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Dec 16, 2022 22:08:32 GMT -5
Post by todddoyka on Dec 16, 2022 22:08:32 GMT -5
thank you, but no. instead of buying a 45 colt, i bought two 10" barrels. they are 30 Herrett and the 357 Herrett. i got them cheaply, so the 45 Colt is on the backburner. i think i use scopes for them. again, thank you, but no.
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Post by todddoyka on Dec 15, 2022 15:02:34 GMT -5
mine will be for deer (150lbs avg) at 60ish yards or less. zeus, that was great write up!!! unfortunely for me , my disablity paycheck doesn't like jacketed bullets or their prices. i have alot of "pure" lead, Lyman #2 and tin, so i figure i might as well use it. the Ranch Dog mould i have. i don't have a HP mold (i have FN, WFN and LFN moulds galore). i want to try a HP and i will buy the mould IF the boolit kills deer . if it doesn't, then i use the Ranch Dog mould. i and my son have killed about 15 or 16 deer at ranges of 20 - 173 yards with a 30-40 Krag (1926fps).
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Post by todddoyka on Dec 15, 2022 1:20:59 GMT -5
top is a 14" 7x30 Waters with a Contender frame with a reflex sight and a 2.5x Swift scope (old and over the counter until some company said no warranty and good one). bottom is a 30 Herrett and a 2-7x Swift scope (i bought it around 8 or 9 years ago, no warranty... ) old Lee 30 Herrett reloading dies i have an old 30 Herrett trim die and a 30 Herrett HF cut off jig in the mail. i'll see which one is best with my one left hand. i looked down the barrel and it was clean, but i'll have to take to bare steel and she will get a drop of oil on the patch. then i'll have a chamber cast and and a lead slug to go thru it. i also don't know what the twist rate is, 1:10" or 1:14". i don't know if i'll use 165gr Ranch Dogs or if i will buy some 150gr FNHP GC? i have found some cast boolit loads (i think stevespages.com/308p_2_150.html ). i have about a pound of H322 and 6 or 7 lbs of Rel 7 and 2400 and 2 or 3lbs of IMR4895. i found jacketed bullet loads, but i don't want to use them. the 2-7x Swift scope can be put on, too. i think my dad (RIP) will smile because i want to do cheaply. note i want cast boolits and a cheap scope to go with the "cheap" dies. the reloading was $30 and the trim die was $25. i bought the jig for $11.39 ($3.50 s&h) on eshay. the brass will be Starline, but i've already bought it and 400 or so brass are just sitting there, waiting to become a 35/30-30 brass. they don't know about the Herrett!!! i figure i only need about 100 pcs, so 300 pcs can wait until................... i've bought another TC Contender barrel.........a 10" in 357 Herrett. i shouldn't have done it, but it was going so cheaply, that i bought it. now i need 357 Herrett dies!!! i have already bought a 357 Herrett jig. i'll need a scope mount to put on 2.5x scope or the reflex sight. i'll have to wait a couple of years to replace the 30 Herrett barrel.
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Nov 10, 2022 12:41:02 GMT -5
Post by todddoyka on Nov 10, 2022 12:41:02 GMT -5
i got a reflex sight somewhere, so i'll put that on.
i'm with you on modern ML, i use a CVA Hawkens with a left hand FL front stuffer in 50 cal. the only thing modern about is i have put fiber optics sights on the CVA. my eyes ain't what they used to be.
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Oct 30, 2022 23:25:01 GMT -5
Post by todddoyka on Oct 30, 2022 23:25:01 GMT -5
i did know that. i'll have to check them out.
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Oct 30, 2022 14:03:59 GMT -5
Post by todddoyka on Oct 30, 2022 14:03:59 GMT -5
i'm going to with 45 Colt in a TC Contender with a 10" SSk barrel. i'll either put on a 2x scope (deer will only be 60ish yrds and under), but i am wondering if a SeeAll sight would work? i don't have one, so i'm going on your opinions. www.seeallopensight.com/
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 28, 2022 13:49:18 GMT -5
junebug,
did you hit the doe high in the lungs? i did in a 4pt with my 35/30-30 at 53 yards (200gr FN GC/1726fps). the 4pt jogged about 15-20 yards and he stood behind a tree. then he tried to breathe, but the boolit went straight thru and all i could hear was like sucking a straw at the bottom of the glass. then he fell over. i couldn't find blood either, but i did find it when i removed the diaphragm. i blame the placement of the boolit is on me. i should have gone behind the shoulder, but i didn't. i messed up and i will do better. i've shot two doe with the 35/30 and 200gr FN GC, 1/3 of the way up, behind the shoulder and they jog, leaking blood about 20-25 yards and then they fall down. i'm just happy that the buck didn't run!!!!
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 27, 2022 23:53:57 GMT -5
If you like spot and stalk the 10 inch is a better handling and packing barrel than the 14 inch. It does give up some velocity to the 14 in but when scoped gives up nothing in accuracy. It is also much better off hand for me than the 14 in. i'm disabled (stroke left the right arm/leg kaput) so i'm going to sit in my homemade groundblind, have a thermos of coffee and wait.
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 25, 2022 14:37:56 GMT -5
i killed 'undreds and 'undreds of bears, in my time. well, only one . the PA Game Commision weighed him at 396lbs undressed. the PAGC had caught him, tatooed his upper lip and had a file on him. he is what you call a nuisance bear. he was caught 4 or 5 times in SWPA, taken to a new spot everytime and released. the bear would go back to around the same spot he was caught and would catch caged rabbits, bird and hummingbird feeders, go through the gargabe cans......till he was caught and released in a new spot.
and then this idiot came along !!! there i was, a world renown black bear specialist with one and a half whole days under my belt. the bear didn't stand a chance. ok, i was laid off for the winter and my younger brother asked me to hunt bears. since bear season is right next to deer season (it used to be), i'll go as a warm up for deer season. i, in no way, even considered of seeing a bear, let alone getting one. i'm just pre season scouting for deer. i have seen bears thro the years while out hunting deer, the last one i seen, at the time, was a female with three cubs and they came within 30 yards of me and didn't "see" me. i guess i see bears about every 3 or 4 years. i only had one bear that was aggressive and i fired my rifle into the ground at his feet. he wasn't so aggressive then. anyway, i enjoy seeing bears.
you can only hunt them legally in PA is for sitting in a stand or a bear drive. no bait and no dogs, only 25 people are allowed to drive bears(you sign up and the leader carrys the paper that you and everybody else has signed, or at least that's the way it used to be).
Monday i scouted out deer. Tuesday, about 11:00AM is when i shot the bear. my brother was 75 yards+/- uphill from me and we were walking. all of a sudden my brother yells out "Todd!!!" and BANG!!! goes his gun. the brush behind me explodes with a bear going heck for leather to get away from the bang. the bear was about 15+/- yards away, running broadside. i shot the bear and then it dives into more cover and then the bear crashes to ground and does a death moan, which i didn't know!!! it happended all so fast, Todd,bang, exploding brush, my bang, crash and death moan; all this happened in about a second or two.
it took my brother about 10-15 minutes to go thru the brush to get to me. he tells me that he shot the bearas it was going towards me. i tell him i must have shot on instinct because i don't remember that much about it. then we go the bear cautiously. we find him dead and my brother find his shot was high in the lungs(270 win/150gr Hornady RN) and my shot was low in the lungs(308 win/180gr Hornady RN). the 270 shot was a thru-n-thru, while the 308 shot wasn't, i never found it.
i took the skull and the back straps (i did jerky it...AWESOME!!!!!), while my brother did a taxidermy head mount and a hindquater. the rest of it was given to friends. oh, and we got the front claws of the bear too. on the skull mount, the brass plack says Todd and Cory's Bear.
i got the bear tag next year, but never hunted with it. i can say that killing a bear ain't so hard, i only spent 1 1/2 days to kill a bear. my grandpappy had about 30-40 years of not killing a bear.
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 23, 2022 23:03:35 GMT -5
nice!!!!!!
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 21, 2022 11:27:55 GMT -5
i "think" i'll load the the 45 Colt (250-300gr SWC or WFN) to about 800-900fps, but a 1000fps won't upset me. i've learned (MY GOD!!! I ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING!!!!) that hyper-velocity rounds are bullpoop. i figure that my great great parents would kill game at black powder velocities, its good enuff fer me.
i have killed deer with a Ruger SRH (7.5" barrel) and SBH (4 5/8" barrel) in 44 mag/spl using 200-240gr Hornady XTP (SRH) and 250 - 280gr cast boolits (SBH). back in the early '90s, i thought that velocity was King and i loaded up my SRH hot. now i load my SBH to 44 spl with 250gr penta hp and Skeeter loads. it still kills deer.
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Post by todddoyka on Oct 20, 2022 13:48:03 GMT -5
next year i want to try a 10" Contender in 45 Colt with cast boolits. other than 357mag, 44 mag/spl and 45 Colt, what do you use on deer at 60 yards or less? 60 yards is about as far as i can see in the woods, atho there is a chance to see 100-125 yards, but that's rare.
i handload and re-form brass.
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Post by todddoyka on Sept 27, 2022 20:33:40 GMT -5
when i was young, i wanted a flintlock 32 cal to get squirrels with. i liked to hunt squirrels with my 22lr, but the old people i gave the squirrels too, died. squirrel meat ain't my favorite, so don't hunt them anymore. it must be 25 or 30 years ago, that i hunted squirrel. i enjoy seeing seeing them near my groundblind tho.
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Post by todddoyka on Sept 25, 2022 16:31:01 GMT -5
since he was 12yo, my friend has a Rem m788 in 243 annd he kills deer with every year. a 100gr PSP Rem, Win, Federal, PMC...factory load is what he uses. whatever is cheaper, he uses. he shoots behind the shoulder(except 1) and it is DRT or close to it. in 30+ years, he has only lost one deer. he tried to make a headshot at 30-40 yards, but he wounded the deer in the jaw. he tried to find it, but didn't. his cousin killed it with his knife about 2 or 3 days later. he skinned itand he found yellow pus all thru the spine. he called up the PA Game Commission and they took it and gave him another tag. i have had a Rem m700 A, B and CDL and also a Rem m7 in 243 Winchester. every shot was under 60ish yards and the deer ran about 50-125 yards before it died (except the Barnes X bullet, 300-350 yards then it ). i'm going off of memory but 100gr Speer and Sierra PSP killed deer, but the blood trail was spotty. i think it was also Speer that had a 105gr RN that the jacketed was too hard to open up properly. the best bullet was a 100gr Hornady RN with Imr4831 and a blind man without arms and legs can find the blood trail. the Hornady RN, while it didn't instantly kill the deer, it would only go 50ish yards before the deer died. it was shoulder or behind the shoulder shot. i never shot a Nosler Partition or BT bullet in 243 win, mostly because they were expensive. i never did any Hornady pointed bullets either. personally, i don't like the 243 win. it is a coyote, fox and groundhog gun. BUT my friend luvs it as a deer/groundhog gun, so......i will let you decide. in my mind, a deer rifle starts at 250 Savage and it goes up from there.
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Post by todddoyka on Sept 24, 2022 0:27:02 GMT -5
in the early '90s i was using a 243 and 100gr Hornady, Speer and Seirra and a 85gr Barnes X-bullet. i killed some deer, but i had to track them thru the brush. i would do shoulder shot and behind the shoulder shot and they would run, esp the X-bullet. i shot a doe right behind the shoulder and she ran about 300-350 yards thu the brush. the blood trail was spot od blood every once in awhile. i did find her and the X-bullet was like a fmj, a pencil-type wound thru the lungs. i gave up on the 243 and i went to a bigger caliber.
my rem m7 in 7-08 is a deer getter, but i much prefer the custom 98 FN Mauser in 7x57 with 139gr Hornday FN (discontinued). that is true deer gun, but my son has it. i used a TC Encore with a 6.5 Creedmoor (14", 16 1/4" and 23" MGM barrels) when it first came out and while i killed deer with it, i found myself wanting a different caliber. so i sold it. my youngest son will be given a '16 Spanish Mauser in 6.5x55 Swede (Numrich barrel, 3-9x Vortex, Timney trigger, Richards Micro Fit gunstock). the 260 Rem and 6.5 Creedmoor are good for up to 140gr bullets, but the 6.5x55 really shines on heavier bullets.
the TC Venture in 25-06 (i hate black plastic!!!!) was also good deer gun, but my thought on it was that the 25-06 was almost overbore. what i want to do is take my sporterized '16 Spanish Mauser action and make it a 257 Bob. if you really get into rifle calibers, then a 6.5 Krag (6.5/30-40 Krag) or a 25 Krag ( i have 2 1898 spr armory actions).
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