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Fishing Partner (Joke)
Man who really loves to fish seeks woman who has worms.- Cav1
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2024 dove thread
I don't always miss a dove, but when I do I miss with all three shots. So I got an over/under and improved my shooting by a third.- Cav1
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Bozeman: is it really that bad anymore?
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Tell me about your obscure cartridge
I'm kinda partial to the old former wildcat the .35 Whelen, back in the day the "Poor Man's Magnum". The .358-inch bullets don't offer the highest BC in the world, but I can play around with the 225-grain Sierra Gameking at higher velocities or, if I think I really need it, I can go up to a...- Cav1
- Post #102
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Google Bot Data Mined Super-Fund Site
I came so close to buying the Wilsall Volunteer Fire Department's old M35 6x6 Deuce-and-a-Half just so I could drive that damn road it's not funny.- Cav1
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- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Hunting Meme Thread
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Hunting Meme Thread
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Chamber Empty or Loaded
All I know is that I find it rather ridiculous that Peter Paul Mauser's original 1898 design could not discharge accidentally even if the firing pin broke in two but that my new Remington 700 is about as drop-safe as a WWII Japanese Nambu pistol. Some modern sporting rifles have a safety that is... -
does anyone still hunt with ww1 or ww2 rifles
My first year in Montana I filled my deer tags with an M1 Garand, but that was when I still had vision in both eyes and 20/15 in the good one. Hunted most of a decade with a sporterized Remington-built Model 1903A3 Springfield. When my wife decided that was her rifle (a retired USMC gunny did an... -
MT Traditional Muzzleloader Late Season
All good points, guys. I just needed to vent some frustration. I went back one day and blew my own stalk because I'm too old and fat to low crawl within smokepole range. Prolly give it one last hoo-rah today. Start early and ski back to the cover of the sagebrush draws on the very far side of... -
MT Traditional Muzzleloader Late Season
For better than 20 years I had an old CVA .50-caliber Hawken replica an old friend gave me that I had never even shot. So I got it out this summer and got to shooting it with a friend who's big into blackpowder and rendezvous. I still had my deer "A" tag leftover from general rifle season, so I... -
Hornady ELX - No Good for Hunting Elk???
Not sure yet myself. Been shooting the 212-grain Eld-X in the .30-06 for a couple of years. One-shot kills on deer and last year's big cow elk, shot through the front of the brisket at only 50-60 yards. This year I ran into one of those unkillable elk. Friend's son whacked the 5-point herd bull...- Cav1
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- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Define a "Good Day Hunting" when you don't kill.
When you get to see a grizzly bear chasing a bunny-hugger.- Cav1
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Google Bot Data Mined Super-Fund Site
Our big 8-day season opener trip in 500 went down the tubes this year when a visiting in-law brought me the gift of COVID the day before we were going to head into the A-B Wilderness. Now we're trying to make the best of it with a later 4-day trip. This was my reminder to myself from last year...- Cav1
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- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Montana big 4 tag question
You used to have to pay the full price of the special tags all up front to go in the drawing and got refunded if you didn't draw. That did a lot to restrict it to the hunters who were really passionate and serious about hunting the big four, and made for better odds. (Not that I personally was...- Cav1
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Google Bot Data Mined Super-Fund Site
Boulder River Road Report. For those accessing Unit #500 on the Main Boulder, I took our new UTV up to Blue Lake/Monument Peak a couple of days ago. Three times I've had my F-150 up the road beyond Box Canyon, but I wouldn't even attempt it now. There's a ford beaten in around the bridge that...- Cav1
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- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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2022 CO Deer High Country/Pack Goats
That does sound like a great trip. I sure enjoy my pack goats. If they're staring at something, I get the binoculars out, and sure enough there'll be a game animal.- Cav1
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How Much Do You Practice?
I reload a lot and have a 100-yard backyard range but as other posters here and folks like Jack O'Connor and Townsend Whelen advised, you can learn an awful lot and master the basic rifle marksmanship fundamentals with just dry-firing. O'Connor said he did ten dry fires per day from two... -
My new Bear Medicine: a .460 Rowland in a Kimber 6-inch Longslide
Sytes. I haven't tried the Buffalo Bore yet and am still working on reloads, but with the 6-inch barrel Rowland factory ammo averaged 1,290 fps. Rim Rock out of Polson makes some nice hardcast (22BNH) 250-grain RNFPs and 255-grain Keith-style SWCs sized for .451". I used them a lot in the .45... -
Hey captain dipshit! Wrap your chains!
Stopped to help a couple on the highway about a month ago. He was pulling a double-axle 24-foot camper behind a fairly new Dodge pickup, the hitch came off the ball, and while stopping the tongue ran up under the back of the truck and axle so it couldn't move. With his jack and mine we got the...- Cav1
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