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Good surplus 7.62 NATO ammo is $100 per 200 rounds. If you buy a lightweight .308 Winchester mountain rifle, the recoil will be high enough to mimic a larger cartridge in a heavier rifle. You can practice relatively cheap, perhaps less than the cost of reloads. If you go prairie dog, woodchuck...

The only factory loaded ammo I usually buy is .22LR and .25 cal air rifle pellets. Except for military surplus for practice and acquiring brass. The last factory ammo I bought was some old surplus 7x57 Norma softpoints from 1984. Surprisingly, we could not produce a faster or more accurate...

I wish my liquor cabinet was that organized and well stocked.

A-frames and Partitions are not made like more common bullets based on target bullets. You have two cavities front and back to get centered in the jacket, and it is highly unlikely either one will shoot as accurately as a target type bullet with a thinner jacket. Bonded core bullets are making...

I have a British .303 #4 Mk2 for sale. It is birch stocked and I bought the rifle as NOS that had never been issued. Came from an Irish arsenal, made in 1955, built at ROF Fazakerly. Took it out of the cosmoline myself. It has fired a total of 25 rounds since I bought it. Same as a new rifle...

Recoil is not an issue when hunting as far as feeling it in the shoulder. Where you might have problems is a scope with too little eye relief. If you choke up on a scope with short eye relief, then expect a good whack into your eyebrow. Buy a long eye relief scope or mount your scope as far...

The Pro Hunter is for closer range work and the Game King is for longer range work. In my CZ 550 7x57 I get 0.5" group at 100 yards with the 140 Game King. My close range choice is the Nosler Partition at 150 grains. The GK is for my moderate distance load. These Sierra bullets are not for...

My CZ 550 in 7x57 is adequate in open country for everything up to large elk, which is the biggest game animal I ever intend to shoot. It shoots 0.5" groups at 100 yards out of the box, and launches 0.625 BC A-Max bullets a long way without much recoil. However, if I ever need a survival rifle...

.17 HMR .223 Rem .22-250 Rem These are NOT my personal favorites (except for .223 Rem), but judging by the amount of ammo that leaves the shelves they are the favorite centerfire rounds of Montana shooters. These rounds are typically found on the end shelves of dealers at sale prices in my...

We were taught the wounding theory of the 55-grain FMJ bullet, known as M193, in the military back in the 70's. However, I was in the Navy and I was on repel boarders detail. Only sailors with prior firearms experience ( I was from the boonies of northern Minnesota, no surprise I got picked)...

BE AWARE that here is fake Turkish SS109 ammo on the market. I have hundreds of rounds of the stuff. It is easy to tell the real SS109 as a strong magnet can pick it up because of the steel penetrator core in the tip. The Turkish SS109 is simply lead-cored 62-grain FMJ, but it shoots the exact...

FBI tests proved the TBBC bullet was the best .224 bullet for penetrating glass barriers. Marines in Afghanistan were needing better bullets for shooting through auto glass and doors/windows. The 55 grain TBBC shoots the same zero as 55 grain FMJ, making target practice cheaper with FMJ ammo...

Worst firearm was an SKS made in China that I picked up at a Texas gunshow. Was so poorly made, that upon closer examination I decided it was unsafe to fire. Took it back to the dealer and traded for a Browning BPS shotgun that is still a favorite after 18 years and never an issue with it...

.22LR: I have killed more animals (not big ones) with this cartridge than probably all else combined. I have also killed more gamebirds in my youth than with a shotgun because the .22LR had far more range than a shotgun and that old Hi-Standard autoloader was a tackdriver, far better than my...

If price is a problem, buy Russian optics. The cheap 1st Gen stuff is what most people are familiar with, but you CAN buy high quality current state-of-the-art gear made by manufacturers like LOMO. LOMO of St. Petersburg supplies NV gear to government agencies around the world, and the...

Just about any animal will look at you at night, and when they do, you can light their eyes up with a cheap 1st Gen Russian scope and an IR illuminator. No matter if you have 3rd Gen scopes, if you look at that glowing green screen you are night blind for a while afterwards. I only use a...

I use a 1st Gen Russian monocular for night varmint hunting. Any animal that is alive will look at you and you can light up their eyes with the IR illuminator. No need for expensive NV gear for finding animals at night. Also, night vision gear makes you night blind in the eye that looks at...

I usually have only one piece of gear that is almost always a constant with me while hunting......a Rottweiler/German Shepherd/ Black Lab dog that is my near constant companion. Everything else, I could easily replace....but not him. Second most important thing is a first aid kit in a remote...

Twice the stuff to break than a separate rangefinder and scope. The laser rangefinder, like all electronics, will soon be obsolete. Something better is already on the drawing board. When scope or rangefinder goes bad, you lose BOTH while in the service shop. Simple, separate, and tough would...

I have a Pelican case for a professional grade LOMO Russian telescope that is far more delicate than any rifle. It has never been knocked out of alignment in the Pelican case. Pelican cases are used by the US military for transporting rifles and all kinds of sophisticated things like delicate...

As far as the above comment on a CZ Mauser action not being smooth, all I can say is that the longer you use them, the smoother they get. A CZ firearm breaks in, it doesn't break out. My new CZ 527 isn't as smooth as my used CZ 527 that looked like it had seen a lot of prairie dog hunting...