Another vote for a used Winchester 1300 or sxp. I got a 20ga youth 1300 for my 13th Christmas and it’s still going 32 years and 2 sons later. I never owned another shotgun until I was in my mid twenties. A lot of 3” buckshot and 3” steel shot through that gun, never an issue of any kind.
I built a 6 dasher as my first rifle where I did all the work, profiling the blank, chambering, threading etc… I love it but haven’t killed anything with it yet. I’m getting 2850-2900 with 105 amax’s and 32.5 grains of varget or RL15. Shot a bunch of Speer 100 grn spbt and 100 grn hornady...
This was my youngest son’s first Boar. We were sitting on a food plot Friday evening waiting on one of several bucks to show when this boar showed up walking directly to the stand. After I verified it wasn’t one of the black bear cubs we’ve been seeing, I told him it was a big pig that he could...
In my opinion the closer to your other rifle the better, but anything is better than nothing, if you understand what I’m saying. Shooting with something that’s not exactly the same is better than not shooting at all so don’t get too tangled up in the details.
No finished pictures but this is a long action 700, stockys VG2, Ace number 3 contour 20”, trij tenmile 3-18 ffp in talley one peice bases, grayboe bottom metal, @8.25 pounds. So if I had tried to make anything light weight it would’ve been sub 8. 2800fps for the first box of factory 180 eldm if...
This is awesome, we have a shop that we can do our own projects in also. I’ve started chambering my own barrels and bought my own desktop cnc. We have Faro equipment too but I don’t have time to do everything I want to. It is good to work for a small business sometimes though.
I’ve shot a couple of 5 shot groups under 1” @ 100 yds with my 14” 30-30 contender and a 2x pistol scope. Just takes practice. I do think 300 is getting outside of realistic revolver performance, but that’s just my opinion.
For a whitetail pack I like the idea. I use a MR galligator and strap it to the tree, so I’d love a fleece one with tree straps. Also some smaller pockets on the outside close to the top would be good, range finder, phone, limb saw.