Recent content by Chad Erickson

Blue Tongue

I enjoyed your analysis of the .308's energy vs velocity. Every time one analyzes any .30 caliber ballistics, as you superbly did here, an amazing phenomena appears: The maximum yardage at which the 1800 ft/sec minimum requirement for expansion is reached, it matches the maximum yardage at...

A neck shot might also send a Vascular Pressure Impulse (VPI) to the brain, causing instant aneurysms, paralysis and death.

Shooting elk at 800 yards and ringing steel at 800 yards is not the same thing. In all your scheming and dreaming, don't forget, at the point of impact, to keep the ft/sec above 1800 - for bullet expansion. And the ft/lb above 1300 for penetration. Not many loads/cartridges can do that at 800...

As far as Deet goes, they are not all the same. The little white aerosol can provided by the Federal Government is something like 90% Deet. We had an assortment of sprays, Off, Cutter, etc that we tried knocking mosquitoes out of the air with. With Off and Cutter and several others the...

That's Alaska, for sure. We used the same techniques, don't know of any others.

I just finished the same study & chart, but for deer. It is attached.

To help with your choice of a big game rifle out to 600 yds, here is a kill zone comparison chart. Just add one or two of your favorites into the two blank spaces. It prints on 8.5x14. It started as an exercise to see what cartridge, if any, could be used for close-range elk in an AR-15...

There are several ways that a case can fail: neck split, case shoulder split, loose primer pocket, and head separation. The most fatal of these, at least to your hunting trip, is head separation. As all know who have experienced it, full head separation leaves your firearm inoperable until you...

Come and visit. You can shoot the **** elk out of our damaged orchard.

Spent some time at Moses Point and Kotzebue. There the National Guard members shoot everything with the .223, including walrus by the dozen. There is nothing like the .223 or a Native for wasting game.

Way overkill. The 30-30 harvested more good meat than any other round. Twice, using a 30-30 I've shot a mule deer buck in the tail bone as it ran away from me and only wasted a chunk of meat about the size of my fist each time. But of course, the 30-30 is a very inferior round. The 30-30...

As a neophyte AR-15 owner shooting the 6.5 Grendel, I had 12 months of such cycling problems. Here are three fixes that totally solved my problems: 1. Purchased the AR-15 cleaning tool and scrapped out the inside of the bolt. Mine was FULL of carbon crude. 2. Upgraded to a stronger ejector...

We have just completing a 17,000 mile road trip, primarily in all of the southern states. On that trip we have visited 30+ gun stores/gun smiths. We thought that maybe somewhere, like darkest Alabama, we would find gun stores with loads of ammo, reserved for certain ethnics groups or...

Undoubtedly the crimp mechanism is seated wrong and the top of the case is being bumped back, resulting in an oversized ring at the top of the case. In fact, the ring can be seen in your picture. Since you are not using a cannulared bullet, back off of the crimping.