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    Is A Sharps Enough Gun For Gophers?

    A sharps might be enough for gopher's but only if you carefully place the bullet just behind the shoulder! I guy can't be to careful. Oh, and carry a 44 mag handgun in case you run into a rockchuck! :)
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    Protection in bear country

    When I was transferred back to this country from Germany in the service, 1967, I brought back a 7mm Rem Mag. Ought to work for bears. Got stationed in Lakeside Montana, Grizzly country wasn't far off. I though about that out in the field one day and figured I'd be better off with a 338 Win Mag...
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    Tell me about your obscure cartridge

    Ah! A perfect hunting scope!
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    Tell me about your obscure cartridge

    I have had a urge for years to get a 250-3000. Not obscure but working hard on it. had planned on the 260 I had put together on being a 250-3000 but had a hard time figuring out where I'd get case's. For a deer gun I have felt for years it was the most over looked cartridge out there. Case's is...
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    Two rifles, One Caliber?

    Ya know, come to think of it my 6.5x06 I'd set up hoping to try Nosler 140gr partitions. never had much luck with partitions but though maybe this time. Well got it done and to break in I used 140gr Hornady interlocks. Boy did they shoot! Ran about 1/2" at 100 maybe just a bit over. Well...
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    Boy did I find powder.

    Went to Redmond Sat to have breakfast wit a brother from the valley. Café was shut down and didn't find the brother so went to Costal store looking for some augar tail jigs for small mouth fishing. What I found was a ton of reloading powder! They had Staball 6.5 powder, about 10 1# cans of it...
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    Best rifle options youth hunters

    Well can't be more than a hundred or so right answer's to this! As far as cartridge goes that is. Rifle's, I think a different subject. For a rifle go with something inexpensive so you can either do it yourself of have it fitted to the kid or the wife. I'm pretty sure a poorly fitting rifle in...
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    Centerfire rifles - your path

    Pretty obvious most of us are more shooter's than hunters! I too, have more rifles than I need but getting better at not overdoing it. Today I have a 22RF and 22RF mag. 243, 25-06, 260 Rem, 6.5x55, 6.5x06 and a 30-06. I don't hunt anything I'd actually need more than that 243 for but my go to...
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    Restoring Accuracy, Remington 700

    Well now I know what a J lock is! I have a J lock on my 260, old 243 I rebarreled. When I first got it I had no idea what that key was for. Finally figured it out, unlocked it and threw the key away! never has been a problem!
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    Two rifles, One Caliber?

    Tell ya what. I had two 243's at one time and loaded them both different. My bullet's get loaded just deep enough to set back just off the lands. Both also had their own reloading dies. Neck sized till case would no longer chamber then moved die down until case would chamber easily. At that...
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    Bozeman: is it really that bad anymore?

    Oh bot Missoula, theres another story. After getting discharged I went to Missoula and drove for Mountain Pacific Trucking, on the north side of the city. Back then Missoula was a little po-dunk town that for a city was a nice place. Went through there with my Mom and it's turning into a baby...
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    Bozeman: is it really that bad anymore?

    Sounds like Kalispell. I was station in Lakeside 1970-1973 when I got discharged. Kalispell was really neat back then, nobody looked down their nose at you for much of anything. Bad thing going around was land on the North shore of Flathead lake were being bought up by part time visitors, out of...
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    Elk Caliber and Bullet Choice - 2024

    If I was going this year, I'm not, I'd give my 6.5x55 with 140gr Speer Hot Core's a go.
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    Who doesn’t wear camo to hunt

    I don't. I recall a time I was out hunting in my blue jeans, white t-shirt and tennis shoes. Creped up on a small group of deer close as I ever did. They would look up and I'd stop and stand still. I wonder if animals are color blind? Usually I simply wear my jeans and an either blue or red...
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    SidexSide or Over/Under

    The author simply hasn't looked at and tried enough guns yet! I have had O/U's and have 5 SxS's right now. I'm a SxS guy. Just am no particular reason why. Wait a minute. There is a reason. O/U's have stacked barrels and they have a lot more resistance when swinging the gun on crossing shots...
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    AYA Over Unders………

    I've got three Matadors. A 16, a 28 and a 410. Like to hunt with the 28 and train with the 410. Recently got a CZ Bobwhite in 28. Love double triggers!
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    Statistics for differentiating between groups?

    Want to know what your gun does average group size. I'd suggest about 10 3 or 5 shot groups then average the results. I have never been able to go out and shoot a group then turn around the same day and put the same number of holes in the same place on the next target. Simply never happens...
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    Neck shots.

    Most guy's reloading seem to want a rifle shooting 1" groups at 100 yds. That is so they can the heart lung area of a deer at 150 yds.! so I'm thinking the idea is you need a 1" rifle to hit an 8" target. has never made a lot of sense to me. I've done a lot of neck shots but I do get pretty...
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    Guidance on choosing a new barrel or new rifle

    Only reason's I can think of to have a gun re-barreled is you either want a wild catt or something your having a hard time finding. Got my 6.5x06 quite a few years ago and it ran something around $800 with a Shilen barrel. Then wanted a 260 Rem and had a 700 ADL in 243 re-barreled. Also ran...
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    New camera recommendations?

    I like to have a camera to carry bird hunting with me, DSLR don't cut it! I've had a number of point and shoot's and had trouble with all of them till now. Got a Panasonic ZS 100 and ordered a case for it that goes on my belt at the same time. Way less than $1000 and it takes as nice of photo's...

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