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Glad you are okay!  My F-150 crushed my Rhino Ramps so don't put anything too heavy on them.

I'm betting he doesn't make it out alive.

In another 3 years or so mine should be telling me to get a .177 pellet rifle.

Probably a lunch pail since we got rained out at work today.  If I'm lucky enough to be hunting I'll have the trusty old .270.

We get hit with an EMP I'll open my safe with a crowbar and carry my guns everywhere with me.

Smart man!

Wonder how the left will object to this?  It makes perfect sense and there is no reason not to do it.

Whew boy!  Tonight I ground up the deer that I killed Saturday.  It yielded 19 pounds of meat minus the back straps.  Cubed ask of that up, ground it and added about 5 pounds of pork fat.  I was getting all of the ingredients together to put in the meat and realized that I didn't have enough garlic powder.  I'm pooped, gonna clean up the kitchen and head to bed and finish this project tomorrow.  I hope it's good because in making 25 pounds of it and I've spent about $60 on ingredients.

I know I'll get flamed for this but I don't care.  I have made a personal choice not to hunt deer with .223.  At one time I desired to do it because I thought that it would be a challenge.  A friend who is a long time hunter had done it the year before and wasn't impressed with the results.  If a person were limited to this caliber I may entertain it but as long as I have other calibers that are proven I will not use it.  I absolutely hate tracking or even worse losing deer.

I passed on several small bucks this weekend.  Even passed on a pretty nice 7, the spread just wasn't that great.  I'm not much of a buck hunter, I'm in it for the meat and the best meat does not come from bucks.  Last year was the first year that I killed all 3 bucks in a season and none of them were worth bragging on.  The number of bucks has to be higher now than ever the quality just isn't there.

As long as the person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy then their picture may be taken.  IE it would be legal to take a picture from the street of someone's home because you can walk by on the street and see anything that you would be taking a picture of.  I'm not saying that it would be wise to do so or that you won't get your @$$ kicked but it's the law. 

I have one and have nothing but good to say about it.  Is it the quality of a Ruger?  No, but it's a good value for what you pay for it.  Never thought mine was all that accurate when shot side by with me .22 pistols.

That restriction applies to all migratory birds.

Got to my spot a little late but managed to drop a fat doe a few minutes ago.  It was kind of strange.  I spotted her about 125 yards away but couldn't get a shot because there was a fence in the way.  I had decent cover to stalk towards the fence and she was walking away from me so I took off.  Right as I got to the fence she spotted me and must have thought that I was another deer or something because she started walking towards me. I took a shot as she was quartering towards me at 100 yards, she ran in a couple of circles and piled up.  I reloaded and am waiting for another.

Left over tenderloin biscuits from yesterday are reheating in the oven.  About to putthe coveralls on and head out.  The landowner has seen a lot of deer where I'm headed today so hopefully I'll see something.  Need to make up for last weekend which was a wash.  This not being able to hunt at all during the week is killing me.  Usually I've been able to squeeze in a quick morning or evening hunt during the week but I've been working 8-5 so that really wipes that option out.  Good luck out there this weekend everyone and congratulations to those that were successful this week. 

Man that girl is dumb!  Wife said no one walked out of Vol State today and she couldn't imagine doing so seeing as she paid for her classes and walking out would be like throwing money away.

Say 3600 was trying to set up members of the gun community to look bad by asking loaded questions.  I think they did not get that result here, they got caring and compassionate people that took a lot of time to help a stranger through a tough time.  How they choose to report what they found is yet to be determined.  BTW I thought this thread, along with others that he posted seemed a bit loaded, and a little out of the realm of ordinary questions.  If nothing else it shows how great some of the members here at TGO are by taking time to try to help someone who they do not even know. 

You know you want a Bradford pear tree.  There are so many great  things about them.  When they spend that 3 days each spring looking pretty they will emit that lovely sewage like odor.   Their quickly growing and branching out limbs are great for hitting your head on when you mow around the tree.  In 10-15 years it will surely fall in a windstorm and bless you with an unbelievable amount of wood for a tree of its size.  It should only take 2-3 days with a good chain saw to cut it into firewood sized pieces.  Speaking of which, Bradford pear wood is hard to beat when you need a quick fire, like between the time that you get up in the morning and when you leave for work 30 minutes later, because it will only take about 15 minutes for a fully stoked fire place to burn down to nothing.  Oh, and the best part is they don't even bear any actual pears so you won't have to pick them up and they wont attract bugs and other vermin. 

Thanks for the info Omega.  Let me ask you this.  Why do we use sabots?  I always figured it had something to do with being able to shoot a smaller bullet and get get more speed out of it than a larger bullet?  That is just an assumption?  I like the idea of being able to use a big heavy bullet for close range applications and a smaller faster bullet for longer range scenarios depending on where I am hunting.

I feel kind of stupid asking this but I'd feel even stupider if I tried it and it didn't work out, that's if I lived to tell about it.  So, as the title states I have a .45 muzzle loader.  I was over at my dad's house the other day and he was loading up some 45-70 and I got to wondering if there wasn't a good reason that I couldn't shoot those 45-70 bullets out of my muzzle loader?  He was complaining that they cost about $1 a piece and I told him that was a bargain compared to what I'm paying for muzzle loader ammo.

I get steamed every time I look at my paycheck and see how much I pay into SS.  I just think of how much money I'm loosing out on because I know that I could conservatively invest that money and get a better return on my money.

If the temps aren't brutally cold I just wear my rain jacket, it's Goretex and does a really good job of keeping the wind off of me without getting too stuffy. 

Cummins Falls would make a good day trip.  Actually once you are in that area you are not far from Burgess Falls and Ozone Falls either. 

Still windy.  Can't remember what a deer looks like anymore.

Today I saw.  -Groundhog -red squirrel -about a million turkeys -coyote -woodcock and not a single dang deer except for when I was driving this morning to get there.  Just one of those not really good hunting days.