I recently acquired a 62 Sharon hawken. Good shooter and a no-nonsense gun. Congrats to the OP for picking up a ML and getting back into the sport.
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Awesome find! And I hope you have some good luck and a great time hunting next week. Post pictures of your success, and remember successful hunt doesn't always end with a kill!
I have been looking for a Sharon Hawken for awhile. No luck so far, still looking. I do have a never installed Sharon Barrel for a T/C 50 Cal. I need to find a T/C with a bad Barrel to put it on because I know it will be a good shooter!
I have been looking for a Sharon Hawken for awhile. No luck so far, still looking. I do have a never installed Sharon Barrel for a T/C 50 Cal. I need to find a T/C with a bad Barrel to put it on because I know it will be a good shooter!
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I'm having difficulty understanding why anyone has a problem with Snake's posts. I agree 100% with his position. His points are well taken in my opinion.
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Didn't say that at all and i envy you that you live off the land. I'm referring to the ones that take it, don't use it, then throw it out freezer burnt, usually to make room for the next batch. the ones that take a limit of fish, go home change shirts and go out for another limit.
I admire folks like you. I wish I could be more like that but the wife won't go for it. I grew up living off the land. The best years of my life.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
Snake Pleskin
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thank you for the kind words
Snake Pleskin
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any day I am still breathing is a good day.
Walkingeagle
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Likewise.
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People have been ambushing deer to eat as long as people have hunted them.
Snake Pleskin
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agree, but back in prehistoric times up through toady, peoples used traps, pits, driving herds over cliffs, nets, dogs etc etc. That was a matter of life n death survival in many instances. We have very few if any instance of that today. Certainly no need for any of those hunting techniques. While many people eat what they harvest(good) I sincerely doubt anyone will starve if they do not get a deer. To many options today to prevent that. IMHO
I don't mind it at all, in fact I've done it myself years ago.It's the calling it "hunting" that rubs me wrong. What exactly are you hunting for? A clear view maybe
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I'm really not sure what you'd call the sport of shooting a deer. But there is very little actual "hunting" in it.
You are probably right but I do love "ambushing" deer.
Snake Pleskin
54 Cal.
Yes, unless you are still hunting on the ground (without a commercial blind), or still walking ie., very slow walking through the woods, there is no other forms of real traditional "hunting" IMHO. The rest is setting up an ambush. Using tree stands and feeders etc is not quite "kosher" in my view, but then again, It is only my opinion.
Snake Pleskin
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That's a shame that there is added expense to hunting on private land. There is enough cost involved without that. IMHO
Well way back then in the 1700s and even much earlier, most everyone used to climb up into trees and ambush deer and other game from above. Even the native Indians were doing it too. So using a blind isn’t much of a stretch.
Then some of us can’t walk all that much anymore. So blinds become more attractive. I do not hunt deer much anymore. But I do love ambushing the feral pigs out here. Where many people act like you have shot Bambi with deer, they don’t say much when you bag some pigs. I used to have a neighbor who would get all upset with me hunting pigs, then one night the pigs came and literally destroyed his yard front and back. They even tore down a big chunk of his back yard fence too. Since then he has became a advocate for hunting pigs.
Snake Pleskin
54 Cal.
I have to still hunt. I am not good enough to move silently etc. through the woods. I have "ambushed" my deer too, becasue everyone I shot came from behind me, and di not realize I was there. Though I sit in a natural cover from a large blow down etc, The deer obviously did not know I was there. I have gotten up some times to relive myself and found deer tracks 5 ft behind me, and I never knew they were there too!!
I don't like to reply with another pet peeve but let's let this thread get back to it's original topic.
Snake Pleskin
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Sharon barrels and ML's ?
