u/Neither_Monitor2017

I'm looking to add a nice looking air rifle with a real WOOD or laminate wood stock to my little but growing collection.

No black plastic stocks for me. I like the traditional wooden hunting rifle look and feel.

Slight preference for .22 cal but .25 cal would also be ok.

Ideally, I'd like the PCP gun to be mechanically able to consistently hit a dinner plate sized steel target about the size of a dinner plate at 100 yards because the outdoor range near me has a bunch of animal shaped steel silhouette targets around that size.

Note I do not need super accuracy at 100 yards, I just need have the pellet audibly smack anywhere on the steel target at 100 yards if I do my part.

Probably going out to Mohave NP this coming weekend (August 15th) (heat depending) for the quail opener with my recurve bow, I haven't yet gotten a quail this way, but the weather is supposed to cool off over the week, and so I'm planning to make another attempt to harvest a quail with a trad bow, anyone want to join me?

I am flummoxed scrolling through this sub just now.

Guys talking about carrying BOTH bear spray and a pistol.

Guys posting videos of themselves using two hands to draw their handgun.

Its like the people posting here are training for these bizarrely un-realistic scenarios where the bad person or bear will be squaring off from 25 yards away and giving you time to get set up for your fantasy version of a high noon shootout from an Old Western movie, lol

Grizzlies can sprint 30mph and sneak up on their pray in dense vegetation by surprise, if you find yourself about to get mauled (or already start getting mauled before you had time to react), you may very well have a tiny bit of time to use one hand to draw ONE weapon and deploy it at close range and thats it. Carrying both spray and pistol, etc., whats the point? Pick one, and make sure you can immediately draw and use it with only one hand.

If you are the target of knife wielding maniac who suddenly runs at you from nearby, you will likely (and probably should) instinctively put up your non-dominant hand to try to block, and reach for your weapon with your dominant hand. All that time practicing two handed draws will be wasted at best.

Meanwhile, if you actually have time to do a textbook perfect draw and get a two handed grip and a good sight picture to aim.....you may have an uphill battle proving it really was self-defense.

To preface this I know everything points to the 640 to be a better revolver especially for my needs but man I am really wanting to buy the 36 classic over it. Ik if I want a 36 I should just buy a used older one but around where I live people do not sell them and I'd have to look at auctions or buy it online. This started as me wanting to buy my first revolver, and I focus on carrying. I just started getting into pocket carry as I primarily carry AIWB with micro striker fired handguns. I originally was looking at the 640 pro black in the case and the gunshop owner walked away and came back with the 36 Classic. It is beautiful and got me feeling that special kind of way and the 640 doesn't scratch the itch that I didn't know I had until I held the 36. I know the 640 is the way more practical gun especially for carry with the tritium 3 dot sights and internal hammer but I can carry the 36, and it has been doing it for a very long time. But the 640 is also a .357 and has way more variability than a 36. I am a little stumped what do you all think? To anyone who will say buy them both.... I financially can't but one day maybe. Any of you have experience with either of these revolvers? Any QC issues? What has your experience with them been like?

I'm thinking of hunting beaver for the first time ever this year, don't want to trap them, want to hunt them with a rifle.

I checked and it is legal where I live.

Any tips anyone can give me besides being at the ready near their dams at sunrise or sunset?

Reading through posts on here, as is also the case with a lot of hunting online forums, it seems to me there is a tremendously disproportionate amount of posts and replies about what gun to get or use.

I mean, if someone is going on a pricey guided hunt on private land where finding the animals is a given, and the guide will transport/butcher the game as well, then sure all the "hunter" needs to do in that scenario is focus on making the shot.

But aren't most of us hunting on our own on public land? Or is that not the case?

I mean the vast majority of time and effort for me related to hunting is figuring out when and where to go, and then oftentimes doing a long, long, drive and hours of hiking so I can hopefully find an animal to shoot at.

I've spent more money on gas driving to and from hunting areas for scouting trips and hunting than I have on hunting weapons.

It takes hours of research for me to figure out where to apply for tags I can hopefully draw, and actually have a reasonable chance of harvesting if I do draw!

Most days I'm out hunting big game, I don't even get a shot opportunity!

Then, after finding and shooting an animal, if it is big game, that is when a lot of the manual labor begins with the dressing and packout.

Meanwhile, in the vast majority of jurisdictions where center fire bottlenecked cartridges like 308, 30-06, are allowed, ANY functional gun in a mainstream bottle-necked centerfire rifle cartridge loaded with mainstream commercial hunting ammo will work just fine.

I live in Nevada, have only hunted "out west" in NV, Cali and WY and every animal I've harvested so far, public or private, was less than 200 yards away. So far I've gotten 3 pigs, 2 mule deer, 2 antelope, and a blacktail deer and a black bear in terms of "big game animals".

I can teach a newbie to accurately shoot any of my hunting rifles to 200 yards in like 5 minutes.

Bolt action or lever action, this brand or the other brand, who really cares? The deer or elk, etc., won't notice!

Like if you want to hunt bull elk, it is not going to matter for your elk hunt whether you use a 308 or 50BMG, it really isn't as long as its legal where you hunt.

1st you need to get a bull elk tag! Good luck with that!

I'm a Nevada resident and after applying unsuccessfully for elk for three years, with my three points, I'm still at single digit draw odds for an elk tag in my home state this year.

Don't draw a bull elk tag? Well, then unless you want to be a criminal poacher or are super wealthy and can buy a good private landowner tag for high 4 or even 5 figures, you either do not hunt for elk this year at all, or you go out of state and buy an expensive OTC tag in an area you are unfamiliar with that is too far away to scout much if at all before your hunt, and you'll have a very low chance of even getting a shot opportunity, so who cares what rifle you take on your long expensive hike to nowhere, lol.

Ok rant over, but seriously, I've come to suspect a lot of Reddit posters and commenters are really bots indirectly promoting various products, I hope that is not the case, but I think I need to spend a lot less time on here and on other online forums where most of the "hunters" seem to obsess over guns and gear and not actual hunting.

Figuring out where to hunt where you can actually find animals on public land, that is the hard part. And I see very little substantive useful info about what really matters here and on other online forums.

This morning I vented to a family member about how though on the one hand I'm really excited about hitting up North Central Nevada for the shed hunting opener this Friday May 1, I'm also frustrated that I have to go alone, because I wasn't able to talk any friends into going.

At which point my family member responded, yeah well I can see why, what you are doing is going on "a treasure hunt for a prize very few people are interested in"

I thought that was funny but true, and figured some of you might appreciate the response as well.

I am a Nevada resident and have been trying to get an elk tag in my state for numerous years and keep striking out. I have also tried and struck out for draw tag in a few other states too.

If I don't finally draw a tag this year, I have decided I'm buying an OTC tag in Utah, Colorado, or Oregon so I can at least get some experience and hopefully have a chance to finally harvest one.

But I don't want to spend a bunch of money and time on an out of state hunt only to never even see an elk the whole dang time, something I know is a real possibility and has happened to others.

Utah would be the most convenient to me as there are some areas that have small elk populations within a three hour drive of my home. Also, southern Utah is totally criss crossed with all kinds of dirt roads so access is relatively easy in a lot of places, though its easier for all the other hunters as well.

But I have read Colorado has the most elk of any state and the best OTC rifle opportunities.

And some claim Oregon is a "sleeper state" when it comes to elk.

I'll probably be hunting alone and If I get one elk down, it cannot be too crazy far from where I can drive my truck to for the packout.

Any advice?