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Just want to give back to the forum a little bit. Cleaning out the book shelves. I'll never read these again and want to pass them on. Let me know which one / ones you want and I'll ship them off book rate. Just PM me your address. I'll pay shipping too.

Hey guys....think I already know the answer to this, but wanted to get your input. Looking to pick up an early 80's or late 70's Ruger 77 with the tang safety and the fit it with a vintage Leupold scope of the same year. I like older stuff. I also like things that are a little different from...

Thinking about trying a few hybrid chestnut's this spring in a new 3 acre clearcut. The soil is fairly well drained. They will get 100% sun. Just wondering if anybody had any experience growing these in a very cold and snowy zone 5. I am 2,000' elevation and am probably more like a zone 4...

This morning starts my tracking season with the VT rifle opener. Remington pump sighted in....woolies cleaned and missing buttons restitched...and the top put back on my hunting rig after a nice topless summer. There's no snow where I'm going, so I'll be still hunting. Not many deer...

In the Nobel Prize thread Catscratch asked if I had any updated pics from my high school timber frame class. Thought I'd post some up here as I know many of you will appreciate it. I've been teaching this class for about 12 years now and this school year it was the MOST requested course...

Today was the last day of the Mass. spring turkey season. These days it's not about me anymore. I really live to hunt turkeys with my 13 year old, and unless he's available to go out with me, I don't go out. Well, we had a slow season...not too many turkeys on the land. He's been busy with...

Thought I'd take a shot with a WTB ad here on the forum. My son is getting old enough to track and hunt in the Northeast big woods. Looking to pick up a used Remington 7600 in .30-06 for him. Don't really care about condition. Looking for the carbine version with the 18" barrel. Thanks in...

Never heard of this before a random Youtube recommendation video this morning, though I'm sure it's probably old news for some of you guys. Amazing technology. Game changer I would think in terms of deer recovery. Though I do find it ironic that a bunch of Amish guys are using high end...

A long story short...former owner's paid cash for my neighbor's place on 15 acres 5 years ago. They turned it into a 2.5 million dollar pot growing operation. It was busted 2 years ago and went up for public auction. I was the high bidder. I really only wanted the land, as the home is pretty...

Had some success on Monday morning. It was the Mass. shotgun opener. It snowed and rained all day Sunday so we had a decent coat of lite snow Monday morning. The wind was also blowing heavily....a great day for tracking. Got on what I was pretty sure was a small buck track early and followed...

Back in early April I began taking some trees down in a corner of one of my food plots to create more food plot and open up some nearby apples to more sunlight. Been bucking up and stacking the wood and was hoping to get all of the trees on the ground before leaf out so I didn't have to deal...

Had a nice old Sugar Maple (24" DBH) snap off about 20' up last winter. When I had a chance to buck up the crown for firewood I noticed that there was a lot of dead wood and rot at the source of the break. Today I dropped the rest of the tree to get it out of the woods and to a local...

Just last week I was enjoying Swiffy's thread about his daughter getting her first bird...thought I'd title this thread similarly. Went out this morning with my 12 year old...little cold and windy, but we heard a bird gobble on the roost up on a little ridge. He flew down and went silent for...

Thought you'd get a kick out of these trees stands I recently found. If there was ever a museum dedicated to the history of the tree stand....these 3 certainly belong. All 3 were in the same general area I was scouting the last few weeks. I suspect they were made by the same guy....you can...

...well, "new" to me anyway. I have a nice 1986 40 horse JD 990 that I use for all of my plotting, snow plowing, field mowing, etc. But I have a thing for old stuff...trucks, snowmobiles, tractors. I used to run Farmall Cubs on my small 30 acres for 15 years or so, but there are several...

I know it's a long shot, but thought I'd ask. I bought my Savage 220 slug gun the first year it came out and have been really happy with it. Tried all kinds of ammo with it, but eventually went with Remington's 20 gauge 2 3/4" copper solids. My 220 shoots them like a rifle out to 120 yards...

...1972 technology. A 1972 Snow Jet. He's got 7 months or so to wait to use it. But that will give him time to fix a few issues. There's no school like "old school."

Some of you have been following my barn build thread....25x35 Pole Barn Well, after 3 years I finally wrapped it up by adding a flight of stairs to the 2nd story attic space. As I was designing and building the stairs I had one of those "light bulb" moments and built in a little flip-down...

Many of you guys know that I am a high school teacher. I think many of you know that I am also a conservative/libertarian type. I kill deer. I own AR15's. I have enough ammo stockpiled to start a small war. I'm a vet. I stand for the flag. I kneel to pray. In a profession filled mostly...

Piggy backing on Native Hunter's thread....my grandfather was (and is) my hero. It's because of him I hunt and fish and enjoy all things out of doors. He was of the "greatest generation"....born in the 20's, grew up poor in a rural mill town, dropped out of school at grade 8 to work in those...