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I’ve got a Zeiss Conquest on my Steyr…I would recommend a used one for you!

Most of the “in real life” hate I’ve seen for the 6.5 CM has come from three places: People trying to shoot game well past its intended range as a hunting round. People using the wrong choice of bullet for hunting. People that use the “power” of a cartridge as a substitute for marksmanship...

Walk into any Omega store, walk out with the watch that you want. No time for Rolex’s games.

Several years ago my then-four year old was bothering me about taking her hunting so I took her with me to a ground blind I had set up not far from my house. As little girls are apt to do, she talked and wiggled the whole time so I knew the hunt was a bust and wasn’t upset when she said she was...

I still have yet to see anyone intelligently argue against this point.

I love my Seiko but a safari seems like the exact thing that a G-Shock was built for. If I’m ever lucky enough to hunt Africa, it’ll be a G-Shock on my wrist.

Unless you’re doing it to get some field work in before a dangerous game hunt, your favorite deer rifle should be fine for NC black bear. Take the ‘06.

Gents, the NRA is for certain the big dog when it comes to the pro-2A groups. You’ll find no argument from me there.

Gun Owners of America takes a much harder stance than anything I’ve ever seen the NRA take.

That green hat looks sharp. Were they to come back around, I’d be in for one.

And to add to this, a youth pastor as well.

Since then…AVP at a call center for a top-10 US bank.

The .280 will generally allow for you to shoot heavier bullets, if that’s your kind of thing (and it is for most here). It’s probably the most efficient of the children of the ‘06 but the differences between it and a .270 are small. The .270 is going to be easier to get ammo for in a pinch...

I don’t even have to read the thread. Buy the gun.

Never been myself, but I know lots of people that rave about the aforementioned Conman’s and have talked with him a time or two on the NC hunting forums. Good dude.

Brother and I doubled up the other day. Same stand, no more than 10min apart. I’ve got the hams off the top one in the slow cooker with onions, garlic, potatoes, and carrots now.

I’m jealous! My wife and I spent part of a day in Key West last week as part of our anniversary cruise. Fishing was on MY list of things to do but time didn’t allow for it.

Even then, give me one of the guns being used. If I wounded the buff then I should be one of the ones facing it, not somebody else. Like I said, I may be naive in this regard but I couldn’t stand holding a camera and watching this happen while somebody else put themselves in the line of danger...

Never been in that situation so I may be naive, but as a hunter how do you let someone else follow up on your wounded animal? I got us here, give me a gun!

No experience with a fallow, but whitetail have never gone very far with 130gr Fusions in my .270Win. And in the grand scheme of things what’s 0.2mm and 10gr worth of difference?

Put me down for a .30 cal for your choice. If the .30-06 doesn’t tickle your fancy then I’d bump up to Holland and Holland’s Super-Thirty.

Giz, I can not tell you enough how awesome this is!

Factories always report a on the hot side, but according to Swift they sell a 150gr A Frame in the .270 loaded to 2986 FPS.

LIAM URRY SAFARIS

The Rifleman was around when the VX1-2 were and from my understanding, it has fully coated glass and friction ring adjustments as opposed to the fully multi-coated glass and click adjustments on the VX1-2 and now the VX-Freedom which replaced VX2 quality at the VX1 price. I guess it really...

It also has to do with Savage not being able to decide how the hell they want to remove the bolt. I can’t speak to the .375, but I’ve owned several Savages and all of them were well-built and more accurate that I am. If this one was stateside, I’d want it.

My only experience with a Burris has been a Fullfield II, and it’s been on a .30-06 and a .270 hunting whitetail. It’s been excellent for that.

I have to echo the effectiveness of riding lawn mowers for snake defense. May not help in stalking an animal, but they’re hell on a snake.

That’s awesome Gizmo, and true conservation at work. I love seeing animals returning to their traditional homeland.

Hey, if we’re going this way then I think we’ve got to swap out a deer for a bear. Grizzly, black, polar, doesn’t matter. They’re just as iconic as any of the rest.

According to Yellowstone Park from 1978-2000, two and a half times as many were attacked by bison in the park as there were by grizzly bears, and they killed the same number of people in that time frame.

In a word...YES! Savage’s are accurate out of the box and you can have one tuned up very nicely. Since it’s such a great deal, you should probably go ahead and get a Bell and Carlson stock for it...

Prayers to all those effected. We went through some major flooding during both Matthew and Florence so I have a whole new appreciation for the horrors that water can cause.

Some of these optics have been on test rifles, sent out to pro staff, or been display models. They get sent back to the factory for a once-over then sold as refurbished but my experience with a refurbished Zeiss has been a very good one.

Congratulations on being approved, but dear lord it makes me thankful to live in America.

Hey man, I’m all for having just a few nice rifles but TWO? A man needs to have, at minimum: A .22LR for pot shooting and plinking A medium game “deer” rifle, be it a .270, .30-30, .243, 7x57, any of the wide variety of 6.5’s....something of the like. A big game rifle for those animals with a...

Finally got the conclusion! Great write-up, I felt as if I was there with you! Maybe next time I will be. (y)

Guns? What guns? I lost all of mine in a tragic boating accident.

Unless you decide to add a cow buffalo to your plains game hunt. You still get to a hunt a buff and it’s cheaper...

Congrats on the ‘06....and the .404! Can’t wait to see pictures of both.

Old green jeans always has his way to get ya. Hopefully the fine is the end of it all and you haven’t gotten ahold of one of the several wardens in NC that thinks he is far more important than he actually is...

1.) Congratulations are in order! 2.) That post is worthless without pictures!

Won’t try to derail this thread much more but we’d do them like that and always used them in place of chicken in chicken bog too. Dang good eating.

We used to do some pretty high volume dove shooting around here and it didn’t take very long to switch from 12ga back to 20ga. With loads how they are now, there’s really not that much difference and with high volume shooting I’m not going to take the pounding on my shoulder if I don’t have to.

Welcome to another Tar Heel!

How much? :)

My goal has always been to try to have a small number of nice, versatile rifles. Things like a .223, .30-06, .375 etc. This place sure does make the “small number” really hard to stick to.

Don’t let me discourage you from getting something bigger and cooler for the sake of bigger and cooler, but don’t discount what the ‘06 can do with heavy bullets. The 220gr bullets turn it into an entirely different animal if you ask me... If I was making the change, I’d go with a .35 Whelen...

I had a Winchester 94 that WOULD. NOT. GROUP. The first two shots would be touching and the third would be almost off the damned target. Tried different ammo, tightening all screws to the same specs, checked scope, rings, mounts, waited minutes between shots..... Piece of crap would not group...