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Excellent way to ingrain gun safety at an early age; your daughter will love it.

Check out Ochlockonee River State Park in the Sopchoppy area, about one hour south of Tallahassee. It is brackish water, you can catch redfish, striped bass, sunshine bass and freshwater catfish. Check with the park ranger on duty for advice on kayaking the local creeks off of the main river.

Excellent story and hunt, memories made for a lifetime... congratulations!

Good shooting and good eating, congrats!

Jesus is the reason for the Season, Merry Christmas!

The sea was angry that day.

Excellent buck! Thanks for sharing your story, glad you got the trespasser and hope you do it again soon.

If you are or know someone who is a member of Sam's Club, they have a good quality Penn spinning reel and 7 ft. medium action rod for sale around $100 at the Tallahassee store. The reel alone goes for $99 at local stores; it's really a good all around fishing combo for most inshore Florida fishing.

Really good story and pictures, you got yourself some of the best eating sausage there is, congratulations!
I hope you get the skull back intact, it will make a nice trophy.
Glad you didn't miss the boat.

Good story and future memories for you and your daughter; it's great to pass along your hunting knowledge to the next generation.

Excellent! What a great experience to share with three generations of a family.
"Take your kids hunting and you won't have to hunt for your kids."

Check out bman's post from Sept. 29 titled: "If you were going to buy one rifle?" A lot of good suggestions in that thread.

Your old .30-30 should handle the job just fine for deer and hogs.

I believe the 77/44 is a bolt action rifle and it would be marked as such on the receiver.
Is the carbine for a sale a semi-automatic? If so, they are excellent made carbines and I wish I bought one years ago!
I do not have the money to buy your rifle but I wish you well selling it.

If you want to keep it simple, get a bolt-action rifle made of stainless steel with a synthetic stock in either .30-'06 or .270 caliber. Remington and Ruger make excellent rifles, it all depends on how much money you want to spend. Buy a quality rifle scope in 3-9 x 40mm, I like Leupold scopes, made...

Rhettley - Thank you so much for the story about your Grandmother. There is a reason why the older folks are called members of the "Greatest Generation," they survived the Great Depression by getting by with just about nothing. My parents were very frugal because of the same reason; nothin...