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Yes, this is tough times and along hard road ahead is coming. I'm in construction and the bottom has fallen out. Construction has provided a good income for me in the past 6 years and work was crazy , but I to was laid off in September, but I knew it wouldn’t last , so I saved some money and put it away , for these tough times . I have never had the time off to go hunt or even think about taking a week to go hunt .I feel, so relaxed and blessed to be able to see my kids on the weekend or be able to have the guns packed and also the camping stuff in the truck, waiting for my kids to come home from school and off we go to be able to spend time together. I have truly missed out on the passion to go hunting and now, I find myself sitting on top of a mountain’s glassing for game and knowing deep down inside of the memories and the time in my life, I have lost, making someone else rich and now, I am, rich now being able to hunt and spend time with my kids.

I have a 300 mag that is custom built , I’m seeking advice .I have shot about a 50 rounds of factory loaded ammunition through this gun, now it was time to try reloading some rounds to see if this gun is a tack driver . My gun is a Winchester, so that means I have a Winchester receiver on it, the receiver was blue printed and there was a Shillings barrel put on. I started with all the old brass , that has been shot before out of the gun , looked over all the brass for defects and did all the tool prep work on the brass , I had tools for to get them ready for reloading. I put magnum primer in and loaded the bullets with 76.5 grains of I1000 powder and capped them off with a Barnes bullet poly tip 180 grain. I took my gun out to the range to see what kind of grouping ,I would get with this grain weight , pop off one round ,1 ½ high center , second shot just to the left, grouping was nice , pulled the bolt back ejected the round ,grabbed another bullet , waited a minute , stuck the third bullet in , pushed the bolt in , the bolt went in all the way , but wouldn’t lock down, something weird was going on , tried to pull the bolt back to eject the bullet out , the bolt was stuck and would not move . I was trying to get the bolt to move back for about ten minutes and one the helpers at the range, was watching me do this and said he would seek some help to remove the brass and said he would be right back, after about ten minutes, walked down there and was watching a guy take a brass rod and hammer and was pounding on the rod. I stopped him and first off are you crazy that is a live round and second that is a $1400.00 gun you’re ramming a rod down . He , handed the gun back to me and I started walking away and piece of my Leopold , fell off , from the pounding, ok I’m starting to get little red in the face now. I put the gun back in the case and Monday I would seek out a gunsmith to eject the bullet, the gunsmith who built my gun , closed up shop last year do to health reason’s so I called some gunsmiths and several said they wouldn’t touch it do to it being a live round and one gunsmith , wont mention names, took it to the back room and you could hear him , beating a rod down the barrel, hoping he knew what he was doing , came back and said that bullet is really stuck , cant help you. I am sitting at home driving my self nuts trying to figure out a way to get the bullet out, but that would be stupid to do myself, the bottom line is I need thought on what I did wrong so it wont happen again, I know I could open up along series of a lot of what prep work you did, but had a very experienced reloader helping me and he to is stumped on what went wrong any good thoughts on this .

Well, guys it is done and $150 .00 later,we gave birth to a clean barrel.I got the call today at 4:30 p.m, I am clear to pick up my baby.Gunsmith think's that I used a old casing that was not shot out of my gun, when the bullet got stuck , there was way to many wack's to knock it out , compressed the case so much that the powder expanded the case into the barrel.Surgery began at 9:00 am and after the barrel was removed and a small gear puller was used ,after flooding the barrel over night with oil down the barrel and to soak the powder for safety reason , the bullet finally pulled free after three hours. I am really concered ,about the gun now ,after all the truama, was the barrel put back to the right tolrance , will it shoot still,will it jam again, these are big question, I will think before I pull the trigger again.I have to get my baby back out there ,I have reloaded brand new cases and ready to get back on the trigger to see what happens. The question of the day is ,should I take my gun to a reputable gunsmith and have him tear the gun back down again and re bluebrint the whole action and barrel over again.I am only concerned, because this gunsmith is not very known for building long range shooters and I was not inpressed with his shop ,his place looked like my son's bedroom and I have always heard a great gunsmith you can tell by his shop and his tools ,were thrown every where like my 16 old neighbor working on is car.I am thankful he got the bullet out , but still concered.

This will be sweet and short . I want to get a new scope and hunter's know best ,I would like feed back on ,if you could buy a new scope .I would like to to know what would you buy and why?I have a 300 mag and plan on shootig far , what would you buy. I have a 3.5 x 10x 40 mm , this works , but I would like to shoot 400 plus and zoom in on my target, also I would like to buy turrents , to make my shot , what works best as a match ?I will let ,you know , I will take your advice and purchase the scope that is highly rated to take the the shot !

Casey, at this point you sound like you're arguing just for the sake of arguing? The Huskema scopes have cllicks in 1/3 MOA. I'm really not sure what you mean by "clicks in 25 yard increments"? I've never heard of a scope where a click equals 25 yards? What would you do for different ranges? Perhaps you are referring to the hash marks that indicate the different yardages? The number of clicks will vary between hash marks, it just depends on how far you are shooting. No body is slamming your system! This conversation is starting to remind me of the Berger Bullet discussion where you told us over and over again how bad of a hunting bullet they are and now as of a few days ago you tell us you are going to give them a try. It's OK if you like your system better then ours! Neither of us are after your approval, we are just shooting what works well for us. Guys , thanks for all the good information, so far we have talk about the Huskema, Zeiss , Leupold and touch on few others .I have a store credit ,at one of the big hunting store's and I need to use it up, before it gets lost .Huskema is not sold there , so my choices are Zeiss Conquest or Leupold .I'm leaning towards Zeiss 6.5 x 20 or 4.5x 14, my second choice is Leupold VX - L 4.5 X 14 or a 6.5 X 20,between these to scope's are they both user friendly using there turrents or should look else where for after market system.I'm am sure they are both great scopes and the bottom line is personal choice , but the turrents ,become the deal breaker for me . Amen!!!

Casey, at this point you sound like you're arguing just for the sake of arguing? The Huskema scopes have cllicks in 1/3 MOA. I'm really not sure what you mean by "clicks in 25 yard increments"? I've never heard of a scope where a click equals 25 yards? What would you do for different ranges? Perhaps you are referring to the hash marks that indicate the different yardages? The number of clicks will vary between hash marks, it just depends on how far you are shooting. No body is slamming your system! This conversation is starting to remind me of the Berger Bullet discussion where you told us over and over again how bad of a hunting bullet they are and now as of a few days ago you tell us you are going to give them a try. It's OK if you like your system better then ours! Neither of us are after your approval, we are just shooting what works well for us. Amen!!!

Casey, at this point you sound like you're arguing just for the sake of arguing? The Huskema scopes have cllicks in 1/3 MOA. I'm really not sure what you mean by "clicks in 25 yard increments"? I've never heard of a scope where a click equals 25 yards? What would you do for different ranges? Perhaps you are referring to the hash marks that indicate the different yardages? The number of clicks will vary between hash marks, it just depends on how far you are shooting. No body is slamming your system! This conversation is starting to remind me of the Berger Bullet discussion where you told us over and over again how bad of a hunting bullet they are and now as of a few days ago you tell us you are going to give them a try. It's OK if you like your system better then ours! Neither of us are after your approval, we are just shooting what works well for us. Amen!!!

Ok , here is a update, broke down took it to a gunsmith, I really need my hands and eyes, to continue my hunting LOL,but I have spent alot of time thinking about this , I wonder if the poly tip came off and as I was pressing the bullet in the chamber with the bolt it got caught between the casing and the barrel.I have not yet heard from the gunsmith yet, who knows he might of blew his hand off .Gunsmith told me , he couldnt get to it for a week.

You guys are all right , its better to pay a good gunsmith or worse case ,buy a new barrel , then blow my hand off and never hunt again!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for the advice

Ok, this is crazy,the gun is in a gun vise and we used a 2 pound wooden mallet and yes ,I broke down and used a brass rod , we wacked it about 15 times ,still wont move anymore !

Yes, every thing was done on a Dillion press.all that stuff was checked on dead cases.I'm really starting to think in doubt get a bigger hammer , but this is my Baby ! I have the bullet ,almost past the belt, it wont move anymore .

I was ,wondering if there is some really great idea's on some good theft proof idea's on protecting personal trail camera's . I read over and over , about cameras being stolen on water holes and even place's , you wouldn't think a human being would hike down into. If you really think about it one camera cost $ 200.00 to $300.00 , plus battery's and a SD card , thats big bucks , but cheap to a theif .I have four camera's out now , with sign's on them that state if you take this one , I will definetly have your picture on the other three . I hate the idea , I spend more time hiding them , then concentrating on good veiw shots ! Camera concept is all new to me , so times change ,so must I.

I heard somewhere #4 buck is a great deturrent to cordless grinder weilding theives. I lock my stuff up just to keep the honest guys honest. I also try and keep them far enough in and secluded enough that the guys haulin bolt cutters cant get in. I use a custom one enterprises lock box with a python lock on my expensive camera. On my 50 and 100 dollar wildviews i use 1/4 in aircraft cable with a padlock. Any guy packin a hatchet or bolt cutters can steal ANY of my rigs. I've heard of guys cutting down trees to get a camera. Camera theives are the same as any other theif. They don't care how much stuff they have to tear up to get to your goodies. I was thinking of a trip wire hooked to a gatlin cross bow , would do the trick !!!!!!!!!!!!!![color=#0000FF][/color]

Another great mind at work , cant wait to see what you come up with

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Hi, everyone , yes a Im a newbie for unit 21 LOL My son and I have been scouting , the northern half of 21 , Bald mountain erea , Pine mountain, Dugas and every forest road.I have hunted whitetail in unit 31 and 32 , so I have a good idea , what to look for Canyons with water LOL.I have been up three times scouting , i have glased and glassed, I use very good optics and i feel very confindent doing it , but I still have not found one whitetail in unit 21 .Gas is starting to cut into the pocket book, I wondering if anybody , could direct me to some high concentration erea's. I have look at game fish write up's, that was a start.I was wondering if the lower half is better for whitetail then the upper half , like around seven springs or just a little higher up?

try the east side of the unit... go to the turn off for bartlett lake then go north anywhere up there is good wt country.