lancetkenyon

Must've been a crow then....

Up to 500 yards is easily doable with a 9X, but even better with a 12X max magnification. We were recently shooting steel to 850 yards with the .223s, and 12X was plenty to get there. Any of those scopes would suit you well. I would go with a 2.5-10 or even a 3-12 if it were me. But I know how I like to shoot LR, so I might be a little biased. 3X is plenty low for shooting close or fast moving targets.

What is your price range? Looks like around $500? How far do you plan to shoot it?

Nice. Work with seating depth too. I bet you can shrink those groups further. Plus, if seat them long, you can get more powder for more velocity with no more pressure.

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My new build is getting a Remington Varmint/Sendero contour at 27". My .25-06 Ackley has a 28" Shilen #5 contour. It is very accurate, once I got my ladder test done to see what load shot best at the top of the barrel whip, meaning the bullet leaves at the top of the barrel flex. I had 3 loads in a 1 grain range that all grouped with 1/8" elevation-wise at 400 yards. That gives me a bit of play with velocity and pressure to remain in the accuracy node. I had a 12" vertical dispersion between 14 different loads, just due to barrel whip. I had a slower node at the bottom of the whip 12" lower on 3 separate powder loads too. They were all 1/2" vertical dispersion. The loads between all climbed up to the top, but were not consistently in order. I think a heavier barrel limits this flex, and is inherently more forgiving. My .223 didn't have a lot of vertical dispersion with the heavier varmint contour. But once you get a load worked up, I think a hunting rifle does just fine with a medium sporter contour barrel. I think barrel quality makes more of a difference than contour. But I would not want a light contour pencil barrel in a heavier caliber. Heavy barrels also help weight the rifle to reduce felt recoil. My son-in-law has a .308 super lightweight mountain rifle with a 20" pencil barrel, crazy light stock, and minimal weight scope, and it kicks like a freaking mule. I would say it honestly weighs in at under 7# loaded, but it kicks more than my .270 Win did without a muzzle brake. It is far from accurate too. But heck if I will work up a load for it. I like my shoulders to work properly.

This.

Buckmaster21....see the post right above yours......I would think about a .2% chance for you. But again, I met a youth and a lady who drew a tag with very few points.

12B?

I could not agree more. I have gotten ranges on trees out past 1800 quite consistently. And one of the hardest places to range is flat grasslands. I just ranged game today out past 1200 in rainy flat grassland conditions today. Small enough to put in a shirt pocket, narrow beam dispersion for more accurate ranging, and quick. Love mine.

Sitting here waiting for my brother who is 15 minutes late.....

I was hoping it was your avatar photo....from the front. (if that is your wife/girlfriend, I apologize in advance....and envy you a bit too))

I have dealt with Mike a few times. Always a great guy. Plus, we text back and forth on certain things. Plus, he is a fellow Christian. I have only met and dealt with one guy from this forum that I would not do so again. He stiffed me for $20 on a deal I had with him. I NEVER count the money in front of a buyer when selling something, and this was the only time I got stiffed. And I KNOW he meant to do it, because he pulled cash out of his pocket, peeled off a $20 and handed me the cash. After he drove off, I got in my truck and realized I was $20 short....on a $50 deal.

Carhartt here too. In fact, I am waiting for my brother to get here as I type to go scouting, and I am wearing tan Carhartt double fronts with a LS camo t-shirt.

2014 did not end with a "bang" for you...it ended with a "twang". Great deer.

That would be an amazing thread. Trophy room photos. I might have to drag mine off 4 different walls and put them all together for a photo......

Go Devils. I am not much of a sports watcher at all. But I support ASU. My parents met there, aunts and uncles went there, my sister and all of my cousins graduated from there, my daughter graduated from there. I am like one of 20 in my family that did NOT go to ASU. I was busy supporting my family at the age of 19. But it has done my family a lot of good, and along with them (since 6 of them are teachers), it has helped thousands of other people too. And at least we didn't get beat by BSU.... To be honest, I would not have even known that except for SunDevil's signature line.

Sorry. That is all.

How about a little more info? What stock? Looks like maybe a McMillan HTG stock? What brand barrel? Stock or ??? Barrel contour? Looks like Rem Varmint/Sendero? Barrel length? Barrel twist rate? WHICH 7mm Mag? 7mm Rem Mag? Action trued? Don't hold out on us bud. Kind of like posting a silhouette of a woman and asking us we would like her......What is she is 60 and has a butterface....and is actually a MAN??? "would you like this" Then you get this...(don't ask why I have this photo) Bump for a seemingly good rifle.

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Good luck in the Academy. Thank you for your public safety service.

Wow. Sad to hear. I have a story just about as opposite of that as you could get. Summer of 2013, I was on a very remote site in southern AZ, just south of Boboquivari Peak. It was helo access only, and we would fly up on Monday morning and get dropped off, work all week, and get picked up and fly down on Friday afternoon. About week 3, Tuesday afternoon, we see someone walking up the ridge towards our site. Not sure who was coming, I grabbed my pistol and AR. Turns out it is a 12 year old girl who got separated from her coyote led group and they just left her. She was seriously just about dead from dehydration. We gave her some ice to start rehydrating her, and took a few hours but got her drinking water and Gatorade. We called BP on the Sat phone we had, and they asked if she had guns or drugs with her. We told them no and they would not come get her. So she stayed in a spare tent the rest of the week, we fed her with shared food, and on Friday, we flew her down. BD met us at the bottom, and took her back to Mexico to some relatives. I am 100% convinced if we would not have been working up there, she would have died. God put us up there at the right time. I cannot imagine my 12 year old daughter, alone in the southern AZ desert in July. I understand both sides of the immigration issue. 95% of the people coming over just want a way to better their lives, but have no clue on how to do it legally. Plus, the bureaucracy of doing so must be a nightmare. But it still does not excuse the illegal influx of people, and I cannot condone it.

My 11 year old daughter drew a bull elk tag last year with 2 points. I couldn't draw with 14. I think she slipped a photo of herself into her application, and G&F thought she was cuter than I am.