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I've always felt responsible for the health and safety of my family under any and all circumstance. And, as the primary bread-winner, myself as well.
I see it as a personal responsibility to be competent with a firearm in the admittedly-unlikely need as a last resort for defense against...
Allen Damron: "Gringo Pistolero".
"Set your sights up to 800,
Hold a yard left for the wind,
There's one hawk-eyed aviso ,
Who will never flash again,
Weeping red tears from a third eye,
From a gift he cannot feel,
From the Springfield of the Gringo pistolero."
I've never had a scope problem in many decades of "wandering the woods". I'm pretty much a fanboy of the old Leupold Vari-X II scopes, since back around 1973. Never lost zero, even with some pretty hard bumps.
The consensus from years of threads and posts is that if a good-condition 742 is only used for deer or elk hunting and is kept clean, it will last "forever". As said above, it's not a range toy.
I've had decent groups with PMC full-jacket. Not exceptional, but generally near one MOA.
Ruger 77 Mk II, light sporter; Timney trigger and an ancient 3-9x40 Leupold. Half-MOA with handloads.
I moved back to the old family ranchette (230 acres, mixed pasture and thick woods) near Austin, Texas, in 1968. Went jeeping around the pasture one night, spotlighting. Counted over fifty pairs of eyes. Way too many deer!
Texas didn't have any sort of culling program, back then. I...
High grade, early manufacture, are quite collectible. Particularly the take-down varieties.
Check auctions for estimated values and/or prices realized.
An opinion: https://www.justanswer.com/firearms/cks9k-value-winchester-model-1894-32ws-down-octagon.html
I've only used my .243 on whitetail, not hogs. I get great accuracy with the Sierra 85-grain HPBT. It's a blow-up bullet, so I limit myself to neck shots or cross-body heart/lung shots. Some two dozen tagged bucks with all of them bang-flops.
All-around "not picky" loads seem mostly to be...
While the majority of my Bambi kills have been neck shots, I've been lucky that the few chest shots have been bang-flops. Of those, pretty much '06 with 150-grain bullets.
Through the years I rarely shot all that many rounds at any one session at my bench rest. Most of the time I just sprayed WD40 on a patch and ran it through; then followed by spraying RemOil on a patch and running it through.
In my '06, after maybe 3,000 rounds, I had degradation in group...
Why would a spire point not expand properly? I've never had the first sign of a problem with ogive-points, for somewhere around fifty tagged bucks. (And some does.) I've always figured that where Ol' Bucky is hit is the key to the deal.
Hornady bulllets were spire-points until they went to ogive points, sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.
They were good on deer to 500 yards, per witnesses talking about watching my father's kill. 150-grain Hornady Spire Point, GI load of 4895 in his sporterized Springfield.
I've had one-shot kills at 450 and at 350. That's two out of some 50 tagged bucks. All the rest were killed inside of 200 yards. The last buck I killed was about 20 to 25 yards away. Felt guilty for using a rifle instead of a handgun. :)
In his "Complete Guide To Handloading", Phiil Sharpe lists a load with bunches of 2400 with a 40-grain bullet giving a muzzle velocity of some 3,900 ft/sec.
I guess the most primitive bore-sighting I ever did was when I lived in town for a while. I set some books on the dining table and pointed the rifle out the window. I used the rear-view mirror of a parked car some 75 yards away as the center for the bore. Twiddled around until the bore-center...
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