Hard to believe but I'm soon to be 56yrs old. I'm the youngest son of a life long Free Methodist Pastor and godly mother. I've been happily married for 32years with two adult children who have made me a very happy daddy. I've been a plumber, part time pastor, oilfield roust about, equipment operator, field editor for a regional outdoor magazine, a failed life insurance salesman, a full time pastor, a licensed plumber, a class 4 water systems operator, and currently a disabled worker.
I mostly love to deer hunt but formerly enjoyed hunting rabbits and squirrels when younger and turkeys when I had a place to hunt them. My love of guns sprang from the love of the hunt but has a life all its own now making me a certified gun nut and self proclaimed rifle loony!
I love to hunt whitetail around the edges of thickets and along the creek bottoms of Central Louisiana where I grew up. I've enjoyed some very good places to hunt through the years but now hunt just a small tract where deer are scarce and almost totally nocturnal and are the hardest to hunt that I have ever known. None the less I still love to pull out my Marlins each Fall and hunt those aggravating deer. Those Marlins may not be the best firearms I own but they certainly rate as some of my favorites. This year I hunted more with my left handed Browning Micro Hunter in 7mm-08. It sports a Leupold VX3 2.5-8x. This might be the best rifle/scope combination for all my hunting but there is always the chance that there may be something better so I must ever continue my quest. One such rifle is my JES rebored Marlin/Glenfield 30/30 to 356Winchester. I know it will not do anything my BLR in 358Win can't do except it will feel like a Marlin while doing it! Perhaps I should just hunt more with my M-375 Marlin more and I wouldn't need the other two if I just woke up with my favorite Marlin in hand, my plain Jane 336 Regular Carbine in 35Remington. With my hand load it's pushing the 200gr core-lokts at 2200fps. But what about my 1895in 45/70? Can't it clobber anything that I'll ever hunt? And what about those bullets I was going to cast and shoot in some of these and other Marlins??? I think you'll see that I am a certified rifle loony. Just wait and see...
I mostly love to deer hunt but formerly enjoyed hunting rabbits and squirrels when younger and turkeys when I had a place to hunt them. My love of guns sprang from the love of the hunt but has a life all its own now making me a certified gun nut and self proclaimed rifle loony!
I love to hunt whitetail around the edges of thickets and along the creek bottoms of Central Louisiana where I grew up. I've enjoyed some very good places to hunt through the years but now hunt just a small tract where deer are scarce and almost totally nocturnal and are the hardest to hunt that I have ever known. None the less I still love to pull out my Marlins each Fall and hunt those aggravating deer. Those Marlins may not be the best firearms I own but they certainly rate as some of my favorites. This year I hunted more with my left handed Browning Micro Hunter in 7mm-08. It sports a Leupold VX3 2.5-8x. This might be the best rifle/scope combination for all my hunting but there is always the chance that there may be something better so I must ever continue my quest. One such rifle is my JES rebored Marlin/Glenfield 30/30 to 356Winchester. I know it will not do anything my BLR in 358Win can't do except it will feel like a Marlin while doing it! Perhaps I should just hunt more with my M-375 Marlin more and I wouldn't need the other two if I just woke up with my favorite Marlin in hand, my plain Jane 336 Regular Carbine in 35Remington. With my hand load it's pushing the 200gr core-lokts at 2200fps. But what about my 1895in 45/70? Can't it clobber anything that I'll ever hunt? And what about those bullets I was going to cast and shoot in some of these and other Marlins??? I think you'll see that I am a certified rifle loony. Just wait and see...
