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I've never had the opportunity to hunt for moose DAMMIT! But. if I did I believe I would run with my .35 Whelen and the 225 gr. TSX as first choice. Probably use either my 30-06 or .300 Win. Mag as back up rifles, probably with the 200 gr. Speer Hot Core which worked extremely well on an elk...

I have the Winchester Featherweight push feeder for the 1980s and it too has the long action. However, Big W in all their wisdom placed a block in the magazine so I can't seat bullets out all that much. I have the same action/rifle in 7x57 Mauser and it too has the magazine blocked to the...

When I got my first .243 I used it mainly to shoot coyote for hides. The 100 gr. Sierras were a bit too destructive and I had better reuslts from the Hornady SPs that anything else. his was back in the 1970s and I don't remember if the were Interlocks or before Interlocks. I always used...

I haven't done very much with the .257 Robt. for reasons of health. I have two rifles chambered to the Robt., a Ruger #1B and a Winchester M70 Featherweight. The Ruger came with 6 boxes of Norma factory ammo which apparently has been discontinued. I shot the Ruger just enough to know it likes...

"Given how the communist, democrats, have tried to paint the events of January 6 as treason and an attempt to overthrow our democratic republic I do not trust them with this directive." I really do not like the term, "democratic" in its most common usage. It sounds too much like the Peoples...

I've had three Leupold 3x9X crap out on me. Two at the range so basically no harm for one, semi-disaster with number two as I was when checking the sights at Raton New Mexico the day before my elk hunt. The 30-06 stood up for gack up duty. Number three was weird. The elk was stands perfectly...

"Check groove diameter" Not that easy with a Smith & Wesson. Unless there' been a chage I haven't heard about, they're still using barrels with 5 lands and grooves. Best you can do is a semi-educated guess without having a special mirometer. A standard micrometer won't work. My best guess it...

I don't have a .300 RUM but do have a few .300 Win. mags. A Winchester M70 push feed Walmart special and four Ruger #1s. All five rifles will run right about MOA with 180 gr. Partitions and all are sub MOA with the 200 gr. Speer Hot Core or 200 gr. Nosler Partition. I run the 200 g.' load using...

I have a couple of Simmon 1.5x6X mounted on Ruger M77 RSI rifles that My lte wife abd I used on our deer hunts. I do agree that set at 1.5x seeing the barrel and front sight can be a bit disconcerting so we used them as a 2x6X scopes and ignored the 1.5X setting. We took a lot of deer with that...

I was playing with the 165 gr. Accubond in my 30-06 that has a slower twist barrel and won't stabilize 180 gr. and heavier. I have the AB running a bit over 2800 FPS using W760. I'd stopped there because it gave good groups and I was leaving for a cow elk hunt. Main rifle was my as usual .35...

I don't remember the last time I talked with a tech from Sierra. I asked if they were ever going to do another run of their 170 gr. round nose bullet and the answer was a rather rude, "Never!" He told me there was no call for the bullet and hadn't been for years. The only bright spot is I found...

It depends on the rifle I think. I did a lot of work with Ruger #1s and found if one didn't shoot all that well with the commonly used bullet weight, switching to the next heaviest or the heaviest for caliber would usually give a usable group. Most people would use say a 180 gr. bullet for use...

THe only BLR I have experience with is a first version Japanese with the magazine that kind of hands down below the action. The trigger was typical BLR but I didn't find it too hard to work with it. Same deal with a Browning B78. Accuracy wasn't so hot so I messed around with the forearm and...

I've had three Leupold scope fail. One was on IIRC a 30-06 and two on my .35 Whelen. The 30-06 and one Whelen were at the range so no harm done other than it's being a PITA going back home and putting on a different scope. The third was on an elk hunt and is probably the luckiest shot I ever...

I have 5 rifles in .300 Win. Mag. all have 26" barrels. One is a Winchester M70 push feed and that other 4 are different versions of the Ruger #1. The barrel on the longer M70 hasn't been a bother so far. I have no problen running the 200 gr. Speer Hot Core or 200 gr. Nosler partition at close...

I have a few 30-30s. Two M94s, one from 1911 that belonged to my Great Grandfather and another 1981 vintage. Two M64s, one from 1938 my birth year and the other from the end of production which I think was somewhere around 1971. Then there is the M54 that I like so much. These days most of what...

I just looked up the specs on that load. According to what was posted, it does 2750 FPS at the muzzle. My current handload pushes the 200 gr. Speer Hot Core close to 2900 FPS from my rifle's 26" barrel. I do use a powder no longer available but think I could come close with IMR7828SSC or H4831...

Yeah. My head keeps saying you can still do it like when you were a kid. My body sez SHUT UP! Paul B.

They just replaced my aortic heart valve a few months back and I feel great so I guess some technology ain't all that bad. Made it pst 86 and working toward 87 but have a long way to go. I wonder what the odds are? Paul B.

I haven't shot my Ruger #1 in .375 H&H in a long time. I'd have to dig deep to even find my data for my cast bullet load. Trying to go from memory, the powder was H4350 and the bullet the RCBS #375-250-FN which casts a 270 gr. flat nose bullet at roughly 2000 to 200 FPS based on the data I have...