My wife has very little interest in hunting, I put in for a couple good tags for her, and she humors me and says she'd like to try it because she loves me, and I love hunting.
I have very little interest in shopping, but I humor her and go from time to time because I love her. I'm probably...
Utah went down this road, and 1x scopes turned into any power scopes.
One thing that seldom gets talked about is the fact that we are talking about a limited resource. Powered scopes on muzzleloaders (or really any improvement in technology) makes it easier to harvest deer. That translates...
Robby's book is the best out there for hunting methods that will help you be successful in a variety of situations and habitats.
David Long's is very good for glassing techniques. Mike Eastman's is a good high country hunting book. Dwight Schuh's book is a great resource for stalking mule...
I have 2 6x36 leupold's, for the way I hunt I prefer them to my fixed power scopes.
That being said, if you frequently take shots at game partially obscured by brush at 600 yds, I would not recommend a 6x scope.
I probably wouldn't ever shoot past 400 and even then only when an animal is...
Thanks for the write up!
I'm going to give the teflon tape method a try, I attempted it a few years ago without any guidance and had it all wrong. I wasn't wrapping it far enough forward to get a good seal.
I really dislike cleaning the grease and crud out of the threaded area of the...
I shot a bull elk a few years ago with a 130 gr gmx out of a 270 win at 390 yds. Recovered it just under the offside hide, expansion looked almost identical to your first picture. I was very pleased!
Make an awesome shadow box for it under a picture of my grandfather, and hang it up in the front room of my home for all to see! Wouldn't change a single thing about it.
Not sure if you'd already seen it but one popped up on gunbroker a couple days ago. Might still be on there. No idea the condition, I just saw it when I was scrolling through other knights on there.
I remember reading a study that basically said, by three years old, big deer have expressed most of their potential frame wise.
From then on additional growth is mostly mass and extras.
I couldn't find the study, but here's an interesting article on antler growth...