Good job. Congrats.
I think that this sites continued focus on Mcmillan stocks and leupold optics, barnes bullets ect ect ect... in a small part discounts the rugular guy.
The guy who hunts with an off the shelf 700, or 110 or 336. the guy who chooses to spend his money on core-lokts and uses a $100 scope.
the guy sitting on a 5 gallon bucket or climbing 2x4's to get in his stand.
The guy who totes a 20' piece of yellow nylon rope and a uncle henrey folder in his Carharts.
This is just to let you know that your not alone. That just because the guys with $2000 dollar rifles and $5 a pice bullets may appear to be the norm, you are whats right about hunting.
Doing more with less.
Filling the freezer every year and once in a while taking a buck worthy of showing off.
And to all the hunters who remember what its like to sit on the back of Pa-pa's tailgate with that first deer and be proud to have used his rifle to take it.
You guys are what hunting is. Dont forget it.

Good post - just not sure, there is that sharp devine...

BTW TSX run about buck apiece.

i know what you mean i am guilty as hell of it my buddy always tells me that all my fancy rifles and nosler bullets dont kill no more dead that his old savage and tasco and rem core lockets or his 30/30 and winchester factory ammo

To the lads out there, please aspire to have more than a job at the 7-11 and being able to afford what you wish without going in debt.

I know Ringworm is likely up to his arse in debt buying that double wide but if he hadn't made all those bad choices in life he could do better than selling 32oz Cokes at 7-11.

I sure as hell hope a man that reaches his late 40's can afford a box of Barnes bullets.

He sure is puzzy hurt this morning..

Guessing if you had to get up at 4am for the $7 an hour job you would be too.

Sucks to be 'lucky'

Well...give him some credit, hes saved enough to be shooting a .376 Steyr.....

He makes it easy to prove the statement about making bad choices, don't he...

dont worry, baby...
Your special.
noone thinks your average or regular.
We ALL know you are a "true master" hunter.
why, a corelokt would probably melt in your fingers.
yawn.
yeah, your right. A double wide... 7-11. yep.
you got me nailed.
Thats why your posts (combined between the 2-3 screen names you use) are in the neighborhood of 10-12 a day. Your out there hunting.
Now if i could just pay off this trailer slinging slushies i'd try and buy me a yeller stock so i could be a master hunter too.

Shot this buck when I was 9 using a Browning Auto 5 20 gauge. 2 slugs in the neckbone.


I don't own a custom rifle, but wouldn't mind having one someday.

Ringworm, why do you always try to make everything an "us against them affair?" If they hunt legally and have some morals about them, why should it matter what someone uses in the field?

JM: in all fairness ringworm posted this to the "regular" guy...

You are highly irregular.....shall we say....

LMAO!!

You're just jealous because you aren't talented enough to kill deer with a shotgun.

....at 428 yds.
....offhand.
....with a 73 mph wind.
....with only the neck and head showing.

So I must not be a regular guy. Super human is a better word.

Schitt...Ive done THAT with a revolver, whilst riding past at a full gallop on horseback...

Super Human.....laffin!

P.S.

He was running too...

I figured that...mine was too.....

My little sister can kill one like that with a revovler...

and she doesn't have any arms...

big deal.

why would I want to be regular?
Is there something wrong with trying to achieve more? I don't hunt with a $5000 rifle, but I hunt with people who do. They're still good people... just because they have more moeny than I do doesn't mean anything... other than they have more money and choose to spend it. big deal.

So can mine, and shes blind....

Regardless of what gear you are hunting with, you'll never be happy if you worry about what everyone else is using for gear.

Never.

And, I never used to use email, the internet or a cell phone.

I salute the hunter that takes game ethically and has respect for the animal he/she is pursuing. That's it. Outside of that, taint for me to judge how they go about doing it. Different strokes.

I killed a grouse with an empty beer bottle for a club, back of the head. "klink!" Ninja skeelz.

And I caught a jackrabbit once, I snook up on him and tackled the sumbish... Of course that was a regretable handful, but I held on through the beating and squeeling and biting he dished out and I kilt him in the end.

And dats da troof.

You 2 jokers and your tall tales.



posers, "da bote uv youse."

Y'all got some wierd looking sisters.

You're lucky. I haven't been able to find any beer drinking grouse yet. I'll keep lookin.

Good looking buck for the young man. I remember when Treebark camo was the thing to have.

In my experience, the "regular" guy that you describe is also out at the bar until closing time the night before the season, never had time to sight in his gun, and has a hard time finding his deer hunnin' coveralls opening morning. Then he complains about all those of us who take it seriously and are prepared.

TFF. And, there's some truth in it too.

Yeah, you tell 'im, cohiba...

I sense alot of jealousy from pinworm.....

Mines headless and lost her legs when she fell asleep in the back of a garbage truck and got compacted...

Oh yeah, you're from Minnesota alright.....



(or Wisconsin)

Simple, it's class envy. People with less money aren't any more humble, they just can't afford more expensive stuff. Not all people with more than two nickels to rub togeter are jerks. People can be so judgemental sometimes and usually it's about something they're not overly famliar with. Oh well. Continue the urination contest at will.

I'm regular.... every morning half an hour after my first coffee and again half an hour before bed.... regular as clockwork and I manage it without needing bran or any other supplementary fiber.

Yep, that's regular all right...:)

After reading this thread a couple of times I thought that I'd weigh in. In my area, the "regular guy" hunter is going away quickly. There is just too much money to be made in the hunting industry. Hunting takes money. Whether you buy your own land. lease it, or take road trips, cash is the name of the game. I'm not convinced that the expense of hunting is all bad either. The game animals are less pressured and the hunters are more serious about the sport. I'm far from rich but saved my nickels and managed to buy a small tract of hunting property close to home. I used to travel to hunt but the guys that I traveled with have quit hunting so it's mostly a solo gig for me. I don't have custom rifles, high end scopes, nor do I shoot expensive bullets but have zero problems with those who do. As long as a guy obeys the game laws, shows some respect for the animals and other hunters, and just behaves in a civil manner, it makes no difference to me whether he is carrying a 4000 dollar custom rifle, shooting Barnes bullets with a Zeiss scope or he is using a 200 dollar shotgun, shooting Remington rifled slugs, and no scope. There are rich people that are nice and rich people who are jerks, There are poor people that are nice and poor people who are jerks. That's just the way it is.

When I was 9 an auto-5 or model 12 was the mark of the richest of folks who could hunt with kings and a dream that propelled me to skipping Dutch dates and certain nookie (later) to study for work that would bring those luxuries.

I didn't even dream the law would allow a mere kid to touch a gun like that. PS. John, where were you aiming with that shotgun? I would have aimed for the bull's- eye, and you know where that is.

Yeah but you wore a ugly ass hat.

I bet the deer was laughing to hard and you shot him up close.

He'll of a shot there John, and the second one was certainly a miraculous shot. How did you manage to hit that broken neck buck in the neck again as he bit the dirt? My old man would have wanted to know why I wasted the second shot, but I will say you did great shooting for a 9 year old.

Ringworm, I've been where that happy kid is, and I would give up all my trophies to be able to go back there again. when I was a real sick kid with asthma, I used to pray I wouldn't die before I killed a deer.

You tell me one other screen name, jackass. Might have used another name with yo sis, but for sound reason.

The fur's fixin' to fly... LOL

Y'all need to take your pi$$ing match to email.

I'm one of those guys who used to hunt with a box stock military rifle and my blue jeans and black T-Shirts because that was what I could afford. I hitched a ride with friends and ate beans cold from the can.

Now I have a couple of custom rifles and a nice 4WD pickup and several other toys but I'm still the same hunter and I still love to be out in the woods and the chance to collect a buck now and then.

The difference escapes me and most of my friends.

I think the only ones who really notice how someone is dressed, what kind of rifle he carries, what he drives, etc. are those that measure themselves against other people and that inevitably leads to unhappiness.

Nuff' said....

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