Recent content by 429421Cowboy

In this boom market, I find it hard to believe that Berger is not working at 110% capacity to keep up with demand, it is easy to be critical when you can't find the exact bullet you want when you want it, but at some point in this whole shortage, every different brand and style has been hard to...

I would say your chances of recovery on a body shot with a FMJ on a turkey would be very, very slim. Birds can be downright tough to kill with a body shot from a rifle and I would certainly like an expanding bullet and shoot right where the neck meets the body to give the best target and...

I have been in Montague quite a bit, used to run cows with a guy that had pasture up there so we had to roundup, vac and ship a lot of calves outta there. Funny thing is the thing that made the biggest impression on me was the shear number of porcupines around there. I have never seen so many...

Thank you, I have been wondering if the Bell and Carlson was the way to go in my price range, and that would give me some room to work with if I rebarrel the rifle like I eventually hope to.

Well hopefully they put everybody back to work again! I thought it was bad when they went to the Friday furloughs and put guys to a 4 day work week last month, but I guess it can always get worse. Good luck to you!

On a related note, myself and many others here find Berger data to be very light, especially if you set the bullets out further like they want to be, so some personal discretion might get you the best safe load...

Now those are pictures i'd like to see! My longest kill was just a shade under 110 yards on a coyote. I was about 13 and checking cows, they were all over the place and had broken through the fence. After a quick look around a found a bunch of young coyote pups chasing everything that moved...

Yep, they tossed my partner out that works as a Redhat CATEM instructor at Malmstrom too, on the plus side we're getting all sorts of work done on the ranch now lol Mind if I ask what part of the base you work on? My mother also worked there for quite awhile before they axed her contract in the...

Wow. Those are some impressive numbers they show, but I don't think I've ever been mad enough at a turkey to spend $10 a shot at them! I use an Undertaker in my 870 for buckshot mostly, and heavy loads of birdshot. It does show a preference for buffered or copper plated shot, but I have been...

I have a M700 in 7mm Rem mag that still has the basic SPS stock on it. The fact that I can squeeze the forend and make it touch the barrel (which the weight of the rifle does when it's on the bipod) has convinced me that putting any money in it to bed or anything else would just be a waste since...

Anyone that hunts at all will eventually make a bad shot, we just try to do our best to follow through and finish what we started. Mine (I have had a couple) was on an antelope but a few years back when I was 14. It was the last week of the season and I hadn't hunted at all since I had saved...

Heh, using a puny gun like that against ManBearPig when everybody knows he's half man, half bear, half pig! lol Kinda sad to say that you nailed TV hunting with that one though, I swear most of those guys took lessons from Ronco the way they push their knives too!

I helped my best friend last season figure out his rifle out to 600 when he had just the same questions you do now. Each "click" on your scope is 1/4 MOA, and each number on your scope is 1 MOA. One MOA equals roughly 1" at 100 yards, 2" at 200 and so on. The easiest way to do this is to...

I had heard similar performance, at lower pressures was the big thing.

Maybe its because I am a full time college student and working two jobs at the same time but... WHO HAS THAT KIND OF TIME?? "Drive to a far away city to get this information to avoid being suspected" "go to trapping conventions and auctions to gather information and license plates" "Look in the...