I love talking about calibers, their pros and cons, the situations to use them in, their history and so forth. Above all that I love collecting them! But one of the worst parts about the history of firearms and calibers, is that some seemingly great calibers die out.
Leaving those of us who want to use them scrambling to find brass and dies and the like.

So if you found a Genie in a bottle, what caliber or two would you get him to bring back into the mainstream?

For me it would be...

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Apologies to our Gen-X hunters out there if I step on your toes. I enjoy reading and watching videos about other hunters thoughts on best cartridges for various hunting applications. This morning I watched one that made me wonder WTF is going on with today's hunters?

The hunter was about late twenties to early thirties and lived somewhere out west where he hunts Elk every year. He was musing on what makes the ideal Elk cartridge. A big Magnum like a 300wm or a smaller, lighter round...

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Short story: looking for recommendations for a “good” fresh water and a salt water set up.

Longer story: I use to fly fish ALOT as child until was old enough to drive and priorities change. Did a lot of blue gill and bass fishing as well as some trout in creek fishing. Also was fortunate to spend every summer in islamorada fishing. During this time I was using “kits” like you get for a beginner at bass pro.

Now that I have stopped chasing “girls” and hunting season here in SC is only so...

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Not far away from here. Bet those boys were glad CN switched to concrete railroad ties (you can see ties in adjacent track when camera pans to right). Creosote ties and they probably would have derailed and burned up. These guys didn't have a choice. They couldn't move without risking collision with oncoming freight train. The engineers were surprisingly cool headed.

Air is so thick the last two days you can cut it with a knife.