The Hunting Times

Well I ain't got much better to do when the weather won't cooperate and we're all stuck at home, so I worked up a load for my 6.5 Creedmoor. I utilized Scott Satterlee's 10 Round Load Development test method (which is available all over the internet).  I found 2 nodes for the specific bullet weight I was using (120 grain).  I went with the higher powder grain weight in hopes of filling the case and therefore maintaining better consistency (so I thought). From there, I started playing with bullet seating depth and shot 5 rounds each of bullets seated at -10, -20, and -30 thousandths off the lands of the barrel (do the math, that's 15 rounds total).  I found that I was not able to get adequate accuracy from this bullet and gave up on it.  Oh, I will add here that I am shooting all bullets with my SureFire suppressor on the firearm.  I then switched to two heavier bullets and performed the same tests as outlined above.  The heaviest bullet, a 147 grain Hornady, p

I took a single pheasant that we were fortunate enough to harvest last October in Nebraska and cooked him up for dinner.  How do I know it's a male?  Because you are only allowed to kill the male birds - the females get to live and continue to populate the species. So, said rooster went into the pan with some butter and Teriyaki sauce until just starting to brown.  Then he was covered with apple juice to about the mid-way point.  Once boiling, I reduced the heat and stirred in some Duluth Trading 'Tongues A Blazin' jalapeno sauce and a dash of brown sugar.  I was going for the sweet-hot flavor.  I let this concoction simmer while I cooked the wild rice. How do I convince you that this was a wild bird and not some pen-raised copy?  Well, while I was cutting it to put over the wild rice, I found one of the steel pellets used in the dispatch of said wild bird.  The pellet is small and steel.  The red arrow in the picture is pointing at the pellet.  Zoom in if you must to s