Recent content by cajun

Red dot scope.

I just put one of these on a rifle I put together. We hunt in the southeast. Works great for low light. Honestly I have not used the illumination. The scope is clear and bright enough I can see past legal shooting hours.

What are you hunting? I’m assuming you reload. Lately I’ve been trying to get away from custom have to reload for stuff. One day my kids will get my rifles and if it’s an oddball deal they will probably try and sell it. Even then it may be hard to get rid of. 6.5 prc or 7 prc. 7 mag, 300 win...

When a chamber is reamed there are tool marks in the throat area that even on a lapped custom barrel you will have. So your basically breaking in the throat. On a factory rifle that is not lapped you may have some tooling marks from the button or the hammer forging process. I do the clean every...

Yeah I'm not hunting anything that can hurt me with a small caliber round. I think their point was that bullet construction and performance is important. A fast 22 with a bullet that does damage may have better performance than a tougher constructed bullet in a large magnum. Still if I can push...

An optical chrono is like an ex wife. You cant trust it or believe anything it says. They are also super picky and generally a pita.

With monos it’s not about penetration it’s about tissue damage and wound channel. With a 100% weight retention bullet it’s going to penetrate. With the barnes I’ve found you need a light for caliber bullet weight and push it hard or the wound channel sucks. Hammers because they shed their petals...

Yes I have graduated from deer hunter to head guide, cook and deer skinner. It’s a very rewarding job. I think I made about 6 hunts myself last year and managed to kill two decent bucks.

We had one for a while. Great little camp vehicle. Our was a little cold natured and could be hard to start on cold mornings. Ultimately we needed something with more room to ferry all the grandkids around.

I think he means slower as in lower velocity not burn rate. H4831 has been about 100 fps slower than R 26. I have some R23 but have been reluctant to try it as I have not seen any on shelves in a while.

I inspect mine before loading. That is a rarity for Lapua. But stuff happens. On the cheaper brass I may ream the flash holes but honestly there is no way in heck the average shooter is going to see any measurable difference.

The regular 270 has killed a lot woods deer. The wsm will be fine unless you just want a shorter handier rifle. 130 gr Nosler Accubonds have killed everything we’ve shot with it. Not many have taken a step including a 300 lb mule deer. With the right bullet it will kill an elk just fine.

300 prc.

Smk’s were the bees knees before everyone jumped on the Berger bandwagon.

Same powder? Try another powder. How far off the lands?