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I'm on the same page as most of yous guys. I'm sitting on plenty of components, but lack faith in being able to replace said components. I too find myself shooting a lot of rimfire just to scratch the itch. Us guys get together every couple of week to send 'em down range at the farm...

If you decide to go the semi-auto route, I too will throw a vote to the Beretta A400 with the kickoff. I have shot one extensively on the trap, skeet, and sporting clay fields and have nothing but accolades to rain down on it. It is far and away the fastest cycling, softest shooting scatter...

I know I respect the 3-1/2" #4 buck coyote loads coming out of my Benelli as much as I do sending one out of my .416 Rigby. Both will get your attention.

Pre-COVID at the club we could buy a box of 12 gauge #8 (Remington STS or Winchester AA) for $7.50 a box (and have reloadable hulls). Now we only have Gun Club, Diana, or Fiocchi for $9 a box (and those hulls are sh*t for reloading). I don't even want to get into the sub-gauge shell prices...

Our club here is doing well in regards to the number of shooters (32 trap teams and about 50 league skeet shooters). What I have noticed is that our clay target usage is down. I too have cut back. It would be nothing for me to go out and puff 100 or 125 clays in a morning, but now I cap...

Love the thread and the various replies and backgrounds. I would agree that "as a whole" marksmanship has ticked down over the years. I'm not old, but nor am I young (48)...so this isn't some old codger opining about the way things were back in the day. Now that being said, I grew up on a...

So you are a northern down-stater? Yous guys cool if we annex the U.P. from ya? Us Wisco folks consider it to belong to us anyway. Welcome aboard!

I jump on shopgoodwill.com once in a while and filter by "sporting goods" and "hunting" in the extended search. Good deals can be found there too, but not as often as the Goodwill-like stores that you mention. I totally agree.

Once in a while I find myself with a couple of extra minutes on my hands and a second hand store in close proximity. I ducked into a Goodwill recently and in the men's section (hanging with the leather belts), I came across a beautiful cobra rifle sling made by the late (and great) Arvo Ojala...

Justin Fields is the future man...

I'm a thermodynamics guy. They give you fancy titles and such in engineering, but at the end of the day I just make warm sh*t cold.

Any factory Mannlicher Schoenauer sporter with a straight bolt handle gets my vote. They are just too damn nimble and handy...and have the lines of a fine woman.

Lumberjack World Championship in a week! I'll be there!

Boy...if you think that's ugly, I've got an H&R Handi-Rifle that you should see. It's uglier than the east end of a horse headed west. In it's defense it is just my truck gun and is chambered in .22-250. She's a shooter though if the nut behind the stock does his part.

GMC - GOD'S MECHANICAL CURSE!

Madison area here too. Rural Stoughton.

Had to chuckle when this article popped up today... https://www.fieldandstream.com/guns/pistol-grips-vs-plain-stocks-on-turkey-guns/

Welcome from Stoti, WI!

"60% of the time...it works EVERY time!" - Sex Panther cologne "Some men are Baptists. Others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man."

Yup...Whitewater is 608 and I'm probably about 30 miles from Whitewater. Six miles from Stoughton, 6 miles from Cambridge, and six miles from Deerfield. Corn, beans, and tobacco as far as the eye can see!

I guess the nearest town that posts a sign around here is Utica. But we do have a home talent baseball team, a tavern, and a sign that proudly states "UNINCORPORATED"...so I've got that goin' for me. HAHA!

I live in South Central too in the land of Norwegians. We have a big party every May 17th!

To that point I don't understand red dots or scopes on shotguns either as you are throwing a pattern and not a single projectile. I can see it being an aid to a new shooter for sure, but I still see it as a waste as I've never fanned a shot on a tom in my lifetime. H*ll...they hardly move...

Why is it that all shotguns marketed to the turkey hunting crowd all have thumbhole or pistol style grip stocks on them? My logic is that if I can bust a teal flying up the river corridor at break neck speeds and at 40 yards with a traditionally wristed shotgun, I'm pretty d*mn sure I can tip...

Best quote of this thread..."I call these election guns". And a new term was born. I have a few that fit that description then. HAHA!

If you let the .280 Rem go then I'm not sure why you would need to backfill that spot with a 7mm mag, but do what your heart desires. I too have been culling some of my herd. As I've gotten on into my middle years, I have come to appreciate quality over quantity. The 7mm mag hit the bricks...

Cheese, Norwegian girls, great fishing, the entire state is a food plot, good beer...I can go on and on forever here!

Welcome aboard amigo! I hope you enjoy the snow we are getting shelled with this morning.

It's funny (not funny) what we were willing to pay when it couldn't be had. I've always been pretty well stocked in both the powder and primer department and always bought in large quantities. That being said, I also work for a refrigeration manufacturer and have a unit that sits in my...

I had a couple of old Lee Loaders for .257 Roberts that just sat under my reloading bench for years. I decided to list one on GB just to move it on to someone who might use it. I was hoping to get $50-$60 dollars for it. I just about tipped over when the auction ended at $174! I guess...

Boy...it seems we grew up on the same trajectory. HAHA!

I was able to pick up 1000 Federal 210M last weekend (1 case limit). I had to pay (gulp) $78 for 'em, but from what I've been hearing...that was a pretty good price. I bought 3000 210M just before the pandemic of Wuhan a few years back and only paid $47/1000. Oh how times have changed.

YAY! Someone else who has gone smelting. Many an Old Style beer and many smelt have been slayed when they are running. We always stayed at or around Negaunee. GOOD TIMES!

Welcome to the party sourdough! You a 715, 608, 262, or 414 kind of guy?

That's an easy one. I had an 82' Ford Bronco with a straight six and a manual meat grinder. That truck refused to die! It has taken me out west and back, up some gnarly trails, and ate snow like a three year old sitting on his *ss in the front yard during winter. It had rubber floor mats and...

Must be a Wisconsin thing. I too had a small ten pointer just hanging out in front of me at about ten yards this past weekend. I already had some speed beef on the ground, so he gets to live another year. Love the video! I thought he was coming in for an eskimo kiss...

I'm just gonna put this right here...

YAY...A MOTORCYLE THREAD! I've owned numerous bikes through the years from an old Bultaco to a 2019 Yamaha WR250R. I've had cruisers, sport bikes, but with my age have settled on the 250 enduro class. At 47 years of age, I've been trying to limit the number of times I go over the handlebars...

I got lucky this year and won a Beretta A400 DU gun of the year at the local banquet in 20 gauge. Love it and have made it my primary dove gun. Would have killed for it to have been a 686 though. NICE PIECE Woodcarver.

I'm with Randy F...I got plenty of trigger time in southern Wisconsin as a kid chuckin' pumpkins (as we affectionately call them up here) at whitetails. They lay down the law when kept inside of a hundred yards. Also the recommendation of trying some different rifled slugs out of your...

I can't weigh in on this with any personal knowledge, but I can't imagine a basic cup and core bullet doing the job in any situation on a buff. For the time being...I'm gonna grab me some popcorn.

We have room for you again up her in Big Wisci! Deer hunting in the 608 is the place to be. Rural Stoughton would welcome ya brother!

Well...see! Getting a little banged up scouting for elk has paid dividends for a great hunt and story taking this goat! WELL DONE MVH!

Not that I ever expected to keep a budget scope on my spare whitetail rifle, but once Leupold picked up the Redfield line I grabbed a 3x9-42 Revolution for $200 NIB. My old .257 Roberts has worn that glass ever since. It's shot countless deer over the course of the last decade due in part to...

THAT'S A LOT OF BACON! Way to get on target fast!

For those wondering...Browning still offers the Superposed through their custom shop, but you will have to pony up if you want one. You won't be spending Kolar or Krieghoff money, but you'll have a nice piece. I didn't even know it was still offered until I read it in one of the gun mags just...

HAHA! I see you pick your deer up off the farm the same way we do! Your first whitetail we make ya drag. After that it's easier to fire up the Farmall. GREAT PICS AND BEAUTIFUL RIFLE!

Junior Oil back in 95'-96'.

Oh...also...anyone wanting to take up the hard life. We'll be toppin' tobacco out in Utica, WI this weekend. It's laborious hard work with no appreciation whatsoever...BUT YOU GET TO HUNT THE PRIME SPOTS and are allowed to hang the Norwegian flag on your porch.

I played hockey in the WHL. A buddy of mine once told me heading into Moosejaw...."Manson. Take a look at that. The only province so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days.". Good to see you have done well. Beautiful country up there! And yes, the landscape is more diverse...