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P5Guy, is you wife a quilter? That looks like the best I would be able to do in a pinch if I had to use what my quilting wife calls her "stash". ;)

I don't believe you can fool a deer's nose with anything added to your own odour. Attractants may be another story, and may make a deer want to investigate the attractive smell, but there is no way to eliminate your personal smell no matter what the marketers want you to believe, and making...

There is way too much irrational fear of bears, and way too much irrational faith in guns as a cure for that fear. After 70 years of camping, canoeing, hiking, hunting, and many bear encounters of various kinds, a couple as close as 10 feet, I, and everyone I know, just don't think big bad...

Used BT bullets for a few years and found I got the best results when I used heavy for calibre bullets. My theory is that the added mass slowed them down a bit, and helped them hold together better. They were almost always pretty accurate, but I have since moved to Accubonds. Seems like the...

The key to managing accuracy is to reduce the number of possible variables so you can manage them one at a time until you get what you want. I have no idea how many variables your plan will introduce to the problem, but it is LOTS. You will likely learn nothing valuable.

As with all my tools (and guns for me are just tools) I try to use the best tool for the job. I very seldom deliberately select a screw driver to remove a nut from a bolt, or pound a nail with a wrench. Same with guns.

If he argues that a sucking chest wound is the desired consequence of shooting an animal in the heart/lungs, he knows very little about anatomy, shooting, or terminal ballistics.

When I think back about decisions I made about my own guns and cartridges, and about decisions I saw being made by my friends and acquaintances, it becomes pretty obvious that any thinking about how much, or how little, the choice reflected on my "manliness" was completely useless and often led...

That is, of course, true, and one need only consider bow hunting as a prime example. However, the OP never once mentioned, as most bow hunters I know often do, of doing it for the challenge, and the statement that "Shots likely sub 100 yards in the areas we have access too" makes me think...

Obviously, lots of cartridges will work just fine if you keep your shots within the severe limitations of your equipment. My advice is to use more capable equipment because I have serious doubts that you will be able to restrain yourself when an animal presents itself at ranges that make the 9mm...

I should have a Man Card???

My reaction to the title of the thread was, "Duh....."

There is no way you will ever think you made a mistake by choosing a .308 or .30-06 for the hunting you describe. I would never advise anyone to pick the .28 or .30 Nosler as a first rifle that will use factory ammo.

I think that suggesting this guy made a stupid choice when everything turned out just fine, means your choice would have been the wrong one. What he did was smart, compassionate, and prevented the unnecessary death of an animal that obviously didn't really want to hurt him. Why are you being...

Your father's thinking is my attitude to buckshot too. A guy, who you admit killed lots of deer with buckshot, switched to a rifle at his first opportunity. That is a good indication that he knew buckshot is not the best choice for deer hunting, even though he got it to work well in some...

I would never introduce anyone to any gun during a hunting situation. Add dogs, and I have a real problem with the plan.

The standard defence for extreme long range shooting of game is that I can make the shot because I do it regularly on the range. My response to that argument is that, as is the case in so many other circumstances in life that we can all imagine and likely have seen, the fact that you can do...

Agreed. But there is no such thing as being immune to bad luck. Such shots always rely on at least the absence of bad luck. So all those aspects of long range shooting that can disrupt the most meticulous preparation for the shot, and on game that includes random target movement which I count...

Any changes in a specific load (bullet type or weight, case manufacturer, primer, powder, powder charge, any change at all) may well change the point of impact of the load. Sometimes it changes a lot, and I said "may" because sometimes it doesn't change. What happens when you shoot a cartridge...

I stopped accepting the argument that, "Well, what about .....? He does it too. Why can't I ?" from my kids when they were 5. Someone else's miss do not excuse yours.