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My dog grabbed chickens when he first saw them. I didn't want that going on so I brought him into the chicken coop with a can of pepper spray. He went for a chicken and got sprayed...worked pretty quickly too. He's never gone after a chicken since. Just ignores them completely now.

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I am in the minority, but I like them. They have been doing that style camo on compound bows for a while now and it's very popular there too. The good thing is that you can change it if you don't like it, and if you do you have the option. That pattern is a whole lot easier to take off than it is to...

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Yeah that's pretty typical of that bullet, it sheds it's front portion imparting quick shock, then the shank continues on penetrating quite far. Usually this results in smallish exit wounds compared to some bullets, but great penetration and surprising bone breaking ability. IMHO and this is just op...

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Ty sir, also shot a doe twice with the 300 savage using 150grn hornady interlock. Found jackets in the deer and 6" exit wounds. Not a good bullet for the 300, switched to 165s for next year sofar...

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Lol I don't do well with magnums or recoil, but deer seem to die just fine most of the time. I have a 300 savage, a .243 win and a 35rem, covers most things just fine for me.

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100 dollars worth of benchmark would be nice.

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Someone mentioned the meplate, not huge but workable. There are overlubed, and I use much less now, but it still gives you a good idea of the meplate size. http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/GEDC0141_zps3ffa6f3d.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/wolfsasleep/GEDC0138_zps3...

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Right now I'm using 32grns of Benchmark, which isn't even a max load but seems to shoot better than hotter 2200fps loads for me. But there's a couple other powders that hit the same speed, and this gun seems to shoot most of them just as well.

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I'm going with my marlin 336 in 35rem. It should do the task quite well and has very little to improve on, unless range becomes an issue.

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Hm..maybe I did ok with my 200 grn rcbs then, sofar I've been really impressed with it, I had thought I made a mistake not getting the saeco once I found out the bullet likes about 1900fps, cause I can push a 250 that fast as well. But..it seems like I may have lucked out, on game performance was ve...

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Out of curiosity, what poundage was the bow you were shooting? Recurves and long bows tend to be rather harsh drawing, a compound in anything from 45-50lbs tends to draw very easy and with todays bows, they are more than capable of deer or even elk sized game at quite impressive yardage.

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I really like the saeco, I think they have a 250grn bullet I can push to the same speeds as I'm pushing this 215 grn. The meplate is enough, but not the huge meplate I was hoping to have available, it works well but I wonder if bigger would be better or if the deformation renders it unimportant. I w...

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Last few days of the season. Thought I would take the 35 rem and my rcbs 35-200 for a stroll. I use air cooled WW alloy with gas check, sized at .359. My marlin is a 1976 with micro groove bbl but that doesn't seem to affect how it shoots with cast. I crossed a small creek , waved to some hunters th...

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I shoot a compound pretty well, but I have no issues with crosbows being used alongside both recurves and compounds. For one thing, not everyone is a 6 foot tall 200lbs dude. I'm 5'6 and while I can kill deer just fine with my 60lbs bow, a bigger person even shooting the same weight can often exceed...

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I promise that was not my .243 bullet, they don't run away when I hit them with the little winchester. How do you like those henrys? I was looking at one, since the new marlins have been questionable. Amanda wants a classic looking gun for buffalo/bison. That henry may fit the bill.

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There are definitely times the 243 is not the gun of choice. Going on a bear hunt in a few weeks, won't be taking the .243. I have a 300 savage and a 35 remington and I think both are superior on black bear. I'll be honest though, if the buck of a lifetime came by, I would feel pretty good with the ...

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Portion control, a bit of gym work and a healthy lifestyle go a long way toward beating average.

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Which reminds me..there's a very nifty trailboss load for the .243 that could get pretty interesting for varmints. a 100grn cast bullet at about 1800fps..I may have to consider that one...

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That's mostly a stunt, and if I remember right range was inches. But at even a lowly 700 to 900fps, 50-60 yards is very doable on rabbits and even smaller game. There are people trying to do 1" at 100, it's rare but it has been done. Accuracy on these guns is amazing. Every shot in a dime at 20...

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Good job madman, Only thing I would suggest if I may, add in more greens and veggies in general, and watch the sugar. Those cereal bars and yogurts can be packed full of sugar, and little else, not all calories are created equal. A basic rule of thumb, if you have two choices, one looks like it came...

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I shoot a lot of 17, but it's airguns, not rimfire. Works great on rabbits, pigeons, english sparrows, squirrels, european starlings, gophers and groundhogs out to about 50 yards or so.

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For deer in the .243win, I've had great success with the 100grn hornady interloc, 87grn hornady boat tailed hollow point, and 85grn sierra game king boat tailed hollow point. All are designed as med game rounds and work very well in that capacity.

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I've been using my .243 for antelope, mulies, white tail, and a few of 86ers texas hog hunts. I've never had anything to complain about and the last time I went with the 35rem, I felt I would have done better with the .243 yet again. IMHO for deer/hog sized game on down, the 243 is a great round, fo...

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I put a limbsaver recoil pad on my .243win, lol.

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ty, but unfortunately I don't have the item that this fits. I use a lee sizer die that screws into the press I'm new to casting and just purchased the equipment and didn't know enough to buy any kind of lube/sizer, I'm hearing I should save up for one of the star sizers. But for now I have the lee, ...

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My rifle battery, 35rem, 243win, 300 savage, my gf shoots a 357mag carbine and a 7mm-08, I'm NOT a recoil fan, lol.

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Must be a special order item, I checked midway and a few other places and can't find a hornady .360 sizing die, am I missing something or is it the panic buying kicking in?

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Yeah my issue is my sizer is .358 and my bullets are .360 and I think I want to keep them that way. so..that gives me two options, option 1, resize and relube them and try them (what I am doing today), or option two, open up my sizing die so it only seats the check and won't resize..that's what I wi...

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I figured in the choice between a 1-4 and a fixed 4 there really wasn't that much diff, it just happens that for some reason they made the parallax on this version of the scope 50 yards, and on the same scope with a diff reticle configuration 100, no idea why, as they also have a dedicated shotgun s...

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I figured I would be ok with 1-4x, they have a fixed 4 with the same dimentions too, but I thought the 1x would be nice in thick stuff.

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hope not, looks like an ok scope for 80 bucks, almost went with a vortex or a barska euro for not much more, but I really am not sure they are that much better, and I liked the magnification and size of the bushnell better. Sorry about duplicate post, because I asked the casting question, the forum ...

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So..scoping the 35rem, went with an inexpensive bushnell 1-4x32 light weight scope. There were three options, a shotgun scope with a circle plex, a duplex rifle and a circle plex rifle. I like the circle plex, I shoot it well so I got it. Well it turns out the circle plex is parallax calibrated at 5...

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So..scoping the 35rem, went with an inexpensive bushnell 1-4x32 light weight scope. There were three options, a shotgun scope with a circle plex, a duplex rifle and a circle plex rifle. I like the circle plex, I shoot it well so I got it. Well it turns out the circle plex is parallax calibrated at 5...

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So casting is going well, got 3 moulds that drop great bullets as cast. I'm tumble lubing and not messing with resizing at all as my resizer is .358 and seems to be sizing a bit too much..my issue is, gas checks. I can shoot the bullets as cast, but I'm hand seating the checks at this point and they...

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Will do, she's been busy without me, killed a bison and 3 deer, took up horse riding.

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If I find more pre safety guns at a good price, I think they'll be coming home with me. My 35 is 1976 and I'm always keeping my eyes open for an older 375win....but the threat had it's intended affect.

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Just to let you know..if I find one of the old pre safety marlins..it may become sword practice just for you. Sword thread? there's a forum for that.
http://forum.sword-buyers-guide.com/vie ... bb50cc6983

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I'm not much for faith, I'm one of those atheists mentioned about 4 pages ago, lol, but I say you're an adult, you make your choice, I'm not going to hold it against you, it's not my life to live. Do what's right for you, there really isn't any justification needed.

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Ty all, good to be back..and I do seem to recall a thread a while back about a dropped sword and an emergency room visit? lol.

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Minimal? My multi pump airgun, warm clothing, a gerber profile knife (or my sog bowie) and a tarp with some paracord and my magnesium fire starter, maybe replace with airgun with the recurve..maybe.

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Back from afghanistan. Had some fun..lets see, I got a fully functional asian sword, that's a blast..and if I can't get to a gun, the coroner is going to have a hell of a book deal when he's done... I started casting for the 35rem and I currently am getting 1800fps with a 200grn flat nose hard cast ...

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My father passed away about ten, twelve years ago, don't even remember to be honest. Never went to the funeral. He was not a good person, the fact that he's dead doesn't make him any better. I don't feel I missed out on anything, personally I say it's your call, do what you wish, I did, and I'm comf...

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My gf had a 7-30 waters with bad head spacing as her first gun. Try as we might, it split case necks and threw bullets into 2' patterns at 100 yards. Frustrated before one of 86ers hog hunts we picked up a .357mag marlin 1894. Killed two hogs in two shots with that gun, 158grn fp/xtp at 1900fps. Sti...

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Oh I agree there, and I just made the order, RCBS 35-200. Other than the ranch dog..this seems to be THE mould for the 35rem. And as it's my birthday, midway usa gave me a nice discount, cost me 67 dollars. Looks like I'll be casting for the 35 when I get home. May have a new toy or two for my next ...

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Great times. I'm love bird season. I lost my pitbull a while back and ended up getting a Visla as well, looks like I made a good choice.

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Yep, you mentioned those were quite effective on an african game hunt, though I thought you said you were using the heavier ones, was it the 150s?

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Yeah I had read the same thing. My gun has always gotten decent accuracy with the 158grn bullets, in the end I'll probably end up casting for it and keeping a few rem corelocs around. But seeing as I can't shoot right now, I like to muse about the only gun I haven't settled on a load for yet. I also...

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Hm..that sounds like the perfect bullet for the GFs 357mag levergun, the same one she killed the two hogs with last time we were out. I don't think I can hit those speeds out of my revolver so I'm going to have to stay with the 158grn hp/xtp in that gun, which should also do quite well. 22" of ...

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Agreed, but I've had ok luck with the 158grn fp/xtp at about 1900fps. Thing is I can hit 2300fps with a 180grn and I don't think the 158 will hold together well at that speed. As at 1900fps it tends to be very flat already. So I'm thinking, maybe one of the 180grn bullets at 2300fps would do better ...

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I saw part one and two of the 35rem ammo tests done by 35rem. He seemed to indicate that a part 3 or more were coming but I have not heard anything about that. I keep wondering how various 180grn .357mag/max bullets would work in the 35rem, especially the 180grn rem sjhp meant for the 357max, the 18...

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