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yeah I've been off the forum for a while just getting my updates in. Believe me, it will be all boring from here on out.

Nothing like it,.... the most fun I've had with my clothes on in a long time. That said the Ranger's girl was a scantily clad Texas blonde....

welcome to the show..... Watch wearing???? Oh sorry, I meant to post that on another site.

The closest I came was an auburn brunette. She became a stripper,... god I miss her. As far as 30-06, never had one take a second step yet.....

Wife and I took a run to Punta Cana this spring. Got out one day on a blue water boat. Great crew productive day. Hooked into this one about 11 miles out into the South Caribbean Sea. He jumped 4 times in the 45 minutes it took to get him to the boat. Bill fish of a lifetime. Please don't make fun of the swim trunks too much. Also on board was a Texas Ranger and his girl friend. He caught a 44" wahoo and she landed a blue marlin a little bigger than this one ( mine was 70 pounds 73"). Needless to say she won the pool.

this guy woke me up coming through the woods on one of the few days it didn't rain during gun season. 465 lbs live weight.

Cameras do it all, we look for activity in the late summer when we clear shooting lanes and then put cameras in there. Between all the guys in the club we have 18 cameras up.

My family lived in Mt. Kisco from the 1930's until 1980's. In 1968 my Grandfather was promoted to Deputy Inspector in the Bronx. He bought a Browning BAR Mk I in 30-06 as his new deer rife. It was a gift to himself. No glass, just iron. He had only one box of Silvertips run through it. He hunted with it one time in Fleischmann's and then joined a club in Duchess County and bought an 1100. The BAR from that time on sat in a sock in his safe. He moved to Florida in 1980 and it stayed in his safe. Cleaned well, oiled and slid into a sock. When my grandfather died in 1996 I asked my mom, aunt and uncle about it. They decided that what was fair was that it would go to my uncle as he was the only son. He lived in Florida, also retired from NYPD and I knew he'd never look at it. It would stay as it had since 1968. It killed me, but I respected their wishes. No other grandkids deer hunt and in fact I am the only one who still lives in NY. My uncle is now 77, he is loosing his sight to macula degeneration. Awful disease. He called me in April and said he'd be sending me the BAR. Well he did and it was all I remembered from the few times I saw it as a kid. Absolutely beautiful specimen of a Slab Side Grade I. I ripped the rifle down and replaced the recoil spring and nylon buffer plate pad as they were 47 years old. $12.50 from Numerich Arms for parts. I added glass to it, a Zeiss Terra straight plex 3-9 and used Leopold hardware to mount it. I also bought a bunch of magazines from a guy on GunBroker since these Mk I mags are becoming the hen's teeth. The rifle is a shooter and a 1/2, sub MOA. In fact .75!!! BAR's are difficult to load for based on everything I am told. Everyone recommends quality factory loads that aren't super high speed, once I got it on paper at 100 yds I switched from Federal Fusions to Barnes Vortex 168 gr. A few dial in clicks and a clover leaf within six shots. I will be hunting with this rifle this year and for years to come. I have to, this rifle has been in the family a year longer than I have.

If you haven't already bought it, consider a 30-06 or 308. There is nothing that either can't do and the price of ammo is 1/2 of what the 7mm Mag will be. So you'll shoot more and become more proficient with it. In my younger more stubborn days I had a couple of Ruger 77's both in 7mm Mag with 24" barrels. Without a doubt it was the most violent recoil I ever encountered. Worse than 300 Win and Wby (which I also owned at one time or another) and worse than 338 Win Mag. The only mag I own now is an unbelted 270 WSM. Its very similar in recoil to 30-06 and I load for it. Other than that I use 30-06 or 270 Win for everything now. I hunt NY, SC, and VA. So predominantly whitetail. If I were to go out west or up another I'm still covered with the 30-06, with probably the exception of brown bear in which case the sectional density of the 7mm Mag wouldn't do and I'd need to be 30 cal or above. If you need to own something 7mm, the 7-08 looks to be the sound choice. My NYS black bear this year was 465 pound live weight. I'm sure a well placed 7-08 would have done well but I much preferred the 30-06 180 gr whizzing through the fiddle sticks at him.

Ruger Super Blackhawk here in 44 Mag. I'm deer size game deadly with it out to 50 yds. I do carry my 357 service revolver when I rifle hunt ever since we started seeing a lot of bears.

My top three life's regrets are: 1- never playing World Series Poker 2- never shacking up with a natural red head ;-) 3- selling my 25-06 Of the three the only one I could really control was the last. I will preface it the following way, after taking my big black bear this past year in a stand where I should have only seen deer, I was much happier about having a 30-06 with me. However for deer size game, a well constructed bullet at those speeds is awesome. Of the four or five deer I took with that little poison pill spitter, none took more than two or three next steps. In the case of lungs, it turned them into something between jelly and gravy when they were dressed out. Its a great round and I'll likely own another one. Texas whitetail hunters love it and sand goat shooters swear by them. Roy Weatherby used the 25-06 as the basis for his 257 Wby Mag, which along with the 300 Wby were said to be his all-time favorite chambering. So that 25-06 has a great story to tell. I loaded mine with 117 gr SST heads which were too explosive for me, I switched over to Sierra's and things worked out better. Enjoy it.

sounds about right.

I had a bunch of Federal Fusion Ammo to use to get on paper with a 1968 BAR. All told maybe I fired 8 rds. This stuff guilds barrels! So now the fun part... getting the copper out. I bought a bottle of Tetra Copper Solvent Gel and followed the instructions, it didn't even touch it. After calling Tetra I came to find out there are a bunch of tricks to getting this stuff to work. First off, it won't etch the barrel because the ammonia content isn't over 5%. As such it can be left in the barrel to work longer. Also, one treatment won't do, it has to be done several times to clean the copper out of the lands and grooves. Here is what they told me: 1- start with a dry barrel and run a stiff brush through several times in an attempt to mechanically loosen some of the copper. 2- Send a wet patch with any solvent through and dry with patches thoroughly. This to draw out anything loosened up when the barrel was brushed. 3- Saturate a bore mop with the copper solvent throughly and push it through the barrel, repeat this step a bunch of times and really load the barrel with the stuff. Its a gel so it will just sit in the barrel and act on the copper. I let the rifle sit about two or three hours before I worked on it again. 4- go to a nylon brush and vigorously run it through the barrel. Then dry patch using an aluminum or plastic jag until the barrel is so dry you get a lot of resistance pushing the patches through. This does two things, it puts a material into the barrel that won't react with any of the remming gel and it assures all of the gel is gone. 5- Next flush with your favorite solvent, I use #9. soak patches and run them through to ensure you got all of the gel washed out. 6- Do the same in the chamber with a nylon chamber brush incase any gel leaked back in there. 7- Again dry patch. 8- Finally, send an oiled patch through using your favorite oil. I use Hopes T3. In my case I got the vast majority of the copper out but will probably wait a week and rettempt as there was still a little streaking near the muzzle. Last thing (and sorry this is so long). I do think Federal changed the process in producing the Fusion jackets. These new ones seem to de-anneal more often in the barrel (had it happen with a model 700 custom build as well). The jackets seem Core Lockt soft now. Anyway, I hope this is use for some who have been plagued with a copper fouled bore. My story pertains only to the Tetra gel, make sure you seek out the right info for whatever copper solvent you settle on.

270 Win here. Ruger 77. Far shot at a big meaty doe too for a rookie.

which venture do you have?

I'm not impressed at all with the 783, or the Axis. Stocks are tupperware.

congrats,... looks to be a rage in the cage!

anyone have any experience with these? Solid rifle or another plastic POS?

I was doing about .5" worse to about what you are grouping with a 270 Win. in a Oil Finish Longtrac. Maybe I was being unrealistic with what to expect from a deer rifle. The fit and finish is beautiful and the action was smooth as glass. No recoil whatsoever from the John Browning design just a loud bang.

They're flying right in the rest of the group. I gotta say I'm itching to get into the trees with my bow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The boss is a muzzle break and because you can't get more than a 5 round mag in it, I'd suspect you are fine. Buy the rifle.

okay was over thinking it. Shot four 2.5" groups at 35 yes this morning, one arrow with a Nocturnal tail the rest were standard Easton H size nocks. Thanks fellas!

safety would be the issue and then repeated trespassing.