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I hope this is not too late but give a look at Charles Daily, they have a sweet li’l 20ga Auto-loader that is a dream to shoot. I used my boy’s after coming home from the litterbox and before my surgery for my shooting shoulder; what a great teal season that was.

Call Lee and they should fix it, my dad his back and got it back new. That said, I love my Rock Chucker and use it all the time. Colorado bob; just using my 30-06 to justify this: 1lb powder $25 ($19.46 per 100), 100 primers $3.80, 100 bullets $26.30 and 100 new Win brass $63 for a total cost of $112.56 per 100 rounds. That is not a lot less then getting the cheep stuff now (but I am now shooting preamiom rounds, loaded just for that gun at about $50 rounds a box) but then you take the $63 off on the next 8/10 loads and now you see that the cost of the reloading equipment pay's for itself soon, if you shoot much. Now do that same thing for all center fire rifles in your safe and it really adds up. With myself, 3 kids and wife shooting, I can't afford not to reload. Also, how many off the shelf rounds from Waly-world will your gun shoot under 1/2" with? Oh ya, you don't save money by reloading, you just shoot a lot more and become a lot better shot.

What a real eye opener, I know it is always hard to see that things can always be worse and walk away with a new prospective in life. I know Tim is a class act and will keep your family and new friend in our prayers. Don’t know if Tim Remembers me or my family (from what I have seen of him, I bet he does) but I meet Tim at Cabela’s in WV just before I left for Iraq and he really impressed my boys and they still talk about that trip. They think he is better the Michael Waddel (SP?).

I will be out for a great morning pass shoot on geese and then Mommy and I will be out for a morning dove hunt. Boys are looking forward to getting out there and smoking some birds (with a gun and smoker also)LOL.

Glad you are looking out for Mommy. that should get you out of a lot of tight one's. good luck.

The Rock Island Armory is the gun I go to all the time for my shooting: I got a single stack 1911 for $275, put about $65 in upgrade’s (18lb slid spring, trigger, grip spring, tie firing pin, firing pin spring and such). First time at the range, shot it against my dad’s and cousins Kimbers and did not outshot Pop with his but did as good as his and outshot my cousin with his, he also outshot his Kimber with my RIA Also, it will take about any aftermarket 1911 parts will fit the RIA. I was looking in the shotgun news and they have a double stack (14+1) that will fit my hands great, for about $500.

I have made some good shots but some that I am proudest of would be the 3 targets I shot with my Sav 116 .300 Win Mag: 200yds, 5 shots and .378”, .388” and .371”. I also made 5 shots at a silhouette at 1,409M with a SR-25 using 175gr, Millett 4x16x56mm, Sierra Match Kings at 2,660fps. Hitting it 2nd,4th and 5th shots.

I have a T-3 Lite in .300 WSM and that is my go to gun for deer hunting now, Mommy got it for me when I was in the litterbox a few years ago. My dad got one in the .25-06 (ss) and cosine has the same gun I have. All are shooting under ½” at 100yds. As for the 7mm Rem Mag, you will love it; for whitetail deer, I use a 120gr HP Hornady at 3,300 fps and it drops them in their tracks from 80ft to over 280yds.

Will do John, been going through the same thing for most of the past year myself and it is a pain and not just in the back.

Thanks for the welcome, been a long spell but I did not forget about my friends here. You all did a lot to help get me through when I had time to check out the site. Now that the Dr said I can start getting back into shape, I am doing the best I can and hope to make up for the hunting seasons I missed. Terry, I may swing by if time permits, mother’s day weekend; got my team going on a trout fishing weekend then. Really looking forward to this, have not seen most for a spell. Again, thanks for the Welcome.

It has been a spell but I am back ware I have the time and the access to getting on here without it cutting into my other commitments. I see a lot of the old timers are still here and a lot of newbie’s also. Well, for the next few months or so, I hope to catch up with what is going on in the real world. I may not have got in and said much but I do try to get in when I can and see how things are going in the real world.

What a weekend had my 2 youngest sons at the State 4-H Fair (Their first year eligible) and what a time it was: Lil Bit took Birds of Ohio and did very well for his first try, scoring: 3 exhalents, 2 Very Good and a Good on it. That was a lot harder class then I would have ever dreamed of but I am very proud of what he did. When he was being judged, Mommy got a call from the Judges at the Arts and Crafts fair and was told he also took 2nd place in his age group for paintings! Sunny Buck took Shotgun and did very well, scoring all exhalents, was hoping he would place but did not. I know how much shooting means to him and will see what he is taking next year. This is Sunny Buck shooting his Charles Daily 20ga Youth Pump at the 4-H Shooting club: He really surprised a lot of people with how well he can shoot clays. He had better have, after all the boxes of pigeons and shells he has shot at the house! LOL Part of his project was a scrapbook that he demonstrated disassembly, cleaning and reassembly of his Charles Daily 12ga Auto Loader. He uses it for goose and duck hunting and a lot of clay pigeons also. LOL Well, if the Doctors will let me; I am going to take leave in early September and see if I can’t get Sunny Buck out for some early goose hunting. May be the only hunting I get to do this year.Had to brag a little.

Crazyleqz, Doing my job, I guarantee your right to say what you would but I have to ask you this: where do you get this 90% from? I work with the troops all the time that have been (been again and again), going over or coming home and it is a resounding 99%+(even though I have only talked with 2 people that said we was doing the wrong thing there) in support of what we are doing there? If the war was going so bad, why would units that are getting ready to go back is turning people away from going with them? I know of a unit that turned away more volunteers to go with them, and then they actually took with them? (This was not a small unit either) I have friends that are amputee’s that are looking for ways of going back to “do their duty!” Having been there and working with the Iraqi people, they do want us there, they want what we have: Freedom. Cutting our losses as you put it is snatching defeat from the mouth of Victory. Disgracing the sacrifices that every trooper has given for serving in Iraq, belittling the sacrifices the family has give: the night’s mothers have rocked little ones to sleep, the cold nights with an empty bed, fear with every passing day that this may be the one and everything else they have to endear. Sorry, I will get off my soap box but I would like to know how you know more troopers that were there then most and also talk with some of this 90% you talked about. I have lost a lot of friends there and I am ready to go back as soon as they ask me.

Home for me, got a lot of time to make up for this year.

ETexBow, That is a great area to live, have the best of both worlds. I have a farm just out of Belpre and do a lot of hunting in WV. I also have a lease down in Wirt Co (about 45 min from P-burg), it cost $120 a year and there is about 8,000 ac (I think that was what they said last Meeting) they have it set so there is 1 member per every 40 ac. As for doing the deer management: that is a lot harder up here but not out of the question. Most fokes up here go to WV for Numbers of deer and OH for size of the racks. Ohio has a lot of land that is open and I do a lot of waterfowl hunting on it. I have so much privet land to hunt up here that I could not hunt it all in a season. As for the schools: Warren High is a great all around system (wish my kids was still going to it) Belpre is nice but again it is part of the city. Parkersburg and Parkersburg South are good schools. The biggest thing about living in Oh over WV is the Tax and Auto Ins. Liability Ins for my Wife's Mozda 626 and Jeep sport is less then my dads Ford Ranger. Also, out of state Lic for youth (under 18 the day they get them) in WV is $25 with the stamps you have to have with the lic, that will let them kill a Buck with a rifle, deer with a bow and ML, 2 spring and 1 fall turkey's, small game hunting, trapping and fishing lic. (don't need a fishing lic though till they are 16) This year, your out of state Lic was $111 and that let you kill a buck with a Rifle but you have to get stamps for ML and Bow, you also have to get your doe stamps on top of that. As a Res of WV, you can get a Sportsmans Lic which will let you get a Deer with a Bow and ML, buck with a rifle and 2 spring and 1 fall turkey, Trapping and fishing lic for $25. As a Res of Ohio, you lic is $19 hunting, $19 fishing, $24 each deer (only one Buck a year, any way you kill it) up to 3, plus this year in this area you could get up to 3 more doe tags for $15 each. You also can get up to 2 spring and a fall turkey tag for $24 each. As for the sproting goods: Boons is the a great bow shop, with a 3D range, there are some more if you drive about an hour or so. Novac's out by DuPont is a great gunsmith also and you have Cains (up at Boaz on Rt 14 just out of Williomstown) is a great ML shop. Shoot me a PM if you like and will see if I can help you more... Frank