Recent content by deepwater1

Enter Me In The Huskemaw Scope Contest

Great groups tend to produce great deer. Nicely done!

Enter me in the Nikon Prostaff scope contest. Thanks.

Can't remember how to enter. Just posting? Sounds like some really nice tools. Well, that was easy: Enter Me In The Flatline Ops Contest

Enter Me In The Quigley-Ford Scope Contest

Enter Me In The Gunwerks Auto Reset Target Contest

My apologies if (actually, not if, but since) I offended anyone. Thanks for the responses folks. I thought he was way off the wall with the speed claims for his 25/06.

So, I'm sitting at the coffee shop discussing guns and shooting. One fellow is running down the .308's. I did not want to argue with him, opinions are like assholes, etc. But, then he starts on this terrific 25/06 load he has worked up...ah, at 6000fps. I could not keep my mouth shut, but...

Thanks, all. I plan on sittin' back and learning. That will be a nice change, I spend my days teaching at the college level. Most of my current shooting is handguns...and two squirrels a week. So, this will be a BIG change. I am planning on relocating next year, so I will be a bit closer to real...

It took me a bit to get the defensiveness. Then it occurred to me, "yep, I bet old fogeys like me drop in here and bitch that anything over 200 yards should be illegal!" I am amazed by the improvement in equipment from just, to me, a few years ago. My last western hunt, we had no rangefinder, no...

I thought some of the other forums i have visited were a tough crowd. I came here for, what I thought was, a relatively easy answer to a question--not to start a ****ing match. I need a notebook to keep up. deadbeat--I grew up with 3 deer. I am aware that blacktails are actually a derivative of...

Not when I was growing up. There were white tails, black tails, and Muleys. Those three I've killed. I am aware of variations of those three.

AJ, and others, Sorry for jumping in with a question that sounded so much like a troll. We were having a discussion on another forum based on a video that someone posted of an archer squaring off against a cape buffalo. He did not take a shot. So, someone mentioned safety vs bragging rights...

...just had a fellow on another forum (unrelated to hunting) brag about shooting an elk at 1100meters with a 300 ultra-mag. I have not shot an ultra. I have shot a lot of long range guns...from 'Nam to Africa, to hunting in N. Mex, Co, etc. I would never attempt a shot like that. Just too many...