mrcoon

Get one with a wide throat and a quiet motor. Don't shop by horsepower because there are some 3/4 and 1 horsepower units that are small and extremely loud. I have one and am going to buy something different very soon. It's the weston 33-1301-W. It says it will grind 5 lb a minute but good luck shoving that much through it in that amount of time. It's not so bad if you just plan on running solid chunks through it in one pass. The real misery is if you double grind. You also need ear plugs to run the damn thing. I really wish I bought a more commercial style unit the first go round. This thing is more of a small batch tool for the kitchen and not game processing.

My first bow was an XI impact. Loved that thing. XI also came out with the first parallel limb bow. They failed due to being too far ahead of their time and Mathews figuring out how to brainwash everyone.

$450-500 for everything

280AI, 7 Rem Mag or 7mm Backcountry if you want a .284 caliber cartridge.

7PRC is just a hornady fanboy cartridge. It doesn't deserve any of its popularity. It doesn't produce the speed it claims. I thought everyone knew that by now.

All that said you better practice at 300 off a backpack or crummy rest before trying to shoot a deer that far. You will be shocked by how much you suck at first.

Trust me. I don't judge all dog guys by these people. They would bring in a flatbed trailer load and loose them on their 50 acres. They leased the 775 acres of Roy O Martin land next to their property. It gave them a way to run dogs on their lease and not lose it. The dogs would stay on their side for a couple days and they would all end up on us. They would tear up our trash and one even went sleep in someone's bed, lol. They were emaciated by the end of the season. They ended up losing their Roy O property when the land man finally saw for himself what they were doing. They got away with it for many years.

Asio has a unique fit. I ordered their merino base layers, and am seriously thinking about returning them. I can handle the longish sleeves on the shirt, but the bottoms fit almost like pajama pants. You would have to be one big calf M-fer for them to fit correctly below the knee. A coworker warned me about this before I ordered. I should have listened.

A lot of pen deer have white antlers. Something definitely injured that one side while he was in velvet. That's the only thing that says pen deer to me. You would be surprised what is killed along the river that never gets publicized. We used to hunt a place that had a 230" deer on the wall, and part of one side was broken off. They never had it officially scored or entered into any books. A guy killed a 186" out there several years ago and ran to the LA sportsman with it. The land owner got pissed. That piece of shite that charges people with trespassing on Saline lake owns that property now.

Also, the NE LA genetics were downgraded if anything by the imported deer. The literature is available on the LDWF website if anyone feels like digging it up. LA can very easily grow a wild deer like that.

Who the hell said anything about 300 win mags? The recoil hating small bore crowd always resorts to arguing like a woman when the the cartridge they marry themselves to get criticized.

Yes, killing broadside does and spikes doesn't take much. Using a mono or bonded bullet from a 243 or smaller is the smartest projectile choice. You can make a good shot and have a very hard time finding your deer or simply wound it. Yes, small bores can kill anything. However, they are not ideal, and it takes great discipline to use them effectively, meaning you have to give up a lot of shot angles and distance. Bullet choice dictates what shots are possible.

Again, deer hunting with small bore varmint type cartridges will bite you in the arse. People today have become so recoil sensitive it's pathetic. Stop believing the industry on everything. Remember my words when your setup fails. Good luck taking a quartering away shot on a 200# on up buck that over 100 yards away. Get that dog ready. Good luck when those small dia high BC cup n core bullets go to shite on impact. Good luck when you don't have an exit.

22's and 6mm's for serious deer hunting is retarded. Keep that shite in the TX hill country. I had the pleasure of being in a club with 243 lovers. I have also had the pleasure of guiding for years. 243"'s on down the cartridge scale have fed the buzzards well in my time. The last thing I would give a kid is a 243. At least give a them 6.5 CM with barnes or bonded bullets or a 30-30.

When you people get over 100 hundred deer under your belts and have watched over 100 animals of many species get shot come back and talk to trash. It's not if but when shooting baby cartridges will fail you. It's not an if but when shooting exploding bullets like SST, Berger, ELDX, Match Bullets, or other thin jacketed shite cup n core bullet will bite you in the arse. Get some life experience. Frontal diameter and a bullet holding together means everything. Not every lost animal is due to a bad shot and most people are not good shots.

Shoot a cartridge with reasonable diameter, reasonable power, and a bullet that can hold together so that you have some margin for error.

Using varmint cartridges to shoot deer is asinine. That includes the 243. Every time someone brings a bad personal experience the foolishness starts. It's not an if but when it will bite you. The baby gun crowd acts like all the bigger cartridges were developed for no reason. Get out of here with that crap.

Canik Mete 9mm or Sar9

There is nothing more disgusting than a grey duck that's been living in the marsh.

Ringnecks are always good.

I have never personally had a bad spoony.

Until the "duckmen" shite all over bluewings on TV, I had never heard of anyone not liking them.

I have fed pan seared merganser to people and they didn't know any better. Even though it tasted pretty good I couldn't get over what I was eating.