Recent content by dougw

sounds great I'll look them up also

no I'am not.

Yea me to its always good to learn about builds

I don't know how water in a barrel could do that much I know in 1974 that piece of crap M16 still shot full of water but it would not shoot with any thing else in it like powder carbon or bullets if you didn't stop and clean it every 10 minutes Hell it probably had 10 carbon rings one for every...

For me I only tested the bullet in flight I came to the conclusion that moisture in the air was causing my rounds to hit higher I was told water would always slow a bullet down and even stop it. I talked to a physicist at work and he said that water in the air displaces some the molecules in the...

If you go full custom I would look at Defensive edge Shawn has some good rifles at not to much money and this cowboy is shooting some distance in the field with some proof behind it.

With your choices and they are your choices I would go with the 338 lapua with a brake just because you live where there are whitetails does not mean you wont be in Alaska hunting moose in the rain. I shoot a 338 edge and love it so what if there guts fly.

I am a scientist but not a physicist so I don't really know for sure what happens in the barrel all I researched is what happens in flight all I know if its raining that much I am going to a tree home or a bar and pull a cork they will be there tomorrow.

For sure I heard sept is a wet month in alaska

Dam I'am starting to think I going to stay in the desert states, that's crazy I don't think I have ever been in that much rain.

The number I have is about 6" at 550 yards with 300 grain smk 338 edge I shot a bull elk a couple of years ago the range finder said 547 so I aimed at 550 and hit the 6" high that is when I started looking into what a high humidity or rain does to a bullet in flight. I think it is an...

I agree we should all do some fore thought I have done some late hunts here in Utah and when it gets well below o things start to go south in a hurry not to take away from the water problem with is all good advice.

Honestly I hunt a lot from horse back so I carry across the front and just behind the horn but I have dropped 1 or 2 rifles in the snow and mud good to have that electrical tape then.

I hear ya mulies to

I have never been to New Zealand but from what I have seen it looks worse than Utah super steep hills. In Utah we put electric tape over the muzzle to keep snow out. But I found out here the animals are not moving much nor are the hunters seems like animals and people are under a tree. I don't...