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I got back from the woods this morning with my biggest whitetail ever. I sat in a stand that sits right between a large oak bottom and a pine thicket. I've had excellent luck in this stand and shot a good buck last year out of it. About a week or so ago, I started getting pictures of one of the...

We had four days straight of rain that finally ended on Monday morning. We needed it but we got a lot! I went out to my hunt club this morning to check on things as two of my stands are in the swamp. This is a before and after pic of the stand. This is the same stand I shot my buck in that I...

I broke the ice this SC deer season with my Tikka 6.5x55. I was hunting a ground blind on the edge of a swamp and have a few shooter bucks on camera including this cull. I was getting a few daytime pics as well and was hopeful I'd get a crack at him. He was on camera at 4 AM last night so I knew...

I bought a Sig P220 10mm Hunter a couple years ago with the intention of shooting a deer with it. I've been handgun hunting for a while now but I've never used a semiauto. While it has excellent iron sights, I really wanted to put a red dot on it & EGW makes a nice adapter that takes the place...

I recovered another ABLR, this time in 7mm from a 7mm PRC. I do an annual hunt trip to Alabama to hunt with one of my best friends at his hunt club. We hit the rut just perfect and we saw tons of rutting activity. Two nice 8 pts were shot earlier in the week and one of the properties target...

This is a recovered 165gr Core-lokt from a factory load shot from a 15" barreled Encore pistol in 30-06. This was one of the few animals I've shot in the last couple decades with a factory load. I ended up grabbing a box because the person I bought this barrel from said it was a consistent 3/4"...

The 200gr Interlock RN in the .35 Remington is becoming one of my favorite bullets. I have these loaded over IMR3031, Hornady brass, CCI primer & crimped with the Lee FCD. I haven't chronoed this load but I'd guess around 2000 fps. It shoots into 1.5 inches or less in my Marlin 336. I put one...

Took a buddy of mine hunting this AM with perfect conditions. It was 29 degrees (that's cold here!) when we got in the stand, the same one I shot my buck out of last week. We had a great wind and still morning. A couple minutes after 9 AM a single doe popped out in one of our shooting lanes at...

I was able to shoot a nice buck this evening and it was my first kill with an ABLR, specifically the 142gr version out of a 6.5 PRC. These were blems that had a green tip and were loaded over Staball HD for 2840 fps from a Tikka T3x Super Varmint. I've shot a 1.6" group at 200 yards with them in...

I was loading some 7mm PRC with Staball HD and Federal 215's and noticed the purple coating on the inside of the primers. The coating is extremely inconsistent and I have never noticed this in other primers. They seem to shoot just fine and go bang everytime. I didn't know if this inconsistent...

This is a recovered 130gr Hornady Interbond shot from a custom Rem 700 with a 24" Krieger barrel at about 50 yards. Way too much gun for the area I was hunting, but I had not shot anything with this rifle since I got it back from the gunsmith. I was hunting in October, which is prime time for my...

Finally got to the outdoor range this morning to put some loads through a Tikka T3x Super Varmint in 6.5 PRC. This was also the first serious range session shooting this rifle with my new (and first) TBAC Ultra 7 suppressor. I had an assortment of loads in either Lapua or Hornady brass that...

Wanted to post some neat pics from a trail cam. I hunt roughly an hour inland from Charleston, SC and tropical storm Debby came through. She dumped a whole lot of rain on most of the state. The two pics are from the same camera, in the exact same position on the tree, taken before and after...

This is a recovered 250gr Hornady XTP from a good sized doe shot from a Freedom Arms .454 Casull. I was hunting out of a ground blind and honestly didn't make a great shot. I realized I jerked the trigger as soon as the shot broke. Doe was quartering to me and instead of hitting the front end of...

Doesn't seem like the 44's get enough love around here, so here's another. This was a 210gr Gold Dot loaded over H110 and chronoed right at 1600 fps from the 7.5 in barrel of a Super Blackhawk Hunter 44 Mag. I shot a small 7 point at roughly 40 yards. He was slightly quartering away at the shot...

I shot a small buck a few years back with a Ruger Super Blackhawk Hunter in .44 Mag that was massaged by SSK. I cast bullets from Lyman mold 429640 with wheel weights with a little tin added. With lube and gas check they weigh 270 grs. They shot quite well, putting a cylinder full under three...

This is a 140gr Hornady Monoflex from a handloaded 30-30. This is the 30-30 version, not the 308 Marlin Express one. Loaded over Leverevolution powder and CCI primer in Hornady brass. I believe muzzle velocity was around 2200 fps from the 20" barrel of my buddy's stainless Marlin 336. This...

Shot this 165gr Partition out of the trusty 30-06 into milk jugs. Shot from my TC Encore pistol with 15" barrel. Load was with IMR4350 & CCI non-mag primer. Velocity was just over 2500 fps and it was very accurate out of the Encore, about 3/4 MOA. Jugs were shot at 50 yards and recovered in the...

First post but I've been lurking for years. Absolutely love Nosler & Hornady bullets. A particular favorite of my hunting buddy and I is the 139gr Hornady Interbond in the 7mm-08. I loaded up some with Varget that shot well in his 20" barreled A-Bolt. Velocity was around 2715 fps. Shot into 1...