When I was a kid, we had a place to hunt in the Texas hill country. Across the canyon I hunted was a stand of very old and large live oak trees. Generally there would be a hundred or more turkeys roasted there. As soon as the sun hit the trees they'd fly from the roost and scatter out into...
The 110gr Accubond from my 257 Roberts was still cooking along at better than 2800 fps when it impacted the shoulder. Best I could tell the bullet fragmented the shoulder and ran along the bone and angled back across the body and exited with a 2" hole on the last two ribs. Not what I planned...
I got out this morning to shoot a doe. Of course one of the does must of been coming in because three really nice bucks were trailing her. That kinda delayed my hunt a bit while I watched the bucks. That doe finally walked off with the doe so I went back to the hunt. I had my eye on one doe...
I have a Yildiz over under imported by Academy Sports. It's a Turkish made shotgun with screw in chokes and very nice walnut stock and a 28" barrel. It patterns well too. I've only used it for dove hunting with skeet choke tubes. I think it's a dang good buy for less than five bills.
I was watching a " hunting show" on one of the outdoor channels and had to laugh. Some guys on a Texas ranch hunting whitetail and talking about all the modern equipment. A nice sniper rifle with a suppressor, 200 power scope with Lazer rangefinder bullet drop and wind compensator, wearing...
I'm done shooting rifles with recoil like 270 win and 7mm Rem Mag from bench except a few rounds to check zero. The last few loads I worked up for my 270 and 7 mag I used a lead sled. The old shoulder just can't take the repeated recoil. I still have an Elk on my hit list so I've got to...