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    35 Whelen and The Wild Boar Wars

    The day after I brought my custom Mauser 35 Whelen home from the gunsmith, I drove out to a 3,000 acre grain ranch to sight it in. It was a late summer morning, already getting hot. I could see heat waves through my fixed 2.5X Weaver scope. There were at least a couple hundred Wild boar hitting...
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    Savage 22/20 ga. for Ruffed Grouse, Fenwick Fly-rod for Brook Trout

    0n December 1, 1969, the first military draft lottery was held in America since 1942. Based on my poor draw results, I decided to start spending my savings. During college, I pinched every penny I earned working summers for an industrial construction company that repaired and replaced...
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    The Elderly Couple, Having a Picnic, Then Shooting a S & W K-22 Target Masterpiece Revolver

    Before the beast of huge drought consumed the Desert Mountains where I lived for 28 years, there was a little creek in a tight valley on USFS land. This valley was just filled with mountain quail, really big, mature ones too, some the size of chukars, close to grouse. Their crops was large...
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    So which caliber, in what rifle ? The 6.5 Creed, the 6.5x55 Swede, or the .257 Roberts

    Few recently developed cartridges can compete with the field utility of the 6.5 Creed. It is the long-range poster child. Never to be found in a vintage rifle. But so, what? Is available in so many super accurate and inexpensive modern rifles. It is omnipresent. Now, what cartridge could equal...
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    Workshops and Seminars for Hunters, some offer really old knowledge

    Workshops and seminars for hunters. Been reading about lots of such education opportunities for hunters. Most seem pretty familiar, even repetitive. I thought I would offer some different ideas. Below are several online education opportunities for hunters in the Midwest, that teach them...
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    Bear gun Versus Bear Spray

    Bear Guns versus Bear Spray My father was drafted into the U.S. Army late in 1942 when he was in his early 30’s and almost ten years older than the vast majority of GI’s. When asked to name his occupation, he wrote down “gambler”. After he took his basic military aptitude test, he scored...
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    Remington Model 722 in .257 Roberts

    I will forever have a place of gratitude for a Remington Model 722 in .257 Roberts. I came from the east to the west, fifty-five years ago, with a full-sized Browning Belgium Mauser 30-06 and a Marlin 336-T, “T” for the straight grip Texan model in 35 Remington. Neither fit my new needs when...
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    Round Nosed Bullets, in an era of high BC addiction, anybody else use them

    I cannot think of any rifle i have ever hunted with, that I did not also reload and hunt with round nosed bullets. Yes, I had loads for pointed bullets with high BC's but always I used Round Nosed Bullets too. From the 117 grain Hornady RN for my 257 Roberts, through the 250 grain RN for my 35...
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    In Praise of the Model 94, The Model 99, Danish Wood Stoves, and how Lymes' got started

    To those of us from Southern New England, The Berkshire Mts. were our miniature equivalent of the Rockies. Everywhere else the land had surrendered to the saw and plow. Everywhere else near all wildlife was shot off. Only in the Berkshires was there a seed stock population of Black Bear...
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    100 year old Rifle, Big River Adventure, polish the brass bead on the front sight

    A fine friend I have known for 39 years is visiting me right now. He is a very fit 75 years old After returning from six months into the deepest reaches of Tibet and the most remote parts of the Tribal Highlands of India, still tiger country, he returned to his family in our country's deep...
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    What would the pattern be like using a 50 cal rifle as a shotgun

    I have a Thompson 50 cal 1/48 twist muzzle loader . Any ideal what the pattern would be like to use it as a shotgun firing pellets
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    Let's Hear About your favorite Wheel guns.

    I'll begin with one of mine. Smith And Wesson Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. Pinned contoured 4" barrel, glass smooth double action. 38 Special with adjustable sights. I like the factory walnut wood grips with Tyler T grip filler. Anybody use or remember Tyler T's. Back in the days when all cops...
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    Path of The Pronghorn, Hunting Antelope with my "almost a wolf" dog

    The Japanese Akita is a breed of dogs that is so close to wolves. They were bred to fight Japan’s Brown Bears in pits. These bears are close to Grizzlies and still found on Japan’s large island of Hokkaido I had a big male Akita long ago when I lived in Wyoming. His name was “Nick” short for...
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    A Perfect Elk Place

    A Perfect Elk Place Seven years ago, I won two antler-less elk drawings in a row. The first was a tag for a state elk hunt zone and my second successful drawing was for permission to use that tag on thirty thousand acres of private land in that zone. Public access has always been very...
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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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    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.

    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 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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    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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