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My Dad was an avid trapshooter (so was I). I restocked his Winchester M12 with a beautiful piece of presentation grade walnut and checkered it. Made it about 40 years ago.

It was a great book!

I had a guy who did laser engraving do some faux checkering on the forend of my lever 73. A little hard to see, but very functional and is easy to grip.....no slipping of my hand. Reasonable too. I think it cost me $125.00.

Checkering is like any precision, detail work, you need lots of practice. I used to make stocks and did checkering. ( made about 200 stocks) You need a good set of tools. The wood you do must be pretty hard, like a good dense walnut. Cheap low density wood generally does not checker well. You...

My propane bill has doubled.

Prepping (harrowing) my field for irrigation season and found the first shed of the year for me. My Lab will love to chew on it.

Being 80 years old means that every year I don't hunt is one less for me. I am not going to worry about fuel costs for my recreation (off roading, boating, camping, hunting & fishing). I worked for 4o years to enjoy my retirement.

Like I mentioned in my post, I started seeing lower numbers 5 years ago and they only quit offering doe/fawn tags 2 years ago. A little too late. I won't be applying for doe/fawn tags at all this year in Wyoming, just hunting here in Colorado this year.

In the areas I hunt antelope I have noticed a gradual decline in the number of animals and especially does & fawns. I am thinking the extended drought has really effected their habitat.

I have posted here before that in the last 5 years I have seen a big decline in antelope number in the units I usually hunt. The proposed cuts in tags reflect that the biologists and wardens are doing their jobs.

Spot on buddy! One thing I've learned during my 80 years on this good earth is that people don't like change. You want to get them riled up, just change something that they have taken for granted and enjoyed for years. I was not a Marine, but I like what they say....adapt & overcome!

The last week or so, I have seen 7 or 8 bucks at my place running around with one antler. It is time.

Just paid my irrigation bill and it looks like we are going to get between 90 & 100% of our normal allotment. I n 2 weeks we will get 4 days of stock water so we can fill our stock ponds.

I pay attention to colors more than patterns.

I have a telescope that I do used occasionally. Lucky down here in SW Colorado to have great skies with little ground light. I also have an AP on my phone that identifies what stars and galaxies I am looking at, just point the phone at the sky. Kinda cool.

If you can find a website that will backorder some , I'd do it. The trouble is that when they put you on "notify me when it comes in" the item usually is gone in 5 minutes or less.

The price of resident tags would be raised a bunch, maybe double or triple what they are today. If Colorado had no non resident monies, the residential cost of all licenses, tags and parks cost would go out of sight. I lived in California all of my life until I retired and moved to Colorado in...

Well millions of people must have flunked 3rd grade math, they buy lottery tickets every week! As a resident you have your opinions and I have mine as a nonresident. Wyoming is flunking Hunter Relations 101.

I don't have any idea how much you have invested in sheep points in all the states that have hunts, but I am sure it would be enough for a nice down payment on an Alaskan or Canadian sheep hunt. As far as Eastman articles, IMHO they have to do something to get our attention to a situation that...

I agree with lots of what has been written, but the real problem is the people who have been buying points for years. They got punched in the gut. Lets say someone is 35 years old and has 10 to 15 sheep points in the bank. They probably won't draw a tag and get a chance to hunt a ram until they...