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<blockquote data-quote="frostop" data-source="post: 1743768" data-attributes="member: 22611"><p>For me it started when I was 12 or 13 with an old Benjamin .22 pump air rifle. My younger brothers and I would shoot match sticks stuck in the dirt at maybe 40 yds.</p><p>Than I bought my own 30.06 and started hunting, took a couple deer with that rifle, later bought the new version Ruger M77 in stainless, which I still have. Later I started elk hunting and one year I was shooting at a cow elk at maybe 400 yds (didn't have a range finder than), just holding high and just kept missing until she decided she didn't want to hang around till I got lucky. It was that day that I decided that I needed to konw what my rifle was doing at extended ranges and at the same time I took up handloading. My step father had an old Herter's press, powder charge, 30.06 dies and balance beam that he wasn't using anymore and I just took it upon myself to learn how to use it all, this was like 1985, now I have all new and reload for several cartridges. Than I took up archery hunting and chasing rutting/bugling elk which was intoxicating, killed a few elk with my bow than the **** wolves screwed that all up, at least were I hunt! Now I am back with the long range rifles and have built my own and have enjoyed shooting at longer ranges than I would have shot at years ago. Killed a deer at 520 yds a couple years ago and still haven't killed an elk with my rifle, just can't put the bow down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frostop, post: 1743768, member: 22611"] For me it started when I was 12 or 13 with an old Benjamin .22 pump air rifle. My younger brothers and I would shoot match sticks stuck in the dirt at maybe 40 yds. Than I bought my own 30.06 and started hunting, took a couple deer with that rifle, later bought the new version Ruger M77 in stainless, which I still have. Later I started elk hunting and one year I was shooting at a cow elk at maybe 400 yds (didn't have a range finder than), just holding high and just kept missing until she decided she didn't want to hang around till I got lucky. It was that day that I decided that I needed to konw what my rifle was doing at extended ranges and at the same time I took up handloading. My step father had an old Herter's press, powder charge, 30.06 dies and balance beam that he wasn't using anymore and I just took it upon myself to learn how to use it all, this was like 1985, now I have all new and reload for several cartridges. Than I took up archery hunting and chasing rutting/bugling elk which was intoxicating, killed a few elk with my bow than the **** wolves screwed that all up, at least were I hunt! Now I am back with the long range rifles and have built my own and have enjoyed shooting at longer ranges than I would have shot at years ago. Killed a deer at 520 yds a couple years ago and still haven't killed an elk with my rifle, just can't put the bow down. [/QUOTE]
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