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A friend of mine a few years back installed a multifuel furnace and he uses whole corn for fuel and buys it in large truck loads, not saying the neighbor isn't baiting just saying eight tons of corn is pretty excessive for that purpose and he might just be using it for other things. Al

That would be opening a whole new can of worms, the Farmer is just trying to make a buck selling corn and probably wants no part of getting involved in something like this that would potentially be a hassle and cost him income. It is not illegal to buy corn. Al

For anyone that reloads their own non toxic shot for older shotguns and classic doubles here is a super good sale on Bismuth shot for reloading. Al

In Recent years the Oneida Lever Bow company was purchased by John Paul Morris, he is trying his best to keep Oneida archery alive and produce here in America the very finest lever compound bow possible. They are a very complicated bow and are not cheap. Their main bow is the Osprey and these are marketed toward the bow fishing community, at $799.00 they will put a dent in your wallet. Enter the Chinese, they know a good thing when they see it and are making a virtual copy called the RPM at $499.00, the Americans who invented and took many years to refine this bow to it's present state get it stuck to them again from the thieves in China. Al

Two inches high at 100 yards is the norm for the way I sight most of my rifles. My lever action close cover Marlins in 45-70 , 357 mag and 44 mag are sighted dead on at 75 yards. Al

Check out RadPowerBikes.com, they are sold direct and have got a big following and a good reputation. I made an earlier post about the Rad Mini I purchased a few weeks ago, I am going to be 70 years old at the end of the month and can ride this thing just about anywhere within reason. Rad has an informative website along a ton of videos on you-tube showing the Rad line and folks putting them through their paces. Al

ENUFF SAID!! Al

For my way of thinking no matter what the weapon being used so long as it is one capable of making the kill it will always come down to how proficient and confident the shooter is in making the shot. If I am confident I can make the shot then I will take it. Al

The modules are located in the cam assembly, the little black piece on the left hand side of the photo is a module, on the right it is shown mounted in the cam.

The draw lengths are set by modules designed to incrementally increase or decrease the draw length with a simple installation. The bows when new came with three different sizes. I handled a new version Osprey at Bass Pro last summer it was much lighter and shorter, sweet but expensive. They have become a favorite of those who bow fish. Al

Purchased a vintage Oneida Eagle Aero Force lever compound bow this past summer, puttered around and just got done doing a refurbish on the old gal installing some shorter draw length modules, tuning and timing, a new string and a Michigan Autumn paint scheme, been a fun little project. Basically will be just shooting targets and I will be shooting with fingers and no sights. Now if it will ever stop raining!! Al

A bit Low! You did not miss by much, still a good shot. Al

That is a fact that the leaves are not even close to being off the trees around here. I did a lot of Coon hunting in my day and and having the leaves off the trees was a big advantage in being able to spot the treed Coons. Season started the last week of October and the leaves were almost always pretty much off the trees. Snapped the photo below just now and it can be seen the leaves on my place are still mostly green and not close to coming down yet. Al

Winter, Spring, Summer and now Fall, this whole year from the start has had lousy weather overall. Al

I buy hunting clothes mostly by their quality and the way the perform and fit, through the years it has ended up being an assortment color wise of some camo, red plaid and a lot of solid green of various materials. On public land for big game where sure to run into other hunters I will wear some blaze orange and my red plaid stuff, my concern is making sure as much as possible of being seen by other hunters. At home on my own property I will wear camo on occasion. Never had a Deer spot me no matter what colored clothing I was wearing so long as I sit still and have the wind. Al

Hare will hold very tight this time of year, as their coat changes over to winter white they seem to sense they are easily seen and hide themselves in heavy cover. As long as they do not raise them selves off the ground while sitting tight they do not give off hardly any scent. Many years ago I decided I wanted to get an early season brown colored Hare to get mounted and had a heck of a time getting one. I was standing in a large dried up swamp that was full of Alder saplings and tall brown swamp grass and that was lying pretty much flat on the ground. I had hunted this area many times before in the winter with snow on the ground and always found many Hare there but my Beagle was having zero luck getting one started. Anyhow there happened to be a loud sonic boom and suddenly there were a half dozen Hare poking their heads up out of that swamp grass where they were sitting as tight as could be and just as quick as they had popped up they ducked back under the grass.. I walked over to the closest one and could see him hiding, called my Beagle whom I do not mind bragging was about as good a Rabbit-Hare dog as they come. She ran over the top of that Hare twice, he did not move and she did not detect him. I walked in a gave him a boot and as soon as he raised up and bolted she caught his scent and the race was on with her in hot pursuit. I ended up taking him out about two hours and several large circles later. Al

As far as I am concerned a firearm should be capable of detonating all of the manufacturers primers. Change the spring and hammer and make sure all ammo fires reliably, if it does not cure the problem ditch the gun. Imagine the big Boone and Crocket guy stepping out and you draw down and get a click and he bounds away without a scratch!! Al

A trio of hunting bred Airedales from years past, gone but certainly not forgotten, they were good ones. Nicky, Michaila, and Tucker Al

I just picked up one of these Rad Power Bike Minis and I have to say it is one fun bike. While it can just go along on it's own power I use what is called the pedal assist mode which in essence makes the manual peddling as easy as one wants it to be depending on how much assist one wants. Charged it up yesterday and I rode it all over my property, up hill and dale through the woods and pastures and down the road and it made riding pretty easy for this soon to be 70 year old goat. This little guy folds up nicely and compact, will easily fit in the back of my hatchback car or pickup truck, just wish I had picked it up earlier in the summer. Beats the Hell out of exercising on my Schwinn Airdyne! Al

Back in your Dad's day optical sights and scopes did not have the sterling reputation for reliability that today's equipment have. Back 40 years ago when I worked in a gun shop I was constantly boxing up and sending scopes back to manufacturers for repairs, broken lenses, crosshairs and fogging were the main maladies. See through and flip over and detachable mounts were common back in those days to save the day in case of a scope failure. I mounted many setups for customers exactly as Stormy's Dad's 742, the see throughs raised the scope a bit too high for a good cheek weld but they did actually work as intended. I tried to talk customers into spending a bit more for a Leupold scope because of the perfect reliability but many thought I was just giving them a sales pitch and after more cash. Live and Learn Al

I have had a few memorable shots but a hunt and shots taken that still stands out today in my mind after many years have past. As a young fellow I was on a general small game hunt along with a friend. We were pushing through an Alder thicket-swamp to see what we could jump out, my gun that day was a Mossberg three shot 16 Ga bolt action that had a poly type adjustable choke on the end of the barrel. Three Woodcock flushed one after another and I dumped all three. Al

I have actually used all the choices you have listed and have by far taken the most Deer with the semi auto 12 Ga shotgun. The shotgun made the most kills not because it was the firearm of choice but because back in the day I hunted a lot in shotgun only areas of the state. My preference of the four choices would be either of the rifles as long as they fit me right and I have complete confidence in my ability to shoot them well. I like rifles over slugs because of a little less recoil and their accuracy edge, If there is an edge to be had I like to take it. Al

Handgun hunting with traditional handguns, the available bullets and calibers in my mind is quite a bit like archery hunting. Get close and shoot when you have a shot you have confidence in making. There was a time I did quite a bit of hunting with handguns, the two cartridges I used for large game were the 357 mag and the 44 mag. I took several Deer and a couple of Boar mostly with the 44 mag, my favorite bullet was and still is the old Speer half jacket HP, the 44s were 225 gr and the 357s were 146 gr. I hunted with these bullets for several reasons, first there were several gun writers of the day that used them, publishing glowing performance reports on game in their magazine articles, and second they were extremely accurate along with getting good velocity in my S&W and Colt revolvers. My limited experience with these bullets concurred pretty much spot on with what was written about them, they shot good and killed good. Below is a photo of two Speer 44 225 gr HP bullets recovered from a decent sized Boar much bigger than any Deer I have ever shot, both shots were hits behind the front shoulder at around 40 yards. They went clear through to the opposite side and were found mushroomed nicely under the tough hide, the Boar by the way stumbled around and keeled over within a few feet of the first shot, the second shot was probably not needed but taken just to be sure. Now the 45 ACP is no 44 mag but I have a 44 Special revolver which ballistically similar to a 45 ACP, I have handloaded those same Speer 225s to use in that gun. That being said I would not hesitate using that 44 Special to draw down on a Deer that presented a good clear shot and that was close enough. Todays bullets have come a long ways since my days of fanatical handgun hunting, they hold together much better and expand well. In recent years I have used Hornady XTP hollow points in my black powder rifles for several Deer kills and I could not ask for better performance, I see no reason why they will not work in a handgun loaded properly. Al

So sorry for your loss, I do understand what you are going through, there is something special about using your Dad's hunting equipment and icing on the cake when a hunt is successful, it keeps alive that connection! I use my Dad's stuff all the time and will continue to do so until I croak. Al

Sounds to me that you are a first class jerk! As a kid I picked beans in the summer for $7 a day along side black migrant workers to buy my school clothes and my hunting equipment, so your mean spirited posts and notion that young people do not get into hunting because they are so broke is laughable to me. Hell if we were all so bad off as you are making it sound everyone would need to be hunting just to keep food on the table. Anyone that is serious about getting into hunting can buy equipment that fits them even on a tight budget, you do not need a Weatherby and designer Under Armor hunting clothes to participate in this sport. My family did not have a lot of disposable income when I was growing up but my Dad scraped up enough to get me a used single shot Savage 22 and a used 16 Ga three shot Mossberg bolt action shotgun. Made do with what I had and many of my fondest hunting memories were at the time I used those firearms. I bought my first new gun the first summer I was out of school working my first job making weekly payments of what ever money I had left over. The young folks today have more money than I ever dreamed of having at the same stage so it ends up being a priority on how that money is spent. As other have said the lack of access to good hunting lands within reasonable distances of where they live is the biggest factor for the decline in sport hunting. Now as an old coot myself I sure you will tell me I am full of crap too so I think I will sit back and slam another tumbler of prune juice to take care of that! Al