A fine friend I have known for 39 years is visiting me right now. He is a very fit 75 years old
After returning from six months into the deepest reaches of Tibet and the most remote parts of the Tribal Highlands of India, still tiger country, he returned to his family in our country's deep...
Has nothing to do with hate, not at all. It is just that in so many ways the fish and game laws as drawn up do not themselves really respect wildlife or wild lands. They are based on old ideas and habits which have come down from ancient herding societies in which wild animals were being managed...
You could pretty much guarantee that any policy that is good for wildlife and wild lands is going to be a hard pill to swallow for most current hunters. We are just at that point now and I do not have one bit of sympathy for those who object to doing what is upright.
I am 77 and grew up when...
For the record, regarding Buck deer I do not support shooting spike deer. give them another year. Minimum 2x1. a fork on one side. Maximum legal 3x3, with a special draw/app tag for any buck over 3x3
Below is a link to a book on hunting, which i think is the best on the subject I have ever read. It was the only book on hunting the author ever wrote but he is highly regarded as a writer in other areas.
In this 1993 book, He broke down hunters evenly into three groups: meat hunters, trophy...
I believe that we can approach our life's decisions from two basically different stances. I will describe them metaphorically as being either up-right or upside-down.
Let me offer some different examples. My mother's side of my family were dairy farmers. My father's side were residential...
-I write this from two perspectives, one being a lifelong hunter and am now 77. The other being a field biologist and science educator having taught high school biology, chemistry, and ecology.
Where I fish, the regulations forbid taking a native, non-hatchery trout over a certain size. Such...
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Been hunting with one like this with factory peep sights for 25 years. Can hit a tangerine at 125 yards all day...
Learning the now long-lost art of judging shooting ranges by “Subtending” with either a simple fixed power scope or fine front bead of iron sights worked “OK”. It allowed rough recognition of 50-yard increments from say 250 yards to 500 yards. Never needed a range finder but learning to subtend...
Ages ago when I lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming I walked into a pawn shop. An elderly woman walked out. At the gun counter, a man who turned out to be the owner was looking at an old rifle she had just bought in to sell on consignment.
I asked to see it, picked it up and asked about it. She was a...
Reading yours and other responses, two factors remain unclear. What type of bow hunter are you, traditional bow or modern compound? Second what type of muzzle loader hunter are you, traditional or modern inline scoped or not.
I have just taken up archery as a fun hobby on my property using...
There is so much to be said for a 3 inch barrel. I too regret selling a 4 inch barreled model 66, but what I replaced it with serves better as an all-around handgun, that being a model 65 Smith .357 with a 3 inch bull barrel and fixed sights. Basically, a stainless version of the blued Model 13...
With my later model Sako 75 there is a non-moving housing that fully covers the rear of the bolt and fully protects the firing pin from being pushed forward in rare case it was struck there,
Also there is a button that when depressed allows the rifle to be uncocked with the safety still on.
I am 78 years old and grew up in Connecticut. Below is a list of the firearms companies in my home state and adjacent states. Literally I was raised in a “Firearm Heaven”. My first car was a salt rusted out 56 Chevy hand me down and my first trips away from the family dairy farm were to the Colt...