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I've learned that Turner 1903's and Brownells Latigo slings are relics from the stone age, and completely worthless.
You either need the 3 Oz Uncle Mikes nylon "sling"
Or a fancy padded one, that looks like something your Old Lady would like to see in her europeon handbag collection...
Furthermore, only somebody shooting a "Match" rifle would need to use a real sling, as they apparently have NO use in real game fields (shooting off backpacks is where its at)
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Furthermore, only somebody shooting a "Match" rifle would need to use a real sling, as they apparently have NO use in real game fields (shooting off backpacks is where its at)
I guess the problem is, few know how to rig and use a Model of 1907 type sling anymore. They work well, and I have them and use them. But a backpack taint bad, neither.
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Standard cup-and-core bullets (especially the round-nosed versions) won't kill anything, despite the fact the Benoits have killed roughly half a zillion trophy bucks over the last five or six decades with Remington Core-Lokts.
Keep your gun-hand ready and your eyes peeled.
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A TSX that failed didn't actually fail...
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The 243 is the only gun for real elk hunters. Only 15 yd shots are acceptable. Anyone that uses anything larger to get longer range shots, is not a real hunter.
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It's a whole lot easier being rude to people who you are not right in front of and won't deck you on the spot for what you are saying.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between someone being rude and someone who is just having fun kidding around with you by just reading what they typed.
It's worth putting up with a few morons to be around a bunch of good folks.....................................DJ
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It's a whole lot easier being rude to people who you are not right in front of and won't deck you on the spot for what you are saying.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between someone being rude and someone who is just having fun kidding around with you by just reading what they typed.
It's worth putting up with a few morons to be around a bunch of good folks.....................................DJ Yup. And loud obnoxious people that are always looking for a fight seem to be popular. I learnt it here alright, but can't like it much.
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The new BUTT-OUT II TOOL has a stop on the handle to keep your hand from sliding... Best one on here so far! TFF
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blue tape works.... money spent on decent binoculars is money well spent... cup & core bullets at standard velocities works, & works well.... savage rifles are good... savage rifles are ugly....(I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder) never trust a man who only owns one rifle...he obviously has his priorities all screwed up this place gets really goofy after the big game seasons are mostly wrapped up....
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Kimber Montana's in 308 is only 84M they can make right Kimber Montana's in .223 is the best 84M .257 Roberts is better than a .243 winchester 30-06 is good for everything 30-06 is overkill for everything .270 Winchester is better than the 30-06 .270 Winchester will not work for mule deer or Texas deer .223 anything is a great deer cartridge .223 anything sucks for deer Kimber rifles suck Kimber rifles are great Leica is hands down the best binocular Zeiss is hands down the best binocular Nosler partitions suck Nosler partitions are the best Barnes TSX suck Barnes TSX are the best Leupold has gone to hxll in a hand basket Leupold is the best rifle scope for the money on the market did I forget anything?
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The desire to regularly shoot magnum cartridges is inversely proportional to one's age.
If a scope mfgr has scopes in 1.5-4x, 1.5-5x, 1.75-6x, and 2.5-8x, they still have a gaping hole in their low-power product line.
It's crucial for a scope mfgr to have at least 4 models of the exact same scope, tweaked minimally so as to be priced at 4 separate price points.
High velocity kills. Big & slow kills. More big game is shot at > 400 yards than < 100 yards. Wood stocks swell & lose POI. Wood stocks don't swell, nor lose POI. Fixed power scopes don't work.
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A 375 H&H is a sensible choice for a 100 pound African impala on a game farm. A 223 is more than enough for a 100 pound deer.
A leupold 6 x 42 is the best scope. Period. A leupold 6 x 36 is crap. Period.
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never trust a man who only owns one rifle...he obviously has his priorities all screwed up
I like this one.......................DJ
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There are no cougars in Oklahoma Cougars are over running the State of Oklahoma
A 223 is fine for whitetail A 243 is barely adequate for pronghorn
TSX bullets kill like a lighting bolt Most TSX bullets are catastrophic failures
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If you take a liberal from Oregon who doesn't know when to quit and mix him with a self-absorbed a-hole from Alaska who thinks he knows ten times as much as he actually does, you get pages and pages of worthless blather.
Oh yeah, then morons like me are too dumb not to rubberneck the trainwreck of the aforementioned pages of blather.
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I learned not to cope - if your equipment (rifle, cartridge, bullet, optics / sights) is not perfect for the instance, you do not have a shot.
There is no difference between a .260 Rem. and a .30-06. There is, however, a difference between a .7mm-08 and a .308
If you like C&C you have to hate premiums with a passion, especially monometals.
If you prefer monometals, you wonder how anything ever got killed before their time and are vocal about it.
Only the other type of bullets fail - even if recovered from a dead animal.
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No one can hit running game effectively,...cause I can't....
If your rifle does not shoot 1/4" groups,it cannot be used to shoot through holes in brush....
If your rifle is zeroed 3" high at 100 yards,you cannot shoot through holes in brush.....you will miss at 50 yards....
If you cannot hold 1/2 MOA off hand,you cannot shoot through holes in brush.....
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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You need turrets to shoot through holes in brush...
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A fixed 6x is way better than a 2.5-8x despite the fact that you can put the variable on 6x. The variable will break at some point, but the fixed 6x will last forever.
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