Y'all probably know I am not a fan of bolt rifles. Way too modern. But here is one made in 1892 or so. I will say I think it is the most desirable rifle that I have seen in quite a long time. It is going up for auction in a month or so. I won't be bidding, but I think it would just...
I have some Kent Upland Bismuth #5s that I want to unload. 1.25 oz, 2.75" shells, 1350 fps.
I transferred them to plastic boxes that I will be keeping. I do not have the original boxes, so they will come in some other flavor of box.
There is a total of 49 rounds that need a new home...
This just floated by my screen. It is impossible. It can't be. But there it is.
Marvel and enjoy.
I'm driving to California in few hours, so this has to play too.
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I am looking to sell my bear medicine, aka Smith and Wesson 629 (44 Mag) Mountain Pistol. This is the slimmer, lighter, and sexier sister to the regular Model 29 and 629 pistols. It is stainless, with a 4" barrel. The condition is very good to excellent. I...
Tire opinions are wide and wild on the internet, but I would like to hear what others have to say. I currently have my second set of BFGoodrich All Terrain, TA/KO2s. I like them just find and have had them on other trucks as well. But damn, they are expensive these days.
Much cheaper (close to...
I went crappie fishing today. Again. I've been out about 5 times this year. So far not a single crappie has been seen. Not even one floating dead along the shoreline. In fact, I had not landed a fish until today. Turned out to be my first musky ever. On a crappie jig - which he made into...
I have a 98 Krag .30-40 for which I may want to make non-tox loads. Is anyone aware of such load recipes? And if not, what sort of non-toxic bullets are likely to work? The gun is made to shoot 220 gr lead bullets that are ridiculously long, so long copper bullets would probably be best, but...
It may be 2022, but this is officially the close of the 2021 season for me and Gus. Following anti-hotspotting rules, I can only say I was somewhere in The Middle; North of Mexico and South of Canada in a state that still had a bird hunting season until the most recent sunset.
Anyway, it was...
So, @VikingsGuy has gotten everyone to think about how miserable they would be if they had to give up all but one gun, albeit, in each of several categories.
But more realistically and enjoyably, what are you looking to add to your arsenal (bows, etc. included), for the coming fall? And...
My old Pima Loft Patagonia puffy died this morning. It had many holes and tears, but now the main zipper is shot and it's not worth fixing. I'm in need of a nonmegabucks puffy that is similarly light in actual weight while very warm, quiet, perhaps not completely wind or waterproof (I can...
I'm looking for forest fire maps for Minnesota for the last 30 years or so. I asked this question in the On-X thread, but perhaps some of you know of other formats (including print or some other format). Any luck out there?
Thanks.
I'm wondering if anyone has any particular suggestions they would like to share for finding grouse in the Northern Midwest via e-scouting on On-X What can you see that is useful? I used to hunt them more than 40 yrs ago, but I didn't have aerial views to give me an idea of what the places that...
Here is a last minute, what if, question.
What if I put into an area that I do not draw as first choice and with that buck tag application, I add two reduced price doe tags. In the application, I can choose to have the does dropped if I do not draw. If I do NOT choose this option, could they...
Today, it warmed up to 21F. It was sunny, and the wind so light, I could out run it on snowshoes. So Gus and I went duck scouting.
No picts of Gus on a stump today. But we do have Gus on a Muskrat Lodge. You probably can't see the ducks, but Gus and I could. A dozen mallards, wheeling...
Okay, I sorta lied, but I was out hiking around and the number of turkey tracks and gobblers that I saw was astounding. It won't be that long before these guys are back in play.
Yesterday was a sort of surreal day. It was the first day of my retirement and my wife put me to work all day. I'm still exhausted.
But in the aftermath of that, I learned that yesterday was National Golden Retriever day. I have had goldens almost all of my life, but this is the first I heard...
I'm thinking about next season already. I will have the time to significantly up my game, which would entail using my boat - something I have avoided to this point.
To that end, I am looking for a suitable pole for moving a small aluminum boat across shallow, soft, cattail marshes with...
From boom to bust. Yesterday, multiple hundreds of birds. Today, nothing. We did have to deal with a pair of trespassers, which probably had a little to do with that. But it was a good day anyway. We both finished with strong legs. That's not a small thing.
No stump to pose on either.
Gus got...
Another day, another pic on a stump - well a log, but that's what we had in a farmer's machine lot.
This was one of the most impressive days of pheasant hunting I have ever seen. We may have seen close to 1000 flushes. Of course, nearly all of them were 100s of yards away. But they were...