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I use amber when I shoot my muzzleloader, range requirement, seem fine. One thing I did notice years back, my brother and I found an amber scope lense cap laying around on a shelf at our club. He stuck it in his pocket and we were hunting from a treestand over snow. At dusk he stuck the cap on his scope, boy did that light up with the snow and you had extra shooting time.

Oh this is interesting, I wondered what happened. I missed that site

I was always on the side of "if you can't stand the comepetition, shoot your hunting partner". But, just as NOAA protected the dogfish population to the point where they eat everything that swims near them, and the seals that eat anything that swims and, both their populations have boomed, I think the coyote population has grown out of proportion to the game they live off. Coyotes in the Bronx, Central Park, something has gone out of whack. We noticed in 3A, years where you hear coyotes howling, you don't see turkeys or small game. When they move out you get the small game back. I've passed on the coyotes I've seen until now. One coyote that was filmed, brought something like 15 fawns back to its den. That's an eye openner when you add this film to it.

I like that, what kind of dye did you use and are they stencils or did you doo that free-hand?

I shoot a T/C Hawken, how do sabots and power belts affect the bore? I was thinking of going from Hornady Great Plains and Buffalo Bullets to the new stuff but am leary of teh plastic.

I finally pulled the plug and joined Ancestry.Com, its an age thing,my brothers and siter are getting on in years and I figured soemoen has to document the family history for the next generation before we go. Anyway, I highly recommend thsi for everyone especially if you are in your later years and have a large family. What I found out is priceless. I have my grandfather's records from his arrival in NY in 1886 from Ireland on a steam/sail ship for one. Then I find out that in the roaring 20's my aunt's slipped out of the house to star as saloon girls in silent cowboy films. I traced my uncle's family from NJ to Tn to Okla & Texas and then back to Va, NJ and Mass in the 1700's. The photos that people have pulled from the shoebox on the top shelf of the closet are unbelievable. My father played teh guitar and sax, that I knew. Found out he was in a band in the 30's. My grandmother ran a table-top still in the kitchen in the 20's. My other grandfather signed up for WWI and went back to the draft boird at 57 y/o for WWII. Another uncle lied about his age and went to France in WWI and got gassed in the trenches. Then came home and was an NYC cop in the 20's. Soem of you guys probably have had family in this place since the first settlements. Don't let that stuff die off with you.

Its the same all over. On my striper fishing website if you keep a fish they want to know how many you keep a year, if you keep a big fish you get crucified. On my general fishing website its similar. What I've noticed is that on any website there develops a clique of guys who just dominate the posting and feed off one another. Another thing I noticed is that when a politics board is opened, people sign up for that and have no interest in the general hunting/fishing theme of the website at all. After a period of time they take there bile and cross over to the hunting/fishing threads and pollute them with their nonsense until the good members have their fill and move on. There is one website devoted to fishing that has successfully blended recreational and commercial fishing conversations without general warfare. Something unique in the fishing business. They managed to pull that off by stepping on violators quickly. Their web traffic is very small due to that. The web is a viscous circle, you need the arguements to generate the traffic to interest the sponsors to keep the site viable. Best solution, post good information and stories often, be helpful to your co-members, re-read and think before you hit "enter" and ignore the baiters and let them die on their own from lack of attention.

I have one that's abpout 6' in the center and 4' square at the bottom. Folds into a circle about 30" in diameter for carrying. I've had this for about 4 years and used it as an out of the weather stand while I hunted from a tree or just on the ground. This year is the first time I actually used it and shot a deer from it. Lessons learned: Regarding orange, I carry and orange back pack so that goes on the ground outside as well as my orange vest as idiot insurance. Be particular with the chair or seat you choose. I found out that when I brought the gun up, I had no rest because of the chair height against the window height. Had to take a long shot off-hand. Expect the tent pegs to be cheaply made, buy better ones. Use a pine or hemlock as your background, the blind blends in better. Make sure you try it in the store, there are many out there and some are too small, some of the older versions even had a tent pole in the middle. As Doc said, put it out early, but that brings its own dilemma. Sunlight damages the fabric or colors. My brother left his out one year and it turned rusty orange. Lastly, dowmside, you don't get the sunlight warming your face as you fall asleep laying in the leaves.

Agree with Burt. I took mine to a butcher the day I shot it and he had us pack the cavity with ice until he could get to it. Depending on temps, in cold years and the deer froze hanging, we would let them hang all opening week. Then we brought them to an old German butcher and he would hang them in his cooler for another 3 days. As long as the temps are right you can hang meat for a while. Store bought meat has probably been hanging around somewhere for a month before you see it.

My brother read a report from some game biologist/scientist guy who said that the deer this year are in their winter coats but its too warm so they will stay bedded all day as the ground is cooler than the air. Makes sense, my firnds Golden digs a hole in the shade in summer and jumps in too cool off.

Well that's enough for me to kill any coyote I see.

So I stand corrected. While back I commented how civilized this site was. LMAO! Internet hunters are just like internet fishermen after all!!!!! While we're at it, my b*tch about this site is you guys are shooting all these bears and racks!!!!! I haven't seen anything like that, its not fair. I'm telling the teacher on you.

I've seen trailers in fields used for blinds. To each his own. When my father got in his 80's my brothers build him a blind the size of a double-seater outhouse with a heater. Kept the old man going until almost 90.

Correction, it was the 7x57 Mauser that Rigby made as the 275 Rigby

Philly, that 7mm-08 is probably one of the better new calibers around. 7mm on a short .308 case, great combination.

Like Tom Horn said about his choice of caliber, you can walk in any store anywhere and buy 30-06 or .308. That said some prefer the short action of the .308 but the 30-06 has a bigger range of loads. For deer shooting any centerfire over .223 will do. 6mm, 6.5mm, 7mm, 7.62 will all do the job, just depends on where you plug the hole. My next gun, I want either a 30-30 or a 257 Roberts. I believe it was the 257 Roberts that was re-made by Rigby and called 6.5 Rigby for light African game. They just didn't want the Roberts name on the cartridge. The 6.5X54 Mannlicher was used to shoot everything up to elephants by one of the great African hunters. It's not the cartdridge its the guy pulling the trigger.

It's a shame they don't sieze the car, equipment , everything as being used in a crime. You hit people hard enough, it will make a difference.

The squirrels where I deer hunt come out just before decent light and only stay active for about 2 hours. Then they den up.

Sully, we related by chance?

Damn that's impressive as hell. Looks like Teddy Roosevelt's house.

I'm liking this the more I read. Squirrels! They taste as good as deer, I'll take it.

After slaughtering hogs as a kid, I wouldn't want to do it. That said, my deer was Halal this year. I pulled a neck shot two inches right and the slug cut his throat.

Uncle Nicky, my brother the gun wiz says the flat spring in the safety is missing, or broke. He said its a standard repair. I'll message you with a website that has a Savage Model 99 discussion board and a gunsmith thread. They'll tell you wehat's wrong. Bill

I got some info that may be helpful to you from my brother. When I described it he said it sounds like a "lunch box" gun. I thought he was pulling my leg. Anyway just like we all pocket things from where we work, gunsmiths on the factory lines would build their own guns by taking parts over time. They did it before the stamping. And per him, there are a number of different ones around. He had an old double 410 Ithaca that wasn't marked ithaca but had the gunsmiths name engraved.

unloaded as said. I tied 1/4 nylon around the trigger guard then did a few half hitches around the barrel. I had a rope tied permenently in my fixed wood stand so it was always ready and I didn't have to climb with it tied to my belt.