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    How Many of You Shorten Your Stock to Customize LOP?

    I don't know what wingshooters do today but it was common when I was doing a lot of snap shooting at moving quails. It's easy to twist the body at the waist without changing the position of the cheek against the stock and the feet never move. Quails are not like skeet because they can fly at...
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    Deer feed - Corn vs Creep Feed

    I've had game cameras on salt blocks in my area and I've noticed that the deer very seldom use them. One animal that loves the salt block is a porcupine and they will take salt every day. I do put the salt blocks out as an attractant and although I use the white salt blocks I understand that...
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    Deer feed - Corn vs Creep Feed

    Well, I have been feeding a mixture of 50% corn and 50% creep feed to the deer around my house and they are cleaning out the feeder every night. So, this week-end I will try it on the wild deer and I expect the same result. It will be fun to see what happens.
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    How Many of You Shorten Your Stock to Customize LOP?

    There's nothing worse than a stock that is too long. Many people do not realize just how much better they could shoot a rifle or shotgun if their length of pull was correct. I am 6 ft 1 in with a 35 inch sleeve length and I like a rifle length of pull of 13 3/8 inch. And yes, I have cut every...
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    Deer feed - Corn vs Creep Feed

    Yes, I plan to mix 50% creep feed and 50% corn in the beginning until the animals get used to the creep feed working toward feeding only the creep feed without the corn for the first 9 months of the year. I will add a sack of AntlerMax from time to time in the spring when the antlers are...
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    Deer feed - Corn vs Creep Feed

    Yes, we have a high population of deer here in Oklahoma and because of the high population it is legal to feed them or to use feed to attract them for hunting. I also use apples and during September and October I go to all of the apple trees in my area and pick up apples in 5 gallon buckets and...
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    Deer feed - Corn vs Creep Feed

    I started feeding deer about 20 years ago just as a means of keeping deer around the house and gradually I fell into using corn as an attractant for hunting. The use of corn was readily accepted by hunters and for some reason I just kept feeding it because all of the stores sell deer corn. As...
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    Model 70 Featherweight catch

    It takes someone with experience to realize they finally found something good. I started using Model 70 rifles back in the 1970"s but it took me over 20 years to get my first featherweght and that was a big game changer for me. There is a myth that heavier rifles with longer barrels are easier...
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    Post season scouting, it never fails!

    There's two things that I really like about January, February and March here in Oklahoma. First, the deer trails that have been hidden by vegetation all summer and fall become easy to see. This is your road map to patterning a big buck. If you find out where the deer are traveling after the...
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    Rebarreling a Remington 700

    When all else fails go to eBay and find the original Model 700 barrel that you want, same length and contour. Look the barrel over good to make sure it doesn't have any rust or marks, and the blue is near 100%. Cost is usually about $100 but there's a 270 barrel today in Hudson, North Carolina...
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    Rifle barrel burst; are cold hammer forged barrels stronger than others?

    I went through the process of getting a Bartlein barrel made and my research provided some interesting information. First, barrels that have cut rifling the steel is more stable because the heat treating and stress relieving of the steel is done before the barrel is drilled and the rifling is...
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    Help me pick a rifle stock

    The human brain is your onboard computer that makes everything happen. If you pick the wrong stock for your rifle the human brain will help you use it anyway. Some people don't need as many crutches as others and I learned years ago that user friendly works best.
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    Help me pick a rifle stock

    You're saying that the human brain is not smart enough to realize that their face is too close or too far from the scope? It's like saying the human brain is not smart enough to finish pulling the trigger when the scope picture is right.
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    Help me pick a rifle stock

    I might buy that argument for a a target shooter but even then your head position changes somewhat from standing, to sitting, to prone. I am a hunter and most of my shooting is done from a sitting position and even then I may be twisting my torso to follow a moving animal. As a hunter the only...
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    Help me pick a rifle stock

    If I was going away from the original factory stock I would vote for the McMillan fiberglass stock because I am familiar with them, but I actually prefer the original factory wood stocks. After many years of handling rifles I shy away from large cheek pieces like the Boyd's Heritage, McMillan...
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    35 Whelen vs 338-06

    Yes, I'm into the Winchester featherweight rifle also and you're well on your way. I found a used 6.5 Swede barrel on eBay about 2 years ago and I bid $180 just before the auction closed and I thought I had it locked up but someone smarter than me outbid me in the last minutes. I was really...
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    35 Whelen vs 338-06

    That is exactly what I have done. I have identical bolt rifles in 4 different calibers to cover different purposes. Every rifle has the same stock, the same action, the same scope and the same trigger so when I lift each rifle to my shoulder I can't feel any difference. That has been the...
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    35 Whelen vs 338-06

    I've never had that problem because all of my hunting rifles are just alike. When I go to my gun cabinet to get a different caliber the one I pull out feels and shoots just like the one I am putting back so there is no learning curve or getting used to. My neighbor made that comment about my...
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    35 Whelen vs 338-06

    Yeah, the big heavy scopes don't work very good for hunting where you have to carry the rifle long distances. You could easily get the total weight down to 8 1/2 pounds just by changing to a standard 3-9 x 40 scope.
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    Favorite 338?

    I have two identical 338-06 rifles and they are special to me. I also use 30-06 rifles for hunting and to me the performance of a 338-06 is much like a 30-06 but they have greater knockdown power. Every animal I have taken with them goes down immediately without any followup required. I am...
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