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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1943725" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>BearDog, I do not have ideas about what to do with your rifle, I find that there are too may variables to start making suggestions. What I can suggest to remedy any possible ammunition failures on a hunt is what my son and I do. We both hunt with 35 Whelens and .358 Winchesters, so not your average, everyday, run of the mill cartridges that you will find in WalMart or your friendly neighborhood sporting goods store that sells ammunition, cold remedies, oat meal and clothes. Three of four years ago while on a bear hunt in Maine we ran into a situation where we had a bad batch of primers (hard anvils) and were experiencing FTF rounds. Not every round, but.....as in your situataion who needs to head out into the field with doubt on a once in a lifetime hunt??? So.....we head out to the nearest <em><u>"super"</u> </em>sporting goods store two hours drive away to see if we could pick up some ammunition for the only two guns we had. They didn't have the 35 Whelen ammo, but they did have three boxes of .358 Winchesters, so.....we bought then for the hunt at $80 a box!!! We felt like we got bent over, but what could we do??? We figured that we had ten rounds each to get our rifles sighted in and a box each to hunt with; we don't shoot 500 yards hunting black bear in Maine! We managed to harvest bear with the factory ammunition, however we would have preferred to be hunting with our 225 gr Barnes TSX and 200gr TTSXs instead of what we were shooting. After that experience we always take along <em><u>at least</u></em> two rifles and <em><u>at least</u></em> two boxes of factory ammunition just in case we do run into a situation with our reloads. I have been reloading for 55+ years, really make good ammunition; however, sometimes <em>components</em> can let you down. I know that this does not resolve your rifle problem, hopefully it will help to rid some of the doubt you may have with a rifle/ammunition that you do not trust on a trip that you were lucky enough to draw a moose tag from a lottery. As for the rifle issue, I would start out with a new batch of brass, annealed and prepped properly, and go with SAAMI specs for my hunt and tweak/ladder test your loads until I found a load that worked in my rifle, AND take that load with me on the hunt, along with some factory ammunition that may not be as accurate however dependable. Good luck with your moose hunt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1943725, member: 69192"] BearDog, I do not have ideas about what to do with your rifle, I find that there are too may variables to start making suggestions. What I can suggest to remedy any possible ammunition failures on a hunt is what my son and I do. We both hunt with 35 Whelens and .358 Winchesters, so not your average, everyday, run of the mill cartridges that you will find in WalMart or your friendly neighborhood sporting goods store that sells ammunition, cold remedies, oat meal and clothes. Three of four years ago while on a bear hunt in Maine we ran into a situation where we had a bad batch of primers (hard anvils) and were experiencing FTF rounds. Not every round, but.....as in your situataion who needs to head out into the field with doubt on a once in a lifetime hunt??? So.....we head out to the nearest [I][U]"super"[/U] [/I]sporting goods store two hours drive away to see if we could pick up some ammunition for the only two guns we had. They didn't have the 35 Whelen ammo, but they did have three boxes of .358 Winchesters, so.....we bought then for the hunt at $80 a box!!! We felt like we got bent over, but what could we do??? We figured that we had ten rounds each to get our rifles sighted in and a box each to hunt with; we don't shoot 500 yards hunting black bear in Maine! We managed to harvest bear with the factory ammunition, however we would have preferred to be hunting with our 225 gr Barnes TSX and 200gr TTSXs instead of what we were shooting. After that experience we always take along [I][U]at least[/U][/I] two rifles and [I][U]at least[/U][/I] two boxes of factory ammunition just in case we do run into a situation with our reloads. I have been reloading for 55+ years, really make good ammunition; however, sometimes [I]components[/I] can let you down. I know that this does not resolve your rifle problem, hopefully it will help to rid some of the doubt you may have with a rifle/ammunition that you do not trust on a trip that you were lucky enough to draw a moose tag from a lottery. As for the rifle issue, I would start out with a new batch of brass, annealed and prepped properly, and go with SAAMI specs for my hunt and tweak/ladder test your loads until I found a load that worked in my rifle, AND take that load with me on the hunt, along with some factory ammunition that may not be as accurate however dependable. Good luck with your moose hunt. [/QUOTE]
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