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    Mule Deer, Muzzle-loader, Ash & Rawhide Snowshoes, plus two Green River Knives

    Mule Deer, Muzzle-Loader, Ash & Rawhide Snowshoes, Plus two Green River Knives While becoming the “Snowman”, I watched the thick white flakes build up on the heavy wool Poncho that covered my arms, shoulders, torso, lap and legs. I was sitting on it too. I bought it almost two decades earlier...
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    Some of you may remember (coues semi live)

    Congratulations on a spectacular hunt in equally spectacular country. Thank you for such a fine video detailing your hunt I watched it wearing a T shirt seeing my bare forearms on my laptop. Still have these long, skinny, scars from so long ago caused by Cat Claw (Acacia thorn bush) so...
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    Poll - One all around single cartridge under conditions

    I totally agree and will add more reasons for an "End Of Conversation" status It is newer and ever so powder efficient, so it operates at a higher pressure than a 30-06 thus equals extra velocity. It is .30 cal and that opens the door to cheap lead bullets downloaded for endless practice and...
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    Poll - One all around single cartridge under conditions

    Over the past dozen or so years my final and fourth 308 has really come into its own as my do all rifle. I have had a 308 in a pre 64 model 70 featherweight, no prize for accuracy, also had one in a Savage 99 lever action, also a Featherweight model. It was a 1.5" at 100 yards rifle that just...
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    280 AI vs. 7 PRC

    I like the Guns International online sales site. If you search for Sako Rifles the list is very long. The rifle below grabs my attention for rebarreling or reboring if metal is thick enough and just just accept as is with blistered stock. The 6.5x55 is both a noble and very effective cartridge...
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    Poll - One all around single cartridge under conditions

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    Another rifle I want but don't need. The .264 Win Mag.

    Regarding the .264 Win Mag. About 15 years ago I rented the bunkhouse on a cattle ranch that was well past it’s prime. The owner and his wife were pretty old, they had no sons to take it over and so they just ran it at a bare minimum, just a handful of cows. In their main house was the...
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    280 AI vs. 7 PRC

    Sako's are amazing, had four over my lifetime, down to one now, They have features that most shooters/hunters are completely unaware of. For one, the bolt lift is lower allowing the use of ultralow vintage optilock rings. So fast. so close to the natural feeling of iron sight. Then if you are...
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    280 AI vs. 7 PRC

    Not that many years ago I bought a new Kimber hunter, stainless and synthetic stock in 280AI for just under $500. It weighed 5 1/4 pounds. This was during a period when Kimber was trying to erase their old Kimber Roulette reputation. Some shot great, others not so. Anyway, this Kimber was a tack...
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    Operating pressure chart for common cartridges, Worthy of a look

    https://www.marlinowners.com/threads/operating-pressure-chart-for-common-cartridges.634488/
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    Minimum Elk Caliber. what do you think it is.

    Honestly, i get so tired of hearing about these ideal circumstance bullet placement scenarios... over and over. Crap happens and we need "Enough gun" to deal with extra challenges, like having thick enough, strong enough toilet paper, I recall one-time putting my cross hairs just a little...
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    Minimum Elk Caliber. what do you think it is.

    I will not try to answer this question myself. After all, I am merely an individual elk hunter and can only offer my little window of personal experience, okay add in the experience of a few of my close elk hunting friends too. Instead, I will offer the suggestions of an extended fourth...
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    Minimum Elk Caliber. what do you think it is.

    I guess we might talk about for what Elk, big Roosie's in the Pacific North West, Cow elk in Colorado. Lots of variation in size and shooting distances. What do you say?
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    Shooting a Big Game Rifle from the Unconscious mind, possible? Best be 30 or 35 caliber.

    I really appreciate all you said and how you said it, especially in this age of "pip-squeak" calibers fired at extremely long range. In my above post about my upcoming cow elk hunt and my use of the .270 Winchester caliber, i failed to mention one important factor. The regulations also allow...
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    Shooting a Big Game Rifle from the Unconscious mind, possible? Best be 30 or 35 caliber.

    I first read about this in the mid 1970’s. It was in an article about the famous elephant hunter K.j. Bell of African fame. He did these shooting exhibitions at birds diving into and out of Nairobi falls for fish They were going something like 80 MPH and with an open sight rifle he was hitting...
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    In Praise of The Winchester .270. Any good words to say about it ?

    Confidence is work here, plus shooting from the unconscious mind. I have had my three favorite rifles for; 55 years, the 30-06, 43 years the 270, and 29 years my 308 Sako 75 Finnlight. That total 127 years of using them. Every winter I do snowshoe Biathlon course with them, staying with one...
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    Rifle for Hunting Plains and Prairie elk, When Heavier is Better

    Barring my traditional muzzle loader, I have gotten down to just two big game rifles. One is my Sako Finnight carbine in 308. At 5 5/8 pounds naked and then with a scope, heavy optilok rings, loaded and with a leather Whelen sling, it is right at 7 pounds. An ideal all around rifle,,,,except...
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    In Praise of The Winchester .270. Any good words to say about it ?

    The .270 is one hundred years old. I have had a .270 forever, along the way i bought then sold two 7x57's, a 280, and a 280AI. They did nothing in real world hunting that a .270 did not already do. Any words of praise for this ultimately All American 100-year-old ?.
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    Compact rifle opinions

    I had a Model 7. The trigger was cheap cast metal with thin plating at contact points. they wore out. Also stock is short. That model 7 was my last Remington. DONE DONE DONE! I bought a used Sako 75 Finnlight Carbine in 308 for $1,000 twenty years ago and never looked back. . AND AND AND, A...
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    Reading the wind with ashes and horsehair for Utah Elk Hunt

    There were 136 elk in this long, strung out single file line. I counted them twice. Cows and yearlings with a few spikes. I took notes. The country was so huge they looked like ants. Not even big ants, and this was not even a large herd. Towering in the background was Utah’s Grand Staircase...
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