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*The case is 4 gr larger. Makes a BIG difference. The difference between shooting a downhill deer and the bullet NOT exiting the body, and the deer becoming lost in brush country (when recovery dogs were not legal.) ;)

'Had 1 (657 hunter) but sold it. It did NOT perform like a .44 in hunting and the .44 is still used for bear defense in AK. It was much more of a pleasure to shoot than a heavily-handloaded .44. Still have some brass and poss. the dies. I'll have to look when next up at the farm. I don't...

major pressure differences between the two. factory ammo (there are only a few but they are 2,350 tame-above that my front hood blows off ev couple of shots. ) If anyone finds the last one in the caprivi i'd greatly appreciate it COD.) LOL both sound a bit light!! what ammo are you using in...

'Sold a some nice guns to diehard hunter Nez Perce leaders in the Falls area (bc that's where the FFLs are.) They are quite competitive when it comes to bear hunting!!! lol HONEST one called to interview me prior to purchasing. lol i passed. Drove through there last summer...

I believe stalking crocs w/ a 2.5" S&W .38 Spcl. (on small riverine islands) would be quite challenging! Keep your PH close! .460 S&W and proper bullets/shooting will do the trick, but I'd rather have the rifle (lol most weigh less and are much more powerful!! 'Got rid of my hunting pistol...

i buy that because it's 0.3" longer than a 458 WM and you get about 100 fps per 0.1" in that FL 375 Wyatt/Lott/Ackley case-all the same. Full or compressed, it's 2450 fps and that smarts (in a typ factory gun weight)! Yours would have approximately 0.1" of airspace left in the case, which...

the small round the 5.7 pistol cartridge-that's ideal for small game but of course i mean the .223 AR round. The 17 and 20 rimfires (even the really cool old 5mm RM) are classic examples of pretty trinkets sold by corporations (when the .22 WMR has had superior ballistics since its introduction...

You forgot 416 Chatfield-Taylor, but generally speaking the shorter (standardized former wildcats) exhibit more pressure and thus felt recoil in the same weight gun using the same weight bullet. The Taylor is brutal with 2500 fps+ rounds, which are unnecessary (factory is 2,350 and totally fine...

The 416 is a larger capacity and dimension cartridge with 100 grains less bullet. It's generally speaking from a factory standpoint a lower pressure round than the often full Lott cartridge with higher pressure and a 25% larger slug, so all other gun variables kept the same per the calculations...

lol my Dad would always speak of "the old Blue laws," not to mention ALL liquor sales through the State-owned stores. Too much to list. They keep changing the laws re: what can be used for small game, turkey, and varmints but i recall semis only on coyotes 24-7-365 w/ some deer season...

the higher the SD of a conventional (even TSX or TTSX which are expanding tip solids, essentially) bullet, the much less apt it is to "blow up" upon entry or within an animal. So, a stoutly constructed SP bullet of 180-200 gr (200 NP is my fav do it all bullet for the 300 WM, although 165s are...

Big head, small bear! lol

'Just like my friends. Just putting up with (some of) their wives' comments would be enough for me to let some go! Like a Midway commercial. LOL

I really liked the 358 Norma (didn't care for the excessive pressure/recoil 350 Rem)...it was the go-to lion/leopard round once upon a time!

mdwest at your leisure, please PM me if you have any other ARs you'd care to part with. TY. Thinking more along the lines of home/farm defense for not only myself by my grown children as well. A lawyer would have a field day after having to put the Socom to good use!!! LOL

The 300 WSM is nearly apples to the longer action 300 WM. The advantage being it's a smaller package (shorter action/bbl). I have one that weighs <7 lbs fully set up (and has virtually no recoil w/ a shorty brake). The larger, lower BC/SD .323 slug just takes it back a step in that short...

Winston Churchill. Exhibit A! LOL Did his job (and said some of the funniest comments to his opponents!!!) Bessie Braddock MP: “Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.” WSC: “Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow...

I would love to hunt the Highlands oneday (and probably best do it sooner than later the way the world is headed!) :) My ancestors came over from the UK in 1630 and elders' hailed from England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

LOL decades ago I took a GF into a cheese shop to show her the finished products from a fam farm. She was NOT impressed....she exclaimed something like "This place stinks like HELL" and immediately went back outside. :p She wasn't a keeper, apparently.

LOL Yes. I grew up in and around cheeseland and many roads featured the name Creamery, etc. (2 fam dairy farms as well.) I love it, but my Dr. told me to break up with it!!! Too many varieties to list. My uncle (lifelong dairy farmer that consumed milk, cheese, ice cream, cottage cheese...

I highly recommend the 200ish gr bullets for African PG (We used 200 gr Nos PTs but some PHs swear by the 220 gr slugs.) My son and I used both our 300s to good effect on PG from pygmy antelope to eland, but he was invited back to cull ~30 Oryx for herd management and to provide food for the...

Owning (3) 300 WMs since age 16 and handloading/shooting/hunting with each extensively (and owning more practical WSMs featuring 6.5-30 cal bullets in that smaller case,) and knowing fully well the 300 WM was the 3,000 yd (target)/1,000 yd hunting champ for years (and then the 300 Wby edged it...

That's really interesting. You can't avoid Physics! (300 WM is a larger case with a higher BC, higher SD ballistic.) It's the "far more versatile" comment that reminds me of why people voted for Biden.

IF you watch his videos, you will see him hit an elephant, perfectly, twice at 100 yds (follow-up running) using a 470 or 577 double with open sights. It was near the end of his career with (also RIP) PH Volker Grellmann in Namibia and another in Botswana. He could "handle" up until he could...

Poss quickest sale ever! Efficiency is good.

I'd grab it if not for the fact that semi centerfire rifles are illegal for hunting (anything except coyotes) here! Spreading the word...

Better Peter Hathaway capstick for the industry than Joe Biden and company! He did nothing wrong for the sport. We have no way of corroborating any of the tales above. I have his complete writings and VHS videos... Only one older English pH and famous Botswana lion hunter pokes fun at him and...

In a smaller case a shorter fatter bullet means more powder capacity! Why the 338-06 and 35 Whelan workout so well!

And excepting the small percentage of you that get offended, corporate committees have no allegiance to you other than to suck money out of your bank accounts via advertisements and brainwashing, and at best selling you some substandard item and at worst but considered their best some food that...

The lock nuts are cheap but kind of an unnecessary headache and waste of time! The only Lee I own are for 22 250.

Lee never came around to introducing the set screw locking nut. You have to buy RCBS or redding for that. All else is inferior junk that requires replacement with Superior parts!

"After some careful consideration after receiving your questions I have realized that these photo's may be slightly misleading. For this I apologise.". Things your local car dealer or politician will never say!

Trijicon 1 to 6 power on that rifle. Anything else is just a waste of money. I'd probably opt for a swaro on a long range rig. Also the trijicon is illuminated but requires no batteries.

Whatever you like in America. IF going abroad, 300 Win Mag (or even 300 WSM.) But, ammo WILL be available for the former when folks at the airport cause your pet ammo to go missing....Both of the aforementioned are excellent performers (giving nod to the 300 WM as the larger required bullets...

OMT: An old timer that used to take me out hunting as a kid...I'd say he was from the Art Alphin (A-Square) school of ballistics (old-timer=former USMC shooting/ballistics fanatic, gun salesman when hardware stores sold 'em, and later FFL.) He taught me to select the magic 3 rounds across the...

"90% of the Game is Half-Mental." -Y. Berra :p For most hunting shots, I personally believe SD (sectional density) is more important than the statistic of the same acronym, excepting long range shots where one or both may come into play. Using enough stat programs over the last few decades...

90% of the Game is Half-Mental. -Y. Berra

Having taken 500-level Statistics, I understand what you've presented above (and much more, un-useful stats featuring mathematicians' names, hyphenated. Kruskal-Wallace Rank Sum Test, Mann-Whitney U Test, et. al LOL). I believe a fantastic, cold gun small diameter 3-shot (at varying...

'took a good look at your pics-that IS a Solid unit! I'm guessing the D-rings are to lash add'l. baggage to the top (as rolling gun cases make great luggage carts-absolutely necessary when traveling solo!) I like the separate latches and lock loops. The combo lockable (musical instrument...

TY. That's about the same as my 4-rifle/gun HD (Aluminum/Plastic) SKB that's not as durable and now showing its mileage (hinges, locks wearing out, wheel axle bending/binding under loaded weight!) I've carried 2 in it when solo and 4 with my son, but 3 guns could easily work in that case. His...

It appears to have wheels. Can you show them, if so? Also, how much does it weigh? Very nice. Thanks!

Treeing them with hounds (blk bear-climbers) and shooting with lo-po levers, pistols and yes knifing them (typ. 2nd shot) was popular! lol Brown bear must've been NO fun until the 45-70, 404 and Springfield w/ 220 gr came around, and those are marginally adequate.

Per Kevin Robertson's prose (Africa's Most Dangerous,) consider using the 350 gr TSX (if you find a 350 TTSX-I'll give you $100 for it plus the cigar case you ship it in!) as its SD is way over .300 and it performs just like the animal's been hit with a .416. That said, it is a little much for...

With everything that's going on right now it may take me a while but my son bought me a book about these 1800s trekkers in America and specifically their bear hunts you will love it!!! It's probably packed up in a box as we are transitioning from my house to live up at the farm but I just came...

Just the day before my son and I left for one Zimbabwe trip in the past we were having breakfast out on the back deck discussing the details and this lone male bear shows up he wants our food he's freaking out growling popping his teeth mock charging the deck it was freaking my young son out but...

I remember it like it was yesterday she was of a special breed from Brooklyn New York that knew absolutely nothing about the outdoors nature or wildlife. I'm sure some sort of weird old religious beliefs were guiding her at the time and we see how that worked out. I could say a lot more about...

Sorry to say but I rode and drove and trailered many friends with broken ducati's home from far away including ferrying a broken bike over from Nova Scotia to Maine LOL a lot of that Italian machinery is very finicky and has issues! Also with the exception of the MV a little low in the...

This is the same cycle Jay Leno had the kid on his show that was clocked at 205 mph by the cops Jay loving such machines he had the kid on to help pay for his fine. I'll just say I had more fun than that kid for a much longer period of time and I'm lucky to be alive! My daughter once demanded...

I see them all the time in my yard black bears are like big raccoons generally harmless they just want food when they smell it including garbage. That said during droughts they also just want food and they will eat your kids or you for that matter especially up in Alaska! In my 30 years of...