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Using the same bullet and loaded at similar velocities, and with the same shot placement, saying that there is a difference in meat damage between the .308 and the 30-06 is splitting the TINIEST pf hairs.... Sure...If you reload and hotrod 150 grain Sierra spitzer to 3000 FPS, and then compare it to the same bullet downloaded in a .308 to 2500 FPS, there will be a big difference....However in factory loads, say the 06 at 2900 and the .308 at 2750...Not much difference....

Never saw one up here in Dogpatch, and I hope I never do !!

I have a seeder that mounts on the back of a quad...Does a very good job of broadcasting both fertilizer and seed... My biggest problem in the past with both corn and beans is weed control...

Damn GOOD pay, also...I started at Corning Glass Works in 1974 as a weekly salaried lab technician for $130 a week......

Looks good, Greg...I don't think I am a good enough farmer to grow corn..I also don't have a sprayer or any good way to control the weeds...

I might have guessed..Either A&C or perhaps Herter's..I'll bet he didn't pay more than $50, for a quality double that was built to last forever.. In 1963, I sold a steer for $123 and used some of the money to buy my first repeating shotgun, a Rem 11-48 16 gauge that I paid $85 for...The gun shops here in WNY had a LOT of quality double barrels ( Ithaca, Parker, LC Smith ..AH fox, etc) for sale dirt cheap because shotguns with slugs were required for deer at that time and many doubles do not group well with slugs..Many high quality double barrels were bought for $50 or less...Nobody wanted a double barrel, except a few smart individuals who bought them dirt cheap and then later made big $$$$ on them...

A quality English gun....VERY cool...Any idea where your Dad came by it ??

I planted it August 31...It is turning a nice light green now ....I also had about 20 pounds of buckwheat seed that was given to me by a friend, so I seeded that right on top...The BW is up about an inch now and will probably be promptly mowed down by the deer, but what the heck... I plan to buy a bag of rye seed and seed over any sparse or bare spots that may develop...Looking good so far..Hope we get enough rain to maintain it...

I hate a thief....I'd take him out behind the barn and put one behind his ear, and be HAPPY to pull the trigger... The best we can hope for is that he gets shut up in a cell with BUBBA, and Bubba thinks he's cute...

Do you know the make of the shotgun ? Looks like an American made boxlock...Could be one of several different manufacturers.. I'd guess an Ithaca, but could be a Parker, AH Fox, Baker or several others...Defintiely not an LC Smith or a Syracuse Lefever, because they are sidelocks...

I think TF has the nicest legs...

A person could hunt any non-dangerous game on the continent, including moose and elk with a .308 and be well armed... Of course, the same thing can be said about probably twenty ( or more) other chamberings also...

I have never seen so many grasshoppers on the property as this year, between working my food plot and tending the lawn..The poults should be getting lots of protien... I remember a year many moons ago when we had a late frost, and hoppers were still active in late October when fall turkey season opened here in SW NY.. My hunting buddy shot a jake that was very big for spring hatched bird <14 lb.>...That jake had a wad of grasshoppers in his craw as big as a man's fist....

You are indeed nuts...After getting my teeth loosened by shooting heavy loads such as slugs or magnum shot loads through ithaca M37s and Rem 870s, I decided that gas operated autos are for me...Most of my experience has been with Rem 1100s and 11-87s.....However several of my friends shoot 3" and 3.5" turkey loads through Mossberg pumps...You couldn't pay me to do that... If you do, you are a better man than I am, Gunga Din !!

I'm no longer fast at anything, except getting to the toilet after my morning coffee...

Amazing how we love discussions like this one...I have some friends in New Brunswick who will argue for hours about whether a .308 or a 30-06 is the better MOOSE rifle... IIRC, I have shot whitetails with the following rifle chamberings.....222 rem, 25-06, .270 Win, 7 x57, 7mm08, .280 Rem, 7MM Rem Mag, 30-06, .35 Rem, 356 Win, .338 Win mag and 9.3 x62...All performed well with proper shot placement, although the .222 is admittedly light and the .338 and 9.3 x 62 are somewhat heavy on the recoil end, but not as bad as a 12 gauge slug, which I have also shot lots of deer with..

Recoil tolerance was not the main reason for adoption of the .308....The shorter .308 is better suited for fully automatic and selective fire weapons ( like the soon to be adopted M-14) than the longer 30-06, but it's performance came very close to matching that of the combat proven 30-06, especially with the 150 grain bullets, which were standard in military FMJ .30 cal rounds ...

The only real difference is that the .308 fits in a short action and may be a slightly shorter rifle... As far as performance goes on deer sized game , flip a coin....Any differences are merely splitting hairs... Lots of factory ammo selections for both rounds also..

The last seed I bought was from The garlic festival at Fox Run Winery north of Dresden..Probably didn't even have it this year... Previous to that, I ordered it online from FILAGREE FARMS.... I got Sicilian Silver, and it was good seed and had a good kick, but I was a little dissappointed in the size of the bulbs/cloves...After that I bought German White at Fox Run and have using it ever since...Great flavor and some heat, and very good average size for the bulbs and cloves..

I have always planted mine the second or third week of October and had good luck..An old friend of mine (RIP) told me that anytime after the full moon in September was OK... I have been using the same seed for seven or eight years now ..I just save big biggest and best cloves for seed, and eat the rest....A couple of years ago I had a so-so crop and suspected my seed was losing it's vigor, I considered buying some new seed, but replanted my old stuff and last year my crop was super...This year it is s0-so again...I guess I'll give this old German White seed one more chance..

I'll bet those tournament guys landed a few nice smallies off that rockpile that had hook marks in the jaws from when WE caught and released them...<<grin>>....

I have an ithaca Damascus SXS that was made in 1898 or 1899....Still in good shape and I have fired it with BP shells that I loaded myself...I understand that there are also smokeless low pressure shells that can be safely fired in twist/ damascus barrels also... My Dad bought this gun for $10 around 1940...It has NEW ITHACA GUN engraved right on the side of the receiver...Hehehe..

Are they 2 3/4" or 2 9/16 " ??..... I have a Super X 16 gauge box for 2 9/16 " roll crimp shells.....100 years ago, many 16 gauge guns were made with 2 9/16" chambers, and of course it is dangerous to fire 2 3/4" shells in them... I think they are still available, but you'd have to hunt around for them in specialty ammo places...Many hunters back in the day who had the short chambered guns had a gunsmith lengthen the chamber because 2 3/4" ammo was so much more available..

The case seems to have had a fold crimp rather than a roll crimp..By the 1950's most manufacturers were using a fold crimp rather than an overshot card with a roll crimp..It probably was loaded in the 1950s or early 1960s, before plastic cases became common...However, I remember buying Federal paper skeet and trap loads as late as the mid 1970s...I think that paper target loads were loaded for awhile after plastic hunting loads became the norm, so it MIGHT have been loaded as late as the late 60s or early 70s...

I have never eaten them, but friends who have say they taste the same, just less meat....