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15 year bump!

I'm still up for it!

Missed last year.

17 years and counting!

15 year bump!

I'm still up for it!

Still aint dead yet.

Aint dead yet, despite the rumors.

Deer, elk, birds, fish, I don't mind, I'm always up for anything.  I now have deer in my yard so they're easy. I'd trade an easy deer for ducks and other flying meat chunks.


EPIC 11 year thread!

Contrary to current rumor, the world did not stop and I did not fall off.  However, if anyone is still interested in hunting out here, let me know :)

I read some of the stories. Quite heartbreaking really. Inexcusable however when one considers some idiot was unloading or otherwise fiddling with the rifle while its pointed at someone or something.  Litigation seems the way to relieve one's guilt too, "I've convinced myself I did not touch the trigger when I shot that person so its got to be the rifle's fault".
 
Where's the proof? There are 5 million 700's. If there really was a problem, there'd be 5 million lawyers and we'd all probably have new triggers.
 
News is just opinion. Actually its even worse than that, its just entertaining filler for the gaps between the commercials, never forget that. That show was probably followed by a documentary on cattle mutiliating space aliens being chased by black helicopters piloted by sasquatches. Some people truely believe the earth is flat too.
 
I'll be keeping my 700's. If they send me a replacement trigger, I might try it. Certainly be nice to have a spare. If they don't, I'm ok with that too.

I guess we'll know more when the lawsuit gets decided. They are going to spend thousands more engineering hours on pro's and con's of the good old 'walker fire control' trigger.
 
If Remington loses, I hope it doesn't put them out of business.

I got one last year. There was a big doe with a couple of yearling fawns that took up residence in and around my yard, it helped that I was feeding them grain too.  She'd let me get within 10 yards of her too, its hard to miss with a bow at that range.
 
My 2 young girls got watch the whole thing including gutting and butchering, they thought it was very cool and deer butt on the barbie is now a favorite.

5th year bump!
 
I will not let this thread die!

The X-Mark Pro trigger came out in 2007. They literature says its "It’s also 100% adjustable for pull weight by a qualified gunsmith" but I have seen a couple of forum posts about people destroying them trying.

If I was easily discouraged, I'd have given up hunting long ago

After setting mine a couple of years ago, I've never had an issue with it. I used the instructions to the letter and its been 100% consistant.

Epic 4th year bump.
 
You have to give me credit for persistance.
 

Well I didn't get totally skunked. I peeked over a landing yesterday afternoon west of Forks and south of the Boggie and saw 10 cows. Try as I might, my imagaination could not grow antlers on any of them, nor after about an hour lying in the mud and brambles watching, did any boyfriends wandering out of the timber. They are probably 100 yards away.
 
 

 
 
Some other pictures from yesterday if you are interested. No elk in them though.
 
 
South fork of the Hoh river, upstream of the campground.
 

 
An old growth blue spruce, at least 10 feet at the butt.
 

I think they had the Olympic peninsula in mind when the invented gortex. Forks averages about 120 inches of rain per year and Mount Olympus, over 200.