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Tim, this is the best group I have shot from my Bettin Custom. Redrabbit was there to witness it!( He got mad at me as he shot his personal best 5 minutes before I shot this group, and I beat him )

Still killed the right buck!! And atleast its a education, not a edumacation...

Mine has printed in the .1's and .2's. It does .5's all day long if I do my part. You will love it! Chris, I meant on paper! Atleast I shot the right buck there stud... But I guess thats what you get from an ASU education huh?

Todd is a good guy! He is the man that built my 270 wsm. the gun is a little rough around the edges, but it was a budget it gun ( richards microfit wood stock instead of a mcmillan, mauser action instead of a remington, set poundage bold instead of adjustable) and you know what that thing can do! You will be pleased with it!

"fill your fists with .270 you son of a Bitc....." John Wayne...

As far as turrets, you can calculate so that you know where to clicke it, instead of counting clicks. Jim, the only Jewell triggers I have shot have the safety at the bottom, which I dont like. The Timney triggers are great! I have my Bold trigger and I like it. It had some creep in it, and when I adjusted it, it was gone and is nice and tight at 2.5 lbs.

I agree with you 100% This is something that I will try to get good at and only then would I try to make a long shot. I have been shooting for a long time and am a respectable shot but I consider 500 yards a far shot on an animal, but hey what the heck I figure if I get a better rifle than I have now and learn to shoot it at 1000 yards what harm is that gona do? It will only make me a better shot and hunter. I am a bow hunter mainly so I have been sneaking up on animals for a long time now and am pretty confident that I will be able to get closer than 1000 yards for a shot. Another reason I am going to buy this rifle was last year I made a shot on the last day of the hunt at about 400 yards with my 30-06 shooting 180 grains. (I know not the perfect load) Needless to say the first shot I missed but adjusted for the second shot accordingly (aimed 2' over the back!) and dropped my first coues buck where he stood. So now that I am a coues NUT I figure I will spend the money on a nice set-up that takes more of the guess work out because I DO NOT want to wound a deer and am willing to do anything possible (including spending a buttload of $$$) to make a one shot kill. Also I do plan on getting a rangefinder and have been looking into this quite a bit and am set on the Swaro's or the Leica CRF 1200's. Someone had also mentioned that you are only as good as the scope you have and I am fully aware of that and agree 200%. That is why I am trying to get as much info as possible so I know what to plan on spending and more importantly so I am able to get something and have enough time to set-up and learn to shoot it before next year. THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP GUYS KEEP EM COMING! IMO, the best rang time you can do is go to the range and get your ballistics doped, (wind, and drop at what ranges) and then go out in the field and start practicing! My favorite way to practice is either on jack rabbits or rocks. Sit up on a high spot with your spotter and pick out rocks. range em and bust them! Its fun and you get a lot of good practice out there! By the way, you are breaking a unspoken law and not posting a picture of your deer!

That 7 RUM is one bad butt round! I push my dads to 3600 FPS with a 140 accubond... With the boone and crockett reticle, he dumped his buck at 531 yards one shot!

A kimber montana is a good rifle, but i dont think it would be a good rifle for long range, super light, pencil thin barrel ( by the way for the people who tell me to bring factual evidence, I have a super light, pencil barrel gun, so im speaking from experience). it wont take up any of the "shake" of the gun, because it is so light and they are usually short barreled so you loose some velocity.

Bryan, thought you were going back to the tent and open sighted 30-30?

I shoot a 270 wsm built on a mauser 98 action, put together by Bettin Custom Guns. It has a 23" Shilen barrel, bold trigger and is topped with a Zeiss 4.5-14x50 with turrets. I dont have any pictures right now of the rig, but it sure can shoot... as long as it is on paper! usually when anything with horns steps infront of the conducter, he blows it!

Thats awesome! I did some calin in flag this weekend and didnt call a single dog!

great shot placement as well ditto to that!

Ill give ya $1,000 if you deliever them and offer a guarantee that i will kill a 100"buck this year and NOT shoot his horn off! And no, these have NOT seen a Unicorn, that was my Leica binos that saw my unicorn ( a TRUE unicorn )

When at NAU, I did several studies on the Wolves of Yellowstone. I was amazed to see the immediate effect that wolves had on the population of elk and moose... something like 12% decline of elk, and 8% decline of moose... The second year wolves were in there!!! They were a natvie species to Yellowstone, re-introduced in the late 1990's. In all the studies that I did, I NEVER came across any studies that they clearly stated that wolves were the cause of the decline. They always blamed it on weather, drought, and a bad recruitment season. But, we all know that the wolves are causing the decline, none of the researchers want to admit it!

Allthough these binos say "Swarovski", they are pretty sweet! I personally have seem a 100 3/8" buck drop in his tracks with these binos, as well as looked at deer in 36B and in Mexico, so they work wonders internationally! Jim, that will cost you $300 please. You have the address!

Nope!!!! DRT!! :D

First off, it aint that easy to kill a bobcat! Saying that IF you were to get a shot at one, I would want more than enough gun to knock it down so ya dont loose it. .223 or 22-250. shoot deer hunting bullets ( TSX, partition, TBBC) and youll be good.

I am going out coyote hunting this weekend, If you like i will save you the hides. If i get a fox or a bob cat, I will give it to you to do as well.

I saw this rack a week or two ago at the Taxi and holy cow! the thing is amazing! It was far and away the biggest head in there!

ELk- Unit 1 archery 'lope unit 1 rifle

Ill probably get in trouble for this picture, but this is a 50 NBT from my 22-250 into the last rib of a coyote at about 15-18 yards.

Hold The Phone!!!!! I didn't hear anything like that!!!!! That might equal the nationl War Debt!!! I might have to find another place in another town to eat.... now... Thanks Tim!!! For something like that I will make the trip from Tucson! Woohoo!!! Free dinner on Gino... Gino, while your at it, I could use a tank of gas too

Mike you dont want to do that! Stanley, it sounds like they probably made bad hits huh? One of the biggest myths out there is big guns make up for bad hits. Granted, they do provide a larger amount of room for error, but a gut shot deer, is a gut shot deer, no matter what gun it is shot with, ya dig? PS. 270, 270 wsm, 7 mag, 7 STW, 7 RUM are the best!

Scott, sadly if you initiated a gunfight while they are walking away you would be going to jail for murder.