Recent content by suburbanhomesteader

I'm still trying to get over why in the world your ex would keep you clothes? It's not like she can use them. Sadly, I have two ex-husbands but they got to keep all their stuff. I just could not make sense of keeping something that was theirs! #1 didn't feel the same, unfortunately, and I lost...

We have a program here in Texas whereby hunters leave their covered stands open for the spring, to provide nesting places for owls. Before I knew of such a program, I was surprised one spring when I went to recover a pair of misplaced binoculars and a great horned owl spooked out of the blind...

Rebecka, thanks for the welcome. I am all for guns and I certainly understanding shooting in self-defense. And if someone asks me to bring a gun, I'll have a few to lend to the cause. But I've had to euthanize a calf mistakenly shot by a deer hunter, and a friend of mine is missing most of his...

Deer hunting is still #1 for me. I hunt as if I'm bow hunting (ie, I'm not taking 240 yard shots) but I use a Remington .243 and most of the time I take does, and hit them just behind the ear so that I don't waste meat. Once in a while I'll hit them in the eye, if they're standing just right so...

I have certainly done a fair amount of urban hunting, although I have a lot 600' deep and 100' wide, so I have a good "firing range" and I am quite sure the topography prevents errant bullets going anywhere. I have been known to use a CB cap in my .22 But I have another question; why not just...

I'll probably get flamed for this, but seriously??!!! One of the first things my dad taught me when I got my first BB gun was "don't shoot at anything unless you know what you're shooting at at can hit it where you want to hit it". 45 years later I can't think of a time I haven't followed...