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    Kids First Deer Rifle

    Sorry for the orientation, be there is a Howa Mini in 6.5 Grendel with an MDT chassis and M4 buttstock. Was able to get LOP to 10.5” which was ideal for my son. That and a hog saddle attached to a heavy tripod and he shoots it quite well. The clamp arrangement takes any recoil away and the...
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    Single Bevel…worth it?

    Chips out of the edge wouldn’t concern me as much as the bent blade on the Kudu point. Gives me the impression that it could turn to the side on a hard bone hit on entry rather than punch through…just my impression though.
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    Trailcam 2022

    Here’s two behind the house, put camera out last week and was pleasantly surprised
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    Need Advice on Crossbow

    I have a Mission SubMOA that impresses me. I also shoot training wheel AND a custom recurve. Whatever floats your boat. IMO the Mission is like a precision custom rifle vs a remchester/savage type rifle.
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    6.5 PRC observation

    Ream it out to 6.5 RSAUM, better velocity, and any 300 or 7 RSAUM brass is an easy resize reload…just an option
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    EXO K3 Blem Sale

    Have a K2 2200, the 4800 bag just delivered this week, should be set for anything my 50yo self will do now.
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    AR15 or AR10 - 6.5 Grendel vs 6 creed

    If trajectories are all your looking for, 17 Rem, 204 Ruger, and the 20 Practical/tactical would all offer flatter trajectory with a bit further hold on fur range. Anchoring a coyote at any angle/hit location/distance the advantage goes to the larger calibers. The 224 Valkyrie with a 8-9 twist...
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    Beaver trapping 2021-22

    One of my most enjoyable outdoor pursuits was trapping. Started with dry land fox, coon, and coyote then trapped water the following fall into winter under ice beaver. Local ditches and streams. Caught many in the 50’s, two mid 60’s and one 73lb’r that was on the outskirts of a local town...
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    Fed up with forum gougers..anyone else?

    I for one am somewhat conflicted by this conundrum. I’ve reloaded my own ammo for over 30 years, started building rifles for myself and others 15+ years ago, and have amassed a fair amount of components for ammo. Not a ton of any one thing, but a hell of a lot of most everything. When I saw a...
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    Winter Food Sources

    Any clear cut with low growing brush will be browsed on. Basically any area that has a lot of buds/branch ends within reach. White cedar is a favorite if there’s any around along with conifers for winter thermal cover.
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    6.5 Grendel Hunting Bullet

    Still need to get penetration. But with the moderate velocity rounds, any standard cup and core bullet works well. I’ve used the 120gr Speer gold dot, which is bonded but that’s part of the jacket plating process. Also both 100 and 120 Nosler bt’s, and look at Maker bullets along with Cavity...
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    V3X 33 vs 29

    I’m looking at selling my V3 31 for the 33, hopefully it will give me the stability and consistency I felt was lacking with my 30” draw…. I was shooting 515gr TKO’s (250’s) at 286fps, so it it puts me in the 275ish realm with better consistency I feel it would be a worthwhile trade off. We...
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    Post Your 7 SAUM Custom Rifles Please!

    Here’s a 7 RSAUM on a Rem Model Seven action and a lightweight Heym HF barrel blank (top rifle). Shot a small buck last year at 375 with it and it’s a hell of a handy rifle.
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    New rifle cartridges legal in Iowa

    I think the majority of IA hunters are on board with it. So far this year I’ve built 3 358 Win rifles (re-barreled 450 BM’s) and finished 1 out of 4 35 WSM’s so far, along with making some ammo for a friends 35 Whelen. All for IA this year.
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    Wisco Gun Opener 2021

    Sunday was much better, more deer movement and with my brother in law and nephew we filled two buck tags and a doe. Nothing special, 1 1/2 yo bucks and a good sized doe, but we had a lot of fun and got some exercise getting 3 deer back to the truck 1 1/4 miles away…thank God for game carts!
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    Wisco Gun Opener 2021

    Hunted all day, saw 2 coyotes and 7 does. Was extremely quiet for an opener.
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    Wild Animal Fat

    When I was a kid I remember my dad butchering deer shot in northern WI and he always left a fat cap on the loin steaks, about 1/4” worth. I also still remember drinking a glass of cold milk after eating said loin steaks pan fried….never forget that coating of ‘wax’ on the inside of your mouth...
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    What do these bucks Score?

    I would say other than the yearling, all of those are shooter bucks for a very respectable whitetail. Use a scent drag on the way in and sit early morning through 9-10:00 and the call/rattle good areas while scouting more territory.
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    Victory TKO w/ Outsert Issue after the shot

    So the ‘new’ victory half out system looks different/upgraded to me and not like this design. The ones I recently got have an insert that is epoxied inside the shaft well past the collar and seems as if it would be much stronger. Yes, no???
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    Help with New Deer/Elk Arrow

    Just this year I got into a V3 31, 70lb, 30” draw with the 85 mods, limb bolts are cranked all the way down, so whatever that put me at. A fellow worker has a pt job at a good archery shop and I had him build me a set of Victory RIP TKO’s, 250’s. He used the factory 50gr halfouts with 50gr...

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