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OK I commented, mentioning Merritt Island specifically.

Deep South Semi-bolt is a single shot automatic. It has the innards of a semi-auto except you have to pull the bolt back to actuate the mechanism. The bolt doesn't go up and down just back and forth. It exists because the hunting laws of Germany don't allow semi autos. When American...

OK, young Prinz Franz-Albrecht is damn good with his $10,000 worth of specialized semi-bolt action boar hunting rifles. However, is he better than a Texas hog hunter with an M-14 (M1A), 20 round magazines and tons of practice shooting hogs? Especially if this Texan also had a ton of practice...

+1 on that. I already have an 1894c Marlin that I plan to use. My son has Marlins in .44 and .45 Colt that I could use, but I think the .357 is plenty. That little carbine is light, handy, quick, low-recoil and deadly to 100 yds; 125 if you've got a good broadside presentation. That's...

Vanguard Endeavors on Sale Again I just got an Amazon Gold Box blast saying the 8x42's are on Gold Box sale again just for today. Sale price is $199.99 with a $50 rebate. These binos are supposed to be equivalent to Vortex Vipers, Pentax DCF CF, Nikon Monarch ATB, Zen Ray ED3s. The...

I just bought a pair of sub $400 8x42 binoculars. I spent a bit of time researching mid priced binoculars. In the beginning I thought the Pentax DCFs were the class of the field. They have gotten some nice reviews. Then I saw these Vanguard Endeavor ED binos. They got a great review here...

Brainwake wrote: I wrote that about mountain goats to show a practical example of the need to make a cosine correction. It really doesn't come up much apart from mountain goats. A 60deg slope is damned steep. While climbing up one, your hands will be close to the ground in front of you...

Witchhunter wrote: Mostly right. However, I saw a mountain goat hunter on TV overshoot a nice big ram at a rangefindered 350 yards twice. The problem was the goat was very high up a steep mountain so the horizontal distance wasn't very far. Here's the calculation assuming a 60deg angle...

1858 wrote: I've no doubt Kimber can build a very nice rifle. There are two problems I see: 1) they sometimes make a bad rifle and ship it anyway. Then they deny they did it and won't fix it. 2) the customer service is bad. Sergio's statement to the effect that damaged cases are alright...

I've been wanting an ultra light rifle for mountain hunting for some time now. I've been looking at the Kimber 84m and the Forbes 24B. There have been stories of quality control problems at Kimber and of bad customer service. Some said the quality control was a teething problem and had...

Here's an interesting comparison of these selfsame scopes. http://opticsthoughts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:qinexpensive-scopeq-comparison&catid=4:rifle-scope-reviews&Itemid=4 I bought a Diamondback with BDC reticle based on the article. It really does have a...

I just spoke with Skylar at SWFA. He said more 3-9 Conquests w/Rapid-Z were coming in today and tomorrow. It's a really big shipment from Zeiss for it to take 2 days. So happy Christmas after all. Every Christmas tree should have a $300 Zeiss 3-9x40 Conquest with a Rapid-Z reticule under it...

I ordered one from SWFA yesterday and got a back-ordered notice this morning. It seems they sold all of them yesterday. A 3-9x40 Conquest with Rapid-Z reticule for $300 was too good to last. :(

Take a look at the Vortex Diamondback 3x9 w/BDC reticule. I have one and like it. Good glass, good warranty. Wider field of view than the Burris, or anything else. Here's a low price scope review with the Burris and Vortex...

This guy at Garand Gear has a hollow plug that increases the volume of the gas cylinder. He has data to show this increased volume clips the peak gas pressure so that slow burning powders are safe to use in the M1. This plug that increases the gas cylinder volume acts differently from the...