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Congratulations on your boy's draws! One of my fondest hunting memories is my own son's first whitetail kill when he was 12. He's away at college now and I can hardly wait until he finishes school and has the time to accompany me to the elk woods for a couple of weeks. I have killed a number...

Hats off to a fine fourth of July spent with your boy. :grin: I noticed you were shooting 165 grain bullets in your .308. I've always been a fan of 180 grain bullets for elk and 150 grains for smaller mammals; all out of a .30-06. A buddy of mine has been encouraging me to switch to 165...

My gun safe is "filled" with three types of meat makers. A .30-06 for anything with hooves, a .22 LR for squirrels and rabbits, and a 12 gauge shotgun for things that fly. Even out west you don't have to own an arsenal to keep the freezer full.

I was stalking the red clay canyons on the Canadian river in the Texas panhandle. I heard some other hunters shoot so I planted my butt behind some sagebrush to see if something flushed out. Directly, a nice young mule deer came trotting down a creek about 250 yards away and turned up the...

When I was a teen ager, I thought I needed three rifles. A .270 Winchester for deer, a .243 Winchester for coyotes, and a .338 Winchester for elk. After working all summer, I discovered I had scraped up enough money for a used model 70 in .30-06, affectionately called "The General". After...

Polycarbonate is a very good, high-impact engineered plastic. It's the stuff jet windshields are made of. Since it is a thermoplastic, it should be fully cured well before it is assembled to the bullet. However, it is vulnerable to certain strong solvents. Perhaps the cleaning (or adhesive)...

For years my favorite elk load has been a 180 grain Nosler Partition protected point pushed by 56 grains of IMR 4350 out of my trusty 30-06. This load has never failed to give me a one shot kill. Last year I decided to try this same load with a Nosler Accubond hoping to get the performance of...