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That's a 100 for sure, Steve..The BBLS are longer than mine, and I expect the recoil pad is aftermarket since I have never seen one like that on an SKB... Is it a 12 ?.... Fine firearm, in any case...Mine is as tight now as it was when I bought it close to 50 years ago, and it has had many 100s of round put through it, including a good number of 3" mags shot at ducks, gooses, and foxes...

SWEEET, Stubborn... A very nice caliber...Is your rifle a Savage 99 ? When I first started hunting in the early 1960s a lot of local guys were using them as woodchuck rifles...The .243 was just getting established, the .22-250 was still a wildcat, and the .223 hadn't been born yet. It is an excellent low recoil combo varmint/deer round, every bit as capable as the .243 Win.... I always wished I had picked one up when Remington offered that chambering in their 700 Classic series.. A lot of history in that round with the Savage 99..It was the first cartridge that reached 3000 FPS with a factory load ( albeit with a 87 grain bullet) hence the name 250-3000...Later years it was usually referred to as the 250 Savage...

I have never had a Reese's cup survive past 10:00 AM when I was hunting...<<grin>>.... Usually my snacks and sandwiches are all gone by mid morning.

Yup, that's the guy !....

I shot a red fox while I was standing buck naked in my kitchen...He was trying to break into my chicken coop in the middle of the night. I got out of bed, grabbed the wife's 20 gauge 1100, cracked the kitchen door and dropped him. I also shot a doe one time while I was taking a leak...I had to go, so I leaned my muzzleloader against a tree and proceeded to empty my bladder..A big doe stood up from her bed about fifty yards away...I picked up my rifle and shot her with Big Bob just hanging there swinging in the breeze. I set the rifle down, finished my leak, tucked the old warrior back into my Carharts and went to collect my deer.

I believe I did, but I'd rather see the version where the bear was a 32nd of a second faster or the guide was a 32nd of a second slower.... Bob's a local boy.....<<smirk>>.....

Mine is an Ithaca SKB 20 gauge side by side.... 25 " BBls and choked IC and Mod.... I bought it used ( but like new) in the early 70s with money which I got from fox pelts, as I was doing a lot of fox calling at the time.. I paid $200 for it...It killed my first spring gobbler in 1975 ..Since then it has been my main upland bird/ bunny rabbit gun...Also killed it's share of waterfowl, when lead shot was allowed...It has its share of honorable scars, but is still a fine quality shotgun and is probably worth four times what I paid for it...

Fred Bear had to shoot several polar bears before he could register one in P&Y... He would shoot the bear ( most likely a good kill shot, but a bear mortally hit with an arrow can certainly live long enough to get to you and kill you) , the bear would charge, and the guide would have to kill it with his rifle, making it ineligible for P&Y... The natives no doubt killed them with their bows and arrows, but I wonder how many Indians ended up as bear poop for every one they killed...<<grin>>.... Hunting large, heavy dangerous game ( the big bears, lions , cape buffalo and elephants) with a bow is certainly a viable method, but unless you have a death wish, you'd better have someone with icewater in his veins and a BIG rifle standing beside you when you release your arrow......<<smile>>......

When I hunt turkeys, I must enter the woods with 7 shells....Not 6.......Not 8....SEVEN... If I fire a shot I am very careful to replace the shell in my vest before I go hunting again...

That rules out brown bear, then.. As far as I know, all brown bear hunts require a non-resident to hire a guide.. Besides that, there is a very good chance that your guide ( who will be carrying a rifle with a hole in the barrel as big as your thumb) will have to kill the bear to keep it from shredding your ass after you annoy it by pricking it with your play toy...Hehehehe..

I just happen to have three cans right beside my computer as I type this..An old "removable pop top" Genny Red Eye, a Narragansett Lager ( emptied a bunch of those in Newport, RI when I was in the Navy) and a Billy Beer....

Very cool, Trigger...I have personally emptied examples of most of the Genny cans you showed over the last 50 years or so..

Kinda like carp and snowshoe hares....Edible, but not exactly a gourmet delight...<<grin>>....

Great day of shooting, my friend !! COOL little ducks ! They taste like shit, but they are really fun and challenging to shoot...

Another factor in Maine hunting....There are thousands of miles of roads through timber company land in Maine that are open to hunting.. Many of the moose are shot within rifle range of these roads, which makes recovery much easier...Many of them can be simply gutted and then winched into the bed of a truck.

It is common practice to drag them out with log skidders in Maine... I'll guarantee one thing,,They don't drag them very far without MECHANICAL assistance....hehehehe.... When I shot my New Brunswick bull, my host and guide was a local dairy farmer....He called his hired man, who came over with a HUGE 4WD tractor, and drove through a clearcut, over stumps, logs, etc and dragged the moose out, and then loaded it whole into the back of a truck with the front end loader and a sling. Easiest moose I ever got out...The others were shot in Alaska and we had no other choice but to cut them into pieces small enough to strap onto a pack frame and then carry them on our backs to a place where a float plane could get to them... The whole process could be considered LABOR INTENSIVE.....<<grin>>...

This is the best advice on this thread... My Dad was a child of the Great Depression, and although our family never wanted for anything, he seldom spent any money on himself. After 40 + years he retired, and less than a month later suffered a debilitating stroke and COULDN'T do much.. My Mom told me shortly after that " If there is anything you want to do,DO it, while you can.." So I DID what my Mom advised and I don't regret a minute of it, especially now that I am older, less physically able, and no longer have the financial resources... I have a wonderful collection of memories , pictures and videos of my numerous adventures over a period of about 20 years in some of the most wild and beautiful places on this continent.

I wasn't suggesting it was sporting, hehehe...Just very effective... The Alaska F&G used it for years to control the wolf population until the bunny huggers , most of whom were not Alaska residents, managed to get it halted... Moose and caribou populations have plummeted in many areas due to a surplus of wolves... Actually, it sounds like lots of fun to me...Kinda like shooting ( culling) wild hogs from a helicopter..

The most effective way to hunt them is with a shotgun from a light airplane..

I attended the Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot a couple of times when I was hunting gobblers in Kentucky.. GRAND fun, but bring your earplugs......<<grin>>.....

Dang !! A few years ago when I wanted to do one last Alaska DIY moose hunt and wanted to find a couple of strong young bucks to go along do the bull work (literally) ( at their own expense, of course) I couldn't find anybody.....<<sigh>>... I suppose you and 7600 would chip in for gas on the gopher hunt ?

Actually, my REAL dream hunt would be to do a nude road hunt for gophers in East Jesus, Ohio, in a '57 Desoto with Miranda Lambert driving, Sarah Evans riding shotgun, and Jennifer Lopez sitting on my lap in the back seat..

You are correct, Trigger... The Turkey Grand Slam is the Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande and Merriams... Add a Gould's and you have a Royal Slam...Add an oscellated and you have a World Slam... As far as I know there is no place to take a Goulds or an oscellated north of the Mexican Border...

Lots of great places to hunt all four species in involved in a grand slam on public land..Probably the Osceola would be the toughest to find a good place, but they are out there.. Now with the royal ( including Goulds) and the world slam ( including oscellated) would be tough to do without an outfitter because they take place in Mexico.