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Nice looking OBS. I will head down saturday (just to hang out) my hunt isn't until November. Good luck on your hunt where are you going to be?

When I was in Clints Well last month the guy at the Service Station said another road closure map will be out in December and another in the spring.

That is a long ways. I know that young male lions will travel indefinately until they can find a home range.

Fired? I hope you called the cops too. No telling what he had back at his house. If he is low enough to steal from people he is working with he is capable of anything.

Any idea on how big that one is? I know they can get quite a bit bigger than a Mountain Lion and they have always facinated me but I haven't seen one in the wild. They have an incredible bite force and are only out done by the Hyena which explains why they eat turtles and kill deer by sinking their teeth through the skull into the brain rather than through aphixiation. As I understand it a big male can go 350#'s and that is a lot of puddycat.

"the Commission considers bait to include any food-stuff or ingestible material that has been deposited, scattered, piled, or delivered by a passive or active feeder or feed delivery system,,,," Gray area, really? Not sure I understand your post. If this passes I believe 99% of us will comply. Should someone put out bait and I happen to shoot a deer over or near it I have no doubt that a WM will be writing a citation and it will be up to me to show I didn't know it (the smoking gun) was there and didn't put it there. Hunting over bait will be illegal, no matter how it got there. No doubt some will spin it every which way.

All the standards we have for rate of twist were achieved around lead core bullets. Newer bullets of copper and ballistic tips make the bullet longer upsetting the apple cart. Neccissating reinventing the wheel. You're groups are great so go make some memories.

I spent part of the afternoon at Rio with my son re-sighting in for our hunt next month. I usually pick a bullet, (Nosler Partition, Sierra Match King, etc) for a specific task, then work up the load. Accuracy is nice but not always the destination. That, is what I expect of the terminal performance of the bullet. Example, if I'm hunting coyot's. I want a bullet that gives me 2 MOA and dosen't exit because I know I will not be taking shots past 300 yards.

Yucca? AKA Shin Dagger?

Don't weigh primers it won't really get you anywhere. I have always used CCI Benchrest Primers in rifle cartridges. Don't use brake cleaner or solvents as they can make the brass brittle. On new cases uniform and deburr the flash holes and chamfer the inside of the case mouth. Some rifles shoot everything well while others shoot bullets with a specific profile at a certain velocity best. With a 160 gr case vs a 162 gr case the difference percentage wise is just over 1%. Not very much and unless you fill each case with water and weight it you can't be certain if that deviation is in the volume of the case ot the weight of the case itself. I'm no math wiz but if the difference is say 1.25% and it is actually in the volumn of the case then a 243 case at an average charge weight of 45 grains we are looking at a case volumn maximum deviation of less than 1/2 a grain, to the case mouth. If you weigh each charge using extruded powder there will be a bigger difference than using ball powder just because ball powder is finer and getting a more exact charge weight has a higher possibility. Some cases like the 222 and 6mmPPC are inherently accurate and squeezing each cm of accuracy from them is less of a chore. Last thing you want to do is wear out the barrel and spend hundreds of dollars chasing clover leafs or one hole groups if taking snap shots at Coyotes or Coues at 200 yards on a windy day is what the rifle will spen 95% it's time doing.

Thats decent enough to shoot PD's out to 400 yrds and sorting cases and bullets by weight "should" tighten up a group. Curious, what are you doing to prep those cases and which primers are you using? One thing you can do is take one case of each different weight from low to high and using bullets that all weigh exactly the same and hand weighing each charge shoot a group and see how it compares to another group using the same amount of cases that weigh exactly the same, then compare the results. The weight difference of two grains would not be of big concern to me as it "could" be in the base which would not effect the actual case capacity and that is what decides the consistency of pressure and ultimately, velocity. Provided that OAL, case length etc are equal and thus removed from the equation. Chronographing loads is helpful and an the information logged is useful when developing pet loads.

I have probably seen one but can somebody post a picture or link to what it looks like. I have never heard of a called that before.

His comments on abortion will cost him many of the women votes. I don't think there is one person on here who would vote Obama/Biden.

In a factory rifle and chamber you are not going to notice enough if a difference to amount to anything due to the inherent differences compared to a rifle with a match chamber and blueprinted action. If your rifle is consistently capable of being able to cover 10 shots with a dime at 100 yards then you can weigh cases and bullets and sort them but it's not really necessary in a big game hunting rifle under field conditions.

I haven't used one personally but could use a new one, provided it's not heavy as I don't need too much extra weight in my pack. Found a few of them here, http://www.nextag.com/ravelli/stores-html If you get one let us know how it does.

Also not a fan of BT's for big game.

Notify the Sheriff and file a report.

Probably just natural causes and dogs like people suffer from being overweight. Why do you suspect foul play? I know Beagles can be notorious barkers and that can definately be a major issue living in a subdivision. We just lost our Boxer but she was about 13 and her body just gave out. She went from being a 13yo puppy in the morning to stumbling and loosing the ability to stand by the afternoon. Vet said it was her time.

Must have missed that. Too many long days at work. Apologies to the poster.

Just Trolling or do you have something pertinent to say along the lines of the thread topic? There are plenty of other Topics tearing down G&F so my suggestion is for you to leave this one and start your own thread. BTW,. Welcome to CWT.Com

Probably won't get 1/2 of the Republican Vote.

If you go on Gunbroker.com you can get an idea of the value. Your Dad did a great job of taking care of it, looks new. so I'd say it's worth what you are asking for it.

That will be fine. I'll be passing through Tucson in November to hunt WT in 36B, maybe we can meet up on my way down or back. Either way we will work something out.

I have Talley on a Tikka and man are they light. The guys on Alaska Outdoor Directory swear by them.

Discounts are good. I have about 1600 sq ft downstairs that will need covered, so I'll have to get the boss (aka, the wife) to settle on the size & color she wants. Just an FYI, they hate it when you say "I don't care honey, whatever you decide is ok with me". LOL