Recent content by Vintageguy

What I’ve seen is a disturbing trend away from hunting culturally. When I was in school small game was plentiful and it seemed everyone hunted. The Monday after the opening day of squirrel season required, to be socially acceptable with your peers in grade school, that you took the tail from...

Nope. Wore shorts as a teenager when I spent my summer days fishing. Shorts were never allowed nor wise for me in the world of work so I don’t wear them at all anymore. I wear double faced tan pants. Ticks have been an issue where I have hunted and while others wash their cuts and scratches and...

I get your feelings on double triggers. Lots of people have trouble with double triggers and as someone who has used them my whole life it’s hard to fathom. It’s so natural to me that with a double shotgun hunting pheasant I prefer skeet or cylinder in the right and full in the left. If a bird...

Bargains for sure, even when you consider it in today’s money. $1000 in 1976 equals approximately $5800 today according to the all knowing AI.

I enjoyed watching it. No one is going to book with him without knowing what to expect. They are going with him to hunt with HIM. They want to be shoulder to shoulder with him blazing away at a buffalo. They are probably adrenaline junkies too. On buffalo, he has his way of doing things. But...

I have often heard people state, “I am a Christian so I don’t believe in these things”. That indicates to me that they haven’t studied their Bible. It affirms much of it. For instance, it does not say that you can’t communicate with the dead. It says, you should not do so. I won’t participate in...

I am with you there. I will only consider anything more than a picture on something very special and apply the savings towards more safaris.

No dice. I’d walk. That’s unethical and would be a breach of trust in my opinion. I would politely inquire as to the deposit considering the amount of the increase. If it was lost, I would likely just be a no show. They could use the empty week to catch up on facility maintenance. They either...

I have currently a string of 6 horses. I’ve trained and have rode countless miles, mostly in mountains. The best thing I could tell you is likely you’ll have an experienced and safe mount. Might enjoy or not enjoy its job. Might be snappy and a push button animal or have a pig headed attitude...

Yes, the first was a coworker in the 90’s who was an avid hunter. His passing was a big deal locally with lots of issues involving burial. Nothing ever concluded as to how he got it. The second was the father of friend who didn’t hunt. Events were approx 30 years apart. Personally, rarity...

I believe this disease is going to have a major negative effect on hunter numbers. A friend of mine has done deer camp as long as I can remember. Last year a deer tested positive there and now none of that group is hunting this year. I’ve known two people who left this world by VCJD. Not...

Less trophies shipped = more actual trips. Running out of places for it anyway.

Just curious, were you using a lead sled? A lot of of people use them for everything and with larger calibers and too much weight they can be hard on a stock.

The method is old school, I’m old school and that’s how I do it. If I can’t get within that range, the critter wins and I need to try again.

I find it odd that a company puts as much advertising into a specific bullet for dangerous game and yet leaves it woefully understocked. I keep seeing comments about the smaller calibers being more popular and maybe they are but I don’t know a single person who uses those bullets. It’s the...