Recent content by matto

Finally figured out a use for this product, but only for folks who often switch back and forth between lead-ok and non-tox-only areas. Vests are too expensive to have two. Much cheaper to just have a "lead hat" and a "steel/bismuth hat". Just grab the right hat from the dash and go hunt! :)

Details on this one? I'm out of town the weekend of 6/28-29. If I'm in town I'd be interested.

my fault. sorry

I can't speak for s. davis, but I don't read his comments as an accusation that SDGF is releasing birds. Even if he is making that accusation, I'm not. It's a tired, boring, and false urban legend. The exact quote from the article is "within a defined private shooting preserve". I've...

Perhaps the dumbest product I've ever seen. Looks like it might be an April Fools Day thing.

I can't help but wonder if this is a learned behavior or if the birds are responding to the smell of the seed. In eastern Kansas I've heard of turkeys eating planted soybean seed, but my western farmer friends have never talked about this before.

Can you even get 1-1/4 oz of shot in a 20 without going to 3"?

I'm hundreds of miles from you, and this isn't a CRP planting. However, I worked with the NRCS guy in the county and it's based on a CRP planting we did maybe 7 years ago? I think it has more forbs than the CRP planting, but still much less variety than yours.

PF/QF sent out an email a day or so ago announcing a new general and continuous sign up period. >>> May 12, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are thrilled to share the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency has announced a new general and continuous...

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...