Recent content by Old teacher

You guys are a lot of help! I appreciate that at least someone else has the same problem. I would use the .338 Lapua, but the local game department agent is watching me closely since I informed him that we were getting close to him getting a phone call to come and get about a dozen dead elk...

Does anyone know how to keep elk from destroying your property? I live in Northwest WA along highway 20, and in the two mile stretch between the highway and the Skagit river are five herds of elk along about 20 miles of highway. The elk population in this area is around 2500, hundreds of big...

No surprise. I had a conversation with the Attorney General last week, and he indicated that the legislature would do some work on it in two years when the sunset clause expires. I didn't have any plans to do anything before then anyway, so I will just wait and see what happens. I need to read...

I have always been taught, told, and read that you never crimp a rifle (except straight cases) cartridge...pistols, yes, rifles, no, for whatever that is worth to anyone.

Everyone has his favorite gun, scope, rangefinder, binoculars, spotting scope, etc., etc. As I have always posted here, if it works for you, keep doing it. But along with that goes another statement, never stop looking for something better. I think you might have had somewhat better luck with...

I have had almost the exact same experience with a couple different federal bullets and with Nosler ballistic tips. I had to leave on a trip with little notice one time and did not have time to load what I wanted. I bought a box of Federals (I do not remember the exact bullet), but out of the...

Many thanks!

Many thanks, Bruce. Every little bit helps. I would be willing to bet my whole collection that 90% of the people who vote for 594 have not read it. They are, as I posted on Facebook, voting out of emotion or ignorance. I called the NRA, got put off to someone who did not have a clue, who put me...

Sorry to keep bothering you all, but I just got the latest polls on 594 and 591. 594 has gained 2% at 72 % favorable; 591 has remained at 55% pro. But, it only take 50% plus one vote on 591 to sink 594.

I just read that the Seattle Times readers are weighing in heavily opposed to 594. That shocked me. Maybe they are more enlightened than I give the credit for.

Bruce: thanks for the help you are giving all of us here in WA. You are dead on when you say Seattle is the key. The ultra-liberal Seattleites are always the deciding factor on almost any initiative. Two years ago I watched all the returns coming in, and our gay marriage and the legalization...

Fear No Wind: What you are suggesting is what I am trying to do on FB, but my audience is limited unless people will share the post. I am urging people to vote against this, and I have a minor bit of influence on my FB friends since the vast majority of my FB friends are my ex-students who had...

You are right. All the big money in WA is behind this. But our real threat is ignorance. This initiative is so radical, that any sane citizen who reads it will not vote for it. The problem is that it is 18 pages long, and the ignorant anti-gunners are just listening to the people who are...

We who live in Washington state are facing an initiative , 594, which is so unbelievably unrealistic and damaging to our constitution that I have trouble believing that this could happen in this country. It is 18 pages of rules and regulations regarding ownership and primarily transfer of...

Sounds good. Just check your primers for any flattening and when you open your bolt, note if it is any stiffer than usual. Sounds like a great load, and a .75 group is great. I had three 4x4's, three or four five by fives, a couple of sixes and a 7x8 in my back yard a few days ago. They eat...