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Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag What a PITA to get person to person sales transfer however. There's only but a couple of places in WNY that'll even do it. Getting the ball rolling after the holiday weekend. Current owner has had since late '70's and used twice deer hunting and some competition shooting. Had some trigger work done, boy is it sweet . Put on Pachmayr grips too. Gun is in pristine condition. Any deer hunting ammo suggestions ? I did a little research and saw Buffalo Bore Deer Grenade +P got great reviews. Have all summer to practice with her. Now I have to find a holster for it. Optics ? yay or nay ?

Not bad for dealing with the 'spur' grip. I think I could get much tighter with a reticle scope. Still fun to shoot.

I had a swing & a Mrs once. Does that count? Damn, I'm an awful person.

Seems a few good friends (two honorable member here) have missed in the past few days, WTH are you guys thinking? Damn........you gotta keep your heads in the game! I've BTDT though, one time on the very last day I flubbed a absolute gimme shot at a dandy long beard. What a sicking feeling. Now all the rest of you that read this have been jinxed.......LOL. Anymore "Mrs" we want to talk about??

I have its sister, a Redhawk all blued from the same vintage with similar grips..... Shooting a hardcast 240 gr WNFP, 50 yds on that center target after some sight adjustment. Haven't taken a deer yet; buts they have performed well on pigs and an escaped Angus I had to do in LOL Belt holster in pic but have used a Shamrock made bandito holster more and like that as I can carry under a coat in lousy weather and still have easy access. http://shamrockholsters.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=55

I heard about another guy who had a similar but not quite so traumatic experience.. He was hunting with a very dear old friend who has tagged out and had located a gobbler... They sat until nearly 8:00 AM and heard NADA, when finally a gobbler answered up... They set up and the dear old friend was doing the calling, all our hero had to do was sit there and shoot the damn turkey.. It was a textbook call up...The gobbler stepped out at 30 yards and posed... BANG !! The shot went over the gobbler's head and the bird flushed totally unscathed, at least leaving no indication of being hit...Perhaps a result of holding on the HEAD rather than lower on the neck with the new tight patterning Longbeard XRs.. The dear old friend who had located the bird and had done the calling, commented, " How the hell do you drop those ducks and geese and crows flying at 50 MPH, and miss that great big gobbler standing there flatfooted at 30 yards ??" Actually I consider quite a feat..One poster on here not too long ago stated that it was pretty HARD to miss a turkey...

Poor wretched soul !!!

OMG! What a tale of woe........ We can add him to the list!!

I wonder if we have a mutual friend.... I was talking to one guy who probably took a pop at one a little farther than he should have. Hit the damn bird and watched him bounce 10ft in the air 3x's like a basketball before landing in a blowdown. Three other birds gathered around to watch him die. When the guy crawled out of his blind, FOUR birds took to the air. The guy was pretty determined to find the one he hit with so much blood on the ground so he searched for well over an hour. He went back to the blind to collect his thoughts and got back on the trail of the bird he suspected he hit. A few hundred yards downhill, he discovered a bird laying on the ground out in the wide open timber. To him it looked like a nesting hen the way it was laying there so he held his fire on a follow up shot since he couldn't see it's head. When he got closer to the bird it picked it's head up and took to the air again straight through a set of posted signs he can't get access to the other side of. When the guy went to look where the bird was laying, he found spots of blood that proved indeed it was the same bird he shot almost 2 hours before. Poor guy was ready to give up hunting over it till I talked him out of it!

3-2-1 Ribs....pretty sure I killed it.

I have been planting and posting pics about this for years and yes you can get some great yeilds...I get mine from tractor supply ......I rather put the $$ in fertilizer

I get it in the super pack. Usually 24.99 a 12 pack but worth it. Try the gemini with some of turkey feathers smoked almonds. Also good with raw almonds.

I thought I was alone tonight, so I didn't make anything…Then the wife calls and tells me that not only will my kids be home to eat, but one of their friends as well. Threw together some Giannelli Sausage, peppers and potatoes . Big hit….Did you know that the name "Giannelli" is made up ??? The two owners are brothers. ones name starts with a "G" and the other starts with an "L". so they came up with G&L- eee. They're not even Italian!!!! I think their last name is 'LEE' as in G&L-LEE Smart guys………..

Got so tired of payin so much i pulled the plug on cable. Internet tv and phone plus a good digital antenna is the way to go. HBO now for 15 bucks a month and im all set. Cancel when they dont carry anything i wantto watch. Just cant justify almost $3000.00 a year when i hardly watch tv.

What's your husband drink.....JK

Prolly just a newbie hunter and that'd be MORE than acceptable. Now if THAT was an experienced, seasoned veteran hunter with many (like 40 something) seasons, living in supremo turkey country, with the eye of an eagle and the ice cold blood of a stone cold killer coursing through his veins.........I'd only give him a pass If he was a friend.

I haven't even needed to stuff any ammo in my turkey thumper this year so no misses.......yet. But hunting the next 4 days so I've got time for failure. The next 3 with my daughter. I'd really laugh if she hammers one and I botch up a double on these 4 jakes we've been encountering.

Didn't have a single bird to work all season to even account for a shot!! I could have lived with a miss this season!!

What's a miss? Never done such a thing.

Ahhhhh..., now THAT explains the Genny Creme Ale in a recent thread! The new guns are cutting into the beer budget! Can you get an x-tra full turkey choke for that hand canon,lol

I LIKE it!

Nice looking pistol. I can't help with ammo, but I say put a scope on her for deer hunting.

No, its not on Netflix.

Cam is sold!

Nice, real nice! Looks like a lot of fun for sure. Nikon makes a real nice 22 scope for less than $150. The red dots are ok for close up shooting but I prefer a redicle for a bit further out. JMO. Either way, have fun shooting!

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It is my first time planting field corn, i was not under the impression that the seed was the same as feed corn. lol. kinda bummed because i could have saved the money and went to the local feed shop. but i paid 42$ for 25# they did give me an extra 5# with my purchase which was nice.. we learn from our mistakes, or trial and error i should say. I planted the screen last night, an 8-10" path around the outside edge of my soybean plot.. i till it up several times in the last a couple weeks so the dirt was perfect, i broadcast the seed just a tad on the heavy side, and adjusted my tiller to 2" depth and skimmed the top of soil to put the seed in around 2" deep as they suggested 1.5-2" and no less than 1".. see how it comes out, got a good hour long down pour immediately after planting. should be good. The majority of the seed was under the soil.. Next year ill purchase feed corn to plant knowing this lol..

You would think so, but actually I taught myself to do the thread wrapping a few years ago specifically to make wingbones. There's a guy at my office who is very into building all kinds of fishing tackle who wants to get me into building rods and tying flies. I'm sure I will at some point, but right now with little kids it's hard to even find time to make a wingbone here and there.

Just remember to stuff the potato down the FRONT on your pants, not the back...

Thanks for the input guys. Most of my property has been worked at some point in the last 10 years. I gave her a go yesterday on some ground that hasn't been touched in a while and it did well. I had it set pretty shallow and just made several passes. I'm pretty impressed so far. I'll try post up a video of it in action!

Upstate brewing common sense. I have none but the 16 ounces I just drank

Nice solid IPA

Southerntier is one of my favorite breweries around. Keep going back to their smash 2xipa... Not sure if its seasonal but I love it

They are legal, because they are " a semi automatic RIFLE that do not have a DETACHABLE magazine. Before the SAFE ACT, you could pick one up for less than 200 bucks.. Now they run 4- 6 hundred+ depending on condition. 7.62x39 cal. ballistics about the same as the 30-30 Win. They are crude but crazy reliable,,They will always shoot..just like the AK

I wanted to see if I could get a nice char on a steak with propane like I can over coals. I was pretty shocked I actually did it. Only been cooking on propane grills for about 5 years. Before that it was always charcoal or over campfire coals. Nice little char on top and a perfect center! Brussels sprouts and a mayo based mac salad with bacon.

I have always been a fan of sword and sorcery movies since my teen years with Conan graphic novels. So I can't help but love HBO's Blood & Boobies.

Well I had ground hog day this morning. Same birds ,same gobble like crazy action at first light. Heading my way and then silence and poof they disappear. Well that's it for me this spring I had fun and shot a nice bird. Good luck to all and be safe! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have a single hen that walks by my ground blind on a daily basis and has done so for the last 2 weeks. I call her the "gabbing hen" because I can hear her coming a mile away and she never shuts up. She constantly yelps, clucks, and cackles as she walks her daily route, but I have never had a gobbler follow her. She is so vocal that the first time I heard her coming, I thought it was another hunter trespassing on my land because I figured it was a hunter walking and excessively calling. I am sure she has a nest nearby. The only good thing is that I can practice by calling to her and she responds and we "talk" a lot. There is no better way to learn good calling techniques than by practicing with a real live wild hen.

try this some time http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/197183/ I like Citra hops

Just need the doors (the hard part) and it's done. I'll wait a few weeks to stain and seal it so the lumber can dry out

Why hate to admit it? Its not Melrose Place

Sounds like a flock of lesbihens,lol

I just threw up

I've made some wingbones. With an almost 5-year old and now a 5-month old I haven't had the time to make any recently but will again at some point.

Lets see,I know I have talked about hunting goals and wishes. Shown some huge racked deer for our area and shot some nice deer over the years...I do not remember saying I hunt to kill the biggest deer in the woods...I have never and most likely, will never have a deer mounted. Not to say if I went on a special elk,moose or bear hunt those wouldn't be. I set many different goals for myself and yes getting the next biggest deer or the next unusual deer is part of that...but I do not hold a tag and not use it if one doesn't come along. I will use it on some thing that I know is at least 2 1/2 if possible. I went after an older swamp buck...and I have regretted the taste of it since.That will always be in my mind when seeing an older buck ...for I've shot younger rutty buck in the past and NEVER had that happen before. I'm pretty sure I will never fall into the category you think most all hunters do. Hunting for me is really everything I do leading up to the actual hunt...as far as I'm concerned,think it naive if you wish, if I managed to get "Monster buck " on my land and on my cameras during day light....well than I have already been a successful hunter. It's only luck that would put him there in season and in front of where I happen to be sitting. Then even luck has to be perfect..for I've had that as well..and had to watch as a doe led them away or they decided to bed down out of range and not respond to calls. Just to get up and walk the opposite way. Still a successful hunt because no one can take those experiences away from me. Nor can they judge as to just how "big" an experience it was. Lots of things make the "biggest trophy hunt" in a year. To me the size of a rack is down the list a ways.

LOL..Its all fine and well that you boys drank the colored water and try to speak out of the good handbook but its a fact that this industry is fueled by big racked high scoring bucks and will not be a changin any time soon! Just turn the Tv on or walk into any sporting good store,Jump on about any internet site...Including QDMA..and you will see them all working to kill the biggest buck they can.

Well guess what..I have had hunting property since 15 years old and have always has an obsession for big bucks with big racks.I just happened to turn that into making a good living. I say qdma because they are about the only ones that will say..I want a big buck but there is so much more! Well bottom line is they want the big buck first. I can promise ya that if we stood in front of Bass Pro Shop and asked every hunter what their first wish is when it comes to deer hunting and 8 out of 10 will say...The big 10pt i have been watching on my trail cam or something like..The biggest buck i can find.

My comment wasn't meant for you.. I was just using your quote for a lead-in. I agree that AR's in the form being used in NY and PA don't go far enough to actually create big bucks in large numbers. But, if you look at the size of the record book class bucks in PA since AR's started and you will see a big difference in overall size and numbers of those bucks. I've said it before and I'll say it again... AR's are only one item necessary in an overall deer management plan to improve the age structure among the buck population... bigger bucks are just a by-product of good management. AR's on their own is not deer management. I think we are trying to hard to manage whitetails in NYS with no actual goal in mind of where we want it to take us.