Pygmy

The local Tractor Supply Store puts thier 5' x 8' trailers on sale a couple times a year for $600. I bought one a couple of years ago and so far it has worked fine for my ATV, lawn tractors and other stuff... It trails well behind my Ford Ranger pickup.

I think the guys were talking about old fashioned Foster style rifled slugs... There used to be just four selections ; Super X, Remington, Federal or those GERMAN slugs ( Brennekes)... If your gun didn't group one of those four, you were SOL... Sabot slugs hadn't even been marketed yet.. Things were so much SIMPLER in those days....<<sigh>>...

Thanks for the offer, Shawn, but I kill enough myself for me and The Mermaid.

Shipping ? I assume that you provide squirrels to someone who likes to eat them ? Cool...They are excellent..I usually shoot between 30 and 40 per season and I LOVE to eat the little rodents..I devour most of them myself. I have a T-Shirt that reads... SQUIRREL.. The OTHER White Meat ...<<grin>>..

I have a couple of packages of squirrel parts frozen in water in ziplocs to finish up.. After that I'm looking forward to the season .Lots of nuts this years, so concentrations of squirrels might be a little harder to find..

I got my 8X...Denied an 8Y...

Back when I started deer hunting, there were no commercially available rifled barrels for shotguns and it was rare to see a scope on one. Slugs barrels with rifle type sights such as The Ithaca Deerslayer were just becoming popular. Many hunters used thier shotguns with simple bead sights, and plenty of deer were killed with them. I killed a number of deer with a 20 gauge Remington 1100 skeet gun with vent rib and double beads. Most modified barrels that I shot grouped pretty well..The guns that tended to throw them all over were usually full choke, although I have seen a few full choke guns that grouped well. Nearly all smoothbore slug barrels were either cylinder bore, as was the Deerslayer, or improved cylinder, as in the Remington and Browning slug barrels. It is not unusual to see a modified choke smoothbore group slugs well enough to stay on a deer's vital area within a hundred yards or so. Often the main limitation is the inability to aim precisely with the crude bead sight. And of course there is no way to adjust the bead if the gun does not shoot to point of aim. Adustable aftermarket sights that are on the market today or optical sights such as scopes or red dots are the way to go these days.

Got a nice shower on my freshly planted food plot last night.. Now I get to wait for germination PLUS get the ground worked up for my clover/WR patch which I hope to which I hope to have in the ground by Sept 1.

I am far from being an authority on trailcams. I can just share my limited experience... A year ago I bought a Covert ( I think it's an MP6) on advice from a couple members of this forum... It takes good pictures and LOTS of them on a set of batteries..Batteries seem to last forever.. Along with the bearproof box it cost me less than $200...I think that without the bear box it was around $150. So far it has been a good investment.

Thanks, Split...A shower in the next day or two would be nice, and the weather forecast calls for some thunderstorms in my area. Just so it doesn't rain TOO hard..hehehe..

That's a FINE lookin' rifle gun there, Renegade... I'm a little too twitchy to shoot a flintlock. After the pan goes off I flinch about four feet off target before the charge goes..<<grin>>...

Not a chance, Doe.. Poor ol' Big Bob and the Boys are having SYMPATHY PAINS just at the mere THOUGHT of such a thing. I think I'll go put on my Kevlar jock strap...

Yup...Never realized that a male nipple was that sensitive.. Good thing I wasn't taking a LEAK when it happened...<<CRINGE>>...

I ran into a yellow jacket ground nest the other day while weedwhacking...Only got nailed once, but the little *&%!!# stung me through my t-shirt DIRECTLY on my left NIPPLE ! Good grief, did that hurt !! I had no idea that my nipples were that sensitive ! It throbbed for about 4 hours...I nursed it with a baking soda paste and a couple of snorts of Jack Daniels ( internally) and eventually it subsided to an annoying itch, which I still have. The yellow jackets got the gasoline treatment.

Got it in today.... I had 1 1/4 acres limed, fertilized with 19-19-19 and worked up well with fixed cultivators and drags... Broadcast it today with radishes, turnips and rape and then dragged over it with doubled chain link fence.. Hoping for a shower in the next day or two... My next plot is about 2 acres and I plan to do it by Sept 1 with clover and winter rye... The old Ford 9N is getting a workout..

I hate 'em too..I hate a thief and think it should be a capital offense.. If it didn't mean I'd spend the rest of MY life behind bars, I'd gladly take the thieving bastards out behind the barn and put one behind thier ear without a TINGE of regret...

I guess I can't say FOR SURE because the last 870 I owned was back in the 60s. However, it has always been my undestanding that the only differences in the Wingmaster and the Express are cosmetic. The Wingmaster has better wood ( walnut verses birch) and better finish, ( polished blue rather that matte blue). The parts should be interchangable.

Did you ever hear the expression " All dressed up and nowhere to go ? "

I read that Monica just turned 40... They grow up so quickly.. Seems like just the other day she was running around the Oval Office on her hands and knees putting EVERYTHING in her mouth...

My ex wife's name is Sharon... The Mermaid and I have two of those shrubs in our lawn... I call them " The Rose of AUUUUUGH !".... I wish the deer would eat them BOTH ..<<grin>>..

Those little dings are " honorable scars"...They give the gun character. Actually, most marks on firearms come from carelessness in transportation. Keeping your gun a soft case while traveling to and from your hunting spot does a lot to avoid dings, rub marks, etc. I have a walnut stocked Remington 1100 that I bought in 1980 and carried thousands of miles deer and turkey hunting, raised into trees, climbed over deadfalls, yada, yada, and it still looks almost new. I transport behind the seat of my truck, in a soft case.

Did you broadcast the seed, Growie ? I'm planting to do a similar plot with radishes, turnips and rape.. I have just under an acre... It is limed, plowed, fertilized and dragged, but I need to drag it over a couple more times How much of each seed would you recommend ? I have another acre left that I plan to plant to clover/rye in a couple more weeks.

HEATHEN !! I suppose you like high powered variables with great big fat objectives, too !! I'n going to go fondle a nice walnut stock and a high quality fixed power scope and then take my nap.. Youth today !! I'm COMIN' Lizbeth !

I'm older than Culver and I RESEMBLE that remark !

LAVs ( Light Armored Vehicles)