Recent content by Don Fischer

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    Should I buy a .338?

    Been there, done that. Got a 338 Wim Mag new in 1968. Was stationed in Lakeside Montana and close to Grizzly country. Figured I needed more than my 7mm mag. Well got a 338 mag and a box of ammo for it and stopped at the dump going home and tried it out. Three shots and the worst black and blue...
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    Inexpensive Camera Shots

    Two ways to go to Alaska in a car. The Alcan and the Cassiar. Go up one and down the other. You'd see tons of animals.
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    Sleeping in truck or tent

    Years ago I went elk hunting with a friend in the Swan Range in Montana. I pitched a lean-to and he wanted nothing to do with it, thought it would be to cold. So he slep in the truck. next morning he complained how cold he'd got over night and didn't know how I could sleep outside. I was a lot...
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    Dammit Trigger

    There is a down side to having light trigger's and not shooting a lot! My 6.5x06 is a 700 with the factory trigger adjusted to 3# pull. I'm pretty used to it but have had other people tell me they didn't pull the trigger and it just went off! One thing to have a light trigger another thing to...
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    Is A Sharps Enough Gun For Gophers?

    A sharps might be enough for gopher's but only if you carefully place the bullet just behind the shoulder! I guy can't be to careful. Oh, and carry a 44 mag handgun in case you run into a rockchuck! :)
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    Protection in bear country

    When I was transferred back to this country from Germany in the service, 1967, I brought back a 7mm Rem Mag. Ought to work for bears. Got stationed in Lakeside Montana, Grizzly country wasn't far off. I though about that out in the field one day and figured I'd be better off with a 338 Win Mag...
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    Tell me about your obscure cartridge

    Ah! A perfect hunting scope!
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    Tell me about your obscure cartridge

    I have had a urge for years to get a 250-3000. Not obscure but working hard on it. had planned on the 260 I had put together on being a 250-3000 but had a hard time figuring out where I'd get case's. For a deer gun I have felt for years it was the most over looked cartridge out there. Case's is...
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    Two rifles, One Caliber?

    Ya know, come to think of it my 6.5x06 I'd set up hoping to try Nosler 140gr partitions. never had much luck with partitions but though maybe this time. Well got it done and to break in I used 140gr Hornady interlocks. Boy did they shoot! Ran about 1/2" at 100 maybe just a bit over. Well...
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    Boy did I find powder.

    Went to Redmond Sat to have breakfast wit a brother from the valley. Café was shut down and didn't find the brother so went to Costal store looking for some augar tail jigs for small mouth fishing. What I found was a ton of reloading powder! They had Staball 6.5 powder, about 10 1# cans of it...
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    Best rifle options youth hunters

    Well can't be more than a hundred or so right answer's to this! As far as cartridge goes that is. Rifle's, I think a different subject. For a rifle go with something inexpensive so you can either do it yourself of have it fitted to the kid or the wife. I'm pretty sure a poorly fitting rifle in...
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    Centerfire rifles - your path

    Pretty obvious most of us are more shooter's than hunters! I too, have more rifles than I need but getting better at not overdoing it. Today I have a 22RF and 22RF mag. 243, 25-06, 260 Rem, 6.5x55, 6.5x06 and a 30-06. I don't hunt anything I'd actually need more than that 243 for but my go to...
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    Restoring Accuracy, Remington 700

    Well now I know what a J lock is! I have a J lock on my 260, old 243 I rebarreled. When I first got it I had no idea what that key was for. Finally figured it out, unlocked it and threw the key away! never has been a problem!
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    Two rifles, One Caliber?

    Tell ya what. I had two 243's at one time and loaded them both different. My bullet's get loaded just deep enough to set back just off the lands. Both also had their own reloading dies. Neck sized till case would no longer chamber then moved die down until case would chamber easily. At that...
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    Bozeman: is it really that bad anymore?

    Oh bot Missoula, theres another story. After getting discharged I went to Missoula and drove for Mountain Pacific Trucking, on the north side of the city. Back then Missoula was a little po-dunk town that for a city was a nice place. Went through there with my Mom and it's turning into a baby...
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