Pygmy

I am a fan of no excusues myself.....They are reasonably priced, very accurate in my rifle, load easily and they sure do thump the game.....I use the 460 grain in my old T/C Hawken .50 cal. Last time I bought them they were about 50 cents apiece plus shipping, but I admit it has been awhile since I bought any.

My 1 in 48 TC Hawken shoots both conicals and round balls quite well...Certainly good enough for hunting accuracy at open sight ranges.. If it were my rifle I would try a proven conical like the Lyman Great Plains bullet first, just for simplicity...Just lube it,, load it and shoot it..After that I'd try the PRB... Don't bother with those silly expensive semi-sabots like powerbelts.. The PRB or a simple conical will do everything you need, and at ML velocities, lead projectiles expand and work just fine.

I have quite a few good friends in Canada..I love the working class Canadian people , as opposed to the snooty liberals in Toronto and Ottawa... I'll bet Stompin' Tom would have been a HOOT to hang around with.. When I make my annual spring gobbler trip to Prince Edward County I like to stop into the Royal Canadian Legion posts in Wellington and Picton and visit with the locals, especially the few remaining WWII vets...

Left Field...It appears you're Canadian, EH...??

Nice work, young feller !!

Was there civilized life before bungee cords and duct tape ?

Being on a fixed income, I will gratefully accept ANY donations.....Shoulder pads, ammo, firearms, gift certificates to Mabel's House of Pleasure.....

I haven't done it yet...I'm overseeding an existing plot that has been grazed down like a golf green.... I have a box of clover from last spring that I want to get out of my shed and onto the ground..

Only one, but I made separate trips to get my big game, small game, DMPS, fishing, trapping, turkey permit, muzzleloader stamp, bow stamp, falconry permit and assistant dogcatcher's license.

I buy mine at the town hall because our town clerk has a nice pair of................eyes......

I predict that Lawdwaz and I will BOTH buy one this year.. I also predict that hell will freeze over and the Bills will win the Superbowl !!

Those red tails don't seem to have much of a problem with them..I have never actually seen a redtail strike a squirrel, but I have seen them carrying grey squirrels on 3 different occasions ( one just last spring)...In all three cases the squirrel appeared either dead or paralyzed. All three were quite a distance from the nearest road, so I assumed the hawks had actually caught the squirrel rather than picking it up dead from a road.

Good luck, my friend... I'm switching in the other direction....I think I'll switch to a vehicle mounted Ma Deuce this season....Hopefully something with an enclosed canopy so I stay warm and dry...

This brings to mind the "sporting ladies" in the towns of the old west....<<GRIN>>.....

One of my buddies is hosting a poker game... Nice modest game, quarter/half/dollar... Basic stud and draw poker, no exotic crap and NO wild cards.... We play a lot of high/low and split pots to help move the money around.. Venison chili, beer, venison bologna and summer sausage.. Life is GOOD...!!...

Sad.....Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Here's one with a twist... In Alaska in 1996, my hunting party found the remains of a black bear that one of my partners killed in 1991... On the second day of the '91 hunt, one of the guys killed a black bear . We took the pelt and the skull, nobody was interested in the meat. We already had caribou to eat and hunters are not required to salvage the meat from black bears in the fall...The guy who shot it had a full body mount done of the bear. Five years later we hunted the same area...The skeletal remains of the bear were still lying right there...I have a picture of the guy who had killed the bear five years prior holding one of its shoulder blades.

Welcome aboard, Pilgrim....<<grin>>... Pull up a stump and sit down...!!

I have my first redwings and my first grackles of the season at my feeders this morning... Late last week I saw a bluebird, so I spent Monday morning cleaning out my bluebird boxes...To my surprise I only had to evict one white-footed mouse from one of my 20 nest boxes...In past years I usually found a dozen or more..

Are the dogs finding any bunny rabbits ?

Hehehehe....An answer from one of my CO-jurors to a question from an attorney.. " If they weren't guilty, they wouldn't BE here ! " He did not get selected to sit on the jury....hehehe....

Geeze, Larry, you could be consider a professional JURIST !!...<<grin>>... I have served on trial jury duty twice but have never been picked to sit on a jury.. I served one stint on grand jury...We voted to indict two guys in a high profile murder case( very interesting), but most of our cases were DWIs and child molesters...The child molester stuff SUCKS...I was not aware there were so many of the slimey bastards out there...

My Rem 11-87 patterned high and left out of the box with its double bead sighting...I have used a number of sighting systems over the year, first adjustable fiber optic sights to a Bushnell holo-sight, and presently I am using a Leupold 1 x 4 scope... However, I also an older Rem 1100 Magnum with a fixed full choke barrel and double beads...Those double beads on that gun center the pattern EXACTLY on the point of aim and I find myself this gun most of the time now. One advantage of that gun is that if I should screw up and need a fast second shot at a running or flying bird, it is a faster option than the scope.

reeltime is spot on as usual. No sense in getting beat up by heavy loads from the bench since most scatterguns tend to groups all shot loads in the same place, unlike slugs, which often group differently from load to load. Getting it on center at very close range is important because the shot pattern will be very tight and it is easier to see if you need to adjust your sight right, left, high or low. At longer ranges, the shot spreads out more and it is tougher to judge the center of the pattern. When you get it dead on it is easier to move the target to a longer range and fine tune it with your hunting loads, if necessary.

I envy Growie for her skill at calling by mouth... In past years I became halfway decent with a diaphragm, call, and over a period of perhaps 20 years, I killed a bunch of birds with it.. However, I never really had a good understanding of what was going on inside my mouth while I was calling.. Eventually, I have regressed to using friction calls again, although I own perhaps 20 mouth calls... For those who are skilled with the mouth call, it is the very most authentic and most effective call....90 % of the hunters I hear in the woods are NOT very skilled with a mouth call, and most of the time I can tell it is a hunter rather a real turkey... Fortunately, turkeys are not as discerning...You don't have to be that good..Otherwise, many fairly successful hunters ( myself included) might never have killed one..