After all the "stuff" I bought this year, I am sitting this one out.
When I have to try and come up with something I just have to have, it is time for a break.
Yeah, if I had your hunting record I would have quit many years ago.
I don't know what keeps you going.
I enjoy the experience, but getting up at 3 a.m., the gas, the equipment and tag expense, the being cold/hot, wet, etc... I gotta have some return on my investment.
So they ruin it for the residents.
Take the Eastern states and send 20,000 hunters to their state to shoot all their yearling whitetails and see how much they appreciate it.
I hate it.
I didn't read all the posts, but be sure to supplement with avgoid source of calcium such as ground egg shells. Can be bought on Amazon.
Too much orotein with little calcium is deteimental and causes kidney disease/failure in dogs.
It has to be a balance and you can go online to see the...
I have shot 7mm Rem mags, 7mm -08, 280 Rem and 280ai, and hand loaded for all of them.
I have also had 270 Win, 308 Win, .243, 30-06, 30-30, and 8 mm mauser.
I still have all the .284 caliber rifles and only the .243 remains (for wife).
The 280ai is my sweet spot. I kill elk, antelope...
I don't believe that is correct.
I bought my first X-Bolt the first run when they came out and have been buying them ever since. My newest just this year.
I have not seen one on the market with the coating for several years now.
Also: My three most accurate rifles are X-Bolts... and they out...