Recent content by Wade Phipps

The only time that I shoot a deer in the shoulder is when I am hunting next to something that I do not want to have to recover the animal from like a flooded swamp, next to very dense cover, or near a property line that I can not cross to recover the animal without lots of hassle getting...

Having seen what wolves have done to the whitetail population where I hunt (No bucks over 3 years old and deer clustering near houses), I think there are many issues with their management. One is that they under count so population estimates are usually half the actual numbers . Two is that...

I had some .277 130gr partions In the same kind of box and the same level of tarnish. They killed hogs just fine and performed as expected of a partion. I had to switch back to 20+ year old Speer 150s. My dad is still hunting with partions purchased in the 70s.

.270 Winchester because I have shot whitetail, black bear, and elk with it. It also explodes jack rabbits and other varmints with proper bullet choice. Could also be that I have 6000 bullets from buying out a reloading supplies place going out of business, and it was my first center fire...

While I appreciate a large rack and have a 190+ whitetail on the wall, I shoot them to eat them. Where I typically hunt the large wolf population kill every buck over two years old now. Does not diminish my pleasure in harvesting and eating one. My most memorable buck was only a 4 point. It...

Larger calibers allow you to shoot through internal structures that a small caliber light bullet can not. A .30-06 or .270 Winchester can break a shoulder on most animals with a properly constructed bullet and still reliably get good penetration to the heart lung area while a .243 would not...