Recent content by spencer rifle

Too many hours travel from NE Ohio, no place to stay in town.

Yeah, not looking forward to the shorter and later seasons in OH. My beautifully tuned Tikka T3x in .308 and Fierce Fury in 300WM will have to be relegated to LD target, and I will have to kit out and accuratize the crossbow and 10mm carbine. Still not convinced I need to go back to shotgun...

Split pea soup with ham, garlic toast, bourbon barrel ale. No pics, because: Years ago met someone on the AT at a shelter who said - "Remember back in the day, when you got your film camera, took a picture of dinner, finished the rest of the roll, dropped it off at the developers, waited a week...

I’ve lost enough of them…

I do have a .45 cap lock with set triggers for ML…

One site is partway to Auburn, and the other is up in Butler.

Sounds like INGO, where thread derailments are SOP. Grew a thick skin long ago.

Will 10mm work?

One day hunt journal (in Indiana). Next season I will be hunting my brother's property in Athens County. Current hunted properties: 1. A friend's farm near Butler, IN. He wants deer reduction - if it's brown, it's down. Two tree stands, patch of woods surrounded by farmland. 2. Deer...

Sortilege Prestige maple whiskey. Christmas present picked up at the duty free store near Montreal by oldest daughter.

Leo/Fort Wayne

Cuyahoga Falls.

Oh, and I do own a Spencer rifle. Original metal, replacement wood. From the serial number range it might have been issued to Wilder's Lightning Brigade in 1863. I have a centerfire block installed and use modified 32 gauge shotgun shells for blanks.

Since I will be retiring later this year and moving back to NE Ohio, thought I'd get a jump on an Ohio forum. Been a member in good standing at INGO here in Indiana for many years. OSU grad (so is SWMBO), work in parks and nature education since 1978, deer hunter (300WM, .308, crossbow)...