Recent content by lotek

You need to insulate your heart beat from your rifle. Padding is the easiest way to muffle the beat. Try this. Set up and make contact with your rifle. Disengage your cheek, then try your shoulder. Hands, etc. Keep going until you find the source. Add padding there.

Speer gold dot 140 gr over 42.4 gr RL16

Sense when is a 6.5 creedmoor a barrel burner. 140gr @ 2700fps??

All my heart/lung shots have run. Some into the thickest part of the swamp. No blood trail there. Fortunately, my Brittney Loves water and has a vacuum cleaner nose. I have never attempt a shoulder shot with the 243. Perhaps I lack the confidence in its ability to break bone. 30 neck shots, all...

Im an old east coast hunter, who spent most of my yrs with a 30-30. I recently changed to a 243 with a scope because i was having trouble at 100 yrds, focusing with my iron sights, and had to make heart/lung shots instead of neck shots. I read all these stories about shoulder or behind the...

1 in 8 lends itself to longer bullets, but 243 cal barrels wear out faster when loaded hot. 243 has more case capacity, 6 creed has room in the mag for longer bullet.what will she be shooting? Paper, Whitetail ?

I still regret selling my 1972 Winchester 30-30. The blueing was worn off and the sights filed down, but it was a straight shooter at 100 yrds. Never lost game with it and never a second shot in 30 yrs I sold it to finance the purchase of a Savage 10 in 243 because my eye sight isnt what it use...

I'm no expert but I start with .035 my savage 10 likes so much and run my charges

Got me? I use a patched round ball, so don't have fouling problems.

find an old geezer who's been hunting all his life. Ask to let you tag along on a scouting trip. You'll learn more from hands on experience, and the wisdom of a knowledgeable woodsman than all the posts you will read.

you may find, as I did, over 30 yrs ago. It's not EZ to get better results, hand loading, than with the right premium load. it takes time, practice, mistakes, and good equipment, to better those boxed ammo's. So I suggest you find a good one and stick with it until you can best it.

Male, 70 yrs old. Living in S.Ga.

I'd love to write some great tale about my hunt, but I live I n S.Ga. and rarely get a shot over 100 yrds. I used to shoot a win. 30-30 until my eyes couldn't make a neck shot at 100 yrds with iron sights. Now I harvest deer with a scoped 243 on the back of my land. How do you say it? Drt? Took...