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ultra force is the model of the bow I was refering to.

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Wacky-clackers


FjLee Denver CO

Darn, I was going to mention Clackers but you beat me to it! For some reason the guys at work were talking about crazy fads yesterday and "Pet Rocks" and "Clackers" came up...

Wacky-clackers I remember those. I got them wrapped around my parents phone line out side.

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I disagree. I do not think the WSM line is a bad idea, nor do I think it is a fad that is over.

Face it, all makers have to introduce "new" products and features regularly because a large portion of consumers � certainly this includes gun buyers � consists of repeat customers. Fad or not, we do get sucked in; otherwise no gunmaker could survive. Fortunately, recent interest in shooting has also created many first-time buyers, and I expect that to continue for quite a while.

The WSMs were sort of unneeded, but maybe they meet a desire for shorter actions. The 404 Jeffrey case is a sound one. Again, maybe unneeded, but marketers depend on stories.

In fact, I just bought a 300 WSM LH Custom Shop Model 70 one with several nice features. I would just as soon have a 300 Win Mag, but I am sure I can get brass and reload indefinitely. If not, I'll still have a very nice rifle.

As for 70s, they are not going away ever. I saw .264s and 7mm Rem Mags decline in price within the past two years, especially Classics, but they seem to be going back up again.

4-wheel compound bows

How the hell did this get this far without someone posting Weatherby style stocks?

See through scope mounts-unless you live in Minnesota.

I hunt with about ten other guys, and there's still a couple-three rifles with those wretched things on them. The good thing about that is that no one puts a decent scope in them. That means that when the POS scope they put in the see throughs dies and they bring it to me for help mounting a better scope and sighting in the rifle they get replaced because their new scope "won't fit" in the see-throughs. When they're not looking Mr. three pound hammer gets introduced to them.

I'd happily kick in some money to a "gun writer" who'd write and article about how he tested dozens of scopes in a bunch of different see-throughs and found that it caused premature death for the scopes mounted in them. There wouldn't have to be an iota of truth in the piece, and it wouldn't need to be published anywhere on paper. This forum would be fine as long as we could have a link to "something published". He could even put in a disclaimer stating he never tested anything and made the whole thing up just to do his part in ridding the world of one of it's sorriest inventions. People who put see-throughs on a decent rifle aren't real particular when it comes to reading everything and understanding it all. Maybe we ought to have Frieda Zice commission a study to demonstrate how superior their scopes are and use the see-throughs as a worst case test.

The Weatherbys get a pass, because they're still going strong. Like 'em or not, they work and they sell. They are a little more subdued than before, but the basic style is the same. You used to be able to get a really nice classic-style stock from the custom shop (David E. Petzal had one), but I think it's long gone because a Weatherby guy wants a WEATHERBY.

A better example might be some of those way-out Brownings they're trying to sell. The DEA ought to raid their design department and find out what they're smoking.

They are very much alive in Virginia, too.


Fashionable get-up is a Marlin .30-30, butt-cuff, see-throughs with a 4-12X50.

the "BOSS"

Add on a rail for your light and a bipod and you've got yourself a great timber rig.

Don't forget the carrying strap with the big, wide pad with a deer under a pine tree stamped on it.

Yep, that's why just the 4-12, otherwise, in more open woods, go 6.5-20....

Southern states package rifles !!!!

DIY hunts.
Packing out game on your back. In pieces.
Hunting w/o having to provide data to a biologist on game taken.
Camping in the woods, not a campground.
Enjoying physical excertion.
Hunting w/o a cell phone.
Hunting w/o a 25 pound daypack full of crap.

compass and/or topo maps

6.5SAUM

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