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.45 Cal 250 grain Hornady SST in a .50 caliber sabot. In line muzzle loader. Chronographed muzzle velocity of 1850 FPS. 70 yard shot giving a 1630 FPS impact velocity with 1480 ft lb energy. Double lung full pass through, ran 30 yards and dropped. Son’s elk previous season. 7 mm 162 gr Hornady...

Welcome to Utah. There’s some great cow elk hunting here. A good bull tag becomes more scarce. Maybe we could turn this into an STW vs .300 WM debate. Haha. For elk my minimum requirements are 1400 fp of energy or more with a sturdy bullet carrying enough velocity for good expansion. (1800 FPS...

Check out Big Agnes. Their sleep system bags use a thermarest style pad that slides into a sleeve that is the bottom of the bag. The sleep pad is your insulation underneath. The pad is “built in” to the bag. You never end up sliding off your pad.

Great article! Just starting to do more of this stuff myself. Time to get some JB weld and bed all my scopes. I’ll start with the 22 for practice and work my way up to the STW. Haha

I got our son the first bow in the family 2 years ago. In Utah, youth hunters can hunt deer all 3 seasons using their rifle tag. We thought it would be good to give archery a try, no extra tag needed. He's become a good shooter. Unlike me, this kid has NO buck fever no matter the situation...

My oldest daughter is RH but VERY left eye dominant. Very difficult for her to acquire any sight picture with her right eye. We got her her own LH 22 and trained shooting lefty. She shoots lefty great with our RH hunting rifles, just slow running the bolt so you hope for a 1 shot kill, like...

I am one who is surprised that my hearing is still ok. Way too much shooting as a youth with my brothers, reloaded our own shot gun shells. We shot A LOT of skeet. Never any hearing protection. I always make my kids wear protection now. And worry it wouldn't take much to damage my, little...

MOA is what I started with and seems to work in my world!

We did 2 of our own deer skulls last fall. The skulls with antlers were a bit big for a regular pot. Ended up using 5 gallon buckets. And dumping boiling water in. We followed a tip I got somewhere online, using Arm and Hammer washing soda. Skinned the heads, cleaned off what was easy and...

Made it out today. Shot 3 different load increments, 162 amax 2000 MR powder, 3 shot groups of each at 100 yards. Chronographed these loads, then did some long range shooting on hanging steel plates at 500, 600 & 800 yards. Using the isnipe app for elevation adjustment. Had some first shot...

I have started out with the cheaper option, just trying to figure out what it really takes to shoot long range. We are shooting a Remington 700 7 mm 08 varmint. This gives us a 26" heavy barrel. Accuracy seems good so far. For the scope I started with a Nikon Buckmasters 4.5-14x with the BDC...

Neck size to increase life of the brass!

Have to throw in my 2 cents here. My 13 y.o. Son and I have been on a similar quest started about a year ago. Here is our just under a $1000 learning set-up. A Remington 700 varmint in 7 mm 08. That gave us a stock rifle with a longer 26" heavy barrel. I think this was the largest caliber in...

We are shooting a rifle with the 4.5-14 x40 Buckmaster . We have added the monarch high replacement turrets, about $74 from amazon. They turn it into a nice 1/4 moa click-in setup. Good optics, nice crisp clicks, easy return to zero. Using some good handloads that we run through the...

Wow, great links from jimbires. So much good stuff on this site to help with my newest hobby. What a great insight to another important aspect to long range shooting and hunting. Looks like I need one more thing on my wish list (an add-on scope level).