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Due to health reasons, it is difficult for me to wake up prior to 4 AM which means I can't always drive out far in the mornings and arrive on time to get setup on my trail in the dark. I have had to improvise on recent hunts and have been forced to setup farther away from my ideal spot as...

Indeed. Outdoorsmen, reloaders, and industrial workers need to take this all very seriously. The noises produced by modern equipment are well above anything the human ear was designed to handle especially with regularity. I hope I started protecting my hearing at an early stage. Before hearing...

As a kid I would occasionally shoot 12 gauge and 22lr in open fields without hearing protection. Never any rifles without hearing protection. Those have always been with earmuffs at the range. This season I did shoot my .410 a few times without hearing protection. It wasn't too bad, sounds like...

No dog. I tracked two roosters until they both hid in some bushes nearby. One crawled away, I crept up on this one and it was forced to flush.

Were you using used brass and did you anneal the necks?

Makes sense. That groove inside the neck was probably messing with the flow of gasses.

Opening day rooster.

Did you switch up the powders and charge weights after seating deep?

I believe you are in Canada. Do you have any experience with the for export only Hornady ECX 180 gr round nose 8mm? It is constructed from a copper alloy that is supposed to expand well at long ranges and moderate velocity.

What happened? Was the accuracy bad?

That's great expansion from that e-tip at 2550 fps. What range did you shoot the bear from?

Can't the Cutting Edge bullets be seated deeper starting with the minimum load with the recommended OAL and seating deeper from that point on while watching for pressure signs until you get to a point where they can feed from magazines?

In early August, ticks were abundant here, and I often found several attached to me after returning from the woods. By September, as the weather cooled slightly, their numbers decreased, but they remained present, clinging to plant matter. I use Sawyer Picaridin lotion when I'm out in the field...

May as well start using a bow and arrow at this point. So disappointing.

A great purchase you made. That shotgun is excellent for long range waterfowl shooting. I have a few 10 gauges, and they are very versatile shotguns, definitely not outdated in this day and age as some would claim. Don't let the recoil discourage you. It is more of a push-back rather than a...

It's such a classic bullet. I really wish there was a lead-free version of the partition or something similar.

I am not calling. Just purely disappearing in the woods while still managing to cover ground. Moving extremely quietly. But not just that, also, not making sudden movements and always sticking to edges and covering my back. I have flushed turkey's in the past like this at reasonable ranges so I...

How to find the flock in the first place? If I found a flock, my immediate reaction would be to crawl up to them in an extremely stealthy manner and take a reasonable shot with my fixed full choke 12 gauge using 3 inch shells. However, finding the flock in the first place is the tricky part. I...

Agree with all your points. Plenty of whitetails and turkeys have not fled from me when I was casually hiking or looking at my phone. A short portion of the long list of things to consider. I'll be out again with the shotgun in my hand. The grind continues.

It is stressful but perhaps coming back empty handed is a part of hunting. A BIG part of hunting.