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I hunt with 8 other guys. A couple of the guys have been running buds for almost 30 years. This will be my 15th season to hunt with the core members of the group. When I go up by myself I don't cook much. But when a bunch of us are in camp every day is a "holiday" and we take all our meals together.

A couple of the guys would rather cook than hunt, and they do.

One guys son is a deck hand on a fishing boat. He will bring tuna or swordfish.



His bud went to some culinary school and has worked as a chef. He does some fine fixins.



I have quite a bit of sausage made. Smoked links will be black bear, Aoudad, Elk, deer or pork.



That always goes good.

Usually have some jalepeno cheese summer sausage made from some critter.




Thick pork chops, rib-eyes and T-bones are the rule.






Mornings are usually left over meat mixed with eggs, chili's cheese wrapped in a tortilla. I'll usually bring up a big pot of my Texas Barking spider beans.

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They go good mornin� or nite.

One of the guys is dynomite with a dutch oven and we will have cobler in the eavening and biscuits with prickly-pear jelly in the AM.

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Hunt in the mornin. Come back in and eat a good breakfast. Have a couple brewskis about noon. Go take a nap til 2 pm or so. Get up, go out and watch for critters till dark thirty. Load up a hoglet if I thump one, come back in, have a beverage and get ready for dinner. Have a good cigar and another beverage after dinner, while listening to some tunes and sitting by the fire. Then hit the hay. Get up in the AM and do it again.


Life is good in deer camp.

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Almost makes ya' not want to come back to the "mean ol' here and now"

Best,



GWB

The ONLY move Clueless Window Lickers have,is to trumpet their Turd Polishing via pics of Dinks and Titties...with their mouths open catching flies.

Actually,it is a VERY effective Trump Card.

Laughing!...................

Makes no sense. I will say this the more he talks, the funnier he sounds. Like a clown at a kids birthday party, you know the one, he shows up drunk and scares the kiddies.

Somehow, despite the obvious disadvantages when compared to all the "better" rifles, scopes, and calibers out there, after shooting at a dozen or so deer, it has yet to miss a deer, or require two shots on one.

Taint here to judge your choices but over the long haul, I must confess to preferring the odds of a wee better equipment making boom and having the scope do what it needs to do over your choices.

Hypothetical for you -
You're going on a guided hunt, and, you've shelled out some dough to do so.
Are you taking the ATR and that scope?

Hypothetical for you -
You're going on a guided hunt, and, you've shelled out some dough to do so.
Are you taking the ATR and that scope?

Just me maybe, but if I was going to spend the coin I'd want a rifle that I had shot to the point that it was basically automatic...if that rifle was an ATR with a 4.75 Grand Slam(a fantastic optic anyway)...sure why not?

Perhhaps I shouldn't, but just fer schitz n giggles.............


Maybe it's because I'm left handed and think a bit different than some (don't make me right or them wrong, just different)
I tend to view things from a different perspective.

I love inexpensive. I detest cheap.

Long ago I realized that the memory of poor quality or service lingers long after the joy of low price fades.


So, if you could get paid to own and shoot a gun, how in-expensive is that..........

For example.



Here is a package deal I purchased recently. The rifle is a custom Sako AII, Mannlicher stocked carbine chambered for 7mm-08. It was smithed by ID&T Custom Guns. A friend of mine says their rifles start at $3,000. The dealer from whom I purchased it indicated that the original owner paid $3,000 for the rifle. It really don't matter, cause it is only "worth" what someone will pay. This package came with Leupold Sako Rings, Leupold LPS 1.5-6 x 32 Scope (30mm tube), five boxes (500) Hornady 139 gr. SP bullets, 1 box (100) Hornady 139 gr. Interlocks, one box, (100) 140 gr. Sierra Spitzer BT Game Kings, one box of Hornady Super Performance loaded Ammo (139gr SST)
300 pieces of brass (in 20 round MTM slip cases) and a set of reloading dies. I paid $1,500 delivered and a $30 transfer fee.

Now I can both enjoy it and hunt it, and should I desire, part it out. If I part it out I can most likely get $1500 for the rifle, $550 for the scope, $30 for the rings $105 ($15 each per box)for the bullets, $180($30 for each bag of 50) for the brass and $20 for the dies.

So if my math is correct, I could most likely sell the components for $2,385. So say potentially an $850 profit.

Say I kept the rifle for a year, hunted it one season and didn't totally bung it up by using it as a boat anchor or throwing it into a pile of rocks, then parted it out and sold the components..........

$855 divided by $1,530 equals almost a 55 percent return on my investment. Better than I get at the bank on a CD.

So I prefer to hunt with "investments that shoot".

Is that in-expensive enough?

Once heard a guy say. "ya' don't have to do a hundred things right. All you have to do is one thing right a hundred times."

JAFO,

GWB

PS: I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, have worked all my life. Went broke in the 80's and lost most everything. When I started collecting rifles in the early nineties my first rifle was a Savage 112FS that the stock had been spray painted. I bought it for $175 and the Simmons Scope to top it for $24 IIRC. I've been trading up ever since.

You lost me at your "left handed" and then I saw a pic of that righty rifle that I'd never shoot left handed...Sorry, not happening with that roll over cheek piece.

I wouldn't skip the hunt if that was all I had.