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Early..With all due respect, I suggest you elaborate on your comment. So far I haven't seen anything all that unbelievable.. If you are referring to me, I'll gladly give details..

I forgot one..I took one buck the last day of gun season a few years back using a friend's TC Encore in .356 Win... I also shot a half dozen deer and one elk with the bow..A Darton SL-50 and a Hoyt Super Slam..However, I was never a dyed in the wool archer and gave up bowhunting a few years back, due to the fact that I felt was not proficient enough with the bow and did not want to chance wounding animals.. I have always been kind of a GUN NUT, though, which is the reason that I have killed deer with so many different firearms..Many of the chamberings I have only shot one or two deer with.. The ones that I have shot the MOST with are the 20 gauge, the 12 gauge, the .50 ML, the .280 rem and the 7mm08..

Holy cow, Jerry...!.. You guys HAMMERED 'em..Nice catch... Congrats.. I'll bet those pilgrims were tickled with that mess of fish.. Looks like you got at least 5 kings.. They are all fun, though..Those cohos and steelies fight like crazy. I can't believe how CALM it is..You don't get too many days on the Big Lake like that...

I agree, Jerry.. He's ugly as a side order of $**t......

You can say that again....

Nothin wrong with that, Deerthug.. " Beware the one-gun shooter, he probably knows how to USE it "...

This topic comes up fairly often on the forums, and for whatever reason I think it's fun. List the guns implements or projectiles you have killed deer with. Here's mine: 20 gauge, Foster & Brenneke slugs.. 16 gauge, Foster slugs.. 12 gauge, Foster and Sabot slugs... .222 Remington 25-06 .260 Rem .270 Win 7 x57 7MM08 .280 Rem 7MM Rem mag 30-06 .35 Rem 9.3 X 62 .50 cal muzzleloader, round balls and conicals

I've never been too excited about ARs... I'm more of a BOLT ACTION kinda guy... Woops...Wait a minute... You guys aren't talking about RIFLES are you ??.. Sorry..My bad.. I think it's time for my NAP...

Great Ceasar's GHOST !!.. That is my long lost Aunt MILDRED !! My last memory of Aunt Mildred was when she and Uncle Fester had a farm where they raised apples and maple trees...Thier main crops were apple vinegar and maple syrup.. Well, Aunt Mildred was out in the barn one day and she slipped and fell.. It just so happened that she went butt over head and landed with one breast in a vat of cider and one in a vat of maple syrup.. The hired man, Charlie Wackdoodle, saw her lying there and dragged her out by her heels.. Aunt Mildred wasn't wearing any skivvies, and poor Charlie hasn't been the same since.. Aunt Mildred recovered, but one breast had been marinated in the cider and the other one had been pickling in the maple syrup.. She had one side tattooed SWEET and the other one SOUR... Last I heard she was making a good living down in Dirty Pilar's House of Pleasure and Taco Emporium down in Tijuana.

I heartily agree.... Think about it....Up until about 100 years ago, jacketed bullets were exception..Lead bullets were the norm...Sabots weren't even HEARD of, unless you considered some of the paper patched bullets that were popular in the mid to late 1800s.. Part of maintaining a rifled firearm was scrubbing/dissolving the lead fouling from the bore.. Ain't exactly rocket science....< grin>...

I HEAR ya on the eyesight, Eddie...Same problem here, and my hands aren't as steady as they used to be, either...I won't take an offhand shot unless the deer is REAL close. generally if I don't have a rest, I don't shoot.. Regarding shooting rifled foster type slugs through a rifled barrel, I remember years ago when Hastings first started making rifled shotgun barrels...There were very few sabot slugs available. The only one that I recall at that time was the original BRI sabots. Hastings recommended using either the BRI sabots or Super X rifled slugs with thier barrels for the best performance.

What about us poor guys who have a small dink, an ugly wife AND like to shoot 4 points ?? I must be a THREE TIME loser !!... I guess I should shoot myself... On second thought, it's time for my NAP...

Showing off your new thesaurus, Growie .. ?.. Works well... Glad to get a response from you...I was beginning to think you didn't LOVE me anymore, Sweetheart...

Bluegill or sunfish...Not enough length compared to girth for a bass.. Great picture..Really shows off the heron's plumes..

The fish was no doubt writhing in the bird's beak when the picture was taken, hence the curve of the tail.

No disrespect meant to your goats, Growie....God Rest thier little souls...

LMAO Tree Guy..!!... Those are some GREAT suggestions... How about THIS sign ??... " Trespassers will be restrained and forced to look at nude pictures of Janet Reno " Or THIS one... " Trespassers will be locked in a room and forced to listen to 24 hours of Barry Manilow's Greatest hits" Or this one.... "Trespassers will required to spend an entire weekend with Growalot viewing 8MM home movies of her goats".....

I could care less about the antler restrictions, but I am excited to see this thread... Wait untill I get some popcorn and a beer..!!... I might have to skip my NAP for this !...

That's phenomenal grouping for a smoothbore, Eddie..I can't say I've ever seen one that would group that well, although a buddy of mine has an Ithaca Deerslayer that would come close... I always considered myself forunate to keep all my shots on a 9" paper plate at 100 with any of my smoothbores..That's why when rifled barrels became available, I bought one for my 1100...With BRI Standard velocity Sabots it will group from 2" to 4" at 100.. Since they made rifles legal here, I haven't used the shotgun anyway...Not that I don't feel it is effective..I' have killed too many deer at woods ranges to doubt the effectivness of a slug gun...It's just that I enjoy using my rifles and my own handloads more than I do my slug gun..

I swear those herons will eat ANY critter they can get in thier mouth.. Last year while visiting my sister in Florida, I watched a heron eat a water snake..It was not a small snake, either, at least 3 feet long...The heron grabbed the snake on the edge of a pond, and ran with it into an adjacent lawn, where the grass was short...He dropped it in the lawn and proceed to peck the SNOT out it until he had it nicely subdued, and perhaps "tenderized" a bit..Then he took it headfirst and swallowed the whole snake..Took him two or three minutes to get it down..I could see the snake writhing inside his gullet as he was swallowing it.. He'd have made Linda Lovelace envious...

" Does a duck's a$$ pucker in a power dive ? "

It's a bullhead..You can see the pectoral fins and whiskers. After studying the picture a little more, I can also see the claudal fins,anal fin and tailfin. The bird is holding the fish crossways in it's beak, with the tail toward the camera.

I agree with you, Culver...I often wondered if the stream fish are stronger because they have to work harder fighting the current.. The stream bass ( at least in the waters I fish) are lankier and slimmer than thier lake counterparts..An 18 inch fish from my local river might weigh 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 lb., where an 18 incher from say, Keuka Lake usually goes 3 pounds PLUS.. They all fight like demons, but I believe as you do that the stream fish have an edge, pound for pound... The stream bass even seem to TASTE better, in my opinion. Perhaps that is because they don't eat as many oily forage fish, like alewives, a diet that might make the lake bass taste a little stronger. I prefer light tackle for smallies..My favorite rig is a 6 1/2 foot light action Fenwick with 6 lb. test mono.. Even a 10 or 12 incher gives a good account of itself on that tackle, and when you hook a 3 or 4 pounder, you REALLY have your hands full for a few minutes..