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    Washington High Buck Hunt

    Looks like I get to try the early season High Buck hunt. Probably in the Pasayten Wilderness . Any advice? I imagine it could be warm temps and where we are going takes at least a day to hike in. Keeping meat cool could be a challenge. Be at least two of us, maybe 4. 3 point minimum and I hear...
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    Grandpa's Old Rifle

    My 06 has a sweet spot at 100 grain, 125 grain, 150 grain, 168 grain, 180 grain, 212 grain and 220 grain. Sweet Potato--mmmm
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    Shell Shock 308 steel/nickle cases, sounds too good to be true?

    Hybrid steel/nickle for reloading. Lighter, Stronger, Faster for your speeding bullet. Like the cases for the 7mm Backcountry? https://shellshocktechnologies.com/shop/cases-reloading-tools/shell-shock-308-nas3-cartridge-cases/ Also says on another page Can I reload NAS³ rifle cases? " No...
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    What did you use to take your first animal of other species?

    Ground squirrels, Dusky, Spruce and Franklin Grouse -Remington Model 12 pump 22 rimfire, age 10 to current Wild Pig- FN 7x57. Stalking thru the tunnels they make in the tule reeds is something else. Coonhound went first.
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    Light target/small game load for 25-284 and 25-06 (but discontinued powder)

    Having success with old SR 4759 and 25 caliber match bullets for light 1700 fps loads. I sure wish they would bring back this powder. Anyway I a had a great couple of hours at the range. These loads have no kick. 18 grains of SR4759 and a 100 grain Sierra Match bullet (2nds). The 25-284 used...
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    Brass can make a difference in precision

    I sort my brass and bullets by weight when loading for jacketed bullets, not so much for cast. These military cases were not weighed, but the all had the same headstamp and date, even had the pastboard box they came in, so presumably were from the same lot. I haven't annealed them either, so the...
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    Living Large

    The Glorious 12th (grouse season) doesn't start here till next month. We have to make do with a bear hunt and picking huckleberries. No bears yet but the berries are better than I've ever seen. Easily a gallon an hour with 3 or 4 berries in a cluster. And Peaches! You remind me we have a local...
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    Brass can make a difference in precision

    Loaded some 223 grain cast bullets for the 30-06. 25 grains Reloder 7. Seated to the lands. 100 yards with some wind. Everything the same except the brass. Top of photo old military brass I found at the range. Foreign stuff with a 1969 date. Bottom same load but with RP brass. I stopped...
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    33 WCF, Questions

    Thanks, I will pass that on. A neighbor gave him a 100 round nose bullets, I believe discontinued Hornady.
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    Elk loads this year?

    Sportered 1928 Springfield with 212 Eld X and Staball. Bal-Var Scope. 2600 fps. Backup/Rain and Fog, Mossberg plastic 375 Ruger with 250 grain Sierra gameking bullets, IMR 4350 reduced recoil load 2500 fps. Weaver 1.5 to 4.5 scope for closer timber and fog shots.
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    Help me decide on a new rifle caliber

    Less is more. Quarter bore with fast twist. Less kick, less wind drift. 100 grain for threading the needle in the woods, 134 grain for the windy west.
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    30-06 QL Help Please and any help from the stands would be great too.

    Not bad shooting from such an antiquated cartridge lacking all the "inherently accurate" updates of the cartridges of the last decade. Right now I have mine set up with 212 ELD x at 2600 fps using Staball 6.5. Maybe for elk season. It really likes 150 and 180 BT's too with Imr 4350.
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    New camp/Truck rifle

    My father in laws ruger semi auto like the 240 XTP accuracy wise. Since they also are most accurate in my blackhawk, I'd start there. However if grizzly was a possibility I think I would find some 300 grain hard cast for a lever action
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    Can I use IMR4227 for H4227?

    Just called and Hodgdon says that unlike other powders the 4227 powders are interchangeable.
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    Historic Viking war ship

    Just saw more about his in the paper.
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    Can I use IMR4227 for H4227?

    Rumor has it that IMR4227 is rebranded H4227 (which isn't on the current Hodgdon burn chart). I see some nice heavy loads for 38 special using H4227 and I have a couple of pounds of IMR 4227. Okay to use IMR for H data?
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    Which cartridge do you like so much, you have multiple firearms for it?

    My homesteading Grandpa did everything with a 25-35. varmints to elk,
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    Historic Viking war ship

    Vikings in the Salish Sea
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    Bunny Boots

    Executing someone you've already wounded and disabled is ok with you.
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