Recent content by Kalthoff

Time vs. money. Your time is a finite resource. There is nothing you can do to change this. Be aware what an hour of your time is worth. For every "money-saving-activity" calculate the "money-saved-per-hour-spent-saving-the-money" Same for "money-earning-activities". Prioritize your time...

Your hunt report is most educational Thank you

What are they eating in that area? Does supplementary feeding play a role?

Is there any "point/caliber" (to use the phrase from the thread title) where a steel butt plate is superior to a recoil pad, from a functional point of view? Retaining a steel butt plate for the sake of maintaining the originality of an older firearm is a laudable goal. But from a purely...

I agree with most of what you wrote, but I disagree on this point. My "Ignore List" contains 20 profiles, all were added due to bad behavior in the "politics thread". 10 of those 20 have more than 5000 posts, only 1 of them have less than 1000 posts. In the hunting related threads, I see a...

For deer sized species, I prefer to hang the animal from a tree and remove the backstraps, hindquarters and frontquarters from the outside and place them into plastic bags strait away. Afterwards I open the animal, in order to: Inspect for signs of disease See the effect of the bullet Remove...

Thank you for a most entertaining and educational hunting report. Your interest in the local people and their affairs does you credit. It sounds like a first class hunting outfitter.

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WOW That explains how it managed to penetrate the skull - a lot of force during a fight.

That looks like a branch from a tree or shrub. Amazing that it can penetrate the skull in that area Is the branch too decomposed to deduce the type of tree or scrub? I suppose the wound resulted in an instant kill, ie. no signs of heeling?

What are your requirements? Messaging: Distress signalling Daily "I am well, my position is 12.34 N 56.78 E" messages sent to a small number of friends & family Send & receive a few short text messages per day The occasional phonecall Plenty of emails and phonecalls per day ie. "bring the...

For gralloching and quartering done in the field: the Havalon blades are popular for a good reason Caström Mini Hunter at 65 mm / 2 ⁹⁄₁₆" For working on a carcass that is hanging from the ceiling and for butchering done at a table: flexible boning knives with a blade length of 125-150 mm /...

Were you brave enough to turn yourself in to the police so you could explain your actions to a judge? Or did you run away from the consequences of your actions, only to brag about it online?

The trend is to avoid "factory irons" on threaded barrels, in order to be able to use "telescopic suppressors" ie. the type where half the suppressor slides over the barrel. You get the benefits of a suppressor without the weapon becoming overly long and unwieldy. Your budget will only cover...

Come on....... The blue areas on that map have been selectively handpicked to include large low population density regions and omit high density areas. It is a deliberate attempt to mislead the geographically gullible. Rusland: Omits just about all the cities, includes the Siberian wilderness...