Recent content by rooster740

Sitting in the Frankfurt airport waiting on a flight to Windhoek Namibia with my 15 year old daughter and best friend and his dad. 10 day Plains game, 300wm.

It’s a very welcoming group, that will bring your long range game and reloading to a whole new level!

There is so much truth to that statement that most hunters miss! I am all about stretching the limits and to each their own. I shoot precision rifle matches all year and see what a 1mph wind or bad trigger press does to a bullet impact. I used to shoot long range comps and then mostly hunt...

In my opinion the Nightforce ffp mil-xt is hard to beat for hunting and precision rifle matches. It is easy to dial and hold wind or just use the reticle at any magnification. My daughter prefers the NF ffp mil-c for its simplicity

I mirror what BrentM said previously. I have 2 lane cans and 1- TB ultra5. One was primarily used by my son at precision rifle matches, and several hunting rifles. I weigh them new and when they gain an ounce it is over due! Carbon chunks in a chamber with elk standing there no so patiently...

In the last 5 years I have dealt with great glass, good actions, barrels from several reputable makers and a great gunsmith from Lewistown MT. I do not push velocity limits because these are primarily match rifles with 3 barrels being wore out match barrels that were recontoured rechambered and...

What did you figure out? I use alpha in 6.5x47, 6creed and 6dasher And Peterson brass in 300WM, 338lapua, 6creed and 6br. Lapua brass in 6.5 Prc and 6br brass in a short barrel 6 dasher. It is all great brass and I use all three without hesitation, but I feel Alpha is the best.

Put your rifle in the pelican and put it on your pack horse. Keep a regular rifle on your saddle horse or a hunting pistol on you. If you get into timber a big dangling conglomeration of scabbard on your saddle horse will ruin your day.

My ES in 223 with new lapua brass is around 50fps using cfe223 25gr. And 75 Eld-m. Vs 8-10fps with twice fired brass In 6br. And varget it’s ES of 25ish fps new alpha brass vs 6-8fps twice fired. 30 Sherman fire forming is es 20-30fps and es of8-10fps with twice fired. This is pretty...

If you can’t run water over a handful of the cartridge of choice, shake it off and run it in your hunting rifle you are likely to have big problems at the wrong time. It just doesn’t make sense to try to run a handy short barrel hunting rifle at 26-28” barrel length velocities to me. I will...

If this is a hunting rig where foul weather may be encountered, ringing out every bit of speed at high pressure could be devistating if a follow up shot is required. That extra 100-150fps is not worth it.

For what it’s worth, if this is going to be fire formed to dasher use Alpha dasher brass! If this is a straight 6br use lapua unless you have a Peterson brass reamed chamber. I have been using Peterson 6creed brass for 4 years. I get 18-20 reloadings per case per year and then it goes into...

I have been reloading for 30 years and reload and shoot around 4000 precision rifle rounds per year. The one time I did not measure chamber length and size to it I ran the hornady 6gt resizer down to the Ram and resized 200 pieces of once fired brass……015” too far! Same deal! ******* mistake...

I have read a bunch of these replies and all I would say is how many people with advice have actually squeezed the fun flipper on a griz? I have heard that one will shoot a lot more #8 at griz then 00 or slugs. Keep some in your pocket! If It gets real my opinion is that gun is for defense I...

When it was announced that it was Craig who was missing, I knew it was not a transplant that was disoriented. I had a really bad feeling in my gut, that this was bear related. He was just way too savvy in the mountains to be lost, and efficiently covered really rugged country like very few I...