Recent content by Jeff Olsen

I like how the B&C is nice and dark, in low light. It just looks like a duplex. Against a regular duplex reticle in otherwise identical 2.5x8's, the B&C is easily more visble in very low light. I've run the B&C on a half-dozen different calibers and/or loads. It just... works! :)

Neil Jones of Neil Jones Custom Products can fix that BLR trigger for you. He did the one on my .325 WSM BLR. It's now a relatively clean, 3-lb trigger. Makes all the difference in the world!! Not cheap though. He says it's a big job. -jeff

I would very much like that! Joe Cool and I have been talking about doing that. The long-range steels sound like more fun to me; I've been doing a lot of that lately, and would love to learn from JC and yourself how people REALLY do it <g>. Those Allen mags of his... too cool. It just...

Well... but if I go to get on here TOMORROW, it's gonna make me log in. That's beef one. And yes, I know about the little checkbox but it just notifies me that a reply has been made. To have to log on (usually) just to even see what that reply was, to find out if I care, is tedious- IMHO. I...

baltz, so you can see the body of people's posts, in an email? Not just get a notification that there was a reply?? Gosh, if so then it looks like the problem is with MY software! :-)

Do you mean as I WISH it would behave, or how it behaves for me? See, this time I DIDN'T have to log back in, which makes me think that it's just a software setting and if you haven't been back here in XX hours or whatever, then it forgets your computer's "cookies" or whatever and makes you log...

Hello folks. I like this forum; I like the tone, and the people are knowledgeable and very nice to be around. I am a big Nosler fan and they are always the bullets I try first. There's a couple things about this forum, though, that drive me nuts and I really feel that they are holding back...

257 Ackly, Oops! You misread my post. My 2640 fps load uses RL7, not RL17. If you look in a Barnes book, it should show 42 grains for a 200-gn bullet as max load of RL7. It used to, anyway. I was using RL7 already for pistol bullets, and it ROCKS for that, and decided to try it for the...

If you get the LSS version, just FYI I found that mine ( a 7mm-08)balances much much better, as well as being lighter, with as much weight as possible drilled out of the butt. Here's a pic.

Howdy! A couple comments... first, someone correct me if I'm wrong but a BLR should actually be as strong as any bolt gun; it's essentially a bolt gun with a lever to move the bolt, with a rotating front lug set like an AR has, sort of. I have a BLR in .325 WSM. That's some pressure there...

Hello again fellow .35-ers! My rifle is a Model 7 LSS that I had rebarreled by Pac-Nor. I went with a 20" tube. Below is a picture. I called Sierra one time and talked to them about that 225 Game King. They actually said it's perhaps too HARD a bullet from a .358; that it's designed for...

Gentlemans, I recently bought a G20 to use as a trail gun. I have reloaded some for it already, despite having been told (by some) that the sky would fall on me if I did. I would love to hear what loads you all are running. I want a full-boat trail load, with a 180 or 200-gn bullet, and a...

I've posted this over on the 24-hr site enough times that I shouldn't post it anymore.... grin... but here's the exit on a little blacktail I whacked with my .358 and the above load. Yipes.

The 200-gn Hornady SP is a wonderful deer bullet in the .358. I have a load that pushed them to 2640 fps from a 20" tube, using RL7. It's a few grains over any max I've ever seen published, and WAY over Nosler's published max... and yet it gives round primers and long brass life. Worth a...

I have brought a 7mm-08 to the elk woods and I think that would make a fine cartridge for a petite elk hunter. I personally wouldn't go much lighter than that, but I know guys can and do. My daughter shoots my 7mm-08 and likes it. A good recoil pad and getting the stock fit and LOP correct...