lancetkenyon

Great dog, great shot by the kid, good training for both the dog AND the boy on how to control the dog. Thanks for the video.

Hopefully that is sarcasm......LEO's are NOT your friend. The sooner everyone understands that the better off you'll be.....our country is turning into a police state. SO I guess that means you will not waste their time if your car is stolen, your house is broken into, or you get into an accident? LEOs are the people doing their job to protect and serve. Those people are generally good (98%). It is certain bureaucrats that make the rules for them to follow that need to be watched carefully. I swear, some of the people here ONLY pick up on the bad news, and that is partially the media's fault. I mean, why air stories of the police doing anything good? Those won't get you ratings, right?

Yeah, my long range spot is 90+ minutes from my house.

Yep, awesome bull. Love the "whale tails".

Those are their feeding areas. They head for cover after first light and come back out just before dark, I have found a lot of deer in "short pines" like 3-6 year old growth after a burn, stuff about 6-10 feet tall and thick. But a lot of times they get up for a midday snack and stretch. The more time you spend in the woods instead of camp, the better chance you will have of seeing game.

I was really excited about this last night, now I am not so sure. A $200 membership plus $30/day and I might get to shoot one weekend a month? That is not how the website or initial post was leading me to believe. As for the agencies, the website said numerous 3 letter agencies currently train there, along with LEOs and military.

Here is what I got back in an email from Cowtown: Cowtown LRS Membership 9:47 PM (18 hours ago) to me thanks for replying. I think you have the stated fee structure correct. More clarity on 4-Oct. Guests will be welcome, I think the plan is for members to request a guest pass in advance. We encourage bringing guests, but not a group of guys buying one membership and everyone else coming as his "guest" every week. Details still being worked out. How many days per month we get is dependent upon activity and profit to the landlord. They have commercial training customers on weekdays so we can get some weekends, our initial proposal was one weekend a month. Management can probably give us a lot more than that but unless the club really grows we won't have the manpower to run much more than that. The club will "book" the range and members will have open shooting for that entire time. Hope that helps. CTLRS director team

10x42. 15s are amazing for glassing a LOT of country up to a couple miles away, but are too much power for most glassing under a mile in my opinion. It is crazy hard to hold them steady by hand too. I was just up above Crown King today, and only took my 15s. Too much glass for the nearby hills. Great for glassing the adjoining mountains and plains below though.

No stamp needed for Blue Grouse.

Whatever YOU feel is worth the time to do. It takes so little time, I just do it after each resizing and cleaning, just prior to loading. But I do not dunk in water, I just let it air cool.

Is that a photo of the buck from REAL far away? You need better glass.

Absolute monster. You are the MAN!

You are hooked for life. And after the first bite off the grill, you will definitely be hooked!

I anneal all brass every loading with the exception of .223. I have WAY too many of those to anneal. I do mine by hand too. And I could not sit for hours doing 3000+ .223 casings. Plus, I only shoot a thousand or so a year, so it will take a long time to get 3-4 loadings on all that brass. By then, I will have collected 3000+ more, and can start over again if I start splitting necks.

3" .410 shells? Wow, I did not know they came in 3". Mine was a 2 1/2" chamber. As for shot size, I agree with #6-#8 shot size. #4 is like pheasant loads. Grouse are not a lot bigger than a big Gambel's Quail for the ones I have seen.

So yearly family membership is $200 (Normally $225 w/o. the $25 off promotion) and $30 per day per adult and $10 for my daughter? The next year membership only $100, because of the "one time initiation" fee paid the first time, correct? And a guest can come for an additional $30 a day? Just trying to wrap my head around this. Looks interesting. What are facilities like out there? As for "booking" times, how many people would be allowed to book per day? How many people can the range support at one time? What if the bookings fill up and I wanted to come out and shoot? I am sure weekends will fill fast. Days/hours of operation? I have done most of my long range shooting at a place I found years ago. I can get to 1700+ yds, but it is about an hour and a half away from my house. This place is all of 25 minutes from my house, so I can see at time and fuel savings benefit already. But if I can't ever go because it is booked, well.... And I don't often plan months in advance to go shooting. It is usally a Friday afternoon call to my brother to get together on Saturday to go ring some steel. So, I'm very interested if the facilities allow for last minute range time like Ben Avery does.

Glassing the open areas, burns, around the streams. Look for sign. Hunt a tank if no other water source is near, either from a Treestand or blind. Glassing the hillsides midday has produced sightings for me too.

I hope it is your bull! That would be awesome. No meat from it of course, but at least you might get it back.

What a bunch of douches. And parents of the year too. No wonder the youth of today have no respect with parental guidance and tutelage like that.

Slingshot. Pellet gun. Archery. Fast hunting dogs....like my GSPs. All will do the trick just fine on private property. Just watch your backstop with the first 3.

youre right they should be able to run a muck and never have their actions questioned. Nope. But how about we get the facts before bashing the LEOs? Seems like it will be a justified shooting to me after some more information is/was posted. Time will tell. Like saying hunters are all bad people, just because a few do unethical things to give us all a bad reputation.

I have a great affinity for the quarter bores. Beautiful gun, and about as perfect of a muley/coues/antelope gun as you can get. Good luck with the sale. A few questions for clarification: Barrel twist? Probably at least 1 in 10" if it shoots the heavies that well. Barrel length? Weight of rifle?

Hard to go wrong with RCBS or Hornady for a single stage press. Unless you are going to be loading 1000s of rounds (like with .223 or .308 for auto guns), no need for a progressive press in my opinion. I am too meticulous to allow a progressive press to do all my stages without my control over individual stages. I actually weigh each charge, except for when I am doing my .223 varmint loads. But I still weight about every 7-10 charges to make sure the throw is consistent.

Try the 115 Berger VLDs. Amazing. That is my new load for my .25-06AI. Shoots under 3/8 MOA at 3439fps, which should be right around Weatherby velocities. I also worked up a load for my .250AI with the 115gr. Berger VLDs at 3106fps. They shoot about 3/4 MOA, but I have yet to play with seating depth. It is odd that the 100gr. TSX shoot better in my .250AI, and the 100gr. TTSX shoot better in my .25-06AI. Here are both the .257 100gr. TSX and the 100gr. TTSX.