Recent content by Ronald W Schaefer

I have a Browning A-Bolt Micro medallion I got in 1990 for the boys--they grew up shooting that little 7mm-08 and its killed a lot of game...still in the gun safe slated for hand down to my granddaughter. I have a Browning X-Bolt White Gold Medallion in 6.5 PRC--it's a beauty and the most...

Standard body size of a whitetail deer is 16", Mule deer is 18"...Elk about 32", so yeah, crosshairs on the back of a whitetail and then high on the other critters. FYI, that's almost exactly her numbers. Now she just got a Leopold VX6 3-18 X 50 scope with adjustable turrets, so no more holdover.

.257 Wby. Mag. Wife shoots 120 gr Nosler Part at 3300 fps adjusted to +1.7" at 100 yds. You can still put the standard crosshairs high on the critter at 400 yds.

Be careful about calling Weatherby and making suggestions. I called them once to suggest that they should build a 41 Cal rifle cartridge to fill in between the 378 and 460. It would be a nice compromise on velocity, energy, recoil, trajectory etc. between the two. They said that was a great...

Have your gunsmith check the extractor on your bolt on the Kimber M84 6.5 CM. I know it sounds weird but the exact same thing happened to my friend's Fierce Firearms 6.8 Western.

Where did you score the 6.5 150 ABLRs? Had those on back order for about two years.

The big selling points are, short action, higher twist rate, beltless case, smaller powder charge, heavier bullets with higher BC, potentially lighter rifles...good velocity retained at long range, less recoil IF you have a brake. Allegedly more accurate due to case design. But a 1/8 twist 7mmRM...

I wonder if 6.5 PRC or 6.8 Western would be considered overbore? My .257 Wby shoots a 120 gr bullet 3300 fps using 68 grs of reloader 25, Federal 215 primers. 3 shots and you cant touch the barrel. I have a barrel cooler and if I'm serious about groups I'll cool the barrel to ambient temperature...

.257 Weatherby...

I like to fall back on optimum game weight formula by Ed Matunas as it appears in the Lyman reloading manual # 47. Taylor index is a pretty good indicator as well. I still use the old 1000 ft. Lbs. for deer sized and 1200 for Elk at the range where those numbers occur. Also, I like to know the...

You might think about takin that Browning to the gunsmith:-)!

This, what he said:-)!

I have a lot of candidates in my two gun safes, but I really like my 6.5 PRC and 6.8 Western for long distance calls:-)!

Daaang son! Well done. I just got back from an extended trip to Africa and that kinda drained the piggy bank:-)! I'm guessing that Tajik trip was not cheap. Might be minute before I can get back out somewhere overseas. Also, I'm a former fighter pilot/contingency mission planner who once held a...

I think the original point of this thread is to question why when there are about a thousand great bullets for hunting would you choose one the bullet manufacturer says, "not recommended for hunting". Now that said, we can all do what we want, and we all have our respective...