Recent content by steve white

Shooting coaches can be a great investment for starting off new hunters right. Maybe ask the coaches what they recommend, having seen the complexities of fitting guns to small/light beginners.

That's one of the most elegant I've ever seen....it was a privilege viewing it.

Or bait a line with them and come back after the bigger cats...

You are right--they are great at 100 yds, and you can actually pick apart the bush layer by layer as you focus deeper into what is behind the next layer of trees and then change focus into the next layer. There is a reason deer can see you first, and it takes wise binocular use to even the odds.

I guess we should all list the freedoms we enjoy?

I saw a guy walking through the creek bottom with a hooded cape. A squirrel stopped and chattered and he removed the hood in the direction of the squirrel and without a gun or firing a shot the squirrel dropped dead. I made a noise and he turned toward me--the pain was almost unbearable. He...

If you do get stuck by a cat, rub the catfish slime on the jab. Slime from bigger fish is more abundant and effective. I'm a big believer, having been in the situation. It will cut the pain and speed the healing. It's the little devils with the sharp fins that will get you.

I wouldn't live in Texas if they outlawed A/C, and I won't own a vehicle without it!

I knew it wouldn't last long. In my 70's issues of Gun Digest, there is a description of the Royal which I have always wondered about. It said that they chose the barrels for increased ability to pattern evenly in every quadrant of a special patterning sheet. I wondered what they did to achieve...

Except for maybe the first tiger, superb taxidermy, in great settings.

I remember when you could hardly sell them at all--that and beef flank steak. We used to regularly grind that up in burger so it would sell. Now it's called fajitas and the unloved wings are spiced, dipped, more expensive, and well....you know the story.

+1 on the power tools...years ago an old man stopped in front of my house. Said he was the one who built it in 1954 (verified by the deed) AND THAT NOT ONE ELECTRICAL TOOL WAS USED TO BUILD IT! Just hand saws, brace and bit drills and hammers and such. Unbelievable, really.

How about a DIAMOND WHETSTONE to keep it sharp--and they stay flat forever.

There are a lot of electronics I need to give a whirl--I hear great things about Airtags to track luggage, for example....but I can't recommend what I haven't tried.

So NYC is not a total loss after all....