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It’s been a quite awhile since I’ve posted. Here are the two bucks I’ve killed in southern Arizona. One was 2022 the other was this year.

It's a midcentury Old Hickory skinning knife, ordered by Shapleigh to be stamped with their name. Lots of knife makers sold generic knives to butcher suppliers, grinding companies, hardware stores. Dexters, Russells ect... cast iron cookware companies like Wagner/Griswold did the same, to be sold for less. It's not worth a lot of money, might get 20 to 30 bucks. I've sold the couple of Shapleigh knives I've owned with any old hickory or forgecraft. It's worth much more to you as a cool knife to use, easily gets razor sharp. I recently sold about 50 carbon steel knives, extras from my butcher boxes, still the box is full of my more favorite ones. Kent

Coues tag started Dec 15 on Ft. Huachuca and I hadn’t had much time to hunt, so I broke away on 30th for a quick day trip. Hit the road at 3:30 AM, buck down by 8:30, and back home by noon. Glassed all morning, only picking up does and no sign of bucks. I was just about ready to pack up and move when I gave it one last look. Caught a flick of movement that gave him away. He was tucked in perfectly—never saw his head or antlers—but his body size told me he was a buck. He was about 400 yards out with no shot, so I ditched my gear and closed the distance to 225. At first I couldn’t find him and thought he might’ve slipped out, but after slowing down I picked up his legs in the same spot—standing now, still no shot. If he dipped, I was done. Instead, he turned in place and bedded back down, opening up a small 12-inch window through the brush. That was all I needed. He never made it out of his bed. Shout out to all the guys on here that gave me some knowledge and pointers! Thanks a ton! Tried adding more pics, but wouldn’t let me got some reason.

Would you consider $500 for it?

This Ruger was made in 1977 (no warning label on the barrel), has Magna-Tusk grips (AZ Custom Grips), a Belt Mountain cylinder pin, action and trigger job, and in very good condition. Sun Lakes area. $550.

Came across some good deals on parts and decided to put another one of these together. Shooting some paper next week to see how she does. lightly used 7mm 1:8 barrel cut down and rechambered at 19” long and added 5/8 24 4 port Ti brake. Timney trigger 1.4 lbs Rem 700 trued and lapped with .250 lug, scope base and action bedded to MDT chassis with 3 rnd mdt 30/06 mags cip length for those 195 bergers. Weighed in at 11 lbs no scope right where I like em. Planning to test with Can as well putting the over all length under 26in with can.

perfect as usual

Some recently finished skulls. If anyone needs a Euro, give me a call. 928-595-1554

Not a knife expert but google found this about it. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1870335970/vintage-shapleigh-meat-cleaver-old?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

I have some money tree seeds for sale…..just can’t guarantee they will grow. 😝

Years ago my son bought me a Diamondbacks hat and him and his mom had number one dad embroidered in it. It's basically the only hat I wear hunting or not. Funny story is my dad also bought me the same exact hat for my birthday that year and I've never worn it. I only wear this hat my son got me that says number one dad.

Thanks everyone! I use to load my own 12ga for predators and patterned everything. We shot some dove loads before dove season but I had no idea he was going to enjoy jumping ponds this much. I have never patterned steel but I'm going to learn now. I picked up #2s, #1s, and #6 today. We will spend some time getting him set up. Those mergansars weren't great but trying to keep an 11yo from shooting a legal duck is hard. The mallards and geese were much better.

I will ship for free, or reduce price by $100. I am Headed to Chandler/ Phoenix area this afternoon and can deliver. I would need to know by 11:00 AM today in order to load it in the car. I am selling my high quality like new Browning SA 22 semi automatic take down rifle. This is in excellent condition with a Browning take down hard case. The pictures show the wonderful condition. The rifle is topped off with a Leupold VX II 2x7 Compact scope, has after market sling swivel studs installed. This rifle was manufactured in Belgium in 1971 and is 55 years old. It has hand checkered wood and hand engraving. Im the 2nd owner and never shot it. Based on the condition I am guessing only fired it a few times. I am located in Tucson. $1100 $1000 if picked up at my home or I can also ship for actual cost. I also will be in PHX this coming Monday if someone wants to meet me there. I will respond in the order I receive PM’s or someone stating I will take it. Thanks Phil

A real beauty & quality gun. 👍

My wife just had the same surgery done this last Tuesday. They relocated the bicep at the same time. She is in a sling until she goes back in to the see the Dr on the 24th. But he said that after the first few days once the original bandages come off and she can shower she could exercise the elbow a little so that it doesn't freeze up. And little circular motions with her arm hanging straight down. So far, so good. It is important to stay on top of the pain. Don't try to be the guy that just deals with the pain. It will make it way worse.

I’ve had 3 shoulder surgeries done. 1 was rotator cuff and other 2 labrum tears. IMO shoulder surgery sucks. It took close to a full year on each surgery before everything seemed right. Long journey. Very, very important to take it slow during the earlier recovery phase. I rushed one of mine due to feeling good and ended up doing damage. It’s a long process. Hopefully things go easy for you. Mine were done 25 yrs ago so might be better now. Good luck with it!!

I ruptured the long head of the bicep tendon and had massive and irreparable damage to the supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons. The surgeon said I had a max of 2 years before I would need a reverse shoulder replacement. That was 8 years ago. I get PRP treatment about once a year and am completely pain free. I had a 40% tear in the other shoulder and took PRP treatments in that shoulder rather than surgery. It repaired it. I have limited strength overhead in my bad shoulder but have complete range of motion and good strength in any position but overhead.

It really depends on the severity of your damage. Sometimes screws are needed for labrum repair in addition to the rotator. If so, the recovery is more involved opposed to what someone with less invasive surgery would need. I had my rotator and labrum repaired in 2016 but no screws needed. I don’t feel my recovery was terrible nor was the pain but mine was entirely scoped. Your surgeon can give you more info on what exactly is being done so you can get a better idea. Good luck.

No expert. That looks like some kind of a meat cutting knife. Shapleigh was a hardware store in St. Louis that sold all kinds of products. I recently inherited a box of stuff that was my Grandfather's. There was a pocket knife that was stamped Bridge Cutlery Co St Louis. It was an brand of knife that was made by Shapleigh, and they also had a couple of other brands, one being Keen Cutter if memory serves. The bottom knife in the pic is the Bridge Cutlery Co.

Thank you for the positive comment. It’s just time to pass a few guns on. More will be posted over the next few months. I just need to sort through all I don’t use. Slowly I will put these up for sale.

For many years I had a “lucky” hat that always seemed to be present in pictures. I noticed the last few animals I had a specific shirt. Now deemed my lucky shirt. Anyone else have a lucky shirt or hat??

No. But can I borrow yours so I can kill giants like you do?!?

This is an awesome post! Glad to see he’s getting after it. If you’re really wanting to get technical, pattern those 4’s and see what’s up. A 4 shot steel has more than enough energy to break a wing or neck or skull on any duck out there to 50 yards. Most guys switch to bigger pellets when they really need to go the other directions. I shoot 6 and 7 shot steel and bismuth most of the season here in ND. I’ll drop to 5’s if the wind is really blowing. Use 3’s and 4’s for geese. I never go bigger than 3’s for anything. I’ve watched a 3 shot steel pellet break a wing on a goose at 75+ yards many many times. Wingshooting is all about one pellet doing the work, if that one pellet has the energy at a given range, then don’t go any bigger as all that does is cut your odds of a pellet finding a home. You don’t kill ducks and geese with body shots, unless they’re real close, in that case any pellet will work. If you take some BB’s and 4’s to a patterning board at 40 yards it’ll open your eyes as to how important pattern density is. I have far far fewer cripples since ive moved to smaller shot. If i were to offer one piece of advice to him, it would be to take that big fiber bead off the gun. I take all the beads off all my guns, you need to be looking at the bird not the bead and that big bead will completely block it out. The old saying is “if you’re seeing the bead you’re aren’t seeing the bird” and I cant agree with that more.

My brother found some rutting