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  1. buffybr

    Do I need to wear camouflage?

    You most definitely have to wear camouflage when rifle hunting. If an animal sees a person with a gun in the field, that animal will immediately run to the next zip code. Here's photo proof: I'm shooting station low 8 at Skeet and the antelope less than 50 yards behind me are in full panic to...
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    Mountain Lion with hounds…a bucket list hunt

    @jpcoll01, Congrats on your lion. Great story! When I lived in Steamboat Spgs in the early '70s, the local Game Warden had a Mtn Lion rug hanging on the wall of his living room that you could see driving by his house. Seeing that lion started me on a 40+ quest of buying a lion tag with the...
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    Buying My First Big Game Hunting Rifle

    My Dad didn't hunt, but he did give me a single shot Rem bolt action .22 rifle when I was about 10, and he enrolled me in an indoor gun range where they taught me the basics of shooting. When I got to college a couple of my roommates were from Craig, CO and they invited me to go hunting with...
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    Sunrise Sunset Pictures

    Looking up to my house at sunrise... And a sunset off my front deck...
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    Beyond a dream, what's your ultimate hunt?

    I've been fortunate enough to have hunted most of what has been posted here, but I'm still dreaming of a Stone ram, a Desert ram, and a 60"+ Alaska/Yukon moose.
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    Elk Pictures w/ Score

    My best bull was 375" gross and 366+ net. His main beams were 59 1/2" and 60 1/2". (one shot with my .30-06 and a 180 gr Sierra GameKing bullet) My 2nd best bull. I forget the gross score but his net was 330" (one shot with my .257 Ackley and a 117 gr Sierra GameKing bullet)
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    Years ago when I hunted Caribou and Musk ox in northern Northwest Territories, my Eskimo guide was also some kind of Provincial game warden or something where the Provence issued him a .303 Brittish rifle and ammo. I should have scrounged brass from him, but I was thinking about other things.
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    I originally got Universal for my 28 ga Skeet loads, and my last 8# keg is getting low. I havn't found any Universal for several years, so I will be switching to Unique. Right now, my .45 acp practice loads burn 5.9 gr of Universal, .44 Spl 6.0 gr, and 9mm and .38 Spl burn 4.9 gr.
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    I started making these .44 mag shotshells in the late '70s or early '80s. I have 55 shotshell cases that I've made. I don't shoot them very often and have not "worn out" a case. I scrounge brass almost every week when I go to the range, but I'm not the only brass scrounger and only very...
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    I go to our range once a week, when I'm home, all year long. On a typical range day, I start at a 25 yard berm and shoot offhand at my 9" steel gong with 2 cylilnders of .38 spl, 2 cylinders of .44 spl, then 2 magazines of .45 acp and maybe 2 magazines of 9mm. I then go to our main rifle range...
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    Invasive Hippos

    200 hippos would be great in the Rio Grande River...
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    That die set is for regular .44 magnum and .44 special bullet reloading. They are for straight wall cases that are shorter than my .44 shotshells, and are not bottlenecked. My shotshell cases are fireformed on the first firing to conform to the inside of the pistol cylinder which results in a...
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    No, its just stamped "RCBS 44 MAG SHOT SIZE SP." I bought it at least 40 years ago... I may have sent a spent (fireformed) case to Huntington Dies and they had or made a shotshell size die for me. Back then I only had a Ruger SBH pistol, and the inside dimentions of the Ruger cylinders are...
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    .44 Mag Shotshells

    On the thread ".44 Magnum Hunting Loads" I mentioned that I make shotshells for my .44 mag pistols. I got several responses with questions about these shotshells, so instead of hijacking MTLabrador's post, here's a new one on my .44 mag shotshells... Years ago I made shot loads for my .357 mag...
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    Sorry to hear about Pat Fisher. My GF and I vacationed on Lanai several years ago, and we saw...

    Sorry to hear about Pat Fisher. My GF and I vacationed on Lanai several years ago, and we saw several Mouflan rams, including one big one on the NW corner of the island. I corresponded with Pat several times about hunting both Mouflan and Axis deer, but never followed through for the hunt...
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    .44 mag hunting loads

    I have a couple of .44 mag Ruger 7 1/2" Super Blackhawks that I carried from the late '70s through the '90s while I was elk hunting. My favorite hunting load for it was/is a Lyman 250 gr #429421 GC over WW 296 powder. Also, since the early '70s I've carried a 1911 .45 acp shooting 220 gr hard...
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    Ben Avery Shooting Range

    When my GF worked at the Grand Canyon, I'd fly down to Phoenix where she'd meet me and we did some traveling in that part of Arizona, but I never went in to the Ben Avery Range. Strybilla went down there last week with a car load of shotshells to shoot a bunch of the Sporting Clays fields until...
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    Leupold scout scopes

    Being an avid shotgunner, I've taught myself to shoot with both eyes open. I have Leupold VX3s and VX Freedoms on 7 of my rifles, and even when I have the one cranked up to 18X, I shoot it with both eyes open.
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    How to mount scope farther back?

    Your front ring only has 1/4-1/2" of play, but you could gain that distance by reversing the back mount. I have 2 rifles that I used Talley extended rings on the back, not for scope placement, but to get maximum support distance between the rings. As others have said, stock fit is improtant...
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    Bringing wolf pelt back into USA from Canada?

    When I went moose hunting in Alberta last year I had downloaded the Canadian Non-resident Firearms Declaration sheet and filled it out, but it is a legal size paper and my printer only does standard size, and Canadian Customs didn't like my 2 pages, so I had to fill out a new one there. They...
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