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I haven’t had a hunting dog for about 5 years but for many years my dogs were active and healthy beyond average years. I supplemented high quality no-grain feed with raw bones and meat (deer, lamb, beef) and raw vegetables carrots and beets, green beans, etc. I had a big fenced garden and my...

I shoot a Beretta 390 Sporting with a shell catcher for trap. I would go with a 400 if I didn’t already have my 390. Shell catcher comes off for sporting clays and skeet.

My first thought on the floral tooled one was maybe vintage Mexican?

Didn’t the original Fox Labs have a cone spray with a central stream or am I remembering something else? I used it once in a real situation and it was very effective on the bad guy and somewhat effective on me. Didn’t help that I was in my truck with driver side window down and the target face...

I grew up pheasant hunting. Good dogs, good friends and family. It doesn’t get any better. Hardly any wild roosters around here anymore.

Muddydogs is right about the meat. We always carried coolers with ice bags, fresh water and a canvas drop cloth. Get it clean and cool as quickly as possible and it’s great venison. I shot several with .243 285 yards was my longest shot, most under 150.

I carry an old BuckLite nylon handle folder with a 110 blade. I keep a mora in my pack. Back at camp or barn I have my custom 2 knife set. Mel Sorg Jr aka Mad Poet Knives made the 4.5” semi skinner and the 3” companion caper/boning knife cryo tempered D2 by Paul Bos and dessert ironwood scales.

I coach a high school trap shooting team. Had a young shooter with a cheap savage pump shotgun. The ejector and some parts fell out on the firing line. I gathered the parts I could find and took it home. Called savage and was told it was not within the 1 year warranty but I could send it in and...

Me too. I shot a nice big doe and was watching some nice bucks when my crossbow destructed. Got pneumonia at thanksgiving about the time I got the Xbow back. Then had a relapse to finish out my season. I just watched 3 Bucks behind my house. 2 of them were big enough to be shooters and they all...

Started with a Lee Loader and mallet and loaded .38 special only. Went to a Lee challenger D frame and then a Dillon 450. Bought a new Dillon Square Deal when they ran the first ad in the blue press. Upgraded the 450 to a 550 not long after. My bench still looks the same.

20g Ithaca 37 featherweight delux for bird hunting that involves lots of walking. Browning BSS 12g for pheasant with a group (where 2 shots is usually plenty) 12g Beretta 390 Sport for clays 20g Browning BSS for sexy nostalgia 12 REM 870 with slug barrel for deer or homestead defense or 28”...

I grew up hunting wild ringnecks in Nebraska and Illinois with frequent trips to SD, Kansas and Iowa. I have done a few put and take pheasant shoots. They weren’t hunts. My lab snatched the first bird and delivered to hand without a shot being fired. I wrung its neck and counted it towards my...

Thanks! I hope it’s a good year for all my amigos here. It’s no coincidence I picked end of September to retire. I wasn’t figuring on everything else getting in the way.

I plan to crossbow hunt deer locally on some of the best ground in my part of Illinois and have a better year than this one. I retired sept 27th (archery deer opened Oct 1) I shot a big doe. I had a lot to do to wrap up a 43 year business and get a commercial property ready to sell. I blew up my...

Option #4 If the charge bar you have won’t throw 54gr (I’d bet it does) then just buy a magnum charge bar from Dillon.

Food grade silicone spray. I use it on meat grinder parts and sausage stuffer parts too.

If I see it drop or hear it drop or I’m super confident of the shot I’ll follow it up pretty soon. 15-30 minutes if I don’t see it drop. If I’m not certain of the shot, I carry a trailside coffee kit in the back of the jeep. I use it fishing or scouting also. It takes me about 30-40 minutes to...

Only thing worse than a gut hook is a butt hook, aka butt out. A friend of mine had one and insisted we use it on a deer he dropped. He inserted it in a big doe but … ahem… got the wrong “orifice”. What a mess. I cut it free and threw it as far as I could. He retrieved it but I told him I...

Unnecessary tool that doesn’t do anything else.

Some years back, I experimented with quite a few 150 and 165 grain bullets in .308 (tikka t3 stainless with laminate stock and some tuning. Very accurate rifle. I also found Nosler partitions either the least accurate or harder to dial in. Ballistic tips were better but more sensitive to...