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    .223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

    Yeah there’s a few of these. Though TBF it’s more calls to ban hunting generally or people arguing about whether green tipped .223 ammunition even exists
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    .223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

    Did any of you shoot a bull elk in the ass with a 77 TMK a few months ago and fail to recover it? Someone on tw*tter found a crippled elk with a little green plastic tip in what used to be its hip. Rokslide actually mentioned in the comments as being at fault.
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    Suppressor wait times getting faster

    I couldn’t believe it, but I got mine in about 5 weeks all in. I got caught with my pants down and my rifles still out having muzzles threaded.
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    Tikka vertical grip

    I bought mine on Beretta's website. There aren't many colors left, but they are currently about half the price of what you'll find on Amazon. EuroOptic had some too when I last checked.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Thanks everyone for the input. I just got back home with a stainless SL in 6.5 CM and put my vertical grip on it. I’ll be looking for a used Nightforce or trying to get in line for an SWFA like half the people on here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    First and Last Rifle - New Hunter

    Do you happen to know how accommodating they are, i.e. where you’ll start bumping into the lands with any of the hunting (match) bullets that are popular on here? I’d like to know if there’s one that can be loaded really long, like > 3.1”, without jamming. *Edit - my understanding from...
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    6mm prc

    If I end up just buying a 6.5 manbun instead and you just can’t stand the 570…well I’ll see if I’m taking a road trip past you anytime soon. I think I have about 11 pounds of h1000 😑
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    WTT Tikka standard bolt for magnum

    If you're still looking, I have a RH stainless magnum bolt in my 300WM, but I've but I've put some range time on it since I got it at the beginning of the year.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    New dies aren’t free either, and I have them plus some brass for 6.5 CM. The slower powders I have would sit collecting dust, but if I can burn out the 6.5 barrel and replace it with a 6mm or .22 down the road…
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    A century of consequences of Hague Convention-al thinking: “Woah 5.56? Son, that’s marginal on 130lb Somalis” *orangehatman.jpg*
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    That was the idea. Big, heavy bullets as fast as I could “tolerate” to smack horse-sized deer far away. I believed the people saying guns with 35 ft-lb recoil could be shot as accurately as anything else if you didn’t “develop a flinch”, and 7mm bores were already borderline unethical (keep it...
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    6mm prc

    I'm eyeing this as I ponder what to do with my "long action" tikka and magnum powder. Practically identical wind drift to a 208 ELD-M @ 2900 FPS with less than half the recoil sounds pretty OK. Should the smaller case capacity vs. the SAUM and UM be enough to push the ideal powder burn rate band...
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    WTT Wtt tikka bolts. Standard for magnum

    I do have a magnum RH bolt that I’d probably swap for a standard, but I need to go read over the rules again to make sure I’m not breaking etiquette.
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    WTT Wtt tikka bolts. Standard for magnum

    Oh dang, thanks. Am I allowed to post here already?
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    This is accurate. I put a limbsaver pad on mine, and the visible damage to my shoulder went away. It’s probably still not great for my arthritis.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    I grazed the bolt handle while I had a round chambered up in a tree. Bolt handle popped the rest of the way up and slid back in the action. The bolt stop said “not my problem”, so I had to climb down and go dig around in the snow to find the bolt and live round. *Edit: also, if there’s any...
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    That is very generous of you. I’m about 20 minutes outside Ph*ladelphia. I visit relatives in Pittsburgh and Tioga county intermittently. I’d PM, but I’m such a FNG that I don’t think I can do that yet. I went out and bought a few boxes of TMKs as soon as I saw what they were doing to elk.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    The 2-10x36 Credo (I think that one was drop tested? Need to check) and UM tikka rings have been on my list for a while. I managed to break something internal on my first Vortex just with recoil, no bumps. Nothing has literally rattled loose on the replacement yet, but that was disconcerting.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    Until fairly recently, yes. I got the 6.5 Ruger in an attempt to split the training load and reduce component expenditure. I don’t think I’ll take it in the field again after my experiences this season.
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    Optimal path for boomer tikka

    I’m pretty good about getting to the range and the farm for trigger time. I have some hesitation about the transfer of skills from my default 223 trainer since it’s a gas gun. Maybe put a dummy bolt handle on it like one of those fake steering wheels for toddlers?

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