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Chef....I would find a cheap Garand rear sight and drill the aperture out to perhaps .125 ""...I think you would find it more useful under low light conditions and just as accurate under average woods hunting applications...Just a thought,,,,,

Happy Birthday Eddie !! Hope you get lucky.... Although at YOUR age getting lucky is having a good bowel movement..<<GRIN>>….

As I understand it, New York has laws that protect landowners from such lawsuits....The exception would you be if you charge people to hunt on your land....Also GROSSLY negligent conditions, such as wire hung head high over 4 wheeler trails, might be an exception.. However, if you give your neighbor permission to hunt and he shoots himself, falls out of his treestand, or otherwise gets injured, you are not liable..

Yeah....I think I got lucky that night too !!

I have heard that Massengill Douche works well, but I have never tried it... For de-skunking a dog, I mean... Or anything ELSE for that matter...

I do have issues with my Garand's issue sights under low light conditions, although in normal daylight it is fine... On my old TC Hawken, when I began to have problems seeing the open sights I installed a tang peep sight and then drilled the aperture out to about 1/8 inch... It works well and I have killed quite a few deer with it, plus my one and only bull elk...

Happy Birthday Tacks !! I should also call my ex-wife and wish her Happy Anniversary... 9/4/1971..... On second thought, I'll pass on the anniversary, but happy birthday to you, anyway....Hehehe...

Can't Remember S**t.....

Husky Guy....Oh MY !! You've got a BIG one !!…….Hehehe...….

No problem, Rattler....Me and ALL my friends have the same affliction....Commonly known as CRS...

Wildcat Junkie has a couple of absolutely lovely Mauser sporters...I had the opportunity to fondle them a couple of years ago...<<SIGH>>…...

We are all expecting a good MOOSE picture this year...<<GRIN>>….

Moose is the most universally liked of all the venisons...Everybody likes moose... I think it is because it is so mild and the most similar to beef of all of the game meats....

I love chickens...One of the big negatives to living in town is that I cannot have chickens...

I agree with Daveboone...If you sell to any gun shop you will be lucky to get half of what your firearms are worth...

Many moons ago, my destroyer was tied to a pier in Newport, RI for a month or so....After ship's knock off work, some of my buddies and I would bum a few pieces of ANY kind of meat from the cook, and use it as bait to catch small snapper blues off the destroyer pier...We would then cut the little bluefish into small pieces and use them to catch 8-10" tinker mackerel... After we had a few mackerel, we would rig them with an 8/0 hook and wire leader and freeline them off the end of the pier for BIG blues..... Great fun !! We had no way to cook the fish so we gave them to the Filipino Stewards who took care of the officer's wardroom... Sometimes the stewards would invite me into the officer's galley when they cooked up a bunch, heads and all....With the seasonings they used in the cooking, they were really not too bad !!

A co-worker of mine used to make liverwurst....Perhaps he still does, I have not seen him in years... Anyway, he told that he had never seen anything quite as disgusting as putting a fresh liver through a meat grinder... But then again, he probably never dated some of the girls that I grew up with....

I knew you would come to your senses... We OLD farts have to stick together...<< GRIN>>….

Nope...She's been dead since 1963, and I never met the lady....

So you've met my Mother-in-Law ??….

The "snapper run".....sounds interesting...Is it a marathon, or just a 5K ??…..

My sister , who lives in Florida, is renting a place on Keuka Lake for the month of September, so I plan to tie my boat up there for a month...It is nice just being able to drive over to the lake, jump in the boat and go fishing without having to drag the boat back and forth from home each time... According to reports from friends, the perch fishing has been somewhat slow, but the smallmouth fishing continues to be hot and the fishing for panfish other than perch is good...The rock bass are running big this year

Concerning the title of this thread.. Getting kind of PERSONAL aren't you ??

Many guides and outfitters will pack out an elk for a price....When I hunted elk near Creede in 2004, the guy we rented our cabin from was an outfitter, and he told us he would pack out an elk anywhere in unit 76 for $300... We did kill two bulls, hunting on our own, but we were hunting on National Forest Land, and both were close enough to a forest service road so that we could butcher them and pack them out ( there were 3 of us) by ourselves.. When I shot my high country buck near Eagle, he was in a very steep area and my partner's back had gone out on him the previous day when we packed out HIS buck...I really didn't want to tackle it by myself, but a few miles down the mountain there was a ranch owned by an outfitter...I went down to ask him if I could get a pack horse and some help, but he was not home..His wife offered me the services of his two teenage boys....I quartered the buck up and bagged it and the three of us packed it out without too much trouble.. At least I didn't have a heart attack....I was in my early 50s then and was in pretty good shape..

What time of the year did you hunt, Wolc…??...The reason I ask is that about 20 years ago a friend and I went on an early high country hunt the first week of September...It was way before the rut and we both shot mature 4x4 s still in velvet..Mine had a spread of 28 "...Both of those bucks were among the best venison either of us have ever had... damn near as good as fat early September caribou, which is wonderful...These bucks were well pre rut and grass fed above timberline.... My last hunt out there was a mid November hunt , at much lower altitude...The buck I shot was a big mature non typical with 15 scorable points..The rut was on and the landowner suggested donating the meat because he said it would taste like crap so I donated it and came home with the cape and antlers... I suspected that perhaps the rut and the change in diet ( perhaps more sage) affected the quality of the meat... Perhaps they are similar to caribou...A late summer or early fall bull caribou is delectable, and I have never hunted them during the rut, but the Alaskans say that a rutting bull caribou is so rank that dogs won't even eat it... I know that the few large rutting whitetails I have killed have tasted stronger than the yearlings and does that I usually shoot...