Recent content by R.Thompson

I'm in western Colorado. I have shot PDs here, and in Wyoming and Utah. At certain times and places, I and a buddy with me would each fire over 500 rounds in a day. We would each have 2 or 3 rifles - you can overheat just one shooting like that. --- When the mounds are that thick, I try to...

Whitetail is far better than mulie. I think it is the sagebrush diet. ----- The absolute best game meat I have ever tasted was wild woodland bison, which was hunted and shot in NWT, Canada.

I gunsmithed full time for 30 years. Now tired and retired. 35 or so years ago, I bought a factory SAKO 222 HB for my own use. The little SAKO was the only mini bolt available at that time, and was about the same size as the Howa and Mauser minis. ----- Used a 12x fixed power Leupold and...

From where I live in western Colorado, a buddy and I have been on 3 and 4 day prairie dog safaris within a few hundred miles, where we would each fire over 500 rounds a day. You have to have 2 or 3 rifles each. Some hotspots you get into, you can easily overheat just one. I have varmint...