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Steve said,"530 yds! I am not sure i can even see that far lol Honestly, I have a SFF scope and not sure I have the skill for such a shot." I knew the area I drew the tag for which was notorious for having to take way out yonder type shots so several months I went through some serious practice...

Not me. They replaced my carburator valve a while back. (Aortic heart valve) Paul B.

Steve, do you know what your velocity is from the 7-08 and the 150 gr. Partition? I've been working with that bullet in the 7x57 but using 7-08 data. I get 2880 FPS on average which is a hair too hot to use on hot days (110 to 115 at the range) so dropped back for general use to 2800 FPS. I...

With me it's not so much the age but the mileage. At least that's what I keep telling myself. Paul B.

Call me odd man out. The last time I loaded ammo for the .270 was in 2009. I loaded the 150 gr. Sierra Game King over a charge of the now very long gone WMR powder for an antelope hunt. Personally, I not a fan of the very popular 130 gr. bullets as they messed up too much eating meat and just...

"Oh to be a weatherman; you can be wrong everyday of your career and never get fired! :LOL:" That's true but you could also get a serious butt chewing from your boss. For 33 years I worked for the National Weather Service and I could pass n the serious tales and a few funny ones. Probably the...

Let's keep this simple. Step one, forget about the belt. It's not easy to get a measurment and if you do they're usually out of specs anyway. This is how I set up my sizing die for bottleneck cartridges. 1. Take a once fired factory round and blacken the neck and shoulders with a Magic...

Not much experience with a .300 WSM I'm afraid. About all I've done with one is I did the original load work ups for my son in law. He wanted to use the 165 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip. My favorite load with the .300 Win. Mag. run the 200 gr. Speer Hot Core. It worked just fine on an elk way out...

Bruce, I have that same model 70 XTR rifle in .270 and it's one of the most accurate .270s I own. Truth of the matter is I could just sell off every other rifle I own and just hunt with it but where's the fun in that? My rifle has a 24" barrel Does yours? I took a nice antelope with mine in 2009...

The weather most likely comes from the National Weather Service which is a branch of NOAA. Paul B,

"And there is that "one bad apple" that ruins a good thing for everybody else...not asking for permission, driving across crops, not closing gates, cutting fences, going where they were told not to, shooting up equipment or livestock, leaving garbage behind, and so on. What landowner will...

Once upon a time there was a man named Timur I Leng. We know him by a more common name as Tamerlane. He has been known that after conquering a city, he would execute every living soul and make a pyramid of their skulls. One such pramid was said that held more than 100,000 skulls, men, women and...

I retired in 2003. Worked rotating shifts for 33 years. I still haven't gotten my sleep pattern squared away. Some mornings up around 5 or 6, others as a late as 10. My latest cancer regime has left me quite tired at times. One of the problems is dehydration. Bladder wakes me up almost on a...

Well for the two World Wars, we didn't want to get involved until a German U boat sank the Lusitania which has any American citizens on board. We all know that Pearl Harbor was what dragged is into W2. Korea? Not so much except when the North Koreans came over the 38th Parallel there were a few...

After the end of WW23, America helped the two main antagonists to get back on their feet. Think berlin airlif where some American pilots lost their lives helping to feed germans stranded by Russia. EWe ever went out of out way to help the Japanese get back on their feet. France was relueved of...

My experience with the .270 is long but thin. I got my first one back in 1973 for $75.00, a commercial FN Mauser. The guy that sold it hadn't even fired itonce. He decided he didn't like the stock. To use a quote from Jack O'Connor, "That stock is so ugly it would abort a lady crocodile." But...

About the only real drawback to the .358 is difficulty in finding ammo or brass. The good news is one can make brass from .308s. Just a simple pass through the .358 die and you have brass. I used to have a friend that did the gun show scene that dealt strictly with reloading components. He was...

I have a small collection of Ruger #1s with A,B, S,H and V represented. Still haven't for the RSI I liked at a price I was willing to pay. The #1A has a 22" barrel with muzzle light feel that makes shooting difficult as it's hard to hold the rifle steady in some hunting situations. The #1B...

It's possible but probably not. You fired the primer on sn empty case. The force of the primer going off drove the case forward. There was no explosion of powder to drive the case back fully reseating the primer. In fact, that case most likely now has the shoulder pushed back enough to...

I have three. They're mounted on a 30-06, .35 Whelen and a .300 Win. Mag. All have held up just fine. The .35 has eaten three Leupolds so far. Two at the range and one on a hunt. I will say the Leupold did fix the scopes but I'll not put them on any rifles with noticeable recoil. Paul B.