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So far, I have read about one with smokeless powder and two with bh209 powder amoung forum members here. Anyone have any to report with black powder, pyrodex, t7, or white hots ? On a related note, I can’t understand why anyone would waste a 209 primer clearing the breech plug, on an inline, prior to loading. Why not just point the muzzle at a light and look for it shining thru the touch hole ? I have used pyrodex and t7 only in my in-line for the last 20 years and have never had a misfire nor have I ever wasted a primer clearing the breech plug. Back when I used a sidelock and #11 caps, I would aim it at some leaves and pop one off, prior to loading. If the leaves moved, then I knew the spark channel was clear. I still had a misfire and a few hang fires with that. Never an issue with an inline, where I can see straight thru to the light. I load my in-line ML at the start of the season(s), and only unload it when shooting at a deer, or by removing the breech plug and pushing the load out at the end of the season(a). I discard the old powder, but reuse the bullets & sleeves. To limit condensation issues, I lock the gun up outside and avoid bringing it in and out of the warm house. I also use a cut- off neoprene glove finger or electric tape over the muzzle when it’s raining or in wet snow.

Happy birthday and get that birthday buck. They shut it down for three days at my birthday.

One more day of work for me, then I am planning to hit it hard the last (3) days of the Holiday season. I saw (2) deer my last time out on yesterday, and I hope I can get a shot at one over my last (6) hunts. My powder and primer supply is much better now than it was yesterday (thanks Larry). I did better shopping than I have hunting, so far thru this Holiday season. I should be good for at least 2 more years, at the rate that I have been going thru it.

I thought the same thing. Something does not add up here.

One time, back in my younger days, a bunch of us got together and shot up a bunch of clay birds behind a buddy’s barn, closer to the center of wmu 9F, where the structures are a bit closer together. An old German-speaking fella, who we ran into quite often out on the snowmobile trails, claimed that he could hear the # 7-1/2’s and 8’s falling on the tin roof of his pole barn (about 400 yards away), like rain drops.

I would prefer that my Marlin did not have the cross bolt safety, but there are way too many lawyers around now for that and they got to earn a living.

Pm me your address and I will stop by on my way home from work.

I’ll take it if still available.

I would definitely recommend it , because it enables you to get off a shot considerably faster, assuming you keep the hammer in the safe or “half-cock” position while hunting, especially when you are wearing gloves. I didn’t like hunting with my father in laws scoped Marlin, until I added that hammer extension to it. I will be using it a lot more now. I only use the cross bolt safety ,on the newer Marlins, when the guns are unloaded and being transported in a vehicle or when they are in the safe. Does your Winchester also have a cross bolt safety ? Sorry folks, but not taking the .243 bait. If you like hunting with those, then have at it.

Do the empties deflect off the scope and nick up the finish at all, with the top eject ? I like the side eject Marlins. My father in law’s has a scope on it , but it was missing the thumb hammer extension, which makes it a lot better with a scope. I put one on it when I was up there earlier this month. Do you have one of those on your Winchester ?

Thanks for the reminder. I always keep about that many in the chest pocket of my hunting jacket (same pocket where I keep my smart phone). I will try to make sure to remove them prior to throwing that jacket in the washer and dryer. I am giving the deer a couple of days off and back at work until Thursday, then I plan on hitting them hard over the last (3) days.

Thanks, that is rule number one for gun safety.

I am a lot more comfortable hunting 5 to 10 feet above the ground, than I am down on it. There is not much more than 2 feet of elevation change across the two spots, and about 100 acres total, where I hunt in Wmu 9F. That is probably the result of the time that I stepped thru the hedgerow, to the left of that blind, to get closer to a doe. She was out in the middle of the next field, and there was another hunter in the far corner. I felt his first shot part my hair (I had a lot more of that back then) before I heard it. I hit the dirt, and the dirt kicked up by his other 4 shots, started hitting me. Getting a few feet off the pancake-flat ground, takes me out of the crossfire, and greatly reduces the chances of my shots hitting an unintended target.

About 450 yards. The blind platform is 5 feet above the ground, so any shot towards the corn would be at a downward angle. I wouldn’t shoot in that direction from the ground.

The platform is about 9 ft up (those are 8 ft pt landscape timber’s that I bought from Home Depot in the spring for $ 6 each. There is a little bit of blocking below each timber. I only have $12 invested in that blind, because I used an old chair in it that I already had. I had to spend an additional $ 8, on a fancy, adjustable office chair on other new one just like it, that I put up this year. I am not complaining, after shooting two deer off that $ 8 chair. I just saw my first two deer of the Holiday season at 2:15 pm. Rather than walk back along the corn and risk spooking a deer out of it like I did last Saturday, I took the long way around. There were two of them standing on the edge of thick brush “sanctuary” area over on the other back corner. They ran towards the corn and I am “boxed up” in my blind over there now. I had to make quite a racket breaking loose the ice on the windows, to open them, so I think the odds are low that those two will come out. Probably better odds of seeing something than if I had stayed in the house though, because there is still some corn on the stalks back here, unliked the stripped bare ones in my front plot. I put a finger condem over the muzzle to keep the rain out on the way back. Good luck to all those who are still out there.

Freezing rain and no deer in the acorns, so I am heading to a box-blind overlooking standing corn and brassicas, as soon as we get thru the “deer-less” 10-2 period.

Trying to finish out the year a little healthier and wife’s not home to cook. Cold venison steak sandwiches on wheat bread with spinach for lunch:

The 3 hours total that I spent in NY city were all in bumper to bumper traffic in Queens. What’s not to love ?

Watching over a crappy little corn plot this morning from one of the two new blinds that I put up this year. I have not had any action out of this one yet, but I have been able to kill a bb and a BB from the one that I put up over at my parents place, about 20 miles away. I am saving my better corn plot out back for this afternoon. I planted that one a couple weeks earlier and it has more then double the yield of the one I am watching now. It was still holding lots of corn (and a deer ) when I was back there last Saturday. I moved a big box blind to the south end of that plot this summer. I made that about 7 years ago, but haven’t killed nothing out of it yet. Chances of that ought to be good this afternoon. I don’t expect much this morning, but this sure is a comfortable open top blind. I will have to try and do a better job with the food plots around it next year.

I didn’t see anything tonight either, not even at squirrel. I think I will hunt here at my parent’s place (se corner of wmu 9F) again on Thursday. I am going to mix it up a bit then, and try my field edge stand, behind their house, in the morning (they haven’t seen any deer out there on the clover in the afternoons in a few weeks), and my trailer park stand, on the opposite corner of the woods, in the evening. There is lots of oaks back on that corner and I saw a lot of squirrel activity back there this morning. Hopefully, some deer will show up foraging for hidden acorns in the late afternoon. Most all of the corn around that area had been harvested. Tomorrow, I am hitting a couple of standing corn plots at home (20 miles away on the nw corner of wmu 9F). I will let the wind decide which one I hit in the morning, and hit the other in the evening. I kicked a big deer out of one of those last Saturday at 3:00 pm, but couldn’t tell if it was a buck or a doe. I know they are hiding in the corn by day, and I am hoping they come out of it for at shot, sometime in legal light. Usually ,they start doing that by late ml season. It has been tough this year, because it has been so warm.

You ought to run the bunny suit for the rest of the season. That way you will be in full compliance with the new hat or vest regulations. You could get busted if you head out with your smoke pole with that red Santa hat on.

33 B 21 P final .

Bellicheck just cried “uncle”. I don’t have sound up here in my stand but I read his lips .

Congrats on the beautiful buck. I would like to get a deer in the back of my dad’s Ranger yet today, but so far it has just been my chainsaw. I heard someone say those work as a deer call, but none have shown up for me yet this afternoon. There are now trails cleared to this stand in multiple directions, so one would have an easy walk in. It is kind of cool, watching the Bills game on my phone up in the stand, anyhow. I am giving it until it is too dark to see thru my Redfield. Usually, that has been about 20 minutes past sunset.