Recent content by Natty Bumppo

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.

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...