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    The older I get, the more I……

    ...more I have Clint Eastwood facial expressions
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    Show your Tikka ten round groups

    I see similar results w PMC 55gr FMJ. My position is often a realistic training semi-crappy fore end on backpack, rear on whatever I have, say a scrunched up hoody. I have shot from a better position and get tighter groups, but am glad to see your results w the PMC.
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    Considering downsizing to 6 cm from 7 PRC

    People think "desert", "arid" and imagine that perfect bipod shot.
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    New hunting rifle, .233 trainer, or upgrade current .308?

    That .223 barrel life is a factor.
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    I felt the bullet(s) did their job. I shot the 2nd shot quickly. In context of this this thread, the big, uncontrollable variable is individual animal position, temperment?, etc...Some of you guys harvest more in one or two seasons than I have since I got back into this since 2008, rifle and...
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    Barrel Lubrication During Storage?

    Arizona here too. Very light coat of oil, esp on blued steel. The action of running a cleaning rod calms me.
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Hardest to kill deer for me: 30-30, probably 150 grain Fusions, iirc, moving shot at @20 yards, very small coues buck trotting along with a group. I can still see the damage on first shot, lower shoulder, and second shot into upper boiler plate still did not "lights out" completely that deer...
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    Lever Action anyone?

    35Whelen, I wondered about that, seriously. As for the dynamic nature of some of these threads, I am retiring from middle school teaching, off and on over the years. The spirited nature of some of the Rokslide conversations only is matched by debates on bow tip widths or fletching size in the...
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    Lever Action anyone?

    After reading the thread "is it all leopolds", part of me is tempted to just get a lever gun, iron sight-hunt close, or put a slug into the dove and quail armament and be done with it.
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    Is it all Leopolds

    I sold my leopold to a man who knew they were not the best. My integrity survives. He wanted to place it on a M70, for a classical-look build. I took a buck with it previously, pretty much where I aimed if recalling correctly. I wanted to get a more robust system for backpack hunts.
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    Broadheads at distance, velocity lost.

    I find this useful. Though I am in the Primitive Bow Camp, and with no chronograph, I can extrapolate your data to see that my 44# bow might be a bit slow at 25 yards.
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    three day trip- under 30 lbs with food and water :)

    Good thread. My data point is as follows: three nights helping a friend on limited opportunity elk tag....not counting the spare rifle I brought in case Murphy showed up, 35.6# going in, 27 out. Includes heavy binos and 50 rifle rounds. Temps were 20-25 degrees, and I left tent in car. Friend...
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    Determine max effective engagement range

    The .223 in wind seems reasonable based on my experience, and my present skill. Agreed, good post.
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    Size Perspective: Coues Whitetail Deer

    Very easy to screw up those close encounters.
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    Importance, or not, of 3D deer target

    very important towards season.
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    Size Perspective: Coues Whitetail Deer

    Way too many times, I pass on a shot, only to pace it off later at 17, 22, yards. Coues are not big mammals. I place an arrow with 5 inch fletch next to a dead, decomposed deer. Rib cage was 5 inches, spine to rib's end.
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Me. Coues deer with a 3006, 100yards, 168 grain Win or Rem, I forget. Left a couple tiny specks on a boulder. Could not believe it as I had the Bang-flop prior year with same rifle. Found the no-blood deer 40yards away, dead. Good exit hole, on that quartering to shot. He lay dead right where I...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Pictures would be nice, but I appreciate the whole idea of evidence-based discussion (I have read the entire .223 thread, and it changed my attitude towards practice, even with bow and bird guns) . My gut feeling is that if this thread evolves, we might underscore even more bullet choice...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Science
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    I thought I needed a new “big game” hunting rifle

    that is a coues whitetail rig right there

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