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I normally don't go for fancy, but I'm a sucker for a maple stock, and I couldn't resist these two beauties in two of my favorite...
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Just purchased a Weatherby Model 307 Alpine MDT in 7mm PRC! Also ordered a couple boxes of McGuire Ballistics 168 grain "Copper Rose"...
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I'm continually amazed by the emotional attachment to things in a sport/hobby dominated by the demographic most often (self-) associated...
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Found this thread about a month ago and decided to try converting 7mm SAUM to 6.8 Western. It worked beautifully. I sized ADG 7mm SAUM...
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Seekins Havak or Browning X-Bolt in 7mm Rem mag or 6.8 Western. My pet cartridge here in WY is the 280ai, but OTC ammo would be hard to...
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I read through a whole bunch of this thread but not all. If what you choose to read below has been already been covered, my apologies...
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It's KE i have issues with. It can't be disputed as a calculation, how that energy is transferred to the vitals is the rub. How much of...
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I would "much" prefer to use my 460 Smith with my wide metplat bullet starting @1500 mv on a sharply quartering (rear hip area to...
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There is nothing to disagree with. It is what it is. The min velocity is simply when a bullet starts expanding and there is no secret...
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Lou, You are right. Expansion, if you get it, usually occurs within the first couple of inches of penetration. We see this in gel...
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This is because bullet deformation in a liquid like media depends on dynamic pressure so the animal is “hard enough” to expand the...
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Rules of thumb and min requirement game laws are mostly there to keep people from doing something dumb. By default they tend to be at...
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fordy was banned by mistake. So sorry, fordy. The poster just before fordy was banned on purpose for very crude language. That ban...
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