Love this thread! Great to see so many still hunting with leverguns! It has long been my desire to hunt with a levergun in order to experience hunting the way my grandfather did a hundred years ago. To that end I even purchased a Marlin 336 and a Marlin 1895. However, for the last 15 years or so...
Session lager, brewed in Oregon, is usually my beer of choice. But it's getting harder to find here in Eastern Montana since the start of the pandemic. So now I buy Public Land Owner pale ale, which I also enjoy.
Hunting camp for me is an opportunity to enjoy but some of the things I don't typically eat at home. Among those would be things such as canned corned beef hash or Spam. Likewise, while camping i prefer to brew my coffee in a manner i don't do at home. Sometimes that means old fashioned cowboy...
A lifetime ago, when I was a young and foolish seventeen years old, I signed up for a youth conservation program and worked at a state park in central Washington. We would catch rattlesnakes in our free time. We skinned the snakes, keeping the skins and rattlers, and park ranger's wife would...
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I'm not sure if there's much cost savings for the guy who only goes to the range once a couple of times a year or to sight in his rifle a week before hunting. But I'm certain there's savings involved for someone who shoots on a regular basis and burns through a lot of ammo. However, I tend to...