Pygmy

Certainly worth a try... I have had lamb shanks and veal shanks slow roasted and they are succulent... I'd be willing to try the deer shanks.. In 1999, four of us did a caribou hunt out of Dillingham, AK. We boned out the backstraps and hindquarters to ship home and donated the rest of the meat to local people. The locals were adament that they wanted the frontquarters on the bone, and also took the boned out hindquarters. The folks who came to get the meat were very happy and grateful to get it.

Received my bullets from Midway yesterday..No problemo...

My buddy in Juneau Alaska, who spent most of his life as a commercial fisherman, calls them white headed buzzards...<<grin>>... When I fished with him up there a few years ago, I saw 20-30 per day. Twenty years ago here in the Canisteo drainage, they were a fairly rare sight. Now I see them daily.. Ospreys are common here now also.

Went many years without hitting one and then hit 3 in about a year and a half. One with a Toyota Tercel... A few hundred dollars damage..Deer ran off. Another with a Ford Explorer..Cleaned off the driver's side mirror. Deer ran off. Third with the same Explorer...Deer was still alive but immobile.. I was on my way gobbler hunting pre dawn so I had Mr 12 Gauge to remedy the problem. Had to replace a grill.. I once had a rabbit bounce up in the air high enough to wipe out the grill on a Ford F100. Hit a cow with a Volkswagon Beetle once.. Cow ran off and I had to replace the front quarter on the VW. I've also hit 2 hawks and 3 owls...No damage from the birds of prey. One owl was carrying a muskrat..Could that be considered a DOUBLE ?...

Have a ball... If you like the rifle and shoot it well, go for it. One of my hunting partners,whom I affectionately call Fungus Face, uses a M70 .300 Win Mag for everything from woodchucks to moose. I load his ammo, using 180 grain Speer Grand Slams. Works for him..

Whaler's right..beard rot. I've seen it a number of times

Yeah...I just hope with the torrential downpours today it doesn't wash it away....LOL...

I have always bought powder locally to avoid the hazmat fee. Fortunately, I have an ample supply of powder and primers, but next time I get down to Beikirch's (Knoxville, PA) I'll pick some up IF they have it, just in case.

Last Friday I planted 2.5 acres of soybeans and 3 acres of buckwheat. It was as dry as a popcorn fart until the rain we got last night, and I did not expect germination until we got some moisture. Hopefully now that the soil has been wet down well ( we got an inch of rain last night) things will be sprouting soon. Under proper conditions, soybeans should germinate in 7-10 days and buckwheat in 4-5 days.

I just ordered some bullets from Midway yesterday. I priced them at Graf's, Natchez and Midway and surprisingly Midway was the cheapest of the three, AND they had the bullets I wanted in stock. According to the email they sent me, the bullets are on thier way to me now.

I hang them on my backpack, my waistline, or wherever.. This spring I kept forgetting to pin it on my turkey vest, and hunted most of the season without it. If some game cop is so chickens**t to write me a ticket for that, I'll just pay my fine and get on with it...

I still have my first backtag (1963)... I can remember that my Dad had them in the mid 1950s...I used to safety pin his old tags on the back of my shirt when I was out stalking tweetie birds with my Daisy BB gun...

Larry....You didn't find the top to my 12 pack cooler near Honeoye, did you ? It's RED.... I had that cooler for 30 years..Lost the top of it on the highway 3 times...First two times I went back and found it. This time I think it's gone.. I forgot to put up the tailgate on my pickup once and lost my chain saw. I backtracked pronto and it was gone already. I figured it was gone but went to the village Police Dept. just in case some good samaritan had turned it in. Just as I got there, the head of the village maintenance crew was walking into the station with my saw to turn it in to lost & found.

I don't know..If it is a headspace issue as pistol71 says, I can't see where the configuration of the projectile would make any difference.

I loved the flicker picture... Is that a father flicker or a mother flicker ?

Yeah, Mike...I was picturing a field that had laid fallow and had not been worked in many years. The first food plot I ever put in was a field that had not been worked in at least 50 years...The sod was about 5 or 6 inches thick, and my old Ford 8N really had to GRUNT to pull a plow through it.. I couldn't imagine planting anything without turning over and chopping up that carpet of grass, roots, etc. However, my farming experience is old school.. I admit that I am ignorant of modern no till practices...

Sounds like you are dealing with SOD... It needs to be plowed and then disced and/or dragged. Bulldozing would scrape off much of your precious loam/topsoil.

You can buy a rifled choke tube for your smoothbore barrel...This might give good groups with either foster style rifled slugs or sabots. That would be my first choice. You can also shoot foster style rifled slugs ( like Rem Sluggers) through an IC or Mod choke tube and perhaps get decent groups. Do NOT shoot anything through your barrel without some type of choke tube installed..This might damage the threads. The red dot should work fine with both barrels. If you are lucky, you may not have to adjust when you switch from shot loads to slugs. Then again, you might have to re-sight in when you change over. You can only determine this by shooting from the bench. Sight it in with slugs FIRST...Then shoot some patterns with shot loads. If you are lucky, it MIGHT pattern shot loads to the same point of aim as your slugs.

Nope..Just hair jigs and marabou jigs.. Any color was fine as long as it was black..

Sounds like you and Dad had a good day, Larry ! I did not do so well on Keuka today..Fishing was tough, probably due to the cold front. My partner and I boated only ONE legal bass ( about 14") and a few perch and pickerel. Two of my buddies did better..They only caught 4 keepers, but they were all big fish, the smallest being around 3 lb. and the biggest a 5 lb. 5 oz HAWG... All fish were caught on 1/16 and 1/8 oz. black jigs..

Success rates change in western wildlife units due to harsh winters, droughts and other factors. However, in Colorado, preference points are NOT unit specific. A deer preference point is valid in any unit in the state. So, if in a few years the unit you are interested in declines, you can apply your points to any other unit that may be better. When you recieve a CO preference point, it is good statewide. You do not specify a unit if you are simply applying for a point. You have to send in the cost of the tag with the application, but you will be refunded the money, minus an application fee, which is 30 or 40 bucks.

A friend of mine had one in 35 Rem and had the same problem with misfires... He had it rechambered for 356 Win and had no more problems.. I have no idea why .... He ended up buying an Encore in 7mm08 and peddling the Contender.

The season is Nov 1-9... Haven't decided the exact days yet..

Very impressive !! I envy your soil for lack of rocks...Mine is clay hardpan that is about 50% rocks.. In fact, I call my foodplot WOODSTOCK because it looks like somebody held a ROCK CONCERT there...

My buddy and I applied as a party.. We both had 11 preference points. We had planned to do a DIY hunt, as most of my hunts have been. However, I'm getting too old to sleep on the ground in a little tent, so I was researching cabins or camps to rent in the unit. One outfit that I called regarding a cabin made me an offer for a guided ranch hunt ...Not that much more $$ than renting the cabin, and all we have to bring is our rifles and personal gear... SO we are going guided...We stay at the ranch..They feed us, board us, and we have access to private ground as well as the public land in the unit. I checked a bunch of references on this outfit... A 180 -190 mulie is a realistic goal on this hunt with a decent chance at a 200 + buck.