Buckmaster7600

Haha, damn kindle! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In a few years I am going to do a trip to Montana to hunt big woods whitetails. Have some buddy's that did it this year and they said it was a blast. Cool thing it's good out there a few weeks before here so I wouldn't have to miss any of our season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Easy way to go about this is to get along with neighbors. Not always easy or possible but is by far the best method. My neighbor to the east I absolutely hate but every time I see him I wave and smile we have a good "neighborly" relationship he tells his friends to stay off my property and I stay off of his. He knows to text me if they need to track one and I do the same, not really for permission just as a heads up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't have much of a desire to travel and hunt anything but whitetails anymore but that sounds like a trip I would totally be into. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I want to do another walleye/lake trout trip to Canada. Last time we went it was a bear hunt and I only sat in the stand for half a day and fished the rest of the week. I want to go back and just fish. The walleye weren't huge but were plentiful and the lakers were big and hungry, the rest of the group were getting eaten by bugs trying to shoot and inedible critter and I was having the time of my life on the lakes it was an awesome trip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Think she would teach me what f*cking like rabbits means? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yea it's usually in my truck or back at camp/tent but I never have it on me in the woods. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't carry my phone while hunting the big woods, probably should but I usually don't have service anyways. Compass in my pocket and clipped to my shirt map in my pocket and a gps in my vest. Have never turned my gps on in the woods as I haven't needed it yet but it's there for emergencies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You're looking at it wrong. I think you're thinking of sitting on a hill glassing the valley, probably the best Adirondack hunter I know of spends most of his days looking through his Binos. He may only be looking 30 or 40yds but through the thick stuff a quality compact pair of Binos can make a huge difference. A deer through the woods at short ranges can be very hard to see with the baked eye but with 6-8 zoom can become easy to see. I only wish I had the patience to use bino's he can because he shoots almost of of his deer in their beds because he's able to spot them before they know he's there. Where I usually gotta shoot them on the run. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fished a bunch when I was younger, don't really enjoy bass fishing very often anymore. The tournaments were fun but often ruined by a few A-holes! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My custom crow call is the only call I use anymore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you're talking about the Chiapaa Alaskan, I held one not long ago and liked it but it is a 92 clone so scope mounting is challenging if that's your plane. The other thing I hated about it is that it comes with a circular rear sight aperture with it not being close to your eye like a Peep it doesn't make much Sense. If going lever it's tough to beat the Henry's although a little heavy they are wonderful rifles. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What the libs don't understand is that comments like these are why he got elected. So them bashing him for it on the fake news networks only make him more liked. Not a trump supporter is going to say "I can't support him after saying that." The media reports this shit like it's going to make us turn our backs on him but they haven't and won't. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Larry Benoit- you have 364 days,23hrs, 59minutes and 55 seconds to get ready for the 5 seconds that counts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't like 7.62x39 too light of bullets traveling too slow for my taste. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

5 round mag would still hang out the bottom making carrying 1 handed a pain. If you want a short light semi in a short range cartridge find an old Ruger 44mag carbine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

See thru scope mounts are like having a wife and a girl friend. Neither are ever happy and it don't work out the way you wanted it to. It's one of the other. If your comb on your stock allows proper cheek weld for rifle sights then your face is floating when attempting to look through the scope and if you have a raised comb "Monte Carlo" stock with see throughs it's way too hard to burry your face low enough to use the irons. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks great! How much weight did it add? That thing looks beefy! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I also shoot Barnes and You've been doing this long enough and had enough success to know what you like and what works for you but different styles of hunting requires different things. Recovering a perfectly expanded Barnes from a 120lb "just an average" is a lot different from the 180+ lb ADK bucks I target. Not only that but I would assume that you were hunting from a stand or a blind where you had time to wait for the shot you wanted. As a tracker I don't have that ability I have to be able to take what shot I'm "offered" often these are not your ideal broadside shots. The only Barnes I have recovered from my whelen was a 225gn that went in the white spot and out the brown spot of a 205lb buck that was laying in his bed and the bullet was laying about 15ft behind him on top of the dusting of now. That bullet traveled through over 50" of deer. To me that is about as perfect as you can ask for from a bullet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was involved in the Marine Corps testing when they were going from Iron sights to optics and target engagement time and accuracy improved substantially when going to a 4X optic over the standard iron sights on a M16/M4. It's been proven other places as well. Even on handguns the Trend is to use optics because target engagement is faster. The only time irons have an edge over an optic in the brush is in snow and rain because flipping caps open takes too long even if you practice it. A low power optic has everything over irons in the brush, the biggest advantage is field of view. Irons cover too much of the target on a running deer when you're trying to pick your hole, peeps are better but still cover way more than an optic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, it would have died just as dead. But I split his heart in half with the first shot had I missed his heart the bullet going all the way through him and making it to his hind leg and cutting his femoral and breaking his leg could have been the difference between finding him or not. That is something I'm not sure a 180gn bullet from an 06 would have done. I have killed deer with everything from 222's to 500s&w and 200-225gn 35cal bullets at over 2200fps has done the best job at killin them the way I tend to hit em. If you don't drop them in their tracks you have to have blood and you get more blood from 2 holes than 1 and even more yet from 4 or 6 and that's why I hunt with what I do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't like bolts but the tikkas seem alright, but all them cartridges kill deer just fine but for my big woods brush gun none are my first choices. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Although I love my tikka's the 7mm-08 doesn't meet my needs for a brush cartridge. Even with the best bullets the likelihood of a bullet going end for end of a deer giving me 2 holes at any angle. This tikka does after being rebored to 35whelen and cut to "carbine" length. The 225gn Barnes went in front shoulder on a hard angle and exited the the ass cheek of this old ADK buck. On a running shot across the swamp. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now you're saying that light weight and compact are important but you listed 4 brush calibers earlier and they are rarely found light or compact without significant modification? 45-70- only light one I have seen was the rio made by Rossi and that thing was down right painful to shoot and weren't very popular the Marlins are over 9lbs Slugs- most 12 gauges are over 8lbs when loaded, and the light ones kick so much that it drastically slows down the follow up shots, and short barrel shotguns usually don't balance very well. 35rem- the Marlins aren't too heavy at a a little over 7 1/2lbs but most had a 22" barrel so here goes the compact. 30-06 w/220gn bullets- 30-06 is a hell of a cartridge but why someone would limit it with a 220gn pill for a deer makes no sense to me when a quality 180gner gives plenty of penetration on moose! And is far superior ballistically not to mention the added recoil for no gain. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But it will still deflect, my original point is still that any bullet that touches something on its way to the target has drastically less chances of hitting intended target. Therefore choosing a cartridge to shoot through brush is not a good idea. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk