnut season here at Weedy Hill Farm. We have a ridiculous abundance of black walnut trees. Thanks to the red & gray squirrels they pop up like dandelions everywhere. The nuts are still hanging on the trees, green and in their husks. They make wonderful plinking targets.

This one is 41 yards from the back deck railing shooting bench to its base,a really challenging distance for me. This year, shooting from sandbags on the rail, I'm hitting them consistently with H&N FTT's.

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what is out beyond the trees if you miss ?
 
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Nothing except for more walnut trees, a handful of box elder trees, an old grapevine covered silo, another dozen big walnut tree below the silo, gray-stem dogwood thickets interspersed with hawthorn & feral apple trees,, some open meadows I bush hog once a year to keep the dogwood and walnuts out, my mowed walking/tractoring/xc skiing trails that meander through the property. As in, nothing if my wife and dog aren't walking. I wouldn't shoot a 22 LR up into the trees from just any direction, but any air rifle pellets from any of the rifles I own when shot from back deck end up in my own dirt, regardless of direction or angle of fire. I like that very much.
 
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