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Three of the top ten are within SPITTEN' distance of me..Bath, Hornell, and Penn Yan... Of course, the smaller towns around here are MUCH redneckier....Or is that more rednecky ?

Was it a .38-40 or a .38-55 ? I'm guessing that if it was stamped .38 win it would be a .38-40, probably a M92. If it was a .38-55 it would likely be a M94. The diary and picture are absolutely precious ! I have just been going through a lot of old photos from my family dating back to the 1930s and 1940s,including some hunting, trapping and fishing photos, but I have nothing that is anywhere near as cool as your dad's diary.

I'd hunt and fish everywhere in the world that I want to as long as I am physically able to do it and I'd take along a few of my good buddies like my old pal Fungus Face, Lawdwaz and Miranda Lambert.

Me three..

Hey Virgil ! Where ya BEEN, Ol Hoss ? We've missed you..Thought maybe you were out campaigning for Hilary...<<grin>>...

Currently there is a box of .22s and a box of .17 Mach IIs in the open cubby hole of my truck's dash. During deer season there usually is a loaded DBM and maybe an M1 clip in my console.

The .300 Win mag is a good Alaska round, but the .338 Win mag is better.. The 7mm and 300 mags are excellent for delivering heavy for caliber bullets to medium and big game at long ranges, which is what they were designed for. The ,257 WB mag is an excellent medium game caliber at any practical range...However, so is the 25-06, the various .270s, and perhaps two dozen other chamberings, most of which burn considerably less powder and nearly all of which feature much less expensive factory ammo.

GREAT mulie bucks ! Congrats...Those eastern plains deer are awesome !

No argument from me there. Shotguns, especially light ones with slugs or heavy shot loads, kick in the same neighborhood, of BIG BORE rifles, we're talking elephant guns here. I never liked shooting them from the bench, either. I took some of sting out of my slug gun, though, by using a heavy, gas operated auto and standard velocity slugs. My Rem 1100 all rigged up with scope, cantilever mount and sling weighed in at 10 pounds, same as my M1 Garand. It was not bad to shoot from the bench.

One of my hunting buddies, whom I affectionately call Fungus Face, uses his .300 Win Mag for everything. Works fine for him. Of course, he's an excellent rifle shot, dumb as a stump and as recoil proof as a tractor tire. I load ammo for him and I worked up loads for his M70 .300 mag alongside my Ruger M77 .338 mag. Both rifles beat me up, but the .300's recoil was faster, sharper and more punishing than my .338. I ended up selling the .338 and getting a 9.3 x 62. It handles heavier bullets and you know when it goes off, but the recoil is more of a shove rather than the sharp, viscious kick of the .300 mag.

" The Ransom of Red Chief ".....

Yup, sounds like a real fun gun to shoot.. About as enjoyable as a root canal. <<grin>>..

To my knowledge, in areas where rifles were legal, the only requirement was that the cartridge had to be a centerfire. When they first legalized handguns in the southern zone, they had to be .35 caliber or larger.

I knew it was COLD this morning when I looked outside and saw a mink wearing a fat lady.

Up where WJ lives in northern NY, the deer tend to be heavier. Here along the Pennsyltucky border in Steuben County, the heaviest BUCK I have ever seen weighed was 185 dressed, although I have heard reputable accounts of a few 200 or a little heavier, and that's in 50+ years of hunting. In some other areas, however, like the western Lake Plains and the Adirondacks, a buck over 200 pounds is a nice buck, but is not rare. I would say that a 160 pound dressed weight doe from the Northern Adirondacks is certainly within the realm of possibility.

Bobcat season was open this year from Oct.25-Nov. 20 in our area for both hunting and trapping, Chas. You just had to get a bobcat permit from Bath.

I agree with Joe... A ,223 is a MUCH more effective tool for killing deer than any bow at any range, under any conditions.

I could probably do the liver on a bet, but not the stuff inside the stomach.

How about raw liver dipped in the stomach contents of a freshly killed caribou ? My Inuit guide ate that and licked his fingers afterward. Then he asked me if I wanted some.. My reply was " **** ***"....

Unlike my cousin Graham in Australia, I don't limit it to my own. Just the other day Rosie O'Donnell sent me enough to stuff three large sofa pillows.

Is it a Cuban ? Her name isn't Monica, is it ?

I collect belly button lint. My goal is to get enough to stuff a mattress.

Just start a leg and that beast should grind a deer head, hide, horns and all ! Nice new toy, Larry !

I'm a definite maybe.

The deer were eating the greens on min when they were freshly germinated, and they were chowing down on the bulbs by the beginning of gun season. I planted them the last week of August and some are twice the size of softballs now.