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  1. Deer Rifle Scope Recommendations

    I have a 4.5-14X40 30mm, CDS VX3i, with a "wind plex" reticle (deal $550) and a 4.5-14X50 LRP, RFP, TMOA (deal $720). I like the LRP, nice & bright, zero stop, but bulky. The other scope is much more compact. Hard choice. Both good in poor light but as expected the 50mm objective scope is...

  2. COVID-19 Map worldwide, with statistics

    Been to Norway, good assessment. Saw rampant illegal drug use in Oslo, but outside things were clean & orderly. My guess about the lower COVID19 death rate in Norway is that older folks are more healthy than most countries and have fewer health liabilities/ailments to add to COVID19 mortality...

  3. Scope question

    It will reduce the size of the scope's exit pupil and clarify (improve focus) of the image and increase depth of field (DOF) https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/83303/why-does-aperture-size-affect-depth-of-field-in-photography Light goes thru central portion of lens instead of entire...

  4. 300WSM vs 300WM in a long action hunting rifle?

    .300 WSM's feed better and unfired/loaded rounds are more easily removed from my Ruger 77 MKII actions than .300WM's that have bullets seated out from inside body of cartridge. Ballistics are close enough but availability of brass favors the .300WM. Given access to lots of brass I would take the...

  5. Another rifle lost

    I am real olde and like to eat & drink but am aware of the consequences of overindulgence. I am also very much aware of how much various workers charge for their services, so if I can perform the task I do it myself and save outside labor costs of $80-100 per hour. At my advanced age it takes...

  6. New bullet for deer

    Better late than never - 8 twist, deers, long skinny 6mm, 95 Barnes LRX, 8 twist also shoots 87 VMax well for real big rodents. Looking at the 6mm Barnes LRX, Miller Sg 1.57, @ 35*, 3200 fps, length 1.27, tip length .15. One box of 50 on sale at one of my LGS.

  7. New bullet for deer

    Some folks say the .375 H&H is the best all around rifle and will kill anything on the planet - elephants to tiny antelopes (smaller than whitetails). I used a 100 grain .257 Barnes TSX to shoot my last deer (a big mule deer)at 357 yards and it went thru 3 feet of deer and killed it within 3...

  8. It's getting tough to support the local gunstore

    My LGS treats me like a prince and kept our modest requirements satisfied so we (wife & I) could pursue our sport and periodically mitigate rodent depredation.

  9. Considering Three 223 Bolt Guns - Buy vs Build - Recommendations?

    I decided to add a .223 to my assortment. I am not a match shooter, quit that decades ago. I wanted a simple tough rifle for casual use. I settled on a used Ruger Hawkeye. Discarded everything except the action. New stock from Richards. New 9 twist, 24 inch, #4 barrel from McGowen. Minor trigger...

  10. Ran out of elevation at 600yds

    I fight this problem frequently with my skinny 1 inch tube scopes. Running out of elevation with a 1 inch tube scope at 600 is not unusual. I use 20 MOA mounts and that fixes the problem (back end of scope jacked up) I also use Burris Signature Zee rings, +20 bottom back, -20 top back, + 20 top...

  11. Hurricaines

    Would you believe $20,000 insurance bills per year! :eek:

  12. Good old .308

    The .308 is something I hate to love - it's those fat lower velocity bullets but they seem to go thru the same hole and kill a variety of game real good up to 400 yards.

  13. Hurricaines

    Decades ago when my family was considering buying property near the ocean in Massachusetts my dad pointed out places that were devastated by the real bad hurricane of 1938 (category 4-5). At one place, sort of an island connected to the mainland by a causeway, everything was swept clean by a...

  14. Powder Charge to Blow out Case to an Ackley

    I have used 9 grains of HP38 to fire form 6mm Rem to 6mm AI. Any old primer, I use large pistol primers. I wild guess would be 20,000 to 25,000 psi.

  15. New experience priming

    Did the brass have primer crimps that were swaged out - take a second look at force needed to seat. Look at as many as possible under 10X magnification looking for anvil irregularities. I have a small Bausch & Lomb Hastings Triplett magnifier that sees frequent use in my ammo loading. Just a...

  16. Ammo find today... Anybody else..?

    I found 2 boxes of 50 each of Fiocchi Performance Shooting Dynamics .22 LONG RIFLE subsonic hollow point cartridges - this gives me an extensive variety of different types, lots, and brands of .22LR ammo. Lots of .22LR ammo/bullets but not much of any type of same lot. There were 3 boxes for...

  17. 308-260 sizing

    .260's made from .308's will be shorter than .260 spec brass. I have made .260's from .243's but prefer to do it by fire forming (COW or just powder) as the necks seem to be more concentric with case body and shoulder than by stretching them over an expander. I have found that the difference in...

  18. Scope Question -- Thin Reticle Lines

    Being real olde my diopter/reticle focus is screwed far out. As mentioned above there is some relationship between target image/parallax and reticle focus. Tiny dots & real thin cross hairs demand attention to scope focusing for exquisite bullet placement (aiming small). If you need to mark...

  19. Using IMR8208XBR w/ Hornady 155 gn HPBT in 308

    I might add, IMR 8208 is very temp stable, my primary use is for my .20 P, .204R, & .223 rodent rifles & 5.56 AR. I charge my cases directly thru my powder measure and find the tiny, small diameter & short IMR 8208 grains a benefit for large volume loading. IMR 8208 has provided excellent...

  20. COVID-19 Map worldwide, with statistics

    This might have been included in the 77 previous pages: From Martin Luther on the black plague (real bad compared to COVID19). "I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my...

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