This was in November when my Fiancee and I were hunting straight west of Choteau...
I stopped my truck, turned it off, put it in neutral and the wind blew me 22mph!
both of these were from the same day. In the 2nd video she was trying to tell me to turn the truck into the wind so she could get back in since she couldnt open the door. I dont know what she was doin cracking the door and sticking her hand in like that. I thought the whole time she was just tryin to be funny but she couldnt get back in. We ended up having to turn around and coudlnt go any further up the road because rocks were being blown into the wind shield. It was 80-90mph sustained and 135 mph gust that day. Confirmed from a weather station about 5 miles away.
Proverbs 12:27 The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
You guys act like yer the only ones with wind....The only thing between you and me to break it, is a barb-wire fence and a tree up on the North Platte.......
and not much between you and the Texas panhandle but a few more fences. of course, the wind has warmed up a little by the time it gets down there.
"a little" being the operative words.
I've been on some hellaciously cold and windy pheasant hunts up there.
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that lightening ain't distributed right." - Mark Twain
We had gusts of 65 at the house here, but we are right above a cutbank. How many places can say they have had a train derailment caused by severe wind? Browning has had several I believe.
once driving across No Dakota, I filled up in Bismarck and went out to Beach ND..going west bound my 84 Volvo got about 17 to 18 Mpg...doing 55 mph...
two day later, going east bound topped off in Dickinson.. and then again in Bismarck..got 30 mpg doing 55 mph heading east bound....
in Dickinson at the truck stop some trucker was complaining about getting 1 mpg from Bismarck... a local guy told him they can't use a wind sock at the local airport, as they don't hold up... so they used a logging chain instead...
I know growing up back east, no one there can relate to what wind is until they hit the northern US or the Canadian Prairies.. talk about an education...
really want some 'fun' try driving a VW camper, west bound when the wind gets blowing in No Dakota, Montana, Alberta, Saskatchewan...flying a kite is easier...
heading west bound right around Wibaux once in my 4 Runner, the wind was blowing hard enough, it actually ripped the factory passenger side mirror right off my darn truck...heard a rattle, looked over in time to watch the mirror just tear off and it was gone...
have even had to slow down from the speed limit just to keep a light vehicle ( Toyota 4 Runner, ) on the road...
the wind you guys get over that way can be nuts!
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
The 40's are definitely better in the wind, but in anything less than a 10 mph wind the 32-33's do some sprayin'. And bullets lighter than 32 will do some good stuff as well. The 26-grain Barnes VG's at 4300+ are pretty effective, too....
Playing with a batch of 204 bullets, the most accurate one out of the Ruger barrel I have, was the 24 gr NTX by Hornady...especially fueled by AR Comp....
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
I've owned three, a Savage, a Ruger 77 Mark II, and a Remington VTR. The Savage and Ruger were both sporter-weights. The Savage was more particular about loads than the Ruger, but groups 5 shots under an inch with the right ones. The Ruger shot just about every load into an inch or so, and favored handloads into 1/2" or a little more.
The VTR shoots every really well, despite the weird triangular barrel. It will put 10 shots (not 5) into around .7 inch at 100 yards, shooting as rapidly as I can aim and fire accurately.
I've also heard several favorable reports from friends.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
I have a Thompson Venture Bolt in 204 Ruger that I bought last year. It is bug eye accurate, all bullets touching each other at 100 yds. It has the 1/10 inch twist, and a really nice handling rifle.
I find that reloads with H-335 at 24 gr in hornady brass, with a Nosler 40 gr ballistic tip varmint bullet hits in the same place as Hornady's factory ammo of 32 or 40 grain vmaxs, and the 45 gr soft point. I've never had a rifle before where so many loads all hit at basically the same place at 100 yards.
I love the 204 for eliminating ground squirrels and it is a dandy flat shooting son of a gun. I can't believe I held off as long as I did on this round.
