Recent content by Art Eatman

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    Guns in the home

    I've always felt responsible for the health and safety of my family under any and all circumstance. And, as the primary bread-winner, myself as well. I see it as a personal responsibility to be competent with a firearm in the admittedly-unlikely need as a last resort for defense against...
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    Favorite song lyrics mentioning a firearm.

    Allen Damron: "Gringo Pistolero". "Set your sights up to 800, Hold a yard left for the wind, There's one hawk-eyed aviso , Who will never flash again, Weeping red tears from a third eye, From a gift he cannot feel, From the Springfield of the Gringo pistolero."
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    Hunting rifle

    I've never had a scope problem in many decades of "wandering the woods". I'm pretty much a fanboy of the old Leupold Vari-X II scopes, since back around 1973. Never lost zero, even with some pretty hard bumps.
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    Red Flag Law in Florida costs man his guns

    Some states already have specific laws against "Uttering terroristic threats". No new RFL needed.
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    Why are gun forums so vitriolic?

    Liberal? Me? Most folks think that I'm off to the right of Attila the Hun.
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    Remington Model 742

    The consensus from years of threads and posts is that if a good-condition 742 is only used for deer or elk hunting and is kept clean, it will last "forever". As said above, it's not a range toy.
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    .223 55 grain

    I've had decent groups with PMC full-jacket. Not exceptional, but generally near one MOA. Ruger 77 Mk II, light sporter; Timney trigger and an ancient 3-9x40 Leupold. Half-MOA with handloads.
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    Deer management, etc.

    I moved back to the old family ranchette (230 acres, mixed pasture and thick woods) near Austin, Texas, in 1968. Went jeeping around the pasture one night, spotlighting. Counted over fifty pairs of eyes. Way too many deer! Texas didn't have any sort of culling program, back then. I...
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    Which Winchester 1894s are must haves?

    High grade, early manufacture, are quite collectible. Particularly the take-down varieties. Check auctions for estimated values and/or prices realized. An opinion: https://www.justanswer.com/firearms/cks9k-value-winchester-model-1894-32ws-down-octagon.html
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    .22-250?

    And so now we wait, impatiently. :)
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    .243 Help

    I've only used my .243 on whitetail, not hogs. I get great accuracy with the Sierra 85-grain HPBT. It's a blow-up bullet, so I limit myself to neck shots or cross-body heart/lung shots. Some two dozen tagged bucks with all of them bang-flops. All-around "not picky" loads seem mostly to be...
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    DRT: The Rounds that Do It

    While the majority of my Bambi kills have been neck shots, I've been lucky that the few chest shots have been bang-flops. Of those, pretty much '06 with 150-grain bullets.
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    Rifle barrel cleaning

    Through the years I rarely shot all that many rounds at any one session at my bench rest. Most of the time I just sprayed WD40 on a patch and ran it through; then followed by spraying RemOil on a patch and running it through. In my '06, after maybe 3,000 rounds, I had degradation in group...
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    30-30 spire point Bullets. Yay or Nay?

    Why would a spire point not expand properly? I've never had the first sign of a problem with ogive-points, for somewhere around fifty tagged bucks. (And some does.) I've always figured that where Ol' Bucky is hit is the key to the deal.
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    30-30 spire point Bullets. Yay or Nay?

    Hornady bulllets were spire-points until they went to ogive points, sometime in the 1950s or 1960s. They were good on deer to 500 yards, per witnesses talking about watching my father's kill. 150-grain Hornady Spire Point, GI load of 4895 in his sporterized Springfield.
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