Recent content by McFarmer

Granddaughter and I built an awesome snowman, it was gone by 4pm.

I know next to nothing about the topic but…… I do know that if you mix particle sizes up in a container you get less pore space. Take an extreme: a full cup of BB shot will take on plenty more #8 shot, filling the voids left between the larger shot. Interesting point: a cup full of BBs will...

Yes, and crop prices are no gold mine.

I was maybe 10-11 years old, shooting blackbirds in the grove, mother was watching me from the kitchen window. I am right handed and but I was trying to use my left eye to shoot with. She came out and got me to switch shoulders, she was the same way, right handed but shot left. This was before...

Put an application in for two more parcels, and helped a landlord with one. The gal at the FSA office said the number of new applications and re-enrollments have been “very high”, her words, she has been there a few years. Also an Iowa DNR private lands specialist stopped by today who is...

Not certain but most didn’t come with a pad, was maybe an option.

A farmer around here has done it for years, seems to work for them. I think he has 16 rows corn and 40 feet of soybeans. I don’t know what his herbicide program is.

Yes. Shooting a shotgun is peak hand/eye coordination. You don’t look at the bat when hitting a baseball, you don’t look at the racket, you look at the puck, not the stick, the spots on the lane, not the ball. You look at the target, not the barrel. Even to the point where some folks point...

Yes, but I’ve refinished it.

Ever since I shouldered my uncle’s Auto 5 many years ago I’ve had a thing for that long recoil hump back design. Over the years I’ve managed to hang on to these three, plus one my son has decided he needs. All in the 1940s, all with solid ribs, all full choke. The Savage seems to be my favorite...

That’s too bad. Lots of money in Montana, I imagine they want the hunting to themselves. Seems like the tourism industry dropped the ball there.

You’ve received a lot of good advice on planting. Around here I could get a plot looking like that by running the disk over it and walking away. That is all foxtail with maybe a few sorghum plants scattered around. I imagine the person seeding that considered it a failure. Having said that, it...

Lots of factors go into making an ethical shot once you pick a species. Skill, equipment, ammunition and distance are the major ones. Any combination of those is capable of making a clean kill and any of them are susceptible to missing or wounding and being unable to harvest the bird. Once...

I hope it’s a wide open choke, steel #2s are hard on those old girls.

Yes, I do some woodworking so it fits. Taping off the checkering is the hardest part on some, this one doesn’t have any.