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    Pump shotguns- Who is manufacturing the best?

    Good call sending your M12 to Art’s, probably no place knows them better these days. Now that the BPS is discontinued if I had to buy a new pump gun an Ithaca would probably be my only consideration. But before doing that I’d be much more likely to hunt down an old Ithaca, a Remington M31 or...
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    What choke/s should I buy?

    I’d spend the money on a flat or two of trap loads and spend the time at a club shooting clays. It’s a rare shooter who can take advantage of any slight improvement specialty choke tubes might offer.
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    Mule Deer over Money

    Mule deer tag for the area I hunt takes 2-4 years for me to draw. When I get one I hunt it for a big buck until dark on the last day. I’ve killed mule deer before to include some nice bucks so I don’t have to kill one to check a box. Plus I can shoot plenty of whitetails that are generally...
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    In What Order Should I Buy Gear?

    Get yourself some decent binos, a daypack of some sort, and some comfortable boots. I’ve done a bunch of hunting in my lace up work boots one short trips after work and carried my lunch, tags, knife sharpener, flashlight, etc in a school backpack on a bunch of hunts. Clothes need not be camo...
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    Animal reaction after match bullet?

    I’ve killed several hundred pigs and deer with the 77TMK. 75 percent or so using a suppressor. Chest shots generally result in a short run and a crash mid stride. I’ve had some drop at the shot when no big bone was struck and others hobble off obviously jammed up. A few just stand and look sick...
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    Optic rec for varmint (mostly coyote) on an AR 5.56

    I’ve had a 1.25-4 Leupold Firedot on my all purpose truck rifle for years. It’s an 18” rifle gassed AR that stays in the pickup year around for whatever I may need a rifle for. I’ve killed hundreds of pigs, coyotes, deer, sick cows, and whatever else needed shooting with it. It’s been great. I...
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    Your first deer rifle?

    First couple bucks fell to my Great Grandfather’s 760 in .244. My Grandfather bought it for him for Christmas the year the .244 debuted. I borrowed it and he was thrilled to death that I got to use it on a couple deer. No deer around here to speak of back when he was still hunting so he’d only...
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    What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

    That’s pretty awesome. My uncle ran an excavator digging pipeline ditch for years. He said several times out in eastern WY and western NE he dug into a herd of buffalo skeletons. He even had an intact skull from some kind of ice age bison he dug up, had horns 3 1/2’ wide. We have a creek we...
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    2024 show your dogs success

    Pigeons must smell bad, he won’t retrieve them yet. But he doesn’t miss a lick on doves, even retrieves them out of the pond. He bloodtrailed a deer two weeks ago and did great. Treed a big coon that has been coming around the house and getting into stuff night before last, was on him like a...
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    Best Eating Upland Bird Poll

    I’m in the camp that good birds don’t require sauces and other masking to make them good. To me good eating birds get dusted with flour, salt, and a little pepper and gently fried in lard. Quail, grouse, pheasants, and doves get done this way at my house, on the bone for dove and quail. Don’t...
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    First Hunt to Take with 5 Year Old?

    My son has been going with me since he was 11 months old. Diaper in my back pocket and him on my shoulders. Dove hunts, turkey hunting, deer, pigs, whatever. Mostly just out at one of our places so not more than a mile from the truck and not generally in bad weather. If I carried him on my...
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    Suppressed vs Non-Suppressed Hunting

    Question from the new guy. For those who state they will never shoot anything unsuppressed, or hunt with anyone who does. Do you bird hunt? Do you own or shoot any classic rifles that aren’t suitable for a suppressor? Any revolvers? When you won’t hunt with anyone who doesn’t have a can on their...
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    Non-toxic pheasant whacking experience

    THE miracle killer on birds of all sorts is a well fitting shotgun. Shot size, shot material, choke, etc, mean little if you cannot center birds in the pattern. I have shot a good number of pheasants over the years with lead and steel, 20, 16, and 12 gauge guns, shot sizes from 2s to 7 1/2s...
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    Seeking testimonials regarding Browning BAR (/ Winchester SXR2 semi) reliability in adverse conditions

    The Remingtons are junk. The 7400 and 750 variants are better but it doesn’t take much to be better than the 740 and 742. I have no experience with the Winchester/FN variants of the BAR, but quite a bit with the actual BAR. For the conditions you describe, I’d say no, you’re not going to be...
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    Help me choose a factory ammo

    They’re deer and under 200 yards, there’s probably nothing on the shelf that won’t work. Grab one and remember to shoot them in the front half.
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    Dads of Rokslide

    Remember that people were successfully raising and keeping kids alive for a long time before now without all the high tech stuff we take for granted. Kids are rubbery and they will be fine when they bonk their head a little or fall down and get a scrape. Don’t fret and panic over the little...
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    Life of the draw

    My Grandfather started traveling to CO to deer hunt back in 1955. They got 3 buck tags each OTC back then. My dad and his brothers started going in the 1970’s. Buck tags were OTC back then but only one per customer by that time. I started going in 2001 and buck and cow tags have been draw only...
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    Moose weather - what is warm?

    Interesting. I gave up keeping caribou liver after about the 4th one I saved only to find it full of flukes and other creepies. I love liver, always eat the liver first out of deer and elk now that I’m back in the L48. But in my years in AK I only found one moose liver that I’d considered edible.

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