Recent content by WeekendWarrior

If you want a lightweight chassis style 300wm, build it. The factory chassis rigs are all heavy aluminum, but if you go custom you are looking at a $5500 rifle. If you have the ability and the tools, you can build the same custom rifle for just shy of $3k. I had mesa precision do a 300wm build...

The easiest thing to do when shooting a milliradian scope is to switch all your measurements over to meters instead of yards. Then everything will make sense to you. At 100 yards 1 mill is a 3.6"s, but at 100 meters it is 10cm. Make sense? If you are using MOA, 1moa = 1" at 100yards, 2" at...

I want to start chipping in more meaningfully. I am a RMEF member, and I feel like the $100 I toss them every year seems insignificant. I love our public lands, I love hunting, I want to do more. After some google searching I quickly became overwhelmed by the vast number of organizations. Are...

I lived in Bellingham for about 8 years, Redmond for 18 months, and Ballard for 3 years... also a lefty, conservative, and a long range shooter. Currently in Colorado, but that is neither here nor there. Welcome. Build rifles, buy rifles, as long as it results in more rifles life will be good...

For sale. The lot number for all boxes of GMX is #82196, the lot number for the box of SST is #82193. The one extra round, which I think is a GMX, is from an unknown lot. I own three 300wm rifles, and this ammo doesn't group well in any of them, so I'm selling it. Its been sitting in my ammo...

Hawkins ultralite. I uses these with my 300wm, they are perfect. I shoot out to 1000 yards pretty regularly with them. As you point out, they have the bubble and are liter anyway. The bubble can be a pain get level and in-line with the reticle, but its well worth your effort.

Idaho. Long season, baiting and dogs are fine. Lots of wilderness for bears to hide and get old. You can get two tags in wilderness areas as well as wolf tags.

I would not. I had a savage 110 stealth in which I over tightened a base screw on my nikon black rings. It never tightened correctly again, and would slightly rock. I had bent the actual base attachment in a way that it never locked correctly. I was cheap at the time, and I tried lock tight and...

Sectional density and the shape of the bullet are the two factors that determine the aerodynamics of your bullet, so particularly at long range it matters. It is important to note, excluding the comparison of a monolithic bullet to a lead core bullet, the section density amounts to a longer and...

He is surprisingly lean and the flavor is mild. I was hoping he would have a bunch of fat on him and taste faintly of blueberries, but he is a bit chewy and tastes kinda like a beef round steak or flank steak. I tried a backstrap on my buddies treggor that turned out a bit chewy, and when I got...

This was my second bear hunt, and my buddy's first bear hunt. He lives locally in the area and took his various "dates" on blueberry hunting trips all summer, so he knew exactly where the bears were going to be. We backpacked about 7 miles in, not too far from the PCT, and set up camp on a ridge...

I didnt mean little to imply his age. He is just little. A lot of folks post about their 300lb+ trophies, and even though my bear isnt that I'm just as proud.

I did a backpacking bear hunt last week in Washington and shot this bear at 340 yards. This is my first bear. He is a smaller bear, maybe 180lbs. I shot him in the last few minutes of legal light and found him about 20 yards from where I shot him. Unfortunately I don't have any in-the-field...

I know I'm a little late to the party on this one, but has anyone suggested 270Bull-dozer? For dozing bulls of course.

I dont "explain" them, I just buy them. "Explaining" amounts buying my wife a really nice dinner and finishing a few things on my honey-do list after she checks the credit card. In that sense, my last custom rifle was explained with new garden beds with metal edging, finishing some details on...