300 WSM using 180 gr. Nosler Accubond. I would not use the Accubond LR. I have not used the Accubond LR personally but have not heard very good things about them. The standard Accubonds on the other hand are fantastic. I have used them a lot and am quite pleased with them. I killed my...
When I was in school my father had some friends who kept a couple horses in our pasture to help keep the grass down a bit. A bonus if you want to call it that is that I rode each of them regularly. Now the one was a mare Morgan. She was a really nice horse but if she had not been ridden in...
Nice looking rifle. The stock looks sharp. My son has a Ruger MKII with a Boyds nutmeg laminate on it. Looks good and shoots even better. 25-06 is a fantastic cartridge!!
Congratulations! That is what hunting friends and I call "Cashing In A Coupon". Typically after we Cash In A Coupon it takes several more hard packing jobs with elk, deer, antelope before we are the lucky winners of another Coupon Critter.
Best wishes and great success on your healing process. Do as they say and don't try and do too much ever. Take it slow. You say 6 months to heal, it's more like a full year until your shoulder will be recovered to where it is the best that it will be. Do not take any falls. Falls are bad...
You better do it sooner than later if you really want one. Mike & Mark Hangus are really close to retiring. I do not know what that looks like for Ruana. I don't know if MKC or Behring Made Knives here locally would try and purchase the Ruana brand and build a few of the models that Ruana...
If the animal was taken in Fair Chase as they define it, I think that is what is important. There are a lot of animals that have been taken over the years that have never been entered and will probably never be entered. If I am ever fortunate enough to take a record class animal I think for...
I know you aren't leaning this direction but a stainless rifle with a nutmeg walnut laminate stock is gorgeous. Glass and/or pillar bedded and it is as strong and stable as a sythetic platform.