300RUM

I have one as well and load everything from 9 mm to 300 Ultra on it. It's a very versatile machine. Mine is 30 years old and still going strong .

Hunt's like that have a purpose. They make you truly appreciate the ones when you drop a nice buck opening day.

I like it, it's very unique.

My hunting partner and I used to do a lot of wilderness pack hunts. They are some of our best hunting memories. It sounds like the hunt will be a great memory for you and your son in the future. Congratulations on the buck.

I'll bet that old boy would have sure had some stories to tell

congrats on the buck. I don't hunt till next weekend so I went out for one last long range shooting session. I was laying on my shooting mat around noon thinking how glad I was that I was not packing a deer in that weather. The Mirage was brutal.

I have drilled and re-tapped a few Remingtons from 6-48 to 8-40. The action steel is hard and difficult to tap. I have broke a tap every time. I do use carbon steel taps that are not as strong as other types but are much easier to drill out when they break.

Let me guess, there is a dancer named Bambi.

if you want something brought from another location and delivered to you there's going to be a cost associated with that. It's not something you can avoid in an online ordering situation. A simple package from Midway to you will have to be handled by multiple employees and travel in multiple vehicles along with being handled in multiple sorting hubs. The employees equipment and Facilities to provide the service all come at a cost. I have spent over 30 years working in the Freight industry and on many occasions have delivered shipments where the cost of Transportation exceeded the purchase price of the product.

Brass, in reference to the metal used to produce the case, is a generic term for a family of alloys. An alloy is made of several different ingredients and the ratio may also vary. It is likely that the alloy used by Nosler and Hornady is not exactly the same. The two metals may have different properties. As an example one could be harder than the other. If case volume is similar pressure should be similar but there is a possibility that one may stretch more than the other when subjected to the same pressure.

Higher magnification in a scope can be a double-edged sword. Higher magnification can help increase accurate shot placement at longer ranges. If you have difficulty holding the rifle perfectly still it can also degrade your shooting. As you keep making little Corrections the higher magnification will amplify the movement. For younger shooter I think I would make sure you had a 3 or 4 bottom end.

Don't give up. There just are not that many things it could be. The process of elimination will beat it in the end. Another possibility that I have run into in addition to misaligned screw holes is a bent barrel. You could cut a pair of V blocks from wood and spin the barrel and action in them to get some idea. The true test is chucking it in a lathe. If it makes you feel any better you are not alone. I just re-barreled 2 of my rifles. The one I wanted to take deer hunting finds it necessary to shoot 2 MOA or more. Then, just to keep me interested it will do a series of 0.5 MOA groups. In this case I believe there may be something loose inside the scope that lets the reticle shift. The old barrel had a high round count and I thought it was going out because the groups had been growing but the new barrel is grouping well either. After the hunt I will swap a scope from another rifle and shoot to verify.

I have used SMKs in .223, .277, .284, & .30. There has always been a cavity behind the tip.

There is a chance that the screw holes for the scope mount do not align with the center line of the bolt bore in the action. A way to describe this is if viewed from the top a long straight rod was placed in the action where the bolt goes and another was placed perfectly aligned over the scope mount screws that rod would project to the left or right of the one replacing the bolt. If this is the case the action can be zeroed off of its center line in a mill and the screw holes re-drilled and tapped from 6-48 to 8-40 removing the misalignment in the process.

I can straight flute my own but spiral fluting is a little out of my league. I recently wanted one spiral fluted and had axis works to it. Eric does real nice work.

Shortening a barrel will not result in a loss of accuracy from a mechanical standpoint within the firearm. A shorter barrel will often result in degraded ballistic performance in relation to a longer barrel. But how much? As long as you can accurately calculate the drop, windage and other ballistic components and dial your scope correctly you have the potential to be accurate. What if the wind velocity is shifting? What if your range is a little off? With higher velocity resulting in a flatter trajectory and less wind drift the errors will not have as much effect. I like light, handy rifles and I also like the upper end of ballistic performance. Two of my rifles are a 7mm-08 ackley AI with a 20" barrel that weighs 7.5 lbs ready to hunt another is a .300 RUM with a 27" barrel that weighs 12.4 lbs. They are both very accurate but serve two different purposes. How I intend to hunt dictates which rifle I carry. Optimum ballistic performance and extreme light weight and compactness rest on a fulcrum. You just have to decide which side is the best for you to lean to.

I own rifles with barrels from 16 to 27 inches. I choose the barrel length based on the cartridge and how I plan to use the rifle. I did some research years back when I was thinking about building a 20" barrel 7mm-08AI. One of the most useful items I found were tests done by a gunsmith named Charlie Sisk posted on another forum. I copied them and saved them as some of the best real world data I was able to locate on what happens to velocity as you shorten a barrel. What follows are his introduction and test results. For a long time I have wondered about how barrel length affected velocity. I had always been told you need a certain length barrel for certain calibers. I have read when folks compared one gun to another with different lengths but I always thought that was not an apples to apples comparison. So I did a few tests myself. All these were Shilen barrels. I used the same brass throughout the whole test. All weighed to with 1 grain. Bullets were tested on the Juenke machine. Powder charges were weighed to .1 grain. The same rest, chronograph, Redding press, primers all from the same lot, bullets for the same box, same lathe, same crowning tool, same cutoff tool, and each rifle done from start to finish on the same day. Ambient temperature was the same because I shoot from inside the shop. I held the rifle the same way on the rest every time. I shot ten rounds first to break in the barrel. Then cleaned with Sweets and fired one fouling shot. Then shot five rounds and took the average. I used a midrange load from the Nosler book, not too hot but certainly not a reduced load. Here is what I got. 22-250 Hodgdon 380 34 grains Federal GM210M Remington brass 55 grain Ballistic Tip 27 inches 3469 fps 26 3451 25 3425 24 3407 56 fps from highest to lowest 270 Winchester Hodgdon 4350 54 grains Federal GM210M Winchester brass 130 grain Sierra 27 inches 3115 fps 26 3093 25 3071 24 3054 23 3035 22 3027 21 3001 114 fps from highest to lowest 300 Winchester mag Federal GM215M Winchester brass 74 grains of Reloder 22 180 grain Partition 27 inches 3055 fps 26 3031 25 3024 24 3003 23 2984 22 2960 95 fps from highest to lowest 340 Weatherby Federal GM215M 250 grain Sierra 81 grains Reloder 22 Wby brass 27 inches 2837 fps 26 2817 25 2809 24 2791 23 2777 22 2755 21 2731 106 fps from highest to lowest I think I will do a little more thinking before I recommend a barrel length in the future. What do you folks think ? Charlie A few weeks ago I done some testing with shortening barrels with various calibers. I just finished this test with a 300 Ultra. These loads were EXTREMELY HOT !!!!!!!!! I will not post the grains here because on the third loading the primer would fall out of the case . I never load this hot , only this time for the test. I used Remington brass, Federal GM215M primers, 220 grain round nose bullets. I used the same procedures as the last test. length H-4895 H-870 .....27 2740 3107 .....26 2709 3088 .....25 2685 3062 .....24 2663 3046 .....23 2636 3018 .....22 2612 2997 H-4895 lost 128 fps H-870 lost 110 fps

I have been given the opportunity to be involved with several Hunts For Heroes hunts. Sometimes as a guide other times as a pack mule. It is an incredible experience that really makes you feel as If you have done something that really matters. The video just scratches the surface, spend a day hunting with one of these veterans and you will be amazed at how much the opportunity truly means to them. Send Tom (Lv2hnt) a message and ask how you might get involved with a hunt. You will be doing something very nice for someone who truly deserves it at the same time you are doing something you really enjoy.

I work for a freight company and the yard tractors that move trailers around the yard in and out of the dock use that same basic Cummins motor. They run all day long, year after year. Is Dodge running bigger turbos to get more boost to produce more power and as a result sacrificing engine lifespan?

Building the loaner rifle is a real cool thing to do. I remember when I used to shoot competitively loaning a carbine or a shotgun to someone who was trying to transition from straight pistol matches to 3-gun matches. It was always greatly appreciated.

You really need a picture of a McKenzie antler to practice shooting at

To inflict a quickly incapacitating injury a bullet must transfer much of its energy to the target animal. The bullet may be designed to expand, explode or tumble to accomplish this. A bullet may also do none of those but have enough mass and velocity that it causes a massive temporary wound channel that leaves extensive permanent tissue damage, hydrostatic shock. I once put a round from a .300 RUM through an antelope at 400 yards. The exit wound was tiny but the lungs were like pudding. There are many variables when shooting a bullet into a body and no bullet will perform optimally 100% of the time. Even if a small percentage of the bullets of any given brand fail to perform properly you are going to hear about it. When the bullet fails to perform as expected people will be very vocal about it. When the bullet performs properly then the bullet just did its job and there is often not much to be said.

Did we all just fall down a rabbit hole and end up in San Francisco?

That isn't a practice issue, it is a common sense issue. Shoot / Don't Shoot. Someone got that one very, very wrong.

With the unfortunate event that occurred In Las Vegas you are very likely to encounter liberals running their mouths about banning gun ownership. Don't engage them in a debate on the second amendment, it is what they expect. Instead tell them you feel they should not have a right to make the statements they just did. They will likely go on a rant about their first amendment right to do so. Point out that their free speech seeks to infringe on the constitutional rights of others and is actually attacking the constitution itself. It is therefore dangerous and needs to be censored, possibly even treated as a criminal act. Keep at it as straight faced and serious as you can. I have been doing this for a number of years and have gotten much amusement from taking this approach. It gets some of them really upset that you should be so unreasonable. Imagine that.