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This little guy is guarding my gun cases...

Yep. 2 minutes ago I just spotted some big lizard in the same area. He had to be at least 18-24" long. I watched him though the 15x binos for a couple min before he went back to the bushes.

2-3 years ago I was at this same range right after a big monsoon rolled through. Everyone except me left and I was on the gun about to fire and 1 jogged across the range at about 90yds. I let him live too, but dang man. I was on the gun looking through the scope at him thinking. Today I am now the last guy on this range and have been sitting letting the rifles cool between shot strings and here comes this one. He was about 45 yards to the right in the brush, but I could have dumped him easy. The 300 win mag was on the bench ready to go.

The left half of this target is my 300 win mag. Savage 110FP heavy barrel. My dad paid about $350 for it about 20 years ago. The only mods are a timney trigger and a muzzle brake. Several groups are pretty good.

Weatherby Vanguard in .257 weatherby mag. 3x9x40 Redfield scope. This is with handloads. The picture of the steel target is at 500yds.

Like said above, they called me to give me info on my 6.5x55 because it wasn't published, but they have emailed me info on 300 Win Mag, 3006, etc.

I have the big 5 port swabbed brake on mine. Axisworks put it on my 300 win mag and it was a HUGE help. http://www.piercisionrifles.com/slabbed-5-port-magnum-muscle-brake/

The website still shows a 150gr SST. Personally with a 300 win mag I would go heavier. I personally am working on loads with 208gr ELD-M and 210gr Berger HVLD. I am working on a 150gr load with all copper TTSX from Barnes, but that was a bit of an accident. I bought them for a 3006 load but am using them in my 300 WM since I have them. If I bad done it on purpose I would have used at least 165gr or heavier.

Is it a 20 cal or 17 cal?

Email or call them and they will give you the info for free.

The only 2 AR platform rifles that I want to own some day are 9mm and 7.62x39. Maybe a 10mm. I am interested to see where this is headed though.

Somebody needs to buy this. .257 weatherby is a bad a round. This is a coues deer nightmare weapon. I have a 257 weatherby already otherwise I would have jumped on a gun like this.

It depends on the barrel and brake probably. Call Eric

Eric has done 2 muzzle brakes for me, and will be doing more in the future. Awesome dude and awesome work.

I was looking at trying the Elite Hunters in my 6.5x55, but I read a lot of mixed reviews on them. More then other Berger products, and this rifle wasn't meant to be an extra long range rig so I am going to start working with the classic hunters for that rifle. If your gun will spit them well and you can stick them where it counts though I don't think you would have a lot of issue with 195gr bullet hitting something important. I bet it would die.

Last time I hunted 19a with a cow tag was about 15 years ago, but we ran into a decent bull south of Cherry behind the campground.

As much as I don't like them because they price gouge, Legendary Guns in Phoenix probably has the ammo on the shelf.

I don't know when 29 stopped showing up on the leftover lists. It used to be my go to tag to try and get if I needed to try and get a hunt off the leftover list. Somewhere in the last few years it has stopped showing up on the leftover list so people must like the hunt more then the past.

Unit 29 used to always have leftover tags. Not anymore.

I picked up a pound of H4350 today that I am going to try next on the 6.5 and try to push it a little faster. The charts show RL26 is an option too, and I have some of that laying around so I might try that too along with pushing a heavier charge of H1000.

I should have a deer hunt that needs all copper bullets. I have never loaded all copper bullets. Is there any difference, quirks, or tricks to load all copper vs. Leadcore? I picked up some Barnes LRX in 6.5 and some 30 cal TTSX for a couple loads yesterday to start working on. Thanks Harley

If you don't need the meat then hunt for what you want. If you need meat, those late hunts can be tough. Shoot what you see first unless you are very confident you can get back on a better bull.

Location?

I am going to do 3 round groups next time on the 6.5. The .257 is loaded as far out in the neck of the case as I feel comfortable loading them with good neck engagement. I could probably load them a touch longer but not much. I tried to see how far out it was to engagement with the lands, but it was way to far out. Too much freebore.

I spent about 4 hours at the range today trying out Barnes loads for 3 rifles. It took awhile between strings to let the rifles cool down so it took awhile. 2 of the 3 rifles showed promising groups. The third was so so. 300 win mag showed 2 areas of good groupings so I will work on those 2 areas. 257 weatherby showed some good groupings too. One was at 68gr which is very close to its favorite load with 115gr Bergers. 6.5x55 wasn't as promising, but I am using the 127gr LRX which say for 1:8 barrels. My barrel is 1:8.66. After texting with Lance a little, I am going to try and push them harder to see if they will group if I can get them going a little faster. If not I will try the 120gr TTSX.