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    Had some fun with a trim little Swede

    He was adamant to use 4064. Accuracy was ok but he couldn’t find any real speed before hitting serious pressure. 7828 was a bit better. RL26 gave it the gas.
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    Had some fun with a trim little Swede

    A rifle.... let's be clear. ;) So... been away from the forum for a while. No real reason...just life, busy, blah blah blah. My father has a Model 70 Classic Featherweight in 6.5x55. He has struggled to get it to shoot well. He taught me to handload, although he's never gone quite as deep...
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    I'm a progressive now

    Yep, I want to start casting and PC'ing bullets, too.
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    G20

    I'm currently sitting with a 9mm XDs for carry, a (mostly) GI1911 in 45ACP for fun/range, a Smith & Wesson 57-1 in 41 Mag (6") for hunting and because a revolver is essential, and the G40 to carry for hunting protection. I can't hunt with it in PA, unfortunately.
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    G20

    My 40MOS eats ammo like my teenage kid eats groceries. Sometimes I wish I'd gotten the 20 for a little shorter overall handgun. I guess maybe I might need one? I think it's never a wrong decision to own a 10mm, though. It's just cool. People can dog it all over the web, but at the end of the...
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    I'm a progressive now

    I tip-toed into the progressive pool this winter with a Dillon. Yep, the components go fast. The wife is sort of side-eyeing me anytime I'm on the net now, because I'm generally looking for the cheapest components I can find to feed the press, and the press is feeding my hungry firearms. The...
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    I think the end has come

    As my father has often said, "old age beats the alternative." I'll assume it's true. I have no experience directly with either. Yet. With a turn in the weather coming and the single digit cold blast looking to maybe let up for a few days, my fire started burning a little hotter to go hunt...
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    Small 8 point whitetail

    I encourage everyone to shoot a flintlock at some point. Not only were they an important step in firearms development, they were obviously quite pivotal in Colonial American history. I live in the midst of the cradle of the long rifle's development and am blessed with ample and close opportunity...
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    I think the end has come

    I have no doubt. I'm 42 and I still feel pretty good. I stay active, work on my health, and don't consider myself old. I have coworkers who are my age who complain all the time about "getting old," about all their various aches and pains and such. They looked at me like I was insane when I went...
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    I think the end has come

    I don't see myself as mastering hunting. I've had good luck, and I've had my moments of success. I've also had moments I look back at with a cringe and "what the heck was I thinking???" Make no mistake, had I a hole in the freezer space and a need for meat, those deer would be in danger, but...
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    I think the end has come

    I'm still wondering if I was told I grew up, or told I got old....? ;)
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    I think the end has come

    I've got a very serious grudge with red squirrels...lol CL, you've very much correct. My dad killed a nice 8pt as well this year, so three generations of our family punched tags this time around.
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    I think the end has come

    I do, too, and several people have said that they'd love a deer if I got one. We have no need for any more meat whatsoever, lol. The elk was 2-3x a whitetail doe in meat, plus two large-bodied bucks between my daughter and I, and we're usually eating 3 mature doe a year, so we're in pretty good...
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    I think the end has come

    I've been out with the flintlock looking to fill a doe tag. I was out in falling snow and the bitter cold. I have my cold weather clothing fairly well sorted out at this point, that I'm actually not too cold when I'm out, even when it was in the single digits. (I know Cheyenne will giggle at me...
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    Ok, so that Hornady load, with a 200 yard zero, would be -9" at 325. Your load will be -12.3" at 325. In essence, you get 4MOA of drop vs 3MOA for a faster load. If you hold 3MOA high, forgetting you're running a bit slower, and hit 1MOA lower from POA than you intended, you've still got a...
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    Point of reference.... I shot a mature whitetail doe at 397 yards with my 30-06 and 165gr Hornady Interlocks from a Light Magnum factory round. 3000fps? Sounds good, let's roll with that. According to my ballistics calculator, that would give it an arrival speed around 2200fps. Went through...
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    What are we shooting at 325? Short of an elephant, I'd guess it would be a dead critter if your aim was true.
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    For a point of reference, I have my daughter's 7mmWSM shooting a 140PT at about 2600. Pretty "blah" for a 7mmWSM. Pretty pedestrian for a 7-08 for that matter. She shot a very nice 8pt with this this year at 125 yards and it made a wound channel I could have convinced most hunters was done with...
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    I'd take that 165 PT load all day long. And I never necked up 30-06 brass to whelen brass, but I did rebore a rifle in that manner!
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    Looking for input on 30-06 loads

    Funny you mention the 300's....WSM and H&H...being near twins. I own and shoot both. I shoot 180gr Partitions in both. 3015fps in the H&H and 2975fps in the WSM. Just where those individual rifles shoot. Functional difference is zilch, although the WSM does it with a 24" barrel vs the 26" tube...
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