Recent content by highfinblue

My first rule in hunting is do not hunt critters that can eat me; to each his own, I have no opinion of anyone else hunting whatever they want, but ten-foot bears, African Lions, even Cape Buffalo. Moose is dangerous enough and I have never had the opportunity to hunt them, but I would. I've...

Yes, it is terrible. A man can carry a deer by himself easier than this, at least that was my experience, but my deer carrying days are over. I drive my front-end loader to them now.

I remember when I could wake up and be out of the house in fifteen minutes. I was hunting whitetail and not elk, but I'd put five cartridges in my pocket, make sure my knife was sharp, and drive to my access points where I would walk the three miles to the back of the public land I hunted for...

I killed my first bull around the same time. I was in my early forties and I had him boned and bagged when my cousin got to me with the horses a couple hours later. There’s no way I could do that now. I killed a cow a few years ago and I was well over three hours boning her. I think I had her...

That's why I hunt rag horns where I can drive my four-wheeler within half a mile. Probably never kill a big bull there, but there's plenty of meat for the freezer, and I'm definitely a meat guy, and that's why I can't hike in five miles and get an elk out lol.

My only experience is with the 7mm 195 EDL Elite Hunter, and they have been fantastic from my 28 Nosler on whitetail and elk. Shot elk out to almost 900, and watched them die, whitetail well past 500, and the same. I've shot plenty of deer up close with no issues whatsoever. When I first got the...

I have been. Bought a 204 and 223 recently, I’d really like a 17Hornet, 17 Fireball, 222, 22 Hornet, 221 Fireball. I almost pulled the trigger on a rh 222, but showed great restraint lol.

I'm that stubborn sucker that refuses to bow lol. I have been looking at some small caliber rh bolts, but I'm holding out for a lefty

Someone said getting old is not for sissies lol

22lr has become my favorite. I live on a small hobby farm and have lots of opportunities at critters that harass my chickens. I have a left-handed Ruger 10/22 that is suppressed and it is a pleasure to shoot. I have targets set up from 50-500 yards, and if there are no varmints a few rounds out...

That is exactly why I have never had interest in hunting things that were as interested in eating me as much as me eating them

Not only recoil, but noise as well. A buddy was shooting cans on his rifles at my range one day, and I had to give it a try. I had a brake on my 28 Nosler at the time and it tamed the recoil fine, but the noise was unbearable. Standing to the side you could feel the percussion hit you in the...

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If I’m by myself I won’t shoot one after the morning hunt, but if I have all day I can get one out if I don’t pack it more than half a mile. I’m 62, three back surgeries, knee surgery, but I’m well enough to get one that far. Packed a cow out by myself a couple years ago around 3/4 of a mile. I...

That should be enough medicine for anything alive or extinct