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My wife can hang a lot of clothes on her elliptical. That's all I know.

Here is my NM muzzleloader coues buck that I was able to harvest this past weekend. Shot him at 52 yards with my paramount.

I know it’s not chambered in 38 special and I did some digging around the interwebs to come up the short Colt and 38 S&W. I was leaning more towards the short Colt but it sounds like I could be wrong. Thanks for all the info guys!

A hunters first lion with his own dogs, Congratulations, great accomplishment!

I had an opportunity to do my 2nd DIY moose hunt in Alaska this year. I traveled to a remote village with an old friend and we spent 6 days with our friends who live in this village. It is always important to be reminded of what it is like to live in the bush and realize how challenging life can really be. This is a special place. But, sometimes the wrong kind of people are discovering these areas. We see how trophy hunters and a few guides have caused quite a disruption to the way of life up here. It is not uncommon to see hindquarters sitting in the sun on a pallet at the airport. Chunks of meat dirty and rotting away. Some guys go out to areas for the sole purpose of shooting a 60 plus inch moose. The problem is that these big bulls need to be left to breed another season. Not to mention, the meat on big musky bulls has to be hung for at least a week in order to get rid of all the smell from testosterone running through their bodies. Most people don't have this kind of time. So leaving a hunt with a 40 to 50 inch bull is okay with me. It equals great meat and a respectable rack. But, most importantly, respect from the locals........ Day 1 - Rain all day, no live bulls seen. Day 2 - Sunny all day. 13 bulls seen. 5 cows seen. One bigger bull passed up due the difficult of the pack out. Three of us in the boat and we are all over 50 realizing our limitations we decided to look for something closer to the river. We spotted a bull feeding in the shallows of the side channel. As we got closer I decided it was a nice bull. I raised the 375 Ultra mag and shot him in the lungs, between 2 ribs. Bull ran and we saw the pink blood. He turned to go into the willows, so I shot again and hit him low in the front leg. He turned again and ran into the main channel. He is running like he was not hit. I waited for him to exit the river and shot him in the head. The last thing we wanted was for him to travel into the wilderness. But, at the same time, you do not want a bull dead in the river. Well, instead of him dropping on the shore, he flew backwards into the river. Trying to keep the motor out of the rocks, reaching for the bull and hanging on to antlers and not having a workable reverse all turned into a challenging situation really quickly. Two of us grabbed the bull, while our buddy controlled the boat and found a piece of shore a few hundred yards down river. Tied up the boat and used a come along to get the bull on shore. One guy working the come along and two of us pulling the moose and we could barely move it. We laid out some tarps and got to work. If you have never handled a moose, here is the break down into 10 manageable pieces - neck, brisket, rump, 2 sides of ribs, 2 front quarters, 2 hind quarters, head. Put all the meat in game bags and on a clean tarp in the boat and got back to the village at dark. Day 3 - Snowed all day and night. Started butchering that night. Day 4 - Snowed all day. Butchered and wrapped meat all day Day 5 - Finished butchering, wrapping and grinding meat. Day 6 - Flew back to Anchorage with 400 pounds of deboned meat. Stayed with another friend in Anchorage and filled up his spare freezer with the meat for the night. Day 7 - Flew back to Phoenix with the meat in totes lined with foam board. Each tote held 90 pound of meat. All the meat stayed completely frozen. My friend and I each lugged a soft cooler of 40 pounds of meat onto the plane. He gave me grief the whole time! Basic hunt. Nothing fancy. Just good, down to earth people and incredibly good meat.

Trying to clear some closet space and build up funds for more suppressor ready toys. New unfired, picked it up in a trade from a buddy of mine. I’ll include two sets of Talley rings 30mm (in picture) and a set of 1” both in medium. $550

We had bad weather on opening weekend and got lucky on the second weekend. We were able to glass the herd bedded under an oak at 7:30 am and the herd didn’t get up til 9:45 am. Once they started feeding we began our stalk. Pops got off a 19 yard shot with the crossbow and I was able to get a 15 yard shot with the recurve.

All bullets have been sold

From my experience that is a 38S&W.

Walmart recently has been selling a nice stevens youth 20g. For around $220 I picked one up for my daughter it's been working great. Put a few box's through it quail and dove hunting. And 2 weeks ago put a couple box's of hand load 3in steel duck hunting. P.s. if it's not on the shelf ask what they have in stock in the back. They don't put all guns in stock on the shelf.

Try Buffalo arms. They produce quite a few of the old hard to find calibers. https://www.buffaloarms.com/

Would help to know the actual pistol, is it the Colt Police Positive? In .38 it was chambered in .38 S&W and much later the 38 Special not .38 Colt SC. I believe the .38 SC began life as a metallic cartridge for the old Colt cap and ball conversions. It's the parent round for the later Colt Long, 38 Special and .357.

Yes the 38 SC ammunition uses a heeled bullet. Good info here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeled_bullet

So if I remember right the 38s&w is loaded with a .361 bullet vs .357 for the 38colt. Same casing I believe but a bullet like a 22LR that is externally same diameter as the case. I’m sure you could load from the brass but I’ve heard some 38 sc guns will chamber them and some won’t.

I have a top break in 38 S W. The caliber goes back to the 1870s. Date your pistol. If it's over 100 years old it may have been designed for black powder. My Iver Johnson .38 short was manufactured for BP use up to 1925. I understand Buffalo Bore makes .38 S&W self defense rounds. You may find some ammo here.. https://www.ows-ammo.com/ammunition

There's a guy in south-central Wyoming that had a few boxes. Yes...it's that hard to find and might be worth a trip for you!

The only place that seems to have any is unfortunately Gunbroker .

Not sure if you reload but I know you can make the brass by cutting down 38 special cases. It’s to the 38 special what the special is to the 357 mag, just a matter of length.

My application is in. Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to reply both here and the numerous PMs I received. It really helped to solidify my thoughts and now I just sit back and wait, fingers crossed that the vicious point creep doesn't bite me in the butt....

I hope everyone has that attitude!!

Was able to tag out on this guy yesterday evening. Snuck in and he walked right in front of me at 50 yards.

Tessa had a tag for the Navajo reservation we had gone up on January 2nd to hunt it was brutally cold single digit temps and we did not know it but we both were in the early stages of covid. The first day found us looking at roughly 40-50 different bulls. The wind was blowing in the wrong direction for us to do much without spooking all the elk. The second morning we found a herd of bulls with several of them looking to be 390 plus. We had a target bull that was some where in the 380 range we probably could of had a good chance of killing him but elected to go after the bigger bulls. Well as luck or bad luck would have it this herd crossed into the park once in here you can not hunt them and amazingly they seem to know it. We waited all day for them to come back out but they did not. With us both feeling sick we decided to return home. On the reservation you have to have a guide the guide we was using had another hunter coming in anyway . We returned for the following Thursday morning things had changed dramatically, we saw about 10 bulls in the same areas we had seen as many as 50. After finding this bull about two miles away up a canyon with 3 other bulls . We put a plan together after a 1.5 hour hike we were in position for Tessa to be able to harvest this elk. He was just shy of 360 his teeth were wore down to the gums he had to be very old doubtful he would survive another winter. I do not know how many more hunts i have with her because she has a boy friend now i will cherish them all. She has an oryx hunt on the White Sands Missile Range next month. I hope she gets one i here the meat is excellent.

23. I let bulls walk in that unit just because of where they were. Packed one solo out of a canyon with thigh high snow drifts. Swore I would never hunt elk again. Better get in shape and eat your Wheaties.

Anybody ever read Pat McManus' story about huntin' rigs? Basically, any rig your buddy owns is a "nice little huntin' rig" It could be a Toyota Corolla and you compliment him on the short wheelbase and front-wheel drive to help climb steep dirt roads...... Years ago had a buddy and we both had "company trucks" mine was a 2000 chevy 2wd long bed and his was an '04 F150 2wd lb and I complimented him on the higher clearance than my Chevy. That weekend we were boondocking in the F150 for mulies and he almost put a rock through his oil pan. The look he gave me was priceless. A cross between being pissed and disbelief I talked him into it. The take-away is the best huntin' rig is the one your buddy owns, no matter what it is. 🤣

FullSizeRender.mov My Hunt started on Monday, December 27th I was able to tag out by mid day on a huge ram. We spotted my ram in a herd with 42 other rams early in the morning. We made a plan on how to work close enough to the ram for a shot. When we had hiked about half way to there morning location they had moved towards us. Luckily we were able to spot them before they could see us. After setting up for the shot we had to patiently wait for him to get up from his bed and change his position. Once he did I took my shot. Both horns measure 33inches with 13 inch bases