Recent content by Quintus

If conditions permit I love a fire. It is good company. It's something to keep me occupied on some of the long nights in the later seasons. No matter what the day brought, if I am sleeping by 7 I will be up at 1 so I need to have a reason to stay up and tending a fire and enjoying that real...

Last Monday at my local Scheels I stopped in like I do every Monday and low and behold...Federal 210M and 215M primers $99 and $119 a brick respectively. It's the first 215s I have seen since December of 21'. Just goes to show you don't have to be good if you're lucky.

You have 2 sevens doing great things now. Put this new barrel in the corner until you know what you really want and then you won't have to wait for the barrel. Give it 6 months Hornady will launch a new 7 to rule them all and you'll be set. You can run their new pointy, flat tipped heat...

Do you still have the box and chokes?

Take a close look at the case heads. I have seen alot of 'once fired' brass with 2 or 3 extractor marks. Your brass a be just wore out or at least need annealing.

Where in AK are you?

Jeff can be a mean bass turd. 450 grains at 2700fps is can full of whupass in both directions.

I have a similar guide to Feenix' chart and it works very well. Long before there were 'temp stable' (Hodgdon was not always labeled so) I discovered that loads worked up in cool weather would pressure badly shooting P-Dogs in the summer. I ended up with summer p-dog loads and regular big game...

If you were fine with 4X on the low end I would add the NF NX8 4-32 to the list along with the Leupold VX-6HD 4-24 and let the reticle you like best make the final decision.

Thanks for the reply fordy, and good day to you, . The bear part of this is the real trick. Couple of things to note. I will not be the archer so shot angle could be any. I have not seen a brown bear arrowed, but if they are like the rest of the bears I have seen, you still don't know what...

I went with the 236 in the RUM with 3100 in mind. I made it and will settle in right at 3160, but now that the 220HHT showed up the day after this 210 it has the wheels turning. The only purpose of my RUM is to be able to stem to stern a 9' bear that may already have an arrow in it. I may...

I think right now I would take the Fierce version of the Sako action if I had to build one rifle and live with it.

On paper the 704 was about as good as it gets. I had a LAW in 260 and the rifle as a whole was great.

I got my money back again. Maybe next year.

^ that or your scope erector let loose.