Recent content by nastymcnarf

So...that is your retort? You're obviously an intellectual giant...a mental colossus above all others. I exist ONLY in awe of your genius. Allow me to submit...in deference to your mental superiority....get a proper trigger job and then tell me I'm full of $h!+. You might surprise yourself.

When I used to shoot a lot of clays...my target gun trigger was set up WAY different than a field gun. It was day and night to me. When you let go of the trigger after each shot you give up a 'bit' of control on your gun. The 'longer' your trigger reset the further you have to 'relax' your...

No experience with the Weatherby...but a guy I occasionally duck hunt with has the TriStar. He loves the gun and the way it points. He's not had issues with "reliability"...as such. That is to say, it chews up and spits out everything you feed it. That being said...he's changed out more than a...

I remember the season of 2001 vividly in Iowa. HORRIBLE! late in 2000 and into the late winter/spring we had god-awful ice storms. And lots of them. I remember birds burrowing out little circle in the ice in the fields. It was all they could manage to get to food. That was also about the time so...

I lived in Charles City, Iowa for quite a few years. As mentioned...there are some good public areas in north central iowa. If your goal is to avoid the crowds...go later in the season. Snow and cold are your friends. The thicker public areas pick up birds in the nasty weather...A guy and a dog...

Longer ago than that actually...Before I was old enough to hunt in the 70's and early 80's...I remember my uncles coming back home to SD complaining that they only got 10 days for their very expensive licenses. Aaaaaand that was all in one shot. Then sometime in the 90's you could break it up...

Just an observation...but the Benelli ultralight 20 ga. weighed about 5 lbs 4 oz. It was introduced in about 2008 (I think). I owned one. This new Browning 20 is listed at 5 lbs 11 oz. Funny thing is the 16 ga. lists at only 1.0 oz heavier. Had one of those as well and sold it to a guy I used...

I lived in Iowa for over 20 years fresh out of college. Every year I waited for those 'roadside counts' to come out. They can paint a picture but only part of it. I killed a lot of birds in areas that the 'counts' pretty much proclaimed the ringneck to be extinct. That was fine with me. If I got...

Ummmmm...pheasants are not row crops. Getting some rain at this point doesn't mean a new crop of "pheasant sprouts". The rain was needed over a month ago for nesting birds. The rain will help the farmers...not necessarily the bird hatch/production. I've seen some very wet October's...the...

After college I moved from SD to Iowa...my new Iowa hunting buddies couldn't believe we hunted those poor birds on the roost up to sunset. We must certainly be monsters hunting those poor birds in the dim light. THE TRUTH...In South Dakota you can about about set your watch by the roosters...

Iowa...I was born/raised in SD, but after college I moved to Iowa for quite a few years. Then career allowed me to return home to SD. Iowa got killed in the early 2000's by all the CRP coming out and a number of hard winters. Before that I killed my 3 birds a day as easily in Iowa as SD...

My first shotgun was a bolt action 20 ga. When I showed it to a few of my friends later on in college one of them dubbed it the "M1 20 ga". So...I was essentially saddled with a single shot as a young hunter. I killed some birds with it...and still have it. But when I was able to upgrade...

I've owned both 12 and 20 'Monty's'...never an issue. The basics of this gun are solid and have been for countless years. Just different lingerie on essentially the same pretty lady.

OK...During the spring I fish a lot of smaller lakes north of I-90 here in SD. The road time is usually met with a good number of roosters in full spring plumage. I'm seeing NUTHIN'...a week ago I made a trip from my house in Tea, SD to Watertown SD...bought a gun from a guy up there and...

Yes...that's what they say. Not sure that's possible. It takes a trim (all steel) 12 ga. double to tip the scales at less than 6.5lbs. If it is a 16 on a 12 ga. frame, then the chamber wall thickness has to actually increase to fit the 12 ga. frame. I owned a F.A.I.R. Rizzini in 16 that I bought...