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Im gegenteil mein bruder. Circumstances have us road hunting most of the time so it's not necessarily a stylistic choice. And I would politely disagree as I think I'm very sporty, seeing as I do everything myself that a dog does and then shoot at double the distances. Which is why I find PS...

Au contraire mon frère. I'm willing to give it a try for the sake of hunting science. You have me intrigued so I went searching ... Closest I can find commercially are Federal Grand Slam 3.5in #4s copper plated lead for turkey but they are just a measly 1200fps so I would have to turn to...

We hunt this way out of necessity. My dad wouldn't make it 50 yards in a field, let alone miles due to knee and back issues all his life. But he can get out of the truck in time if they hold nice and he is a reliable blocker. He averages 1 birds a day on these trips so he drives the truck and I...

Road hunting down the gravel road in the middle of the afternoon with corn on the driver side and alfalfa on my side. Deep ditches and a rooster runs from the corn side across the road and into the dirty ditch on my side. There's a decision point in road hunting to either pass by and come back...

I get 5-6 birds a day hunting with my dad for 5 days straight, flushing birds without a dog. I need guaranteed killing power at distance and I need to sling a lot of lead. I've a lot of experience at multi-shot patterning technique- also know as skybusting, scattergunning or fire for effect...

Roy Rogers would come out to SD and would shoot his Colt . 45 Single Action Army revolvers from the hip and take down pheasants (just speaking the lingo and making references many posters here will relate to). Now that's a tight pattern at 50 yards but more importantly, effective penetration. So...

"Honey, the internet demands I get a gunclub membership and double the number of hunting trips as soon as possible to get to 500 rounds. It's important research. Yes, I know- but think of all the children that will grow up and buy a used Remington from the 2010s, unaware they have doomed...

Just from the color of the part, I do suspect the gunsmith was using Benelli parts. They have not been in bankruptcy for years so they have abundant parts that are cheaper than Rem parts. Rem parts were darker like a blued metal while Benelli was silver metallic. Here's the common wear items...

Just a 2.5 week turn around and Alhmans was done with it. They put the micrometer to it and found the cam bolt pin was worn down. This is part of the bolt assembly that rotates as part of the shell extraction. They were not at all surprised to be replacing one, despite having less than 500...

I think you miss the fact that the major producers manufacture both shotgun and rifle/pistol ammo. There are still record high sales levels of rifles and pistols guns in 2022, just off the all time peak in 2021. Very high percentage of first time buyers who get a lot of ammo with their gun...

Whoa, somebody hacked into my account back in 2020 and posted a very whiny, gripey post about hunting in the snow. Got to do better with the security web guys. But I could see myself being very disappointed by my first hunt in the snow. I make it out to SD just for opener so snow in mid Oct...

Chestle and Kismet, you make a 51 year old guy feel young again. But I did take two birds this year from the hip so young-and-dumb is still in my bag of tricks. That's why the mare's leg stock on the truck gun is a feature, not a bug for me. I'm surprised the Classified Ads forum on this site...

Oh yes, I also have often been a temporary owner of many fashionable Versamax bolt handles from the factory zippo lighter design, spirals, jeweled pattern, tactical knurls. I am running out of new gun part machining adjectives to try. May have to resort to gluing in the next ones. Reminds me of...

No specific reports of their land but I hunted just south of that area this year at opener and the area had lots of bird so you have very good chance of getting on some good wild bird numbers.

I've been patiently waiting for the diagnosis from the gunsmith to come back on my Versamax. Despite my new found disgust with American traditional brands, I've had a strange attraction to the Winchester models with the ribbed pump forearm that I can't shake. I've been trying to figure out why...

I've done a lot of reading since I've been on my own to figure out fixes without the factory warranty support. I think the Remington troubles are limited to the years they were owned by an non-industry investors group, Cerberus. This would be 2007-2020. They had the most serious financial...

If you hunt opener, you will find some of the pheasants that are first year wild birds that are as dumb and hold as bad a pen raised do for the first couple days. Both can learn wild evasion techniques in just a couple hunting encounters. They are mixed in with 2nd year birds and within a few...

OK, I can, but I can't. We go to the Mellette, SD volunteer fireman's banquet every pheasant opener. Tickets are $100 and 1 in 10 tickets win a gun. Won a Remington 1187 synthetic 12ga auto in my 5th year buying a ticket in 2015. Started jamming after 50 shells and never stopped no matter what...

Had a reload that did that in a Benelli auto that must have been very light on powder. We all heard the ploop sound except for the shooter who fired off again at the flock of pheasants we were pounding away at. It had ejected the casing but left the wad in the barrel so the second shot pushed it...

Saw that episode too. Based on how they explained it in the show I went and tracked it on maps and hunting atlases. They hit public land that was just as accessible from a road. They also hit a field run by a hunting lodge it looks like. There's not that many flat spots of any size within boat...