Recent content by Drycreek

My two cents, a CZ would be hard to beat in a nice, accurate bolt gun. For a fun gun, a Ruger 10-22 or a Henry lever gun would be my choice. A nice , medium range priced 3x9 or 2.5x10 would make a good scope for either.

Federal Fusion bullets are great, but shooting deer in the high shoulder is better ! I can’t physically drag a deer very far anymore either, bad knees and little stamina. Shoot them in the high shoulder and watch them fall. Shoot the red dot !

No, I haven’t. I always washed my clothes in Dead Down Wind, sprayed myself and anything I had with me with the same product and used the Ozonics. It has to mount over your head pointed to the window you expect the wind that leaves the blind will go out. I found it much less effective in a tree.

I had a creek bottom that I ruined for a couple seasons by hunting it on the wrong winds. At the time, I really didn’t understand the affects of different winds on a winding bottom. It was great soil for plots, the deer loved what I planted and they ate the hell out of it…when I wasn’t there. I...

This thread may cost me ! I ran across a Contender in .357 Magnum today for a good price. My immediate thought was that I don’t need another .357 Magnum but it could easily be rechambered to .357 Max. I don’t have one of those…

I always found it hard to bowhunt low ground, but rifle hunting, providing you can shoot 200+ yards, not so much. Wind can get squirrelly even excepting the thermals.

My Encore pistol was in .260 Remington, never had anything to complain about except the trigger. Fixed that and it took a few deer. My Contender pistol was in .375 Winchester, good short range deer and hog gun, great trigger. I just gravitated to SA revolvers, .44s and .41s for hunting, .357s...

The These three will cover anything you want to hunt in the USA too, it’s a shame to see them fade into oblivion. It’s all about selling new guns.

I think you have arrived ! I sometimes miss my Contender in .375 Win. It was a hog stomper !

I have zero experience with the 6.5 Grendel, but I really like the 6.8 SPC. I have two ARs in that caliber and they are my “go to” hog rifles. I used to have a day and night gun, but since I put a digital scope on my night gun it’s now a day or night gun. Both of them shoot Federal Fusion 115...

The 6.5x55 Swede has been doing the same thing that the 6.5 Creed does for longer than most of the Creed owners have been alive !🤣

I think the answer to that is one my taxidermist had. It was a Ruger 7744, which is a .44 mag. His was integrally suppressed but I think you could put a screw on suppressor on it and it would be just as quiet. He was moving large for caliber bullets at subsonic speeds and when I shot it you...

I go in on the 20th for mine Jack, and I’m not looking forward to it ! I am however, looking forward to a couple months from now.

If you sidehilled very much did you have to change directions often so one leg wouldn’t be shorter than the other ? 🤣

My iPhone compass is spot on if all you need is a direction. I don’t explore new territory and can’t get lost on the places I hunt. In fact, when I was younger I used to squirrel hunt in unknown places that encompassed thousands of acres. Walked in many times a half hour before daylight so I...