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To be perfectly honest, I shunned the .308 from the start considering it to be a 30-06 want to be. I remember when a hunting partner in California bought a .308 when they first came who he was singing the praises of what a great cartridge it was. Frankly, it wasn't until 1973 that I even...

Well, I have rifles chambered to the .243, .308 and .358 and of the three, I like the .308 the most. One that always interested me was the 7-08 but while I've shot guns chambered to that round, I don't seem to really have a compelling reason to buy one due to the fact that I have three rifles...

When my wwife was still alive we deer hunted together. Rifles of choice were the Ruger M77 RSI in .308. Both rifles had Simmons 1.5x4 scopes which worked fine on those rifles. One day, my wife slipped and used the rifle to keep from falling and the butt got banged pretty hard in the effort...

I shot my first centerfire rifle at a deer and killed it. I was at the ripe old age of eleven. Ears rang like crazy for some time. The rifle was an old M94 Winchester 30-30 carbine that was made in 1911 according to the serial number. the year was 1949. I didn't get much shooting done until 1954...

"To my understanding and experience, subzero temperatures will affect and decrease velocity with most loads to some degree. Particularly if you’re using a temp sensitive powder. However, what happens if your powder is at a conventional temp of something like 65-70F( 15-20C), but your bullet is...

"What's your carry for Wheelgun Wednesday? " Probably my S&W M60 .38 Spl. but I carry that one literally 24/7. So for spits and grins I'll say my S&W m28 .357 magnum 6" with my handloads using 2400 powder and the Lyman #358156 158 gr. semiwadcutter. Paul B.

The late gun writer Finn Aagaard wrote an article where he took two FN Mauser actions, had one barreled to the 338-06 and the other to the .35 Whelen, both having the same barrel lengths and compared the two. He said it was six on one and a falf dozen of the other but in the end felt that the...

Most of my last 6 hunts were done at temps around 4 to 14 above zero. The Whelen was running RE15 and the 225 gr. TSX and the 30-06 W760 and the 165 gr. Nosler Accubond. Loads for both were worked up during Arizona hot summers. The worked just fine. Paul B.

They say that with age comes wisdom. Sometimes I wonder??? In five months I'll be 87. I've been thinkking about stuff like recoil and potential bodily damage, especially things like a potentially detached retina. Can't shoot if you're blind and I'm too damned old to try to shoot left handed if...

Interesting observation. I've been running RL17 in my 7x57 with the 150 gr. Nosler Partition and hit right at 2880 FS. Bolt lift was only very slightly sticky at that level and dropping to 2800 FPS showed no stickiness whatsoever. I do all my serious hunting load workups during the summer with...

"For the 6.5 CM the velocity is advertised as 2700 fps in a 24" barrel; I am only getting 2510 fps in my 24" barrel." That doesn't surprise me. I've run several factory cartridges over the chronograph with sometimes disappointing results. The 175 gr. 7x57 rounf advertised at 2440 FPY only did...

YUP! Paul B.

That video is full of more crap than a Christmas goose. He (it?) pans two of my favorite cartridges right out of the stating gate., the 30-30 and .300 Win. Mag. Maybe its chips are afraid of the recoil of the .300 Mag. scrambling its artificial brain. I can't comment on the other three it didn't...

Sounds good to me. Happy Birthday Fotis. Paul B.

Most of the time I'll pick a load halfway between the minumum and maximum loads in the manual I'm usig. If I'm running Nosler bullets, I'll use the latest Nosler manual I have on hand and work up from that point. It's worked out just fine for me, especially in these days of shortages and high...

The 200 gr. Hornady SP and RN got decent groups from an early Browning BLR and a Savage M99. However, in two different Ruger M77s they were more scatterguns than groupers. The two leverguns had 1 in 12" twist barrels and the Ruger' , 1 in 16" which may or may not have contributed to the problem...

Ain't that the truth. We generally lose power during the summer with out summer thunderstorms. I have the electric company on speed dial on my cell phone. They're usually fairly quick at locating the outage and getting the power back on. We've already had a couple this year and no high wind of...

There are so many laws in this country these days the if and when you get in or out of bed you're violating a law in some state. For some reason these two always seem to come to mind. Now to be clear I left San Francisco and the state of California back in 1968 so these may have been removed. In...

At what point did I lose you? Paul B.

I started being a true desert rat about 1970. I've seen coyotes as a single animal or as many as seven or eight in a pack and they always took off running. Even when calling them if it was more than one coming in after I shot the first the rest turned tail in a hurry. I never felt threatened by...