Recent content by Shortywy

Winchester Model 70 would be my choice. Remington has gotten sloppy with their quality control.

I have helped shooters for years in the military and 4-H. If your son is right handed, shoot right handed. I have seen The challenge of eye dominance at an early age cause all kinds of frustration. As they get older I have seen the eye dominance change to the dominant hand. Midway and Amazon...

Thank you I will try the Berger’s. So far it has been Hornady and Sierra.

I’m just starting with precision rifle. Don’t have the budget to get to carried away so on the advice of a friend bought a 308 Remington 700 rifle. If I seat the bullet .010 from lands it will not fit the magazine. Heck it only has about 20% of a168 gr. bullet in the case. (Remington getting...

I started watching my dad and helping him. He loaded for saving money plus he could tune the loads for accuracy. He didn’t really try for sub MOA, but if he could cover most his shot group with a quarter it was considered good. He let me use his 243 for deer and varmint. It was hard to find a...

I have been using a set of RCBS reloading die’s that came with my old Sears and Roebuck Ted Williams 30-06 I have used them for years. After cleaning FL sizing and case prep I would seat the bullet then run the bullet adjustment out to use the role crimp in the die. I couldn’t get the accuracy...

Could possibly be something as simple as finger placement. When it is snowing & blowing, I practice dry fire at a sheet of paper with as small a dot as I can see. I have noticed that when I get complacent & just go through the motions my follow through ends up at 8 or 9 o’clock on the paper...

Walker’s makes an electronic ear plug that works good rechargeable battery that uses the standard cell phone charger. Has a cord that connects ear pieces with volume control that you can run under your chin or behind your neck. Does pickup up wind noise. Was about $75.

I help clean up and help with repairs at our local gun range and for years the majority of brass we pick up has been 223, 308, 30-06, 7mm rem mag, & 300 win mag. Still quite a bit of 270, 243, 25-06 and getting more 6.5 now a days.

Looks like you have it covered. We use get milk in the cardboard containers and would put our soups, stews scrambled eggs & chilly in it, freeze it. If we had a spike camp all we needed was a pot, then pealed the cardboard off, heat and eat. Beacon flavored spam cut thin to go with scrambled eggs.

Slowly incrementally turn up the heat on gun ownership. Like the story of the frog in a pot. Sobering video!

I really enjoy this part of long range hunting! Raised my kids girls and boy shooting and hunting. Their friends and family friends shooting and hunting every chance we got. You all are keeping the heritage and traditions alive and well!

The 6.5 Grendel is great for Mule deer out to 400 yrds. If you are worried about shot placement or buck fever use Nosler ballistic tip hunting bullets. The exit wound on a Mule deer at 125 yrds. Is the size of a walnut with a 95gr bullet in a 243.

You guys are doing it right! I started my kids out with the Red rider and shooting crackers. Pellet gun and 22 cricket rifle. They shoot in 4-H shooting sports and love shotgun, Black powder and do great with the 22’s. They look forward to hunting season and prairie dogs any time. It really...

I was having a similar problem with my loads. My old RCBS scale is within 1/2 a tenth of a grain, the smallest I could find for checking my scale. I found a book by McFerson on reloading the metallic cartridge. He suggested the Lee factory crimp die. I know allot of people consider Lee the low...