While I tend to agree that Big Ag seriously hurts wildlife, this is another twist to consider.
https://www.birdful.org/why-did-the-snow-goose-population-explode/
On post #63 I offered an online reference for a fine used Sako rifle in 30-06 for $899.
I am getting too close to being 80 years old. Hopefully getting my second knee replacement surgery next Wednesday will make big game hunting more possible for me again. Time will tell.
Starting when I was...
You are right. The first X bullets came out in 1989. I am talking about the Original ones Fred Barnes began making in 1939. I began using them in the late 1960's.
They were very heavy for caliber, for example the Round nosed.277 bullet for my 270 Win. was 180 grains. They really mushroomed...
Put a new recoil pad on it
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My hunting partner of 40 years and I have been hunting with these extra heavy Barnes Original bullets for caliber round nosed bullets forever. I have a 1950's FN Belgium Mauser in .270 Winchester. He has a 7x57 Mauser ( That I sold him) and an original 1895 Winchester in 30-40, and uses the 195...
A.E. Nelson Holsters Scio, Oregon. I have them on my 6" N frame S&W 41 mag and my 4" 629 S and W 44 mag and my S&W model 13 K frame
Prices are fair, workmanship excellent.
A desert bighorn ram hunt can be such an adventure. It was for me. Glassing all afternoon, learning how to see sheep, finding a Ram, watching it bed as the sun goes down.
Planning every detail of a stalk for the next morning. Getting up at 3am, hiking under the stars in a clear winter sky for...
I first heard this discussion about lumpers and splitters 56 years ago when I entered college as a freshman biology major. By the time I was in graduate school taking a class in mammalogy with new genetic research, the opinion was going more in the direction of the splitters.
Fruit flies share...
Epigenetics' at work. same genes, but different combinations get created and get passed down to next generation. This is step on the road to actually producing different species.
Burro Deer and Mule deer are officially classified by mammalogists as distinct sub species.
I am 78 years old. For an honest 30 years of my life, I actually lived in mountains with desert bighorn sheep. For another five years I lived in the city, but at least every few months i spent time out in the desert seeing them. That such a huge and majestic animal can actually live in such a...
The Loops of Henle's in the Nephrons of the Burros deer's kidneys are twice as long as the Mules Deer's to conserve water.
Their fur is more golden. lighter to reflect back heat from sunlight. Their ears are larger to act as heat releasing radiators. The blood vessels in their ears are close to...