Do you have an animal species that is your nemesis?

One that you maybe have gone for multiple times and never could connect with. Or, you have gone for that species and have only gotten younger animals and would really like a nice mature representation of the species.

Gun season started today in my game zone of SC. Primitive weapons started 08/15. In the lower part of the state gun and primitive weapons came in 08/15.

With temps near 100f and fields of corn that have not been cut yet, I don't feel like getting in the stand yet. Hopefully the corn gets cut this week and we can start planting some fall and winter plots.
Might go this weekend if we get some rain and a little cooling trend.

To be continued...

Some folks seem to think "minute of buffalo" is sufficient for double rifle regulation, and this on brand new rifles, but allow me to illustrate what hunters of yore once enjoyed!
Elim Dimidoff, a Russian hunter of the last century, carried a double rifle into the Russian Altai. In the book "Hunting Trips in the Land of the Czar" he first makes a 120 yd. shot on Ovis Ammon--easy chip shot. He later writes of another ram, "He was about two hundred yds from me in a straight line....Placing...

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Not sure how many other whisky lovers there are here but I am one of them.

Do a bit of writing occasionally for a few hunting magazines and nothing is a better accompaniment to writing than a nice dram.

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not planning to have a fist fight here I tend to sometimes think and act differently to conventional wisdons - Carry enough gun, Bigger is always better ...

The Canon Myth: Precision over power.​

Let’s talk about the biggest flaw in dangerous game hunting: the "bigger is always better" mentality. We’ve all seen it a hunter turns up with a massive, shoulder-bruising canon 577, 600, Overkill ..only to develop a terminal case of the...

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