lancetkenyon

I anneal all brass every loading with the exception of .223. I have WAY too many of those to anneal. I do mine by hand too. And I could not sit for hours doing 3000+ .223 casings. Plus, I only shoot a thousand or so a year, so it will take a long time to get 3-4 loadings on all that brass. By then, I will have collected 3000+ more, and can start over again if I start splitting necks.

3" .410 shells? Wow, I did not know they came in 3". Mine was a 2 1/2" chamber. As for shot size, I agree with #6-#8 shot size. #4 is like pheasant loads. Grouse are not a lot bigger than a big Gambel's Quail for the ones I have seen.

So yearly family membership is $200 (Normally $225 w/o. the $25 off promotion) and $30 per day per adult and $10 for my daughter? The next year membership only $100, because of the "one time initiation" fee paid the first time, correct? And a guest can come for an additional $30 a day? Just trying to wrap my head around this. Looks interesting. What are facilities like out there? As for "booking" times, how many people would be allowed to book per day? How many people can the range support at one time? What if the bookings fill up and I wanted to come out and shoot? I am sure weekends will fill fast. Days/hours of operation? I have done most of my long range shooting at a place I found years ago. I can get to 1700+ yds, but it is about an hour and a half away from my house. This place is all of 25 minutes from my house, so I can see at time and fuel savings benefit already. But if I can't ever go because it is booked, well.... And I don't often plan months in advance to go shooting. It is usally a Friday afternoon call to my brother to get together on Saturday to go ring some steel. So, I'm very interested if the facilities allow for last minute range time like Ben Avery does.

Glassing the open areas, burns, around the streams. Look for sign. Hunt a tank if no other water source is near, either from a Treestand or blind. Glassing the hillsides midday has produced sightings for me too.

I hope it is your bull! That would be awesome. No meat from it of course, but at least you might get it back.

What a bunch of douches. And parents of the year too. No wonder the youth of today have no respect with parental guidance and tutelage like that.

Slingshot. Pellet gun. Archery. Fast hunting dogs....like my GSPs. All will do the trick just fine on private property. Just watch your backstop with the first 3.

youre right they should be able to run a muck and never have their actions questioned. Nope. But how about we get the facts before bashing the LEOs? Seems like it will be a justified shooting to me after some more information is/was posted. Time will tell. Like saying hunters are all bad people, just because a few do unethical things to give us all a bad reputation.

I have a great affinity for the quarter bores. Beautiful gun, and about as perfect of a muley/coues/antelope gun as you can get. Good luck with the sale. A few questions for clarification: Barrel twist? Probably at least 1 in 10" if it shoots the heavies that well. Barrel length? Weight of rifle?

Hard to go wrong with RCBS or Hornady for a single stage press. Unless you are going to be loading 1000s of rounds (like with .223 or .308 for auto guns), no need for a progressive press in my opinion. I am too meticulous to allow a progressive press to do all my stages without my control over individual stages. I actually weigh each charge, except for when I am doing my .223 varmint loads. But I still weight about every 7-10 charges to make sure the throw is consistent.

Try the 115 Berger VLDs. Amazing. That is my new load for my .25-06AI. Shoots under 3/8 MOA at 3439fps, which should be right around Weatherby velocities. I also worked up a load for my .250AI with the 115gr. Berger VLDs at 3106fps. They shoot about 3/4 MOA, but I have yet to play with seating depth. It is odd that the 100gr. TSX shoot better in my .250AI, and the 100gr. TTSX shoot better in my .25-06AI. Here are both the .257 100gr. TSX and the 100gr. TTSX.

Man, the amount of LEO bashing is amazing. How about we focus on the good things the LEOs do for us daily instead of the few bad apples? Sure, this might not be the popular thing to do, but it is my opinion. And to be clear, I am not an LEO.

These are amazingly accurate rifles. I have the 24" version of this rifle and it shoots sub-half MOA with hand loads. I absolutely love mine. Post up photos if you have any. Is this the 1" heavy barrel, or light varmint barrel profile? Just so people know, this is what they are routinely capable of. My brother has the same rifle, and his shoots sub-half MOA as well. This is my fun shooting and hunting load. This was one of many sub-half MOA loads during development. This is two separate groups. A 3 shot group on the bottom, and a 5 shot group on top after scope adjustment. This is my varmint load. Puts coyotes, rabbits, prairie dogs down like they were hit by lightning....or a bomb.

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Actually, that is only three different guys. I will only hunt with two others now. My one buddy who always seems to draw the good tags on years I can't, and the other is my brother.

I usually hunt alone. Here is why: Most of my old hunting buddies were gung ho for the first 3-4 days, then got bored and wanted to go home. Another one smoked while walking through the woods. Others just wanted to road hunt. Others sounded like a herd of cattle walking through the woods. Others, couldn't hit the ground if they dropped their rifles/bows. Others wanted to go into town every night to eat dinner. And still others just wanted to drink instead of hunt. I ran out of friends after that.

My buddy just killed a good 6x6 in unit 1 on Wednesday. I am betting somewhere 340-350 from the photos. Really heavy, wide, great main beam length, good fronts, 3rds were OK, 4ths OK, back was the weak part.

I sure wouldn't say "energy is a myth". But the 20gr. difference we are talking here is not nearly as drastic as it could be with the velocities we are talking. I would not shoot a deer with a .223 Rem. and 70 gr. bullet at 800 yds. (only about 244+/- lb/ft left), but I would have no problem shooting the same deer with a .257 Weatherby and 100 grain bullet (about 926 lb/ft left) if I could place the shots where I wanted. The .257 80gr, TTSX at about 3600fps would only retain about 514 lb/ft. at 800 yds. That is just over half of the 100gr. at the same speed. At 100 yds, just about anything will do the job. .223 70 gr. @ 3000fps=1203 lb/ft .257 80 gr. @ 3600fps=2030 lb/ft .257 100 gr. @ 3600fps=2763 lb/ft .257 115 gr. @ 3440fps=2827 lb/ft .308 215 gr. @ 3100fps=4413 lb/ft But I do agree wholeheartedly that placing the bullet where it needs to be is priority number 1. An 80 or a 100 gr. TTSX will do the job on a Coues ethically and cleanly out to most reasonable ranges.

We both have the custom molded earplugs, and they stay in our pockets while hunting. I already told her she will be wearing them for the shot if time permits. But great call. And good call on the heat packets. I never thought about those. So, I went to Ben Avery this morning to verify final loads for the .300 backup gun that I just swapped scopes on. At 200 yds., this is what I got after sight in. Shot two 5 round groups at 100 yds. with the primary rifle too. I am more than pleased with this. They are .277 150gr. Nosler Accubond Long Range at 2909fps. I don't know why they look so small in the photos. The grid is 1" squares, but the holes look tiny, not .277 size. I also got to help a Dad with his 10 year old daughter who has a Jr. doe hunt in 12AW coming up in a couple weeks. Helped get some problems figured out, and the little girl was great. Good shot, great attitude. Good to see Dads taking their daughters out to learn the sport. And I got scolded by a few G&F Range Officers for not dragging my girl out of bed, most of them know her down there. Heading up again tomorrow for some scouting.

That is amazing you called one in! Too cool. They are out in force lately. I have seen 8 before in the wild over about 30 years. The past two weeks, I have seen 6!!! Pulled this guy out of the middle of the fast lane while heading up to Laughlin for work, about a mile south of Nothing. This guy was just chugging along across the road, He actually walked right up to me to get in my shadow for a rest. This one was about a mile away from the second one, same day. Same thing, walked right up to me and stopped in my shadow. Another one, about 3 miles from the last two, cruising the road. The same day as #3, I saw this smaller one. Then this guy on Thursday. He came up to see what I was holding.

I have used the .257 100 TX and TTSX on mulies with spectacular results. My last big bodied muley was taken at 488 yds. with my .25-06 Ackley Improved pushing the 100gr. TTSX at about 3590fps. Bullet went in at front shoulder and out at left hip. Deer did not take a single step. I don't think you would need any more speed than that, and the extra weight of the 100 gr. helps retain more kinetic energy downrange, plus better ballistics at extended ranges. For a lighter chambering like the .250 Savage, I can see the added speed of the 80gr. as being beneficial, but not in a .257 Weatherby. I say stick with a 100gr. TTSX.

Redhawk Rifles?

I have the Manfrotto MT294C3. I was hard pressed to allow myself to pay the $250 for a carbon fiber tripod. Now I wonder how I ever glassed before! Pretty light, but amazingly steady. Going from a $40 aluminum camera tripod to this is amazing. I have two different heads. A Manfrotto 700RC2 panning head like normal tripods use, and a Manfrotto made Vortex branded pistol grip head. Both have their advantages. I like the panner better for glassing long hours, but the pistol grip better for quickly looking over large areas with the 10s. When I go out solo, I usually take the panner only. Both heads use the same base plates, and I have multiple base plates and tripod adapters that usually stay on the binos, scope, and camera. Makes quick changes really easy. It is also nice to have two setups going if I am glassing a LOT of real estate and I am close to the truck. One with the 10s, and another with the 15s or spotting scope. My other tripod is a Primos Jim Shockey edition quick adjust aluminum with the detachable rifle cradle. Not the best, but sure is easy to get glassing fast with the 10s if something is spotted fairly close and on the move. And great that is quickly doubles as a rifle rest.

My son-in-law has a .308 that his father had built in Washington, and it kicks like a freaking mule! It is seriously worse than my .300RUM was without a brake. Not an exaggeration. Super light, like 5#, and a very hard rubber butt pad. I actually checked the bore dimensions to see if it was a .7mm or .264 bore that was mismarked with a .308 stamp on the barrel. I have shot some big guns, up to .30-378 Weatherby and .338 Mags with no brakes, and I swear they were not this bad. My son-in-law couldn't do more than 5 rounds, and I got to 6 before I told him load development was suspended on the gun. It has now been sitting for 2 years in a safe. Beautiful gun, and would make a great mountain gun if you put a brake on it. But I ain't shooting it any more.

Heck of a thing to do. There are still some great folks out there.