Recent content by Natty Bumppo

Selling a gently used 16" AR15 upper receiver and some random parts. Old school handguards with a pic rail and removeable carry handle. This came off a Daniels Defense lower, but I really have no idea the maker. $200 plus shipping for the upper and VLTOR charging handle. Also...

I quite literally just asked Bill yesterday if I am allowed to post an AR upper for sale here on the classifieds. He gave me his blessing. Should I send you a few pics via PM? It's a 16" with a pic rail, removable carrying handle...came off a Daniels Defense.

Yeah, it's funny I am on a 760/7600 group on FB and I've had a few guys tell me they want the rings. The scope is a Tasco 3x9. I don't think it's anything great. The glass is a little hazy.

Well, I just spent some cash I had set aside for my next range toy on a Remington 760 in .30-06 that I couldn't pass up. But, I am with you. I am specifically looking for a Savage 99...in .243 or maybe 30-30....a classic whitetail lever gun.

Yes Bows....I think you're onto something. Not that I care too much from a moral or ethical standpoint, but I have often wondered IF a game warden was to happen upon my newly felled trees and my tree stand, would that technically be a game violation? I can do food plots in MA, but no baiting...

Red maples are the work horses of the forest in these modern times. No more chesnut, EAB killing all the ashes, spruce and fir decline, Beech bark scale disease and now the beech leaf disease, hemlock adelgid, dutch elm, that white pine beetle...black cherries are starting to get a little funky...

I am always on the lookout for Remington 760's and 7600's. The 760 BDL's are a favorite of mine only because this was the first rifle my grandfather handed down to me when I was a kid back in the 80's. I just picked up another 760 BDL Gamemaster in .30-06 this week....didn't really need...

Sorry...was my discussion the Maine Northwoods off topic? Not sure if 3 years of observations is concrete. But interesting nonetheless. There is nothing more concrete than chasing 4 and 5 year old bucks in Northern Maine unaided by any technology as per the OP's original post. They are...

Interesting. Man, glad we don't have wolves. How about logging? One of the things northern Maine has going on is massive logging. The amount of deer habitat that produces is simply mind boggling. Is there private logging company land or timber trusts doing any logging? Or even the MN/WI...

Great video. That is DEEP snow!

I wish I knew more about the traditions and history of the mid-west big woods. I'm sure it's similar to the Northeast big woods. The one thing northern Maine has going for it is the massive amounts of logging. All of that logging equals massive amounts of early successional growth. Tens of...

I'm going to circle back to a comment I made early in this thread about the glory days of hunting. In Northern Maine and NH, VT and the Berkshires of MA, and in the Adirondacks...the glory days are alive and well. Hunting the big woods of the Northeast, especially Maine, feels old. The...

I believe they are Bows. After just a day or two of starting my ritual TSI every year I get deer showing up. In fact, my target buck disappeared entirely from my land right around the end of November just after I tagged out. Didn't get a single pic of him the entire shotgun or muzzleloader...

I try to manage the natural landscape as much as possible always keeping in mind that deer like to flow like water through it. To facilitate this "flow" I cut very narrow trails to encourage deer movement where I'd like them to move. I will also drop massive spruce and fir trees to discourage...

I dropped the last of my dead ash trees today. I still have many dozen that are still healthy and thriving. These were the last of the trees I marked this summer for removal. I also dropped about 6 or 7 huge spruce trees. Trying to get some light on a small food plot. Almost all of them...