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459 Yard Buck - and the founding of LRH.com
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<blockquote data-quote="Azrael" data-source="post: 2493845" data-attributes="member: 106296"><p>For me it was a process. I was always a hunter, and incurable gun nut. Started hunting deer at a tender age with a 30-30 (Because that's what I had) but was almost immediately disgusted with that. Being a JOC reader when I should probably have been playing with blocks, I just knew that a 270 was what I needed, and a reloading press followed a few weeks later. Used out to MPBR plus a little it worked as well as anything else I tried. Affordable LRFs that were worth owning hadn't made an appearance yet.</p><p></p><p> Then the STW arrived on the scene and I got on that wagon in a hurry. I was more than a little shocked on how utterly it out-270ed the 270.</p><p> </p><p> Decent rangefinders and BDC reticles changed a lot; but when a hunting buddy picked a spot to stop for lunch that just happened to have some 1000 yard rocks sticking out of the snow and just happened to have a 338 Edge in the backseat my eyes got opened again. All I can say about that is that turned out to be the most expensive sandwich in my life. It was right to heavy barrels and cranking Mark 4s. Bad enough that I had to build rifles; I was buying properties to set up ranges. I'll get even if it's last friggin thing I do. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> There was a bit of help here and there by phone by guys like Ian Mcmurchy. Darcy Bowyer, and Ron Latawski who wa sthe guy who got we missed up on 1000 yard rocks.</p><p></p><p> The other bone I have to pick is with shooting friends that thought I should shoot F Class. Oh, they brow beat me, shamed me, I'm pretty sure threaten me until I showed up with hunting rifles. I beat my major instigator by 10 points over the weekend. Might not have been his best day though; since he'd finished his military career as a marksman instructor.</p><p></p><p> Got a little blurry after that. An ex-coworker that I used to tease about .308s happened to be at the same provincial FTR match, and we were shooting two to a mound the way we do. I'd like to say I beat him him, but I was ahead for 11 shots. That was a bit disapointing because in my petty sort of way I wanted to beat the old co-worker. We all have ego's right? Anyway, he got the gold and I got the silver, still are friends. We had a great talk where he explained how I had no gamesmanship technique, and really didn't know **** about wind flags. Not going to argue that; but can take a little solance from the fact that he won 6th in the world once. Maybe between culling opportunities world wide I don't completely suck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azrael, post: 2493845, member: 106296"] For me it was a process. I was always a hunter, and incurable gun nut. Started hunting deer at a tender age with a 30-30 (Because that's what I had) but was almost immediately disgusted with that. Being a JOC reader when I should probably have been playing with blocks, I just knew that a 270 was what I needed, and a reloading press followed a few weeks later. Used out to MPBR plus a little it worked as well as anything else I tried. Affordable LRFs that were worth owning hadn't made an appearance yet. Then the STW arrived on the scene and I got on that wagon in a hurry. I was more than a little shocked on how utterly it out-270ed the 270. Decent rangefinders and BDC reticles changed a lot; but when a hunting buddy picked a spot to stop for lunch that just happened to have some 1000 yard rocks sticking out of the snow and just happened to have a 338 Edge in the backseat my eyes got opened again. All I can say about that is that turned out to be the most expensive sandwich in my life. It was right to heavy barrels and cranking Mark 4s. Bad enough that I had to build rifles; I was buying properties to set up ranges. I'll get even if it's last friggin thing I do. :) There was a bit of help here and there by phone by guys like Ian Mcmurchy. Darcy Bowyer, and Ron Latawski who wa sthe guy who got we missed up on 1000 yard rocks. The other bone I have to pick is with shooting friends that thought I should shoot F Class. Oh, they brow beat me, shamed me, I'm pretty sure threaten me until I showed up with hunting rifles. I beat my major instigator by 10 points over the weekend. Might not have been his best day though; since he'd finished his military career as a marksman instructor. Got a little blurry after that. An ex-coworker that I used to tease about .308s happened to be at the same provincial FTR match, and we were shooting two to a mound the way we do. I'd like to say I beat him him, but I was ahead for 11 shots. That was a bit disapointing because in my petty sort of way I wanted to beat the old co-worker. We all have ego's right? Anyway, he got the gold and I got the silver, still are friends. We had a great talk where he explained how I had no gamesmanship technique, and really didn't know **** about wind flags. Not going to argue that; but can take a little solance from the fact that he won 6th in the world once. Maybe between culling opportunities world wide I don't completely suck. [/QUOTE]
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