When I was a youngster we would go to the Valley (border counties) to shoot white wing dove. We would just pull off on the county road and go at it. You could also hunt on some of the larger ranches by giving the foreman beer or other such beverages. Oilfield people like my dad knew most of...
I think a Leupold VX- Freedom 4x-12x would suffice and it will give reasonable eye relief when set a far back as will go on the Ruger #1. It's also in your price range.
I'm thinking make up a big pot of filing, then brown them Quail whole and them drop em in the pot and let cook for a couple hours, then drop them biscuits in. What ya'll think?
Fired off some rounds trimmed to minimum length (2.185) in both new brass and fired brass I resized to the chamber. I also fired brass trimmed to 2.200 on resized brass and untrimmed (2.195) new brass. Only the the new brass ended up with the tip of the neck tapered after firing. What the...
Guy, a hunt with an old friend is something to be treasured. Must of been a good day.
BTW, I had a fellow police officer years ago that was Navy. He was medic attached to a Marine platoon in Vietnam. He never said a negative word about the Marines.
OK, so here is where I'm at, I scrubbed the throat and the little taper on the fired cases persist. I did a dimensional check on the brass and found everything within spec. The cases were all new and unfired cases (Hornady flavor). The cases measured 2.195 before firing and 2.200 after. Of...
I recently changed brass on my 130 gr Partition load from Winchester to Nosler. The Win case was loaded with 55 grs of Reloder 16 and muzzle velocity was 3110 fps or so. I tried 55.5 gut it badly flattened primers so I backed off. 56.0 was the max load according to Aliants wed site. When I...
The Navy wouldn't take my father because he was too young so he went to the merchant academy on Catalina Island and then went to sea on a merchant ship. He was 16. He turned 18 carrying ammo to the navy gun crew on his liberty ship off Okinawa. He went through that typhoon that Halsey sent...