Big John

Wow who would have guessed so many great white hunters afraid of a little snake........lol. I take 3-5 snakes that size out of my basement every spring, most are milk snakes last one was 4ft long. Just grab them up cary them out to the field and let them go...

I have not lost a trail cam but, I put them up high enough that they are not reachable from the ground. After hearing of this happening for some time when I bought trail cams I built a platform that has an angle plate that gives me the view I need and, the height to keep it away from thieves !

I unfortunately get no adrenaline rush at any range the Army took all that away years ago, I see a target and shoot it. On this and other forums I talk about "Target Panic" and the best ways around it practice being one. I shot the buck In the picture not to prove a point but to fill my freezer.

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I always get in trouble when the topic of accuracy is talked about, I practice every week for an hour each day the pictures included are why. Picture 1 is a 2 inch square piece of tubing I hit twice at 200yds. Picture 2 is an arrow that I also hit at 200 yds (it did take me 6 shots to do so in high wind) and picture 3 is the buck I shot 600yds across a ravine. I built the rifle I shoot and if it is incapable of shooting a center bull shot @ 200 yds I will take is apart and check it for specs....

Well suppose I don't like any of the choices, then what?

Target Panic I was sitting here today thinking about all the folks who have one kind or another starting to shake as the target approaches or getting the shakes after making the kill of a lifetime. You look and here comes the biggest buck you have ever seen right toward you, your heart starts to pound you can feel it beating in your chest, you start to breath faster and your hands start to shake yep you’ve got it “Target Panic” aka “Buck Fever” aka “The Shakes” While I was writing this I started to think, have I been missing something all these years that others enjoy during their hunting experience? If so should I try to change what I have learned and worked on most of my life. The more I thought about it the clearer it became that I should leave things alone because of all the what ifs, what if I hesitate when I should have fired, what if my emotions get to me and my aim suffers for it, or God forbid what if I am called upon through circumstance to make a shot to save a life and, I think about the shot and mess it up. Some folks on other forums know I don’t get this at any point. I have been told by some of those folks both on-line and in my “off-line” life that I am a robot when it comes to shooting and, I might as well be sitting in my easy chair at home or I should have been a mercenary and so on. Maybe they are right but, I fill my freezer, I enjoy being out in the great outdoors and, to be able to lock down on the target and make my shot true is good enough for me. I have heard that true target panic cannot go away I have to disagree, there have been literally thousands of men and women who have overcome "true target panic" and they did it with technique and practice. Like me the people I am talking about wear the uniforms of this great country and, get shot back at. A hunter has all the benefit of using the same training without the threat of being shot at, oh and yes it works with bows also. The idea is to equate the same importance to the paper target as to a living target (not to say that they carry the same weight) shooting paper verses taking a life but, preparing yourself for the shot every time as if it is your one and only chance to stay alive. Some people think no big deal I am shooting at a piece of paper so their hits don't need to be as tight as they would say if they were shooting at a person trying to kill them. I know this first hand as I have been on a pistol range with people who think that way. At the time I hadn't shot a handgun since the Army which was about 10 years before that, I was shooting next to a young lady whose groups were all over the paper a 10 yards when we were done firing she asked me how I such shot tight groups did I shoot a lot? I said no I don’t shoot a lot. Let me ask you a question I asked her what it was she was shooting at. She replied the same as you a piece of paper with a silhouette on it. I replied that is why my groups are tighter than yours, I am shooting at a person who is trying to kill me, every time I draw a pistol or raise one of my other weapons shotgun, rifle or Bow it is to stop someone / something from killing me. Then I told her to try that mind set and see if her shooting didn't improve to make an already long story short her shooting greatly improved. Having said all that if you bought your weapon as a paper puncher then you have no reason to even consider what I am saying however, if you bought it to protect you and/or your family changing your mind set may not only get you a little tighter group but also make the shot easier if God forbid you have to shoot someone and improve your shot when it is time to take that Buck of a lifetime. Lastly when it comes to target panic, not to blow my own horn but my targets don’t generally live long enough…. to…. panic….lol. Written by Big John

America Un-divided It’s funny to me to see all these stories in the left wing news papers and on the left wing television about how much America is divided and it seems they keep missing their mark because they and the Democrats are the ones trying to divide us note the TRYING. There a number of things the left is not telling it followers who, may or may not know. The left wing is saying protecting our country from the hidden enemy and cutting out the rotten apples in the illegal alien barrel is not who we are, they are wrong it is who we are it is NOT who we were. Why is that, why are we not who we were? We are not who we were because on 9/11 we found out our country could be attacked from within because of our own benevolence, our need to offer our way of life to everyone who wishes to make a better life for themselves which opened doors unknown to us for evil to walk right in. The doors allowing the bad to get in and since our Presidents Democrat and Republican have had to put a stop to free flowing entry into this country. President Trump says we need to put a moratorium on the flow of immigrants into this country and remove all illegal aliens who have committed or who are in the act of committing acts of crime in our country, the Leftwing News says the President wants to rip babies from their parents, use the National Guard to storm homes, terrorize communities. I say the communities are terrorized NOW, Chicago gangs murdering babies in cars, killing children as they play in the streets all because their parent(s) belong to a rival gang! Where is the local government of Illinois? What is the response from them? Why do they do nothing about the slaughter? Have they themselves become part of the problem? Maybe it is time for the federal government to step in and bring in the National Guard and rip the criminal illegal aliens from their babies and their homes so the chances their babies will live to be adults won’t be so low. Leftist News and Democrats STOP TRYING TO DIVIDE US! Are you trying to insight a war between the parties? If that is the case you may not like the outcome as most folks on the right believe in the constitution and own AND know how to use guns. Can it be that simple you want this country in turmoil, do you want us divided, a war between the states, are you that blatantly stupid? Lets say that is what you want and you get your wish war, you know just the way you want it “to the victors go the spoils” it won’t be you! If you get your wish and we start fighting among ourselves the victors will simply swoop in like vultures and pick the meat off the bone. Ok so you don’t want that, as it turns out all you want to do is stir the pot and profit off of the results, damn that’s brilliant you bring the weak to an uprising THEY obstruct traffic, throw rocks at police, burn and or flip over cars, break into building and loot them and you make money from it all and, the best part is no one can stop you from reporting the fake news or half truths or just plain lies because you can fall back on the 1st Amendment . A number of us (just plain Americans) are getting tired of hearing/seeing your fake news and are turning you off on our TVs or NOT buying your “Fake News” papers and, maybe we CAN get to you where the 1st Amendment does not apply your wallet. So are we who we were? NO! Can we be who we were? NO! Should we be who we were? Not if we want to survive as a free nation we shouldn’t, the world has become too small for us to be 1776 anymore. We absolutely need to get rid of people within this country who are doing it harm, stop the people who want to do it harm from getting into this country BY ANY MEANS and lastly stop the bickering between ourselves and truly work toward making us “great again”.

They have 54 acres. You don't own a dairy I guess......

YES REALLY! I have helped a number of friends run lines around their property, you do it and there is no excuse.

If you are worried about your land rights pay the money and get a survey tell the surveyor to clearly mark each change of direction with marker post and arrow. then all you need to do is go along the line with electric fence wire (electrify your choice) cut any trees that interfere with the line.

2 hours, I'd be found starved to death in my truck behind them!!!! LMAO

It is my opinion that everyone who learns to shoot a weapon should learn iron sites first be proficient with them first then move on to a scope. There are some instances where a scope can be a hindrance if the power is high and the target is real close.

Drop a doe fill the freezer that simple!

I showed exactly how many arrests and summons were issued because of stop and frisk. Instead of rambling on look back. Those arrests would NOT have happened otherwise. Personally I don't care if the process only got 1 criminal of the street, that is 1 less. By your logic the cops should sit in their cars and do nothing at all to stop criminal activity. This is my last post on the matter you also seem to be either trolling or you are involved in some sort of activity that stop and frisk might find. As I have said every state in the country has laws already on the books which allow stopping people and searching them and or their vehicles.