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    What type of bullet did you use on your last elk?

    this type https://www.federalpremium.com/products/rifle/premium-centerfire-rifle/trophy-copper/ hollowed copper with no lead it in, could not use lead bullets in Finland. It is basically a polymer tip in a solid copper boat tail.
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    When do you chamber a round while hunting?

    I tend to hunt larger size caribou and elk and I have found the safest thing to is have a trigger lock that hold the bolt extractor closed on a spent round or empty chamber. As long as the trigger lock is togged it is a lugged pivot hitting the rifle with a hammer is not going to change the lug...
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    Who makes glass for Nightforce Atacr and Beast?

    Most of the cheap optics is poly carbonic that is laser cut then ground with various powders and sands in what looks like pottery wheel with about four to 15 inches of water in it. The high end glass is all tempered glass and has to be made in country that allow for mason wheelʻs to be used...
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    This likely applies to a few other states than the four corners areas

    When most people draw the six thousand pound elk tag they laugh and hang it on the mantle and say that if there was one that big people would just figure it would look like a cow. Well I drew that tag back in 1999 in Tuscon Arizona. I heard the cows and not to get drunk and shoot a cow by...
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    Reloading Equipment

    A quick note if you shoot 308 winchester, do not buy 7.62 NATO, winchester uses 45-70 Government Dies to neck down to a thirty caliber bullet with a 0.308 diameter, and 7.62 uses a 50-90 or 50-240 die to neck down to a thirty caliber bullet 0.338 wide, which gun smiths will tell you that the...
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