A New Youtube — Ode to a 30-30 Part 1
I just published a new installment on my Youtube Channel. Please have a look, and be sure to hit Notify and Subscribe.
Continue reading →I just published a new installment on my Youtube Channel. Please have a look, and be sure to hit Notify and Subscribe.
Continue reading →One of our camp’s most productive hunting venues is Jagendehütte, the hunting shed. It is the favorite haunt of our senior member, SuperCore. He spends most of rifle season in the shed and has pulled some of the camp’s biggest bucks out of there. It is also one of the … Continue reading →
After I got my Pedersoli Brown Bess last year, I started realizing how different this was than any other firearm I owned. The ‘Bess was normally fed a diet of paper cartridges. A bore-sized roll of paper was created. The ball went down first. This was tied off on both … Continue reading →
This month marks the beginning of my 20th year doing the weblog. I’m starting something new, a Youtube Channel. In invite you to watch, and be sure to hit the notify and subscribe buttons. KYHillChick won’t let me buy another deer rifle unti this thing starts making money. Enjoy!
Continue reading →The weather was going to be ideal, so I took the opportunity to ride down to the farm and get some chores done. Most of the weekend was spent dealing with the water system. I ended up replacing the shallow well pump and some plumbing in the cistern, but I … Continue reading →
Now that I’m retired, I’ve been looking for something to keep me occupied. When Remnar was out a few summers ago, he brought along a drone and shot some really nice video of the farm. That idea stuck with me, so when I was asked what I wanted for my … Continue reading →
Ketucky’s 2023-2024 Hunting Guide is published Kentucky Fall Hunting Guide The big thing I see is that guys with less than 5 acres will need to start ponying up for licenses and tags. See below
Continue reading →Every year, my whole cabinet of deer rifles erupts with cries of “Take me!” One of the hardest things I have to do is come up with a final list of what’s going and what’s staying. Normally, I’m thinking about it starting 1 August as I’m pulling out rifles for … Continue reading →
Back over Memorial Day, I had the Brown Bess for an exercise to see what size ball shot the best. Last year, I was rather pressed for time and just took the conventional route and shot .69 ball using a paper cartridge. This would have been the standard load coming … Continue reading →
I dug up the head from my 2022 buck over Memorial Day Weekend and I’ve been cleaning and bleaching it. I let it dry all last week and today I mounted it on the wall. This all started back last November. As soon as I got home from deer camp, … Continue reading →
I made it down on Thursday– it’s great to be retired–and was able to spend Friday morning at the bench without interruption getting two projects figured out. 25-06 Mauser When my buddy, O.T., was about to pass, he let me buy his 25-06 custom Mauser. It is an easy rifle … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →“Hunting 16 of 22 days and only getting one bird? Shaman, ol buddy! What went wrong?” Nothing went wrong. It all fell together. It just did not fall together in a pleasing way. Now that I’ve had a couple days in the recliner and a couple nights of 10+ hours … Continue reading →