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You might want to anneal every three or so loadings. My brass gets a little hard in the shoulder area and is prone to cracks without annealing.

I bought my wife a 257 AI in a Win model 70 Featherweight years ago. My best load for it is a Sierra 117 gr SPBT at about 2850 fps. Sub MOA and kills deer and antelope like a lightning bolt!

Grandkids are the best. In their eyes PawPaw and Mimi can do no wrong!

West Cenral Texas, north of Abilene

Just noticed from the pics I ruffled some neck hair hanging him up. Got that smoothed back down now!

Just noticed from the pics I ruffled some neck hair hanging him up. Got that smoothed back down now.

I think my taxi did a great job!

We got him at 151-153, but I am not an official scorer. He is my biggest buck and the biggest we have taken from our small ranch.

Picked up my 2023 buck from the taxi today. I thought he turned out real well. Replaced a smaller but heavier buck on my wall.

I love the quarter bores. I bought my wife a .257 Ackley and we love it. I doubt I would try to shoot a big Muley at 600 yards with it but it has great ballistics with heavy bullets. My choice would be a 7mm. A 160 grain bullet fired at close to 3000 fps from a 7mm whatever is definitely...

I don’t go through near as much wood as some of y’all. Wife wants the house warm so I keep a good supply of mesquite cut. Make great BBQ wood too!

Hunting is becoming a rich man’s sport where the ordinary lower to middle class guy has less and less chance each year at a tag while the wealthy buy more and more tags, either at auction or landowner. If the wildlife truly belongs to the people, let the people have equal chance at them not...

All red for me AGAIN 😩. Congrats to all those who found green!

Me neither

Killed one smallish bear I badly misjudged on size. Did not care that much for the meat. I will probably go again since my hunting buddy and my son both want to kill a bear. I doubt I shoot another one unless it definitely on the large side.

Spring wildflowers starting to show here in the southern rolling plains of Tx.

Not so patiently waiting for the results. Used to draw every 2-3 years before NM cut DIY guys down to 6% of available tags. Have not seen a tag since. Hoping for a tag but not really expecting one again this year.

Not as big as many of the bulls that others have taken but my biggest so far. At my age may be my last as hard as tags are to draw! Bull was taken in Colo unit 61. Wood plaque is a slab of mesquite from my place. The ivories are imbedded just below skull plate.

I am rifleman at heart. Muzzy if I need to. Killed one deer with a bow and put it up, was not my thing.

Nice welds! I can stick two pieces of metal together but at best am just a dirt dobber when it comes to welding. My hobbies outside of hunting are fishing, of which I do a lot, gardening, and horses although I don’t ride near as much or as far as I used to.

I guess the staff went to a different type of wildlife management class than I did. What a bunch of baloney for Res and NR.

I voted elephant, just because I at my age I will never be able to get in sheep shape. I do think if one is in good enough physical shape to tackle the sheep mountains it would be a fantastic hunt In beautiful country. This topic is really all just campfire dreams for me as I could never...

Being debt free is great. Been debt free for about 10 years! Can’t imagine being retired and having a mortgage or vehicle payment.

YIKES!

On a trip to Port Isabel Tx last fall I saw my drivers side boat trailer tire go bouncing across the divided highway. Quick shut down avoided catastrophe. A quick look confirmed we needed a complete hub assembly to continue on. Unhook trailer and go back to the nearest town and found the hub...

I am right there with your rmanwill. Don’t have many years left to hike in rough stuff. Planning to burn my deer points soon. Shifting more of my outdoors time to fishing and hunting family property for whitetails. Changing expectations is going to be necessary going forward, especially for...

Not near as big as some of y’all’s but my biggest from Colorado unit 61 in 2022

Thanks for sharing your season. Good times with your son for sure!

My favorite is my Corriente ranch saddle. Have put lots of miles in it over lots of varied terrain. As was mentioned a good pad is essential. I use a good 1” wool felt pad. Protects my horses back very well.