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Thanks, I called TC arms about the magazine and found that my rifle is recalled for trigger problems so it'll be going back this week. I guess it may fire when closing the bolt which really annoys some people.

Thanks guys. This TC Venture is one of the most accurate and shootable rifles I've owned but it has a bad magazine design. I'll pin the magazine together or build a new one. (I'm a machinist). I just got back from a guided goose hunt I won with Stillwater Outfitters in Loveland, Colorado and had a ball and shot lot's of geese. It was below zero. Two things us old guys from Az hate are hills and cold weather!

Here's 3 stages of the 4 stage shoot. My wife forgot to push the button on stage 2. OOOPS! Have to punish her later.

It was kinda tough this year. I got to camp and set up the tent just in time to catch a storm that dumped an inch of snow on me and 2 to 3 inches higher. That was 3 days before the opener. The next day it warmed enough to melt most of it and turn the ground to a slippery gravy that needs to be walked and driven in to be appreciated. I found some bulls below camp and one is crowding the "book" for sure. His short thirds may keep him out though. I tried to walk in to see if I could manage to get him out but I had messed up my knee during archery elk in Az and there was no way I could pack him out. The little town nearby was going bust and there are no horses available any longer so I told the local C.O. to put someone on the elk if he wanted to bring his stock up with the local community. He did and a young guy shot the smaller bull that was traveling with the monster bull. His dad stopped by camp and thanked me before they went to go in and pack him out. They had seen the big bull but couldn't get close to him. I found many elk in places that were much easier to hunt in my degraded condition. I saw 4 bulls (3, 6's and a 5 point) in a large basin and planned to hunt them. The first day an enterprising fellow drove right across it and spooked the bulls at daylight. He never knew they were there. The next day I saw one bull and could barely make him out in the cedars so I was reluctant to shoot because there is a 4 point rule. Day three saw me where the bulls had been spooked by the road hunters and at first light the 5 point came trotting by and I shot him at 250 yards as he slowed a bit in an opening in the oak brush. When I worked the bolt the plastic magazine fell apart and spilled the cartridges in the dirt at my feet. I reached down to retrieve one and stick it in the rifle and all the tears in my eyes from the cold wind fell into my glasses and then I was legally blind. Luckily by then he was doing the "kangaroo dance". He went about 50-75 yards and fell in the road. Thank you Lord. Well it wasn't really a road, just a goat trail to service a stock pond but it was driveable until the sun softened the snow later. I walked the mile and a half to my truck and crawled in 4 wheel low to the elk. The weather was supposed to turn bad again so I quarted him and went and broke camp and missed the next storm.

Amendment No. 1274 would have given the federal government the power to detain U.S. citizens until Congress declared the ‘war on terror’ over, which we have been told is a never-ending multi-generational conflict. The provision also gave the feds the power to keep an American incarcerated even if they were tried and found not guilty. Thankfully, Republican Senator Rand Paul discovered the provision and was able to request a last ditch roll call vote. The amendment was eventually defeated by a worryingly narrow final vote of 41-59.

[TABLE=class: sfinnerposttable] [TR] [TD=class: sfpostcontent]This already passed the republican controlled house and is in the senate. You may want to keep an eye on this and talk to your elected representatives. When a left wing liberal nut job like Rachel Maddow is upset over legislation it's got to be obviously bad. There's a long, long version of a description of this on the http://www.oathkeepers.org website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..BdPEK5pNtE [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

I took a chance and got a flu shot 14 years ago and was down with the flu for 2 weeks that year. Seems we got a different strain than what they immunized for or so the story goes. Anything the government is invloved in I choose to pass on now. No shots for me either.

Thanks. The only real problem is trying to find a way to eat goose that is acceptable. I'm allowed 20 a day. Don't get me wrong I love to kill them, but I was thinking sausage is the only way to go.

The best straight wall cartridge I had in my TC was a 357 maximum. Google Mike Bellm. He is a gunsmith that specializes in TC's and has lots of free info as well as barrels. Here's his website. www.bellmtcs.com

I recently won a wrting contest and Sportsman's Warehouse will be sending me on a waterfowl hunt in december. I haven't owned or shot a shotgun in 7 years. I've been shooting archery and competition pistol and have had no time. Sooooo I had to buy a shotgun and learn to shoot it. This one cost $521.00 at Sportsman's with the military discount and seems to work pretty well. I'm not good looking anymore so I'd better be able to shoot if I'm going to be on Sportsman's Warehouse TV and their video.

You'll find things getting worse as crops ripen and people realize just how badly the drought, floods, hurricanes and environmentalists have hurt food supplies. Peanut butter will go up at least $1.00 a jar from what I heard last week. Many ranchers sold their herds because they couldn't feed them last summer. It may come down to not being too expensive but just not available.

If you put a concentrated food source on the ground it gets feces in it when they stand in it and feed. Then scours may become a problem. The same if you eat from your table from a plate or your toilet.

Sounds like scours. They can get it from overcrowding and if there are lots of cattle especially where they feed and water. It's from the feces. The fawns have an immunity to it from the mother's milk at first then they are susceptible after they are weaned. One spot I hunt out here they stopped grazing cattle to help fawn mortality. Crowding deer by artificial feeding may be a cause.

Works on knives or pretty much anything with an edge. It's small and light enough to go in my pack too.

Nice deer. Like my wife says "Don't dare come home without meat". She grew up poor as did I and food meant more than trophies. Good job.

I liked Cliff. Seems a gentleman and very calm. Too bad he's gone now. I do agree that Jake has some issues. They need to do drug screening before they let you on the show.

[TABLE=class: sfinnerposttable] [TR] [TD=class: sfpostcontent]There's been alot of interest in how to sharpen Montec broadheads over the years. Here's how I do it. They kill well and leave great blood trails and break bone. I recently put a frontal shot on an elk with my 52 pound draw bow and a 410 grain VAP arrow. The 100 grain Montec broke his collar bone and spine where it meets the neck ( he ducked ) but they always perform well and give great blood trails. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Thanks guys; I had a blast and saw some dandy bulls. But the lightning just flat scared the daylights out of me during the 4 days it rained.

Funny thing about that isn't it. I left my camp unguarded and my truck unlocked with the keys in it for over a week and no one bothered any of it.

Well I'm back and here's some pics and videos. I couldn't get any big bulls to leave their cows so I finally shot a 4 point, so the wife wouldn't hurt me. Plenty of meat for an old guy to handle. I never can get anyone to go with me. Seems the prospect of getting into a herd at 4:30 AM and following them for 3 to 5 miles (the afternoon hunt is just as bad lots of walking, no ATV) doesn't appeal to anyone without lots of night navigation with no light practice. There aren't many of us left. Then there's the feeling most guys get when we've walked for hours and they ask where we are and I say "I don't know". I showed one guy how to follow our tracks backwards (no, not in the snow) to get out once and it blew his mind. I have some video of following the herd (actually in it) but it's just blacked out from being dark and all you can do is hear the big bulls. I finally found a road to pack the elk to and met 2 young guys with a 4 seater ATV and they nearly drove to my elk and we packed him a short ways. God bless them. Then they insisted to take me to my camp and when I told them where it was they couldn't believe I'd gone that far on foot at my age. I gave them my calls I'd been using and some Montecs broadheads to try. They were really impressed I'd taken a frontal shot and penetrated far enough to break the elk's spine with a 50 pound bow. The Victory (Victory Armor Piercing) shafts helped too.

Had the same problem all last week those big bulls just wouldn't leave the cows and I couldn't get close enough to kill them. I picked off a sattelite bull and went home happy knowing that the wife wouldn't beat me for not shooting some meat.

Myself and several kids we took elk hunting have shot elk with my 270 and 150 grain Speer Grand Slam bullets loaded with a maximum loading of IMR 7828. It seems to work okay out to 350 yards with perfect shot placement but I really like the way the 300 win mag kills them much better.

I hope so. Maybe he'll run with Ted Nugent as vice president! :toot:

From what I gather the government is going to deal with those stinking entitlement people soon to help balance the budget. Social Security and Medicare for sure. No mention of freeloaders yet. Just old folks who paid into the system for years. Guess I better get my warm clothes and boots. I think if I live long enough they'll put me on an ice flow with a polar bear and no rifle.

Glad to hear Schrade still makes a good knife. I won one this month at Sportsmans Warehouse. Wrote an article for their newspaper and was the pick of the litter. :yes: