Tipsy Tuesday #44 Steve Evans Journey with Custom Rifles

[realunlucky]

Tipsy Tuesday#44 Steve Evans and his journey to build the perfect custom rifle. While Steve has only been into big game hunting for a handful of years, he has built multiple high end custom rifles. He shares experiences along the journey of what to look for in a smith, parts and calibers. Matt Cashell then reviews the Vortex Razor UHD 32mm. Sam then shifts the talk toward the other Rokslide.com gear reviews and recaps the latest Western news.

Huntnful review thread- https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/custom-rifle-journey-review-pic-heavy.344621/


Listen to the Episode here - https://www.rokslide.com/tt44-steve-evans-journey-with-custom-rifles/

 

[Quandary]

Thought the commentary of the show host on the disaster of hunting Elk with a small caliber was interesting. One more comment, having a rifle built for you by a smith is not "building a rifle". While very interesting to hear about all the rifles the guest had built by someone else it is not building a rifle. Finding the parts, buying the parts, putting the parts together is building a rifle.

 

[realunlucky]

Thought the commentary of the show host on the disaster of hunting Elk with a small caliber was interesting. One more comment, having a rifle built for you by a smith is not "building a rifle". While very interesting to hear about all the rifles the guest had built by someone else it is not building a rifle. Finding the parts, buying the parts, putting the parts together is building a rifle.

Thanks for the listening and offering feedback.

To be fair I do think it was overconfidence by the shooter with the wind call and BC of the bullet didn't offer that margin of error at that distance, more than anything to do with caliber. Little doubt others could have successfully made the shot.




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[Team4LongGun]

Thought the commentary of the show host on the disaster of hunting Elk with a small caliber was interesting. One more comment, having a rifle built for you by a smith is not "building a rifle". While very interesting to hear about all the rifles the guest had built by someone else it is not building a rifle. Finding the parts, buying the parts, putting the parts together is building a rifle.

Dude-relax. It’s just as much a figure of speech as it is a term/phrase.

 

[Team4LongGun]

Great stuff Sam, excellent topic. I followed along his journey on the thread as I have several custom/semi customs and enjoy the process.

I’m in the process of “building” a 22ARC currently and the topic was timely. Happy New Year

 

[Quandary]

Thanks for the listening and offering feedback.

To be fair I do think it was overconfidence by the shooter with the wind call and BC of the bullet didn't offer that margin of error at that distance, more than anything to do with caliber. Little doubt others could have successfully made the shot.




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That is what was so interesting, pointing out that while put in the right spot small bullets kill just fine but the margin for error is small.