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Big Bass are what I fish for. We don't have Walleye's and other Northern Fish down here but we do have Bass, so that's my quarry. In fact the obsession started as a child fishing with my mother and father. We fished for all kinds of fish but Bass are my favorite. It's a lot like hunting...

I don't hunt a special muzzleloader season, I hunt the regular rifle season mainly because that's when the rut is. But I do like to change things up and carry a scoped centerfire occasionally, mostly in the afternoon as my Zeiss gathers a lot more light than iron sights. Some situations just...

If that light rifle has a slick stock it's even worse. I've had my Tikka lite stainless for several years and it has always been a chore to nail those tight groups. It was light enough to be hard to anchor in sandbags and so slick it moved on it's on. So last year I refinished that plastic stock...

Guy, You need to dust off that old traditional muzzleloader and hunt with it some more. After another kill or two it will be time to get a good flintlock rifle and take the next step. Nothing quite like a fine flintlock rifle on a frosty morning.

I'm not a fan of Hornady brass and I've found it to be hard rather than soft. Of course it's likely it's actually all over the map. I had a box of .300 Win. Mag. factory Superformance 165 gr. I shot 10 of them and the group was all over and way right and high. Compare this to my handloads shot...

I've been a fan of IMR 4350 for nearly 50 years. Back then I was shooting a 30 '06 and IMR 4350 was my powder. Years later I started loading the Rem. 7mm mag. and the 300 Win. mag. I happened to have some IMR 4350 around I was using for some smaller cartridges so I tried it. I liked it so well...

I have one and used it once. Oh, it worked fine but I couldn't use the results. I was setting up a new Browning Abolt II in .300 Win. Mag. I got my OAL and loaded a round then tried to put it in the clip. It was .100" too long. So right off the bat I had a .100 jump. Didn't seem to matter though...

Well they are not for everybody cloverleaf, but they sure call out strong to me. And yes, it is an interesting way to hunt them.

Turkeys are gonna do that hunter24605, usually it's the ones with hens that do things like that. If we could only see what's going on where the gobbler is it would all be a lot clearer. A gobbler with hens won't leave them for a hen that's a stranger. But if you can get in front of them a...

I have a RCBS Rockchucker that I seldom use anymore. This one has plenty of power if your forming brass. I also have a Lee Classic turret press that now does all my handgun loading. But all my rifle loading is now done with a 40+ year old Lyman Spartan press that has seen better days. The...

Sheep at 200 meters if memory serves me. I shot some many years ago using my 7.5" Super Blackhawk.

In 1979 I bought a 7.5" Super Blackhawk, still have it and it's still very accurate. I used to shoot only full house handloads with 240 grain Jacketed soft points. Now all I hunt with are a dwindling supply of Speer gold dot soft points, but I seldom shoot max. loads in the pistol anymore as my...

I've had this rifle for a long time now, I can't find the bill of sale but I think I bought it around the second year they began importing them. I like it pretty well but there are a few things I don't care for....the bottom piece is plastic instead of metal....the LOP is too long with winter...

Tom, it is a process but one I consider necessary to keep a rifle in top condition. My toothpicks sometimes leak also. When I want a real good cleaning job I push those pins out and remove the barrel then dunk the breech in a bucket of water and flush it good and clean. I use a breech plug...

I've been wanting to try one of those safari slings myself. I want to sling my Tikka across my chest so it will be more accessible and not slip off while walking. I have several slings bought from Uncle Mike's they used to call the Hunter sling. These are plain leather with leather loops instead...

It takes a lot of shooting to really know how your rifle's going to behave. I have a couple that run to the extreme. One is my .300 win mag, even though the barrel is well broken in this rifle doesn't settle down until 5 shots from a clean bore. The other is my 7mm mag. it shoots the first shot...

I hunted elk around Chama, NM in 1996. After I got home I started getting calls from a hunt consultant trying to get me to book a hunt for a huge elk. Sounded good until I found out it was a high fence hunt. It took a lot of calls to finally convince the guy that I wasn't interested. I've never...

No big deal really. For hunting rounds I want to work everytime I load then .015-.020 shorter than the magazine. As for accuracy it doesn't matter there either. When a barrel oscillates the pattern is repeated all or most of the way to the chamber, this means there are numerous nodes available...

My flintlocks have cast "on" for a lefthand shooter and the LOP I made a little shorter in order to fit well with winter clothing. Funny but I've never considered a modern CF with cast off, or on. My Browning Maxus came with shims to adjust LOP and cast, maybe drop too but it's been awhile since...

I'm a little dissappointed by how this post has deteriorated. Funny how some people feel the need to get so defensive....... I might be the old hand here having started hunting with a ML in 1976. I know how our Black Powder season got started in my state, I was one of the original signers...