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yep. cold barrel POI is especially important. after a couple of cold barrel shots i usually throw half a dozen or so down range just for the fun of it, depending on ammo availability. i'm pretty well set for almost everything anymore. it used to be a tradition. here in PA the rifle season was always the monday after thanksgiving so friday, saturday, sunday were sight-in days at camp. lot of good memories from my younger days shooting with the old guys and bs'ing. There has been a lot lost, in gaining a few extra hunting days. But a lot has already been lost. The big buck chase has taken the relaxed enjoyment out of it. To be replaced by a dick measuring, job, approach to hunting. Sure w nt be moving through the woods today, bump into a neighbor or friend, and work up an off the cuff plan. "I'm going down that ridge, you wanna work the other side?" Today, ain't nobody hunting someone else's place. And they dam sure aren't gonna risk jumping a deer for someone else to get. Kinda reflects our society in general.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Confirming zero is easy, cheap and a salute to general murphy. Finding stuff to kill is fun but a lot of work and I know who to blame if I botch an opportunity mike r Daily during the season? How do you know it didn't shift from one day to the next? Shouldn't you confirm zero prior to each shot at game? Does confirming zero the day before mean it will be good the next day? The next week? The next 3 months? Why don't you take your ignorant, trolling, sockpuppet ass off to a thread of your own making? Dumbass. If someone doesn't agree lockstep with an inbred from Texas, you go to slinging, impressive. I'm sure your boyfriends are as equally impressed.
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I have one rifle that I've killed 9 deer with in the past 8 years. It was sighted in prior to killing the 1st deer, it has only been fired in anger since then.
I killed one last year with a rifle that hasn't seen paper since 2006. This stuff isn't complicated ? ? ? ? ? ? Daily during the season? How do you know it didn't shift from one day to the next? Shouldn't you confirm zero prior to each shot at game? Does confirming zero the day before mean it will be good the next day? The next week? The next 3 months?
L S H -- Which Is IT ?I see you are as sharp as the other school girls here.
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The group think around this place is a sad state of affairs and living proof of why this nation is so screwed. I'd be willing to bet there isn't a single, original idea out of you group of girls.
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If someone doesn't agree lockstep with an inbred from Texas, you go to slinging, impressive. I'm sure your boyfriends are as equally impressed.
Elksucker! Long time, no see! Not long enough though....
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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I shoot my guns all year, so usually no last minute zero check. When I fly to a hunt destination, I absolutely do.
My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here. My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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Yes, I check the zero on the rifle. Then I go rabbit hunting as it is good practice.
Life Member SCI Life Member DSC Member New Mexico Shooting Sports Association
Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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I checked both of mine a couple of days ago that I am hunting with. Season opens Saturday. They were both good.
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Every ethical hunter should check their zero. I owe it to the animal to kill it clean. I feel the same way. Besides that, I'm always dinking around swapping scopes and working up new loads so mine are most always sighted in. I also keep a list on my gun safe so i know what load I'm sighted in with for each rifle and my muzzleloader.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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And they dam sure aren't gonna risk jumping a deer for someone else to get.
Kinda reflects our society in general.
I would love to have a hunting partner that would run ridges and canyons with me. We could absolutely murder blacktail deer. Problem is, I find someone with some potential, take em hunting, we make a plan, start down the ridge and they take a 90 degree turn after a cuppla hunnert yards and end up four miles from the damn truck. Every. Single. Time. Hunting with a partner is a lost damned art is all I can say.
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Gave this one all the respect he deserved. 6.5/300 Wby, haven’t fired it in 4 years!!! Haha. Junk leupold to boot. 1 shot 300 ish yards, dunno, haven’t used a rangefinder in years. 👍 have fun princesses’😂😂
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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If someone doesn't agree lockstep with an inbred from Texas, you go to slinging, impressive. I'm sure your boyfriends are as equally impressed.
Elksucker! Long time, no see! Not long enough though.... It doesn't look black enough to be your wife.
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Gave this one all the respect he deserved. 6.5/300 Wby, haven’t fired it in 4 years!!! Haha. Junk leupold to boot. 1 shot 300 ish yards, dunno, haven’t used a rangefinder in years. 👍 have fun princesses’😂😂 That is crazy, you need to check zero every 14 seconds, especially if you are using a Leupold. Just ask anyone that doesn't kill stuff.
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Yes, I always check zero before I take a rifle out in the field. I gots to know!
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis
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6.5/300 Wby and 300 yards?
Use enough dynamite there Butch?
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Naw. Used my 22 cm on the Wyoming goat, 1/2 the bullet, weighing in oz, the 6.5 ruined less meat, both are equally as dead, which is the outcome I wanted. Next time I’ll bring my 375 for ya. 👍
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Gave this one all the respect he deserved. 6.5/300 Wby, haven’t fired it in 4 years!!! Haha. Junk leupold to boot. 1 shot 300 ish yards, dunno, haven’t used a rangefinder in years. 👍 have fun princesses’😂😂 That is crazy, you need to check zero every 14 seconds, especially if you are using a Leupold. Just ask anyone that doesn't kill stuff. Ya love debunking the “campfire “ myths from the no killin crew. 😎👍
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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The 375 may be easier on the meat too.
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Ya, cause there literally TONS of meat on antelope ribs….
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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