Beautiful rifle. Muzzleloaders are foreign to me except for new inlines, and I've built a few smokeless ones for customers. I recently had a local organization ask me to "build" a traditional muzzleloader for a raffle. I've ordered a Traditions kit (starting out on the cheap), but in the last...
Awesome rifle! I make my living building new rifles, but you just can't beat a rifle that has a "feel" and a story to it when you pick it up. I was lucky enough to inherit my grandfather's Win Model 94 in 30WCF when my father passed away; it's what I shot my first deer with, and I get that warm...
I left out that the people I'm hunting with and I will have bear spray, and I understand that an encounter is highly unlikely. I was a Police Officer before a Gunsmith. I had OC spray and a taser as well as a pistol; I didn't want to use either but carried all. I view the bear spray, pistol, and...
Tikka, or if you can stretch a little more, I'd go with a Benelli Lupo. There's a Walnut model with the BE.S.T. finish- a very accurate rifle that looks great- and you don't have to worry about rust.
I'm currently working up the load I'll be hunting with this fall in Wyoming for bull elk. I am trying some loads with 180gr Barnes TTSX, as I've had great luck in the past with other rifles(this year I'll be shooting a Benelli Lupo chambered in 300 Win Mag), and the thought of having to use the...
Thanks for your input. I’ll attempt to keep my wife from seeing this article, but in all seriousness I understand it’s a grizzly area, and don’t plan on being absent minded of them if I hunt that area but it won’t be my first time in and hunting in a grizzly infested area.
I have been in that...
Thinking of burning some points next season. I have a buddy who is a Wyoming resident who I’ll be hunting with. One of the units suggested I try to draw is 71, I have the points so I should be able to get it. I’m wanting to rifle hunt and wondering if my assumptions that hunting it at the...