I have 4 Rugers in that model and have owned 5. They can be a little problematic but all have shot 1.5 MOA with a little experimentation and a couple have shot much better than that.
One of them is a 280. Doesn’t like my handloads or most factory loads but will shoot Federal 150 Partitions...
These guys were much older than you. I'm not sure if they would have survived getting an elk of the mountain, but I doubt they had to worry about that.
I had old, fat guys get upset at me on two different occasions this fall. Some people don't like younger, fitter hunters leaving the truck later than they did and then passing them on the trail.
I’ve been using them for years. My favorite bullet, hands down. Recovered an 8mm/200gr one from my bull elk this year. Looks good (like all the rest have).
65's are kind of like the 30-06. Definitely the one to get if you can only have one. I have a 50, a 65, and an 85. The 65 gets the least use out of all three. I'm either using a spotter only to quickly check something out from a distance (in which case I'm carrying the 50), or I'm doing some...
Tragic for those involved, but if the woman and kid had been taken out by a drunk driver this wouldn't get any further than the local news, for a day or two.
Grizzlies need to be hunted, but not because of this.
Although camo doesn’t really matter on a rifle hunt, I’d buy the subalpine pattern for the Bob in September. There will be a lot of pine trees and some dead grass that time of year.
I’d bring:
Mountain Pants
Light weight s/s tee shirt top
Medium weight base top w/hoody
Heavyweight fleece top...