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Big Swish, you are the man!!!

I'll get started on the deer pole expansion project this weekend!!

One pole, what the heck was I thinking????



That's frickin awesome.

But did you have to show it to me on a pre deer camp Friday with over 7 hours left to go in the day????



Well, it's off to camp tonight, it's still raining too though.

My daughter is hunting this weekend (youth hunt) with her Ruger 77 standard/walnut in .243, free float, glass bed, tuned trigger, slicked action & now a new bushnel elite 3200 3-9 x 40 to help her point it at the sweet spot.

she's a shooter too, that girl can really shoot that thing.

After taking a brand new rifle out of the box & reworking it to my liking, I sighted it in & let her shoot it. I tought her to shoot starting out fairly young with a single shot youth model rimfire borrowing some of the basic fundamentals taught in USMC marksmanship courses. Body & skeletal alignment/support, breathing control & basic trigger handling, sight/target focal point do's & donts.... (girls are so easy to train with this stuff)


here, check it out. these are the first two shots she ever took with the rifle after I sighted it in for her. I made a black dot in the center of this basic 1" grid type target & explained to her that the smaller the focal point, the tighter she would group if she could stay on true through her trigger pull.

this is without a rest, it was off of a wooden shooting bench & the only support she used was a very large gym sock I have over filled with whole kernel dried feed corn (kind of a tight bean bag of sorts) that we placed under the forend for her.

the only reason I stopped her at 2 shots is because I couldn't see her holes in the target through my spotting scope, target lasered at 105 yds.

when we approached the target it was pretty clear that things were going to be ok in the way of accuracy for little miss hunter & her new M77.




Now if we can get a deer in front of her this weekend we'll be in business.

I bet ma and pa are feeling some mixed emotions as they watch their oldest pass one of the largest thresholds of her adult life.

PICTURES! We want pictures.

Congrats Weezy! You will do great in whatever you decide to do!

Bman that SUCKS about the apartment buildings! We had a scare similar a few years ago. I live on 6 acres that are surrounded on the 3 sides by 80 acres of CRP. One day I came home and seen trails through it that were made by a large backhoe with tracks. I went and checked it out and found multiple "test" spots where they had dug testing for gravel. The landowner works part time for a gravel company and had them test the land around our house. Thank GOD they didn't find what they were looking for!

When we were looking for houses in 2010 when we moved here, there was one that was decent but it had a 7 car attaced garage. I couldn't care less about the house but I wanted that garage. The asking price on the house was under what it should have been for the area and the ammenities....I finally google map'd it and saw it was surrounded by a gravel pit. It HAD to be the owners place or the folks that lived there couldnt' take it anymore and wanted out.