I hear ya! Yesterday was the first shooting I have done in months. My job and the kids sports schedules are keeping me super busy. Heck I need to cook up reloads so I have some stuff to test out.
So I had a Ruger American 243 (different rifle than I originally posted on) that buddy wanted for his son. I sold him the scoped rifle and 3 boxes of ammo for $400. I had my daughter's savage axis 6.5 CM that I did originally post about and took that rifle and traded it in to buy a Ruger...
The 6.5 is actually my daughters rifle. The 243 was my son's first rifle that he started shooting when he was 5. Both of my kids have shot both rifles. I just want to take one of the rifles and set it up to only hunt in that blind.
I have a home made elevated box blind that my kids and I hunt out of. We bow hunt a lot out of it but when gun season is in we are taking a rifle. Between my brothers kids and mine we took 4 deer out of the blind, 3 of which were by rifle. We learned a lot as it was our first year hunting out of...
I have fallen in love with the 308. I bought a cheap black Friday edition savage axis 2 in 308 and once I started shooting it it was extremely accurate and appeared to have a super fast barrel. I typically get 75-100 fps faster velocities than book velocities out of this rifle which was a...
I have tried Grand in my Tikka 7MM Rem Mag. Grand has gotten my 24 inch barrel to shoot with velocities of a 26 inch barrel and it is has been very accurate in my rifle.
I have loaded for two 7-08's. A savage 110 and browning x bolt. Both rifles shoot great and are easy to load for. Both rifles like H4895, BL-C2, R17. I have gotten 120 gr Nosler ballistic tips with 43gr H4895 to surpass 3000fps and absolutely hammer deer. This year in my son's Browning 7-08 we...
I had to take my son to Academy this afternoon to go ahead and get some new baseball pants and cleats for this spring, the boy is growing like a weed!! Naturally, I slide over to the ammo / hunting section before we leave. Lo and behold I see multiple packs of 100 Winchester large rifle primers...
I have killed two whitetail bucks with a 308 using a 130gr TTSX going about 3150 at the muzzle. Bullet has performed flawlessly and with the energy provided I would think it would do the job on an elk.