Recent content by Ridley75

The ban has been in effect for a couple decades. The employee you mentioned was the director of the Fish and Game Commission...the division of CA Fish and Wildlife that makes the rules for managing wildlife (i.e., hunting, species designation, etc). After he was fired, he was replaced by the...

That judges line of thinking is the definition of simplistic. Does he know that elk in the US have only been recovered in a fraction of their original range, but hunting them is doing its job in helping elk to expand their range. Hell, prior to European contact, some estimates put elk at more...

Thanks for your input. You’ve all convinced me that this would be a wise choice.

Hey all, I’m wondering what your opinion of the Ruger American Predator rifle is? I’m looking to pick up a second midweight rifle (I have a .25-06) that I can shoot a lot and not really worry about it being shot a ton, while being pretty accurate. Also I think it would be a good rifle for my...

Hmmm, the OP is a very close friend of mine and giving him a hard time would be fun... Dougduey I would suggest that you look for copper fouling.

That is unfortunate. Trust me, those of us (hunters) living in California feel your pain. It’s illegal to hunt Mt Lions here and it’s illegal to bring mt lion parts into this state legally hunted in other states. Recently they stopped bear hunting with dogs and are now working to outlaw coyote...

.257 - 115 or 117 grn ABLR

I was going to ask Guy this question about the 440 grainer, instead I’ll ask Fotis...does that thing stop after it hits something? Wow. I’ve shot a 44mag a bunch and loved it. A buddy I elk hunt with as a 460 and he offered to let me and another buddy in camp shoot it. The other guy went first...

I've been playing with RL19 for a little over a year now and while I have seen velocity changes with temperature changes I haven't noticed any pressure issues. I've shot it in temps ranging from 95 down to 45. But don't worry pressure changes and temperature are always on my mind with the RL...

A while back someone suggested that I give RL22 a try for my .25-06 because I was getting a little frustrated with not getting the velocity that I was hoping for. Needless to say the max load listed by Barnes for a 100 grain TTSX got me to 3,300 fps, well 3,297 to be exact. It also got me 0.50...

Annually our temps range from height 20s (winter) to over 100 (summer). With that said I went back and compared my chrono data for 90 grain Hornady GMX with imr 4831 against book and it was spot on. Accuracy wasn't too bad, about an inch. I think that I can improve that by playing with seating...

Thanks Guy and Dr Mike. I've got 1,000 of the CCI primers so might as well use them. Last Friday I grabbed a lb of RL 22 and am going to try and put some test loads together before the wife and daughter get home this evening.

To add another question to the mix, I've been using CCI 200 primers but noticed that Barnes used Federal 210. Does anyone think that could contribute to my speed loss? If so what would you recommend?

I can get RL22 and Retumbo so maybe I'll look into those as well. The QL numbers match Barnes' data so I think I just have a slow, but accurate barrel. I know that book values are optimistic but I am running 150 fps+ below them in a 24" barrel. Now that Ca will be 100% copper soon I would like...

Guy, I have search high and low for 4350 with no luck but your not the first to recommend it however I do appreciate your recommendation. Tack, thanks for the run. I'll see what I can come up with.