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    Switch to wood or no?

    Peas and carrots go together like a walnut stock on a blued vintage rifle. I have one hybrid, a stainless model 70 classic featherweight with a walnut stock. Since the barreled action is so classic it KINDA makes it. Your rifle is way too high tech for a wood stock,,,,which will not be cheap at...
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    A bolt action carbine, simple scope, varied handloads, good for everything.

    I could hunt anywhere for anything non dangerous with your rifle
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    A bolt action carbine, simple scope, varied handloads, good for everything.

    As always, I hold your life hunting experience and loyalty to your Springfield in high regards. Often, I pick up my Browning 30-06 and think about hunting with it again, and again. I just won't take it out in sloppy weather anymore. That would require taking it apart to dry out and there goes...
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    A bolt action carbine, simple scope, varied handloads, good for everything.

    Those 660's and 600 Remington's are going for some really big $ on the internet right now. Newly produced carbines are rare. Savage makes some and of course Sako. So much of what is being made and sold now are those long barrelled rifles with noisy/ugly recoil suppressers. "Copy that sniper...
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    A bolt action carbine, simple scope, varied handloads, good for everything.

    At the range in town a young fat fellow had a long, long range rifle. The case seemed enough for skis. It had a 26” barrel and a recoil suppressor. In the gun rack with a Star Trekking Scope and bi pod, it looked like a launching derrick to send a rocket in orbit. Even with my ear muffs over...
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    Can the 280AI Really Be this good! What is your experience with it?

    I can only relate my own experience all of which has been with Barnes bullets following the Barnes reloading manual. Looking at the 120 grain, 140 grain, and 160 grain Barnes bullets and them comparing 7 Rem mag to the 280AI in the manual, there is no real difference except the 7 Ren mag uses...
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    When have you shot game animals on the move? What rifles have you used? How close and how fast?

    As always I respect both your experience and the opinions gained from them. The same goes for Mt. Muley. Of course a standing shot is always preferred. That said, from the many responses to this post, taking shots of animals that are moving sometimes is a valid option, one that I think a...
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    When have you shot game animals on the move? What rifles have you used? How close and how fast?

    I was 16 wandering about my family’s New England dairy farm hunting woodchucks with a Remington Model 12 pump 22, octagonal barrel no less. In the just baled hay lot, a big fat woodchuck was dining. He saw me in some bushes along the fence line and took off running as fast as a woodchuck could...
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    Russia Suggests It should Reclaim Alaska

    Now that.,,,,, is a funny response !!!!!!
  10. M

    Soft Hands Steve at it again.

    Well, at least you are honest. Sounds you are past the point where you can hunt and do not care about the negative consequences to land and wildlife when more access is granted to vehicles. It is a downhill rapid slide. Also seems so unrealistic to think once vehicle access is allowed that...
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    Russia Suggests It should Reclaim Alaska

    Sorry the link did not open. But going on the internet you can easily find them
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    Russia Suggests It should Reclaim Alaska

    s://www.ibtimes.com/russia-threatens-take-back-alaska-us-over-war-sanctions-3564746
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    I joined the 6.5 club today…

    I apologize if I was sounding abrasive. Whether one has a backpack or not, that does not change the merits of a whelen shooting sling. For many years I was a hunting guide on wide open grassy plains. Thousands of acres of barely ranches. Over and over I saw hunters come out without basic...
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    I joined the 6.5 club today…

    What you are not factoring in with a properly fitted and used Whelen sling, is the isometric tension created by the 2/3 rearwards firm pull into your shoulder and the 1/3 push forwards to the sling swivel. This tension not only significantly reduces felt recoil by the controlled push forwards...
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    Drew Arizona Nonresident Desert Bighorn Sheep Tag - Kofa NWR. Dec. 2022.

    Send me a PM with you phone number and we can talk.
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    I joined the 6.5 club today…

    I am 74,, it gets harder as we get older, much harder. Last fall i had covid. Lucky I was vaccinated, spared my lungs. I coughed so much my back muscles got piano wire tight and I really pulled them. All in all i was mess and weak for deer and elk season had gained a critical 15 pounds. I...
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    I joined the 6.5 club today…

    I get the desire to have the lightest rifles,,,however. Most hunters, rather than worrying about a pound on a rifle would be better served by taking off 10, 20 or even more pounds off their bellys. Hunters by and large are way too large. As the rifles got lighter the hunters have gotten...
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    What firearms would to take travelling around the USA, going into both anti and pro states ?

    I like your sense of style Don. Always have. Firearms can be about fight and/or fun. If there were some bird hunting opportunities on my journey, I would take my 20ga SXS Ithaca SKB, fun not fight, but just as capable to de-perpetrate a perpetrator. I admire your choice with the 6.5x55. Have...
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    I joined the 6.5 club today…

    The Winchester model 70 featherweight was a "featherweight" for it's time. That time has past, unless I pick up my standard weight model 70 in 270. ( 7 3/4 pounds) I have the Kimber Hunter in 280AI (5.75 pounds), I miss the bottom metal and trigger guard, kinda raygun-ish being all synthetic...
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    Drew Arizona Nonresident Desert Bighorn Sheep Tag - Kofa NWR. Dec. 2022.

    Meant to say bring really "strong hair combs"

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