The vaccuum pack is a great idea. I’m going to steal that. One other thing I stuck in my bag this year was a butcher’s chain mail glove for my off hand. Sliced myself up pretty good last year, not even a knock this year with the glove.
How do you like them? I looked at them, but didn’t like that they are sized for boned out elk quarters. I always hang meat until the rigor comes out before I cut it off the bone, so I thought the bags wouldn’t work well for me. How’s your experience been?
Sell the barrel and stock, both for $100, and you’re down to a $400 donor action.
Tough call though - $400 tikka or $1500 Rem 700 clone.
Just wish the tikka LA wasn’t a true size schmedium.
Sure, you can replace the tikka trigger, but why though?
$10 spring replacement and you have one of the best, most reliable, triggers on the market.
And mags are mags, unless one doesn’t feed reliably.
Having two different loads really isn’t that big of a deal. I practice with Lapua Scenar and hunt with HHT.
Once you learn to make wind calls at full/half/quarter value it doesn’t take much to have two different loads plugged into your ballistics solver.
I have two drop charts, one for each...