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Yeah, at that time I was working as a grocery clerk in an A&P store for about $2 an hour...

Yeah, Al. my catalog has the Sako Finnebear .338 for $187 and the Leupy Vari X II 2x7 for $55......

Anybody got any pet firearms they want me to look up so your can eat your heart out ? For instance a brand new BAR ( postpaid, of course) for $175 ? Just don't ask for any synthetic stocks...There aren't any....<<smile>>......Not much stainless to speak of either, although around that time you could get a Rem 700 in BLUED stainless...

One of my hunting buddies just gave a 1970 Hunting catalog from Parker Distributers in New Rochelle, NY.. I have been getting a kick out of browsing through it...here are a few items...All NIB, of course.. Ruger 10/22 carbine $49 Rem 700 BDL $155 Rem 760 Carbine $140 Sako Forester Full Stock carbine...$190 Mossberg 500 $75 Weatherby Mk V $329 Leupold Vari X II 3x9 $62 I noticed that fixed power scopes outnumbered variables by about 3 to 1... Most hunting clothes were brown duck or red checked....There wasn't a lot of camo clothing and there was only ONE pattern..WWII....hehehe....

What a great movie, TF.....Reminds me of coming of age in the early 1960s... I get goosebumps every time I hear the beginning of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me "....

Yeah, Moog... I had personal experience with a 452 in .22LR, a .17 HMR , plus my 550 American in 9.3 x 62...A good friend has CZ's in .308 and 6.5 x 55... All are tackdrivers..

Have you shot it for groups ?? Being a CZ, it just may shoot bugholes without going to all that effort.. Any CZ I ever had experience with ( including a 9.3 x 62 ) was SCARY accurate right out of the box...

Who said you were fat, Ya Big Chooch...?? As far as I know, you're all MUSCLE.... I kinda thought you were like Chuck Norris, only three times bigger..

Holy crap....That's because you're big as a TRUCK !!.....hehehehe...

Yeah, my gay cousin has one just like it, except the stock is pink synthetic...

If I had a DOG that ugly, I'd shave his azz and make him walk backwards !! One redeeming factor...The stock is made of WOOD, not Tupperware...PLYWOOD, perhaps, but it's still wood, and I do like laminates, as long as they're not purple or orange or some other gaudy color..

AAAAUUUUUUUGH !!!......Good Lord, somebody give me a CRUCIFIX !!

Yeah, John, but as I recall you like ENCORES, too, which IMHO is one of the ugliest guns ever made...<<grin>>...

One thing I have learned in my old age , Grasshopper.... " Few things in life are LESS welcome than unsolicited advice ".....

A friend of once had the most SOLID benchrest I ever used...He got a marble measuring table that a local industry was scrapping. It was great as long as you didn't plan to MOVE it.. He had it on a 300 yard range ( within a 5 minute drive of my house) and I had permission to use it at any time, whether he was home or not... Unfortunately, he got tired of NY's taxes and gun laws and moved across the border to Pa and sold the place <<sigh>>... Fortunately my local gun club is only about 5 minutes away also, and they have a very serviceable shooting house/benchrest with a 200 yard + range, and there is seldom anyone using it except for weekends..

I can't tell you about the guts....In Alaska, as in most wilderness areas I have hunted in, you don't generally gut the critters, except to retrieve then inside tenderloins, which can be done without splling the guts... # 1...SHOOT critter #2...SKIN upside of critter....take off front quarters, bone out backstraps, take off hindquarters...Open body cavity along the back and take out tenderloins....Filet whatever you can get from neck and ribs....Turn critter over... REPEAT...

In the course of 60 years of hunting and probably a couple hundred head of big game animals killed, I have only deliberatley taken that shot once, and that was on a wounded deer going straight away from me and needed to be shot again, regardless of the shot angle.. However, sometimes in the heat of battle when the adrenaline is flowing, COMPOST OCCURS... One time I hit a ham on a whitetail doe, which severed the femoral artery and resulted in a quick kill but ruined a lot of good meat... The other was on a caribou using a heavy ( 250 grain) Barnes bullet.. The bullet entered the butt and came to rest just under the hide on the brisket.. It resulted in a nearly instant kill and didn't ruin much meat either....

Dang !! Makes me want to strap on my " Fanner Fifty"......

Thanks to kpkot's recommendation, I tried the Grillo's hot dill spears from Wegman's.. They have become my favorite pickle...I think I am addicted to them... I can't live without them.. If Wegman's ever stops stocking them, I'll probably have to shoot myself... kpkot, you have created a MONSTER !.....<<grin>>....

Geeze, Larry, I hate to tell you this, but some sick SOB put the bolt on the wrong side of your .260.....

I have only hunted the 'dacks a couple of times and that was with a group.. We hunted timber company land and did very well with "organized stillhunts"...We'd post standers on likely escape routes and the "drivers" would stillhunt towards them...The walkers killed as many deer as the standers. However in years past I have done a fair amount of stillhunting around home..I used to love to do it when conditions were favorable, with a decent snow cover and a steady wind in my face...I used my binoculars a LOT, even in close cover...It is amazing how much better you can see by focusing back through a lot of the cover.. Of course the areas I hunted were ALL prime cover here in the southern tier.. I smelled a number of bucks before I saw them...I could also smell coyotes and foxes too, but they were usually gone BEFORE I saw them... I especially loved stillhunting elk in black timber in Colorado and New Mexico... You can smell them a good hundred yards away..Much stronger than whitetails...

Hmmmm...Looks like a Ruger...Scope's too damn big, tho.....GRIN....

I want to build an enclosed, elevated tower stand to overlook my food plots, so I can sit in there with one of my old fart buddies in warmth and comfort... That's MY idea of deer hunting these days, or deer SHOOTING, if you will.... I don't care too much about deer hunting anymore, but I still enjoy shooting them and eating them..<<grin>>....

Too late....The NAACP revoked it when I voted against Obama twice..... I TOLD them it wasn't because he was black, it was just because he was a jerk, but the Good Reverends Al and Jessie revoked it anyway.

I never used the Hornady V Max in .30 cal, but any .30 cal bullet I ever saw that is designed for varmints would blow the hell out of a fox or a coyote. For your purposes, Wooly, I think the Corelocts ( or whatever you can get cheapest) will work fine.. From a pelt damage perspective, military full metal jackets would probably be the best choice, and you can get them cheaper than any hunting load. For the ranges you intend to shoot, sight dead on at 100 yards..You'll be less than an inch high or low from the muzzle to 150 yards, and maybe a couple inches low at 200, should you get a shot that far.