Recent content by Mosster47

Speer boat tails absolutely wollop deer. My family has taken gobs of blacktail with the 120gr out of a 25-06. It's bang/flop every time.

These are four bullets recovered from elk. The first two are 210gr Partitions from a 338wm. The third is a 180gr Grand Slam from a 300wm back when they were partitioned. The fourth is a 120gr Speer Boattail from a 25-06. All the elk died. For real world functionality it's really hard to beat...

Load data is everywhere. I shoot a different bullet and I use Magpro in my 300wm. I have the same process for every rifle. For seating depth I do .010 off the lands to start. My personal process is to shoot five shot groups for every half grain from min to max. So if it has a range of 81-86gr...

I tried to build up load with a 55gr Barnes X-Bullet for my 223 to hunt Coues I would be confident with that to shoot an animal with 100lbs extra on it with the same load. That Creedmore is beyond plenty.

There are so many angles with bullet weight, bullet diameter, sectional density, and energy. There are arguments from smart people explaining how each are more important than the other. I was talking with a buddy the other day about this. We recovered two 33cal 210gr partitions from elk that my...

This is my 223. It's a 700 VTR. I originally bought it to hunt Coues deer but I couldn't get it to shoot a 63gr Game King or 55gr X-bullet. It's supposed to handle the big pills with this fast twist but it doesn't. So I relegated it to shooting 40gr ballistic tips and use it if I just want to...

I'm not trying to sound like a bad ***, this wasway more of being fortunate with the location I lived and hunted in. I used to hunt yotes at least 150 days a year, for many years, and rarely ever got skunked. I'm talking hundred of yotes over that period. Use the quietest weapon you can. I've...

It's a fine line in training. I ran my first marathon in December. My flat ground cardio is at a level where I can't make myself get tired. If I put 60lbs on my back and walk in the mountains for three miles I'm dead tired. I lift hard three times a week as well. I don't think there is any...

I bought one for my wife ages ago and she still hasn't ever fired it and I fired it for the first time just a few months ago. I've loaned it out many time. My boss' daughter killed her first elk with it, a coworker killed a 300lb pig with it in NorCal, it's killed all three species of deer, an...

I've spent most of my life in Oregon and moves to the southeast a few years back and wish I would have taken advantage of wolf hunting in Idaho then. Living in southern AZ for six years and have easily taken over 100 yotes, almost all with a 17HMR up close and personal, a wolf, especially a...

My dad did the same thing on a blacktail. He made an awful shot at about 120 yards. Just barely grazed the bottom of the ribs. The buck stumbled forward about three steps and died. My wife shot a desert hare, dropped dead right when she pulled the trigger. Nothing hit it. It just died. We...

I just bedded this tonight after getting the Boyds stock in. It's a Mossberg 4x4 in 25-06 I bought ages ago to fly with deer hunting. It was cheap and if the airlines lost it, oh well. I mounted a Vortex HST 4-16 on it. Timney makes a drop-in replacement trigger for the LBAs now and that's on...

That's a good one! I'm coming to Wyoming to do my first antelope hunt there this year. I'm so excited.

I've never used one on a rifle, but I've had the same Mossberg 835 since the early 90s and that thing felt like you were hit with a sledgehammer shooting 3.5" turkey loads. I threw a Blackhawk recoil reducer on it and a 3.5" mag feels like shooting a 223 with a 40gr bullet now. They are unreal...

I mounted it, never even put a scope on it. $25 shipped F&F or add the 4%. I have two sets of Weaver Tactical 1" rings. One high, one low. I lapped and trued them so they are better than new if you don't have the equipment for that. Both sets for $30 shipped.