Recent content by Natty Bumppo

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.

Can't like this post enough! Congrats to the boys....and to you as well Jordan. Raise 'em up right.

Of course there is. There are hard working, family oriented, God fearing, civic minded, gun owning Democrats who are just as patriotic as you think you are. They volunteer in their communities and raise kids right and all that stuff. Their political views are just left of center...whereas...

100% agree. No question. I was just trying to wrap my head around the argument you sometimes hear that crossbows offer no significant advantage over a compound. Never shot one. But it seems to me like they offer some pretty obvious advantages.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to understand. Take a crossbow or a rifle out of the box and you're on paper and hunting in less than half a day. Very easy to kill deer out of the box with a crossbow even for a beginner. And yes agree...probably for most experienced archers they could also do...

I have absolutely no problem with a hunter using a crossbow where legal if that's what they choose to use. I'm sure there will come a day when I have to use one...but I've never used one. Illegal in MA unless you have a doctor's note. Can somebody answer this for me? I am under the...

Two opening days for me. Opening day for VT rifle I'm carrying the venerable Remington 7600 Carbine in .30-06 with a Skinner peep....the stick shift of rifles. MA shotgun opener I'm carrying my Savage 220 topped with a 1x6 Skinner.

Agree. When seen face on I think it does resemble a fox. Profile view not so much. It might also be a Silver Fox....which is a melanistic red fox. But that chest patch throws me off. Definitely could be a hybrid of some kind. Silver fox for reference...

Throwing this out there. The animal that "screams" just before that canid runs away is 100% a fox. I'm going with grey fox. Doesn't look like a coyote much to me at all. The way it's moving, looking around, and the way it scurries away suggests fox. And using some of the other animals to...