Robobiss
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Hey folks. Long time lurker, like a really long time, since I was a young teenager and I’m 29 now, just made an account for the first time to hopefully contribute something valuable here and there.
Mostly a bowhunter for whitetails in my home state and eventually a Moose if I can ever draw a damn tag (stopped applying while in the Marines for 4 years, lost all of my points). Shoot quite a bit, mostly rifles. I do gun hunt as well, but only batting “clean up” for the tags I didn’t fill in archery. Also get into Ruffed Grouse at least a couple times a year. Hunt the midwest as well every once in a while.
I grew up loading bullets with my dad at the kitchen table with a hand press. We weren’t homesteaders by any means but one of my prized possessions is a (beat to shit but still shoots)1969 Model 70 in 30-06 that killed the very vast majority of the meat that I ate (bear, deer, moose) growing up until I moved out at 18. Dad is a Marine too, and the running joke is that Carlos Hathcock probably carried that rifle in Vietnam (model and cartridge are the same as what he carried, being a 1969 model it’s certainly possible but unlikely) because it looks like it’s done a tour or three. The truth of the matter is that it spent too much time in a canoe getting banged against antlers.
He’s an FFL now that he’s retired and has a much, much fancier reloading setup nowadays. I still go over to my parents house on Saturdays and shoot/load bullets (he has a 300YD gong off of the back porch).
Other than hunting I’m into general lifting and fitness stuff, mountain biking, running, and Jiu Jitsu.
Hope this wasn’t too long winded. Appreciate the wealth of knowledge here, hope that I will be able to contribute at times.
Mostly a bowhunter for whitetails in my home state and eventually a Moose if I can ever draw a damn tag (stopped applying while in the Marines for 4 years, lost all of my points). Shoot quite a bit, mostly rifles. I do gun hunt as well, but only batting “clean up” for the tags I didn’t fill in archery. Also get into Ruffed Grouse at least a couple times a year. Hunt the midwest as well every once in a while.
I grew up loading bullets with my dad at the kitchen table with a hand press. We weren’t homesteaders by any means but one of my prized possessions is a (beat to shit but still shoots)1969 Model 70 in 30-06 that killed the very vast majority of the meat that I ate (bear, deer, moose) growing up until I moved out at 18. Dad is a Marine too, and the running joke is that Carlos Hathcock probably carried that rifle in Vietnam (model and cartridge are the same as what he carried, being a 1969 model it’s certainly possible but unlikely) because it looks like it’s done a tour or three. The truth of the matter is that it spent too much time in a canoe getting banged against antlers.
He’s an FFL now that he’s retired and has a much, much fancier reloading setup nowadays. I still go over to my parents house on Saturdays and shoot/load bullets (he has a 300YD gong off of the back porch).
Other than hunting I’m into general lifting and fitness stuff, mountain biking, running, and Jiu Jitsu.
Hope this wasn’t too long winded. Appreciate the wealth of knowledge here, hope that I will be able to contribute at times.
(usually reserved for intros with pix) for the day as you mentioned "White Feather" and are a Marine. CH died in Va. Beach (my hometown) and is interred in Norfolk. My Dad was a Marine too and a Korean War combat vet, and I was also in the Corps. Semper Fi.
