I've decided to try crimping some rounds to see if there any benefits, so I purchased a Lee FCD. How do you set the die up to get the 25lb recommended pressure using the RCBS press? Do you use the cam over or run the die all the way down and not use cam over? I'm stuck in my own head with this...
I bedded and floated my early 80s Japanese built 7mm Weatherby years ago and it definitely improved my groups. Having the light #1 contour requires patience when doing range time though. I would do 3 shot groups as if in hunting conditions and let the barrel cool completely before the next group.
I don't use a specific brand for under layers. If find a garment that I like that is the right weight and I like the price, I buy it. Eddie Bauer, North Face, older Cabelas, Hot Chili Peppers I use all of these in different layering combinations. No one brand is really "better" than another. I...
A trauma pack is my single most important piece of a 1st aid kit. Sprains and strains and the sorts suck but aren’t necessarily life threatening. You start bleeding out there… that’s not good.
Last year I put a 2 hour stalk on a nice buck that I watched bed down behind a huge boulder. When I got to it, I found it totally out cold. He was on his side, with his rack laying on the ground. This is where he was laying. He never woke up...
Nice big bodied muley! Beautiful 3x3 rack. Definitely good mass to it. That buck wasn't gonna get much bigger, if any, then he was. Love that country too...
Making it back from a solo drip is obviously the main goal, however, there is no better feeling than the moment when you’ve made it back to your vehicle and you remove your pack after a successful hunt. You feel like you own the world after one of these backcountry hunts….