One thing I've used over the years in order for me to work had to only shoot on a cool barrel is to take a probe thermometer to the range with me.
While I'm getting things set up I set the gun in the rack and drop the probe therm down the tube. B4 I get to shooting my first group I take a...
You mentioned "weird pressure spikes"......that to me would indicate that you were clocking them.
Bottom line, pressure equals speed and speed equals pressure.
One group proves nada (by and large)
I've called in a bit over 60 bears so far, I don't do it near as much as I used to but I still call in a couple on a yearly basis.
In a nut shell....yes you can call bears. I've found them to be mucho easier to get to come to a call in the fall. Reason being, once they hit hyperphagia...
IMO if one's in the expert catgegory with a pistol and has nutz of steel then go for the 357, 44 or 10 with hard cast bullets. IMO a serious discussion with a bruin is about extremely close range, and one perfectly placed round, maybe getting off two rounds at most.
People get into problems...
Thinking I might have to hunt bruins this spring, wouldn't mind shooting one some day...
was gonna stop in to c-you today but got to running behind. maybe tomorrow or Friday
So, am I getting this right. The private grazing fee is $23.60 and the BLM fee is $1.35? If I'm reading that then I'd say that the BLM fee is hardly fair market value. What do you guys think...?