Mooresville Rocket

I think that you got womanfied and she made you get rid of all your guns and when you had nothing left of your own, she even made you get rid of the gun cabinet. You better go get your skirt and apron ironed before she gets home. What a woosie.

Nobody uses a gut hook anymore. The knife I use, and it has gutted out more deer then any other knife I have ever seen, is a simple 6 inch blade Sharpe knife I bought at Kmart 25 years ago. I think it is somewhere up around 160 deer gutted and over 60 deer butchered with the same knife. All that matters in a hunting knife is that it holds a decent edge and that it doesn't fall apart with use. Case Knives are of a known quality, made in Pennsylvania - Bradford to be exact and will hold a good edge and last a long time. Plus the manufacturer is not going to go out of business anytime soon. This is the knife I would buy if I needed a replacement - http://www.wrcase.com/knives/fixed_blades/browsefixed2.php?Family=%27Leather%20Handle%27&Fixed=%271%27&Item=%270385%27

The problem with that map is that it is crap! It shows the roads around the woods and it shows the streams and it makes the game lands into a green color, but it does not show terrain, unimproved dirt roads and trails. It is of no use - if you wanted to use it to find a location in the woods. You would be just as well off to use a road map.

I had the phone number, was looking to see if anyone had a email address for them. Sometimes it is easier to get something in writing then to take their word on it. Thanks for the info.

Does anyone know where you can get a new elastic band / string for inside of a set of Stony Point shooting sticks. I bought them about 5 years ago and when I went to use them this year, they refused to snap into each other and actually fell apart when I tried to use them. - I think I paid like $8o for them and I had not used them more then 10 times. I would have been cheaper to just spend the money on ammo and take my chances at having a tree to lean against and not even buying them.

Pennsylvania deer season is not over until the end of Jan, so most stores around here do not put anything on sale until at least Feb or March. I have bought coats, jackets, hats, gloves, boots, camo clothes, and even a one piece insulated hunting suit when it was on sale. Most things they sell is not as good of a quality as what you might buy in a high price store. But if it is on sale and you bought it and then you tore it going across a barb wire fence, then it doesn't matter if it cost $100 or $10.. My opinion is to buy the best you can afford and keep it as nice as you can for as long as you can and when it is no longer any good for hunting, you can use it at work and around the house. When it gets too many holes in it, you can tear it up and use it as a grease rag. Scents do not go bad inside of a bottle and most calls will last one or more years if they are any good. Nothing wrong with buying something on sale as long as it still works.

I don't know if your hunting season is still in or if this advice will work for you, but in my experience, the best advice is not to hunt the bedding area's or the feeding areas. I don't know if your question pertains to bow hunting or rifle hunting or shotgun hunting, so I guess we need a lot more information. Also what would be helpful would be the state and county where you plan to hunt. My experience is that deer mainly moves on their own, early in the morning and late in the evening. Your best results will come from a tree stand blind, where you can sit without being detected. If the owner of the land permit's, you need to install your tree stand now and leave it up all year long. As the deer gets used to seeing that stand in the tree, they will not pay as much attention to the stand as they would if you hang it the day before the season starts. Some of my best experiences comes from having a tree stand where you can sit all day. That means that if you live in a northern part of the country that you need some type of protection from the rain, snow, wind, cold. Permanent stands works the best for that situation. I designed a permanent deer stand where you have a 4' x 4' platform, with walls and a 3' x 3' fireplace that holds a decent sized kerosene heater. With the door closed and the extra pieces of plywood over the window openings in bad weather, you can sit in it all day with not much more then a regular coat and a second pair of pants and work shoes. I don't like windows because they hold too much sound in when you fire your rifle and I lost my hearing once from a tree stand with windows in it. I would suggest putting your stand near a funnel or on the top of a ridge where the deer frequents. Deer will walk over one food source to get to another. My success and my families success was due to the fact that my stand was in a grove of white oak trees and the acorns were plentiful this year. You couldn't take a step without stepping on them at the beginning of the season. Corn is too unpredictable, because as you just said, when they have options as to where they can feed, they will go as they please and they might or might not use the same trail more then once a week unless the trail goes directly from a bedding area to a feeding area. You also need to realize that deer needs a drink of water at least two times a day. So hunting near a water source is a very good way to ensure success. The only hard part about hunting near water is that if it is a babbling brook, the sound of the water might mute out the sound of hoof beats and you won't be able to hear them walking through the woods and in time your ears will ignore sounds and loosing one of your main senses for hunting, is a handicap and not a advantage.

When we were kids, mom said that the holidays was usually the time when kids got sick. She didn't say anything about adults. Back in the day when mom was my age, she was not allowed to get sick, because she had 6 kids to take care of, not to mention both her parents were still alive. I was just thinking about them yesterday. Mom would cook Capon's for their Christmas meal and I would take them up for them to eat. They were both in their late 70's and grandma was not in good shape. She had a bad heart on the inside, but a heart of gold on the outside. Now my mom is old and for the first time I can ever remember, she made breaded chicken for Christmas dinner. I had not had her breaded chicken in many years and it was not the same as I had remembered it, but it was still some of the best chicken I have ate in a long time. Just thank god that you are both still alive and that god has blessed you with another year of life. May you have money in every corner and kids in every bed. Amen and god bless.

Just my 10 cents worth here, but that gun appears to have had been made by Mossberg. I just happened to have had a friend that owned on just like it a few years ago and tried to pawn it off on me. I did a lengthy investigation into the origin of the rifle and the value. Several people I know, owns gun stores and is gun smiths and all of them were of the same opinion. The gun is worth on average about $150. The clips are no longer made and no longer available and if you loose one, the gun no longer has any value as anything more then a single shot. In some cases the clip is worth as much as the gun. When manufacturers were to embarrassed to put their own name on the firearm and they made them for such discount stores as Montgomery Wards, Sears, Western Auto, they usually had the poorest in workmanship and materials. There is no real chamber pressure issues with a .222 and you can almost shoot a shell out of a piece of pipe and nothing would happen. The problem is - when people believes that they have a valuable piece of history when in fact all they really have is a old piece of junk, conflicts erupt. In my case, I took the boys word that he was going to come back for his rifle in a couple of days. The other side of the coin was that he had already took it to several gun dealers. Most gun dealers on a trade of pawn will only give you half of what the gun is worth. In that case it would have been $75 for his rifle. I lent him $300 and he had no intention of coming back to get it. In the end, his girlfriend wanted to buy him a birthday present and felt sorry for him and came to my house and bought the gun back for exactly what he had borrowed against it. I was actually out a couple of dollars for the time that I spent removing the rust and corrosion and the time and money I spent trying to have the gun appraised. I have sold guns - way too cheap in the past for ones that I felt was of no value and I tried to get too much money for guns that I felt was valuable, but had no value when other people sell's the same gun for less money. So I cannot call myself a gun expert, only experienced. A few years ago, I sold a Model 88 Winchester .308 rifle with the serial number 3636 in Mint Condition, it was still in the original box and had a 4 power scope mounted to it with original mounts from that era, to a complete stranger for $500, I thought that I had made a good deal since I only paid $250 for that gun. Two years later, the person that bought it sold it for $1000 and thought the same thing. When Winchester went out of business, the value of that gun quadrupled over night. I was not aware of the situation when I sold it. You live and you learn.

I wonder if you tell it to go to your tree stand if the voice of the person talking inside of the Tom Tom would scare all the deer away. :hammer1: Merry Christmas Team Real Tree!

Next time use a 300 Winchester Magnum, they don't run far when you poke a hole in them big enough to throw a cat through. God must answer deer prayers - because without his help, I never would have been able to shoot my first buck or doe. I prayed and prayed for years that he would send one little old deer my way. I never prayed for a trophy, just some freezer meat. Now here I am 32 years later, a Mean, lean, killing machine!

http://workingperson.com/products/22_98/1/Metatarsal_and_Toe_Guards.html That is called a Metatarsal guard, its only necessary if you work someplace where you carry heavy loads - say with a crane - where you need to protect the small bones on the top of your foot. It is not any good for a walking shoe or a shoe that just needs to protect your toes.

I agree with Double A. The Ballistics chart was made with a special barrel rifle, of a certain length and fired at a certain temperature. Unless you had the exact same rifle and the exact temperature and weather conditions and was firing at the exact same shooting range - your results will vary. Even a rifle that has been sighted in at 500 yards on a 70* day at 1000 feet in elevation, will hit in a different location if fired at a shooting range that is 3000 feet in elevation on a 60* day.

I will make one comment about Browning firearms and that will be it. I was a Remington man through and through. Most of the guns that I bought for the first 20 years were nothing but Remington. One day a gun shop had a sale on some Demo Browning shotguns and I bought a Gold Hunter 3 1/2 inch 12 gauge off the rack. I fell the first time I went hunting with it, because I was disabled at the time and had a hard time walking and fell while traveling over a rock pile and dropped the gun and ruined the stock. I sent a letter to Browning explaining the situation and asked them if there was anything that they could do to help me to put a new stock on the shotgun. They told me that they had to have $500 for a replacement stock. I only paid $650 for the whole shotgun. I spent 3 months and about $100 on furniture refinishing supplies and a Birchwood Casey kit to refinish the stock and forearm. It's not nice, but it will do. I bought a Browning pump rifle in .300 Winchester Magnum. They only made the pump action rifle a couple of years. I treated that rifle as if it was made of gold! One day I was out hunting and it was very cold outside, like -1 degree for the whole day. When I came in that night, the forearm on the rifle had cracked. I sent it back to Browning on the advice of Grice Gun Shop - where I bought the rifle, and Browning looked at it and replaced the original stock with a hand selected stock and matching forearm and it is the nicest rifle I own. To complete my gun collection, I bought a used .270 Winchester Short Magnum A Bolt Medallion on a trade and it is a very nice gun, very well crafted, and deadly accurate with a Bushnell Elite 3200 5 x 15 x 40 scope. So although I have two bad stories about Browning as a corporation, I also have some good stories also. The only complaint about the A Bolt is that it is very hard to put the clip on the trap door. It sometimes takes 5 minutes just to load the rifle. The Short Magnum is very big in diameter and it is hard to get the first shell to go in the chamber without the clip.

A guy at camp had one and he shot a deer almost every year. It was in .308 Winchester. My other opinion is that a neighbor of mine just sold a 7mm08' because the price of the shells has gone through the roof. Another friend of mine is a clerk at a gun shop and he told me a story of a BLR that had a barrel that was improperly reamed. The head stamp of the shells was parting from the cartridge when you shot the shell. The owner had the gun less then 5 years before he brought it back. They sent it back to Browning and Browning said that due to the design of the rifle, it was not possible to re barrel the rifle or that they were unwilling to re barrel it. The sad part about the whole situation is that the owner of the rifle did not have a lot of money to spend on a new rifle - but could not use this one because it was a ticking time bomb. In the end, he bought another BLR rifle and put this one on the gun rack at home, never to be shot again, because in his opinion, it was unsafe and his conscience bothered him that if he was to trade his old rifle at a gun shop to someone else that it might hurt someone and he couldn't live with himself if that happened.