Recent content by Austin AH

Well I was hoping this would be a thread to learn about hunting elephants. Is it not? The information about SD and bullet selection and first hand accounts and even anecdotes of PH's using/allowing or not allowing. 375 H&H seems interesting and useful. The "theory" is pretty...

I imagine that's not a short list. A bunny shooting a .222 (~6 lb rifle, 3-4 ft lbs recoil) would be like you shooting a 300 lb rifle that still produced as much recoil as a .577 Tyrannosaur. That's an artillery piece. Suppose you weigh 200 lbs and have a 10 lb .458 WM with 70 ft lbs of...

It's not all that different of a concept from your excerpt about .375 h&h shooters being practical customers and .458 win mag shooters likely being under the influence of gun rags. Elephants are so much bigger than us that hunting them is like if you or I were being hunted by a large...

I would think that an animal 10 feet tall and weighing 5 tons would notice a ~.075" difference in bullet diameter a lot less than the shooter of that bullet. If we supposed that a .270 (about 3,500J) is about minimum that most people would choose for elk, and then scaled that elk up to the...

I saw that 16 ga over 5.6x50R so I should say thanks for buying it so your wife got mad instead of mine!

Think it could be 3d printed? The last thing I need is another hobby but I've always thought there would be an incredible niche for old gun parts like that.

That's so annoying to me. Weird rifles/calibers are exciting and interesting, I want a gun store or range or pawn shop employee to at least be enthusiastic when I buy or show up with something besides and AR or polymer pistol even if they don't know what it is or what it's for. My first DG...

I think this is the most correct and succinct answer to the original prompt. Young people generally have different interests within the broader hobby of liking guns and reloading is one of the things they're less interested in. On the other hand, they'll build AR's or mill Glocks from 80%...

Sure, but I can find factory loaded rounds of .308 all day for what you're paying just for projectiles. 99% of shooters aren't paying $3 a round for range ammo in common calibers. If you're shooting 8 to 10 boxes of premium .308 at game animals every year then reloading premium bullets is...

Hard disagree. That's the fun part

I'm in Austin as my handle suggests and get down to San Antonio once in a while.

Based on the other intro titles it seems we're pretty common! I've had an interest in shooting and hunting my entire adult life. About 2020 I found an SCI record book of African trophies for 5 dollars at the thrift store and realized some of the more inexpensive African hunts were less than...

The idea that young people are lazier than the older generations is a fiction on par with believing the Earth is flat or that sacrificing virgins affects the weather. "Nobody wants to work" was a common complaint in the US after Covid, but the permanent drop in labor force participation...