They sure are. This was the best recovery and deer drag I ever did. Hitched a ride from the stand to the deer. Loaded up the deer and got a ride back to the shop. How does it get any better.them tractors are good for skinny little does too.[emoji23]
With the smaller hotter calibers such as 243, bullet construction and type comes into play as well. There are many articles written on this. Bullet may fail to penetrate at close range because it comes apart at screaming velocities or fail to open up at longer ranges because it’s going slower. Definitely more to it than ftlbs of energy. Hunting off or on a motorized vehicle in Mn is a no no.
Yep, it is a no-no in MD now. Used to be all farmers carried a 22 or something for ground hogs, can't even do that now.
no that was the locust tree(see,stihl on topic
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It's never too cold or snowy to chop wood. That's when I do most of my splitting, just to get some exercise in the winter.
I'm little. 5'8" with boots on. 150lbs. 170lbs fully clothed soakin wet. I hate swingin that Isocore but nothing else even comes close to splitting all the treeline/fenceline twisted grain ashfromhell I got. For months I read other guys talkin about how easy ash was to split and I just about wanted to quit. Until I got a strait one. I was absolutely flattened by how much easier it is to split huge strait-grained ash logs versus twisted grain. Got my confidence back after some strait grain stuff. I beat my brains out on twisted ash and twisted sugar maple for a YEAR before I got anything that split the way it was supposed to, but now that I am so used to splitting with the isocore thats all I use. Hell with the weak stuff. I just don't split all day. Split for a while and when I get tired I quit and do somethin else. I'm not in a hurry. I can almost split a winters worth of wood in a week. Here in central Ohio we dont get very bad winters. Jan and Feb are the worst, and the last couple years Feb has been 60F some days. I like swinging the x27 way better, it just doesnt split alot of the stuff I have. The guys that get fairly strait grain conifer breeds have cutting/splitting easy, but we benefit over them with the longer burn/coal times of the heavy stuff.
Man I'm glad we don't get that. The biggest snow I have seen in the last 3 years is 4"(INCHES)
I tried that last winter. I would get sweaty in the cold and wind then chilled. I got the flu TWICE last winter because of that. I don't do that anymore. I wait till September when the humidity is lower and split then. I just use saws in the winter now.It's never too cold or snowy to chop wood. That's when I do most of my splitting, just to get some exercise in the winter.
Not a great pic but this is my page wire fence. Posts are about 5’. Sometimes it gets high enough to ride the sleds over the fence. We get it off Lake Huron and Georgian Bay depends if wind is from west or north. It’s also mild here because of the lakes so we get a bunch and it melts and repeat until scrounging season!
