Entries from July 2008
- by Melody in Orange Beach Went snapper fishing on a hot Tuesday in early July. Our first attempt at fishing on a 23′ Contender was for tarpon that have been rumored to be running along the beach; no luck there. We did, however, witness several leatherback turtles and some Ridley’s turtles scoping out the […]
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Tags: Saltwater Fishing
I recently read an article that was one of those “50 Best Places to (fill in the blank)” pieces. It named Gulf Shores, Alabama, as the best place to catch a king mackerel. That being said, until a couple of weeks ago, I’d never caught one. This one is not huge. At 24 inches to […]
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Tags: Saltwater Fishing
Browning Auto-5 Magnum 12 The Auto-5 was the first successful semiautomatic shotgun design. My Papaw carried a Belgian-made Browning Sweet 16, and my little Franchi AL-48 20 gauge uses the same long-recoil mechanism. Some find the “double-shuffle” of the barrel snapping forward into battery distracting, but having known nothing else during my early shotgunning days, […]
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Tags: Guns