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    West hunting shooting distances

    I do not hunt out west. I am an archer. I practice to 100 yards and can keep my shots in a whitetail kill zone at 90 yards. The furthest I will shoot at a whitetail is 50 yards. I have shot them successfully to 64 yards when my personal imposed limit was 60 yards. I live in an area with...
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    6.5 Creedmoor/260 for Deer, Elk, and whatever else.....

    The problem is the bullet. A tmk or eldm would likely have shortened the distance traveled after the shot significantly.
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    Fencing a large property boundry

    Not sure where you are located, but you can probably hire it done, go to work and be money ahead. In my neck of the woods fence building doesn't pay very well. If you can trade 1 hour of your wage for 3 hours of fence building, you are money and time ahead. A lot of fencing will work. Just...
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    1K mag

    How tight quarters do you get hunting? How much do you shoot to get good at speedy target acquisition at high mag? I hunt with 5.5-30x and 6-36x prs scopes. No problem killing running coyotes at shotgun range. If I was comfortable spending the money for no more than I hunt, I would buy...
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    Long Range Hunting: Hold Over Reticle, Dial or Both?

    People arguing speed are dead on right, but so are the people arguing for dialing. All my hunting guns are zeroed at 100 yards, I then add .5 mils up and slip the scales to zero. At that point I have a gun that is zeroed close to mpbr. Now I can hold over or under or dial from there and the...
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    106 TAP for hunting?

    It takes consistent bullets to shoot good groups. A lot of it you can see or measure without expensive equipment. The theory is that variation in the bearing surface could change the pressure curve, but mostly the shape of the bullet not being consistent will change the bc. By sorting the...
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    Building a house for penny pinchers.

    This guy is right. I have a carpentry company and a gc company. My carpentry company works for my gc company as well as others. When we get hired by Joe Homeowner, or some gcs that are the same talent level as Joe Homeowner, we add on the gc fee to our scope of work. EVERY Tom, Dick, and...
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    Building a house for penny pinchers.

    What part of the country are you in? I would love to make a 50% mark-up on new homes. In my neck of the woods, standard markup on spec homes is 10%. High end custom stuff is 25-30% markup as is middle of the road remodeling. High end remodeling with handholding and kumbaya singing is 40-50%...
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    Trijicon Credo 3-9x40mm Q&A

    Different scope, but I prefer green except on white targets. Even then green shows up pretty good when you turn up the brightness.
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    First Custom Build

    Making wind calls is much simpler in mils. Look up the bc method or mph gun method (same method, 2 names). Once I know that a gun/load is say a "7mph gun", I can make wind calls without ever looking at a ballistic calculator. It is rare to even pull out a Kestral for me at a match unless the...
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    Money or Happiness

    Listen to this. Then complete it. Pay particular attention to the fact that it is not a diet, an exercise program, or a challenge. It is a tool to sharpen your mental toughness and perspective. It literally changed my life. Not just parts of it, all of it. I also still have the same job...
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    Downside of fast twist 243 over 6cm?

    I looked at the reamer prints again. I misread the throat and freebore stuff bouncing down the road. 6 creed has way better saami specs. You want a tight freebore diameter and more length than the 243 saami. 1.5 degree leade angle is still considered favorable. Best way to get an accurate...
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    Downside of fast twist 243 over 6cm?

    I find 30 degree shoulder cases still need to be trimmed a bit. 40 degree cases can go a lot of firings without trimming in my experience. Technically, when you have to trim the brass is flowing out of somewhere in the case. That means you would likely get more case life out of a chamber with...
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    Roof Damage Home Owners Insurance Question...

    I do roofing as part of my business. There is a wide range of immoral/unethical as well as salt of the earth people on both sides. If I find no damage I say so. If I find questionable damage I say so and let the homeowner decide if they would like to file a claim. On steep and high roofs...
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    106 TAP for hunting?

    You're lucky. By bullet number 10 I had a .011" es. I measured 100 berger 108 target to make sure I could still measure things. All were +/- .001" for "bearing surface."
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    106 TAP for hunting?

    It will be awhile before I can get anything done with these. Based on the measurements from sorting, there are many lots mixed together, and there is a ton of variation from lot to lot. I think these will require sorting and might still be a bear to get to shoot considering their shape...
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    Coyote Hunting - Seated Front Rest Options

    How far do you want to shoot off of said support? There is a tradeoff between maneuverability, weight, and stability.
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    The Future of Idaho

    I know nothing about Mule deer, but with whitetail in the midwest, when we get past 4 does per buck we see it as a problem. When we can get it to be 1:2 or better it is very good. The flip side is we have VERY high deer densities, so focusing on a balanced set ratio is actually keeping the...
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    Powder Valley price hike

    Yes, I understand that hodgdon makes zero powders. They are the supplier to the reloading consumer. If I had the $$$ to go directly to the powder makers I would. I'm sure I would also have to get around some contractual business arrangement that hodgdon has with them. The real question is...
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    What caused the Rokslide shift to smallest caliber and cartridges?

    I love how everyone thinks this is something new. Read the book about Frank Glaser's career. I don't recall the title. He discusses the preference for a 220 swift with 50 something grain bullets for killing everything except big bears. For those he liked 140-160 grain bullets in 30/06. He...

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