Ashlyn has shot a shotgun a few times, mainly squirrel hunting with a 410. Last week she surprised me and wanted to shoot some skeet. She tried with the full choked 410 and hit 3 out of a box of shells. I knew she could do better with a bigger pattern and more shot. She doesnt like to try new guns that she hasnt shot before, scared she’s gonna get kicked hard. I finally talked her into giving the o/u 28ga a try and she busted a bird with the first shot and didnt hardly miss after that.
After shooting in the yard for a couple of days she was ready to try and shoot a dove. We have a good many coming into our pasture and it didnt take long to get on them. After several close calls she finally got some shooting and scratched one down. I picked up 3 more before a thunder storm blew in. Now she is on the internet looking at shotguns wanting a 20ga auto so she can duck and goose with me.
One more day to go and we will be chasing whitetails. I have the bows ready and Ashlyn is pumped up ready to bust one of the big 8pts we have been watching. Will let you know how it goes..
Here’s a recipe for wild turkey that’s really good. I’ve cooked it for 20-30 folks at a time in hunting camps, and we don’t ever have any leftovers.
Hot Sauce Deep-Fried Turkey Breast
Cut one half of a turkey breast up in pieces about 1/2″ thick, pat it dry and put it in a big bowl. Stir in about half a big bottle of Louisiana hot sauce (don’t worry about using too much) and let it soak for at least 15 minutes—30 is better. Pour off any liquid that comes to the top. Then dump in a big splash of buttermilk and 1 beaten egg and stir it in well. When you are ready to fry, just roll it in a 3 to 1 mixture of bread crumbs and self-rising flour (with a little salt and pepper added) and drop it in when your grease is around 350-355 degrees. A 3 to 1 mix of cracker crumbs and flour is good too.
Deep frying in peanut oil seems to work best. It’s a lot faster too if you’re feeding a bunch of folks, and the oil doesn’t burn as easily. When it gets done it’ll float to the top. Don’t overcook it or it’ll get dry and tough.
Couldnt stand to wait until this Sat. for the season to open, so went hog hunting. I have had them coming in good for a while at our main deer lease and havent been fooling with them so I thought it would be a good evening to go and try one of the New NAP Hellrazor broadheads out. Well I guess the full moon has them eating at night, didnt see a one. Oh well that why its called huntin. Had a good evening though and am ready to deer hunt this weekend. Have both bows ready to go as well as a couple of rifles too. Really like the new Hellrazor, it shoots great out of fast bows and is easy to resharpen. I had the one I had been shooting shaving again in just a couple of minutes with the diamond stone and some leather. Can’t wait to try it on game. Hopefully the week will go by quick and we will have some good pics and stories next week.
Well it is about that time of the year again and young squirrels are just wonderful fried and eaten with biscuits and gravy.But a lot of the squirrels we come by do not fit into this type.
what i do with the older ones is to parboil them in beer(you can use water too) with salt, pepper, a little vinegar and a white onion. i boil them slow until i can just get a fork into them. take out each piece as this becomes possible.
then pour off the water and you can either use the same pot or a slow cooker. put in the squirrel pieces and pour over them some “sweet baby ray’s” bbq sauce. i cut the sauce with a little more beer to make it just a little runny. you can use any kind of bbq sauce but the above mentioned brand is powerful good.
now slow cook the squirrel until they are completly tender. not falling off the bone tender because that makes them to hard to eat.
this goes great with some home made sweet cornbread!
this is simple to make and i have yet to find people who would try it at all that did not like it!
It was another killer Sat. here at the shop. Everybody getting last minute stuff: bows,tons of arrows,broadheads, and all kinds of little stuff for the opener here in TX next Sat. I havent been able to shoot now for several weeks due to the busy season, but cant complain as that what we want! I tried to shoot some today and got a little broadhead practice in but not much. I do however have the drenalin and the Evotek Impact ready to go. I am going to shoot Rocky Mt. Ironheads to start the year off as I have tons of stock of this head and also want to put them to the test. Ashlyn is going to shoot her 85gr stingers and Cari the new NAP Hellrazor. I want to try the Hellrazor myself, but will wait till later. It comes out of the box sharp,tough and ready to go. Curious as to how easy it will resharpen. I also have a few rifles sighted in for the girls. Ashlyn has been shooting every evening and is pumped and ready. She even wanted to try skeet yesterday and done good for never shooting at anything moving or in the air. Especially with a full choked 410.
Hopefully after next week I will have all kinds of good hunting tales and reports, with plenty of pics. Everyone around here is in a frenzy to get ready. I need to go to our hill country lease and fill feeders but cant find the time. Guess will go the 3rd weekend in Oct. as will be in Oklahoma for the first weekend and at our place here in ETX next weekend. We are looking forward to the long season and thank TP&W for a 5 month MLD season. We are also going to try and waterfowl and squirrel hunt more this year than last. I have Ash a new 20ga coming just for that reason and am looking to buy a started squirrel dog. Nothing like hunting with dogs, cant beat it on small game. Looking forward to slowing down and spending lots of time in the woods and hope the same to you.
Yeah right, just like what Kerry tried to do. I dont believe or trust these guys as far as I can throw them. He along with McCain,Clinton and the rest just need to go find another country. I think they would fit right in in France! Heres the story.
LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Republican Rudy Giuliani sought to reassure the National Rifle Association of his support for a constitutional right to bear arms as rivals Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee contended the former New York mayor is no friend of gun owners.
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In a direct appeal Friday to the powerful lobbying group, Thompson, McCain and Huckabee stressed their backing for gun rights and record of siding with the NRA. Giuliani, who once referred to the NRA as “extremists,” tried to explain his shifting views on the issue.
The NRA’s support is prized as the group blankets its 4 million members with ads, mailings and phone calls. Before the 2008 election, it hopes to increase its numbers.
“I’d like us to respect each other; I think we have very, very legitimate and mostly similar views,” Giuliani told NRA members, who clapped politely a dozen times during his 20-minute speech.
Giuliani also tried to explain why, as mayor, he joined a lawsuit by several cities against the gun industry, arguing that manufacturers and distributors made it too easy for criminals to get guns.
On Friday, he said the ongoing lawsuit “has taken several turns and several twists I don’t agree with.”
Giuliani, an outspoken proponent of gun control during his eight years as mayor, said Friday he agrees with a recent federal court ruling that overturned a 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns in Washington, D.C. He added that he would appoint judges who take a similarly strict view of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Despite Giuliani’s changing views, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre said: “All I know is, I liked what I heard today. It’s a good thing, if a politician sees the light and supports the Second Amendment.”
Thompson, McCain and Huckabee chose to highlight their record on gun rights in a veiled criticism of Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In 1994, Romney supported the Brady gun control law and said he wouldn’t be the hero of the NRA.
Romney became a lifetime member of the NRA in 2006. He addressed the group by video Friday.
“Let me speak very directly and candidly about where I stand: I support the Second Amendment as one of the most basic and fundamental rights of every American. It’s essential to our functioning as a free society, as are all the liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights,” he said.
Thompson, who makes a point of visiting gun shops and gun shows in early voting states, received a warmer reception from the audience of about 500 people, some of whom stood and cheered when he said: “Our basic rights come from God, not from government.”
Thompson recently indicated that he wouldn’t talk about his faith on the campaign trail.
“It’s not just a matter of promises made, as far as I’m concerned. It’s a matter of commitments that have been kept,” Thompson said.
McCain criticized Giuliani outright, citing the use of the word “extremists” in reference to the NRA.
“My friends, gun owners are not extremists; you are the core of modern America,” the Arizona senator said. “The Second Amendment is unique in the world and at the core of our constitutional freedoms. It guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. To argue anything else is to reject the clear meaning of our founding fathers.
Anti-war protesters from the group Code Pink interrupted his speech and were escorted from the hotel ballroom.
The candidates spoke to the NRA as gun violence occurred on another college campus. Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman.
Such tragedies inevitably prompt politicians to argue over whether more or fewer gun restrictions would prevent gun crimes. Giuliani said he believes the best way to prevent such crimes is to enforce existing gun laws, not create new ones.
The former mayor said his views on gun rights were tempered by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “Sept. 11 casts somewhat of a different light on Second Amendment rights; it maybe highlights the necessity for them more,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani sought to make the case for his candidacy by highlighting his front-runner status in national polls.
“You never get a candidate you agree with 100 percent — I’m not sure I even agree with myself 100 percent,” Giuliani said. “You have to figure out who’s electable, who can win. Because if we make a mistake about that, this country is going to go in a direction that I think you and I very much disagree with.”
Giuliani has said recently that what has worked in New York might not work elsewhere, a notion that Huckabee scoffed at.
The former Arkansas governor said it was “absurd, laughable, that we would have geographic boundaries on the tenets of the Second Amendment.”
Giuliani’s cell phone rang in the middle of his speech; he said it was his wife, Judith, and as the audience laughed, he answered it and had a brief conversation.
10 more days and our bow and mld seasons will open as well as the squirrel season. I have been busy as can be, with prime time here at the bow shop as well as running a dozer or burning everyday. Have had the camera out and taken a few pics and have a buck picked out for Ashlyn. Check him out. Hope we can get him the first weekend while he is still on the summer pattern. I have her little 257 Roberts sighted in and ready to go. She has been practicing shooting off the sticks since we are gonna be in a ground blind and is shooting great. I have her a new shotgun on the way, she is a squirrel hunting nut as well, and wants to try some ducks and geese. I have been fine tuning and fooling with both my hunting bows, tweaking this and that. Then I went and changed rests on my Evotek since the QAD quit on me. It would stay locked up and not go down causing the arrow to hit the dirt at 15-20yds instead of the target. I got a Hostage on it and my Mathews now and have both sighted in with broadheads and ready to rock. Might sneak off to the club one day this week since we have a lot of hogs right now, get rid of some of that edge. I let the girls work on the hogs this summer and I missed out, so now I am ready to shoot something! A hog or a couple does would be a good start. Will let you know how it goes in the next few weeks. Here is the pic
The one in velvet is the target, for her first big buck. I have only let her shoot culls in the past. She has been after me to shoot a good buck the last 3 years and I just kept telling her to shoot the does! She is ready now.0
If you are looking for a high quality,less expensive, concealed carry gun look no further than the Kahr cw series. The cw9 and cw40 and small light and powerfull. Weighing in at 20 oz and being a nice,slim single stack design they are very easy to conceal and carry all day. They are also easy on the pocket book with most street prices around $400.
I have tested both the 40 and 9mm version and am currently using the cw9 for my main carry gun. The cw series have stainless slides with poly frames. They are very impervious to the elements and have showed not even a hint of discoloration or rust when using the mexican carry in the hot summer and getting a lot of sweat on them. The trigger is nice,wide and smooth and is double action only.I do not have a trigger gauge at the time, but even though I know it breaks at around 9-10pds it doesn’t feel near that heavy due to the smoothness. The guns have shot to point of aim with 115gr and 180gr ammo out of the box. That is great for most fixed sight defensive guns have a tendency to shoot other than to the sights. The little guns are very controllable in recoil and fun and easy to shoot. I choose to keep the cw9 due to cheaper ammo and the ability to shoot it more. The guns fed and funtioned flawlessly on a wide variety of ammo and havent once balked, even straight out of the box. No break in was needed, though you should shoot at least 200rds of the ammo you are using through a auto before using for defense. These are slim,single stack guns and hold 7 +1 rounds. The grip is nice and thin and very easy to conceal. It is much thinner than even a 1911. The springs are very stiff compared to a 1911, though not as stiff as the K9 that I had tried before. It may be a litte hard to get into battery for the weak handed women and elderly. Being double action only, there is no safety, only the mag and slide release. You just point and shoot like a good revolver. The only down side to me was the gun was only supplied with one magazine and extras are a little costly. This is a very high quality well fitted pistol that should give years of reliable service.
For a head that flies like a field point,cuts a huge hole, and leaves a lot of blood on the ground you can’t go wrong with the slick trick. These are extremely tough heads made with german steel blades that come extremely sharp. I have pounded this head through hog shoulders at close range and not even chipped a blade. I have one that I practice with all the time and is shot into foam,sand,mud, etc and has held to all of it.
The heads come in 85,100,and 125gr versions. With the 85 having a 1″ cut and the other 2 a 1 1/4″ cuts. These are all 4 blade heads and do massive damage with great penatration. These heads have always shot to my field points out of many different bows. They fly like darts!! Give them a try you will not be disappointed
Savage bolt actions have become the most recommended varmint and target rifles to our readers who write and ask my opinion. I am often asked to recommend handguns, shotguns, and rifles to shooters who are looking to buy a firearm and want to know what I would choose. Sometimes, I have wished that I did not recommend a certain gun when someone buys it, and then it doesn’t work as it should. I have been burned that way a couple of times, so I am very choosy about what I recommend. Whenever I have recommended a Savage, I have never been bitten. The dern things are accurate, and that ain’t just my opinion. Lots of competitive shooters are discovering that a Savage will shoot right along with rifles costing several times the price. Savage has many variations of their heavy-barreled bolt guns, to serve as dedicated bench guns, tactical rifles for police, and heavy varminters for setting up near a prairie dog town.
A little over a month ago, I received here the new Savage Predator Hunter. It is a fully camouflaged medium-heavy barreled .22-250. It is of a size and weight that can serve well from a fixed shooting position for a day on a dog town, and also serve as a walking varminter, being moved from field to field in pursuit of groundhogs or coyotes. With the full camo treatment and lightweight stock, Savage is marketing it towards the coyote hunter, hence the name “Predator Hunter”. Besides the .22-250 chambering, the Predator Hunter is also offered chambered for the .223 or .204 Ruger. The free-floated barrel is twenty-two inches in length, and has a diameter of 1.045 inches at the receiver and tapers to .738 inch at the muzzle. The Predator has the large bolt knob that works very well with a gloved hand. The internal box magazine holds four cartridges in .22-250 chambering, and probably one more in the other two chamberings, but I had none here to verify that. It of course has Savage’s excellent AccuTrigger that is adjustable from about 1.5 to 6 pounds. At its lowest setting, mine measured one pound and ten ounces. In my opinion, the AccuTrigger is the best trigger available on a production rifle today. Because of the AccuTrigger, other manufacturers are making their triggers better than they used to be as well, but I still haven’t seen any that I like better yet. The stock is synthetic, and the action is pillar bedded into it. The stock has molded checkering on the pistol grip and forend, and has a sling swivel stud attached underneath the forend, with another near the toe of the stock. The action comes with two Weaver style scope bases attached, and the sample that I received has a 4 to 12 power Simmons scope mounted that matches the finish of the Mossy Oak camo rifle. It seems to be a pretty decent scope, and has an adjustable objective and one-quarter minute click adjustments. I believe that Savage offers the Predator with or without a scope attached. Without scope, the Predator weighed in at seven pounds, fourteen ounces. That is a pretty handy carry weight. My Savage VSS Varminter .22-250 weighs more than eleven pounds without scope. It is great for a fixed position, but can be a burden to carry all day long. The Predator Hunter is the ideal weight for a walking varminter.
Shooting the Predator proved even better accuracy than I expected. I wanted to try out some of the new Varmint Grenade bullets from Barnes. These little thirty-six grain pills are a hollowpoint design, and have a core made of a copper and tin mixture. They are explosive upon contact with just about anything, especially when pushed to over 4000 feet-per-second from a .22-250. Jessica Brooks at Barnes Bullets suggested that I try Ramshot TAC powder, but I could not find any, so I used one of my favorite .22-250 powders, AA2460. Using the Accurate Arms 2460 powder, I pushed these little jewels 4315 feet-per-second at ten feet from the muzzle of the Predator. For accuracy testing, I mounted a Leupold 6.5 to 20 power target scope. The Simmons that came atop the rifle would probably serve well, but the optics are just nothing like as clear as the Leupold, and I wanted to see how good this rifle could shoot. This rifle with those little Barnes bullets would group better than I can hold, I do surely believe! If I could shoot well enough, I think that they would all go into the same dern hole at 100 yards out of the Predator. Even with me doing the shooting, every group went into under one-half inch at 100 yards. I was very pleased with the performance of the rifle and ammunition. As expected, this is one accurate rifle! I have come to expect no less from Savage.
If you are in the market for a varmint rig that will really perform, I highly recommend the Predator. It is not too light, not too heavy. Just right. The camo finish is a nice touch for setting up calling in coyotes. The .22-250 chambering is great for just about all varmint and predator hunting. With the right bullet, like a Barnes X or Nosler Partition, it is even well-suited for whitetail deer hunting, where legal. A neck shot with the right bullet is easy to make with the Predator Hunter, and ruins very little meat that way. While the camo scope looks good on the Predator Hunter, I recommend that you buy the rifle without the scope, and bolt on a good Leupold. It costs more, but an accurate rifle deserves a quality scope., and you will never shoot to the rifle’s potential without good optics.
