Calibre Suggestions

[Ken]

Wow. That Super Mod power extends even further than I feared .......

[Rick]

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[Ken]

ma****bation.

Last edited by Rick : Today at 07:20 AM.

[Rick]

Yes, well, kids and all. I hold amazing powers. Occasionally, I even zap myself. You have to be very careful. A down side to being Minister of Science.

[AKS]

He is not old enough to have a firearm. I galls me that so much effort goes into this thread. People really want to help, but it is a ma****bation.

LOL You crack me up. Of course he is not old enough to own a firearm yet. But if he plays his cards right, he will be one day. Nothing wrong with planning for the future, even if your goals are a little miss guided or unrealistic. Isn't that what a lot of people are doing here? Trying to pick up or clarify information that they can use at a later date?
Ok, lets say, just for the sake of argument, that he doesn't make it...he never gets old enough to own a firearm. There are plenty of guests on this site that might read the mad ramblings in these posts and learn something that they never heard or thought of before. You know like, "Hey, you can use ear plugs to protect you hearing while you shoot? Dang that's a good idea!"

[Sourdough]

I don't really think this forum helps, to much information is like no information. What is gained if every cartridge ever invented is recomended. Why not just say go to "Cartridges of the world" close your eyes a choose one.

[hoosierarcher]

http://www.mrhengineering.com/
This is a friend of mine's website. I helped develope these rifles. I am a former USMC sniper. Read the website to find out the remarkable features of these rifles.
He makes custom rifles that are astounding you can get a custom rifle for the price of a high dollar off the shelf rifle capable of shoot sub MOA at the ranges you mention. They are unique in many ways. I do not make anything referring you to him.

[Rick]

Honestly, tell your friend to get a new picture. That blurry out of focus one sort of puts a damper on his web site.

[Ken]

This hasn't happened in dozens of posts! Rick, I agree with you.

When's the slaw coming?

[Rick]

All I can say is you're learning. Agree with me more often. It's easy.

[Ken]

You must have missed some of my post. (I'm being kind here.)

When's the slaw coming?

[DOGMAN]

From what I understand you would want a 270 with the best scope you can afford. My reasoning for the 270 is hand loading. You can load it for mice to moose, IMHO probably the most adaptable especially if you roll your own.

You can handload the .375H&H for anything as well. And the .375 will do less damage on the meat than the .270.

[DOGMAN]

My dad has a .375 winchester. I am amazed at how light it is, it is simply an amazing gun. I was wondering if it is too much gun for deer hunting?

No, the .375 is a fantastic deer rifle- if you use a 250 or 270gr load.

[DOGMAN]

Stay away from foriegn scopes.

This is horrible advice. Have you ever looked through a Swarovski or Zeiss scope? There is no comparison. I have used lots and lots of American brand scopes- a few come close- but none match the best Austria has to offer

[AKS]

This is horrible advice. Have you ever looked through a Swarovski or Zeiss scope? There is no comparison. I have used lots and lots of American brand scopes- a few come close- but none match the best Austria has to offer

gotta agree with jason there. although you will tend to spend slightly more for a foreign scope than for its american made equivalent in quality, there are a lot of well made foreign scopes. The late great Gale McMillan said to expect a 20% markup for imports. As stated in this link about 2/3rds of the way down the page.
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...ad.php?t=13359

Also had some to say about those shepherd scopes that I like so much
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...cfc6c79d6c050d

[Rick]

Re: Shepherd Scopes. That's why I'm not a world class hunter or guide. I could NEVER spend $650 on a scope. Do you know how much bacon that will buy?

[Ken]

Re: Shepherd Scopes. That's why I'm not a world class hunter or guide. I could NEVER spend $650 on a scope. Do you know how much bacon that will buy?

You ever dream about hijacking one of those refrigerated tractor trailers?

[AKS]

Re: Shepherd Scopes. That's why I'm not a world class hunter or guide. I could NEVER spend $650 on a scope. Do you know how much bacon that will buy?

Yea yea, lots and lots of prepackaged already salted and preserved bacon. But...if you ever end up way out in the middle of nowhere like I did...and find out that you can't hit the broad side of a barn because your scope quit working properly like my Leopold did(I know, they are usually so good)...and you don't know about it until you try to shoot your dinner with it because it broke some time after my test fire upon getting to the middle of nowhere and because looking through a regular scope you can't tell that it isn't lining up properly...you might be willing to invest that kind of money to keep from getting that particular feeling that happens when your dinner getter quits getting dinner. I think it was disbelief and disappointment followed by hunger. I don't miss dinner very often. No, I didn't starve but I had to get a new scope later and was only able to get one caribou that trip after I took the broke scope off. Good thing I practice with open sights too.

[AKS]

Oh! You can get them there shepherd scopes on ebay for a few hundred less than getting them new.

[Rick]

Here is a question for you .308 users. I know there is a bit of difference between .308 Winchester and 7.62 NATO. But I've read that the 7.62 headspace is made to match the .308 and the 7.62 pressure is less so it won't damage a .308 weapon (but not the other way around). Have any of you used 7.62 in your .308 weapon?