SmallCaliberCentral

Used a twenty year old, but new to me, Ruger Number One rifle this year, a 7mm Rem Mag topped with a 3.5-10x Leupold. Handloaded some 160 grain SPBT Sierra GameKing bullets over enough RL-22 to achieve 3050 fps with excellent accuracy. My final 3-shot sight-in/practice group at 300 yards measured on...

Wow - am way late to this post! :) Best of luck on the antelope hunt. I personally think that the little 6mm 95 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip is a wonderful hunting bullet. It's brought down several mule deer and whitetail from my son's 6mm Remington, loaded to about 3,000 fps. Farthest kill he made wa...

Well that didn't take long!

I like those scopes. Somebody got a good one at a good price!

Guy

I was pretty doggone impressed with the Hornady factory ammo. Bought only one box of it, 108 gr ELD match. Functioned perfectly through the Ruger rifle, no surprise, and excellent accuracy! Sighting in the rifle took but a few minutes and a few shots. I've fired 17 factory cartridges, kept three to ...

Skipper (I used to get called that when I was a Captain in the Marines) I've never had a scope that had 1/8 MOA clicks. But I've achieved High Master in NRA Long Range prone competition. ;) One click equaling 1/4 MOA is just peachy with me. I'm human. I vibrate more than that. It IS "that ugly&...

Thanks. My rifles sometimes pick up names. This one is "BUG" for Big Ugly Gun. It officially displaced my AR-15 as the ugliest gun I own, but it is a shooter! :) Twist rate on Ruger's factory barrel is 1:7.7 Why 7.7? Danged if I know! :) Haven't measured the freebore. I just handloaded to ...

Finally got some rounds downrange at 600 yards with the 6 Creedmoor Ruger Precision Rifle! I am very pleased. Shot from the bench, with the rifle on a Harris bipod, no rear bag. Ammo was my handloaded 108 gr Hornady ELD Match bullets with H4350. I had removed the muzzle brake and did notice a little...

My son John, our ten year old German Wirehaired Pointer Clark, and I enjoyed a nice, relaxed hunt at the Cooke Canyon Hunt Club, near Ellensburg Washington this morning. Clark enjoyed the easy hunt as much as we did. He found the six birds, dutifully pointed each one, then retrieved each one. I boug...

Anyone else here tag a deer, elk or antelope this year?

Have been doing more upland bird hunting in the past few years. Mostly because I've finally got a really good bird dog, "Clark" a ten year old German Wirehaired Pointer. He's made me a better hunter! We usually go for chukar on public ground, but make a few trips every winter to a hunt clu...

Realized that I'd neglected to post this. In 2017 I stayed home for the fall season, and hunted a chunk of public land in Douglas County Washington, only a few miles from my driveway. On public land, in Washington, I've learned to "go ugly early" :D Or in other words, take the first legal ...

Made my every-other-year trip from Washington to Wyoming in October. Splendid weather some days, cold and rainy, and even a little snow other days. Good hunt. My buddy got a very impressive mule deer, well, at least impressive for the area. We both got kinda "average" pronghorn bucks. I st...

Good discussion guys. Thank you!

All I've ever used in my 204 is BL-C(2) with 35 & 40 gr bullets. It did real well, but I'm out of it now.

From what I'm reading, I think I'll give that CFE223 a try... Seems like it might be a real good powder for the 204 Ruger.

Regards, Guy

Thanks Ray! Really don't know what he weighed. The arctic grizzlies are considerably smaller than their coastal cousins the big brown bears. Guide thought he was an old bear, maybe even 15 years old. Apparently the ivory colored claws are only found on older bears. He was considerably larger than ei...

Ya, it's kind of an odd subject for a forum that is mostly for varmint shooting...

But I figured you guys would enjoy. Once in a lifetime experience for me.

Guy