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When my brother was 16 he was hunting in the woods and smelled something awful. He started looking around and found a dude dead by...

Years ago a bud and I were rabbit hunting in the mountains near Gold Hill, CO. We spotted a Subaru in the snow with the tailgate open...

I used to do my waterfowl hunting on the Wash on the East Coast of the UK, these are tidal mudflats with many small creeks cutting...

Ended up buying a 7mm PRC in the new seekins element. My goal was to stay under $4k for the gun plus optics so I should be good. Excited...

That’s a great story! I am glad he got his rifle back after all those years

I found an old 1930's vintage Winchester 30-30 in Colorado while elk hunting in 1987. It was rusty and the wood was all curly and split...

This is not based on experience just physics. A 30-30 is a 308 Win is a 30-06 is 300 Win Mag it is simple a matter of distance. X...

Pretty sure there’s a couple in eastern oregon. None I’ve been to (though I’ve wanted to go)

That’s a bit of a dichotomy isn’t it? Worrisome that someone can straight up lose a gun like that, but awesome to see him so excited...

I sold a shotgun at work the other day to an older fellow who needed a new one because “I left my old one up against a tree somewhere...

If you’re up for a project I have a factory stock laying around that’s prime for some dremeling and modifying

My little cousin was chasing pheasant this morning and stumbled across this in a heavily trafficked public hunt area. I’m curious how...

The 160+ gross doesn’t shock me at all. This blacktail is what we call a 4 point (8 or 10 in the east?) that scored 143 gross and 146...

Well that surprised me. i’m glad I decided to shoulder mount him not often you can get a 160” 4x4

He’s getting a shoulder mount. Taxidermist caped him this morning.