Recent content by highbrow

Phased Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

You better like winter. Snowing now.

Heading out to the range for a Schuetzen match today. Plain based lead bullets only. Shooting a 32-40. The fact that the case says 30/06 is irrelevant. 165 grain cast lead bullet over 7 grains Titegroup for about 1100 fps.

MacBros 50 Bmg cause I didn’t need 2. Ruger Precision Rifles in 300WM and 338 Lapua for the same reason. At my age I am getting over the Magnumitis.

I use 175 Hornady flat base with Reloder 26 in my 7-08 for the rams at 500 meters. Accurate and so far they have all gone down when hit.

Bow hunting elk years ago and followed a skunk out after dark. We were heading the same way on the trail. I stayed a respectful distance behind.

As a high power competitor, we see this especially with stainless barrels. CM barrels tend to gradually fall off and stainless barrels die suddenly. First will see off call shots at 600 but good groups at 200 and 300. Never go to a big match with a long in tooth barrel.

Noob

About 30 years ago I shot a bull elk about 2 miles in. Was 25 below zero when I got up. I field dressed the elk and left it to go get help. I remembered that one of my friends who had draft mules had offered to help me that summer. I gave him a call and we took two mules in. He rode the frozen...

My son shot one opening day a bit over 3 miles in. Steep nasty terrain the last half mile. Told him I had one trip in me at 69 years old.

For even more speed.

I have multiple Ruger Americans. The Predator models are fantastic shooters. I have a 22-250 in the regular American. 1/10 twist. Skinny barrel. Shoots 50-55 gr bullets sub half inch. Tried 60 gr partitions with the idea of antelope hunting with them but they were sprayed all over the target.

I couldn’t get any accuracy beyond 10 yards and my arm would get tired quickly.

Many years ago when I first started reloading 223, the very first case I did broke the decapping pin. It was berdan primed. Since then I have reloaded 10s of thousands of 223 and have not run across another berdan primed 223 case since.

Now with the grizzly bears getting the bird flu, I imagine that the price of grizzly bear eggs will skyrocket.