Pygmy

Sounds like you have some good connections... Good luck and have fun..It is truly pretty country down there..

Here is most of what I have available to sell or swap... 7mm.... .284 Dia. Bullet description Quantity Hornady 120 gr. Spire Point 50 Speer 130 grain Spitzer boattail 59 Hornady 162 Gr. boattail HP 29 Sierra 140 gr Spitzer boattail 5 Sierra 160 Gr. Spitzer boattail 88 Speer 160 gr. Spitzer flat base 256 30 cal. .308 dia. Hornady 130 grain soft point 13 Hornday 180 gr. Spire point 46 Nosler 180 gr. Ballistic tip 46 9.3 MM Nosler 250 grain ballistic tip 100 I am mostly interested in 150-168 grain .308 spitzer soft points.... I would like to try a few 7mm 140 grain Barnes TSX ... I have a few 7mm 120 Barnes TSX I would consider swapping, and also a few 140 Nosler 140 Ballistic tips.. I am interested in once fired or new 7mm08 brass... I also have a few boxes of factory .280 Rem ammo , but would only consider face to face sale because I cannot ship it..

Thanks..

I'm not familiar with the specific area.. HOWEVER...When I started hunting down in 2G in the early 80s, there were TONS of deer, and all of the hunting camps would have bucks hung opening day... It was not unusual to see 50 deer in the woods on opening day.. However, the great majority of the bucks were " Potter County Trophies" ... Spikes and crotchhorns... If you saw a 12" 8 point, it was a DANDY.... Nowadays you don't see many deer hanging, but you'll always see a few 18" to 20 " bucks... Food plots..?? Sounds like some private land action to me... I hunted a parcel of private land near Germania in Potter Co. the last few times I hunted down there...Defintely more deer than the public land I hunted in that area.. Good luck...

Works for me.... ;D .... MODS, help me out here..do you want this on this forum, the classifieds, or what...??..

If it smells like cologne... LEAVE IT ALONE...!!!.. At least that is what the BIG BOYS down at the pool room used to tell me... : ....

Forget trying to get an antlerless permit in 2G if you are a non-resident..The residents buy them up the first couple of days and by the time NRs can apply they are gone.. I'm not familiar with Moshannon Forest, but I have hunted 2G quite a bit, in south central Potter Co. and northern Clinton and Lycoming...Deer populations are depressed there...Since the ARs took effect a few years ago, there there are some real nice bucks taken each season, but it's not an area where you'll see a lot of deer on public land, unless you spend lots of time there preseason and scout out some honey holes.. Lots and lots of public land to hunt, mostly mature forest....Look for deer in the thickest laurel and the hemlock cover you can find..Lots of open woods there where deer are few and far between...

A lot of those gnarly Adirondack bucks don't score well, but they have CHARACTER...!!... I'd take character any day over a high net score... Nice bucks, XX75.....

I took an inventory of bullets that I'd like to sell or preferably, swap.. Should I list them on this thread or start a separate thread for that purpose..??..

I'll have to check my stuff... I know I have some 7MM in 160 grain spitzers that I probably won't use... I may have some .35 cal and .357.. May have some .30 cal 180 grain... Perhaps some .277.... Got a couple of boxes of 9.3 ballistic tips in 250 grain... Bubba.... I think I have some .25 cal stuff leftover... I could use some 30-06 brass and .30 cal bullets in 150 to 168 grain for my M1.... I'd love to try a few 7MM 140 Barnes TSX in my .280.... If they group I may have a few 140-150 grain Nosler 7MMs to swap..

LOL, Dave.... That may have been wishful thinking on June's part... I heard she was a closet NYMPHO and spent most of her time sneaking out behind the garage with Eddie Haskell...

I would be willing to participate, although I'm not sure we have that many active handloaders on the forum....I have some components on my bench that I probably will not use and would be willing to swap for something I need..

I think it goes back to a little incident on Shitz Creek. The beavers damned it up and left the antlerless moose up it without their paddles. Now that's FUNNY right there, I don't care WHO ya'are.... ;D ... ;D ... ;D ...

You bet your ass he is... ;D ...

Very interesting read... God bless the old gent... When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, there were still a few WWI vets around.. They were old THEN... ;D ...One old fellow who lived down the road from my Dad's farm served in Europe and was part of the occupation forces in Germany immediately after the surrender.. I used to love to hear his stories..He was a farm boy and going overseas was the biggest thing that ever happened to him.. My paternal Grandfather served in WWI as a 2nd Lieutenant in the infantry... He was a rather colorful old fart ... He claimed that he killed several Huns with his bayonet... He was a retread in WWII... He served stateside as a Captain in the MPs...

Nothing brings a smile to my face like a nice beaver shot.... ;D ... ;D ... ;D ... Eat a beaver, save a tree...!!....

I have always bought my powder and primers at local gunshops because of that hazmat charge on mail orders... I usually buy bullets mail order from Midway, Natchez Shooters Supply or other mail order wholesalers.. I try to find them on sale .... Hazmat charges don't apply to bullets, although shipping & handling can be expensive.. Often it's a wash just buying them locally...

How many veterans do we have on the forum and where and when did you serve..??... I served in the USNR from 1970 to 1976... I served 2 years active duty ( 1971-73) on The Destroyer Uss Moale ( DD-693).... At that time we were home ported in Brooklyn, and then moved to the Destroyer piers at Fort Schuyler near the Throgs Neck Bridge...The Vietnam War was active at that time, but I never served in a combat zone ( unless you consider the neighborhood right outside the Brooklyn Naval Yard... ..)..

.... ;D .... Unfortunately, being an old sailor, I can identify with that... : ....

No, I'm not using a wad..I just dump the powder, settle it with a couple of raps of my hand, and then seat the bullet..With the NE bullets I don't even use a short starter...

My ex-wife had a '63 330 slant six... It was a school car and her Dad bought it at auction for $300.. She drove it through her college years... It was a great car...Standard shift on the column... It would probably STILL be running except she thought that you should wait until the idiot light comes on before you check the oil.... : ... My one and only Dodge was a '57 Coronet, that I bought used for $300 in 1969......Air conditioned, push button tranny, 360 and 4 barrel... Had a back seat like a COUCH... :-* ... :-* ... :-* ...

I am currently using RL-15 in my 7mm08, but I've been loading 120 Grain bullets for the last few years..When I was loading 140s I had excellent results with IMR 4064... Never tried the RL 15 with with 140s, but it should work OK, since it has a similar burn rate as 4895 and Varget, which are popular powders in the 7mm08 with 140s.. 4064 also works very well in the 30-06 with 150 and 165 grain bullets..I never loaded any heavier bullets in the 06... My own 30-06 loads are for my Garand M1 and I load H4895 and 150 grain bullets to match the original military load that the M1 was designed for.. I do load 150s and 165s in the 06 for a couple of buddies ...I use Imr 4350 for them....

You say your instructor is a PHD...??.. I worked with dozens of them in a research facility...MY ex-wife, who is a college instructor, exposed me to many more who were her friends and cohorts... They are just people like the rest of us..Some have thier shit together and some are FULL of shit.. Oftentimes PHD = Piled High and Deep....

You have a pretty wide spread of cases sizes and bullet weights to pin down a couple of powders.... However, for 180 30-06 and 140 7mm 08 you can probably do fine with 4350. If you had specified the 150 grain 30-06 and the 140 7MM08 I would have say 4895 or 4064...I suspect that those powders are a trifle fast for the 180 grain bullets.. Those powders are pretty slow for the .223/.222 mag.... The only small case I ever loaded for is the .222 Rem, and a good place to start with that is 4198 or BLC 2.. If you pinned me down for one powder for the 3 I would suggest 4895, but you may not be obtaining optimum performance with any of the 3 with that powder.. I guess that is why there are so many different powders with different burn rates..

I am shooting the Noexcuses 460 grain .50 cal. in my 1973 vintage TC Hawken... They load really easy and group 2-3" off the bench at 100 yards with 80 grains of Triple F 777.. I used to shot PRBs, but wanted a heavy conical for a Colorado elk hunt.. The Noexcuses perform so well that since my elk hunt in 2004 I have used them for deer also.. I have a tang peep sight on my Hawken and have never taken a shot over 75 yards at game, but the NE conical shoots surprisingly flat out to 150 yards from the bench..Further than I would shoot at game with iron sights..