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    I Know This Is LRH... But What Is The Shortest Distance You Have Taken A Live Target?

    ****, same thing happened to me. Called in a coyote and wounded it. Followed the blood to a hollow log. Stuck my Browning A5 in to move some leaves and saw a pair of glowing eyes and white teeth about a foot from the muzzle. Had a three inch buckshot in. Pulled the trigger and the glowing...
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    I Know This Is LRH... But What Is The Shortest Distance You Have Taken A Live Target?

    I've shot two deer at 10 feet or less. The first was a small buck in North Carolina from a tree stand, maybe ten feet, straight down with an arrow into its spine. The other was a nice 4x4 jumped by a friend directly to me on a dead run. He stopped 5 feet from me with a 5-foot fir tree between...
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    7mm STW Reloading Thread

    My STW (Remington Sendero) is being rebarrelled with a 1-8 twist 24 inch bull barrel, with radial break, cross-fluted, bolt trued. Bedding and pillaring work already done. Also is to be hand lapped. Hart Barrels is doing the work. The original, purchased in 1995, performed well, .25 MOA...
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    Muzzle brake for 300 Weatherby Mark V

    Well let me give you an update. I purchased a radial muzzle brake directly from Weatherby, half by 28 thread and had a local gunsmith threaded the barrel. I reblued the barrel with a three steps process and it looks like the muzzle break was always part of the rifle . I have only put 12 shots...
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    Your going your hunt of a lifetome what are you hunting and what rifle are you using ? Mine is easy

    Did that already 45 years ago in Maine. A 59 inch bull a mile from my remote camp on the Dire road on a hill called Fat Man's Woe. Trout off my dock in the evening during a Mayfly hatch. Whitefish and Togue trolling streamers. Countless whitetail deer. Many Ruffed Grouse hunts. Teaching my...
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    light weight + quiet tripods- is there such a thing ?

    I have a BOG Deathgrip carbon fiber. Sets up 67 inches down to 7 inches. Next best thing to bench shooting. A little pricey.
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    SOLD/EXPIRED 1100, 16 gauge

    I had a sweet 16 model 37 deer Slayer myself. Gave it to my grandson a few years ago.
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    SOLD/EXPIRED 1100, 16 gauge

    Are you able to get 16 gauge ammo for it in your neck of the woods? Pretty tough to find 16 gauge around here.
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    Muzzle brake for 300 Weatherby Mark V

    Same here with the recoil. 50 lb of kick, I am told. It was manageable 40 years ago when I had a bicep, but now at 76 it is recoil pad against bone.
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    Muzzle brake for 300 Weatherby Mark V

    I am having trouble deciding what the correct move is for a muzzle brake for my 300 Weatherby Magnum, Mark V, bought circa 1980. To start with, the outside diameter of the barrel at the tip is .610. I believe this means that I need to find something with a 1/2 by 28 thread. Otherwise I would...
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    Bringing my 300 Wea Mag out of mothballs

    I have settled on H1000 with a 212 ELD-X and I am still working on my node. I have been working my way down one 10th at a time from, 81.5 grns. 3/4 inch moa @81.4, half inch MOA at 81.3, and trying 81.2 tomorrow. I am at 3020 FPS right now. Col. 3.699 which is called for in the Hornady manual...
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    Bringing my 300 Wea Mag out of mothballs

    Getting north of 3000 fps with a 212 ELD X is pretty **** quick
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    Bringing my 300 Wea Mag out of mothballs

    And btw, I'm using a 212 ELD X
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    Bringing my 300 Wea Mag out of mothballs

    Update: I've tried several powders in my 300 Wea over the past few weeks. H4831 was a bust. Terrible groups and pressure signs under 2800 fps. I went looking for Retumbo but could only find an 8lb canister for $440. A lot of dough to spend on an untested result. So I tried H1000. I had good...
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    What cartridge?

    I guess I am just old school but my 257 Roberts, 22-in always fit the bill as my lightweight carry. Unfortunately I've passed that on to my grandson.
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