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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Great job. Hope you can provide some details as well as photos of the wound channels.
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    Best path forward

    I sold my 300 mag in January. There was nothing that I really needed that horsepower to kill and it just wasn’t that fun to shoot. I’d suggest selling it. Buy a can or better optics. Much better investment that you get more dividends from.
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    Tikka/peak 44

    I would not have an issue with a gap like that. I opened the barrel channel on my Stocky’s so I had a place to store dead cats.
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    A person who would take either of these as a first shot is someone who is thinking about horns and not meat. For me, every animal is a meat animal, antlers or not. I won’t intentionally gut shoot or ass shoot an animal because I respect it and plan for myself and my family to eat it. I...
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    Whippersnapper, hell. I’m as old as that catfish says he is.
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    You are welcome to do what you choose. But I personally would not suggest to my kids or new hunters, in person or online, that it is ethical to justify taking a bad shot on an animal because it has big antlers. I would also not suggest that it is possible to overcome that bad shot opportunity...
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    Your choices are your own. Use whatever gun you want. People are responding to your posts to clarify that the information you are presenting as common knowledge does not survive actual testing. You are largely responding to that with gaslighting.
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    Looking for Tikka stock with long/tall grip surface.

    The Stocky’s VG hunter is 2 7/8”. Have you considered adding some material to the grip? I used Free Form Air epoxy putty to reshape the grip on mine. It’s amazingly tough stuff and didn’t add significant weight to the stock...
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    This thread got so much better when we started talking about quiche.
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    Projectile Choice: Lighter/Faster or Heavier/Slower

    For the last couple of years, I’ve been focusing on smaller calibers for less recoil but using fragmenting, heavy for caliber, high BC bullets for less wind drift and larger wound channels. If I were required to use non-lead, I would stick with that model and use the DRT compressed tungsten core...
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    RokStok

    Spring showers do seem to sprout a substantial crop of trolls and idiots on Rokslide.
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

    He is probably a preteen computer wiz living in his mom’s basement in a large metropolitan area who has never seen a real gun or hunted anything more than a bag of mini snickers on that the Easter bunny scattered around his house but is really enjoying messing with a bunch of old guys on the...
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    Masculinity and Caliber Choice

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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    Thats fair. We base our decisions off our own experience. My point was only that, if I were choosing a starting point today, it would not be an R700 or a clone. I’ve owned them. My first was in about 1988.
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    .223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

    People seems to like R700s enough to get defensive about them or to have had issues and choose not to use them. It’s not up to me to decide which group someone else is in.
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    Cut my barrel or re-barrel and sell the old one?

    Bmart sums it up in few words. I am a former nonlead person who used them for several years and doesn’t any longer. DRT bullets seem to be the best of the nonlead options at the moment, but I’ve gone more to the TMK and ELDM direction. If I had to use non-lead, I go with the DRT and keep my...
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    AR triggers

    Appreciate you sharing this info. I’m not going to run out and change mine because it frankly doesn’t get shot near as much as my bolt guns.
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    Lightweight Tikka t3x stock (peak 44, stockysstock, wildcat)

    The issue isn’t so much recoil reduction as much as it is direction. A low comb and butt relative to the bore results in more muzzle rise which means the comb is coming up into your cheek and you lose or sight picture. A higher comb/butt makes for a recoil impulse that comes more staring back...
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    AR triggers

    I have not. But my understanding is that you pay for the LaRue name. My RRA Varmint is really crisp and I breaks right at 3.5# with about 1/16” of take up on the first stage and another 1/16” of overtravel. The reset is nice and audible and tactile. I’ve seen them for as low as $80, which about...
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    AR triggers

    I’ve used the RRA varmint trigger for about 6 years and have had nothing but good results with it. It’s a non-cartridge option that doesn’t seem to get a lot of traction, likely due to its name. It’s a 2-stage mil-spec type trigger that has a nice crisp 3.5ish# break and it’s inexpensive (often...

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