The Sam Fadala books are easy to read and super-helpful in getting you started with black powder front loaders.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-powder-hunting-Sam-Fadala/dp/0811702510
TC Rifles are well made, as are Lyman - for production guns. The Ubertis are good as well.
Stick with a 50...
Good primer on the constitutionality of it all:
https://www.acslaw.org/?post_type=acsblog&p=10764
TLDR: States gave up claim to those lands once admitted into the union.
Slightly declining for deer & elk, iirc.
But think of hunter loss, retention & activation.
If we lose hunters & don't replace them with new ones, it's still new hunters in the field, and those hunters aren't going to be nearly as proficient at the old ones hanging it up, leading to a massive...
Last year was a boom year for all kinds of ticks in the northern lower. I had days where I pulled 4 dozen off of the black dog after only hunting 2-3 covers.
Double recommend the permethrin on your clothing - all of it - drawers, socks, tshirts, overshirt, jacket, pants, gaiters and shoes. I'm...
He doesn't sound like a very good friend.
But given the diet of the average hunter, one would assume the methane production at night would have at least a 98 degree warming effect in a solo bag.
I live in an APR area. I can shoot two bucks each year, one has to be a 3 point on one side, the other has to be a 4 point - so using western metrics - that's a forkie (count the brow tines) and a 3 year old 3 point. APR may work in terms of growing larger, more mature whitetail in the eastern...