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Dropped this one Friday Pm after a friend called up and asked me to pay a visit to address a coyote issue. Luckily it gets dark early so I could get some sleep before hunting deer the next day. Big male that was looking to fight. Don't come to a gunfight without a gun. SJC

Got into camp Friday afternoon and geared up for a deer drive for some friends that haven't seen anything for two days because of the weather. Had a few doe go their way, but all small ones. My brother and I who were doing the driving saw two shooters and we each dropped one out of what turned into a group of seven doe on a drive Saturday afternoon. The deer are herding up in my local and with temps proposed to stay in the mid twenties for the next week it seems that still hunting is the way to go if you want to see deer. Saw close to 40 deer in two days still hunting in my snowshoes. I can't remember the last time I used snowshoes deer hunting in November, but it was great to be outdoors and putting meat on the table. SJC

Holy overreaction Batman. Haven't heard any updates as to what you planned to do after your ammo fiasco and wanted to see what you decided to do about it ? I was hoping for a reply and update saying thanks for the info and recommendation about reloading and I'm currently working on acquiring reloading components. Not a response about politics, which I never mentioned, but is really the main reason your having an issue in the first place. I guess I have thicker skin from working in the city most of my life. SJC

So have you made the effort to break yourself away from Hochuls teat by learning how to and starting to reload, moving back to Alaska or are you just going to continue to complain about it on the forum ? SJC

Was looking to head up to the cabin this evening, but it's already snowing and a foot or more of the stuff is expected, so I'm going to call the farmer that plows the driveway to see how bad it is before heading up. I enjoy still hunting in the snow, so I decided to stay an extra day, but it bit me in the ass last Friday as I was expecting a couple of inches of snow, but ended up stuck shoveling snow for three hours and my back is still feeling it. SJC

After seeing plenty of doe and non shooter bucks on stand over opening weekend we spotted a buck bedded down in a field on DEP property about 150 yards off a road while heading to town. We glassed it and saw it was a legal shooter. Sun was in it's face and wind was in my face, so it was the perfect time to make a stalk. I donned my blaze orange, slipped out of the truck and chambered a round. Got to within 50 yards of it by crawling through tall grass until I ran into a ditch. I parted the grass with my right foot and popped it in the neck, as it was the only area of it that I had a clear shot of. After the shot an unseen doe bolted away. I thought it was the .01% indigenous genes that allowed me to stalk within 50 yards, but it was actually a hot doe. After we brought it back to the farm to process a ferocious cow tried to take the buck away, but I wasn't having any of that and it quickly backed away after staring down the barrel of the 500 S&W ! SJC

The only ammunition I buy is .22lr and since I bought a lot of it over the years when Ammo was cheap, you won't find me waiting in a store for big Mothers approval in this lifetime no matter who's in charge. I haven't bought ammunition for any of my firearms since I started reloading in 1978 at ten years old and I still have factory ammunition that was part of the deal when purchasing a firearm way back when. Some here might remember a store chain called Service Merchandise that sold sporting goods from a catalog and had in store purchasing. You could buy a rifle or shotgun plus ammunition in the same purchase ! Wait there, watch it get picked and roll down the conveyor to the cash register. Blasphemy !!!! I sure do miss the good Ol' days when America was Free. Free Men reload, Slaves Don't. SJC

Buy this ; Lee Hand loader Then buy a pound of H4350 powder, Large rifle primers and your preferred .30 cal bullet. Having a dead blow rubber mallet, scale that reads in grains and a caliper will help the process. Then watch this ( Load Ammo , More load stuff ) and never ask for permission to buy ammo ever again for your 30-06 rifle. My father taught my brothers and I the reloading process with the Lee hand loader kit. It's bare bones and is only useful for bolt and lever action rifles, but it works. SJC

A trail camera is a tool. Some see a need for them, some don't. If we didn't have cell service to use the cell cameras I wouldn't use them. I never liked having to visit the cam's to pull cards and change batteries. We have a couple of solar cell cameras set up on trails leading to stands and a couple at property access points to keep tabs on trespassers who swear they don't trespass. More than 90% of the bucks we see on the cams are never seen or taken and that's info that I would never know without using them. I set up cell cams on bait piles for coyote hunting and that helps me tremendously in eliminating them. SJC

I get up early to go to work everyday, so it pains me to get up early on my day's off, but you gotta be in it to win it. I also enjoy watching the world wake up with a view not blocked by a windshield. I have a ground blind that faces south, so I get to watch the sun rise and set. I'm happy it sets earlier, as it gives me more time to hunt coyote. SJC

I walked into a barnes & nobles and asked the manager where I could find Trumps newest book on how he's going to deport the illegals. She told me get the "F" out and stay out ! I said that's the one, do you have it in paperback ? SJC

Two years ago like clockwork right before shooting light I watched a big buck make his way back to his anti hunter sanctuary across the road before dark with my thermal spotter. You could tell by his movements he was a mature buck on a mission. We set up a camera and got a couple of pics of the bruiser, but no one harvested him and he dropped off the radar after a week. I named him the vampire buck. SJC

Female of the Alpha pair we took out yesterday at 160+ yards. SJC

Got the X50 scope back this afternoon and they were able to recover some of the videos. This is the dog I dropped at close range in the harvested corn field. It came from a long ways away and traveled through the cow herd before it met its demise. Wind was coming from the left, so it never knew we were there. SJC

Dropped this one Sat Am after a long day at work. Sleep is overrated. SJC