Recent content by Longwalker

I regularly load ammunition for my .222 rifles. It is my preferred centre fire .22 caliber. I currently own two .222’s - an Anschutz and a CZ ZKK. Both shoot accurately with almost any published load of IMR or H 4198 or Benchmark or RL7 or Win 748 and 40-55 gr. bullets.

I've used thousands of Remington 9-1/2 and 9-1/2 Magnum primers. Never a high seating problem with any of them. I've mostly seated primers with a Lee hand tool, but also have used the seater on my Hornady press and the one on my Forster Co-ax press, and in recent years a RCBS hand priming tool...

Great video. Brings back some nice and some scary memories!

"Favourite" is difficult to define... The most useful, practical cartridge for me is the .308 Win. What I started hunting local game with and in reality nothing I've tried since is demonstrably "better" for hunting our various deer, elk, moose bears etc. I like the ammunition and bullet choices...

Docter / Noblex are the most commonly used red dot sights in Europe. To my understanding they were the first to popularize red dot reflex sights for driven game hunting. I have two of them. I like them a lot. They have the same mount footprint as the cheaper and less precise Burris Fast Fire...

Saskatchewan and Alberta offer good hunts for bears over bait. British Columbia would be my suggestion if you prefer spot and stalk. I have personal camps in Northern BC and North Eastern Saskatchewan and spend a lot of time at both locations. I estimate the BC bear population density is more...

I was shooting my .357 magnum Win M92 carbine with some test loads the last couple days. I also experienced some slow velocity first shots. I also have no explanation. I was testing loads with Hodgdon Lil'gun powder and 180 gr. bullets, quite a different load. Mysterious.

I loaded 300 heavyweight cartridges for my little Winchester M92 lever action carbine in .357 magnum. 180 gr. Sierra Flat Point Jacketed, with 14.0 gr. Lil'Gun powder for 1700 fps. Makes the little carbine black bear capable if necessary in a pinch, but it's mostly a small game/pest/plinking...

Mountain Zebra, Black Wildebeest, Nyala, Waterbuck, and common Reedbuck. Because they are species that I haven't yet had the pleasure to hunt!

My good buddy who is a recently retired professional forester from Cologne, Germany highly recommended the Stihl electric chainsaws. My wife likes mine so much I hardly get to use it at our BC bush camp. I usually keep it in the truck to clear the way on narrow logging roads where fires have...

If you'd like to compare ruffed grouse, woodcock, and snipe, the photo below is from the only day when I took all three on the same hunt. It was memorable.

I love hunting snipe, and do so every chance I get. In fact a snipe was the very first game bird I ever shot, which was when I was ten years old. I stalked close and shot that bird in the head with a Daisy red rider BB gun, at a distance of three or four paces. My mother good-naturedly cooked it...

rigbymauser - the quote you attribute to me 5 posts above was not made by me. I have no opinion about a Colonel Angus and no knowledge of that person.

And in case you don't like clicking links, here's the text of the article above: Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war...

Here's a Canadian explanation of what happened to the markets last week. Many of you will not like the message, and will attack the messenger, as usual. I think it is a worthwhile read...