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  1. Brad

    Centimeter (aka 10mm) for bear?

    100% unsurprised…
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    Winchester M70 long action blank canvas... ideas on what to build.

    9.3x62 would be fun to play with. To me, the ultimate medium bore for a standard bolt face and ejection port. A fast twisted 25” 270 would fit nicely on an M70 too.
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    Wayne LaPierre Resigned

    Speaking of the bloviating sociopaths at the NRA, here's a piece of fearmongering BS that showed in the mail today. In the end, the NRA will prove to be the greatest detriment to public support for reasonable gun rights:
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    Wayne LaPierre Resigned

    The NRA is neither honorable nor intelligent, so don't hold your breath. They lost me in the mid 1970's - they don't represent hunters, they represent themselves first and foremost, then the insane, greedy, self-absorbed far right who, given their rhetoric, think ICBM's should be the right of...
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    Hunting mittens

    Yeah, I'd not get a trigger finger "mitten." It will be a compromise, give poor trigger control, and not keep hands as warm as actual mittens. Buy good quality mittens, wear a thin liner underneath, and attach them eskimo style with a cord running up each sleeve and across the back. Take the...
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    Gaston Glock dead at age 94

    In the summer of 1983 I was taking the train from Munich, South through Austria, on into Yugoslavia. Crossing the Austrian border, the customs agent got on to check passports (pre-EU). On his hip was the most interesting and unusual pistol I had ever laid eyes on. Only later that year, after...
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    Merry Christmas!
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    Christmas movies… sort of.

    The Holdovers... excellent. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_holdovers
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    What to do in Maine?

    That would be my plan. I'd skip the Southern Coast including Kittery, and head right to points Down East. Monhegan is a worthwhile detour. Inland Maine is wonderful, but that's a whole other trip really.
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    What to do in Maine?

    I’ll have to disagree on Bar Harbor, but yeah - go see Egg Rock Lighthouse. I spent a lot of foggy summer days listening to it! It’s just off the frame in my pic above. Take the Ferry from Bar Harbor to Winter Harbor. Go eat crab rolls in Corea.
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    What to do in Maine?

    I prefer midcoast Maine the best, Bar Harbor being the one place to avoid (which is easy to do). I'd also encourage you to go the the lesser visited Schoodic Point portion of Acadia. I've spent a lot of time on the Maine coast since my childhood. My almost 95 yo father still lives on Frenchman's...
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    Matt Rinella knocking it outta the park

    Ha - true that!
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    Matt Rinella knocking it outta the park

    So Don Draper, a classic narcissist, and advertising genius, doesn't think about the public? Of course he does, but only in the most utilitarian, commodified, self serving way - just like any narcissist or advertiser. No, I'd say they're exactly the same...
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    Matt Rinella knocking it outta the park

    rj, thanks for taking the time to respond. "Everything is monetized these days" - yes it sadly is. But that doesn't mean I need to participate in it. Or at least, to the best of my ability. The monetization and commodification of everything is disgusting. I'm glad Matt R is giving a voice to...
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    7mm-08

    Thank you! This was a real long distance kill... 40 yards :) I snuck up on him and shot him as was faced away. Bullet went in through rear liver and angled forward through lungs - it was recovered under the offside scapula. That's around 32" of penetration. He ran maybe 20 yards and piled up...
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    In the same theme as my friend Craig, but with a circa 2008 P&S camera lol... "taking in the sunset"
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    Family Traditions

    I'm 75% Norwegian. So, while I married a woman of non-Norwegian extraction, we raised our kids observing Christmas on Christmas Eve as I was raised, and as it's practiced in Norway. I'm not one for tradition, but it's one I truly love. There's something more "homey" about a lit christmas tree...
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    Rangefinder Recommendations

    @YoungGun took the words right out of my mouth. I used the old Leica 1200 brick forever. Great rangefinder. "Upgraded" after 14 years of flawless performance to a Leica 2000. Doubt I'll ever buy another rangefinder.
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    7mm-08

    7-08/150 Nosler Ballistic Tip. Quickest one shot elk kill I've ever had. Blood at the top is where the elk impaled himself with his own 6th point in the "fits of death."
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    Family Traditions

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