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    Which would YOU choose and WHY?

    If you want a nice traditional rifle I’d get a model 70. In 700 foot print factory rifle I’d look at seekins, but they are a few hundred over your stated budget. You said you already have rifles…for $1600 or less you could have a very nice barrel in whatever chambering you want, buy a new stock...
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    CBTO measurement question

    OP, I never load Barnes close to the lands and don’t recommend you do either. They will build pressure much more quickly. First and only time I’ve popped primers was a Barnes too close to the lands that was within suggested charge weight. Barnes suggested COL’s have usually worked well for...
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    Do I Know Enough To Use A Chronograph?

    You don’t need one, but nice to have. I mostly use mine when initially starting a new load with a target muzzle velocity in mind to achieve down range velocities that I’m looking for. You can quickly run a solver and see if you are where you want to be with regard to velocity. I’ll shoot 10...
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    Men’s Mental Health Challenge

    Something I have thought about when times are rough is to put our current society in historical context. Remind myself how much harder things were just a couple generations ago. My grandad was born just in time for the Great Depression to define his childhood. Born in a one room sod cabin/hut...
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    New Rifle Build- Bullet and Caliber- Mono metal- Thoughts?

    The has to be one of the most over thought threads I’ve ever seen. Monos: 3000fps (or more) muzzle velocity, adequate twist, impact velocity of 2000-2200fps. Done. If you want heavy for caliber, shoot lead, or shoot a wildcat capable of some very fast muzzle velocities. If shooting sub...
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    WY - MD population

    Yeah I know. Probably should have. The only thing is I hunt deer in my home state so not as eager to hunt deer out of state unless it’s a good area. I’ve got all the bad hunting I need here in California.
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    WY - MD population

    In a similar boat. 7 points and not sure where to burn them. I should have hunted two “bad” units twice by now because the good ones aren’t that good anymore. I hunted elk in south central Wyoming in 2022, before the big winter and didn’t see many deer. Can’t imagine what 50% less would look...
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    Barrel Speeding Up

    I’ve always observed it happening gradually. Then again, I don’t have a chrono with me most of the time. With a new gun I’ll typically just try to get 40-50 rounds through it without much concern for speed…just really more of a break in. Any ammo I have on hand. Develop a load and chrono it...
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    28 Nosler and 30 Nosler LRX vs TTSX

    Lrx are fine at closer range. You might blow the petals off but that’s a positive in my opinion. Honestly, for what you are doing…350 ish yards…bc is almost irrelevant. I’d shoot the bullet that’s most accurate and gives you over 3000fps muzzle velocity. You can’t push a mono too fast, but...
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    Port Strike

    Employees request higher pay or they will, at the very worst, disrupt work, equals legal extortion in your words. So if an employer tells employees that if they don’t like working conditions they can quit and start over, that equals what? It’s the same thing. No one’s hands are clean. No...
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    Port Strike

    Nope. Most everyone I work with is conservative and thinks dei is absolute bs. Put more bluntly…most union guys have values that align most closely with republicans, but just wish republicans wouldn’t have such a boner for hating unions. The people running these companies have had, for the...
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    Port Strike

    Automate and eliminate the middle class. Then what? People that say “learn something new and do a different job,” understand that automation means less jobs, not different jobs. What’s wrong with people making a good living? I’m union and would agree that sometimes they overstep, but union...
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    Biologist questions

    Ask open ended questions versus yes/no questions. Demonstrate you have done some research and not looking for spoon fed answers. Have your questions prepared so that when they finish answering there isn’t an awkward period where you are trying to remember what you wanted to ask. The above goes...
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    6.5/06 and 6.5 PRC

    How you like that 6.5-06?
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    Fire

    Eh…the guys on the ground doing work are good, hardworking and horribly underpaid. The higher ups…not so much
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    Got it done in Wyoming

    That’s a nice one. Congrats!
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    Savage 111 7mm *Resources Wanted

    Really it comes down to action screw spacing and whether it has a bolt release at the top of the action or at the trigger guard. That info will let you figure out what stock options are available to you. Besides that they are pretty simple, easy to work on, and generally shoot pretty well...
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    NF SHV 4-14x50 vs Trijicon Credo HX 2.5-15x42

    The capped dials have not held me back in any meaningful way. Typically you spot an animal and if it’s dialing distance I’m unscrewing that cap with one hand while I’m getting into position. Really not a big deal. If you want live dangerously you can even hunt with it uncapped. If they made...
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    NF SHV 4-14x50 vs Trijicon Credo HX 2.5-15x42

    Why not the shv 3-10? Smaller, lighter, still dials just fine. I take mine out to 6-700 yards at the range regularly. SFP and MOA if you care but it’s great little scope.
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    How do you deal with poor harvest rate in the field?

    I have been hunting mostly OTC public in Ca. Some of the hardest (read: worst) hunting in the country. Success here is the best feeling ever, for me anyway. I’m more pleased to shoot a solid forked horn buck here than a monster out of state. Like you, I have two young kids at home and have...

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