Pygmy

I never ran coyotes with hounds, but back in the 60s I did quite a bit of hound hunting for foxes. It was great sport, exciting and FAR from a slam dunk. We used shotguns with #2 or #4 shot, lead, of course.

I live near the Cameron/Cameron Mills area and hunt there often. There are LOTS of local folks there who would do the same thing, including me.

Actually Doc, I prefer duck hunting to either moose or elk hunting. They are easier to carry out of the field, and decoys are MUCH lighter.

The Jerkman, on 23 Dec 2015 - 12:32 AM, said: Nope...Genny Light...I haven't had a Cream Ale in years.

I've eaten crow many times....FIGURATIVELY, not literally...<<grin>>... However I would try it....Lord knows, I've killed enough of them. I have eaten snapping turtles and catfish and they eat some pretty rotten stuff sometimes. I have eaten barn pigeon many times and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact every time I eat it I wonder why I don't hunt them more often.

That's an especially good idea for us old farts who are on blood thinners...

I have killed deer with 13 different chamberings, but over the last 20 years or so I have done most of my whitetail hunting with the 7mm08.. As a conservative estimate I have killed perhaps 20 deer with it, probably more. As far as performance on game, it kills at least as well as any other caliber I have used. Accuracy has been excellent in any 7mm08 I have had experience with, and recoil is lighter than most other chamberings. There are probably a dozen cartridges that work as well for deer hunting, but none that work any better, at least within the ranges that most of us shoot, say 350-400 yards max.

The pricks won't even allow delivery components such as bullets for reloading.

That is correct...The action of the Contender is not considered strong enough for .308 Win pressures. A buddy of mine had an Encore in 7MM08 for sale awhile back..If you are interested I could check with him to see if he still has it.

I have seen that happen more than once...A high shot, CLOSE to the spine but not quite low enough to sever the spine, will drop a deer in his tracks, but sometimes within a minute or two they recover from the shock and get up and take off with nothing worse than a flesh wound on their back. There are no major blood vessels above the spine.

I had a Rhiengold Chug a Mug unopened in the grey bottle...In fact it may STILL be on the downstairs snackbar at my ex-wife's ( formerly OUR) house... The first time I ever drank a whole quart of beer it was Miller High Life.. A couple of buddies and I gave a local wino $2.00...That gave him enough money to buy us each a quart of Miller's and himself a pint of muscatel. We drank the beer out on the dike behind the high school.. I was 15 at the time.

Sounds good to me too, Elmo....About as good as a root canal....YUCK !

Good luck, Zag...Sucks losing your meat...

hehehehe..Whatever works for you, my friend ... As por MOI, between my palsy, spastic bowel and terminal flatulence, I need all the help I can get.. Besides that, every time I squint to draw a bead my glass eye falls out..

Geeze, 7600...You are going to a lot of effort and expense for choke tubes and loads if you don't shoot past 25 yards. You can kill the biggest gobblers on the planet all day long at 25 yards with skeet or trap loads. If I limited myself to 25 yards, I'd never use any shot heavier than 7 1/2s and no choke tighter than Improved cylinder. I realize that you are a marksman and no doubt have nerves of steel, but most of us mere mortals would be handicapping ourselves shooting such tight chokes at such close ranges. I personally like them around 35-40 yards...Still within sure kill range, but far enough out so that the pattern spread can help counteract the adrenaline factor.

Nope..never did that.. I also never knew for sure where the bullet/arrow went until I recovered the deer. Muscle tissue hits bleed pretty good sometimes and can fool you. You may have reported a dead deer that is still walking around.

We used to see 50-100 deer on opening day in southern Potter County along the Kettle Creek drainage. Now you're lucky if you see one. Every camp had multiple bucks hanging, nearly all spikes and forkhorns. Nowadays you drive miles to see a deer hanging, but when you see one it's often an 18-20 incher...

It IS a helluva buck... As far as seeing lots of deer, it depends on where you go in PA. In some of the "Big Woods" in north central PA, you can hunt a week and not see a deer. In the farm country where I hunt, it's not unusual to see 12-15 deer per day, although this year I hunted 3 days and only saw 3 deer. My buddy hunting the same property at the same time saw perhaps 30 deer in 3 days, including 3 bucks.

You're right....He's a dork...I hadn't watched the video... I'm MUCH more charming and I know more about his rifle than he does...

That stuff will give you the WEAKY-WAUKIES...

Goats are sexy if you're an A-Rab....

No it was a goat..Maybe that's why it smelled bad..

Perhaps that will be me next year with my newly acquired '03 Springfield sporter, except that dude is a lot younger, better looking, and probably TALLER than me...<<grin>>..

I have a vintage Genny red eye can on the desk right beside my computer. Tin bottom, tin body with a seam up the side, aluminum top and a removable throw away aluminum pull tab. It says GENESEE BEER cold aged, on the outside of the can.

PBR is still very popular at the American Legion Post that I belong to. Remember Rhiengold ? When I was serving aboard a USN Destroyer home ported at Brooklyn Naval yard, every neighborhood bar had Rhiengold and Schaeffer's on tap, usually for about 20 cents a glass. In the days between high school and the Navy, a best buddy and I used to buy a couple 6 packs of Piels pounders for 99cents a 6 pack and go sit on the banks of the Canisteo River and drink beer and fish for carp. He died from machinegun fire while walking point on a patrol in Vietnam in March, 1971. I was one of his pallbearers just one month before I reported for active duty in April 1971. Schmidts, Black label, Iroquois....And don't forget STEGMAIR, 3 quarts for $1.00...