HuntHarder

Oneshot- Why should I go barbless on the hooks? That is the frustrating part about Lee's ferry!! It takes about 100 hook sets to get 50 trout to the boat!. We are already doing the deep sea tuna trip while there, but I know my A.D.D. will kick in just looking at the ocean from the house. I am sure there will be lots of pictures of me fishing with my neck hanging coozy on. I am getting excited about this trip now.

I guess this is where this thread has gone, so I will throw in my 2 cents. I am 95% an archery hunter. I agree that the hunt starts when you get close to the animal. I can not tell you how many times I have been sitting at 200 yards and really have no care in the world about the animal busting me. 0 adrenaline flowing, just waiting, trying to figure out my next move to close the gap. When I hit the 120 yard mark, my blood starts pumping a little more and I know that one move can result in the animal entering my kill distance. On the other hand, I got the long range bug a few years back, and put in quite a bit of time to get good with my rifle. I got into reloading, practiced my tail off, built a nice gun and started to understand ballistics. All this led up to a bull hunt where I planned on taking an elk at "long range." I decided that if I was going to rifle hunt, I wanted to make it a challenge. IMO shooting a few hundred yards with a rifle is really not a challenge. So I figured the way I would challenge myself was to get good at shooting long distance. I will admit that the "hunt" part was not nearly as exciting and I approached it completely different. Instead of using the skills I use for archery, I now had to use my shooting skill set. Completely different skill set, but both take practice to achieve the end goal. IMO getting close with my bow is much more rewarding than shooting far with my gun. It is a completely different feeling. I enjoy shooting long range, and will continue to do it. I do not look down an long range hunting, it is a different beast all together though. Lots of skill involved in shooting that far, but not much skill involved in getting that close.

Thanks for the offers guys, I may end up taking a few of you up on them. To specify, this trip is a friends and family trip, so fishing is not the #1 reason for visiting. We already have a deep sea tuna trip scheduled, but our house is right on the water, so I think fly fishing for bonefish sounds like a serious challenge. I might even take a spinning rod/reel set up if it will help catch some fish. Any one have a recommendation on a rod that will fit in my luggage?

Long story short, Guy online did not advertise they were nickel plated cases in description and upon arrival they are. I usually shoot Winchester brass, and now I obtained some Winchester nickel plated casings. Will I see a difference in POI? I know they are a little harder on my dies, but I was wondering if my accuracy will suffer? These will only be practice rounds loaded to same specs as my hunting rounds. Should I limit my distance with these? Thanks for any advice.

LOL! I figured you hunted enough in your life to know that it was gutted in the field..... I guess you have to explain everything to some...

It is a one man job to weigh a javelina, weighing deer and elk takes quite a bit more effort. Javelina come out of the field whole for the most of us, ( some guys debone them in the field) but most deer and elk are quartered or deboned in the field due to their size. This is why it is hard to get an actual live weight on these animals. It is not worth the extra effort of dragging a deer all the way out, just to see what it weighed.

I am not sure if it was a coincidence or because of the nickel, but I had my first stuck case in the die in a long time today. It was a nickel case and oh yeah that was a PITA to remove. Noticeably more effort to size on the nickel too, but that could have been because they were fired In a different gun other than mine.

My average weight of a filed dressed Javelina is around 30-40 lbs. My largest I have taken was in 26m 2 years ago and he was 56 lbs field dressed. I would guess 10lbs bigger than my previous big pig, and I have taken 15 so far. By field dressed, I mean gutted, head and hide still attached. He was an exceptional pig that was living high on the hog in neighborhoods. This year my pig might have pushed the 20lb mark field dressed. I did not shoot it by mistake, it was the only pig that volunteered to catch my arrow. All the others wanted to stay in the bush.

I only paid 30$ for the brass, it is not worth my time or hassle to send them back. I told the guy I was unhappy, he apologized and we left it at that. No big deal, just learned to get pictures of items being bought off of forums instead of taking a guy's word. I doubt I will ever shoot this 300 wsm enough to wear out my RCBS dies. Thanks for the advice guys

I am with you on that Lance. I found about the same results 50/50 split. I am going to load them, use them for practice and ditch them as soon as they start showing any signs.

Yes leupold does

Thanks for your answers, I think I will just load them up and see what happens. I thought about just selling the cases and getting brass.

I wanna play. 79" 15 1/2" horns

The muzzy guys are gonna kill the only 25 big bulls in the unit. I would imagine they will take close to 10,000" of bone out of 9. Archery hunt this year is gonna be a raghorn special.

Nice offer TJ. Hoss, you need to take him up on this, a tripod will really make a huge difference. You will find more game with the vortex diamondbacks on a tripod than you will with a pair of Swarovski's hand holding.

Nice shape on that buck. Good looking mount!

They are nice guns, for my preference, I would take my glocks over a polymer sig. The metal frame Sigs are awesome guns, and a step above their polymers. Grip is not comfortable for me.

I shoot a 300 wsm for my long range gun, and I love it! Having said that, I think you will, as I did run into problems shooting a 215gr bullet out of it. Not enough case capacity to get a good burn. My bullets were well into the cartridge and had powder around it. I settled on the 185 VLD and have had some great success with it. Good luck on your build, it looks like you are building a nice rig!

Gray area. Let the Admins decide, it is really none of any of the members business. Good luck with the sale, that is a great price. Too bad their Vortex ! Get some Leica 1600b's and some Swaro's and we will be talking.

Straight duplex for me or MOA reticle

That makes sense. That would explain why there is so much m885 ammo around. Tooling is there and now is not being used for it's original intended purpose. The M885A1 ammo sounds like some serious stuff! Making the M16 relevant thru any type of barrier is tough to do. I am a huge fan of 7.62 x 39 over 5.56. I love my AR, but give me one weapon to take into battle, and I am grabbing my AK every time.

$306.00 delivered from Natchez! Plus the 50$ mail in rebate after you spend over 300$ on RCBS stuff by June. Just need to spend 11$ to get 50$ back.

Standard issue to M&P. I understand that the average guy can buy this stuff, but it was really intended for M&P. Why does a target shooter or hunter really have a need for this particular round? Plenty of FMJ or HP or soft point ammo for plinking, and numerous bullet types for hunting. I understand the ideology behind give an inch and they take a mile, but this seems like pretty common sense stuff. My point in the above post was to understand why this ammo is made? Without using any angle on why it is made, just give facts. Was the reason this steel tipped ammo was manufactured to penetrate Kevlar? If so, keep it in the hands of M&P, and you and I have plenty of other ammo that will do the same thing, just not be manufactured with this intent. Buy bigger guns, and the bullet is irrelevant when going up against standard Kevlar!!

Dang it Darr!! With a deal like that from Natchez, I could not pass it up. Thanks for coming up with another Item I never knew I needed Mike!

Bret uses the pressure wash style now, and his skulls turn out great! He has done 4 for me and all 4 look great! Give him a call, you will not be disappointed!