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    Anybody else have good words for the 7x57 ?

    I sold my 7x57 to get a 280. I sold my 280 to get a 280 AI. It was in super light Kimber Hunter and a tack driver. It bored me. I sold it. Now I am looking for a classic 7x57 again. Anyone have positive words about the 7x57 to mitigate my madness. I mean,,, why not just get a 7mm-08???
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    A Gold Mine of the Finest Custom Rifles, Going to rust?

    There can be some warning signals that go off when you first meet someone who will become a solid and true lifetime friend. Maybe not whistles blowing, bells ringing, or lights flashing! None of that big stuff, just an “inkling”, a little tug inside that says “Pay Attention”. I was at a...
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    My Bear Knife and a Worthless Rifle

    My Bear Knife, and a Worthless Rifle A good friend of mine is an American citizen by marriage, but was by birth a Dutch Afrikaner. His family tree goes back hundreds of years to settlers in the South African Bush-veld when it was a pure, raw wilderness. He is the keeper of endless family...
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    From "Meat-eater" 5/26 Can Large Predators Control CWD

    I just came across this relatively recent article from meateater about large predators controlling CWD. It is a good article, long but worthy of the read. I would offer the topic open for discussion to anyone who read it, it does offer new info...
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    Oiling the Walnut Stock on my Pre-64 Model 70 in .270

    Oiling the walnut stock on my Pre-64 Model 70, 270 No need to oil anything, goes unmet by me It is so satisfying for me to apply and rub in oil on my objects made of wood and leather. I use boiled linseed oil on the handles of my pitchforks, scythes, axes, hatchets, hammers, splitting mauls...
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    Golden Deer, Silver Rifle, Red Ocotillo Cactus Flowers, a Bucket List Hunt

    Two months ago, I got my second knee replacement. I wore my knees out hunting and hiking the steepest country. “Big Steep” has been my specialty and scouting season is always eleven months long. Trying to avoid surgery, I did all the strengthening exercises for my left knee. Except for steep...
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    “Ipsqi'tit”

    Eight years ago, I moved again. With absolute certainty this was the final move in my life. I am now 78 years old. I have a great group of fine friends, many half or even a third of my age. Only two are older than me. There were three, but one died two weeks ago. I live on the twilight edge of...
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    Mountain Quail

    Anybody else have the pleasure of hunting them. I sure did.
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    Anybody hunt around Green River Lakes Wyoming? For Elk, Deer or Antelope

    Just wondering if anybody has been hunting around Green River Lakes in Wyoming. I have not been back there in 20 years, but that area was once favorite place in the country.
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    "Rifles for Here and There, Bullets for This and That"

    I was sitting against moss covered boulders on the wet/west side of the Santiam Pass in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. There was a downpour and just cold enough that some of the huge raindrops formed mini-slush balls. From head to toe and even fingers, I was wearing my best rain gear. In my lap...
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    Mountain Goats

    Mountain Goats. August 30th, First freeze yesterday morning here at 4,400’ in elevation. Started my first fire in the wood stove the night before. Stayed up late just looking at the flames. I slept in. Perfectly allowed for somebody almost 80 years old. The sun was too strong by the...
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    Easiest Way to Hunt Antelope

    Used to live in Wyoming long ago when extra antelope tags, mostly for does, but some for bucks too were so easy to get. Got to hunt a lot of antelope. Getting closer to dark I would glass a herd. Then the next morning, I would come back a few hours before light with my Big Male Akita Hunting...
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    When you look at the whole "ball of wax": reloading, ease of getting components, then shooting, accuracy, velocity, and hunting performance and finally pride of firearm ownership, what have been your most and least favorites.
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    My Last Hunting Grounds Will be Muzzleloader Only

    My last Hunting Ground will be Muzzle-Loader only. By my best count, this coming hunting season will be my 60th. I am getting close to 80 years old and did miss several seasons during my busy middle years. Playing more number games; I grew up on an eastern dairy farm with unlimited year-round...
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    Old Rifles and Barnes Original Bullets. .277/180 gr RN. 7mm195 gr. RN, 30 cal 250 gr. RN,,,anybody else use them?

    My hunting partner of 40 years and I have been hunting with these extra heavy Barnes Original bullets for caliber round nosed bullets forever. I have a 1950's FN Belgium Mauser in .270 Winchester. He has a 7x57 Mauser ( That I sold him) and an original 1895 Winchester in 30-40, and uses the 195...
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    Has Anyone else hunted "Burro Deer" ? Any Stories about them?

    For the record, Burro Deer are also called Desert Mule Deer, a distinct subspecies found in our extreme low deserts from West Texas, through southernmost New Mexico, Arizona and California also across northernmost Mexico where they are know as The Mexican Mule Deer or "Los Buro's with one "R"...
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    Advice for a Prince Of Wales Sitka Deer Hunt

    Any thoughts about hunting early up high, long shots or late fall along the coast, closer shots. What rifle caliber, scopes worked for you. I would take my Sako SS Finnlight carbine in 308 with a simple scope Any butchering freezer services you can recommend. I would probably lean more...
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    The 1960 "Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act" for "Our National Forests Lands"

    In 1960, my first and still favorite president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed into law the “Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act”. This mandated that our National Forests be managed to “best meet the needs of the American People”. His Quote; “As we peer into society's future, we — you and I, and...
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    How many of you have had or wanted a Gorgeous Vintage Rifle

    How many of you have wanted or have a gorgeous vintage rifle I am not talking about a super expensive custom-made rifle. Not talking a near NIB used rifle that has never been scratched and needs excess TLC. I am talking about a used but never abused rifle well beyond the Plain Jane level of...
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    Solo Traditional Muzzleloader Deer hunt in the Mountain West this December.

    I will be close to 79 years old when this hunt happens and am the last one still hunting from my group of old hunting friends. I did get Covid, had two meniscus knee surgeries, then one full knee replacement two years ago and a second one coming up next August. My life long hunting commitment...

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