Kanuck
06-17-2002, 02:30 PM
Good day one and all.
I would like to take this opportunity to make a belated introduction. I say belated because I have been enjoying this forum and the other associated site at Beartooth very much for the last few weeks. Also, I have taken advantage of the opportunity to make a few posts myself already. Please excuse me for not having introduced myself first.
Hunting and shooting have been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. I grew up in northern Ontario in a place called Timmins. Big moose and blackbears were a common sight in my youth with plenty of sightings in town.
I now live in New Brunswick, a couple of hours from the Maine border, on a 200 acre farm with my wife and three children. The kids are fascinated by hunting and shooting and I hope to pass on this heritage to them as they grow up. Even my wife, who is not a hunter per se, manages to keep the foxes separated from our hens with judicious use of a T/C Contender Carbine in .22LR.
Like many shooters, I have owned a whole bunch of different stuff over the years and regret some of the trades/sales made in the past. I have only owned one lever gun in the 25 years I have been an active hunter/shooter which I shot for awhile and traded for something else. Most of my guns have been scope sighted bolt and single shot rifles but the more I hunt in the North East, the less I feel I need this kind of armament. The simplicity of an aperture sighted lever action and a big cast bullet is very appealing to me now.
I have been reloading for more than 20 years but have never worked with cast bullets, except in 9mm pistols when I was shooting IPSC. I had no idea just how advanced they were and certainly never considered using them for hunting! This site has changed that thinking!
Anyways, thanks for giving shooters everywhere such a useful resource related to lead bullets and the arms that shoot them. As the other Canadian members of this forum can attest, finding hardware and components for shooting is a lot tougher here than in the US, but the rewards are the same.
Good shooting!
I would like to take this opportunity to make a belated introduction. I say belated because I have been enjoying this forum and the other associated site at Beartooth very much for the last few weeks. Also, I have taken advantage of the opportunity to make a few posts myself already. Please excuse me for not having introduced myself first.
Hunting and shooting have been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. I grew up in northern Ontario in a place called Timmins. Big moose and blackbears were a common sight in my youth with plenty of sightings in town.
I now live in New Brunswick, a couple of hours from the Maine border, on a 200 acre farm with my wife and three children. The kids are fascinated by hunting and shooting and I hope to pass on this heritage to them as they grow up. Even my wife, who is not a hunter per se, manages to keep the foxes separated from our hens with judicious use of a T/C Contender Carbine in .22LR.
Like many shooters, I have owned a whole bunch of different stuff over the years and regret some of the trades/sales made in the past. I have only owned one lever gun in the 25 years I have been an active hunter/shooter which I shot for awhile and traded for something else. Most of my guns have been scope sighted bolt and single shot rifles but the more I hunt in the North East, the less I feel I need this kind of armament. The simplicity of an aperture sighted lever action and a big cast bullet is very appealing to me now.
I have been reloading for more than 20 years but have never worked with cast bullets, except in 9mm pistols when I was shooting IPSC. I had no idea just how advanced they were and certainly never considered using them for hunting! This site has changed that thinking!
Anyways, thanks for giving shooters everywhere such a useful resource related to lead bullets and the arms that shoot them. As the other Canadian members of this forum can attest, finding hardware and components for shooting is a lot tougher here than in the US, but the rewards are the same.
Good shooting!