Recent content by birddude

Oh yeah, there's never been any pheasants south of Indy.

Well, I wouldn't say always. My granddad fed 9 kids on mostly quail when in season. Up until the 90's I commonly shot 100 birds a year. Granted I hunted a lot. I've never sat down and counted but can recall 5 or 6 coveys a day was common, double digits were rare but did happen. I realize that...

Unless you get pit-bull or pit bull mix!

I'm not going to judge here, but I will say that I did something similar when I was young and it haunts me to this day.

Ok, if a 16 with 30'' barrels is 6lbs 2 oz' then there's no way the 20 with 28's weighs 6.

Well, this thread is a couple years old, and I still cannot find a definite weight on them. I went to their website to see if they had a 26'' barrels yet and did not see the basic anymore. Website says approximately 6 lbs. for the 20 Iside 2. Read a review that said 5.5. To me that's a big...

You mean like a bomb threat? While everyone is looking at the bomb squad and the F.B.I. you slip them in the door?

A buddy of mine had a Mossberg 500 that he couldn't hit anything with. He bought it mainly for a squirrel gun. We set up a beer can at 25 yards and neither one of us could put more than 3 or 4 shot in it. It had the full choke tube in it. Patterned it on paper and it was way off. We took the...

Best preserve shoot ever. A very large group had not hunted any birds that left the field. When we went into the woods that were mostly pines looking for a cripple, the pines were full of birds. Mostly chuckers. It was a ball. Pepper was on fire. Scenting conditions were perfect. Old Rex did a...

From what I understand, the gps fences are still inferior to the underground ones. Also, my advice is to not put your 14 acers inside the fence. I put about 6 acers inside my 1st one. They just had a lot more area to get in trouble. They would hunt and eat baby rabbits. At night when they would...

Vaseline will also soften the skin up. It does miracles on those big calluses they get on the elbows. I had a hypothyroid one that did the same thing. The hair came back some but was still thin. The CRP. fields would rub it out pretty quick. She looked like hell from mid-season until a few weeks...

That's a wide-open question. What's your budget? Stoeger's are close to the bottom of the budget guns. Then lots of Turkish guns. Then the lower end Spanish guns. From there it's going to get expensive. By that I mean around 3k up. If I were you, I wouldn't spend too much on my 1st one. You may...

I always cringe when I hear someone say they want a certain designer breed for a pet. I will speak up if I hear they want a sporting dog for a pet. Often that doesn't end well. I almost got my wife kicked off the Facebook GWP page posting as her, when I got tired of folks asking about behavior...

Turn around and run like hell.. I'll take care of this??

I too have come across a few open wells. Scarry as hell. Cliffed out once while grouse hunting. Parallelling a steep bank that turned into a cliff face on both sides. I barely had room to turn around. Contemplated dropping my gun to have a free hand. Held on to the dog's collar with one hand and...