Recent content by KeithCarter

It's not elephant overpopulation, it's HUMAN overpopulation. Primitive agrarian peoples need land to survive. We humans are expanding into traditional animal lands, and there are more of us each year. The Chinese have a population control program for humans. But the Africans are too...

Fellow tried to sell me some "New" scent control clothing. I said to him "Son, a deer can smell an old dried-up ear of corn under two feet of snow when it's so cold I can't feel my nose. Do you think he's going to be fooled by your hundred dollar t-shirt?" Scent control is a way to make a...

I went to Caryonah some years ago and got some good meat. There are people who skin, butcher and freeze at good prices. The food and accommodations are great. Everybody gets a hog. But I must say those southern boys are as good at skinning yankees as hogs. "Look out for that there red'un...

Jeff Cooper said that anything over about 200 yards is not hunting, it's guessing. He felt a real HUNTER should be able to stalk to within a couple hundred yards of his game. 200 yards is a LONG way off, and the problem is not the gun, it's the hunters ability to hold steady enough in...

Gents, the reason one caliber is inappropriate for all game is so we can buy more guns. Let us be thankful. Truly, one stick of dynamite will kill any game animal, but what fun is that?

Anybody ever consider using a laser sight at night for head-shooting coons? Maybe not necessary for you dead-eyes, but they sound like a lot of fun, and there would never be a miss or bad shot.

A .22 with #12 dustshot is a bit light for a big rattler skull. I have a S&W Chief's Special with factory adjustable sights that's a great light kit gun. I make my own snake/rat loads with #7 shot in .38 cases. I usually carry two of those with three hollow-base wadcutters loaded backwards for...

Good Lord! Javelina are just little pig-type animals. Won't you blow up the meat with a 30-06 rifle? A 12ga is pretty big also. How about a moderate caliber at pistol velocities?

Death comes to such an example of large gross anatomy by letting blood out (1 hole on each side is best) and air in (bigger holes are better). Pistol rounds are too slow for much hydrostatic shock. Do the deer a favor, and get an excuse to buy a new gun in the bargain. Use a .41 or larger in...

I have a Winchester .458 Magnum I used to plink with at the pond. But after 10 rounds, I'd have to stop and reload the empty cartridges again. It wasn't punishing as it had a push instead of a whack. I'm 5' 10" at 160 pounds. KeithCarter NRA Life

big-game caliber Elmer Keith, who had more actual experience than all of us put together, wrote often that he had seen 30-06 simply fail to do the job too often, and the game was lost even with extensive tracking. What the cartridge can do is different than what the MAN can do. As far as...

Here's how to choose between your guns: 1. If you really aren't sure if you'll need it or not, don't pack a handgun. It's hard enough climbing mountains without extra weight. 2. If you think you might need it, envision yourself with your foot in an angry bears mouth. At that time, of all...

I am a Registered Nurse, Lab Tech (do tests for lead), a former high-school physics teacher, and and have a lead casting business. We Americans are a bunch of hypochondriacs. We are deathly afraid of that which we don't understand, and do a bunch of foolish things to keep "safe"...