Midway USA has a good sale going on Speer bullets, again. There is also a rebate available. I really like the 6.5, 140 Gold Dots. I never recovered one bullet out of five deer shot and they are plenty accurate.
Anybody but me playing with this powder yet? I am fairly pleased, so far. Better velocity from other powders, but it measures great and does not fill the case quite as tightly. It seems to be pretty accurate in my Creeds and .260s.
I just finished packaging the last of my deer meat for the year. It had been chilling in the fridge for several days. Always nice to end up with a full freezer!
I shot this butterball this evening at 253 yards. The shot went through the spine at the top of the shoulders. The bullet blew through the spine. I only lost a couple inches off the front of the back straps. This was a Speer Gold Dot, 140 grain, at 2740 FPS muzzle velocity from my Creed. After...
I shot a very large white tail doe fawn yesterday. We put the two round roasts into an oven bag with the veggies and a packet of McCormick au jus gravy mix. I enhanced it a bit on the plate with ketchup and horseradish. Fantastic, tender meal!
I shot these two fatties tonight with my whiz bang interstellar super blaster Henry single shot 30-30 (Mt. Mulie eat your heart out). The first one was 170 yards. I dialed my super chicken up two clicks and punched her through the lungs. The second one was closer so I just held high shoulder and...
Camofire has a good sale on some muck boots right now. I bought a pair from them awhile back and just ordered a second pair. 53 percent off retail. I checked several places and that is correct. If I am doing a lot of hiking in bad conditions, I like my Kenetrek pacs, but for daily use, these...
SWFA has their yearly BF sale going on. The prices are the cheapest ever. Fixed 6 and 10x mil scopes are only $199.95 (100 bucks off). Other packages also cheaper than last year's sale. These scopes are probably the best bang for the buck on today's market and have become my go-to scopes for...
I had a very fine hunt with a friend of mine that has a section of land south of me a few miles. He is 76 and has a hard time doing some physical things. We went to sit in his blind on Monday and a two-year-old buck came in. He only wants a big one, as he does not like the meat, so told me that...
For anybody that likes Speer bullets, Midway is running a great sale on selected ones. I just ordered 140 gold dots for my 6.5, just for something different. Lots of 30 cal stuff, too.
Well, hunters, anybody headed out to hunt near Cow Creek, on the west slope of Colorado, be advised that a fire is raging there. It has jumped to 600 acres in size over night. They pulled the kid and his crew out of North Carolina to fight it. Fire season is not over til the snow flies! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🌲🌲
A good buddy helped me put this rifle together. It is my second nasty, ole Creed. I got a smoking deal on the barrel and later on the ADL short action. Rt. Hand, but oh well. I prefer left-hand actions, but the price was right and I have a couple others already.
I am not all wrapped up in chasing antlers, as I have made clear here many times. A while back, a friend gave me a set of antlers that he found on his place about 30 miles south of where I live. I had to give them their justified place on the wall. I had them put on a fake skull and plaque. I...