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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="walkinhorseman" data-source="post: 738645" data-attributes="member: 51285"><p>I left Deerfield, NH October 1 and moved to Sidney, NE. My property bordered Pawtuckaway Park. Prior to the two years that I spent in Deerfield, I lived and hunted in Pennsylvania. About the only long shots that you'll get in Southern NH is going to be on power lines. Whereas, PA offered much more opportunity for the rifleman. While I was in NH, I went to Nashua and shot an F-Class rifle on Thursday mornings. I also got involved with the monday morning old farts that shot Schuetzen. Nice club and nice range. Don't know if the membership is open. The Hi-Power rifleman there are very serious competition rifleman. They are helpful but if you go to shoot the 600 yard practice on Thursday's, you need to be already sighted in at 600 yards. It is not a leasurely time on the range and you'll have to pull targets. So, you'll have to get a membership and go practice at your own pace to get comfortable with your new rig.</p><p> </p><p>I've had a couple 7mm Rem Mags and still have one. I also have 300 and 338 Win Mags. The 7mm Rem Mag is a great cartridge. I like the 160 gr bullets in this cartridge. Given comparable weight bullets with a 30-06, I don't think that the difference in recoil is noticeable. Most of the serious deer hunters that I talked to who hunted Maine and NH liked the 30-06 and 270. Those hunters were either stand hunting or tracking and jumping deer. The 7mm Rem mag is pretty much more of the same. For the areas that I hunted in the southern part of NH, I felt that not much scope was needed. I used a 338 Federal with a 2.5x8 Leupold. It's so thick, that I felt fast handling was more important. I went to the Maine Northwoods for Black Bear. That application mandated high quality optics over power. I could see where you could find some long range hunting in New England but you had to work at it. Here in the Nebraska Prairie, you have to work at getting into rifle range without getting busted by the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkinhorseman, post: 738645, member: 51285"] I left Deerfield, NH October 1 and moved to Sidney, NE. My property bordered Pawtuckaway Park. Prior to the two years that I spent in Deerfield, I lived and hunted in Pennsylvania. About the only long shots that you'll get in Southern NH is going to be on power lines. Whereas, PA offered much more opportunity for the rifleman. While I was in NH, I went to Nashua and shot an F-Class rifle on Thursday mornings. I also got involved with the monday morning old farts that shot Schuetzen. Nice club and nice range. Don't know if the membership is open. The Hi-Power rifleman there are very serious competition rifleman. They are helpful but if you go to shoot the 600 yard practice on Thursday's, you need to be already sighted in at 600 yards. It is not a leasurely time on the range and you'll have to pull targets. So, you'll have to get a membership and go practice at your own pace to get comfortable with your new rig. I've had a couple 7mm Rem Mags and still have one. I also have 300 and 338 Win Mags. The 7mm Rem Mag is a great cartridge. I like the 160 gr bullets in this cartridge. Given comparable weight bullets with a 30-06, I don't think that the difference in recoil is noticeable. Most of the serious deer hunters that I talked to who hunted Maine and NH liked the 30-06 and 270. Those hunters were either stand hunting or tracking and jumping deer. The 7mm Rem mag is pretty much more of the same. For the areas that I hunted in the southern part of NH, I felt that not much scope was needed. I used a 338 Federal with a 2.5x8 Leupold. It's so thick, that I felt fast handling was more important. I went to the Maine Northwoods for Black Bear. That application mandated high quality optics over power. I could see where you could find some long range hunting in New England but you had to work at it. Here in the Nebraska Prairie, you have to work at getting into rifle range without getting busted by the game. [/QUOTE]
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