Recent content by AKElroy

I get that, but I've also taken a good doe with her yearlings on tow. It wasn't long before they returned after the shot. At first I was mortified as they nudged her on the ground, until I put glass on them to see they were just getting to the corn. My experience is we tend to place human...

Bucks with nice racks were exciting years passed, but after helping on many cull hunts on trophy ranches, sitting in a blind with the owner, looking at numbered ear tags, taking inventory of $2500.00 to $6000.00 bucks, it just made me feel silly for ever being attracted to it. The meat on the...

I generally load whatever the rifle likes to shoot best. Deer tend to fall for any of it. Fortunately, my deer getter loves 150 gr remmy Corlokt. $17-$18 bucks a box is hard to beat.

+1 on the Aimpoint PRO. The Holoson has some poor reviews, and this is one part of the build you don't want to skimp on. I have 4 PSA builds, and they are the best value for the money IMO. Wih the exception of the PSA10 .308, all the others have been 100% reliable. Their service is outstanding...

I failed to address your question though, so I will say when hunting alone I try to refrain from placing myself in positions where I could easily be injured. If I'm sealing the roof on the trailer, trimming trees with a chainsaw, or doing extreme exertion activities, I am going to save those...

We lost our lease two years ago, so I've been hunting on the mercy of others. It has really made me long for being alone again. I love hunting with my son, especially when he was very young, teaching him the ropes. Now 16, he shoots better than me. I miss the trips alone though, I don't drink...

UPDATE! so the saga continues, calling for desperate measures. After polishing the feed ramp, throating the barrel and tuning the extractor I made another range trip. Nada. Still a jamomatic. Only one thing have yet to try, going back to a stock recoil spring. For obvious reasons, this is not...

I used the ghost 3.5 in my G23, and also did the polish job on all mating surfaces. I have to say it transformed the feel of both the pull and the reset, and has improved my groups. Takes 20 minutes with a tube of Flitz and a cloth. Too lazy to find the YouTube link, just google cheap Glock...

Probably very good advice. There is no telling the amount of trouble I may have chasing down new issues; certainly plenty of new stuff to blame. I really do feel that the bolt-on stuff is pretty safe; its the kind of thing that either works or it doesn't. The extractor is probably the only...

I am only using factory ammo; Underwood is really no more expensive than premium ACP loads, and was one of the factors behind wanting to go with the conversion. I go to the mountains pretty often, and will simply sleep a little more at ease with the power of this in a woods gun if I can get this...

First, I ordered the wrong kit. Apparently, the Series 80 "Enhanced" I own actually uses a "Gold-Cup" cut to the breech-face, so my first attempt did not fit. Now worries, Clark was super fast in returning the proper kit, and off to the range I went. First mag, as well as all subsequent mags...

This project started easy enough, send $295.00 to Clark Custom, wait three days, swap barrel and spring, enjoy .44 mag thump from my rarely used Colt Series 80 enhanced. WRONG.

Magnum Research Magnumlite has a .92" graphite barrel, very light, very accurate. I hate light barrels for precision bench shooting, so I traded mine for a Kidd and never looked back. Now every part of that MR has been replaced except for the receiver, and for just $1700 invested I now have a...