Recent content by RevJim

Just checked for you...start off with the Nosler 125Bt, 38gr H4895 and standard primer. You can work up a grain at a time if needed for accuracy or speed. Try to get around 2600-2650 velocity and you will be good to around 250yds! Have a ball...

AND if you handload, you can load up some of those mentioned Nosler 125BTs over a reduced "Youth Load" of H4895. You can reduce H4895 as much as 60% of the Max load. IOW, it will be a kitten in your .308

If you can scope that AR it will be even better, and will work with good ammo for sure. If you are wanting to get her a rifle that will handle bigger deer, or last her into her adulthood, then how about a Mod 750 Remington or BAR in .243? It is a sweet heart.

If its a belted magnum you want, I'd say the 7mm Rem Mag is your huckleberry. You can get all kinds of great factory loads or handload it to your hearts desire. It is easy to shoot, will respond well to tuning if you get a factory rifle, and flat kills deer/elk. I love the 300WM too, but could...

My 67 yr old cousin has been using a 22-250 since she was in her early 20's in East Texas. She has always been a slender girl, one of those platinum blondes who bruise easily too ( I know, I got a lot of switchings from grandma for slugging it out with her as kids (we were raised together). Just...

I too second either the 7mm08 (with minimum Barnes 140TTSX) or better , the 308 with 150gr Barnes TTSX for elk. for deer? Whatever strikes your fancy with these two. The Tikka T3 Lite is a good one, I personally have a Ruger SS in 338 Federal and a custom 358 Norma Mag ( Brown Precision High...

Go with the Remington 700 SPS. later on, if it just doesn't shoot like you want, you can always have it "Blueprinted, pillar bedded, after market trigger added and a target crown. they respond very well to accurizing. "However", I once had a Mod 700 Classic in 25-06 ( wood stocked) right out...

I've had and used leverguns since I was a kid. I shot my biggest muley at 75 steps with a Marlin 1894 CB carbine in 45 colt. I like both Winchester and Marlins, only had one Rossi 92, in 45 Colt, but it benefitted from a lot of parts upgrades. When I thinkof truck gun, I think of being on a...

Nostalgia. History Buff. My dad toted one in the Pacific for Japs until he could get an M1 Carbine. They also had a Thompson in their squad. They were attached to McArthers Army, to the Air Corp. They came in after an Island (supposedly) was taken and ran the commo for the airfields. They fought...

I've had a few 458s through my younger years, one at a time. A Ruger #1, a Mark X Alaskan, and a Whitworth Express. I got cracked stocks on both the ruger and the Mark X. The Whitworth needed the action tweaked, otherwise they were all accurate. I had in mind "some day shooting cape buffalo" and...

I've only had one Kimber, a little 84M in 7mm08 and it both accurate and ready to go. Pillar bedded, adjustable trigger, the whole nine yards. I have heard of other Kimber users that complained of accuracy problems. I've never had a Tikka, but there are two in our group, the T3Lite synthetics...

I like my Mod 70 FWTs trigger set at 3#; I like Timneys and Shilen triggers. I do well with 2.5 to 3, I used to go lower but my older, stiffer fingers let a few go before I was ready, ha. I like a set trigger for targets/varminting, but I want that unset stage around 3. My old BAR 270 has a...

I used a Marlin 1894 back in 1975. It was one, if not 'the" fastest woods rifles I ever used! this was in East Tx, on both deer and hogs. I used the Remington Factory 240 HP and never recovered one. My furthest shot was about 50yds, which was perfect. I always got two holes and no bloodshot...

.280 all the way! It will do at 350 what a 7mm Rem Mag will do at 450, but with less blast, etc. No elk alive can walk off with a 140 TTSX nor 175 Sierra 175 SBT...your choices are many and varied!

The 760 with the irons sounds just fine to me. Kept in an ATV boot until needed, get one of those extended mags as a reload...fast, accurate, awesome 30-06....yes an AR would work, but a 5.56 and desert winds don't jibe very well. The 760 would be a faster reload than the M44 "I'm guessing" as...