Pygmy

I would always be sure to be on my stand from 1000 am to 2:oo pm for that very reason....Hunters got cold and had to move...Or they heard a shot in the direction of thier buddy Joe and decided to check on him..Or they went back to the truck for lunch, etc....They moved a lot of deer and I shot my share around mid day on high traffic days like upening day first Saturday, and Thanksgiving Day...

Sitka blacktails were the next target on my list back when I was doing out of state hunts.... Unfortunately, age and $$$$ ran out before I made that hunt.. They are supposedly the very best tasting venison of all the NA species..They also make beautiful mounts because they have IMHO the prettiest capes of all the deer species...

I had forgot I started this thread...

I was 13 and sitting in Ms. Barrow's 6th period study hall when the news came over the school PA system...

Another possibility is rust in the chamber from shooting plastic shells...Scrubbing the chamber with a bronze brush and solvent might save you a trip to the gunsmith..

Sounds to me like you have issues with the extractor, probably due to wear from years of use...Any competent gunsmith should be able to replace it...Good luck...

Reminds me an old expression..." Nervous as a porcupine in mating season".......

Her backSIDE isn't bad, either.....<<GRIN>>...

Way to hammer em Lee !!!! Still running that Burrville Bomber ?? BTW....I want to tell you once again how much it meant to me to have you and Judy, Andrew, and Larry show up at Sis's service...

Those are some slob perch....I'm heading to Cayuga tomorrow with a couple of buddies..

If I had a dog that ugly I'd shave his a** and make him walk backwards... Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun....

I agree with Bugs, those suckers are YEW-GLEE !... John Browning is rolling over in his grave....

Thank you very much for your comforting words and thoughts....

It is very popular in Europe and Africa... As Lawdwaz said it' ballistic equivalen to the .280 Rem and I can attest to the effectivness of that round, having used my .280 to kill everything from woodchucks to Alaska bull moose over the last 40 years...

I believe it was, Eddie..

I just watched it again...What a great depiction of coming of age in the 1960s.... The little town I grew up in was so similar, albeit on a smaller scale... Not a smart phone in sight, either...hehehehe.. We even had our semi- outlaw fraternity, " The Shifters".....Nearby Corning had two, The Viscounts and The Epicureans....

I got a significant burn on my leg from carrying one in my front pants pocket... glad it didn't shift a couple of inches to the left......

Remember the old Jon-E handwarmers ? They even had an opening in the metal cap so you could light your cigarrette...

Nice 'fro, bro....Hehehehe.... Back in the 70's my sister borrowed my truck for a couple of days and left me with her little two seater sports car...It was bow season, and of course I had to pick that time to kill a buck.. I had to call a buddy of mine to come with his truck and haul my deer home for me.....

As Al said, doves and pigeons taste similar, but pigeons tend to be much tougher than doves...They are easy to clean, just pull the skin off the breast and cut the breast away... One good way to do pigeons breasts is in a crockpot...A layer of breasts, a layer of sliced onions, salt and pepper...Then pour a cup or two of dry red wine over the meat and cook it all day on low....It almost reminds me of roast beef....

It was minus 4 in Dogpatch this morning....I had to set up the brakes on the truck to avoid hitting a polar bear on the way over to the Legion this afternoon.... If I was on my way HOME, I wouldn't have thought a thing of it.....

Is that an Edsel ?......

Cool......Back in the 1970s a buddy and I killed a bunch calling at night with an electronic caller that used 45 RPM records... Best night we ever had we shot 8....Rarely called a red into shotgun range, they seemed to be more wary than the greys....They would come to where we could see thier eyes and squall, but seldom came within shotgun range...Greys were bringing $50 a pelt and reds were bringing $75....We killed a lot with a 20 gauge side by side and #4 shot, which was effective out to about 35 yards, but when the prices went higher we used my Browning A-5 3" mag to take advantage of those 40 and 50 yard shots...

We had 20 foot drifts here in Dogpatch....It took a town employee, ( who happened to the the Mermaid's father) two days to bust through a 20 foot drift about 150 yards south of our house, with a grader....

The bear is Boo-Boo......The buck's a dandy....<<grin>>...