I've already had my BLR .308 out in western Montana and brought in a cow elk with 180 grain Remington core-lokt. Deer season I'll be hunting eastern Montana with the BLR shooting 150 gr. core-lokt, searching along creeks and in timber for white-tails and muley bucks. I'll have my old Browning safari...

My first deer was a nice 4 point mule deer shot above the north fork of the John Day River in Oregon in 1976 when I was 16, with the Browning auto 300 win mag I bought with my paper route money. My dad didn't hunt and didn't like guns but he could see that's what I wanted and let me find my own way ...

I know it isn't really a gun shop but I love Gun Broker - if you can't find it there and get a decent price by being patient, it doesn't exist. Closer to home, Sportsman's Surplus in Missoula's scenic Tremper Shopping Center. Good guys, plenty of choices and everything else a guy needs for make the ...

Sanchez, I appreciate a voice in support of individual rights and personal freedoms. Not to say that what everyone here has offered is anything less than a free exchange of ideas, but I do see a tendency to condemn ideas or behavior that diverges from the dearly held personal notions of some writers...

The older I get the less certain I am of the opinions I've developed over my life. This is one difference between fundamentalists and agnostics (religious, 2nd amendment, taxation or otherwise): fundamentalists are able to hold firm to their core beliefs regardless of new information or thoughtful p...

I appreciate all your replies. It is true that the term "lefty," besides referring to my brother the southpaw, describes Socialists and other discredited fundamentalist political sects, who toe their party line regardless of what makes sense. I think there's too many line-toers out in the ...

Where in Oregon were you hunting? The picture looks like the country up near Condon. My wife's family is from near south of there where we see some nice bucks in the alfalfa, but when the season comes they head up into the rims and down in the canyon and make hunters work hard.

Here is some food for thought that might provoke an interesting discussion: I am a total lefty and I love guns and hunting. More than that, I have a lot of lefty friends who both hunt and own guns. Is that okay with you guys? I see a lot of liberal-bashing on this page and others like it, but I thin...

The wolf is as much a native of this land as any one of us and a darn sight more competent in making a living than most. When we reintroduced wolves here in the Rockies there was a plan that when they got to a certain population, which is where they are now, they'd be pulled off the Endangered Speci...

This elk was taken at a little under 50 yards in heavy timber. I glimpsed two other cows and one bull (couldn't tell how big but pretty nice judging from the length of the one antler beam I saw) but did not get a clean look at any but this one. Tough country to see animals for a shot.

JDL, I was shooting off-the-shelf Remington Core-lokt, 180 grain PSP. The bullet entered in front of the right shoulder (you can see the light bleeding in the picture), through the lungs and lodged between the ribs and hide on the far side. She ran about 30 feet and fell down. Since the heart was in...

This elk came from the Mineral Peak area, on the east side of the Rattlesnake Wilderness just north of Missoula. There is a large elk herd that winters north of town where the subdivisions are growing fast and state biologists are trying to get rifle hunters on the elk early to cut their numbers. Of...

I can't resist posting pictures of the first elk taken with the Browning BLR in .308 I picked up last year. What's not to like about toting a 36 year-old lever gun (even a new fangled one) in the dark Montana timber and putting down an early-season cow to fill the freezer? I hope the picture links w...