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You didn't mention what sort of hold you were using. If you were using two hands on the grip, or forearm/grip stance, try looking into the NRA silhouette taco hold. That should allow the use of short eye relief scopes.

Aluminum cased ammo causes extra wear on a firearm due to the spring back, or rather lack there-of. When a brass cased cartridge is fired, after the pressure recedes from peak, the case will spring back .002" or thereabouts. Aluminum cases do not spring back like this increasing the drag, and...

For a lot of years, I shot a 6mm Rem for whitetail, muleys, and antelope ranging from a 90 lb yearling to a muley buck that went 250lbs dressed. It worked, and worked well on everything from a whitetail at 3 feet to a mule deer at 450 yards. I saw everything from a DRT to the 100 yards...

There's a couple things to consider here. First you're looking at building a rimmed cartridge which is going to require an action set up for rimmed cartridges. That pretty much leaves you with a Patter 14 enfield/ Gibbs 45-70 conversion or a Siamese Mauser. Next up is the smith. All the...

The sling you're talking about is a safari sling. Cabela's has 'em.

1858, I've made my thoughts known on the issue, and if you care to take it to a thread for that specific purpose, I'd be happy to debate the use of the TKO formula with you. However, as it is not pertinent to the issue at hand beyond the statements we've both made and defended, let's drop is...

That screw is to lock the slide in place once you have the elevation adjustment dialed in.

If you only want a 130@3000 from a .308" bullet, then please, please pick a .300 Savage or a .308 WCF. In a .300 WinMag that would be a gross under loading and borders on terminally stupid if a secondary explosion occurs. That 130 TTSX should be closer to 3200-3300 than 3000. Pick a performance...

The reason I would opt for a magnum is to drive heavier bullets at the same speed as a standard weight in an '06 cartridge. For big bears, a 220gr at 2650 is going to have far better penetration than a 150gr at 2850 or a 160 2800 from a .270. You have a lot of animal to move through and the...

First off, neither the .270 WCF nor the .300 Win Mag have anything resembling knockdown power. You may get lucky more often than not and bust up enough on a calm, relaxed deer to cause it to give up, but knockdown power it ain't. Unless you're planning a hunt for the big bears on Kodiak, I...

Do a google for Las Vegas Steel Targets. AR500 armor plating cut into most any shape you want with a variety of mounting/hanging options. Pick up a few of the 8" circles is about your best bet for mimic'ing the size and shape of an antelope's vitals. Hang them from chains and they should...

An M1 Carbine rear sight will fit with just a touch of file work on the dovetail of the sight body. Brownells or Numrichs should have one for a decent price.

Mark X's that were made during the same time the yugo plant was making them for Whitworth had the FN pattern magazine box which did call for correct width magazine boxes and different magazine followers. They may have changed this at some point, I don't know, but the early spec' was based on FN...

Completely non-authoritative answer, but you can get a very close approximation by making several measurements. First, measure the bolt face. 0.475" will give you a .308/Mauser/'06 based cartridge. 0.535" is belted magnum. Second, measure length of the mag box. 2.8 is .308 based cartridge...

Well, speaking from the experience of just moving to Wyoming there is a rather large point. By Wyoming law, I can't apply for a CC permit for six months from the date I moved here. My South Dakota permit is invalidated the day I get a Wyoming address. So for the six to eight months I can't...