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I saw some new birdshot on shelves at Runnings 2 days ago and Swede seems interested on this thread. Do you like 16’s or do you prefer the 20’s ?

I always write the purchase date on the box of those and use the oldest ones first. I also carry a few mix/matched 12 ga sabots while hunting in case a finisher is needed.

There is something in them Ruby reds that makes them taste a lot better outside when the sun is shining. I am going to pick some up next time that I go to the market. Hopefully, there will be some sun out on the water over Easter weekend up in the Adirondacks. I am also going to try slow cooking a neck roast with one in the crockpot. The one I did with a Spring Bock a week ago was excellent, but that turned out to be a hind quarter roast, from a button buck. I don’t know if a half of a nine-Point neck with a Ruby red will be as good, but I will find out. If you do go thru Mobile on your way, the USS Alabama museum is worth a stop. It’s just past Felix’s fish camp, which is my favorite seafood place in the Southeast.

Hopefully, they have that early September gun season again this year, so I can start restocking the freezer with those. I have plenty of ammo now. Maybe I’ll try for one with my 16 gauge this year. A Hornady 12 gauge sst and .50 cal ML xtp’s were both good for one last season, but I am ready for a change. It might be 40 years, since I killed a bb with my 16. Since you brought up deer, I was glad to see that you wised up and got a .270 this year. That is an almost infinitely better deer round than a .243. If I were to pick up another deer rifle, it would be a toss up between one of those, or a .308.

I bet the trollers put a lot more hurtin on the walleyes than the spearers.

Ironically, it was a bee that cased a friend of mine to take the opposite stance on cabbed tractors. He will never own another one, after an unfortunate accident, which nearly totaled his. He was pulling a manure spreader down the road, when a bee somehow got into the cab. As he was swiping at it, he knocked down a can of ether that he kept in the cab, to assist in cold starts. It hit the floor, discharged and filled the cab with fumes. He lost control of the tractor snd rolled it into the ditch.

Do you regret your Biden vote at all right now ?

It is good to see the 16 gauge lincreasing popularity. I think it is the perfect sized shotgun, and definitely the best looking. 20 gauges look too thin, with those skinny little barrels, and 12’s look way to fat. The lines and proportions of a 16 gauge shotgun is just right. I admit some bias, because a 16 gauge was the first shotgun I ever hunted with. My dad used his browning sweet 16, while I carried his Ithaca, damascus barreled, 16 gauge double, that had a broken spring on one side. I used it as a single shot. I can’t recall killing any rabbits with it that first year after Christmas, when I turned 14. My grandfather passed away the next year, and he left me his Ithaca model 37, 16 gauge featherlight pump gun, and his J Stevens 16 ga double. That pair has accounted for more deer, rabbits, and grouse, than all of my other weapons combined. I have not killed a grouse with any other gauge of shotgun, but I did bag a couple with my dad’s sweet 16 Browning semi-auto, the only two times that I ever shot it.

The Red man is right, to expect a little from you, America.

Sounds like the natives are getting restless. I sure am glad they are not targeting the bass.

It could be poverty, worsened by the current “out of control” inflation, that is driving this. I don’t think the casino revenue is distributed to all of the native Americans. Those who are not getting a piece of that action might be driven to use other means of providing for their families. Is the hatchery on the reservation ? I would rather see them use the spear than the “square hook” (aka gill net) out on the lake because those don’t discriminate between fish species.

I am gearing up, just swapped out the “deerslayer” barrel for the modified choke, on my 16 gauge, Ithaca featherlight. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate for some range/patterning time this weekend. I looked at my ammo supply. I have high brass lead shot # 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7-1/2. I will dial it in with the 6’s at 25 yards (I have the most of those), then check the others. I only have a few of the # 5’s, which is what I used in 12 gauge, 3” from an extra-full choke on my only turkey, several falls ago. I am going to guess that I will use a # 6 for the first shot, a # 5 for the second, and follow those up with (3) # 4’s in the tube. I will bring along a couple # 2’s , in case a finisher is required.

Did you find that down there or bring it with you from home ? Have you hit Felix’s fish camp in Mobile ?

I used to love spearing suckers in the local creeks, up until they banned it, about 25 years ago. We would always wait for that first warm spring rain, to bring them up the creeks. The last time I went, I got my only double (two big lake-run suckers) with one jab. The lake-run suckers had a red stripe down the side. I speared only suckers and one carp. The carp run came later than the sucker run, and in much lower quantity. Their scales are like armor, compared to a sucker. I remember seeing a few northern pike, while spearing at night with lanterns, but they were very easy to identify and avoid. I can’t recall ever seeing a walleye or any other fish species. I mostly speared in Murder creek, in Erie county, but hit the shallows of Tonawanda creek on the Erie/Niagara border a few times. We would usually bury the suckers under apple trees for fertilizer, but my uncle would grind the meat and make fish patties from it. I never ate any. I don’t have a big problem with the native Americans spearing walleyes. Hopefully, they stay away from the bass. They probably will, because “bass are not very good eating” according to most folks.

You might want to keep checking Runnings (Lockport) for 16 ga slugs. There was a guy by the ammo shelves there today, who said they had some, the last time he was there, but they didn’t have any today. They had a few 25 round boxes of 16 ga birdshot, not sure what size. They still have a (2) box per day limit on ammo sales. They had a halfway decent selection. No 30/30 rifle ammo, so I picked up (2) boxes of 12 ga. , 2-3/4 oz, Hornady SST slugs. I was running low on those, but should be in decent shape now. They were going for $ 14.99 a box. Had I not found those 12 ga SST’s, then most of my shotgun hunting this year would have been with my 16 gauges. I am fairly well stocked with those slugs. I would be willing to trade 12 gauge, 2-3/4” Hornady SST’s, if you are interested, for 4/5 oz 16 ga Remington sluggers. I’ll give you (2) of those 16’s for each Hornady SST 12. I also have lesser quantities of Federal and Winchester 16 gauge slugs, if you would prefer those, for the same deal. I am in northern Erie county. PM me if you want to make a trade. My sluggers are maybe 18 years old, but they have been stored properly and are still working very well. This was the last one I fired (day after last Thanksgiving). This fella caught it for me in his rib cage:

Smart move on the larger, open station tractor with shuttle shift rather than the smaller one with HST. If my full time job was outside I wouldn’t mind a cab, but as long as I work full time in a climate controlled factory, you couldn’t pay me to own a cabbed tractor. I can’t wait to get “outside” on a tractor.

R1 tires are the way to go, unless you will be operating on pavement most of the time. R4 tires, that come on about 90 % of compact tractors, are far less effective on soft ground, mud, or snow.

Is it wise to say someone is guilty of war crimes and should stand trial for them, if that individual controls a very large nuclear Arsenal ? I can’t see what could be possibly be gained by such a statement, but it is pretty simple to see what could be lost.

Ditto what buckmaster said. Two of three (all mature does) that I have killed in the Dacks (near NW corner of the park) during early ML week, including this one last season, were up high on ridges where there was nut bearing hardwoods. In my opinion, there is no better time to be up there. Usually, there is still plenty of color with the fall foliage, and the fishing is spectacular at that time of the year. That stuff makes the trip well worth the cost, even if the deer don’t cooperate.

Thanks for the offer, but I think I will give the new cordless one a try. Cords are a pain up on ladders. It is supposed to get here tomorrow. I am not going to cut out those diagonal braces, until I have the rest of the siding stripped off, and that probably won’t be till the end of this month. I saw a big coyote in the field out back this morning. He was quite skittish, and must not have realized that the season ended a few days ago. As soon as I stopped and looked at him, he bolted away lightning fast. There seems to be a lot more of them around, here on the NW corner of 9F, than there is over on the SE corner at my parents place. They have been seeing turkeys and foxes over there, while I haven’t seen any of either of those here in over a year.

Button buck neck roast in crockpot with a Genny Spring Bock. It was very good. There’s two neck roasts left in the freezer from my 9-pointer, but no more Spring Bock in the beer fridge. I’ll have to try one with a Ruby Red Kolsh next time. The gravy turned out a natural brown color this time:

It probably was rigged. The good news, is that that the current administrations near totally incompetent performance on the economy (record inflation, out of control fuel prices, etc.), the southern border, law and order, and world security, should serve to eliminate their legislative branch advantage after the midterms. Can you say: “Backfire”

Now you tell me ? There’s one coming from Amazon tomorrow. Hopefully, this new “One plus” Ryobi cordless will be better the cheap corded one, that I got from Harbor Freight about 20 years ago. I have had very good service from a half inch corded hammer drill from there. So good in fact, that I bought another (I think it was $29) for my dad. Their $19 corded sawzall only lasted for a few cuts. Is that the one you have ? At least I have plenty of blades leftover from when I had that.

I finally finished the electric work on our pole barn this morning. The outside outlet is wired up and tested and the sub-panel ground rods are wired. Now I am ready for an insurance inspection or a lightning strike.

Thanks for the reminder. I need to pour my last one of those into the crock pot with a neck roast tomorrow.