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Best All Around Caliber for Whitetail and Mule Deer?
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Best All Around Caliber for Whitetail and Mule Deer?
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For me, I have all of them. But having to just pick one for the most versatile, moderate recoil, accuracy, longest barrel life, and...
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Iron Sights
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Took my first deer with a '03A3 in 1975 - my dad and I put a Herters sporter stock on the beast and I used it with the military sights...
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Best All Around Caliber for Whitetail and Mule Deer?
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The 270 Winchester of course. No, wait... the 30-06 Or perhaps the 308 Winchester Oh no, what about the 280 Ackley Improved or a...
Nov 19, 2024
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What to do with my impulse buy….
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Good golly, I NEVER get that lucky. That's quite a bargin, I'd be willing to bet it's a shooter in waiting. Get some brass for it and...
Nov 19, 2024
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Barrel/caliber change on 69 30-06 Winchester model 70
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Target shooting mostly - think simple, moderate recoiling and inexpensive. If you don't want to muck with the feed rails and all of the...
Nov 19, 2024
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Shooting Factory Winchester 6.8 Western ammo 165 ABLR, at 3006 fps i still had a little over 1600 ft lbs of energy. Bullet did great and...
Nov 18, 2024
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CO elk success
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Nicely done, good memories for certain. Now... what about the bullet and load details? You broke both shoulders @850 and recovered the...
Nov 18, 2024
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280AI and Staball 6.5
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I got the loads put together - went to the range - and got promptly side-tracked helping a young man get his new Browning X-Bolt dialed...
Nov 18, 2024
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Smoking Sunday or Sunday Smoking
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Man that's some fantastic looking grub. I'm gonna set this thread to IGNORE or my stomach is gonna jump out and beat me to death for...
Nov 17, 2024
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SOLD/EXPIRED
Nosler 308 brass once fired
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I'll take it - PM inbound
Nov 16, 2024
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Loading 308 Winchester with 200.20x
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Tagging in. I suspect you'll be advised to try a small rifle magnum primer with CFE223. I have a jug of this stuff for my 308's but...
Nov 15, 2024
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Well I just got back from hunting in Ohio with my 11 year old son and having an awesome week…. So I decided to go again this morning...
Nov 14, 2024
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Recommendations for a airline approved rifle case
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Pelican 1750 here - love it, but it isn't light... thankfully it has wheels. The grandkids have plastered it with stickers, so it'll...
Nov 14, 2024
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Labeling a gun barrel
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Apologies - Google Maps tells me I'm 1856 miles away from my rifles... no pics for a while.
Nov 14, 2024
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280 Ackley improved bullet recommendations
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Here's what I use: 145gr Barnes LRX - for anything and everything. 160gr Nosler Partition - for anything and everything. 140gr...
Nov 10, 2024
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