SmallCaliberCentral

Nice shooting and I too have been a big fan of the 1/4 bore 06 for many years! You harvested some excellent species and I am positive there will be many more to follow in years to come. Great pictures too!

You can kill a HOG with a .17 caliber if you have a mind too! However, I been down that road once or twice using smaller caliber center fire rifles to hunt hogs in Missouri and other places like Tenn. & Kentucky. I will no longer try to hunt em with a black powder single shot rifle either! Inste...

I shoot a .204 Ruger, .223 Rem., .22-250, .243 Winchester, .25/06 as varmint and predator calibers. The wife shoots a .204 Ruger, .223 Rem. and the .243 Winchester. I used to shoot a model 700 Remington in 6mm Remington several decades ago but I traded the rifle off 12 years ago. It was a very good ...

I must conclude that the reason the FBI decided to NOT go with a 10mm, was not because of overpower, it was because the women could not handle the steel frame version's of the 10mm Smith & Wesson model and neither could a lot of the smaller handed men at that time. The FBI standards had gone dow...

If your going to carry a 1911 model, Kimber is one of the very best! I have over a half dozen model 1911's but I shoot a GLOCK because of arthritis in the hands, no safety to unlock etcl. just draw and pull the trigger. The last couple of years, I have carried the Glock in 10mm, it penetrates deep a...

I too Rick had a Remington model 22 I believe it was in the .222 or Triple Deuce caliber as they used to call it back in the 60's. It was the most accurate rifle I ever owned in a factory rifle! There was never a doubt I was not going to get the job done under 200 yds with that caliber rifle.

Rick, I did remedy that wife problem a long time ago! Now I purchase one for myself and let her pick out her own, it solves the problem when she is along on the hunt and you hand her that bench type rifle. She learns to understand things real quick like.......It has worked for me for over 40 years s...

WARNING HUNTERS!!! The animal called the "ARMADILLO" has been known to cause the dreaded disease called "LEPROCY" in humans. There is no cure for this disease. So my advice is NOT to go close to them and especially do NOT HANDLE THE DEAD ANIMAL PERIOD.

I guess I am sort of old school, in that I just don't believe in pushing the envelope on game animals, that I think should be taken with a larger weight bullet. To each his own in that respect! The biggest thing I have attempted to kill with my Ruger model 12, in .204 caliber is a male coyote (weigh...

Hey Gino! Now hows about you getting that .338-Lupa rifle used on the song dog and try that sucker out on one of those Eland. I shot one with my .338 Win mag and 225 grn bullet once and all it did was make a crater in the Elands shoulder the size of a double fist! Then it ran off tossing the leg bel...

I must agree, that having ammo (caliber choice) that one can find in most stores, is a big plus if you ever come up short during the hunt as I once did with my .338 Win mag, when someone stole the ammo from our campsight. I spent a half a day in Jackson Hole, Wyoming looking for 225 grn Federal bull...

I personall believe that once you get to shooting large game animals such as elk or kudu, the distance of 300 yards is a far cry for many shooters and that energy factor and bullet expansion is somewhat less than needed. This is why the magnum caliber's came into play back in the 60's to begin with ...

I hope you have a very successful hunt and a great time up there looking around etc!

Now my CZ-rifle in a "triple deuce" was one friggin accurate rifle. It shot pretty good in the beginning but after about 300 rounds or more, it started to group very tight, using Hornady 50 grn bullet. This rifle had the set trigger and that took a little getting used to but the rifle shot...

Well yesterday and today, I dusted off the old Marlin .22mag and cleaned house of the squirrels that have been raiding my pigeon lofts of the food I put in there for the birds. Yep, I put a bakers dozen into the "promise land of varmints". Most of the shots are in the 60 to 75 yard range u...