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I have seen this brush with a reddish, purple look when out deer and grouse hunting for as long as I remember. I have seen it in PA, Maryland, WV, and Kentucky. It normally grows about knee to waist high, but I have seen it 5 feet tall on rare occasions. I usually see it at higher elevations...

In eastern PA, if you were out hunting, a guy will ask : "Did you get anything?" or "Did you see anything?". Every time a woman asks it is almost always "Did you catch anything?". Is this a local thing or do all women say that?

Sounds like a rumor to me. If the PA Game Commission has to pay it, I don't see it happening. I remember the fox and great horned owl bounty. Did not work out too well. Anybody have proof of this bounty?

I was cleaning and oiling down 3 rifles I used this year and I was kind of looking at them on the table. One is a shorty AR that I use in really bad weather. The other two are what a lot of people call Bubba'd rifles. The two most accurate go to deer rifles I have (Really scaled back a few years...

It seems as if everything goes full circle. Lever guns are really popular again. I am thinking back to a used Browning 30-06 I saw at a show once. It was like picking up a '57 Pontiac Axle. I wonder how many of THOSE lever actions were sold. I remember seeing a .348 rifle that was not a...

I got a Cabela's Shooting catalog in the mail the other day. I glossed over it and it seemed as if most of the ammo was backordered. I have to wonder, if the production is really geared up on ammo, will the quality start to suffer. Do you think we will start to see more recalls on ammo in the...

Is this round starting to fade away already? I really do not see mention of it lately. I really never saw a need for it to begin with, kind of a round for novelty guns.

Anybody ever run .38 S through their .357 lever gun? I always wanted to put something together in .38 for turkey and never got around to it.

Over the years you hear a lot of things said about firearms and ammunition that are questionable. Years back someone brought me a .35 Marlin and wanted it converted to a .358 Winchester. The guy swore he read somewhere that it had been done by a gunsmith down south somewhere. It did not seem...

How many "get around to it" guns do you have laying around apart in drawers and closets? Stuff that need refinishing, parts, wood or just an "Idea' rifle/shotgun/pistol? I am getting old and over the last two years I have had guns, tools and parts at 4 different auctions. Stuff I never use and...

I have not bought slugs for my smooth bore 12 gauge in a long time. Years back I found Federal Classic 2 3/4 inch 1 oz slugs to shoot really well. Naturally I bought a whole bunch of them on sale. Now I am running low. I like to shoot about 2 boxes (5 round box) before hunting season and average...

When I was a kid I suffered through deer season with the old long johns, sweaters, coats, and poor boots. I had stopped hunting for a while and when I got out of the military I bought a new Winchester Camo-Orange hunting out fit at K-Mart for around 100.00 bucks. That was a lot of money back...

I was looking through the post about hunting knives and remembered an incident from years back. There was snow on the ground and I was walking in some railroad tracks and came on two guys dragging a small buck out. We stopped to talk, and looking at the deer I had to ask what happened to it. It...

Have you ever hunted an area where the deer just seem smarter? I used to bow and gun hunt a spot in western Maryland that was really tough. It had it all as far as habitat went and there was deer sign all over the place.(Before the new regs wiped them out) You were lucky to see 2 deer a day even...

I see the statement "the 30-30 has killed more deer than any other cartridge" or something similar to that on this forum frequently. I remember reading that in the 60s, and it was probably true then. I hunt a lot in Pennsylvania and some in West Virginia. The .35 was always king where I hunted...

I really have not been into handguns for years, but the other night I was talking to someone and we got around to 1911/1911A-1s. I remember occasionally seeing .45s in the military marked "Swissvale Pa." My buddy says he never heard of that. Anybody know anything about them?

During buck season in W.V. I saw a doe squat like a dog to take a dump. The way she was straining, she must have been eating walnuts instead of acorns. I never saw that before.

Anybody use this new round for hunting?

What is it with all the bad chambers lately? The minute a case won't extract or the rifle does not shoot well, the chamber is bad. Cosmoline in the chamber and it won't extract? Clean it with gasoline,it is not JB Weld, it is hard grease. Everybody makes a bad call on something now and then, and...

Anybody know for sure what type of steel is used in Model 99 Savage receivers?