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    Ammo decision

    I like the 200 grain Nosler Partition in the 300 WIN . It’s a great all around bullet in the various 300 mags. I have not had a need to try the Barnes TTX / TTSX but have several friends who have ad great success with them from sheep to moose.
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    Anyone Else Having Issues Shipping Ammunition?

    Have shipped lofts of ammunition in the past. This week I brought a properly packaged and marked box of ammunition to FedEx corporate service center driving 30 minute’s to get there ,to ship the ammo. I was told I had to have a FedEx account to ship ammunition. UPS has closed its customer...
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    Thoughts on open sights for moose hunt?

    I always travel with two rifles on major hunts.
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    When do you give up on a barrel/trouble shooting

    Only had those types of results once . Wiser now. After playing with and trying most variables, I would say 120 rounds and then down the road it would go.
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    Island Park Grizzly Attack

    I Am curious the cause of the jam on his Taurus .45! Not a good time for your survival gun to fail.
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    Question for the Colorado guys

    If on the Platte, waterfowl, whitetail and turkeys
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    Best reticles

    German 4A
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    Wyoming Thorofare Elk Questions

    Lots of good advice. My main rifles I like to use on horseback hunts have 25” barrels and longer length of pull and 42MM scopes. I decided early on to have a Elmer Kieth style fully enclosed leather full length zippered scabbard made. Glad to have had it many times busting brush to have that...
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    7mm Rem Mag vs the new age

    I have not experienced velocity increases in my three main go to hunting rifles with increased round count. The rifles .300 Wea , .270 Win and .340 Wea.. In fact I have experienced zero increases or zero decreases in my .300 Wea.. My velocity in my .270 Win and .340 Wea has actually decreased...
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    Island Park Grizzly Attack

    Hope the hunter recovers fully. Prime grizzly habitat that Island Park area. Kind of has a unique feeling around Island Park that I have experienced the times I have been in there. Big country surrounding that eco system.
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    Alpha Hunting Scope

    Lol Tasco 3X9
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    Powering a chest freezer at a motel

    Bring some duct tape. Did this in WY one year. Left camp with 2 elk in the freezer when the temp was around 50F outside. Got to the hotel for the night. Used an extension cord but couldn’t close the hotel door completely. Woke up in the middle of the night to 50mph winds , blizzard snow blowing...
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    Suggestions for a shotgun for my boy

    A lightweight 20 ga auto that has some form of length of pull adjustments for later they can grow into. A young shooter should only be allowed one shell in their new to them auto for obvious safety reasons. I wouldn’t allow more than 1 shell at a time until after one full season unless the young...
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    Shipping firearms

    Do you have a firearms insurance policy? If not you may want to look into one before shipping rare and possibly expensive firearms. FedEx, UPS and Priority Mail USPS have bad reputations for fairly settling claims for damaged or lost shipments . Lately I ship in heavy Pelican cases, a large...
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    First Western Rifle

    Yes, the Colorado Wildlife For Ranching program has some tremendous September rifle rut hunts. October can still be active in Colorado with the rut. Last October in New Mexico I killed a bull with my rifle while he was bugling at 70 yds .
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    Jimmy John kills potential new state record sheep in NM

    It’s been a while but I use to be on the board of the Rocky Mtn Bighorn Society in Colorado . I remember a water guzzler project I volunteered on with about 15 others that was funded by a Colorado Bighorn suction tag . The money was given to the DOW to build water guzzlers for areas that water...
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    First Western Rifle

    Really? Obviously you have very limited experiences, you have never been on a prime bull elk hunt with a rifle in Colorado, Wyoming , Utah , New Mexico , Montana or British Columbia. These are normal annual hunts for my friends and I who hunt in the Rocky Mtn states. Much like Alaskan’s who do...
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    First Western Rifle

    Formidilosus: I don’t know you or your writings,experience,etc.. But you get quoted here as above comments and other websites on rifle scopes . I use a 10X on one of my 22-250’ s for varmint hunting, never on a elk rifle. He ElkNewbie has your quotes “ “ above.
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    First Western Rifle

    Formidilosus Not rare at all if you are serious about hunting bull elk during the rut with a rifle. I am sure I am not the only one on here that has a lot of experiences hunting bull elk during the rut with a rifle. Colorado,Montana, Utah, British Columbia, New Mexico and Wyoming , ALL have...
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    USPS lost my package

    I decided to get a separate firearm/optics insurance policy. I ship some expensive firearms occasionally and I have found my firearms policy pays for itself some years in not having to purchase shipping insurance from the carrier. USPS has not lost a shipment of mine. UPS has done some stupid...

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