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All of them! 30-06 = VO-5
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Many men think women can't make up their minds, but how many times have you read "I've decided to go in a different direction" as the reason for selling either a relatively new custom rifle, or the parts for a planned custom rifle in the Campfire Classfieds? That's because a lot of them don't know what they want to build the rifle for in the first place.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Many men think women can't make up their minds, but how many times have you read "I've decided to go in a different direction" as the reason for selling either a relatively new custom rifle, or the parts for a planned custom rifle in the Campfire Classfieds? That's because a lot of them don't know what they want to build the rifle for in the first place. Too quick to throw their money down on something they don't have a clue about.  . My money is too hard earned to be doing that chit...
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Many men think women can't make up their minds, but how many times have you read "I've decided to go in a different direction" as the reason for selling either a relatively new custom rifle, or the parts for a planned custom rifle in the Campfire Classfieds? That's because a lot of them don't know what they want to build the rifle for in the first place. So should my latest 338 WM have a 22" or 24" barrel?  All kidding aside, I don't understand the remorse or "new direction" when they haven't tried it in the first place. I get sellers remorse.
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"......and maybe one day an elk"
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I suspect many people also are influenced by the latest fad they read in magazines or nowadays hear about from the self appointed cool clique on internet forums - whether it be the coolest, latest chambering, scope, knife or rectumectomy device...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Jim,
It doesn't even have to be an Internet forum. Word of mouth still works.
Recently I got a call from a barrelmaker and gunsmith, asking if I knew a guy we'll call Bub. It seems Bub used to live in the gunsmith's town in another state, and the gunsmith built him a .338 Lapua. Bub then moved to my part of Montana, and all of a sudden the gunsmith started getting phone calls from this part of Montana about getting one of his "magic" .338 Lapua barrels that get 3200 fps with 250-grain bullets. The gunsmith kept telling them that he did not make magic .338 barrels, that
So I asked around and yes, Bub had become the long-range hunting expert in my local rod and gun club, which has a 1000-yard range. I do one of the members, who owns the record for the smallest 1000-yard benchrest groups shot in competition, but hadn't yet met Bub, who had indeed been bragging about the magic barrel on his .338 Lapua. But I also out that the action on his .338 Lapua had disintegrated a week or so before, while he was shooting at the range with several other people.
All of a sudden the calls to the barrelmaker/gunsmith for magic .338 barrels ceased, but I wonder how many of the other shooters actually believed Bub's BS?
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Somewhere there's guys with the same arguments and the same cast of characters whining about computers....
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The 22 Creed is going to make all others obsolete.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Jim,
It doesn't even have to be an Internet forum. Word of mouth still works.
Recently I got a call from a barrelmaker and gunsmith, asking if I knew a guy we'll call Bub. It seems Bub used to live in the gunsmith's town in another state, and the gunsmith built him a .338 Lapua. Bub then moved to my part of Montana, and all of a sudden the gunsmith started getting phone calls from this part of Montana about getting one of his "magic" .338 Lapua barrels that get 3200 fps with 250-grain bullets. The gunsmith kept telling them that he did not make magic .338 barrels, that
So I asked around and yes, Bub had become the long-range hunting expert in my local rod and gun club, which has a 1000-yard range. I do one of the members, who owns the record for the smallest 1000-yard benchrest groups shot in competition, but hadn't yet met Bub, who had indeed been bragging about the magic barrel on his .338 Lapua. But I also out that the action on his .338 Lapua had disintegrated a week or so before, while he was shooting at the range with several other people.
All of a sudden the calls to the barrelmaker/gunsmith for magic .338 barrels ceased, but I wonder how many of the other shooters actually believed Bub's BS? But see, the barrel was magical it was the action the disintegrated. The only thing missing is a magical action and magical brass.
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Somewhere there's guys with the same arguments and the same cast of characters whining about computers.... And cars and motorcycles and boats and fishing rods and golf clubs and chain saws and anything else grown boys play with. Gotta love human nature.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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It is always great to chat about these things and we all have our opinions.My opinion is to to a lesser recoiling rifle and a suitable bullet for nearly everything.Bullets these days can be quite amazing...the little 7/08 is a giant killer with them.Cheers
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I wonder how many of the other shooters actually believed Bub's BS? My experience is that people have to have what the winner of the match has. In lever action silhouette it was a 38-55 Marlin. In pistol silhouette it was a xp-100 in a 7mm MSHA (rear grip). If the winner said nothing but Rem 9 primers work, next month most showed up with Remington 9 primers. If you lost the match it was do to under performing equipment.
I prefer classic.
Semper Fi
I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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I think a .375 H&H, a .264 Win Mag, and a 220 swift. Mostly because you can get them in a pre 64 model 70. If those are all the guns I could own.
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You forgot one!
.375 H&H
.30-06
.270 (gay jokes notwithstanding)
.22-250 A guy with a good a 30-06 pretty well has the bases covered. If he is really lazy then a good 180gr load will handle about anything from moose to deer or antelope.
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