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For a lot of folks hunting season is just around the corner. What are you useing this year? Rifle, scope, handloads, bullet, store bought ammo, velocity, game it will be used on...etc? Are you trying anything new? Revisiting anything old? Staying with the same tried and true?

Have fun and best wishes hunting this year


Trystan


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I really hope to use a 358 Winchester for the first time. It is almost finished, built off a Mauser 98 action. Depends on how long ahead of season it gets finished as to what I use. If I have enough time, I will try cast bullets. 230 grain mold from NOE, powdercoated, target velocity of 2100. If I have less time, probably use the 178 grain Hammer bullets under a load of TAC pushed pretty hard. Target velocity 2700.

If that gun does not get finished, it will be my faithful Ruger M77 MkII chambered in 260 Rem. utilizing handloads with 117 grain hammer bullets,4350 powder. I don't really plan on shooting factory ammo again!


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Binoculars, couple of flashlights, snacks, water,knife, TOILET PAPER, and pieces of felt-tacks to cover windows in stands so deer can’t see me. I also carry my ammo in my backpack.

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I used to carry a backpack. Then I graduated to a shoulder bag mainly to force myself to cut back on the junk I carry. Truth be told, most of it can be carried in the big pockets and game pouch of the vintage Woolrich coat I wear. Rifles are getting lighter each year too- Ruger 1A 6.5x55 will probably get the nod, with a few extra cartridges in my pocket. I was virtually outfitting myself for a 20 mile overnighter when all I needed was some stuff to make a day of mooching around in the deer woods a little more enjoyable.


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I wear a medium overnighter size backpack. Typically I carry: one liter of water, less if it is cold out. Lunch and snacks, few select first aid items, knife and sharpener, headlamp and a small flashlight, 30’ of cord, lighters, a spare base and/or outer layer, meat bags, gps, phone, pistol, bear mace.


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7 mag Sendero shooting the 162 ELDX. 68.0 grains H1000 & CCI 250s for 2860 fps. Slow for the cartridge, but bugholes. Scope is a 10x SWFA. Glasses are 8.5x43 Brunton Epoch. 15-45x65 Athlon Ares spotter which is new for me and is a bargain. Kilo 2200 RF. Chasing any antlered Mule or WT deer.

Backup rifle is a 1-8" twist 243 in a mcm classic. 105 amaxs, swfa 3-9hd.

Edit to add that my Kilo 2000 died and Sig replaced it with a 2200. So far its excellent. First one must've been faulty because it wasn't good from the get go.

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Originally Posted by Trystan
For a lot of folks hunting season is just around the corner. What are you useing this year? Rifle, scope, handloads, bullet, store bought ammo, velocity, game it will be used on...etc? Are you trying anything new? Revisiting anything old? Staying with the same tried and true?

Have fun and best wishes hunting this year


Trystan

Hunting 2 new animals this year so changes needed to be made. Hunting coues for the first time which is going to require shooting to 700 yards or thereabouts. The 270 gets the nod but with RL26 topped with 145gr ELDX. Opticswise a 3-15 SWFA instead of the old Leupold 3-9 and Swaro 15x binocular. Also hunting pronghorn for the first time but at 3-400 yards, the coues set up should make that a chip shot.


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Just whitetails.
Blackwidow recurve (GT400 w Cutthroat 125s), Rem 760 in .35 rem, Leupold 4X compact (factory Hornady 200gr), Steyr Prohunter in .30-06, Redfield Rev 3-9x50 (Fed Fusion 150s)
Nothing fancy, but cool chit IMHO.
Might upgrade scope on Steyr next yr.

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Looking for small pack for binos and a few things.
Bad neck/back...........a bigger pack might cripple me pretty quick.

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I've got two new pieces from my dead gun editor buddy, Bob.

One is a Ruger Model 44 Carbine:
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The ammo is homebrew 240 grain Hornady XTP over H110.

The other is a SXS 12 GA Stoeger with rifle sights welded on.

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Bob hunted whitetails in Ohio, so this going to be an old school Buckeye sort of year even though I'm hunting in Kentucky. I've got plenty of cedar thickets to haunt. I just bought 15 rounds of Remmie Sluggers.


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Will hopefully be collecting more field data on the Lehigh bullets. Mostly the 85 grain 25-06 at 3,600 fps with R16. Might pop a doe or two with the 17 Rem and 20 grain Lehigh and if I get the urge maybe a Javelina or two with this one. Still working on loads for the 17.


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I really don’t know. When we mov d to South Carolina this summer I had to, at least temporarily, downsize. My retriever, most of my long guns and all my reloading stuff went to my sons out in Missouri. I brought what I figured would be enough rifles and shotguns to cover any opportunity that might come along. If I’m fortunate enough to find some hunting opportunities it will probably be with factory ammo.


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