Recent content by TheSayHeyKid

I'm on the same page as most of yous guys. I'm sitting on plenty of components, but lack faith in being able to replace said components. I too find myself shooting a lot of rimfire just to scratch the itch. Us guys get together every couple of week to send 'em down range at the farm...

If you decide to go the semi-auto route, I too will throw a vote to the Beretta A400 with the kickoff. I have shot one extensively on the trap, skeet, and sporting clay fields and have nothing but accolades to rain down on it. It is far and away the fastest cycling, softest shooting scatter...

I know I respect the 3-1/2" #4 buck coyote loads coming out of my Benelli as much as I do sending one out of my .416 Rigby. Both will get your attention.

Pre-COVID at the club we could buy a box of 12 gauge #8 (Remington STS or Winchester AA) for $7.50 a box (and have reloadable hulls). Now we only have Gun Club, Diana, or Fiocchi for $9 a box (and those hulls are sh*t for reloading). I don't even want to get into the sub-gauge shell prices...

Our club here is doing well in regards to the number of shooters (32 trap teams and about 50 league skeet shooters). What I have noticed is that our clay target usage is down. I too have cut back. It would be nothing for me to go out and puff 100 or 125 clays in a morning, but now I cap...

Love the thread and the various replies and backgrounds. I would agree that "as a whole" marksmanship has ticked down over the years. I'm not old, but nor am I young (48)...so this isn't some old codger opining about the way things were back in the day. Now that being said, I grew up on a...

So you are a northern down-stater? Yous guys cool if we annex the U.P. from ya? Us Wisco folks consider it to belong to us anyway. Welcome aboard!

I jump on shopgoodwill.com once in a while and filter by "sporting goods" and "hunting" in the extended search. Good deals can be found there too, but not as often as the Goodwill-like stores that you mention. I totally agree.

Once in a while I find myself with a couple of extra minutes on my hands and a second hand store in close proximity. I ducked into a Goodwill recently and in the men's section (hanging with the leather belts), I came across a beautiful cobra rifle sling made by the late (and great) Arvo Ojala...

Justin Fields is the future man...

I'm a thermodynamics guy. They give you fancy titles and such in engineering, but at the end of the day I just make warm sh*t cold.

Any factory Mannlicher Schoenauer sporter with a straight bolt handle gets my vote. They are just too damn nimble and handy...and have the lines of a fine woman.

Lumberjack World Championship in a week! I'll be there!

Boy...if you think that's ugly, I've got an H&R Handi-Rifle that you should see. It's uglier than the east end of a horse headed west. In it's defense it is just my truck gun and is chambered in .22-250. She's a shooter though if the nut behind the stock does his part.

GMC - GOD'S MECHANICAL CURSE!