Jaeger

Completely agree. I guess I didn't answer the original question in general. No, I would not be in favor of allowing a firearm to finish off a game animal shot during a bow only season. Like Doc said it creates too many problems for law enforcement and further it would be an easily used excuse for a poached animal. I understand the ethical considerations and the desire to see a wounded animal dispatched but that has to be weighed against the possibility of abuse. In my opinion, it would "open the floodgates" to poaching.

Not completely correct Doc. A licensed tracker using a licensed dog (like Luna) has the authority to use a firearm to dispatch a wounded animal during any season if a) the accompanying hunter is unable(not with the tracker) or if it is after legal shooting hours and therefor the accompanying hunter cannot legally shoot the animal. It is a special situation and only applies to licensed trackers. I do not know it applies to licensed guides but I would not think so. Sorry guys, don't know why my "b" followed by a close sign, like the "a)" is coming up as a smiley face, not intented.

Hi, since I only have the one rifle in it, I've been neck sizing my 338 Fed brass and my buddy tells me I am "bumping the shoulder". I've asked him what he means by that but he is not articulate enough to tell me exactly what "bump the shoulder" means or, more importantly, how to determine if it has happened. Nor can he tell me what benefits or loss it provides. I figure it means setting the shoulder back a little while neck sizing but figured I'd ask the experts here. So here we go. What is bumping the shoulder, how is the die adjusted to do or not do it and again, more importantly, how can I see or measure it so I can tell whether its happening or not? Thanks in advance guys, Jaeger

I usually start with the list of ECO's for the area I will be in. The phone numbers, usually their home#, is in the back of the guide and I look for the ones with the closest phone number prefix. I start with them because they are the ones patrolling the area and the ones who know and I'll be running into. Sometimes it's their cell number listed, but mostly it's their home number. So I call in advance and don't expect an immediate response. I've never not had one call me back.

Hey, did the Police do anything about them threatening you on public land with their AK's?? Arrest them, give them appearance tickets, anything? They were off their reservation (so lost that protection) and on state land so the state's laws not tribal apply. I hope they were arrested for threatening with firearm.

30-06 out of a 22" barrel Remington 7600 with Federal 170 gr Low Recoil rounds.

Those Lapua 308 brass cases, are they the Palma small rifle pirimer ones? I get phenomenal results with them in .308.

Guilty as charged!! Sorry, don't know what came over me. (really like the .338 fed ctg.) Guess I look for an 88 or 99 in .358. I'm a vegetarian (old Indian word for bad hunter) so I buy old guns thinking they know how to hunt better than I do!! (p.s., not a vegetarian)

Off the DEC site: How long will the rabies virus remain alive in the body of a dead animal? That depends primarily on the outside temperature. The virus could die within a few hours in warm weather and could stay alive for months in freezing temperatures. I did not know this, thought the virus died after 24 hours. Good to know for the early spring when carcasses start showing up.

I wish I could put my finger on it, but I read a study about why this happens and it's not just the extra loft of wool. Its a chemical reacting between the wool fibers and moisture that actually causes a small amount of heat as a by product. Wet wool was shown to give off a small amount of heat. So its a + to temperature and not a -. I will add that wind will defeat that effect. The wind chill factor is so much greater. So as said above a wind blocking layer is very important. I just have not found a wind blocking layer that is quiet enough, and I test the different clothes all year long to sense if I can feel the air blowing through. All of the so called "wind blocking" clothes, including heat gears, still seems to allow the wind through or rustles too noisly. Further, whats the point of a wind layer Under the insulating layers? The wind will still whip away the heat trapped outside the windproof underlayers. So if anyone has a great, quiet windproof Outer layer garment that is quiet, I'm all ears. I mean it, please let me know.

Just triple check that when you move, tilt or alter its stocks position on the upright arms/fingers of what ever stick you use, NO part comes anywhere close to the rail or path of the string! Believe me, if it hits, it's not a pleasant sensation!!

I agree. A $10 bottle of powdered wind indicator is more valuable than all the scent elimination/cover scents combined.

Bought a couple of synthetic stocked rifles over the past year or two, .204, .308 and .338fed. Going to sell the 204 and 338, just don't enjoy them as much as my rem 7600. Keeping the 308 tikka, very accurate and light, for those really nasty weather days. Have a M70 classic stainless in 375 H&H fitted to me I'll keep as well. Going back to wood stocked rifles. Maybe rebarrel a win88 or savage99 to 338 Fed. But getting off topic. Went to a workshop with cabin creek muzzleloading a year ago and started on a 24 guage flintlock fowler from scratch, and I do mean mostly from scratch!! Hand fitting all metal to the wood, may take a while but will wind up with a beautiful gun, can shoot 58 cal round ball in addition to shot. Gona' pull out that hatfield and get her going!!!

outdoorstom, I have the same problem with Schatzie, the chipmunks really distract her. While we were grouse hunting I took one (they are "unprotected" and may be taken at any time) and sent her in to retrieve it. Had to send her in several times before she would bring it back. Once dead, she lost interest in it. Hope to do several times until she lessen her enthusiasm for chipmunks. But the breed does have some terrier in it so I don't think we can fully "train" chipmunk chasing out of them. Conrats! by the way. W\e haven't had any calls yet and she is very, very green. Tried a blood trail with old, defrosted venison blood. Doesn't work as well for her as fresh. Keep on trackin' Luna!!!

The toe warmers only extend my time a little. I was thinking of the thermacell's as well. Are they the new type with the wireless control?

I carry the heavy clothes in. Wear layers. Silk under lightweight merino wool longjohns. Wool pants and button shirt, so I can open collar, and carry extra sweater, vest or jacket in in my pack. Silk/wool longjohns combo seems to do it for me even if I sweat, wool stays warm when wet. My main limiting factor is my feet, mainly my toes. Even with stick on toe warmers and the Artic Pro's I still get cold feet after about 4 hours when its below 20. Can't get the foot thing resolved, and yes I do put on a hat to keep my feet warm.

Not crazy at all. Fixed up my A&H inline. Bought a new LHR Redemption inline. I find myself looking at my CVA Mountain rifle - 50cal percussion and my Hatfield longrifle with its 42" barrel in .45 percussion, both patch and roundball. The mountain rifle is the original cva with browned steel and pewter nose cap. The Hatfield is wicked accurate as long as I do my part. Both are much more fun in hand than my modern inlines. I never learn.

Well, I watched the entire "Clinton Commercial" called the Democratic Debate and yes the NRA was bashed at every turn. (No other comedy shows on that night) The former Marine Webb was non-committal on the gun isssue and in fact was not even given a chance to give a full answer. Sanders was in favor of protecting the small mom and pop gun shops (you had to listen closely to hear it and he is from Vt.) but wanted to place full blame for any deaths squarely on big gun manufactures (funny, we don's sue car companies if someone deliberately runs it into a crowd). Anderson Cooper (the Moderator) was tough but clearly biased in favor of Clinton. When Webb went over the allotted time trying to give his point on anothers question, and then answer the one asked, Cooper told him he "was wasting their time"!!! When Clinton went way, way over the allotted time on answering any of a bunch of questions, all Cooper did was say "mrs. clinton, mrs. clinton" as quietly as he could trying not to interrupt her. It was the Clinton Comedy Hour(s). The last two on stage were almost irrelevant, one wanted to talk about green energy and totally against guns, the other seemed completely lost on every question. Can't remember their names, so that's tells you the impression they made on me. Not in favor of any, just reporting what I saw and heard.

I don't know much about the $499 Barnett w/red dot package, it that's the one you are considering. The Penetrator model it the first one listed and perhaps others can give you specifics on that models performance. I will say this, that if your ribs are shot, you should consider adding a crank or other drawing assist device to what ever you buy. Cocking a crossbow requires a fairly healthy straight up pull from around your knees toward your chest and equally with both hands. And your cocking a 100lb+ system. That's going to hurt in your ribs anytime soon. I do hope you get back on, been thrown a couple of time too. Sometimes having a good seat just isn't enough when they are caused to squat and whirl. Nothing ya can do except heal and get back on. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Jaeger

CPD1670 where do you park the cranking draw bar/hooks after its cocked? The kit doesn't have a holder that fits the vengeance stock so I just was snugging it up to the front scope ring. Thats why it sagged and got snagged by the bow string. Do you pull it back up and over the scope after using it and let it sit against the stock?

It being my first and only x-bow it's I have nothing else to compare it too, but I like it. It's a reverse draw and I'm the kinda guy who always has to have or winds up with something different. But the reason I chose it was because it was readily available at a shop in my area and it fit me with it's interchangable butt pad. I can put on the short pad when wearing heavier clothes, I have a short LOP. Shoots a little noiser and with more vibration than I expected (I shoot an ultra silent longbow with 200gr broadheads) but again I have no experience with other x-bows to compare it to. It is quite narrow across the limb tips when cocked, so that should help maneuver it through the woods. The cheap scope it came with didn't work as far as the yardage lines matching up with the bolt trajectory. 20, 30 yard lines were on but the 40 yard line was off about 6" and I didn't check farther than that. Overall I'm quite satisfied with it.

Could use a 4O if anyone needs a 4F.

I know. I don't think a 200 yard cartridge can be called a brush cartridge either! Perhaps with the 35 Whelen and 358 win. it was more the guns they were initially offered in that gave them that label. Rem 760's and Win 94/savage 99's. That being said, I'm thinking of rebarreling a Win 88 or Savage 99 to 338 Federal. A lever action 338 fed like your BLR's but a little more old school. The BLR would be fantastic in 338 Fed!

After 40 years I finally got a lead on a pristine Winchester 52D and put money down on it!! I fired my first round at a suburban gun club located in a bunker like building in Nassau county back when I was 12. The got me signed up with the NRA and I bought my first brick of Win. T22's. We shot Winchester 52 target rifles, I probably shot the 52b's, the better C models being reserved for the older kids in the youth division. I would sit in the little lounge reading old american hunter's and riflemen while they made plans to take their target rifles up the first of september for squirrel hunting trips up to that magical place I knew little of, the Catskills. I was too young. I also listened to them speak in hushed tones about a gun called the Winchester 52D, the holy grail of target rifles for them. It stuck in my mind and I've kept my eye out for one ever since. I saw one or two come up for sale over the years but they were CMP destroyed releases or way too expensive (or so I thought). I'm not getting any younger, and turning back more to old wood stocked rifles, so when one in pristine condition, completely unmodified came up, I bit. I know it's old, heavy, open sighted, etc.............but it's a 52D!!!!! Can't wait to have it arrive. Like a kid at christmas all over again.

Pitweiler, I too like 20 inch barrels. And I like the idea of a .308 case based .277. I'm not partial to .270 but for those who are, I think might take off, fits between .260 and 7-08 like the .260 fit between the .243 and 7-08. So, not so sure about the not gaining ground argument. The .260 gained alot of ground even though we had the .243 and 7-08, tho' I think it's popularity was based on 6.5x55 ballistics and great BC/SD bullets in a short action. Once we had the .260, the 6.5 Grendel and 6.5 Creedmoor also grabbed a foothold using the same .264 bullets. Seems today ballistically similar cartridges have a better chance to get a foothold than in the past. Although, you can't really tell, one of my favorites the .338 Federal is not so popular and not chambered by any but sako/tikka or custom. But with 200 grainers its a great 200 yd round, great energy, big initial diameter, relatively flat trajectory and relatively mild recoil. So who knows what we may take a liking too. We gun nuts must drive the cartridge companies crazy!!