If someone gave my son $25,000 and told him he could use it on a house down payment or spend it on a hunt with me, I'd be pissed as hell if we went hunting. But since he was 3 we've been hunting together and he has a wall full of great animals on DIY hunts here in CO. My daughter is the same...
After I built mine, I went on a blackpowder and archery spree. The 87 vmax is interesting to me. I love bullet performance at modest impact performance have always have routinely boring performance from all makes of Berger vld. But I bet that 87 would do well. It may be a bit softer than my...
As a young kid I started out with a 7mm Remington. Then a 7mmSTW. Then a 338 win mag. Then a 340 weatherby. Then a 375 Weatherby. Then a 30-06. Then a 6.5-06. Then a 6.5x47. Kind of settled on the 6.5x47, 6.5-284 and 6x45 for hunting stuff these days.
It was a fun road to go down, but if I had...
My 6/45 was built as a lefty using an ARC Nucleus, Hawk Hill 7.5 twist at 18" and sits in a McMillan classic. I shoot 95 vld, 95 classics, 90 eld and 75 vmax, all at or very close to half inch. I can get the 95 stuff up very close to 2600 fps. RL15, Varget and TAC. Brass is basically free as I...
So you buy a canoe for $600, use it for 3 years and sell it for $600. This doesn't seem like a crisis. Personally I love fishing out of a well built canoe for bass and panfish.
They are killing a ton of my KS deer each year. Planning on doing same as you there. Going to try Duke 650 traps with cable anchors. Dirt hole set and perhaps a straw bale set too.
Tractorhouse.com offers nationwide looks at used tractors. I bought a low hours 2022 Kubota L3560 recently and it was $1400 to ship from eastern MO to CO. I mention that only because it saved me a ton vs buying new from local shop. I'll pay a bit more for implements from them for the...
Nonresident odds in Colorado are .0027. Or if my math is right, about 1 in 400. If you have the money just spend a few hundred thousand and get it done.
I'm a canoe lover. Many trips to BWCA and Quetico where light and stable were important. I used to own this canoe when I lived in the midwest. Its 37 pounds and a stable fishing boat. Paddles very easy. Buy once, cry once. But you won't want to leave it out in a wind storm...
We had one for 7 years. Kept it at 101 to 102 all winter. We were glad we had it and we were glad to get rid of it. Comparing electric bills this winter without and previous with, our bill is down around $80 a month each month. The local shop wanted all unopened chemicals back as they are having...
I really just did my main job/business and invested for retirement along the way. I moved around a lot and was forced to paint a lot of houses I owned over the years. I'm pretty good at it and will paint kids or relatives houses as needed as a freebie. I think a guy could probably turn a pretty...
For states with the 6mm requirement, the ARC is of course good. I went 6/223 or 6/45 to take advantage of piles of 223 brass. Its been super easy getting 75-95 grain bullets shooting accurately. Such a fun gun to shoot and totally legal.