Recent content by Smokintoes

If you're still interested in 6mm, you might want to try rebarreling to 6mm Remington, I did one in 26" a couple of years ago and it's become my favorite antelope gun.

I recovered 1 bullet from 12 kills on the smaller deer found in southern California and it was shot just inside the left shoulder from the front at about 200 yards. The bullet ended up under the skin of the right hip. It retained 99.8 grains of weight. All others went completely through the...

I used to have a custom built 243 on a M700 with a 22" 1:9.5 twist. It dearly loved Speer 105 grain bullets with H414 seated .010" off the lands. I don't remember the exact charge, but it was easy to develop. It was potent medicine for those small SoCal deer.

Hello, My friends call me Smokin Toes. It goes back to my rendezvoux days. I live in North Western Nevada where my prime hunting activity is to reduce the number of coyotes in my area. I started out 8 year ago with a 223 and later a 204 Ruger, but about 3 years ago I got the 6.5 bug. I now...