* Funniest thing I heard all weekend. On Friday while watching a movie with the kids, one of them says "Happy New Years Adam". We all looked at her confused. Then she explains "Adam came before Eve, right?" I then burst into laughter. She says it's a traditional saying within her family on Christmas and New Year.
* I then tweeted it. With nary a response.
* I guess you had to have been there.
* We were invited to a NY party. Didn't get to attend though. Actually, at 11pm we watched the ball drop in New York and went to sleep.
* I turn 50 this year. Is that really a milestone?
* W-spouse and I didn't make any New Year resolutions, but we would like to both start eating better. I give that a 70 percent failure rate.
* I have prayed and prayed over an ongoing problem within our family.
* We are watching a HGTV special right now about how they build the floats for the Rose Bowl Parade. I always wondered what the drive train was and how you drove and steered them. I now know.
* W-brother in law just got his building finished out at the lake house. I'm so jealous.
* One of these days.
* We had 7 hormone raging boys stay here last night. #firstworldpains
* I should have said, 7 hormone raging HUNGRY boys.
* I expected it to look like a bomb went off when we woke up this morning, but surprisingly, it didn't.
* There is a new blog link over to the right. Hunting Game. If you don't like seeing deer, ducks, coyotes, hogs and just about anything else shot and killed. Don't click on it.
* I received some information this weekend that may have changed my mind on where I will be hunting next year. It's a twenty minute drive from my front door.
* If I start hunting again, I want this in 270 or this in 270. I would also like to have this in 270 but not likely going to happen.
* I will either be purchasing or building something like this. I won't need them to be that tall though. Just a few feet off the ground.
* I haven't pulled a trigger in 8 years. I think it's time to start again.
* Hope your New year has started well, see ya Around The Corner!
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.308 Brother...only way
I've wondered what's up with you lately....=( I'm sorry there's difficulty brewing in the family. I'll pray too.....we love the W Family. It's a good one.
You and Whit were missed on NYs....I thought of her when I finally chose the shoes I wore...GF and I do like our shoes. ;-)
Good to see you here again! Keep praying---sometimes I feel that mine just bounce off the ceiling, but I know He hears. Just my own problem!
As an owner of two .270 Win. rifles and a big fan, obviously, of its flat trajectory, let me relate a story (I believe I read it 20 years ago or so) written about its biggest proponent, Jack O'Connor.
While the .270 undoubtedly owes its success to O'Connor's many Outdoor Life articles singing its virtues, and deserves it, the esteemed gun writer was said to have had a conversation with another (Jim Carmichael, perhaps?), a few years before he died.
Carmichael, if I remembered correctly, was discussing a custom rifle he was planning to build, when the older writer asked him about caliber.
"Why, .270, of course."
O'Connor was said to have quietly told him "Go with the .280 Rem. - it's a better caliber."
Since O'Connor died in 1978, it's possible that newer bullet selections from Hornady, Nosler, Barnes, et al have broadened the array of bullets available for the caliber (I probably have 5 different styles/weights in my cabinet) - but there will always be a greater choice among the 7mm bullets.
If you don't reload, that may not matter, though .270s are usually not tack drivers with factory ammo. The flip side, I suppose, is that every sporting goods store and bait shop in hunting country carries .270, very few stock .280 Rem.
Anyway, if I were building a custom rig, that's what I'd look into. Then again, I've already got the .270 base covered (and I've never lost an animal with the .270).
For Texas deer, the 6mm Rem. is tough to beat - I've taken whitetail and Sika, one-shot kills, with a Rem. 600/660 (can't remember which), and it's great entertainment to do so with what some folks would regard as a 'poodle shooter'.
I don't know who anonymous 2:26 is but he knows his guns. I love the .270 and remember being turned on to it by Jack O'Connor. I have never had a kill with it than required more than one shot including two bull elk in Colorado. Its flat trajectory with a 130 grain bullet sighted dead on at 130 yards, let the hunter hold dead on on a deer size animal out to about 200 yards with only about a 2" rise and fall. Maybe this is not as valuable in this day of rangefinders but it was great back in the say.
I'll say a prayer, too, for the family. Mo
All you really need is a 38 S&W snub nose and backup of a Glock 9mm with a mag clip. Hollow points for both.
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My hat's off to you. You must be a heck of a deer hunter. lol
Answers - You and Corner know.
My dad turned me on to the .270 - gave me my first in the mid-'70s, and taught me to sight in 1.5" high at 100yds.
I've always loaded 130s, but have probably 200 component 140s (Nosler BTs, Hornady something-or-other) awaiting reloading. Would have to check the tables before going to the reloading bench, but I think it's gonna run about 57-58gr of H4831SC behind the 140.
Have never bought or used any 150s, though I suppose they could be useful for bear or moose where the animals are larger and the ranges shorter.
I came across some 100 grainers in the cabinet (possibly from a gun show or garage sale) awhile back. Will probably find a suitable recipe and load those as a lark. I wouldn't expect much from it accuracy-wise, though it would go like heck. Or maybe could concoct a reduced load - but that's what the .243-6mms are for...
Daughter and I were at Cabela's on NYD. As we toured the taxidermy room, she asked me several times if I would take her hunting. I told her that those animals required a larger gun than what she's shot (only rimfire, so far).
I did promise to take her to the range to shoot the little .243 with the dog-leg bolt (nearly identical to the aforementioned 6mm - can never remember which is the 600 and which is 660).
A hunting place only 20 minutes from home = Heaven.
I can remember back in the early '90s when I could sneak out of my office at about 4:30 in the afternoon in early September, swing by the house to pick up an 1100, and be sitting on a bucket seat next to a stock tank and sunflower field by 5:00.
Sadly, that place is covered in houses now.
Glad to have you back writing. Missed you.
I've always wanted to kill a pig with a 7.62 x 39.
I guess that would translate roughly in to a .308 "short," but what the hell do I know.
Anonymous,
I talked to Corner. Neither of us have a clue who you are. You can tell us cause we're both too lazy to stalk you.
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