Prized weapon

[Babalonian]

Kinda random and an oddball - anyone stumble upon decent/cheap 45-70 ammo lately?  Burned up the last batch I reloaded here at home while on vacation last week (also a metric ton of 22-hornet, but that I'm set on), and upon realizing when it was the last time I reloaded a bunch of 45-70 (I think March or April) I have come to the conclusion I simpley need more (more to shoot, more to reload when I do a batch).  Call me lazy for not just buying more empty brass (or wanting to drive to my "local" reloading shop here in LA for it).

[PFactorDave]

Kinda random and an oddball - anyone stumble upon decent/cheap 45-70 ammo lately?  Burned up the last batch I reloaded here at home while on vacation last week (also a metric ton of 22-hornet, but that I'm set on), and upon realizing when it was the last time I reloaded a bunch of 45-70 (I think March or April) I have come to the conclusion I simpley need more (more to shoot, more to reload when I do a batch).  Call me lazy for not just buying more empty brass (or wanting to drive to my "local" reloading shop here in LA for it).

Not sure what you consider cheap, but check this out.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ItemListing.aspx?catid=584

They sell the brass too.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/12016-1.html

[Babalonian]

Not too shaby, thanks Dave.  I think if I dig I might find a little cheaper brass out there, but $22 a box (normaly $40) aint bad at all, although I've never tried the BVAC brand before.  $27 Hornady though!  Must be a typo, I've never seen them go for less than $40 anywhere.

[Seanaldinho]

Kimber... 

[PFactorDave]

Not too shaby, thanks Dave.  I think if I dig I might find a little cheaper brass out there, but $22 a box (normaly $40) aint bad at all, although I've never tried the BVAC brand before.  $27 Hornady though!  Must be a typo, I've never seen them go for less than $40 anywhere.

Glad I could help.  That's a respectable company too.  I've ordered all kinds of stuff from them.

[Scotty55OEFVet]

Still waiting for the time where I have the extra cash, but I have an old friend who is holding an M1 Garand for me. So, I guess its not my prized weapon.....yet, but it will be!

[Rich52]

tasted great, also, about the wounded animal thing. i had shot a deer last season with my bow but it turned out to be a gut-shot. the day after we followed the blood trail but she had just gone so far (over a mile) we decided to give up on it that day. the day after that we headed back out only to find that it bled to death with her fawns next to her. was just horrible to know that i shot a doe that had some fawns to take care of and died a slow painful death.

Luckily thats never happened to me, tho Ive come close. Once I bounced an arrow off a twig I didnt see and ended up shooting the doe in the rump. I sat there for 1/2 hour so as not to push her feeling horrible about it. Luckily the arrow hit a major artery and the doe didnt make it more then 50 yards when I found her.

By Bow season yearlings are weaned and able to fend for themselves. There are exceptions, the very few late births, but generally the fawns will have no problem finding food and companionship. The fact you felt so bad means your a responsable hunter.

I take the first fat doe I see and then I concentrate on scrapes. You have to take does or you will help ruin a deer population. We used to have a big problem with deer herd management cause hunters, most of all bowhunters, would refuse to take does years ago.

[skorpion]

Luckily thats never happened to me, tho Ive come close. Once I bounced an arrow off a twig I didnt see and ended up shooting the doe in the rump. I sat there for 1/2 so as not to push her feeling horrible about it. Luckily the arrow hit a major artery and the doe didnt make it more then 50 yards when I found her.

By Bow season yearlings are weaned and able to fend for themselves. There are exceptions, the very few late births, but generally the fawns will have no problem finding food and companionship. The fact you felt so bad means your a responsable hunter.

I take the first fat doe I see and then I concentrate on scrapes. You have to take does or you will help ruin a deer population. We used to have a big problem with deer herd management cause hunters, most of all bowhunters, would refuse to take does years ago.

since i live up in wisconsin now, and the does are nice and plenty the DNR actually encourages shooting does to shorted the population. its grown so big people in oshkosh and green bay have reported seeing deer in the cities. ill usually take bucks right in the middle of the rut with my deer slayer (bow) and later in the season ill pass up on a buck if its a tiny one. (6 or less points)


ill get pics up of my bows later, i have my hunting one and my target shooting one. the target shooting bow is a old darton my dad had a long time ago before he passed. the new one is a bear oddesy 2 that comes with a nice looking draw-back string. im at max poundage though, so im going to need a bow with more than 50 lb's of draw weight.

[skorpion]

again, sorry for the quality. im using my phone camera because somebody hid the good one or its somewhere in the basement in one of the 500000 boxes down there. this is the darton, weighs a good 18 pounds and is squeaky as hell if im shooting in -20 degree weather. poundage also seems to be set at 90 when its actually 65 in weather colder than 5 degrees. 

if i do go hunting with this, i make sure to use my electric pink carbon fiber arrows with baby blue expandable broadheads. 

[ToeTag]

(Image removed from quote.)

again, sorry for the quality. im using my phone camera because somebody hid the good one or its somewhere in the basement in one of the 500000 boxes down there. this is the darton, weighs a good 18 pounds and is squeaky as hell if im shooting in -20 degree weather. poundage also seems to be set at 90 when its actually 65 in weather colder than 5 degrees. 

if i do go hunting with this, i make sure to use my electric pink carbon fiber arrows with baby blue expandable broadheads. 

I'm guessing it is hidden....and in the scary basement......wooooo woooooo scary woooooo   

[skorpion]

I'm guessing it is hidden....and in the scary basement......wooooo woooooo scary woooooo   

well the pic was taken in the basement, so, kinda scary.

[Tec]

(Image removed from quote.)

went squirrel hunting this weekend and popped the leg off of a squirrel.  

Did you get those squirrels over by Oshkosh?  Is there any good public land over that way to hunt or were you hunting on your parents land?

[skorpion]

Did you get those squirrels over by Oshkosh?  Is there any good public land over that way to hunt or were you hunting on your parents land?

i got them just out of omro at the end of highway 21. i have a pic of the land somewhere. will post it soon.

[skorpion]

the area circled in red is DNR land. alot of good duck hunting in that area, i bagged 3 ducks in about 10 minutes of being there. i have another pic somewhere, if you ask the guys at the farm nice enough, im sure they'll let you hunt their land. (about 4000 feet to the west is the farm)

and these pics are outdated. some of the area to the west is now marsh/swamp. a trappers paradise, it has beavers and tons of muskrats living there. you cant throw a stone without hitting a muskrat house.

[VonKost]

The one on the far left is my prized weapon.



This is my favorite pic, balloons, stuffed animals and a Dragunov. Future suitors beware!