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  1. 35WhelenAI

    Long Range Proficiency

    Sounds like you are going to enjoy whatever you gear up with. Shooting any rifle is more fun than shooting none at all.
  2. 35WhelenAI

    Do I need more grains?

    Research, that first one is a bummer. We hunt long enough, we all will have the unexplained bullet performance. On the second one, if you're aiming for the back of the head, 15 yds, and it runs away with an eyeball hanging out, you missed. Not a bullet issue in my opinion. I'm glad you were...
  3. 35WhelenAI

    Long Range Proficiency

    OP, your plan is great. The '06 will do you well for the first steps getting proficient out to the ranges you posted. Then the 7 PRC is a good step for all you describe wanting down the line.
  4. 35WhelenAI

    Do I need more grains?

    OP, back to an earlier post. You waited 30 minutes to look for the elk and you say fairly confidently it took 10 minutes to die? That is a contradiction in the sense how do you gauge the 10 minutes when you didn't look for 30 minutes? Can you elaborate or clarify? I choose a large...
  5. 35WhelenAI

    Is it all Leopolds

    I appreciate the point, how much did it lose zero? Did it shift a half inch one way or the other, did it shift a foot one way or the other? Everything else is good, rifle bedding, scope mounts and rings, so that it is isolated to the scope and only the scope, yes? With drop tests I am very...
  6. 35WhelenAI

    Is it all Leopolds

    Thanks for a good reply. When you said "they don't track it", I got the impression that hunters with Leupolds don't track their kills to be able to specify distance, etc. Apologies. With that, I know I'm not an exception. There are far more hunters than me, probably a million + that have...
  7. 35WhelenAI

    Is it all Leopolds

    Don't go assuming. What don't "They" track??? That's a pretty big stretch that "most guys" with a Leupold shoot a box of ammo a year, absolutely ridiculously stupid, and I don't go there much with that response. Many guys have thousands of rounds through rifles with Leupolds, and probably...
  8. 35WhelenAI

    Is it all Leopolds

    It's hilarious when people change quotes and say "fixed it". How "Rokslide" that has become. Come up with your own words. In case it needs clarifying, that's a generalization so as to not open up the worms and need a definition of "butt hurt". As an aside, cult does not need any association...
  9. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Despite any difference in case size or caliber, bullet performance is all that's left at the end of the day. We do all have common ground in that regardless of what we shoot.
  10. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Agree, it's not been touted for longer range than the bullet construction and velocity allow for proper expansion.
  11. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Rokslide is a unique combination, lots of folks with different views and lots of folks that different things work for them, and created a following for the smaller calibers. NRA: the people were the problem, not necessarily the majority of issues they stood for. When it comes to second...
  12. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Regardless of the NRA improperly spending, don't think for one second they haven't been a firewall for shooting and second amendment rights. What the hell?
  13. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    🍿 This is going to be interesting.
  14. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Yes sometimes old habits die hard. I'm seeing there's more than one way to skin the elk.
  15. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    I'm open to learning. Going in behind the ribs, diagonally through an elk exiting in front of/through an offside shoulder is a shot the smaller bullets can accomplish readily?
  16. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    I'm open to learning. Going in behind the ribs, diagonally through an elk exiting in front of/through an offside shoulder is a shot the smaller bullets can accomplish readily?
  17. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    Form, whatever you say. It's easier to shoot smaller cartridges over and over and repeatedly, but the way you say it, it's like it's all or none. That somehow a hundred years of success shooting larger cartridges is null and void. I don't subscribe to that. Calling something nonsense is...
  18. 35WhelenAI

    Ammo speed BS ?

    40 years ago it was excusable because of ignorance on most everyone's part, nowadays it's not. I give credit, lots of talk about actual shooting and figuring drops on this forum.
  19. 35WhelenAI

    Ammo speed BS ?

    I agree, if you're going to do factory ammo, buy enough to last a number of years. Regardless of velocity there is not inconsistency from year to year as long as the ammo supply holds up. I don't believe it's the quality from the factories, that's as good as ever in my opinion. But it's the...
  20. 35WhelenAI

    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    There's "desperation" when there isn't a choice, and there is not desperation and having many choices under the sun. I think we agree in a desperation or no choice situation we're going to make the best of what we have, and I would make sure that a 22LR was used appropriately to take care of...

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