Pygmy

False...Gave up bowhunting about ten years ago The next poster prefers his/her steaks medium rare.

When I hunted caribou near the Arctic Circle in '94, my Inuit guide, George Konana, showed me a video of his 10 year old son shooting a 10 foot polar bear with a .222 Rem. He hit the bear at the base of the skull and dropped it in its tracks. An aquaintance of mine did a polar bear hunt years ago . He carried a .375 H&H mag. His Inuit guide " backed him up" with a 22-250...

The dadburn SNOW just keeps coming...No sense in firing up the snowblower until it's over. I'd just have to do it again when the snow stops.. Roads are too snotty to drive on...I'm going to miss HAPPY HOUR at the LEGION... It's too EARLY for my NAP.....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!......

My favorite upland gun that I use for grouse, woodcock and rabbits is a 20 gauge side by side with 25 inch barrels choked IC/MOD . I generally shoot 7/8 or 1 ounce of 6 or 7 1/2 shot. Nothing wrong with a 12 gauge, as long as it is not choked too tight. IC is perfect for the 12 with 1 ounce or 1 1/8 ounce of 6s or 7 1/2s. Don't go any tighter than modified.

SO true, Growie...LOL The next poster prefers walnut stocks and blued metal over synthetic and stainless steel.

Now that rifles are legal here, I'll probably never use my slug gun again, but if I were there with my old 12 gauge 1100, I would have had about 3 holes in that buck before that dude pulled the trigger. 1100 12 gauge, fully rifled 21" BBL, Winchester BRI sabot slugs and a 1971 El Paso Weaver 2.5X scope...

True Cynthia...But it would be a SYMPATHETIC laugh, because I have been there too. The next poster ate pork & saurkraut today as a good luck New Year's dinner.

Heck YES, I would have shot, but like some of the previous posters said, I'd have shot earlier, when he was broadside... No lead necessary on a shot that close..Just center the ribcage in the scope and trip the trigger. My wingshooting experience sort of screwed me up when I first started hunting deer..I actually was leading deer too much, and I missed several by shooting in FRONT of them. A deer running broadside at 50 yards requires much less lead than a duck or a pheasant. And if they are further than that, I won't take a running shot.

True...I was awake to see the ball drop although i DID get my nap earlier in the eveing. The next poster is hung over.

I've used plain beads on Win M37 and Eastern Arms single barrels, Rem 11-48 auto and Rem M17 Pump, 2 Ithaca Deerslayers with open sights, two Rem 870s with smoothbore slug barrels and open sights, a Rem 870 Skeet gun with double beads and a Rem 1100 Skeet gun with double beads. Of all those, I liked the 1100 skeet the best and killed the most deer with it. I have used a tang mounted peep sight on my TC Hawken for about 20 years now and like it very much...Fast, accurate and easy to shoot offhand. I've killed a bunch of deer and my one and only bull elk, a 6x6, with it. When I installed the tang sight I drilled out the aperture to about 1/8" so that it sights well in low light. I have killed one deer with my M1 Garand with issue peep sights. I like the battle sights on the M1 in good light, but the peep is hard for me to see through under low light conditions. All that said, I also prefer glass. In my opinion, scopes make it easier to make moving shots than open sights, due to the single point of aim. Since I started using glass I shoot far fewer bullets and kill more deer.

REAL false...I WISH I was under 40... The next poster's waist size is under 40 inches.

Way to go, Joe !!!!

I read an article that listed the three most popular rounds in Alaska, where encounters with brown/grizzly bears are always a possibility and EVERYONE wants a moose for thier winter meat... #1....30-06 Number 2 and number 3 were .300 Win mag and .338 Win mag... I can't remember the order.. I DO remember hunting in Alaska a couple of times and encountering grizzlies and thinking that my .280 rem looked REALLY small... In my later hunts carried my .338 Win mag or my 9.3 x 62... They gave me more confidence around the grizzlies ( on one hunt my party of four saw 13 grizzlies) but fortunately there was never an occasion where we had to deal with them.. Every time the grizzlies saw or smelled us, they went the other way...

I grew up in rural Southern Steuben County, near the PA border on 187 acres owned by my folks. I started "hunting" with my Daisy BB gun in the 1950s, terrorizing the local songbirds, pigeons, chipmunks, frogs and anything else that was small enough to kill with a spring powered BB gun. In the early 1960s, I graduated to a single shot .22, and then a single shot 16 gauge shotgun. I raised and sold a steer in 1963. Sold the critter for $123 and used $85 to buy my first repeating shotgun, a Remington 16 gauge 11-48. I hunted all kinds of small game and gamebirds with it, grouse, woodcock, rabbits ,squirrels, pheasants, ducks, crows and barn pigeons. In the early 60s turkeys became legal game..I killed my first turkey in the fall of 1965 on my first fall hunt..I wouldn't kill another one for 10 years. I shot my first buck, a 3 point, in 1966. In 1970, I was about to be drafted into the Army. Since I did not relish the idea of slogging through rice paddies while being shot at by little guys in black pajamas, I enlisted in the USNR . for 6 years. I served two years active duty 1971-1973 on a destroyer, The USS Moale( DD-693) home ported first in Brooklyn, then later at Ft. Schuyler, Bronx. I was married while in the Navy, and after release from active duty my wife and I moved into a house on her father's property. He was a dairy farmer and owned 1000 acres, which was part of a hunting co-op that included about 3000 acres. About this time I also started hunting PA every year, since the border was only a 15 minute drive away. In 1975 I killed my first spring gobbler and spring turkey hunting became my passion. Since then I have hunted them in Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky, PA, NY, Maine and Ontario Canada. I still hunt every year in NY, PA and Ontario. In 1989, at age 39, I went on my first BIG out of state hunt, a float trip in Alaska for moose and caribou. Since then I have returned to Alaska 6 more times and have also hunted in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Northwest Territories Canada, Quebec, and New Brunswick. I've taken caribou, moose, mule deer, elk and antelope. Except for some of the Canadian hunts where a guide/outfitter was required by law, most of my hunts have been unguided/DIY. I have been very fortunate to spend time in some wild and beautiful places. Since a change of marital status, I now live in town for the first time in my life. I was lucky enough to hook up with The Mermaid, a local girl who just happens to own 100 acres of prime hunting land about a five minute drive from my house. Since I have lived in the area my life, I have lots of friends who allow me to hunt thier properties also. Fishing ?? That's a whole nother story and I'm tired of typing...It would just suffice to say that I love to fish as much as I love to hunt, and fishing opportunites abound here near the Finger Lakes.. I fish for bass, walleyes, panfish, trout, northern pike and most anything else that swims. Gainful employment ? Worked several years as a grocery clerk at several A&P stores and about a year as a laborer in a pallet factory.. In 1974 I went to work as a lab technician for Corning Glass Works and retired after 30 years with the title of engineering technician.

Personally, if I wanted appreciably more power than a .308/30-06 , I'd jump over the .300 mags to the .338 Win Mag.

Sits...That's the WURST menu I ever heard of.. Sounds good to me though..Especially the beer and cognac. I don't have any cognac, but my my nephew gave me a bottle of some obscure bourbon that I plan to open up and sample.

I have nothing special planned, but pork & sauerkraut is a traditional New Year's Day dish. Personally, I'm kind of partial to chicken gizzards, simmered in broth and then drizzled in olive oil and slow roasted with onions, celery and red pepper flakes..

The girls in Belfast are BEAUTY QUEENS compared to the ones in the Cameron Hilton. Then there are the girls in Westfield, PA. Remind me to tell you sometime about my TWIST PARTNER down in Westfield...Hehehe..

That wasn't me...It may have been Virgil...

One night during deer season I picked up a " 1:00 AM Special" at the Cameron Hilton, a bar in a cornfield near Cameron, NY. The next morning I woke up in her trailer and got my first good look at her. Scared me so bad I seriously considered adopting a gay lifestyle. Fortunately, I got over it....

I shot quite a few deer with a plain bead also. When I started deer hunting it was the EXCEPTION rather than the rule to have rifle type sights on a shotgun. Ithaca Deerslayers were cutting edge technology in those days, but many guys were still using thier bead sights on thier shotguns. An old fellow I knew ( long since dead) used a 16 gauge Win Model 12 with a plain bead. He claimed that at 50 yards he could blow a hole in a hummingbird as big as your fist. I probably hunted 2 or 3 years before I ever saw anyone with a scope on his shotgun.

What a great thread. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on... But...I also can't remember the last time I had ANY fun WITHOUT my clothes on... I'm so CONFUSED,,, Time for my NAP.....

Just one thing there ,Bubba... The bullet that is fired at a level plane with the deer WILL eventually hit the ground, unless it stays in the deer, which most do not. Simple force of gravity. Why would such a bullet stand any less chance of hitting a rock and ricocheting than one fired from as steeper angle , as from a treestand ? In most cases, the odds of a ricochet sailing off into the blue and causing an accident is a REAL big stretch.. Sure, it could happen, but you are much more likely to die from being struck by lightning than by a ricochet, under normal hunting situations.

False... Nancy Pelosi is the devil. Boogers are usually green.

Nice buck...Mulies are SO cool...I only ever hunted them once, but I saw quite a few while I was elk hunting.