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Very nice looking bear! Good luck!

Thanks for the heads up! I found one of the Minox DCM and ordered it. May still get a camera and adapter if the DCM is too cumbersome to operate for some scenarios.

That was great! My buddy had a Mule Deer book that had a lot of shots where you would look for the deer. We need one for Coues, great way to help newbies and kids get the hang of what they are looking for.

Great info! This should like a great summer project. Sean has very good info, I switched to H1000 in most of my magnums after watching his reloading videos. I have seem more consistency as he describes out of this powder.

I am using the 6000ci Kuiu pack. I will still use the Eberlestock pack for aggressive hikes through brush. It is hard to beat the scabbard on the Eberle and being able to draw the gun quickly in the thick stuff. For long hikes with a lot of gear though the Kuiu is lite and does a great job of keeping the weight on your hips and the thing has about 50 pockets to store stuff.

Good feedback! I am still going to get one for long range shooting. I think it will be great so that a couple people can watch the targets out to 1,000yds and see the hits and give feedback. My kid has a flip guess I am going to have to hijack it now and try it.

Great looking deer! Congratulations!

I am really liking the KUIU stuff as well. I used the pack this year and it is solid, very light with the carbon fiber frame. I still have the Eberlestock but for long hikes and over nighters I use the KUIU now.

Good point!

Glad I don't really drink much soda! Although the make bottled water, energy drinks, and all kind of stuff. If your really want to get to them buy a competitors products, they are all about maintaining market share.

That is a cool little setup. Makes me wish I hadn's sold my little minox spotter! I can see a lot of uses for this with the larger screen, long range shooting sessions more than one person can watch for trace and hits, scouting pics, hunting video, etc. Pricing seems to be about what I would pay for the adapter only from Swaro, impressive. Good find, thanks!

7MM better ballistics and I am nuetral I have both a 300RUM and a 7mmDakota. If I had to give one up it would be the 300. Or check out the 6.5's as deserthntr suggested, great bullet.

I have both! A 6mm as well, just missing the 6.5 and 338... in time...

I agree! Can you guys who hvae already taken on this project post your components list and any advice or info that would help others do a build. Did you buy a complete rifle and take the action only to do the build orwere you able to find just an action for a reasonable price? I am thinking about taking on this project for next year as well. Both the guns showns look great!

I was going to ask the same question but it looks like no one chimed in? I have done a fair amount of reading and it sounds like there are a lot of recommendations for the Nikon Coolpix, versions with low zoom to avoid vignette from the zoom. Swaro does have a page of cameras they recommend on their site but I think it is very dated.

I ran that with 100 yd zero in Shooter. 100 yd - 0 200 yd - -2.8 300 yd - -10.5 400 yd - -23.6 This is what I show for the load ignoring atmospheric conditions adjustments. Your info looks close you may be about 50fps faster than what I showed at 3,000fps with a 300 yd zero.

Not sure what powder charge you are using but asumming 80gr from the books you would be right at 3,000fps give or take 50fps. This looks like it matches up with the numbers you posted. From Shooter for Android 500yds - -42.9 (I think you transposed your numbers) 600yds - -69.4 700yds - -103.7 800yds - -147 I would test this at the range for sure as my 300 RUM seems to get a little more speed out of some powders than others compared to what is published. I also think this load looks light a lot of case capacity left so H1000 or Retumbo will probably get you more velocity. My RUM is more consistent with the H1000 but a little less velocity than Retumbo. With the 180gr bullets I was at 3,200 to 3,250FPS. Remington's Power Level ammo using the 180gr sciroccos also shows 3,250FPS which should be an almost identical bullet ballistically to the NBT. http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/centerfire/power-level/power-level.aspx

I don't clean my rifles during hunting season. To be clear I don't clean the barrel down to bare metal I will clean up the action and check the barrel after I am out, no solvents. I also agree that there seems to be less variability in custom barrels. Of course as pointed out a lot of this could be in my head since I have not done any real statistical analysis on % change, in velocity, POI, etc to see how much each rifle changes. Maybe I just expect hope that a $400-$500 barrel will shoot better.

Well Done!

So the obvious question is: How much for your urine? I need about a quart to last through the season. Bob Now that is funny! Even funnier to think you could pee in a bottle and probably sell the stuff as a secret formula and make money. You could call it Coues doe estrus "activator", works with any standard doe scent. About $20 an ounce would probably be about right!

Yes, good catch you are correct I was not referring to the commerical cartridge. Should have wrote it as 6.5mm-7mm RM, or the 264 Win mag, was trying to be simple but ended up making it confusing. 264 Win mag - Necked down 7mm RM case 264 STW - Necked down 7mm STW I think these would be straight forward. I have 6-284 and going from 6.5 to 6 does not require anymore work than loading the 6.5, just different dies and proper loads.

Do you have to have a factory loading or are you considering wildcat rounds? Are you set on going bigger, you mentioned 308 cal? What are you planning on hunting? My opinion: If you reload already and assuming you are after deer size game I would love to have a 6.5mm Rem Mag or 264 STW. You may have shorter barrel life depending on how hot the loads are you use but this would be an ideal deer/antelope rifle. You could push a 130gr bullet at around 3500fps in the STW and the RM would not be far behind. That is smokin' in a bullet that should have +.5 to +.6 BC depending on which mfg bullets you choose. Recoil should not be too much of an issue and you will be hard pressed to find better ballistics in anything else. Brass will be cheaper in the RM since you can neck down your existing 7RM brass. Either way the dies are probably going to run you around $200 - $300. If you are looking for a big Elk or Bear rig don't waste your time on the .308's and go for the .338

I used Guns Etc for the last gun I had built. They were not the cheapest but they were all good guys and very helpful, they contacted the seller on their own to confirm delivery and had all the paperwork ready for me when I got there. I have also had a lot of work don by Van Horn's in Gilbert and I am sure they could help you out as well. You may also try asking the guys out at the Rio Salado range. If you want to go cheap almost all the pawn shops have FFL's, but their are plenty of smiths in the east valley that could help.

No way I am doing this either, my wife and here mom have dont the midnight madness thing but I will pass. Seems like you can pretty much get the same deals online now days anyway. Glad someone gave it a go and reported back though!

if I shot the deer you have in the pic I would have it mounted. Great looking deer and the memories always make it worth it!