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    2021 Morels!!

    Found some behind our house here in NW Indiana a few weeks ago. We back up to 40 acres of woods with about 3 acres of those woods owned by our HOA. There are 25 or so Elm trees in that 3 acres and two of them are dead and both produced. We fried up a few as my wife likes them fried. I gave...
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    Some sweet blades

    Gorgeous knives all of them... I am a part time knife maker myself, but my skill set is so far behind these guys. It literally my 4th job behind husband, daddy, day job, then knife maker. Currently I am running about 6-8 months out from time of " I want one" to finished blade in a clients...
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    15x Binos

    I have the Vortex 15x56's and really like them. I use them at the range, out west, and can even look at wildlife out my window freehand without a tripod with them.
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    Winchester model 70

    That is amazing Buzz. I hope that someday my grandkids can say the same things about the rifles I hand down. In 20 years I would love to be sitting on a prairie dog town in Wyoming and tell my grand kids after they flip a dog end over end ( my oldest child is 13), " You know your great uncle...
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    Winchester model 70

    Don the pre 64's were built much like a custom rifle of today. That was one reason they went away. It cost too much money to continue making them. $162 bucks in 1950 ( price of a supergrade in .270) is around 1700-1800 bucks today. 1. Machined action 2. hand fitted parts 3. Hand...
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    Winchester model 70

    Winchester offered more than 20 recoil pads ( special order) and the Pachmayr white line was available in either a 1 1/8" or 1 3/16" version for $2.50 extra :) This is where the lineage and collection of pre 64's gets really muddy. With the amount of recoil pads offered, and all of them were...
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    Closing the gap on Turkey advice

    This stuff sure hits home, especially this week for me. I am hunting here in Indiana at one of the wildlife management areas ( 8,000 acres). Draw only. I have never hunted here before and unfortunately all of my scouting was done via google earth. Fortunately there are areas that are a good...
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    Funny Hunter Quotes/Lingo

    "We've been hunting Tines ( or any other name for a buck) super hard this season".. definition of " hunting super hard" for any midwest whitetail hunting show = had to walk more than 50 yards from truck/atv/utv to the box blind that has a heater in it.
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    Funny Hunter Quotes/Lingo

    "those leaves were drier than a popcorn fart"
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    What is your rifles name?

    The first rifle I ever bought was a mid 90's model 70 classic stainless in .270. It is affectionately known as " the .270" My 1949 model 70 in .270 is known as " the 49". These are the two most used rifles in the bunch. My two oldest daughters ( 11 and 13) know them well and know exactly...
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    Drew an Elk MZ tag... now what?

    I have done quite a bit of shooting at 200 yards with my TC PRO hunter. I have drawn two NM muzzleloader tags in the past 6 years. I do NOT use the high BC plastic tipped bullets. I run BH 209 with a MMP Sabot and a 350 grain Kodiak .458 bullet. 1953 FPS as chrono'd which is basically...
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    Lite Outdoors Plateau 5 Tipi and Stove Ongoing Review

    I experienced this when using the baffle as well after one night using non hardwood in the backcountry. The spark arrestor actually clogged, which we noticed right away after lighting when we got back to camp. I disassembled the stove and the inside of the stove pipe was covered in gummy black...
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    Truth Of Forges

    Fire brick is essentially a heat sink. It will take your forge longer to heat up to temp therefore it will use more fuel. Satanite, Castolite 30, Mizzou and the Kiln wash are all reflective. They bounce the heat back. I do use the brick for doors front and rear. And as NM guy stated...
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    Security for new home to protect hunting gear investment

    Mthuntr, I ran into this same situation when we moved to NM 6 years ago ( since then have moved).. No basement in NM, and previously always had a basement to build a safe room, never owned a safe. We made the move and I ended up buying a big ass safe, and bolting it to the concrete floor...
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    Truth Of Forges

    Check out a Frosty "T" burner. Simple as you know what to build. My 2 burner runs on (2) 1/2 inch T burners and produces forge welding heat ( I have successfully welded 9 layers of 1084 and 15n20 together and drew out a billet. Here it is before coating the Kaowool with Satanite. 9x12 forge...
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    New home - What would you do?

    Suspended garage. Makes for way to build a gun safe room with a heavy steel door. Run HVAC to it and a stairway from the upper garage is even better. Not to mention if you live in a tornado area it makes a nice storm shelter.
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    Original Gun Boxes

    I keep as well. We have moved 8 times in 16 years due to work and with over 30 long guns, the ones that don't have scopes go right back into their boxes for easy transportation. Scoped guns go in lockable hard cases. All my handguns have their original boxes as well. Same reason.
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    Best Trail Cam Pictures

    Over the years I have gotten some good ones, all on public land. Lost a cam to thieves, had guys walk up to them and look at them but not take then( thank you steel box ). But in my mind the coolest set of pics were actually taken a few months apart of the same doe on public land in Missouri...
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    charcoal briquets in a tent stove.

    I would agree except we burned wood every night for the previous 5 or 6 nights with no ill effect. Either way it was pretty scary.
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    Use Enough Gun

    Man I better tell my 5, 8, 11, and 13 year old daughters that their 243 isn't enough gun. Oh wait, that almost 200 pound doe our 11 year old shot last fall with REDUCED recoil handloads and a 95 gr Ballistic tip at 2400fps that broke the shoulder going in and then completely passed through and...

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