Recent content by Darkhorse

My experience is good conditioning will not totally prepare you for high altitude. But it will allow you to adapt sooner and to be more comfortable and capable once the hunt starts. Believe me, good conditioning is a must. The problem is the air is thinner, less oxygen up there and us...

We all have different opinions but that don't mean we can't get along. Take me and my longtime wife for instance she is a staunch republican hating (so it seems sometimes) democrat. While I am a died in the wool conservative and a outspoken one at that. Yet we have somehow been married over 40...

I agree with a previous poster in that horses are a lot more trouble than you think. I'm down to 5 now, no longer do any shows or breeding. We just sit and watch them and feed and feed and feed....... But hunting elk on a good horse is the best way to go only be sure you go with an outfitter...

Why would one want to? There are plenty of safe, proven powders out there to pick from. I think this sets a dangerous precedent. These posts are available to be read by anybody out there including children and teenagers, who as we know, have only partially developed reasoning capabilities. An...

The Pachmyer grips work best for me also. I tried some others but none were comfortable. I particularly dislike those with a thumb rest and finger grooves. I find them much slower to get the gun into action.

I started hunting with a Super Blackhawk 7 1/2" back in 1979. The next year we bought our first Ruger 44 Auto carbine. Over the years I've taken several deer and hogs with the pistol and carbine with several bullets. Today I have settled mostly on 2, The XTP 240 grain in the SBH and the 240...

Those types that insure the same angle is held on both sides mostly all work good and can get you a shaving edge. But hunters need to know how to accomplish this without a piece of equipment that may have been left at home. I mainly use Japanese wetstones but I have diamond sharpeners and...

Sure you can shoot smokeless powder in old blackpowder guns, lets try some bullseye. But for your wifes sake be sure y our life insurance is paid up.

I'll give a couple of my of my opinions but what do I know? I only worked for the feds nearly 40 years. A lot of people are really screaming because someone is finally looking into their books. Well if those folks didn't have something to hide they wouldn't squall so loud. They need to look at...

I wouldn't consider using them for hunting. The ones I've recovered showed little to no expansion.

Seeing as they now list the maximum velocity as 1850 fps I guess you are good to go. I might up my load on the 40 a few grains to increase recoil closer to my SD loads. I have recovered a couple of bullets that look like they could be loaded and shot again so they must be tough enough.

When I did this back in 2018 a lot of people wanted to know how it would hold up. Most speculated it would all just peel off. I too was concerned about that. So this is an update 6 years later; No signs of peeling or beginning to peel. No color change. Some light scratches which did not...

It just seems to me like 23.5 grains of H110 is too much for Berry's plated bullets. I may be wrong on this so bear with me. When I first started shooting plated bullets like Berry's I did a lot of searching for recommended powder charges and somewhere I found that those bullets should be shot...

As for shooting 240 grain bullets, well I've never needed anything heavier. I have a Ruger 44 auto carbine that i've had for decades and from what i've read Bill Ruger designed that rifle to shoot 240 grainers and that was good enough for me.

I've been loading the 44 magnum since 1977 and the only powders I use are Unique, 2400, and W296. These cover the range from plinking to full power hunting loads.