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Had a little time this afternoon to play with my 375HH. 71 gr. RL 15; 260gr. Partition; 2684 fps; first shot hits on plates out to 400yards; Leupold vx111 1.5 x 5.

So I went out to the range this morning as it was relatively cool. Surprised how many old guys were there. In any event I wanted to simply confirm my 300 yard dope on my 275 Rigby and my 300HH. Simple enough one would think. Except there was a lot of good bull**** going on. I had dialed 2moa on...

So this morning the girls decided to take me picking huckleberry up at 7000 feet. We had a great time, put up some grouse, both blues and ruffed. On the way down Catherine decided we should go pick some peaches. The huckleberry patch is 10 miles east of us. The peaches about the same distance...

Short on details yet, my sister sent me the pic with none of the requisite info. Taken on the family farm with a depredation tag. This is a Roosevelt elk.

Getting a late start. Cat said she wanted to go, still waiting😁. Get out to the truck, had left the tailgate down apparently Guess I'm going for a hike with the girls, perhaps we'll pick huckleberry. Better go get some buckets!

We’ve been dealing with a pair of Red Fox for about a month. I have actually found them in the morning snoozing on our front porch dog beds. Got these pics this morning while getting my coffee, about 0530; I was looking out the back porch slider.

Spent the day scouting for deer and elk. Only saw a few deer but found about 40 elk, two small bulls. There were others I never identified but my gut says those were cows. It's a little over an hour from my house to the area I hunt, I'll get up there a few overnights so I can be in country for...

On our way home today, just inside the city limits, still doing 45 mph. “Did you see that buck” but Cat had missed him. I gotta show you where he’s bedded. Our town is pretty quiet so I just backed down the road about a 100 yards. “ see him now” I ask. I get the old evil eye. “How the hell did...

Ran into a few Mule Deer bucks this morning while doing a six mile hike with the dogs. They have potential but I think I would give them another year. Then I ran into this Angus Bull. I’m glad he was on the other side of the fence. He saw me coming from about 400 yards away. He was 200 yards...

Last year I posted photos of a full scale, hand built, authentic construction technique Viking ship under construction. Ship is based on drawings from 1040 AD. Yesterday was the shakedown cruise from Anacortez to Resario beach(, San Juan Islands) today through Deception Pass to Coronet Bay. Over...

Ordered a pound of VV N560 to try in my 300 HH. #1 She has done ok with rl 26 and 19 but supply is dwindling. H4350 and some others left me unimpressed. I was going to do a ladder test but decided to go for broke and loaded .5 gr under max. I pulled one shot but I think I'll order 8 pounds of...

I was 15 years old, one of the older boys in my scout troop. We were spending a week in the Three Sisters Wilderness area near Bend, Oregon. Dr. Ryan, our scout master, directed me up a subalpine fir dragging a roll of copper wire to serve as an antenna. I laced it through the upper branches and...

So there I was minding my own business when I chanced upon a 50 year old Arrieta shotgun showing almost no wear. No dings, no handling marks, the blueing on the barrel was equally faded from muzzle to breach. A 7 pin side lock built when Arrieta dutifully copied Holland and Holland side locks...

I may have posted this a few years ago but given a neighbor just lost some goats to a mountain lion it seemed timely. The hunter is a family acquaintance and otherwise all I know is he was the hunter. Cat was killed about 3 miles from the house.

Need a little help with Vitavori N165 and 560 Nosler Accubond 180 @ 3.637 Barnes ttsx 180 @. 3.631 Thanks in advance.

We've been fishing for three days here in Sitka. Wind and rain, 8 foot swells with the wind, to 25 mph. Bouncing around so much it was hard to take pictures We manage to collect a couple limits of Sable Fish, yellow eye, silver salmon and Halibut. Great trip, only complaint is king salmon...

Boise this morning, Cat and I on our way to Sitka for some Halibut fishing. She goes through first, gets pulled aside, female agent checks, nope she left her pistol at home, always appendix carry and that is where they checked. I go through, they send me back, I come through again, I look at...

Some long forgotten glacier deposited several large granite boulders around our place. Our efforts at restoring our rapairian areas have generated quite a quail population. For some years this male has used the rock as his observation post when the chicks are out feeding.

Had a client from NE Massachusetts who fished with me in Alaska for 17 or 18 years in row. Sent Catherine a gift from Trenton Maine because she let me go up to guide him all those years. I am a lucky man!!

I’m contemplating picking up a new press. I’ve had my current press since high school, graduated in 74. I will keep the old one for range days so I can work on a load kind of thing while the rifle cools. That’s my argument at least. Looking at different presses the Co Ax is interesting. I know...