Recent content by Vintageguy

My wife and I hunted South Dakota for many years until our farming friends passed away, retired, or sold out to corporations. Never cared for the crowds, drunken hunters at the motels, or hot temperatures of opening week. There are definitely some stupid and wild birds early. I too shun the...

Don’t be fooled into thinking put and take pheasant hunts are all advertised as such for the same reasons. No property in the Midwest is going to sustain hunting party after party limiting out week after week without stocking. They just won’t admit it and they won’t have holding pens about to...

I see it from the standpoint of all game being hunted for profit are managed. Methods of the hunt are most important to me. I’ve hunted large game fenced properties in South Africa and had fantastic experiences. I’ve been on free range guided hunts in the western United States that I wouldn’t...

I use them on everything and I use Warne for no special reason other than I like their design and material. The reason is, I figure if I’m mounting a scope why not use them. They are super solid and easy on, easy off. I switch from day scopes to night scopes and low power to higher power with...

I have also used bullets with lube grooves and gas checks when I needed that extra bit of space for powder to reach my desired velocity with good results.

If you use black powder, I would use a dry thin card under the bullet and on top of a greased wad. The dry card will prevent the greased one sticking to the base of the bullet affecting accuracy and the greased one softens the fouling. Your gun should be marked on the barrel flats for the load.

Do we dare hope a lesson has been learned? I think we have settled the matter on who might come to the aid of Iran. The Arabs don’t like them and their allies proved to be noncommittal.

I’ve seen kudu take a full height game fence as effortlessly as the one in the first video took the short fence. The PH, after seeing my amazement, dryly stated, “no one owns a kudu bull, they go where they like”.

I did a few skulls this last trip and I still have a couple of species it would be hard not to mount if I take great examples. Everyone who goes ought to have a good collection around them at home but I’m going to be much more conservative going forward.

That’s real close to my crate size last summer and price is close too. Now you’ve got the clearing agent costs and delivery left to be known. I’m very much considering pictures only next time. Safari’s aren’t cheap and taxidermy and shipping often doubles the cost or worse. Besides I’m running...

I’ve never used solids and for me it’s totally based on PH preference. A-Frames have been all I’ve used and I’ve had great performance from them. I would not hesitate to go with TSX personally either, but pass throughs would be something to look out for with them.

I’ve always used a simple leather 12 loop carrier. I’ve switched to two 5 round flapped leather carriers. I put a cotton ball in the bottom of every other cartridge space so they stand above staggered across and are simple and easy to grasp during reloads. I’ve worked out this through drills for...

I will respond to some of these because I think you are correct in your statement that they have to do with ethics also. I kill fish before cleaning because my ethics won’t allow me to do otherwise. I don’t bow hunt because I personally would not like to go that way myself and I’ve encountered...

One thing that drives me nuts in so many off these videos is after spending very large amounts of money to be there and days of effort, they fire their initial shots on their target animal. Then rather than quickly reloading without having to look at their gun and ammo because they obviously...

Many are criticizing Mark Sullivan as someone who shoots his clients animals or is reckless in giving the beasts an opportunity to charge thereby endangering his clients lives. Those clients are going with him because they know how he does things and they want to experience exactly that. I doubt...