[New Personal Best]

You old timers might like to know that I caught this fish on a 3/4oz Johnson Silver Minnow with a 3 1/2" split tail pork rind trailer.

 

My son was doubtful at first but now wants to get some Johnson Silver Minnow spoons.

[New Personal Best]

Got my feet wet (no pun intended) fishing for Northern Pike with my son on the St Lawrence River. 

This is my 2nd legal keeping size Pike. 34" approximately 11#. We release all fish.

[Why do we still have a muzzleloader season?]

20 minutes ago, luberhill said:

Is that what you consider a max shot with a ml using 50 cal and two 50 grain pellets , 100 yards ?

I once killed deer at a paced off 155 yds with this rifle, and 2 more that were across a valley at similar yardages.

230 gr .535 patched round ball, 100 gr GOEX fffg

 

That being said, I consider 100yds as maximum for .50 RB and 75yds for .45 RB They just don't have enough mass for retained energy at longer ranges.

 

[Why do we still have a muzzleloader season?]

28 minutes ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

Yesterday I got my muzzleloaders out to make sure they were still on although I knew they would be as they were for Nz early season. I shot 2 shots with each that all touched each other at 100yds and reloaded them, both first shots have been loaded since before Nz early muzzleloader. My woodman arms was in the rain for 2 days straight while hunting out of a tent and it still went bang and landed exactly where they were supposed to. Things have changed a lot since I started playing with them 20yrs ago. Before we could use scopes and the knight inlines were just coming out. It makes me wonder why we still have to use them. I honestly don’t understand why we still have a muzzleloader season. Modern inline muzzleloaders are as accurate as many rifles, as reliable when proper care is taken, have a range beyond what many are comfortable or should be shooting. If it’s the reloading why not make it a single shot season? It’s about the only difference.
 
I put a ton of time and money into my setups and shot pounds and pounds of powder to get my loads developed but now it’s boring.
 
 
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Get a flintlock. Mine is dependable in all but the most severe downpours and will group under 3 inches offhand at 100yds when I do my part.

[I Think I'm Ready for the Thieving Ba$tards]

On 5/8/2021 at 8:04 PM, wolc123 said:

What about the piles of dead birds (including bald eagles) under wind turbines ?   How is that legal ?

Not that sorry wining again. You can't stop progress. What about al the jobs lost shoveling horse manure out of the streets that were lost due to the invention of the automobile?

What about all of the birds and other wildlife killed by cars?

 

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

Everything is ready to go. I'm waiting for my son to come over after work on Monday. I told him if he wants to keep the bike after I'm gone he must learn the idiosyncrasies involved with working on old British bikes.

 

The headlight will be replaced with a 9000 LM LED

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

First, the primary drive and cases must be removed.

 

Holding the gearbox sprocket for removal of the left hand thread nut. (ask me how I barked my knuckle)

 

The engine will have to be jacked up a bit to allow the gearbox to be rotated and removed.

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

Also bought a scissor lift.

 

Work in progress removing the gearbox.

First the obligatory bloodletting.

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

Winter project started. Replacing the notorious gearbox layshaft ball bearing with a roller.

 

I bought a Harbor Freight motorcycle lift.

 

I upgraded the front wheel chock.

[How does this happen(accident)]

11 hours ago, luberhill said:

https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/11/man_in_hunters_orange_shot_and.html

That sounds pretty suspicious and it doesn't specify whether it was a mistaken for game incident.

[How does this happen(accident)]

10 hours ago, Bigfoot 327 said:

I have a friend that was shot (hand) while wearing blaze orange. But, he was not mistaken for game. He was on watch and hit by someone who fired at a buck and didn't know that my friend was in the line of fire. I was told that DEC had a crew in the woods for hours reconstructing the accident.

 

That's why I cited the "mistaken for game" criteria.

[How does this happen(accident)]

Has there ever been a case of a hunter being shot mistaken for game in New York State while wearing orange?

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

9 hours ago, Chef said:

The best part is now you can ride that thing around and chase some strange tail


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That's my plan, but considering the 1970s British crotch rocket architecture, I'll have to limit auxiliary rider weight to < 130#. (not counting the weight of the minimum 6-pack ride fare)

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

8 hours ago, Grouse said:

I want a Vincent, but I would've bought that Norton too. 

Me too but Vincents are even rarer than Nortons. Besides I want something to tour on and 1970s technology along with modern electronics upgrade, which have already been done to this bike, beats 1950s technology.

A Vincent Black Shadow would be a great thing to play with tghough.

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

14 hours ago, grampy said:

Do younger women like old Norton's????

 

I hope to find out!

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

28 minutes ago, Jeremy K said:

That bike is awesome !! 

You should hear it idle!

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

8 minutes ago, Jeremy K said:

Sounds like you're in a good place, now let's see the pics of this thing !!

There, I fixed it.

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

4 minutes ago, Jeremy K said:

Sounds like you're in a good place, now let's see the pics of this thing !!

I tried to post links from Imgur but it won't show the PIX.

[Taking my Life in a New (old) Direction]

36 years ago I decided to settle down and be a dedicated family man. I thought I did everything possible to make a marriage last, doing things together, almost always saying "I love you" when we parted for the day, trying to do everything I could to make my wife happy. For 25 years it seemed to be working until my ex wife changed over the course of 3 years following an, unnecessary IMO, hysterectomy surgery.

 

Well, after I found out that she had been having an affair over the past 10 years, she insisted on a divorce, but didn't really think things out. I ended up with sole ownership of my farm and just sold it for 2X the equity that I had thought it would bring. I was able to buy a nice place on the edge of Massena and pay cash. That left me with some money to do something for myself. Yesterday I made the 5 hour trip to Patterson, NY and hammered out a purchase agreement on this. A '74 Norton 850 MK II Commando with just over 8,000 mile showing on the clock.

 

[DEC Unveils New Deer Management Plan]

So are we getting 1/2 hour before sunrise 1/2 hour after sunset or not?

[You Never Know Where a 30/40 Krag is Going to Show Up]

[Who Hunts With a Sidelock (Let's See Photos)]

On 5/19/2021 at 5:27 PM, Daveboone said:

The rear sight is spring steel...very tough. I just installed a taller front German Silver site (sight in tomorrow) which I am sure will do the job just fine. 

That will work.

[Vintage Hunting Photos (Good Old Days)]

On 7/15/2018 at 8:49 PM, airedale said:

I like old advertising and the work of the old outdoor artists especially Philip Goodwin.

 

 

 

My Dad had a Woolrich outfit like that.

He used to head out of our kitchen door in Western PA in the late 1950s before sunrise with his 30/40 Krag and come home after sunset.

[Who Hunts With a Sidelock (Let's See Photos)]

On 4/28/2021 at 8:36 AM, Daveboone said:

I love hunting with my Lyman percussion great plains rifle. It just seems so....right. I have taken a few deer with it and have always had clean one shot kills...but I also hunt close. I prefer it and have more confidence in it than my T/C Triumph...until it rains. 

This year I am looking forward to hunting with my new Lyman Pedersoli Great Plains flintlock. I am still zeroing it in but am pretty close. The sights arent quite allowing me to adjust to my normal sight in ML dead on range (fifty yards for woods hunting), but I am working on that. I should be able to use the same load as I use for the percussion....80 grains of FF with patched .530 round ball. I needed to drop the charge to 70 for the flinter to lower my point of impact which bothers me.

File the rear sight down. That's how I adjust the sights on my muzzle loaders 

[I Think I'm Ready for the Thieving Ba$tards]

Casualties mount!

12 dead, 2 wounded.