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Friend checking out a bear den under a rock cliff. Don't poke the bear.

Hoping to take my father in law shooting. We used to go near Boca to the USFS range but it seems to be closed due to truck traffic from a nearby barrow pit. Are there any wild/public ranges for rifle near Reno?

Posted this before. High temperature causing shots to rise. Don't know tho how much of this is powder or just a mechanical result of hot barrel as it got hot in just 3 or 4 shots. Rounds all came from the same 20 loaded cartridges. 25-06. Velocity about 3100 fps. Bottom shots at 5 F, top at 95...

Best groups have been with a very clean barrel after one fouling shot except for cast loads where things tighten up at a dozen loads. I think lube in the barrel helps with those.

Last two mule deer I shot. 30 cal 150 grain Accubond at 30 yards, velocity about 2600 fps. hit shoulder, didn't exit, bloodshot meat for 1 foot in diameter around entry. 25 cal 100 grain BT at 320 yards, left barrel at 3200 fps, hit spine as i didn't take into account how much below me he was...

Easy to google and see nitro is in short supply worldwide as it is used in many things including powder. It's dangerous to produce, so we don't do it in this country anymore. It seems rockets and drones are the weapons of choice these days. Don't know how much smokeless powder is used by those?

Aren't alliant, ramshot and winchester powders double base? They seem readily and cheaply available.

You do you. 170 grain 35 cal cast has a higher sectional density than a 240 grain 44 cal. I found a lyman 50 that shows a plus p with universal that gives a velocity of 940 fps in a 4" barrel, so 900 in a 3 inch isnt' too far off. Probably drop the charge a bit to get to 95% of the 940...

Not a load I shoot regularly, but the gun is rated for P+. So what would be an acceptable velocity for P+ for 172 grain in a 3" barrel? Lyman 358429. I would like to be able to poke holes in a black bear.

Like those fake jackalope with deer horns.

There is a herd of Bison in Golden Gate park in San Francisco. Big Horn sheep, wolves, wolverine in the Sierra Nevada. And some of the biggest black bears at Tahoe. They eat good on tourist left overs. One went over 500 lbs. It's not all beach, parking lots and nut trees. Donner Pass got 10 ft...

Meats in the freezer, let's go skiing!

I am a small manufacturer and used to be able to get 95% of my parts USA made. Gradually over the last 40 years, the materials are no longer made here in the quality I need. Most of those suppliers could come back pretty fast to make the items I need if tariffs or some other trade barrier were...

North 40 store has a 15% off everything sale today, so I went to see if they had any powder I needed. Got some Varget. I have never heard the name of it pronounced. I asked for Var-Jet. The sales lady corrected me if front of my peers and said "Oh, you mean Var-Get". Staying humble.

So it's not about bringing back manufacturing jobs to the US? It's a short term goal? Probably won't matter much in terms of prices for components then.

When one of my 25 calibers wears out a barrel, I think I will try a faster twist and shoot some higher BC bullets. Need to find a longer shooting range tho.

We won't know for sure until it happens, but do you think tariffs will increase costs for components? General talk was about world wide tariffs, but the most recent statements have been 25% on Canada and Mexico, 35% on China. If this were to happen, looks like Canadian IMR Powders would go up...

25-06 is one of the flattest shooters for the ranges you don't have to start turning knobs on the scope. When I looked at Hornady's Ammo ballistics chart there are only a few that match it out to 4-500 yards. It's still a favorite at the dynamite shoot my cousin's fire department puts on. No...

When I was a kid in Scouts out camping on what it was then called the "Game Range", the Air Force SERE survival instructors ran their courses here. Sometimes we would have trainees come thru camp, hugging trees to hide from helicopters and trading with us partial parachute silks or lensatic...

I have a little 3" barrel LCRX 38 special that I've been loading a Keith Bullet that with check weighs 170 grains. Using load data from lyman 47 of 5 grains Unique its getting 900+ fps. Seem a little hot ? Doesn't say its a +P load. It is accurate, but use it only for backcountry defense load...