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Cheyenne08
PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 12:53 pm  Reply with quote
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Cheesy, OK, i'll bite. "Shot the donor" What in the hell does that mean?

I am old, need interpretation Wink .

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Brewster11
PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:02 pm  Reply with quote



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Did someone say BIG game?
16 ga over 8x57JRS 196gr 2487fps
All in a 6 1/2 lb package.


The black bear around here run to over 400 lbs, though most are 250.

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skeettx
PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:25 pm  Reply with quote
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Bought it for the FN action and was going to do a ‘custom’, likely in 6.5x55 as I already have dies for it and no rifle chambered. Then I shot the donor. It’ll likely stay a .30-06 for quite a while.


The donor is the FN actioned rifle in 30-06 that WAS gong to have the barrel removed, but shot soooooo well that he will leave it alone for not Smile

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CitoriFeather16
PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:25 pm  Reply with quote
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I've killed deer in northern Nevada and Elk in Colorado. Both with a Winchester model 70 in 30-06. Lost my taste for it lately. But I miss the elk meet!

Focusing on training a new. French Brit this summer to hunt over in the fall.

Matt
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PRONGHORNSOUTH
PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:02 am  Reply with quote



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skeettx wrote:
Today was a different kind of hunting

22 inch Walleye and 13 inch Crappie
Lake Meredith 60 miles from Amarillo, Texas



Love them specks!
Shameless plug for another Site that's civil and family friendly, Crappie.com
I'm there as Yonder, Florida Fourm
I get some of my jigs from a fellow in the Lake Palistine, Texas area.
Great folk......
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Gran16
PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:24 pm  Reply with quote



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I did quite a bit of research before putting in for the pronghorn tags and decided to just go for doe tags so we will see. Cheesy that is a nice rifle you have there and congrats on your elk hunt.

I’ve been looking for some nice wood stocked rifles to match my gran lighting but still unsure yet. I would like to get something unique and reload for it and all that but shotguns just seem to have more pull on me.
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Cheyenne08
PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:32 am  Reply with quote
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skeettx wrote:
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Bought it for the FN action and was going to do a ‘custom’, likely in 6.5x55 as I already have dies for it and no rifle chambered. Then I shot the donor. It’ll likely stay a .30-06 for quite a while.


The donor is the FN actioned rifle in 30-06 that WAS gong to have the barrel removed, but shot soooooo well that he will leave it alone for not Smile


Thanks Mike, I get it now!

Dale

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Cheesy
PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:07 pm  Reply with quote



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The JC Higgins Model 50 (FN commercial action, High Standard barrel) in a Model 51 stock I bought off another forum. Yes, shot too well as a .30-06 to use as a donor for a 6.5x55, for now. Under $500 in the entire setup including Leupold 4x scope, mounts, Timney trigger, and better stock. Or I could have bought a Savage Acis or Ruger American for similar money....



Also bought this Kimber .30-06 to be a donor for a 7x57. Shot it as well. It will not remain a .30-06.



I’m in my 30’s, but don’t really fall in with what my generation seems to be buying. Price point guns with plastic stocks don’t get a second look from me. Oddball cartridges that are often 100 years old are what I gravitate to in wood stocks.
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JonP
PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:41 pm  Reply with quote



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I shoot and reload too many calibers but gravitate to the Euro types like this 9.3x74R...286 grains at 2400 ft/sec....a real thumper. Have shot hogs, deer and even fox....nothing really goes to far after impact...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:11 am  Reply with quote



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I primarily hunt with the 284Win which I reload for. Have been yearning for a commercial BRNO mauser action model in full length stock, set triggers, chambered in 7x57...just because. Something like this:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/815935429

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robp
PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:52 am  Reply with quote
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Cheesy
That's a nice rifle
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ole_270
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:11 am  Reply with quote



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Cheesy and I both tend to favor the older stuff. My favorites for a while have been a 1953 M99R Savage 250-3000, a 1975 Ruger Tang Safe M77 250-3000, and a Ruger 77MkII 257 Roberts. For plinking and small game I favor a family heirloom, 1906 M94 Marlin 25-20WCF shooting home cast bullets.

Here is our Wyoming hunt from a couple years ago. Took my older Granddaughter for her first out of state hunt. Heavily hunted public access, last week of the season, nothing huge but we had a ball.This year we hope to draw tags in the same unit and get her younger brother on his first goat.
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skeettx
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:21 am  Reply with quote
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Great picture!!
Love the tent
Mike

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WyoChukar
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Bird hunting sort of cured me of big game hunting long ago, but I have taken a friend out on a couple of successful elk hunts. About the only rifle "work" I do anymore is for coyote fur, and even then I can't stop thinking that I am missing out on a day of bird hunting.
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Cheyenne08
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:18 am  Reply with quote
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ole_270, cheesy, make that three of us. I have an old Savage Mod 1899 take down in 250-3000 an original Win light rifle in 45-70, a Win m95 that was once a 30-40 Krag, but I had rechambered and rebarreled to 405 Win, and an old Remington rolling block in 7x57 mauser. I also have a Win m94 in 25-35 Win.

I enjoy wood stocks, don't really like the plastic generation, guess that comes from being an old man!

I have many other rifles, but the above seem to get most of my attention. Wink

I even have a couple of plastic stocked rifles, and they do shoot well, but there is no chemistry in me for them.

Dale

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