Recent content by Todd1700

("If it it is still less effective, cost considerably more and has no other real advantages, why invest? ") Well it gives you the option of carrying a very light weight gun into the woods without shrinking the 40 yard range that most turkey hunter adhere to as the standard maxium range to shoot...

Hard to beat 30-06 as a duel purpose caliber. Not too much for deer but plenty for elk. 30-06 is available everywhere. I heard one of our soldiers on a hunting show say that while on active duty he was at an open air market in Kandahar, Afghanistan and one of the local venders had a box of 30-06...

TSS shot has changed the turkey hunting world. You can make a 40 yard gun out of a .410 with number 9 or 9.5 TSS. A number 9 tss pellet will penetrate deep enough to kill a turkey waaaay out there. Farther than you could hold a dense enough pattern. The universally agreed on standard for a good...

Agreed. I have always aimed for a double lung as well. Especially when using a smaller caliber like a 243. There may be a lot of neck and shoulder shooters that can brag of more DRT kills than me but I can console myself with the fact that I have never lost a double lunged deer. Most neck and...

Well first, I work in an ER and see plenty meth heads. Never seen a 350 pound one though. In my experience it would take at least 3 of them to make a scale hit 350. But if such a mythical creature ever crashes through my door at 0200 he's not going to be shot with a ugly or nice looking...

They are ugly as sin. But I guess I understand why people carry them. I mean if you have a nice looking handgun you probably, like me, hate every scratch or scuff you put on it. But with a Glock there are no worries. It looks so bad brand new that the wear and tear of carrying it daily can't...

I cannot speak for other areas of the country and I do not know what the national numbers are on PCP usage. But I have worked in some bad drug areas here in Alabama (Selma) and never had a patient that, as best we could tell, was high on PCP. Seen cocaine, meth, heroin, pills of every type...

My thoughts on 380 bashing. 1. When I hear someone mention the words "knock down" or "stopping power" in regards to any handgun caliber practical for concealed carry I pretty much stop paying any attention to anything else they say. At handgun velocities these things do not exist. 2. I...

I could show you fields on our land with damage so severe that you would call me a liar to my face if I told you that hogs did it. But they did it. They eat everything. They never stop eating. They consume food sources that other game animals depend on. They devastate crops like corn. It's...

17lbs 4oz, 11 1/4 inch beard and 1 1/4 inch spurs. Set up on a green patch where I have been seeing birds. No gobbles on the limb. About fly down time I yelped and within a minute heard wings flapping over my right shoulder. hens started sailing down into the patch. I had no idea they were...

For the life of me I don't know why anyone would want to shoot steel shot at turkeys. Duck hunters have to use it because they can't use lead and the denser than lead stuff is too expensive to shoot waterfowl with. All they do is b###h about how much it sucks and how poorly it penetrates. For...

You don't have to get fancy with any of the calibers you mentioned. Behind the shoulder will do just fine with any caliber that you would use on a deer. With a 22, 22 mag, 17hmr or similar rounds I would head shoot them. I agree with the poster who said that the plating behind the shoulder is an...

1. Safe Climbing tree stands for deer hunting. 2. Denser than lead shot for turkey hunting

I have never understood why you can plant a corn field or a green patch and legally hunt deer over it. But a corn feeder is illegal. What's the moral or ethical difference? In all cases it's bait placed in a specific location to lure game animals into bow or gun range. Either all of them should...

This! Carjunkie I could show you fields that look a test range for missles. Cratered like the surface of the moon.