not to hi-jack the thread, but jtm where you get your Brit from? (pic in your avatar)
I suppose I could send a DM or take it to the dog forum.....:oops:
the whole commercialization of christmas & kids expecting gifts from everyone has turned me into a grinch as I get older. we are all apart some distance so there's no more exchanging, and we stopped shipping gifts years ago, what a pain in the a$$ and money to ship also....
Nice job man! (y)
I can completely relate to your story wllm, I lived about 50 miles south of Boston for 22 years and did all my hunting in SE Mass., there is a pretty good # of hunters down in that area and hunting pressure is real during shotgun season.
Once I switched to buckshot I never...
I'm one of the guys hanging onto his Winchester 30-06, had it for 20 yrs now, was going to upgrade but it flat out shoots well and I'm comfortable with it. Shooting Winchester 180 grain Ballistic Silvertips.
The wife as a fairly new hunter shoots a HOWA 25-06 and she's shot 3 elk & a handful...
There's been alot of awesome "firsts" hunting w/my wife w/her being a new hunter the last 5 seasons, this one has topped them all to-date. Her first antelope, shot on opening day within the first hour of daylight, a stud of a buck.
I've shot rear-deploying mechanicals for 15 years at treestand whitetail hunting and about 6 seasons of elk hunting. Don't worry about the penetration, IMO, put it where it needs to be and it will do what it needs to, I don't get caught up in the penetration argument from what I've seen on my...
x3 on Magnus, shooting the 100 gr stingers this year and they are flying fantastic out to 40 yards as of right now, will be stepping back to 50 & 60 this summer to see what the flight looks like.