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It's a good day! My daughter and I each applied for both an antelope buck tag and doe tag (B) for an area/ranch that we have permission to hunt - that has lots of antelope. I wasn't successful for either tag, but she got them both. This'll be her first time bagging an animal - if she's...

On December 31st, tens of thousands of Connecticut gun owners defied a new state law requiring them to register semi-automatic "assault weapons", thus making them a felon overnight. It's estimated that there could be as many as 350k+ semi-automatic firearms in CT that fit within their definition...

Earlier this month I removed the SWFA 12x sniper scope from my Rem 700 SS 7RM and re-installed the Leupold 3-9x in preparation for the season opener later this month. The Leupold had been on the rifle earlier this year, and had been sighted in. The scope mounts are the Warne quick-detach style...

We know the NSA has been collecting extensive phone and email data on all law-abiding Americans for a long time. We know that shopping habits and all other online activity has been collected for all law-abiding Americans. I learned yesterday that vehicle license plate data has been collected for...

Seems to me that the target has a lot to do with accuracy. For example, the "sight-in" targets used at & sold by ranges are fine for sighting in, but seeing a precise aiming point isn't a sight-in target's strong point. Most times good enough, but... Quite some years ago I began experimenting...

Through the years, there's been a number of rifles/cartridge combos I've never owned but thought would be fun or useful. Here are a few.... Marlin lever 357 Magnum (cast bullets, cheap/fun to shoot) Remington 663 350RM (probably be shot more with pistol bullets) Remington 700 308 Win Varmint SF...

I sorta rediscovered 150 rounds of loaded ammo in my cabinet a couple of weeks ago. I had loaded it for a Pdog shoot back in 1993, but didn't use it... While planning another varmint shoot recently, I wondered whether age had degraded the quality of the ammo... The answer: Not much. I store...

I finally got around to a range day with the 7RM. After all the recommendations here for RL22, and especially NoelW's work with RL22 and Nosler's 140CT for the 7RM, I decided to give it a try. The rifle shot its smallest group ever using Noel's same exact load. Thanks Noel! I shot a bracket...

Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our barrels. I've read quite a lot about barrel life. Most say this or that cartridge will produce X-hundreds or thousands of rounds of accuracy life or something similar. In actuality, each and every shot erodes molecules of barrel steel...

What's the definition of the word "irony"? “What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” Obama said at a recent fundraiser. Then we find out that hyper-partisanship was the standard operating procedure at the IRS...

I mentioned this in another thread recently. Tactical seems all the rage these days, but I bought one more for the practical - instead of tactical. As a civilian, I took a week long sniper course in 2002 with a few other local gun guys that was taught by a retired Army Major who had been a...

As astigmatism has crept in through the years, I've tried to keep up with it using the adjustible eyepiece of each scope. I wear glasses for driving, but the glasses don't help at all (in fact hurt) when looking through a scope. What do y'all do to get clean-crisp crosshairs? Thanks, BT

The 308 Win data included in the Nosler #6 Guide lists the SAAMI max OAL for the 308 Win as 2.810". As the photo below shows, my Scout has been shooting with a cartridge OAL of 2.857". It does quite well with the 165BT. I can't see where the lands are engraving the bullet ogive after extracting...

Thought I'd share a couple of photos I was shown yesterday. The photos were taken last summer near Hamilton Montana - in a back yard. I've lived in this area since 1961. Mule deer were never seen in the valley floor till about 5 years ago. We have a herd of about 100 head of Mule Deer living...

I think changing the narrative is the best way to derail the gun banners. I'd like to see a bigtime movement that shifts blame to the TV, movie and gaming industries. No more gun violence in entertainment. Hollywood stripped smoking out of movies and TV programming quite some time ago, so the...

She grew up in a hunting family, but was always more Bambi oriented so she never got her Hunter Education certificate till now. She was even a catch & release fisher - wouldn't kill a trout... But, at 21 and a junior in college, she successfully completed Montana's Hunter Education course this...

First Elk I ran across this the other day in the family album. The photo was taken in the mid-1960s (pre hunter orange regs) of an unguided hunt on public land. That’s me holding an antler in one hand and a classic Remington model 721 in 300 H&H in the other that I used to take my first elk...

I'm looking for a Remington Model 700 BDL right hand short action rifle chambered for 308 Win, with a sporter weight barrel. Prefer an older blued rifle with a nice bore, not one of the new SPS versions. Stock condition not important - I have a stock. Let me know. Thanks. Jim

Back in the early 1990s I wrote a letter to Nosler describing the terminal results from using a BT at long range on elk. The shot was an insta-kill, and I was not criticizing the bullet for a jacket separation, but Nosler's response simply stated that I shouldn't use a BT on elk. They missed...

To some or most here this might be old news, but I just learned in the past few days that Leupold is currently embroiled in a trademark infringement dispute that isn't going well. China is flooding the market with knock-off branded "Leupold" rifle scopes, and Leupold can do little about it...