Pygmy

..............GASP !!!....... And here I was about to recommend a Leupy 4X to Let Em Grow... We'll split the difference.... LEG.....I recommend a Leupy 2x 7 x 36 MM.... You'd never take my advice on the 4X anyway...NOBODY ever has, but I keep trying....<<GRIN>>....

hehehehe...Typical...Once a critter leaves the ground, it no longer EXISTS as far the beagle is concerned.. Years ago when there was a fair wild population around here, guys often hunted pheasants with beagles..Some beagles liked to run them and some could not care less...I had a beagle named George who was dumb as a box of rocks, but when he got on a pheasant he acted differently than when he was on a rabbit..He even barked differently...If you could keep up with him, you could get a shot the bird when he flushed. I shot my first cockbird ahead of him down behind the barn on the family farm, back when Moby Dick was a minnow.

We can't get 'em all, Paula...Lots of room around 'em... Do your beagles show any interest in the pheasants ? Some beagles do...

I clicked on this thread expecting to see my baby picture... Oh well...It's all water under the bridge now...<<grin>>.. BTW..REAL purty buck..!!

He is a gorgeous, bodacious 8 point, Wellsville.. Good luck.....

Hmmmm.. I must be a heartless beast...I never remember any pangs of regret.. I do get excited, even over a doe, but I never go into any theatrics or feel any regret...I am usually tickled pink that I made a clean kill on the critter.. it's not always that pretty... Either way, after the animal is dead ( and often within seconds of its giving its last kicks...I take out my knife and go to work.

Thanks AO.. I am always glad to learn something...

I take out my knife....

I'm not sure, but I remember throwing up in one at a local gin mill back around 1977...

Happy birthday, Joe !! Hope you get lucky...Send pictures....<<grin>>....

stubby 68.....I have been calling Buckmaster 7600 " Stubby", due to his propensity for cutting his hunting rifle barrels to 16.5 inches.... Sorry for the confusion...I didn't mean to walk on your screen name..<<blush>>.......

That can't be YOU, Stubby... The rifle barrel is too long...<<grin>>....

I know one guy who admitted voting for Obama, TWICE...He said he was disappointed in the first term but hoped that Obama would improve in his second term This same guy also married the same woman twice and divorced her both times.....I guess he was a slow learner. Just as an aside, he collected six figures as superintendant of a Rochester area school district, and now is collecting an outrageous pension at the taxpayer's expense... True story...

I'd rather be breast fed by Bruce Jenner than vote for Hillary.. Trump is a total asshole, but he represents my interests better than Hillary.. I refuse to say that I am voting for Trump..I am voting AGAINST Hillary.. It is indeed a travesty that the American people have to decide between these two scumbags.. There was a time when there was some dignity attached to the office of President..

I guess that I'm old fashioned...I have a couple of trailcams and use them mostly for entertainment ( as I do this forum) and for security duty around the property. As far as my actual hunting goes, I could throw them away tomorrow and never miss them a bit. Of course, this isn't my first day off the turnip truck...I still rely mostly on my ability to read sign

Paula...Most deer are fraternal twins rather than identical twins... As in humans, fraternal twins may not look anything like each other, and often are of different gender, as they are the result of two separate eggs fertilized at the same time. Identical twins are the result of a single egg splitting into two embryos and are always the same gender and usually look very much alike.

Black and white ?? MOI ??...Surely you JEST, Mon Ami !! In the spirit of wasting no more cyber time, I guess it's time to break this off... I just hope nobody thinks you are serious and returns fire... Be safe....

So what you are saying is that if people who are involved in law enforcement break the law, they are not crooked.... Ummmm.. Okay..... I guess this means that you a Hilary supporter... It's OK to break the law as long as you don't get caught...Right ??

Yup...Bad choices again.... Introduce firearms into a highly emotional confrontation and you are asking for trouble.. Say, the trespasser just happens to get hit...If he survives you are going to face criminal charges PLUS probably a civil suit, which can cost you big time.. If he dies you are up for murder or at least for manslaughter. Also, you are likely to be spending a long time behind bars with your cellmate BUBBA admiring your plump white ass, thinking about what a WISE choice you made... Have at it, tough guys...You certainly have more balls than you have brains..

Well, good for you, tough guys... Unfortunately for you, the courts don't consider trespassing a capital offense. Murder, on the other hand...... Remember the guy in western PA a couple years back ? He confronted some trespassing hunters, pulled a handgun and fired a shot. One of the hunters defended himself with his deer rifle and now the landowner is pushing up daisies. I'd call that a bad ( and incredibly STUPID) choice.

Are you sure it doesn't say....." Yo MOMMA says I'm special"..?.....

Very cool, Paula ! My rabbit hunting buddy called me last night all excited because his 4 1/2 month old pup opened on a track for the first time..

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, when I took my first turkey with decent spurs, I simply answered the questions and then wrote on the envelope "mounted" or some such thing. I haven't been arrested yet and I suspect the statute of limitations has expired since then.. Perhaps I slipped through the cracks...

Other than my lucky condom, which is ALWAYS with me, my only superstition involves turkey season.. I always go in the woods turkey hunting with 7 shells...Not 6.....not 8....SEVEN.. If I fire a shell, I always make sure I add a replacement shell to my vest before I go out again. I started years ago carrying 7 shells so that I could empty my 3 shot autoloader ( a Win M59 at the time) TWICE and have one shell left. After carrying seven shells for a few years, I realized that I had never needed more than 3 shells while turkey hunting, so I carried 4 shells opening morning of season. I called in a longbeard off the roost to 25 yards, shot right over his head with my first shot, and then dumped the other two at him as he was leaving and never turned a feather. I slunk back to my truck and heard a bird gobble across the road, so I went after him..I set up and called and he CHARGED in and was on top of me in seconds..He spotted me and was doing a 180 at full speed about ten yards away..I fired my remaining shell at his head and missed him clean, then sat with an empty gun and watched him run straight away through open woods with his head high and his necked stretched... Since then I have always carried SEVEN shells...

Nice groups, Eagle my friend ! Who SAYS those simi autos don't shoot good ?