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  1. J

    308 bullets for black bear

    Cleaning your rifle is also less of an issue than we are taught. If your 10 round groups look similar, providing you aren't shooting 2moa donuts around point of aim I'd pick whatever expands well at the velocity and range you need and get stuck in.
    • Jt89
    • Post #41
    • Forum: Bear
  2. J

    308 bullets for black bear

    Probably. What I should have said was: It's a well established understanding on this forum and elsewhere that a group size of 3, 4, 5 is not really indicative of accuracy. Groups of 10 begin to show exactly how accurate a load is, groups of 20-30 are currently accepted as best practice. The 3...
    • Jt89
    • Post #38
    • Forum: Bear
  3. J

    Cartridge consideration

    There's no such thing as a free lunch, staying true short action puts the brakes on loading long projectiles. 6.5 PRC isn't quite a true short action, COAL is 2.995" and true SAAMI spec short action dimensions are 2.8" May as well accept it, go with a tikka action. My pick would be 7mm-Latté...
  4. J

    308 bullets for black bear

    Shoot bigger groups. You'll get roasted on here for group size smaller than 10...
    • Jt89
    • Post #31
    • Forum: Bear
  5. J

    Sleep pads

    I am well aware that for a lot of you guys who hunt in areas with bears and other predators etc this is probably not a wise move - but my ultralight fix for a crinkly noisy sleeping pad is to take two foam earplugs and jam them right in until I feel them tickling my brain. Also works great for...
  6. J

    If you never shot over 600 yards?

    Ehhh.... What can I say man, deep inside every .308 owner is a guy who knows he should have bought a 6.5Creed or a .223, but is probably too tight-fisted to buy another rifle.
  7. J

    Let's See Your Semi-Custom Tikka Builds

    My barely customised T3X aspire .308. essentially just a threaded factory superlite with the varmint cheekrest. Cut the barrel from 22" to 18.5", rustoleum matt black on the barrel. Hopefully soon I'll be able to afford a cerakote job... DPT centrefire overbarrel suppressor, vertical pistol...
  8. J

    If you never shot over 600 yards?

    It sure does haha there's a lot of jokes on the range about .308 shooters, usually from the Creedmoor guys 😁
  9. J

    If you never shot over 600 yards?

    The main firing line is on the valley floor of a steep... How do you Americans call it? Drainage. We call it a gully or a gut. I believe in this shot I was lining up on a 12" plate at 600 yards, can't remember. Anyway, targets beyond 60 yards begin to incline and go all the way to 800. Follow...
  10. J

    If you never shot over 600 yards?

    A .308 tikka with a barrel length of 18" or less does (ballistic wise) just fine to 600. The shooter (me) could do with another few thousand rounds of practice at building positions quickly and reading wind.
  11. J

    Which Bullets to use? ELD-m "Murder bullets" for everything?

    Good God Almighty I struggle with the endless banter back and forth about the relevance of a particular calibre or headstamp killing a 4 foot wide giraffe. The actual number of members of this forum who can and or will go and shoot a giraffe to see exactly what it takes for one to die must be so...
  12. J

    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    Mark and Sam are exactly who I'm thinking of with regard to saying it's not a thing. The question of transonic shooting is purely academic, I don't shoot that far and probably never will but I'm still curious to hear what he has to say. Mixing brass is an unrelated question but more aplicable...
  13. J

    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    Curious to hear Forms perspective on projectile stability when transonic. I understand that historically our fathers and grandfathers made a big deal out of how bullets lose all sense of direction when travelling through the transonic zone 😂 I've seen one or two you tubers who claim it isn't a...
  14. J

    A little lost… career change?

    It was a long hard road, with lots of drowning in the deep end but after 17 years on the tools as a Heavy Diesel tech wrenching on Caterpillar machines, I can say this about my work and a career that I have often hated: I am exceptionally good at what I do, my reputation with customers and...
  15. J

    A little lost… career change?

    This is very sage advice - HOWEVER at 35 years old and having gone through the "I hate my job/I'm not fulfilled in my job/Am I wasting my life away when I could be doing something more meaningful" stages of my working life, I have this opinion to add. This is only my opinion in my experience so...
  16. J

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

    I haven't used them based on research done here and elsewhere. I was looking at information on the 155's in particular (it may be different for a 108gr 6.5) but my understanding is that projectile expansion and upset is less than expected in most cases. Despite the large hollow cavity behind the...
  17. J

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

    I definitely want to see some ELD-VT necropsy photos. To my mind they're everything a Lapua Scenar/Berger with the large cavity behind the open tip *should* be were it not for their tougher jackets.
  18. J

    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    Neither of those work bonding a rail or have been said to do so. Loctite green stuff was mentioned for under pic rails, I added my knowledge on the subject matter of said goo and it's intended use (plus other options as an aside for those interested, with anecdotal evidence). I didn't say that...
  19. J

    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    Bearing retainer. It's commonly used for assembling bearings and seals into housings when the clearance is tight enough that you would use a driving tool to get them in. It would work very similarly to loctite 430/480. Another one from the engineering and mechanical world that sets rockhard and...
  20. J

    Making Sheep Hunting Affordable

    Can't beat it eh. Not exactly the Instagram trophy of a lifetime these fellas want haha

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