grampy

Very little trigger creep,nice crisp break.

I was looking to improve the trigger on my Savage Axis in 7mm-08.I went to amazon.com and found an after market trigger spring with great reviews,for about $20,including shipping. It came three days after ordering,with very good installation instructions and pictures. Also found a u-tube vidieo that was very helpful. Taking my time,it took about 20 minutes to install. Started out with an average trigger pull of 6.10lbs.After installation, I now have an average trigger pull of 3.11lbs.! Big improvement over the stock trigger in my opinion. I was looking to buy a timney trigger,but they cost over $100 before having them installed. So I figured for a fraction of the cost of a new trigger assembly I'd give it a try. This is a hunting rifle,not a bench gun,and I'm very pleased with the results. Can't wait to see how much my groups shrink after this simple and cheap upgrade. I'll repost the results after shooting.

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Good luck for a successful turkey season!

Welcome kam,some really good folks here and very knowledgeable hunters,willing to share tips and info. Great to have you join in. Congratulations on your first bow buck,very nice! Good luck to you and your son in all your hunting adventures!

Once I know a gobbler has heard my call,I will for the most part shut up. Just give him an occasional putt or a soft purr. I like playing the hard to get game. For me that works more than over calling. I'll use a triple reed mouth call with a variety of slate calls to give the impression of more than one hen.

Good for you! Wishing you all the best in your new enterprise.

Pretty nice shooting there Joe! Congratulations to the new hunter on a beautiful bird! Big thumbs up to you for being a great mentor! It's an honor to have guy's like you in the hunting brotherhood.

Amazingly cool! Absolutely love your pictures wooly! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

Deer have survived and done just fine for thousands of years. Long before us humans came along. Now we hunt,manage,feed,starve,hit with vehicles,love,hate,respect and detest them. Yet they are still here and for the most part,holding their own. Amazing animals they are!

Awesome turkey and awesome hunt! Congratulations to the young hunter and a big high five to you for being 3 for 3 and an awesome mentor! Great job!

They say all the meat is lost??? I would have been more than happy to take one! Not too far from here. I'm sure a food pantry or a family struggling to get by could have used a bounty like that. Just hate to see them go to waste even if they are insured or not.

According to wten,the shooters shot some of them in the "hind quarters"and they "suffered "before dying. One of the shooters was even detained by police. I think alot of us could have done the job much more efficiently.

Probably heading west......to Yellowstone.

Best of luck tomorrow guy's! Get those young hunters started off with a BANG!

$40 will be money well spent,in making memories that will last a lifetime. Good luck on the hunt!

Congrats to you and Erin! Two really fine gobblers,awesome pictures and great story. Nice to see that you and your wife share the thrill of the hunt together,along with your dad. You are a very lucky man!

Great story and an awesome bird! Congratulations!

If more of these people using the system,put half as much effort into working,as they do playing the system.They wouldn't need the assistance,or maybe not as much of it. I have no problem helping someone get back on their feet,who REALLY needs the help. I do have a problem with the ones who make public assistance a way of life. Who are just too darned lazy to go out and work!

Coating of snow here in the Helderburg hills this morning. It is melting fast now and it's not uncommon for this time of the year in this area. It is shaping up to be a cool,wet summer if this current weather pattern stays with us here in the northeast.

It won't be long before there is more people taking from the system than people putting into the system. What happens then?

Welcome!

- Don't hunt much from trees any more,prefer a natural ground blind,fallen tree or still hunting. When younger I would climb a tree like a squirrel to sit 20 feet high on a couple of 2x4s. - Have much more patience now and have learned not to rush things like the shot or moving into position,moving through the woods.Or just sticking it out when I know I'm in a good set up,at a good time. Slow and easy works for me now. In my first years of hunting,I would move quickly through the woods to get to a spot. Only to move a half hour later to a "better" spot. - The summer I turned 16,I worked on a local farm to earn enough money to buy my first real hunting gun. An Ithaca model 37 in 16 gauge. I still have it,and have taken just about all game legal to hunt in New York with it. And yes,quite a few deer too. Got a Savage Axis in 7mm-08 now and looking forward to shooting a mature buck with it this fall! Started my bow hunting with a Bear recurve @45lbs. Then bought a Bear whitetail hunter compound. A couple of Martin compounds came later and now use a Mathews mq32 compound and a Barnett crossbow. None of my hunting implements are "top of the line",but all are very functional and deadly accurate. - Hunting in the early years,it was all about just filling tags,shoot the first legal deer that came by. I did not feel I was a successful hunter unless I shot a deer,any deer. I now measure my success in seeing a young hunter I have mentored,standing over his first deer. And spending more and more time in the woods with my grandsons aged 11 and 13. Now for me I only hunt mature bucks as they are the most challenge to me and let a lot of deer walk. It really doesn't matter to me if I do not kill "a" deer,I will only shoot "the" deer and will know him when I see him.

Welcome,and good luck with your NY hunting adventures! Thank you for your service!

Nice work! What kind of woodstove are you putting in?

It's right there! Right where you set it down! Can't you see it!:-)