Recent content by McFarmer

When I had cows the pheasants would be in the feeding areas picking up whatever. Now that I don’t I go out with the loader and scrape off some lanes across the field to allow the birds to get down to whatever they can find if the snow gets deep or there is ice. Sometimes I would see 50 or more...

And the cattails haven’t frozen, the birds are fine out in the cattails but man and dog can’t go out there. Lots of snow cover and they may never freeze hard enough to walk. Walking deer trails in the cattails with an aggressive dog pushing through is my favorite hunt.

This is my guess, along with the stems.

Anyone within a few hours of Spencer Iowa might want to check out this new antique store. Doesn’t seem to have a web site but this is the place: https://www.yelp.com/biz/petersunn-antiques-spencer Basically a museum with price tags, not a junk store by any means. Lots of older firearms of...

With this snow the pheasants are coming into our grove.

Lots of birds have been dropped with a 4.10, you just need to know the limitations of your equipment.

I think it comes from experience, it requires a quick decision. If you try and judge range, the bird will be too far by the time you make the judgement. I shoot a lot of trap and I use that for my basis. I understand a load of 4 shot going 1400fps has much more killing power and range than an...

Yeah, I haven’t taken the stock off to check the numbers, it may not be original. Someone cut it and added a recoil pad. I really don’t mind, I’m not a collector but I always wanted one to shoot trap with. It also has a mid bead which probably isn’t original.

My favorite holiday by far. It doesn’t seem like commercialization has happened. Just friends, family and food. Black Friday says hold my beer.

Yeah, when you’re right: That safety wasn’t one of their better ideas however.

I’m glad we can have a discussion like this, seems to be a pretty sharp divide. As some have indicated possibly along generational lines. Some seem to take things rather personally, meh, life is too short to worry about what some person on line feels about me. I’ve been called worse by better.

I count lost birds towards my daily limit, not for the good of the population, although I know there are instances were that could apply, but rather an attitude of “save some for the next person”. The daily limit in Iowa is three, I think that is to give more folks a chance at a bird, but there...

I’m sure I would feel the same about the resource land owner or not. That point to me is irrelevant. My only point is not wasting the resource and the ethics of making a clean kill. I’m cheap and I hate waste of any kind. No person can tell me putting a couple #4s in the back end of a rooster...

I should be teacher of the year.