Recent content by marksman13

I’ve got a few. My Ruger No. 1 International is my favorite. I’ve also got a CZ 550 FS that I’ve yet to put blood on. Not pictured is my dad’s old 742 Woodsmaster Deluxe. I probably need to drag it out of the safe next year in his memory.

Why marry a woman whom you cannot fully trust? I just cannot picture a scenario where I would have to ask strangers on the internet how much I should trust the person I swap bodily fluids with every day.

I’ve been watching all those challenge videos too and I think I’m going to run both of those challenges next week if the weather cooperates. I’m low on milk jugs, but I’ll figure out something similar and make it work.

With modern rifles and scopes, I think you need to spend about half as much on the scope as the rifle to get equal quality. For instance, I’ve got a couple of Springfield 2020 Waypoints that ran me somewhere in the neighborhood of $2200 OTD. Both of them are topped with a Leupold VX-5HD 3-15X...

All jokes aside, that would probably work…but, bacon is cheap enough that I’m gonna pass. Lol

Mine was similar, but with a pellet rifle and I was camped out on my grandma’s backyard bird feeder. Grandpa thought it was pretty funny. He had told me I could only shoot black birds and blue jays. Well, they all looked kinda dark and a blue bird is easily confused with a blue jay when you are...

The few I’ve tried to eat made the whole house smell just like a wild pig. Sausage, backstraps, bbq, it didn’t matter. The size of the pig didn’t matter. I eat a good bit of venison, but wild pork is a hard pass from me. I’ve got buddies who love it, but I just can’t get on board.

It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact. Market hunting nearly killed it. Trophy hunting brought it back. Subsistence hunting just well…subsisted…

“Trophy hunting” saved the tradition of hunting in North America. Please do a little research before continuing to prove your sig line ironic…

Go shoot pigs for fun in Texas, but buy your sausage from the grocery store. I’ll starve before I eat another wild pig.

It’s 100% a Bubba job and I’ve already said that I’m not keeping it. I took it out to shoot it at the dealer’s request. I think he’s in it at around $650 and I don’t think he’ll get his money back out of it. It did shoot well enough that if it was closer to $500, I’d buy it and have the barrel...

In his defense, he didn’t notice the barrel when he took it in on trade. $750 if the barrel was original would be a decent price around here. M77s are steadily going up in price since Ruger has put so much emphasis on Americans. I gave $1300 for my last new M77 Hawkeye.

Used M77s in good condition are selling for $900+ in my neck of the woods and the dealer didn’t realize the barrel had been cut until I pointed it out. I’m willing to bet he still gets $600 out of it. Also, that does not explain how I’m losing money on the rifle…I literally cannot lose money on...

Took the rifle out this morning and fired three 3 shot groups with the three types of ammo I had on-hand. Seeing as how I’ve already decided I’m not keeping it, I didn’t see the need to burn a ton of ammo that I didn’t pay for. The Hornady Superformance stuff shows some promise for sure. It’s...

Please explain how I am losing money by leaving it as is.