Strut10

I would pick the 870 over anything Mossberg EVER made, personally.

Planning to take a little HD camcorder/tripod and the camera. Hoping to self-video any action that may transpire.

Yessir. Actually put the camera there in hopes of catching a pic of a fisher. But I got his little cousin this time.

Few thousand acres of private land. Yep.

Nebraska in April for me !!!!!! Going to go chase some Merriam's longbeards !!!!!! Winter will NEVER end now !!

I took an idle trailcam a few weeks back and put it on a prominent crossing log over my little creek. Was really hoping for a fisher pic. But I was pleasantly surprised to get this guy (gal?) working through.

So sorry for your loss Scott. Deepest sympathies from our family to yours.

You just keep that up there, too, Shaun. I have NO need to be that "refreshed".

It's all due to global warming.

1000 rounds of .223 are being bid to nearly $900 on GunBroker !!!!!!!

It's nice in theory.................... so long as you trust the folks' judgment down in Washington D.C. to set the pass-fail parameters and cost to the citizen for said training. I'm SURE they'd do a bang-up job on that, just as they do on most everything else.

Price-wise it's already "later". Go on Gunbroker and look what AR's are fetching this week !!!! You better be sitting down.

Whichever one tickles my fancy that day. Really do very little deer hunting with a rifle................. 95% archery for the last 25 years. The last couple years I've been liking to carry a Weatherby MK V Ultra-Lightweight in .25-06. It's a shooter !! And at 5 3/4 lbs. it feels just as light at the end of a long day of walking as it did in the morning.

Doesn't really matter what the guard is carrying. He's THERE. These people who are committing these atrocities are cowards. The guy who shot up the Batman movie in Colorado did not pick the biggest theater in town to kill the most people. He didn't pick the one closest to home. He picked the one that advertised itself a s a gun-free zone (read "killing field" for a madman). The dude who just shot up the mall in Oregon shot himself when he was confronted by a lawfully carrying citizen. Put armed security in our schools and these scum will look elsewhere to vent their insanity.

You may find this quote from Pastor Martin Niemoller an eye opener................... I hope

As if that should make us all breathe a sigh of relief. We can be sure whatever is coming will address one thing.............the liberals' agenda of inching toward a TOTAL ban on private firearms ownership. Whatever is coming will be billed as "common sense gun control measures" to assure us that if we don't agree then we don't have any common sense. Whatever is coming will very likely target private transfers between individuals and family members, ammunition sales and reloading supplies. Whatever is coming will address liberal feel-good symbolism over substance. Whatever is coming will do NOTHING to curb gun violence....................just like the Clinton ban. There are 20000-some gun control laws on the books. But liberals seem to think that "just one more" will make the difference.

Just surf around all the suppliers and try to find AR mags. You're going to have a hard time finding ANY.

Yeah.................. and the near lack of brows on the 2nd one.......... Doesn't seem right to bellyache about a 3.5 year 8 pointer with that kind of tine length. But he had horribly short brows last year and this year both. I don't know as he will ever grow strong brows.

Provided these boys survive the 3 weeks of Flintlock/late archery season coming up after Christmas and provided they survive the jacklighters all year long............ Looks like there may be some hope for finding a good buck around the Strut10 Ranch next season.

From what a fellow posted on another site: "This is an update from the guy who originally released the info. We broke the news here that Winchester is introducing what is going to be the fastest rimfire cartridge in the world in early 2013. What’s clear is that this round will up the performance bar for rimfires by quite a margin giving it a clear ballistic advantage over other rimfire rounds. But how will it do with respect to the two “A”s: accuracy and affordability? I know that one of Winchester’s main goals is to keep the round affordable, about within 10 to 15 percent of the price of current premium rimfire ammunition—so it should be competitively priced. With respect to accuracy, I have reason to be optimistic and reason for concern. Some key elements of this cartridge have a proven track record when it comes to accuracy, while others are venturing into uncharted, and potentially hazardous territory—at least from the standpoint of turning in small groups. But Winchester's key partner in this venture—the company that is making the first rifles for this round—takes its accuracy very seriously, so I’d be surprised if the round doesn’t turn in varmint-sized groups at 200 yards. But I’ll only know the answer to that question once I get behind the trigger." And then he follows up with: "Another update, more info found. If you think the 300 Win. Mag. is a significant improvement over the .30-06, wait until you shoot the new ground-breaking rimfire cartridge from Winchester. I'm not allowed to disclose its name or caliber yet, but it's scheduled to storm the market in 2013, beginning as soon as early or mid-March. Its performance exceeds current cartridges in its class by a wider margin than the 300 Win. Mag. over the .30-06. I don't say this based merely on rumor or manufacturer hype. I've shot the new round. It does everything Winchester says it will. The bullets fly from the muzzle 500 fps faster than any other rimfire cartridge I'm aware of. At 250 yards, they retain nearly double the energy of the next-best round in their class. During my testing off sand bags from a portable bench, five bullets clustered just over 1 inch at 100 yards in light but variable winds. A single four-shot group went into a .39-inch spread, and one 300-yard four-shot group fell inside of 2.5 inches. All this was accomplished with a prototype bolt-action rifle so unrefined that cartridges had to be hand fed and extracted from the chamber with a knife blade. Ballistic coefficient and velocity of the bullets are so high that this new round should hold a Maximum Point Blank Range of 250 yards on an 8-inch target. This means you aim at the center of the 8-inch target and hit it at any and all distances out to 250 yards. Last but not least, the new rounds should cost within 10 percent of currently available rimfire rounds in their class, or about a third less than some centerfire rounds with similar ballistic performance. Because dimensions of the round are significantly different from any others currently made, at least one gun maker is reportedly building newly designed bolt-action rifles to fire it. Two more are reportedly working on additional models. Whether those are bolt actions, break actions, levers, semiautos or something else remains to be revealed. “New” cartridges are a tried and sometimes true method for ramping up sales in the shooting industry, but most of them provide only incremental improvements over existing rounds. This new cartridge from Winchester is more than that. Much more. It should be a game changer." Starting to get innnnnnnnteresting.

Can't say I'd have personally felt I missed anything. But sorry you missed him if you wanted to see him.

That's modified. Yep.

......Winchester is going to announce a new "worlds fastest" rimfire cartridge in early 2013. Maybe they bought the rights to the 5mm Rem Mag and are going to load a 25 gr. bullet in it ?

NEVER toss the heart !!! Had a couple deer hearts at Mom's last Saturday when we came in for lunch.

Liver = gutpile. Only legitimate use I have found for liver is to chunk it and let it rot a bit then use for fox trapping bait. But I'm glad you enjoyed yours. To each his own.