The problem is most of these people with the brilliant ideas don't have to live with them. That should be a requirement to any of these dumb ideas, you live with them too. I'd love to see wolves and grizzlies in NY and CA. Once they had to live with them they'd rethink their stupidness.
I've had good luck with Leica scopes over the years and bought a couple of these for my kids rifles. The reticles are a little busy but they make one more like the MOAR-T from NF too. I just wish they made them in 50mm...
The NX8's arent as clear as the VX6's, and are heavier but the turrets are way better. The Mark5's are built more like Nightforce scopes but only available in FFP. Honestly if Leupold made the VX6 with more than 10moa in the TMOA reticle I may not of bought any NX8's. It seems silly to not use...
My most memorable hunts recently were my boys first elk. My youngest was just this past season, a 4x4, and my oldest sons first was 3 years ago, a 5x6. My first elk was one I wont forget, a little spike bull, and my biggest buck, 33" wide, was pretty memorable. Having 3 generations shooting...
Those early BT's were wicked on rockchucks though. We use to shoot the .30 150's about 3600fps out of various long belted magnums, 30-8mm, 30-358STA, 308 Baer, etc. If you want to see a rockchuck fly 30+ feet in the air that was the ticket. We tried everything from .22's to 416 RUM's and that...
Mine is a long throated 300wsm. It's ability to run right with a 300wm/300prc, especially in shorter barrels, is pretty amazing and with less recoil too. Less recoil makes it more manageable to shoot in a light rifle as well. The accuracy has been proven for years in 1000 benchrest and the...
The only metric case rifle I have is a 6.5x68 Imp. Its the same as a 6.5-300 win mag so it was a bit of a waste to build. I already had 2 6.5-300wm's prior to building it.
I'm less of a traditionalist I guess. I've used so many wildcats based on belted magnums its silly really. Probably my favorite (non Canadian spelling 😁) is the 30-8mn mag, but I did use the 7STW a bunch too. I hunted with them for years and still have 2, plus a 308 Baer (just a 35 degree...
If you take some off the top of the shell holder the die will size down further. Another thing you might do is paint the case with a Sharpie and try to chamber it to see where the case rubs. Also measure the base of the case before and after sizing. If its the same the die is the problem.
For the ranges I prefer to shoot game, under 650ys, I like 3x18 scopes a lot, like the VX6 Leupold, but the NX8 4x32 works well too. The reason why is I prefer to shoot reticles rather than dial the scope. Its faster and you dont have to worry if you re-zeroed your scope. The reason I like the...
Good luck with PTG. I ordered 4 blueprinted actions from them on Black Friday and I checked them on a arbor made in my Doosan CNC lathe that holds .0003-.0004" accuracy. One was "blueprinted" the other 3 were worse then a factory saw cut Remingtons. Remington actions that I trued were better...