Recent content by Natty Bumppo

Wow. Some beautiful bucks. Congrats.

Nice bucks. Congrats.

I'll answer this two ways. Best forestry practice is to only drop them AFTER they shows signs of EAB infestation. The reason being that you never know if a certain tree might have a natural resistance and will survive. On the other hand, if you wait until they are dead dropping dead ash...

Nice. I can live with a modern site on a classic lever gun. Not a big fan of the M-Lok pic rails you see some manufacturers coming out with. Tacti-cool assault lever guns? About as goofy as bolt action AR-15 uppers.

I've never had an old fashioned but I do like a high-ball. You guys have peaked my curiosity. I'm on it!

Ah that's too bad it was stolen. Mine has shrunk too in the nearly 40 years I've had it. I like my hat so much that I bought a hat stretcher and every few years I soak it in water and then stretch it before the season so it fits again.

Ah, they're not that bad. A blaze orange Jones cap, a green and black checkered wool jacket, and a Remington pump in .30-06....timeless.

I know stylistically they are from a bygone era, but I've worn a blaze orange Jones style hat since 1987. The same one actually. Made in the USA by Cabelas...it has a light Thinsulate layer and ear flaps that fold down or can be worn up. The full brim can be folded up as typically worn, or...

Sad news. He was a good guy. Everyone one of us will walk out of the woods after a deer hunt for the last time. Won't know it then. Be sure to hunt this season like it's your last.

Forgot about one. When I was 18 years old and just getting into turkey hunting I thought I wanted the biggest shotgun I could get so I bought an Ithaca Mag-10. It had three shot capacity and a 30" barrel...it was a goose gun basically. Very effective for spring turkeys. But the thing...

Oh man. Were you moving them to a lake house or something?

I hear ya about the new stuff. I make sure I grab the 37 every now and then for pure sentimentality. Actually when I'm tracking deer in inclement weather in Mass it's my "go to" gun. If it's snowing and blowing wind I'll take that over my scoped slug guns. I've shot two toms with it over the...

Rainy day here in NW Mass. In my gun room, doing some cleaning. Thought I'd post a thread about one of my favorite gun companies and see if anybody else likes an Ithaca. The Ithaca 37 was my grandfather's. He was a lefty and preferred this shotgun because of its downward ejection. I have...

Nice! Great country. Big woods.

Sorry....just saw this today. I hunt in the northern Berkshires. Specifically in a few little hill towns called Savoy and Windsor. I also spend a lot of time hunting Mt. Greylock in Adams and Cheshire.