We had to take our beloved 8 yo Lab, Tiger Lily Scout, for her last ride August 11th. She was so sick with renal failure and went very peacefully out in the sunshine in the grass. My 14 yo Lab is still retrieving geese, albeit slowly. At least I haven’t lost both dogs in 2020.
My first introduction to the .308 was by the M-14 at Fort Polk, LA in 1969 and subsequently by the M-60 Pig 🐖 . I thought that round would kill any living thing on the planet and hunted WA and MT with it until the powers that be convinced my foolish notions that I needed something bigger in griz country. Onward and upward to more powerful cartridges! In recounting all my deer and elk kills, not a one could not have been handled by a properly loaded .308 Win. Yet, I continue to hunt with the likes of Weatherby magnums and the .35 Whelen - - - because I can.
Happy New Year!
