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thats why i am updating my scopes to the new nikon monarks theres does not change so the aim point wont change
CF rifle scopes generally have the parallax adjustment set 100yds. Shotgun/ML at 75 yds & RF scopes at 50yds.
The parallax distance is where there will be no shift in POI regardles of eye position.
Adjustable objective scope can be adjusted for parallax at any realistic distance that a shot might be taken.
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Run an 1/8 drill bit thru the breech plug with your fingers. If it doesn't go thru fairly easily, that's your problem.
Holy crap. I replace nipples when the flame hole gets much bigger than 1/16". Same with a touch hole on a flintlock.
Not trying to be smart a$$ but are the flame holes for modern muzzle loaders normally that large?
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Real balck powder ignites much easier & more consistantly than substitutes.
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After checking the zero before season, I never clean the bore duing the season. If I get caught in the rain I will run a dry patch through the bore, that's it. A slightly fouled bore will shoot more consistatly for consecutive shots than a clean bore. A clean bore can shoot to a significantly different POI compared to a slightly fouled bore & after the 1st shot, it's no longer clean.
I'll admit that I am a bit "anal" about accuracy, but since my average shot is usually about 240 yds. I want a rifle that will shoot 1 1/4" or better at 100yds consistantly.
After the season I will again run a brush, then a dry patch or 2 through the bore to remove as much powder residue as possible before using "Wipe-Out" to remove any copper. No oil yet! Oil decreases the effectiveness of the Wipe-Out so the bore needs to be dry & relatively free of excess powder residue.
I clamp the barrel with the muzzle angled slightly downward in a padded vise, stuff some loose patches firmly into the chamber, insert the cone shaped tube fitting into the muzzle & give it a 2 second burst. Leave the cone in the muzzle for about 2 more seconds to help the expanding foam reach the breech area, then remove the cone from the muzzle. The stuff will keep expandimg for a few more seconds & ooze out of the muzzle. I have a gallon milk jug with a cut out that I hang from the muzzle. Let it sit for 20-30 minutes, then run dry patces through the bore from the breech. Repeat the process until there is no more blue (dissolved copper) on the patches. On a bore that was clean of copper fouling before the zero check at the beginning of the season, 1 double application cycle usually does the trick. Check the patches after 20 minutes to see if the patches have turned blue. If you have never cleaned out the copper, it can take several applications.
After the copper clean-out, I run a patch soaked in G-56 through the bore & give the bolt/action a spray, then wipe off the excess. I use the rag that now has some oil on it wipe the exterior. I do not oil the trigger group. I avoid dismantling the gun unless I got caught in the rain long enough for water to have seeped in past the stock.
Wipe-Out eliminates the scrubbing when removing copper. If you have an old weapon that doesn't seem to group like it used to, try cleaning the copped out of the bore. Keep repeating the process until there is no more blue on the patch after a 20 mnute wait.
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I am no authority on optics and don't have a scientific/ technical answer, but I do believe that in any variable scope the eye relief shortens as the magification increases. Just the nature of the beast.
Are variables meant to be used as fixed power after mounting ? I don't think so. That would cancel the only advantage that variables have over fixed powers; the ability to increase magnification to adjust for longer distances or smaller targets.
All very valid points. Perhaps a better word to discribe the differing eye relief would be narrows. While low magnification will allow more leeway as far as eye relief, generaly, the narrower high magnification eye relief will be somewhere in the short end of the low magnification eye relief envelope.
I set my eye relief so that I can get full field of view at high magnification & the wider range of full field view at low magnification takes care of itself.
I NEVER leave my variable power setting on anything other than the lowest maginification to allow fast target aquisition on targets at close range which will likely require a quicker reaction. Shots taken with high magnification will in all likelyhood be taken under a situation where there is plenty of time to not only crank up the power, but also to snuggle up to the eye relief.
Due to being caught off guard, I took this years buck at about 100yds with the scope still on 3X. That's plenty of maginifcation for that distance or even farther. The biggest advantage I find with 9X is for sizing up the rack on longer shots. Most shots from my tri-pod are in the 200-250yd range. Those long shots have alway been at unalamed deer that gave me plenty of time.
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So it is in the AD cases, were the shooter or victim in BO? or Both? or neither? seems odd and should make any difference if the victim of the AD had orange on or not and to correlate that to gun safety doesn't make sense to me since the victim may not be the shooter. I can't make heads or tails of the info for the AD numbers.
Note that I posed it as a question, not a stement.
I agree that the only stats that are relavant would be the mistaken for game, in the line of fire & to a far less extent, ricochet if the angle wasn't significant.
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...saw way more buck than doe fawns yet again this year...
So tell me why the turn in fawns? Well it ain't over yet!
Supposedly, when habitat is pressured and/or there is an overpoulation issue, the ration of buck to doe fawns will skew towards more buck fawns. Just something I read somewhere.
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There are a lot of deer in the area I live and hunt so the population is robust. One thing that stuck out this year: I noticed a big drop off in the amount I deer I saw out in the fields feeding during the fall, bow and gun seasons. Pretty much every deer I saw while hunting was eating acorns and the ground is littered with them here in 8M. The absence of deer in the fields during daylight hours was pretty odd though.
Widespread abundance of acorns? When that happens in my area the deer are widely scattered & seem scarce.
In 2000 I had lots of deer around during spring & late summer. By fall they were very scarce. I did't kill a buck that year. acorns were everywhere.
The year before was good & the following year was one the best seasons I had. i think that just because you aren't seeing deer, that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't in the woods somehwere.
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I shot my best buck yet.8-point, green scored a few inches lower than my best. A bit more spread & mass, longer brow tines,but lost out on G-2 & G-3 tine length. My '09 8-point had ridiculousy long tines for the overall size.
Also, at 190#, within 29# of my heaviest buck from '04.
I might have him mounted. I'm getting older & this is the 1st buck I've killed since my son started seriously deer hunting with me. He has a very symetrical rack.
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Where the crest is in that picture fabrique nationale herzal liege is stamped..
Yes, it measure somewhere in between 7 5/8-7 7/8" c to c . Hard to tell with trigger guard in the way.. It is my 1st deer hunting rifle. I had bought it for $200.00 at the local gun
shop over 20 years ago. There are no markings on it saying what caliber it is. Owner hands me the gun and a few cartridges and says "I'm pretty sure its a 308"
The action and barrel are glass bedded in the stock. She is a shooter. I would reload 48 gr 4064"If I remember right" and a 125 gr sierra spitzer. Theoretically not the most
accurate combo, but I could get 1/2"-3/4" 100 yd groups all day.. I haven't shot it in years but am thinking of getting a trigger job done on it or an adjustable replacement?
I am starting o miss her..lol
Top of the reciever is drilled and tapped.
Check ypur PM box.
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Also, does it have the side rail mounted scope base atatchment holes or are the top of the receiver rings D&T'ed
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Yes.. that is it..
http://www.armslist.com/posts/2096696/dothan-alabama-rifles-for-sale--vintage-fn-rifle-30-06
The rifle at bottom of page for sale looks identical to mine . Stock and everything. Right down to the character in the wood.
Holy crap you have something there! That's not a miliary rifle, its an FN Mauser.
Do me a favor if you can.
Measure the distance of the 2 large action screws in the bottom metal. They should be either 7 5/8" or 7 7/8".
Those were high quality commercial rifles made for sale by Sears Roebuck, Monkey Wards, Western Auto, etc.
Under appreciated & often can be bought for bargain basement prices. Never the less you have a great basis for some tuning that could make a great shooter. There is no bolt action more reliable than the 98 Mauser. Next to impossible to jam due to the "controlled round feed" design.
98 Mauser actions are highly sought after as a basis for "dangeraous game rifles" because of that.
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Sorry headspace was wrong term. Leade and throat is what's different. (I don't reload, but do have a .223 stamped firearm)
That makes sense.
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Nice buck. Wow, it looks like he really cleaned his clock.
What was the cartridge & load?
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Should have kept the Hawken.
All of the "improvements" in high tech muzzlelaoders have been brought about to make black poder substitutes as reliable as real black powder. Black powder sustitutes were brough about so that big volume retailers could get in on the market.
I still use real FFFg balck powder & shoot .535 round balls that i cast my self that cost me pennies. I can rely on my flintlock unless it is a downpour & when I do hunt in a monsoon, I use my cal gun & apply some clear fingernail polish to the cap after I press it firmly onto the nipple.
When I Hunted exclusively with my muzzleloaders from 1983 to 1996, I would not reload them after hunting unless I discharged them that day. I would avoid taking them in & out of a heated house & left them in a gun rack concealed behind the seat of my standard cab pick up.
I have never had a misfire or hangfire that I could attribute to anything other han my own error. that is, failing to clear the oil from the breech beforeloading. I did get caught in a deluge with my flinter once & the priming turned to black goo. I should have known better & taken my cap gun that day. I did get the gun to fire after 2X with fresh priming.
I have cleanly taken 3 deer that were 150yds or perhaps a little more away & over a dozen more that were closer. A large .535 or larger caliber round ball will take any hooved game as far as iron sight shots are ethical. .490s are limited to about 100yds, .445s about 75 IMO. With an improvised rest like a tree trunk I can hit a beverage can at 100yds reliably. From the bench, with open sights, my .54 flinter would shoot 2" groups at 100yds with atightly patched .535 over 120gr of FFFg & it would knock deer flat with impressive regularity. eldom did I even have to blood trail a deer.
If you are getting good results with your traditional ML & your shots oporunities are not beyond the capability of the weapon, there's really no need to switch for some perceived advantage.
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Wrong about .223 at least. I know for certain that .223 can be shot from a 5.56 , but not other way round. Head spacing makes for unsafe pressure with a rifle stamped as .223 rem
Interesting that the .223 round will properly headspace in a 5.56X45 chamber while the 5.56X45 will not properly headspace in a 223 chamber. Would you please post the dimensional case data that would cause this.
There is a difference in pressure that has nothing to do with the cartridge dimensions that would effect headspace.
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CZ O/U & S/S shotguns are made by Huglu in Turkey. Huglu also makes the higher end DeHann that are identical mechanically.
The Huglu guns are ecellent quality. Much much better than the Kaun Turkish guns.
I had a DeHann OE-2 O/U 20 ga. with ejectors & the S-2 S/S in 28 ga.
Very good quality for the $$$.
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7.62 X 51 = .308 Win just like 5.56 X 45 =.223 Rem.
One is the metric miltary terminology, the other is civilian commecial terminology.
No difference as far as the caliber or case dimensions. Military is FMJ, civilian is expanding bullet.
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Learn to navigate it & you can print out your own.
http://mytopo.com/maps/index.cfm
You can toggle between topo, a map that shows roads & public land or sattelite photo.
Here's one I use near my home.
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Thanks, Yes I am fairly certain it is a 98. I will check out the links.
If the bolt release looks like this
and the bolt body/extractor looks like this, (aside from the "butterknife" handle & custon safety shroud)
then it's a 98.
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Nope..I couldn't hit a bull is the ass with a flintlock...
Besides, it's getting too damn cold to hunt deer by that time of the year..
I'd rather bundle up in my insulated bibs and ballon boots and go listen to a beagle run a rabbit...<<grin>>...
I had 2 Beagles when I moved from Indiana. Cottontails are scarce up here although they seem to be increasing. I tried eating a snowshoe but it sure ain't as good a cottontail. I used to make rabbit pot pies with cottontail.
My son was out deer hunting this evening & called me on his way home to tell me he saw a cottontail run across the road down at the end of the old horse paddock. He was all excited. If we get a huntable population of cottontails in these parts, I'll get a pair of beagles.
I'll tell you an interesting story about flintlocks.
I lived in Southern Indiana for 22 years. That is the Mecca of muzzleloaderdom. One coild find a muzzleloader shoot somewhere just about every weekend in spring & summer. we shot for meat, powder, percussion caps, etc
I started my home gun making hobby on muzzleloaders. There was a pharmacist that would sell stock blanks, barrels, locks, etc to us & have gun making night every Wedsnesday. I started shooting imy home made .54 plains rifle in competition & I would hang in with a couple of 3rd place scores. In variably, this local guy would come by about 1 hour before the firing line closed & shoot his allotted 3-prize limit to bump me out of the prizes.
This continued for over a year until I built my brother that lives near Pittsburgh (Pixberg) a .54 cal half stock plains rifle. I took it to the range to test it out & damned if I didn't finish in 2nd place in one match.
Now you have to understand that these were hardcore front stuffers. We called breech loaders "supository guns". Flinters shot in the same matches as cap guns & most of the matches were won by flint guns. I built my self a .54 full stock plains rifle & started claiming my own 3-prize limits. From '82 until '95 I hunted exclusively with MLs, even using two 12ga dbl barrel shotgun MLs to hunt small game & Turkeys. 90% of the time, unless it was raining HARD, I left the cap gun at home & used my flinter for deer hunting. What a flintlock dose, is force you to use good follow-through & if you can master that, it makes you a better shot.
I lost interest in ML deer hunting after I moved here when they restricted area 6-A to antlerless only in the early ML season. After that, the sport became dominated by inline scope sighted high tech "muzzzleloaders" that turned the season into an extra week of modern gun season. I would love to hunt late season deer with my flintlock when they are under less pressure & returning to a more natural pattern.
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Once I really started getting serious about bow hunting I found myself within spitting distances of unalrmed deer under my stand that more often than not didn't provide a shot.
I found that Bow hunting usually provides more heart pounding thrills than gun hunting even when a shot doesn't present itself.
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Congratulation! Your 1st deer is a trophy of a lifetime & it will never happen again.
Looks like a mature doe & thay can be harder to get the drop on than any rut addled buck.
Looks like great shot placement too. I'll bet she dropped in her tracks.
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LOL.. Really ? That one did make me laugh out loud..
Laugh if you want, the stats are what they are & it certainly isn't the BO that makes the difference.
Please enlighten us with your opinion on why there is a difference. Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe not.
It's certainly not out of the realm to suggest that those that voluntarily wear BO might be a little more safety conscious dispite the absurd posts that suggest just the opposite.
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I once had a 2-7X32 Nikon Monarch. The optics were right up there with the more reasonably priced Leupolds & European scopes. Great value & very capable. I let it go on my M700 Mountain Rifle DM 7mm-08. The only reason I left it on the rifle was because of some cosmetic damage. Every deer that was shot at with that combo died with the 1st bullet.
I loaned it to this young man that killed his 1st deer with it from my tri-pod..