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I will miss Paul very much. He built me my long range rifle and taught me every thing I know about the sport. Didn't charge me anything for his labor. To me he was an amateur gunsmith only in the sense that he didn't charge for his labor.

The only long range rifle I have is in .280 AI built for me three years ago by eddybo (at one time a frequent contributor to this forum) The load he developed for me at that time was 61.5 gr. of Vitivouri N560 and 162 gr. A-Max. I have harvested over ten animals with it (whitetail, muleys, elk...

Enter Me In The Gunwerks Auto Reset Target Contest Tom Young

FrontierGander, Kudos on the tag draw. Good luck on your hunt. I plan to go on the LR mule deer hunt that Len Bachus set up with Mule Creek Outfitters in WY Region H. Supposed to be a sure thing to draw with 4 pts. Unfortunately all the groups I mentioned are with the scope. I have the...

FrontierGander. Like Ronnie, I drew a CO ML tag. I'm trying to work up a load with the .501" 300 gr. Thors. Have been using 100, 113, and 120 gr. by weight Black Mag. Not getting good groups in my Knight .......3+".(It groups 1-1/2" with 285 gr. Barnes and Harvester sabots with 110 grains T7...

Here is the load eddybo workded up for me for the 280 AI he built for me. Nosler brass, CC! 200, .......61.5 gr. VH N560......162 gr A-max. We started at 60.0. I want the gun for hunting only. Eddybo knows I'll take a 50 yard shot at a trophy animal so he steered me away from Bergers because...

Eddybo, I bought the Nosler brass in late 2010......I think from their website. Tom

Eddybo, If you have time, take a look at a thread titled "280 AI question". The question is what brass is best. You might have something to add and I have some questions for you about the posts. Tom

Eddbo picked up the tab.........guess thats why I didn't get to shoot at the 1500 yard range. PS: I think elderly is a state mind rather than a number. Tom:)

Eddybo built me a semi-custom long range hunting rifle in 280 AI. He gave me my options on brass which included most of those you listed. I settled on new Nosler brass which I believe I ordered from the Noslers site. I was looking at a Precision Reloaders catalog today which listed it. Tom:)

Bowkill, I attended a shooting class at Gunsite near Prescott, AZ in '09. It was pricey for my budget, but I thought it was worth it. Highly qualified instructors. Gunsite courses are mostly for Military and LE, but they do have a basic hunter course. That course has as a prerequisite a basic...

Enter me in the Berger Bullets Contest.

What starting and max. loads would you recommend for 168 gr. Berger VLDs and 162 gr. Hornady SST's. The Lapua site doesn't show any data for .280's. Eddybo built the gun for me, but we didn't get far in developing the load for it before he got sick. He strongly recommended that I use Vihtavuori...

MHO, I mean this in fun........if you've got three seconds to act ......you don't have time to use both...........which one will it be...........then why carry two? I carried a hand gun bow hunting elk in CO this fall. Saw five blacks, four of which had winded be and were running away when I...

Saw an interesting demonstration of pepper spray vs. hand gun for bears on "Grizzly Encounters" on Nat. Geo Wild. (by the guy???Anderson who founded Montana Grizzly Encounter near Bozeman. The spray won hands down. For the handgun alternative they gave the hunter a paint ball gun and had another...