lancetkenyon

I have a packing list saved on my computer. I seem to add to it every year. Especially when I forget something. I always seem to pack WAY too much, rather than not enough. I pack for every weather condition imaginable. Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Just remember, a chrono is to get you started on a drop chart, not to be used as a replacement for actually shooting at distances and recording your drop data. I think if you were to shoot at 500+ yards, if you truly have a 150fps +/- difference, it will show up very quickly.

Green chili Red chili Machaca meat (onions, green chilies, lots of spices) Roast to medium rare w. carrot, potatoes, mushrooms Shredded for tacos Slow grill Smoke (like a brisket) Crock pot w. BBQ sauce Jeez, now my mouth is watering, and my freezer is bare!!!

I was always the guy who scoffed at the high dollar hunting stuff. And yet....I just ordered some. We will see how it performs for the rest of the year's hunts.

I shoot a 6.5 SLR (almost identical to a .260 Rem), and have a redding bushing die too. I can pull it apart to see what bushing I have, but I am using Remington brass. I would think that if Bruno's told you what bushing to get after checking your brass, that is probably not the culprit. Since you are using a manual scale to check all of your electronically thrown charges, that is probably not it either. My next step would be to try a different powder and primer. The .260 Rem is known to love H4350, usually somewhere right around 43.0gr. And a match primer might help some too. What bullets are you shooting? When you say 150+/-, do you mean you have a 300 fps ES, or a 150 fps ES? Not that either one of those would be good for LR shooting. What chrono? Can you check using another chrono to be sure? What velocities are you seeing?

Neck tension problems, with a standard die, require neck turning for consistent neck thickness. And unless you have a bushing die, you are stuck with one neck tension after turning. What is your jam/jump length? Are you measuring to tip of bullet or ogive? What scale are you using to measure charge weight? An electronic scale that reads to .1 grain is not very good for precision loads. You could throw one charge at the very low end, then the next at the high end and wind up with almost a .2 grains difference. It shouldn't make a 150 fps difference, but easily 50-60. Add that to neck tension, bullets jammed or jumping, and the 2% error of a chrono, and that all adds up. Try different primers, I like Fed GMM 210 or CCI BR-2.

Paintball gun. I have used this method a few times. Usually only takes one or two times, and the cat will avoid your house like the plague. Also, you can use packing tape upside down on your patio furniture. Cats HATE sticky things on their feet. Or, one of the 9V battery operated zapper pads. We used those to train our dogs to stay off the couches.

No joke, last week, I was up above Crown King for some work. Leaving the site, and halfway down, I saw a bobcat on the edge of the road heading into a wash. I grabbed my rifle off my passenger seat (of COURSE I carry a rifle when working at remote sites) and got out of the truck in blue jeans, a navy blue long sleeve T-shirt and blue & white baseball cap. I was hoping to see him trotting up the wash, so I climbed a big cluster of boulders......when I got to the top with my rifle slung over my shoulder and scope caps still closed (but a round chambered), I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. That dang cat was coming up the rocks right behind me, not 15 feet away. I froze. The cat kept looking back at my truck on the road, and then back in my direction, but never right at me, in the open, sky lined, on a rock, in jeans. Every time he would look back at my truck, I would move to try and un-shoulder my rife. I knew there was no way I was going to swing it off, open my scope caps, take it off safety and get a shot if I tried to do it quickly. After about 1 minute, the cat finally looked me right in the eyes, then turned slowly to walk back down the rocks. Once he stepped off, I grabbed my rifle, and opened the caps. There is only 0ne way he could go without being in plain view. I stepped to the edge....and he was GONE. Waited on that rock for about 5 minutes hoping he would make one final appearance. So my take has been (for a long time) that movement is much more important than camo to an animal seeing you. I wear camo when hunting all the time, but more for the fact that I do not want other hunters seeing me and where I am headed more than the animals.

I could wear the 30" pants. 30×34 for me. And I have a friend who is just the opposite, 34x30. We are the same height when standing up, but when we sit down next to each other, he is about 5" taller than me.

dang you guys! I just dropped over $450. Yukon Rain Pants, Guide DCS jacket, Teton Soft Shell Jacket.

Rifle weight? Barrel length? Barrel twist? Trigger pull weight? Magazine brand & capacity? Photos of groups? I LOVE that rifle! Good luck w. the sale. Wish I had $3K.

Bruno's has, in stock right now: Retumbo in 1#ers H1000 in 1#ers & 8# Varget in 1#ers Benchmark in 1#ers & 8# H4831 & H4831SC in 1#ers & 8#

Excessively loud? Excessive recoil? What action? Have you tried lightly tapping up on bolt handle (assuming it is a bolt gun)? First time using these reloads? Stiff closing the bolt before firing? Any signs of gas leakage from port? Did bullet exit barrel?

Look for my black 2007 F250 crew cab while you guys are up and say Hi if you see me.

Calling for snow on Turkey Day.

The ranches in AZ do not get "landowner tags". But they are the ones who allow access to the public land locked in the middle of private land in the GMUs. Those who draw tags in those GMUs either pay a trespass fee, or go hunt somewhere else. G&F has no control over that.

Very, very, VERY slight differences between 6.5-284 Win & 6.5-284 Norma from all that I have researched on the two. Make sure the reamer and dies match. Web, throat, neck diameter, and brass thickness differences between Win & Norma/Lapua too. Winchester and Remington brass have necks that are the same thickness as the shoulders, so when you neck down .284 Win brass, no need to turn necks. Lapua, Norma, Nosler, Hornady, Federal, etc. all have slightly thicker shoulder material than neck material, so once you fire and resize, you need to trim necks or you get a donut at the base of the neck, which will cause chambering issues with once fired brass. This I know from first hand experience with a different cartridge.

In other words (this is what I read into the above post anyway), the owners of the Big Bo want to lease the hunting rights to guides and rich hunters only, and make a ton of money for access rights. So G&F is trying to kill off as many bull elk as possible while they can. Ranching is an expensive business, and getting money this way adds to the profits with little work needed by the ranch hands or outgoing money by the owners. I understand that. But the checkerboard of public land that will be lost for access is a huge deal. I have never hunted the Big Bo, or unit 10 much at all, but I think it would be a devastating loss for the hunters in unit 10. Basically, pay up or get off. I doubt AZG&F will pay up, so the future of the Big Bo will more than likely be hunted only by the elite. So much for "Public Lands" scattered throughout the Big Bo. Too bad corner hopping is illegal.

But sure won't get you the "rack" you would be trying to locate with the GT40!

I am not saying it, YOU are. I have just never, ever, heard of someone owning a far superior piece of glass and wanting to downgrade by 3 or 4 levels. He would find so much more game keeping the superior glass, as you both have already found out, and not wanting to downgrade to mediocre binos AND spotter. Like wanting to trade a Ford GT40 for a Focus and a Festiva.

Anytime Miles. Glad you guys got it done and didn't let the slow times get you down. Thanks for the updates throughouto your hunt. Seems like I had a lot of time and fellow hunters and new friends I was trying to help out from down here this year, and I think most, if not all, connected.

This post makes no sense to me. The Swaros beat the Vortex in absolutely every way, and that was confirmed by both of you, but your buddy is wanting to return the Swaros and DOWNGRADE to the Vortex? Did we just step into the Twilight Zone? Anyway....I say keep the 15s. Save up over the next year or so for a GOOD spotter. That is what I am doing. I use my 10s, on a tripod for most of my glassing out to a mile+. Switch to my 15s for picking apart every shadow, and glassing over a mile. Or watching something 1/2 mile away very closely. I can easily spot elk at 1.5-2 miles away, and can tell if it needs a closer look through a rifle scope or bow sight. With the mirage we get, even on cool days, 15X and up get blown out rather quickly in my opinion. But there are the times when a good spotter would be priceless. But that is about 1-2% of the time spent behind glass in my opinion.

Double fronts in tan, brown, green. All you need.

Great job to the hunters, and to Dad for getting them out into the field. I see a LOT of good eating over the next year.