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Yesterday was opening day of the youth deer season in South Dakota. At 5:30 yesterday afternoon I phoned and asked if my granddaughter wanted to go deer hunting. I really didn't need to ask as I knew what the answer would be. We loaded up my Blazer and headed out of town at 6PM. We drove east of...

Never even saw one. Friday night it was extremely humid and cold. You could almost see the ice crystals in the air. We did get a pack to respond Friday night but they never showed. Saturday night was crystal clear, brilliant moonlight but no takers, narry a sound. Sunday night was super...

My late cousin's son had a H&R Ultra Rifle with the Laminated Wood Stock and Forend in .25-06. Since he bought other rifles he did not shoot this .25-06 any longer. I knew it was a tack driver as I had talked to him quite a bit while he was working up a hunting load for it. All totaled it has...

I know that is now a very good score and not what I was hoping for, but the first time being in that area and considering the weather conditions I'll take it. I ventured 185 miles north & west from my home to where my daughter lives in Wishek ND Friday morning. I arrived out there about...

OK, the other thread on here talking about the Ultimate Long Range Predator Chambering got me to thinking. I really prefer a nice light bolt action carbine, let's say with a 20" Barrel MAX and a Short Action. When I modified my wife's Remington 700 20" SPS Stainless Synthetic .308 I absolutely...

A really good friend of mine has a Remington Model 660 6mm Remington. I just mounted up a new Scope for him and cleaned the rifle. He was having accuracy issues and I think I found the problem, a loose scope mount. At any rate he wants me to load him up some ammo for it. He has brought me...

My youngest daughter and I have been hunting all week. We had been watching a group of deer and had them patterned well before season. The afternoon of opening day I managed to call in the smaller of the two bucks so I was done. The rest of the week I have been serving as hunting guide for...

Yesterday I put a Stevens .25-06 on lay a way. Currently the only rifle I own is a DPMS 16" Oracle .223 that I use for work and calling Coyotes. For that it is working quite well. However it is not what I would call an ideal Deer Rifle or Cartridge. I had thought about just buying another upper...

The topic "Hunting: What's a long shot to you?" got me to thinking. Due to circumstances beyond my control I have had to sell just about all of my guns. What I have left is my Customized Ruger MKII 22/45 Stainless Steel 5 1/2" Bull Barrel that was my late brothers and a DPMS Oracle 16" .223. At...

We (my part time Officer Justin, his 3 kids, my daughter, grand daughter and I) took 56 bottles filed with water along with us to the Range. Most were either 2 Liter or 20 Oz Pop Bottles. We started the two young girls (Justin's daughter Avery - 10, and my grand daughter Sterling - 12) out at...

First off this will be the 3rd season for my 12 year old Granddaughter. Last year was the first year she connected and did great getting two nice antlerless deer with two shots. Our weather has been quite warm since the youth season opened on September 8th so we haven't been to serious...

to be used on a combo Elk / Mule Deer Hunt? Had a buddy call me today inquiring the above question. He is considering going on a combo Elk & Mule Deer Hunt and was asking as to the best bullet for the task and what weight. I figured I'd ask you guys as I have never hunted Elk or Mule Deer...

I actually started this project a year ago, then scrapped the whole project. A month or so back I got the urge once again so this time I just went and bought a Ruger Charger. I shot the Charger in the above configuration for a hundred rounds or so and knew I had to make some changes. I...

Recently did some horsetrading with my daughter. My daugher ended up with the newest Custom Ruger 10/22 I recently built with the Nordic Compoents AR-22 Receiver Chassis Kit and a KIDD 20" Stainless-Steel Bull Barrel and I ended up with a Custom Ruger 77/22 I had built several years ago. The...

Rimfire season has started but up until this past week I had not fired a single shot at the Indoor Shooting Range this year. Part of the reason is I have been busy Hunting Deer not only myself but with my Grand Daughter. The other reason is I have been wanting to put a new Barrel on the 10/22 I...

Kenzie, her little brother, my wife and I decided to go out west tonight to see if Kenzie could get her 2nd Deer for 2011. We headed out of Rosholt at 3:08PM, and drove the 21 miles to our hunting spot. This hunting spot is a full section of land all in CRP with a rail road right of way cutting...

For the most part deer are scarce in my part of the woods (or maybe it is lack of woods in my part of the country). At any rate we had to venture to different parts of the county this year in search of deer. Now that was not a BAD thing as we got to hunt some new areas. Generally I hunt to the...

To start off with this was a heck of a morning. I had to work till 2:30AM, came home went to bed and was up at 5:30AM to get ready to go hunting. We went into the White Rock Lake Bottom the north entrance of which is 11 1/2 miles from my house. We ventured down into the White Rock Lake Bottom...

No I didn't trade my wife for a new Rifle. However I did trade my Blued / Synthetic Remington Model 700 SPS .308 in for a Stainless / Synthetic Remington Model 700 SPS .308. When we picked up the Rifle the wife really liked the Rifle but commented on how long and front heavy it was. I said we...

I recently picked up a T/C Encore with a 24" Stainless-Steel .30-06 Barrel. I have it all set up, Trigger Job with a Bellm #3 Trigger Spring for a 2 1/2 Lb pull, Stratton Custom Stainless-Steel Scope Base, Weaver 1" High Silver Quad Lock Dual Extension Rings with a Bushnell Elite 3200 3x9x40mm...