Recent content by Trey1096

Gen 1 or Gen 2? Anyone else? I’ve been looking for a 22 cal barrel for my gen 2.

So, through the efficiency of the Fed Gov, mid Sep has turned out to be mid Nov. I’m going to do some reconnaissance for a future trip, but I was wondering if there’s anything else I should do or places I should go while I’m out there. For instance, anyone passing through Rapid City for the...

You can think of a spiral fluted barrel as being a small diameter barrel wrapped in cosmetic flutes. With a straight fluted barrel, the flutes are structural load carrying elements. These are generalizations, but basically true. With the CF, the carbon wrap acts in a composite manner with the...

When they remove material to spiral flute a barrel, it reduces the effective diameter of the barrel to the diameter at the base of the flutes. This means the stiffness is the same as barrel with a diameter equal to that at the base of the flutes, except that it has all that wasted flute...

Unfortunately, I’m afraid it all comes down to how “cool” the manufacturers can make it. If their marketing literature convinces the general firearms buying public that CF is the “in” thing to have, then they will buy until the next cool thing comes along. Case in point: Spiral fluted barrels...

I’ve seen this guy about a dozen times. Hope to get a shot on him soon.

I shoot mostly shotgun. Probably 3x as much as rifle and pistol combined. If I could only have one gun, it would be the Beretta A400 Xcel. The one with the blue receiver. (I don’t own one but I shoot one regularly) After they brought the Benelli bolt over to the Beretta side (Beretta owns...

I shoot an AL391 and it’s very soft shooting. It’s a 30” Teknys so it has the mercury filled damper in the stock. It’s soft because it’s heavy. Hard to beat a A400 with the Kick Off. You can shoot hot 3” shells in it and it kicks less than most 20ga guns. A friend has the Xplor model and we’ve...

I’ve always heard them barking at us as we leave in the evening, but I never knew they were so active at night! Gonna have to check the Wy and Mo regs and hopefully take the NV next time.

We used the onX app this year to find a couple of new towns in SD. Also, it was a great help to make sure you were on the right land. You can see if you’re on private, state, or BLM land. Just make sure you download the area and have a backup in case your phone konks out. We usually Mark our...

Thanks for the help!

Can you tell me how to reply to the following thread: https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/nx8-4-32x50-f1-c624.247324/ The reply box says, “You have insufficient privileges to reply here.” Also, it says I can’t send a message to HunrnPack. Thanks, Trey

Never thought of water getting in there. That's a money tip! The legs will also get sticky when they get a lot of dust in them.

I’ve never hunted as far east as Wall, but I’d like to try it out! All of my SD hunting has been over around Belle Fourche and Buffalo. I’ll check out PNG. It looks pretty big! Thanks for the info.

Top to bottom is a 700 VLS 223, M77 22-250, and a 224 Valkyrie [