Watching the Lions play, and thankful the game is at Ford field and not the Silverdome!
Will make my drive home easier tonight!
All the best to all the people who read these Forums!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mark
Kind of the Lions to wait until the final minute to give up the final score! Thought...
Caroline and Tikka on the cover. She’s the daughter of one friend and the wife of another…
Rather than tell any stories.. if any of you get this magazine, I’d love to have this issue after you are done with it.
One story on Caroline.. her dad is an owner operator of a hunting fishing camp in...
I’m pretty stumped.
The factory loads separating is the data point that derails me.
Given its a FN bolt, old, but fine rifle and well made… I tend to think it’s not the gun and it’s overworked brass. The factory loads is the one that has me circling back to the gun.
If I thought it was you...
I’m not a gun smith, but thinking about web separation..
Factory loads separating,
Hand loads separating, not near max.
Previously the gun handled both new and hand loads no problem. No web separation.
I’m assuming it’s a model 99 in 250-3000
savage.
Wondering, and I don’t know the...
:). Lol.
Youngest has several bucks, always odd numbers til this year. First was an 11pt, told him… will be a while before you get another one of those(wood lot a 1/4mile off US10 and I75 intersection… who’d think a white tail could earn 11 pts by a busy Highway intersection. He had be hit...
So the rest of the story…
He drive up from Detroit Friday night.
Wife and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary cleaning the house… I’ll take her to a nice seafood restaurant next week. Her request(timing and location).
When Kevin got here, I showed him my sons 8pt, and it was great to...
I see carbon too. I think it’s unrelated to annealing, but admitting, I’m no expert on bullets combustion or annealing.
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I see Sierra has a Gameking SPBT and a prohunter around nose.
Nosler has Ab and PT in whelen.
I bet Speer has a grand slam too.
If you want bone breaking tough.. Accubond or PT.
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Congratulations!
The 35 Whelen is my game plan when I wear out my 3006.
I like big bores. I’d happily take a 35 up against bear, elk, you name it.
Congratulations on the first deer, nicer it’s a handload.
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Brian, since you mentioned 85gn SGK HP, which I happen to be fond of as well. My record with it is 5 DRT, and the 6th made it 45 yards… the only difference was the 6 the bullet exited. The other 5 only had entrance wounds.
On this big buck… did the 85gn exit?
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Recipe:
SGK HPBT 85...
My son dropped a typical michigan 8 pt
Chasing a pair of does over a rye field.
DRT. 300 WM NAB 180gn at roughly 3000 fps. High double lung and clipped the bottom of a vertebra on the way by.
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