Recent content by matto

Ruffland for me.

My sxs has 26" barrels, and I wish they were longer. I shoot it fine, but sometimes I wonder if a longer sight plane would help me a little. Rogue's comments about the lack of a receiver are 100% true. My 26" sxs fits easily in a case that barely fits a 24" semi-auto that I also have. A 28"...

I once flushed a couple of birds that were essentially right next to a pretty fresh deer carcass--pretty decent buck. They flushed pretty wild, so there was no shot. It was right after firearms deer season here in Kansas and I thought the deer was one someone shot but failed to recover...

This is the one I tested. Pretty sure I bought the box a walmart for maybe $17-$18.

I moved a safe, once. When I first bought mine almost 20 years ago I borrowed a trailer, rented a refrigerator dolly, and recruited a couple friends to help. It wasn't too bad until it was time to get it down to the basement. Once that safe reached "level" with the stairs, there was no...

My data suggests that the answer is "no". Fiocchi Field Dynamics, Federal Hi Bird and Winchester Super X are all 1.25oz, 1330 fps loads. Fiocchi patterned best out of my gun at almost 83%. Federal was worst at 72.6%. Whether 72.6% is good enough is up to each of us as an individual...

I spent a few hours on a project like that last month. I've decided to get out of reloading hunting ammunition, so I wanted to invest a little time to find a load that patterned well out of my gun. I had 8 different rounds to test, ranging from Winchester Super Pheasant at $35/box to a few...

It was thought to be illegal in Wyoming too until this case. The criminal case, which was decided a couple years ago maybe, was state court. That verdict was "not guilty." The court of appeals decision arose from a lawsuit brought by Iron Bar against the hunters for devaluing the Iron Bar...

This is a crucial point. The corner at question in this case was a surveyed corner with a marker. One of the hunters is a fence builder in real life, and thus is familiar with surveying, corner markers, etc. He had also built a ladder-like contraption to span the corner, allowing them a...

I wore Pyke Dakota all last season. The whole pant isn't waterproof, just the facing on the front of the legs and up to almost the knee on the back. Most of my hunting is in Kansas, which is drier than Minnesota for sure and also most of east-river SD. I hate "wet leg" days too, and these...

That's certainly a risk. I try to mitigate it through feeder placement. All the feeders on the first tract are positioned on the edge of plum thickets, ie, feeding birds have thick plum bushes over their heads. Probably doesn't do much to protect against bobcats, but the raptors would have a...

Conditions are a little bit better here in Kansas, but still much colder than normal for us. I don't worry nearly as much about temps as I do about snow/ice cover. I have good cover for the birds everywhere, and on some tracts there is plentiful waste grain when there is little-to-no snow and...

I have a al-48 in 20g that I bought for my wife many years ago. It has a 24" barrel and is light as a feather. Probably less than a case of ammo through it in about 30 years. I can't hit anything with it. About 10 years ago I let my then-teenage son use it for a while. It had been in safe...

Pick up a couple random pieces of trash in the road ditch, or parking area, or wherever. I can use as much karma as I can get!

I've seen that in cold temperatures with some brands. This brand has held up for me regardless of conditions...