Recent content by swellcat

How do you recognize them? Volumes of powder/shot? Branding?

Kind of surprised to see the owl out in the middle of the day.

What is that?

With cover-thick ditches like those, legal access, and the countryside to yourself, as far as the eye can see, why wouldn't a person hunt those ditches? Beautiful, and obviously productive that day. What was the approximate range on that third shot?

Your videos are flinging a cravin' on me. It's also nice to get some sense of what that part of pheasant country is like.

What do you consider ideal?

Snow is the dogless hunter's friend, so the Winter Wonderland forecast for 19-20 December (coinciding with a couple of weeknights off) got my attention. I bought the 2012 license. Printed out and numbered a dozen 2011 WIHA Atlas pages. Viewed maps. Considered destinations, routes, drive...

Edit The line between bravery and foolhardiness isn't always clear.

What are some of the best ways to learn to accurately judge target distances? Seems that skill must be important in trying to take only reasonable, ethical shots. On a recent outing, a hunter had the wrenching experience of an unrecovered fly off on a going away shot . . . even as feathers...