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    Grizzly Attack

    A mother and 10 month old were killed Monday in the Yukon while the husband was out on the trapline. He was attacked when he returned and shot the bear only to find his wife and daughter dead.
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    Grizzly Attack

    A mother and 10 month old were killed Monday in the Yukon while the husband was out on the trapline. He was attacked when he returned and shot the bear only to find his wife and daughter dead.
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    Quickload for the 300 RUM

    Looking for a safe starting point using N570 and 215 gr Bergers with Federal 215 primers running 9.4 twist. thanks in advance
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    Nuisance Beaver

    A rancher I know called and said he was having issues with beavers plugging a culvert causing some flooding in his pasture.I took the 223 and ammo loaded w 55 grain Ballistic tips and Benchmark powder.This one came to check out the culvert and I took him in the back of the head at roughly 40...
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    Model 70 makeover range report

    Finally found a window in the weather to get out to the 100 yard range. I had cleaned the rifle as soon as I received it. Mounted and torqued the Nightforce NSX 3.5-15 into the Talley lightweight mounts. I set up a target at 25 yards and found out I was low and adjusted accordingly. Then out to...
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    Model70 makeover

    After 21 years with my model 70 stainless in STW I've decided its time for a re-barrell. Going to get a 24 inch stainless, fluted ,chamber it in 300 Win Mag with as close to the factory contour as possible. Also getting shop to replace factory trigger with a Timney. For now I will keep factory...
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    2015 Whitetail

    I shot this buck this afternoon today with my 300 RUM and a 150 grain Accubond. Used the G7 rangefinder to get the correct MOA for the 552 yard shot. The buck dropped on the spot I hit him in the right shoulder and was still alive when I got up to him so he got one more in the neck.
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    2015 Dall Sheep

    Just a very few brief words to describe my incredible adventure. Made it to base camp on schedule.Then the weather changed and we could not get out for three days due to rain and fog. The evening of the 3rd day the weather broke and we made it out and set up spike camp. NWT law has it so you can...
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    2015 UTAH DRAW RESULTS

    Anyone out there lucky enough to draw a tag there? I applied for another bonus point for elk this puts me at 10 now.
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    Nightforce NXS and G7 BR2

    First trip out to the range for myself this year. Temps were around 42F and there was about 10 inches of snow on the level across the field. I used my ATV to set up targets and gongs out to 650 yards. My cell phone worked as a hot spot to able my laptop computer to run the G7 ballistic program...
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    Z3 replaced with NF NXS

    Took the Z3 Swaro off my RUM and put on a new NF NXS 5.5-22x50 w MOAR reticle . I used the NF Direct Mount . Rifle now weighs in at 8.4 lbs on postal scale up from the 7.2 it was with the Swarovski scope. The weather is slowly starting to improve and forecast is showing it could be warm enough...
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    Discolored bullets

    I picked up 2 boxes of 30 cal 150 grain Nosler Accubond bullets last week. Upon opening one box I found quite a few of the bullets to be discolored. I've never seen a Nosler or a bullet from any other manufacturer look like this. The bullets appear to be fine other than that. Just wondering if...
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    LUCKY 2015

    Last Friday evening the 9th of Jan. I was watching the TV. The phone rang and my wife answered. She said "its for you". I picked up and the gent said Hi its Justin and we have you live on speaker phone here at the Wild Sheep Foundation convention in Reno. Your name has been drawn first and you...
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    2014 Mule Deer

    My son took this buck on the last day of the mule deer season. He was using my 300 RUM and 150 gr TTSX bullets. My son spotted the buck about 3/4 mile away and we watched him bed and get up and bed again for about an hour. Once we were confident he would stay down we stalked to about the 200...
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    HIGH PRESSURE SIGNS LOW VELOCITY

    I am loading for a friends 300 RUM. I am consisitently experiencing stiff bolt lift, ejector marks and low velocity readings. Using Retumbo and RL25 with various Nosler, Hornady and Barnes bullets. The loads are at the bottom of the Nosler manual for the various weights. The 2 other 300 ultra...
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    2014 DRAW

    Got an email from Utah DWR advising I was unsuccessful in obtaining a Limited Entry Bull Elk tag. I guess I have a few more draws to go hopefully will have more luck. Anyone else receiving any news?
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    SWAROVSKI Z5 vs Z3

    My friend and I went out to shoot some steel at what is long range for us. My 300 RUM is topped with a Swaro Z3 3-10x42 and my friends 300 RUM is topped with the Z5-3-18 w BT. I have downloaded the Swarovski ballistic app onto my iPad and entered all the required info to generate the drop data...
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    STUCK CASE

    I had a case seperate while resizing today. Just above the belt with the balance stuck up in the sizing die. Anyone have a good method for extracting the balance of the case?
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    300 RUM and 190 gr ABLR

    Just curious if anyone has tried these bullets with some RL33 in the RUM? If so what was the powder charge, seating depth, velocity etc?
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    COYOTE vs 300RUM w TTSX

    While deer hunting the other day I walked up on one of these deer killing machines. The coyote was up wind facing away from me at about 130 yards. I folded out the Harris bi-pod and sat down and took aim. The struggling deer herd in these parts will thank me for putting this guy down. 150TTSX...
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