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Our 11 year old daughter will be hunting whitetail, wolves, and coyotes with me this year, as well as shooting trap.

Out of curiosity, what 3, 4 or 5 rifles out of your arsenal do you find yourself shooting the most, and how long have you had those rifles? I just picked up a late 50's Savage 99F in .308 (to replace its twin that my 11 year old daughter has laid claim to) and realized (with addition of this...

If you're open to alternatives, it might be worthwhile to take a look at Vortex' new Razor HD LH in their 1.5-8x32 or 2-10x42. These are two scopes that have really piqued my interest, particularly if trying to stay on the lighter end of scopes out there.

Anybody have much experience with this scope?  I'm pondering the SFP // capped turret version of this to sit atop my brush gun, but have never had the opportunity to look thru one.  Does the reticle stand out fairly well and show up when in dense cover, even when not illuminated?  Thoughts on...

Thanks for the offer -- I may take you up on .308 load info when I start loading again. (I've already got one 99 in .308 that my daughter has recently laid claim to. (I've never handloaded for it though.) I'm looking for a 99 in .308 or .243 that I can turn into a .358 so I have a brush gun...

You're good to go with a .22 cal centerfire in Idaho. If you want to stay 200 yds and in, I'd recommend hunting northern Idaho for whitetail. Mulies in south and SE Idaho are often a bit further than your range with that rifle. I've been on the lookout for a good Savage 99 for a while now...

If you go to the Phoneskope website, they make stuff to fit almost every major smart phone manufactured in the past 5 yrs, as well as most common spotting scopes (from low end to high end). I think there's 4 or 5 Motorola Droids on the list that they support...

You'll have a ball with the phoneskope! After literally taking hundreds of shots with mine last hunting season, there are 3 things I figured out: to get rid of the tunneling effect, bump up the magnification on your phone a bit. (In fact, once you get your subject centered in the scope, it's a...

That's true if you're comparing a fluted and non-fluted barrel of same diameter. The fluted barrel will be lighter so will heat faster, but will have more surface area so will cool faster. If comparing a fluted and non-fluted barrel of same weight however, I believe they will heat up at the...

Fluting a barrel will not make that barrel more accurate, and may even have a detrimental effect on accuracy (whether most shooters are able to detect that effect on a quality flute job is a different question), but I also believe it's not w/o merit. Fluting allows you to shave weight off a...

Barrel stiffness/rigidity is a function of the maximum diameter of the barrel, which fluting does not alter. As a result, given two barrels of same diameter, the fluted barrel will be lighter and should cool a little faster, but both should retain the same rigidity. Given two barrels of same...

Grab one of your shotguns, head to a local gun club on a Saturday or Sunday, and shoot a couple rounds of Trap or Skeet. (If you catch the bug, you'll have plenty of things to put on your wish list...) Trapshooting serves as my "filler" shooting sport -- spring is varmint season, fall is...

If you don't need to top out higher than 8x, both Vortex and Leica are offering 1.5-8x32 scopes that would fit those rifles very nicely. Both are said to have awesome glass, are light weight, have great hunting reticles, and both have long eye relief. The Vortex uses a 1" tube and the Leica a...

I've had a couple 50 mm scopes, and like most here, greatly prefer objectives around 40 mm. That said, all my scopes top out at 14x or lower, and all are used for hunting where convenience of the smaller bell is important to me. If I used/needed higher mag scopes though, I'd probably opt for...

Thanks for the comments all. Taking the photos served first and foremost a practicality when I was hunting -- I found when looking at a goat at 1000+ yds in the rain and fog it was tough to accurately assess what I was looking at thru the spotter a lot of the time, and whether it was something...

I use the same hearing protection at the range as I do for shooting trap (inside the ear suppressors). No hearing protection while hunting. No muzzle brakes on any of my rifles. (Don't like shooting with them, nor being around them when someone else does.) If I had a rifle that recoil made...

During the last 2 weeks of October and first 2 weeks of November, things got pretty interesting. I'd seen enough goats by this time that I had a pretty good idea how to judge them, knew which parts of the drainage I could find the different billies in, and had located 3 old, gnarly billies that...

By the time October hit, weather had changed significantly and the drainage seemed to come alive again, albeit with most of the goats on the other side of the valley now and in a little tougher terrain to get onto (I'm guessing thanks to the cat). By early October the coats were starting to...

September ended up being a bust where the goats were concerned, so most of my pics were scenery. For about 5 weeks beginning in late Aug, every goat I had been watching vanished (along with all other game in the whole area). The entire drainage felt spooky whenever I went in -- started...

It's my "slow" time of year here for me, so I'm taking some time to sort thru pics from last year. Found some I thought were pretty cool from my hunting season, so thought I'd throw them up here to share. (As a backstory, I drew a mountain goat tag in the northernmost unit of Idaho this past...