Recent content by Icky The Great

I'm chucking FPGC Oregon Trail 310gr with AA9 around 1285fps. It's quite impressive. I am using a Redhawk w 7.5" pipe. These are my blackbear loads when I hunt the laurels. I am using Winchester cases primarily.

I am running a custom built .300Blk for deer hunting built on an old Savage 12 action. I am shooting subsonic loads specifically. In PA you're most often going to have about 70yrd shot on whitetail. I have my blind set up with the optimum and average shots around 70 yards, longest spot I have...

If you still haven't decided, I will mention E.R.Shaw. They are some local fellows that have a lot of experience. I have done 5 different guns with them. One is a 700 in 30-06 in Rem#3 contour. Its a shooter and I have went out to 1200 yards with it. Most recently they have done a 16" .300blk...

Back in the day when we got them into the shop, we never advertised the country of origin to my knowledge, we would sell those damned things like hot cakes. Especially to the Class 3 crowd. They ran well. Only problems I could remember were operator errors. Now I will say this, way back when...

I have a few laying around and still use. Mostly Winchesters (models 64 and 94), one other bolt gun and an odd Contender with a 8" barrel.

On all of my AR builds I decided what I wanted, look, purpose, feel and built from there. I did swap out several grips and fore ends till I liked what I had. Ended up swapping parts with people or borrowing parts to see if I liked that feel and look. I am doing a SR25 based clone now. I am...

I have noticed in auto loaders that bullets will cock in the cases when the bullet doesn't completely feed into the chamber and the bolt hits the side of the cartridge. 1st thing is 22lr actually have a small crimp to hold the bullet and 2nd is most bullets are primarily soft lead, so when the...

I also have noticed a distinct lack of QC in ammo lately. Mostly Remington. A friend and I both bought 3 bricks of Remington Thunderbolts. Not my favorite 22lr but couldn't beat the price. We shelved them for awhile. He opened his first and tried to run some in his MkII. No dice. He tried three...

I built mine on a Quarter Circle 10 lower using Colt mags, they also offered one using Glock mags. Yes this is a registered SBR

I had a factory Rem 700 in .270win trimmed down to an even 20". It sits better and is much nicer in the brush than it was. I don't really recall the factory muzzle and accuracy being very good, never really played with it much before its alteration. So can't tell if it is much better or worse...

So years ago I was big into models, cars, planes, tanks, helicopters, whatever. I place in a few competitions but never really won anything. I finally asked one of the people judging for some tips and ideas to what they looked at. He said my tank looked good. Very detailed but fresh from the...

@TN Outlaw , yeah I'm there with you. I can't wait to get some time to do some shooting with it. I was thinking of a straight 4x scope on it but I may just put a 3-9x on it. I've got about 7 of them laying around so. I also can't wait to work up some custom loads for it. I'm expecting good...

This thread reminded me of those Feather Carbine kits for your pistol lower. Just when Glock started to get popular in the US. I wonder if there are any of those floating around? I have some 1911 80% lowers i could outfit for that purpose. Hmmmm...

The Rossi is a fine gun, if you can find them, I've been looking for awhile now. My good friend has one and changed out the sites. It shoots much better now. Personally I like those guns with irons, no scopes. I've shot many lever guns though out the years, some good, some bad. They are what I...

So to weigh in and add some more fuel to the fire here. I guess it depends on what you want out of the rifle. I have about 7 long range sticks from 22 Hornet- 50BMG. I have 15 deer rifles now. Depends on where I go and the terrain I intend to hunt. My go to is my 270. This is were it gets crazy...