Recent content by bbraden

Had to clean my britches out! Thanks for the little bit of additional information. 250agl seems way too high for this encounter! :)

Back in 2018 me and a couple buddies were elk hunting first rifle season in northern NM. We had taken our pickup trucks to different areas that morning with the plan to meet back at camp around 8 or so for dinner. I didn't see anything on my hunt so I head back to camp after dark, running a...

I went with 300 WM on my latest barrel because 1) it’s been proven sufficient for taking elk over and over again, 2) 3 out of the 4 hunters I hunt with run 300 WM, and 3) I can walk into most grocery stores in Colorado and get a box of it in a pinch. 2 and 3 swayed me over time. It’s nice to...

.22-250 was all I had when I was a kid - Dad's hand me down Rem 788. Shot anything 55 grain that I could get hold of. Piled up a couple whitetail with it and Remington Core-Lokts. Everything shot in the vitals ran 50 yards or so and then died. Never had a problem finding deer. I stretched it out...

I have a Proof carbon fiber in an LR-308 (6.5 Creedmoor). Best shooting barrel I own. Never had to utilize their customer service but I'd buy another in a heartbeat.

If you have a 1:9 twist or tighter, the 70 grain Speer SSP (Semi-Spitzer) is one hell of a penetrator and has always been accurate in all my AR's. I've killed tons of coyotes and hogs with it and always get an exit. Con: it's BC is terrible and it's hard to push with great velocity out of a 16"...

I've run a .270 Win since 2007. I've killed lots of Mule Deer and one cow elk with it. I stepped up to bull elk in 2018 and bought a 300 WM specifically for that hunt. Loaded up with a Barnes 175 LRX I headed off to the mountains, doubting why I had bought an entirely new rifle that weighed an...

If you know generally where the elk are, and you're backpack camping, how far away should you camp from the elk? One ridge over? A mile or more, etc?

.308 WIN, sub 150gr bullets (tipped mono's would be great here), fast burning power like Varget. Lots of people claim the 6.5 CM is "flat shooting". It's really not within 500 yards. 308 can push a 150 in that length barrel to 2700. If you went to a 130 you might get to 2900. 110 gr TTSX should...

Bipods aren't easily adjustable for windage and elevation, vs benchrest rests capable of both. I've shot some good groups off a bipod but finally bought a good BR rest and wouldn't look back!

3 in the mag, 8 in the cheekrest on my 300WM. I take masking tape and make a couple rounds of tape around three loaded cartridges and then place them in my pack. Not too much tape or you won't be able to break them apart quickly and easily. They won't rattle so long as they're taped together...

.482 would be substantially better. My Kestrel showed 45% humidity, trending downwards, 22in-HG barometric pressure and 65 degrees temperature, trending up. If those numbers were wrong, could it make the BC that different?

I went to the mountains this weekend and took my 300 Win Mag out to 500 yards. Altitude was 8,600'. Barnes publishes a .508 BC for the 175 LRX. I used my Labradar to take velocity readings at the muzzle and at 25 yard increments out to 100 yards. Muzzle velocity was 3000-3015 fps. After fiddling...

I agree 100% that colder powder is probably the bulk of the change in velocities; just proposing an alternative theory that might account for a small bit of the difference. As for the bullet also being smaller, I thought about that but recognize that we're talking about three different metals...

Great work and thanks for sharing! I wonder if the metal properties of our barrels could have anything to do with it shooting slower in the cold. i.e., cold barrel contracts causing a miniscully smaller bore diameter which leads to more constriction on the bullet and hence slower muzzle velocities?