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Yeah imho it's a great round. I wish they had done a similar thing by necking the 30rem down to 7mm and putting it in a bolt action but oh well. She's doing well, we'll sight it in for 50 yards and try a couple bullets on hogs. I'm bringing a 35 rem in .357 mag pistol. The results of her 7-30 have m...

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Finally got her fist rifle and has been putting in range time. It's got a lever to open it, so we'll count it as a levergun, lol TC contender in 7-30 waters. Shooting a 139grn hornady SST with 33grns of H4895 and around 2400fps. Deer was hit at a lazered 66 yards, high in the shoulder, blew out the ...

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Personaly I'm much more fearfull of being killed by a giant snake than by a wolf. I understand managing them, but I just have no fear/hated of the animals.

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86er, I would go for it. I would be willing to bet that if you asked 100 ethical hunters if they would do it, many would say no and give a bunch of reasons. I bet if they owned the ranch and the money was coming there way..they would have far fewer qualms. You're harvesting animals for a client, I d...

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I say make sure it's legal (non-native species on private land...sounds legal), and make sure the guy is legit. Those are my only concerns, if that checks out, I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep on if it's ethical or not. If the animal is expected to die quickly after being shot, it's ethical in my book.

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I bought a few for my 35 rem, only cause it's the only 35 cal rifle bullet available in three stores localy. I will also be shooting some pistol bullets out of the 35 more often till I can get someone to order me some rem core locs without huge shipping costs. But..if I were to own/shoot a snubbie ....

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The only part of this I find dissagreeable is that I can't eat any of it.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say they could be usefull. I am betting that out of short barreled pistols that light bullet will get up some ok speeds and with that plastic/gummy tip I bet you won't have issues with it clogging with clothing and opening up. Now..there are other/better ways to so...

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Yeah mine has been worked on a tad, I think I have 350 in it before scope and rings. Crosman sells a peep sight similar to a williams that fits that dovetail under my scope. Given the info, I doubt it was stored wrong or something done to it. Given the limited number of shots I would say most likely...

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They are fun, but agreed a LOT pricey. Great if you're into the collecter stuff, but they are not great airguns in and of themselves. For that kinda cash you can get a much more accurate and powerfull airgun. But...for looks and fun sometimes form is more important than function. That said..red ride...

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Lets see what I can do about that. http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/038-2.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/037-1.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/043-1-1.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/045-1.jpg http://i251...

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This is the second hog hunt. Loved the red spotted guy, but took the grey limping hog off screen at the very end. Didn't tell the camera girl of course so we missed the hit but I think it came out ok anyway. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/user/DaemoNox#p/ ... pzDNC1H8-0

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They do make better sights for it. There are steel breaches availdable from crosman, both long and short versions and some are dovetailed for williams sights or another type of sight, and have a scope mount rail on as well. Infact they are super customizable, mine wears a long steel breach, scope, 2...

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Oh Hobbie do not give up on that 1377! Everyone sends out a lemon every once in a while. Could be a bad valve, a 0-ring that has/had a small defect or nick. There are quite a few seals in those guns that are nothing more than a rubber o-ring and just a small imperfection can cause no end of headache...

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Love those guns. I keep going back and forth on looking for one in 308 as my dream hunt african game rifle. And hoping they will make one in 338 federal someday. But in the end I have my 35rem 336 and I'm unsure how much improvement I would get with one of those on plains game. Great guns though, th...

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12 guage mossberg 500 bantom youth for me. Already half paid off and on order, I am tired of my field grade beating me up cause the LOP is too long and if I shorten it the 28" bbl is just ungainly. It'll cost me more to buy a new bbl and shorten the stock than to just buy the new gun so that's ...

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I think comparing truck impact vs bullet impact has many different factors involved and is not a good basis to disprove hydrostatic shock. I think pistol shrimp prove hydrostatic shock factualy exists as a lethal thing in and of itself independent of hunting applications. My .243 has never produced ...

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I love my .243 win, but I think she's going to have a blast with the 7-30. We may pick up a less expensive scope to start with, there's a little 3-9x32 that is trim and will fit the little carbine well, we may look there first.

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I have read a huge article on how hydrostatic shock doesn't exist, and I don't buy it. The problem is that the person who wrote it is putting the terms static and shock together and then arguing it's junk science. Well the term is hydrostatic shock..refuring to hydrostasis or the fact that water doe...

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Whole carbine, old frame but I'm ok with that. Too many to mention, tons of corn morphs, some miami corn locales, diadems, blood python, IJ carpet python, colombian rainbow boa, mexican pine, cali king, a couple cave dwellers it's another hobby.

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Starter meaning first one, not any reputation on the round itself. I would call a starter gun one which the person starts huting with. I got it because I think it will do 90% of what we need for as long as we need, and she can be a bit less choosy about shot placement than me with my .243 win.

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yep, big lead stuff breaks bones better, but expending energy is nice too. Both have their place, I'm sticking with my basic rule though, slow and heavy breaks bones, light and fast shreds lungs, and most things in the middle do both decently. When a bear attacks you want to stop the charge, killing...

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Light and fast for me, means shoot them in the soft parts, expansion, penetration, and dead animals think .243. Slow and heavy for me means shoot them in the bony parts, it will still kill with a lung shot, but not as fast as something that causes more trauma to that area, but..breaks bones much bet...

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Got back to montana safe and sound, was not a bad trip at all, hit all the weather just right so no complaints. All the snakes at home made it safe and sound for two weeks with no care, no surprises there. And we found Amanda/twistedserpent a 7-30 waters in a TC contender as her first rifle. Just go...

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for me? They don't make many factory bolt guns in med velocity med and big bore cals. I don't care much about "power" I shoot a .243 win for most big game. That which is too heavy boned for a .243 I want a slow moving big hunk of lead to throw at them. A .308 has more recoil than I enjoy n...

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Well here's my .243 bullet. 50 yards into the skull of a 130lbs hog, you can see pics of the hog and video of the hunt on various threads by myself and twistedserpent on the forum. It's not a pretty, but it got the job done, and i'll keep using them. http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasl...

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Yeah I'm a huge fan of the round, not being very informed on old mausers though I think I'll step away. They also had a 30-30 stevens bolt gun but it was past it's prime lets say. And some type of sharps clone in .357 mag that had been rechambered from a black powder gun..which was pretty..but the d...

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I don't think the guy is going to knock off 180 dollars for keeping a buggered set of rings and a fifty dollar simons scope I'm afraid. We'll just go shopping around for a nice old marlin 336, savage 99, or one of the various savage or marlin bolt actions in a nice short action cal like 7mm-08 or .2...

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I took both my hogs with strait on head shots, no at 50 yards with a 100grn hornady interloc at 2900 fps you do not get pass throughs. the bullet basicly hit the skull and blew up, turning everything to mush, both pigs shot bled from the ears and nose and pretty much had goo from the skull to the ba...

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Yeah Hobbie hit my worries right on the head. Love the round, not trusting the rifle it's chambered in..that scope base..idk..it's not like people just file those for fun..something has to be wrong for that to have been done. I think a marlin xs series or savage in .260 or 7mm-08 or a nice levergun ...

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Went to a gun show today and found a 6.5x55 in an old swedish mauser for sale. Has been placed in a sporterized stock that fits the girfriend well, has a cheap simmons scope. The guy wants 380 dollars for it, I'm not thinking that's a very good price but am unsure on the value of these arms. Also, t...

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I am sorry, never thought to get an actual pic of the hole. The only thing I can think happened was the leg was in the air and didn't provide the resistance to penetrate. Just kinda swung with the impact and the bullet lodged in the joint. the hole was on the inside front left leg so your bullet pas...

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It was a perfectly round hole right at the knee/ankle joint on the inside of the leg. My guess if I had to make one would be that you shot a bit low and his leg was up not providing enough resistance to actualy penetrate that much bone. Bullet hit hard bone, leg swung, pig RUNNOFT. Happens to the be...

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Thank you for the comment, Amanda and I will be posting the video ASAP. The second video may need a bit of editing..someone jumped all over the place when I shot the pig, so we will try to add pics of phantom pig after the end of the video or something. Note to self camcorder and tripod next time. N...

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So much I have to do. First send back my live butchered 130lbs hog I took with the .243 as it obviously isn't dead enough, then send hornady my bullet pieces so they can fix the bullet failures I got. It's a rough life you know.

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There should be some in my pictures thread. The hole was in the front left leg on the inside "knee" area. Looks like it impacted and stopped, I should have pulled the bullet but didn't. If I had to guess I would say the shot was low, and the leg had no weight on it so was able to "swi...

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What's funny, well besides the fact that I'm from NY is that the gf was driving her 2 wheel drive car..and we had no idea he was stuck. We just thought wow..that's not a very bright place to have parked a big truck..now we have to go off the track to get around him..little coaxing and some good driv...

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Yeah she can, lol she's made it this far, I just close my eyes and hope. As for the hogs in the head, you know I wanted a heart lung shot on that limping guy but I had already spent five mins waiting for him to clear the rest of the group, when he did, he was head on so my options were limited. Take...

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The video will be up shortly, the first one came out ok, if you don't mind that I said "that pig isn't going anywhere" like three times. I get a bit fixated on if the thing I hit plans to move again or not. The second one did not come out as planned. I had told amanda to focus on a red pig...

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Leaving from the Inn in the morning, had a wonderfull time with the folks from the winter texas hog hunt. So much so that Amanda will be getting her hunting permit and rifle and participating in the next event. The savage 11 .243 accounted for 2 hogs in two shots and performed quite well I thought, ...

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I am at the holiday inn express. Been to avery, which is about 2 miles from the camp if I'm not mistaken. Should be there before noon tomorrow. I will try to call before then just to touch base. It looks like rain, lol.

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Dry? I thought dry areas were horrid things they told us kids, like the boogie man and decaf coffee. We are currently in Colorado, I'll see what we can do. Taking it fairly slow and safe, drive sofar has been pretty easy, no storms, no snow or ice, lets hope it holds up, and gps is a great thing.

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On the road as we speak, planning to arrive friday, not sure what time as we're driving. I am bringing some of my extra stuff for 45-70/450 marlin and .280 rem. I will most likely stop somewhere in town to get a few things for camp, food, beer what have you. See you guys soon!

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I think I have maybe 20 or 25 rounds of loaded .450 handloads with 300grn hornady HP rounds, starting loads with benchmark, can be pulled or if you are comfortable safely shot in. Never owned a swift, lol. But I'll bring what I have I'm just looking to get rid of things I don't use/load for anymore.

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I say keep the .357. Wonderfull guns, tons of use and the fact is, you can most likely find a ton of 30-30s for sale but finding used .357s seems to be hard or at least harder, and you'll pay more for it.

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.243 win brass would be nice, um .35 rem brass, but I doubt that's overly common, but yeah I'll bring a bit of my extra stuff we'll see what we can do.

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Just out of curiosity, will anyone be bringing, or does anyone own a .280 remington a .450 marlin, or a 45-70 govt. I have a bit of .280 rem brass, and brass, dies, bullets and loaded ammo for a .450 marlin. The bullets (box of 250, 405grn rnfp) could be used in 45-70 as well.

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I like short skinny girls with ink and a bit of a "goth" edge..am dating one, wish me luck.

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http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/stuff/Jenn.jpg my friend Jenn, a bartender in NY, gorgeous girl. http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/stuff/trips.jpg My friend Eve, a snake and invert collecter from NJ, very nice in kinda a dark gothic kinda way http://i251.phot...

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Any way we can get rates on the hotels?

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