Recent content by woodsrunner

It does make sense. It's not so much a secret anymore that the middle class is disappearing here on the inevitable downslope of the great egalitarianizing age of cheap, super-abundant oil. Enabling as it did a vast upward mobility. A one-off show. A party ending now. It will be back to the...

Good point. But if you tell that to a proudly modern man his wallet will do a vanishing act. It must be marketed as innovation. Notwithstanding William "the past is not dead it's not even past" Faulkner.

Rigby and perhaps others(?) built some rifles with slant-box magazines back in the golden days. This was to accommodate rimmed cartridges engineered for doubles as i understand it. (The danger of rimmed cartridges in bolt rifles being the rim of a cartridge on top getting behind a cartridge...

On the vast public lands of my area, 100 yards from a quad or 'side by side' trail is far enough back that I have only once over many years as a tracker seen the footprints of another hunter in heavily hunted country, and even this was on a cutline. Such is the degree of our decay as a people...

Bravo. I like the idea of the integral chassis. I never quite understood the need for a "take-down" but oh well, no big deal as it doesn't seem to have marred the aesthetic. A standard rifle can of course be taken down in minutes, however, we live in a dismal tide of a time where people...

Most of the time i choose a calibre to suit both what i am hunting and what might come hunting me. If i'm in a place where there is nothing in the latter category, it expands the choices.

I handload all rounds for my .375 H&H with middle-of-the-recommended-powder-range charges for both hunting and practice (300 grain bullets.) I find them pleasant to shoot loaded thus, something i cannot say about shooting off a box of the factory ammo at practice. I have taken some factory...

For anyone following this post, my issues with non-lockup of some handloaded cartridges in my rifle of this calibre were indeed solved today by turning the necks of the resized brass. Shaving a smidgen down off the necks of the brass did the trick. In case anyone else runs into this issue.

These are the bullets i am handloading in my .375 H&H and .366 Mauser for backup here in grizzly country. 300 grain and 286 grain cup nose solids. Intuitively they seem like the perfect ticket for the application - a non-spitzer (good frontal area) solid that expands.

Brian - yeah, i'd think that the detached retina option would not be a real selling-point for most hunters. My black sense of humor gets a real chuckle reading about that sort of stuff, though. Dislocated shoulders, severe bruising... detached retinas. Woo-hoo as they say, sign me up! Got...

I loaded up a bunch of 286 grain North Fork cup nose solids over 45.5 grains of Varget (max load i intend after working up from 42) for my 9.3x57 Mauser 96 project gun replete with Skinner peep. Varget is a very stable powder unlikely to produce high pressures, so the literature says. Having no...

Perhaps they offer a detached retina?

As detailed in Phil's April 2014 Sports Afield article on his Lon Paul custom .30-06 for instance. Took him a full six rounds of 220 grain partitions in the gun to bring down a wounded incoming Alaskan grizzly. I read that and took it the opposite way the piece intended, that is, I took the...

Thanks for the clarification. Mine was sold as a 146 but they were in error it seems. It's a cock-on-close small ring as far as i can tell at any rate. I'll be using it as a bush gun in the big woods for buck and elk tracking and black bear at any rate. The attraction for me was having a...

Thanks, cheers.