|
Post by bradshaw on Dec 23, 2019 0:23:59 GMT -5
Dick.... excellent write-up, description of load performance and autopsy. I have had a hell of a time trying to collect the Bradshaw-Martin cast & powder coat 194 SWC GC fired from the .357 Maximum. Interest, your range recovered bullets hold coating, or a good part of it, while bullets recovered from game are stripped.
An autopsy is a chronicle of INTERIOR BALLISTICS, interior of animal. David Bradshaw
|
|
|
Post by sixshot on Dec 23, 2019 1:16:09 GMT -5
David, I probably wasn't very clear on bullet recovery in the dirt. The coated bullets I've recovered have been mostly 9mm's, light 32's, etc. Those have held coating pretty well unless they've hit rocks. Our berms are pretty hard dirt with a fair amount of rock added since it's an old gravel pit so recovering any of the bigger bullets almost always requires a shovel & a screen. I seldom do this as I've found out about all I need to know about powder coating, it works!
I hardly shot my 357 maximum all year although I did pack it a fair amount this fall so my experimenting was very limited. The 32's & 327's took up a lot of my shooting time. A 41 magnum is never far away whether it's spring, summer or fall & accounted for the one deer taken so far. Two mountain lions have moved into my elk area & it closes the 31st. Both cats have been killed in the last few days but the elk have moved north of where I can hunt them now, so we wait.
Dick
|
|
|
Post by bula on Dec 23, 2019 8:57:20 GMT -5
Love happy endings , and tenderloins ! Congrats.
|
|
|
Post by reflex264 on Dec 23, 2019 10:39:22 GMT -5
Awesome job!
|
|
|
Post by jfs on Dec 23, 2019 12:40:55 GMT -5
good job Kim...
|
|
|
Post by sixshot on Dec 23, 2019 14:23:27 GMT -5
I'm guessing Kim is just getting warmed up. Need more photo's Kim!
Dick
|
|
|
Post by harold89 on Dec 23, 2019 20:16:36 GMT -5
Congrats! And really dig the green laminate grips, sharp.
|
|
|
Post by messybear on Dec 24, 2019 0:55:03 GMT -5
Always enjoy hearing of open sight successes!
|
|
|
Post by x101airborne on Jan 14, 2020 19:54:47 GMT -5
Simply awesome. Love hearing of your hunts and thanks for the effort of pics and video!
|
|
|
Post by jeffer on Jan 17, 2020 23:43:00 GMT -5
Well done!
|
|
KRal
.375 Atomic
Posts: 1,030
|
Post by KRal on Jan 18, 2020 9:16:57 GMT -5
Thanks, gents! I enjoy the addition challenge of videoing my own hunts, although it can get frustrating at times. Every animal I killed this year was “filmed” in one fashion or another, but not all had proper video, audio or something. I was all excited this season because I got some wireless mics for Christmas and was looking forward to better quality audio (which has been a constant complaint from viewers), only to discover, after several videos, that the blame things weren’t even working! That’s how it goes though, I’ve got hundreds of hours of self filmed hunting videoed that didn’t have what it takes to “publish” a video. But, when the one in ten or so comes out with what your looking for, it’s very satisfying. There’s been many deer that I let walk because I couldn’t get everything on video. So usually when I post a pic of a deer I killed, it was “filmed”, but something was just screwed up. One of my biggest and common screw ups is forgetting to hit the record button! Wireless mics are headed back to the factory.
|
|
|
Post by bradshaw on Jan 18, 2020 9:37:38 GMT -5
Marksmanship demonstrated by Kim and Dick remind me of a time, hunting with Dr. Kenneth Oehler. I asked the chronograph maestro what he wants in a deer cartridge.
“Forgiveness,” says Oehler. He was carrying his Remington M700 .30-06 with a Hornady 180 Spire Point handload.
Anyone who’s been around a few bends in the road appreciates----or should----FORGIVENESS. Way I see it, forgiveness applies to cartridge & bullet. Forgiveness does not apply to marksmanship. It is up to us to hold true, squeeze all the way through. This is exactly the lesson I see in Kim’s work, in Dick’s work, James from Jersey, Ken O’Neill, etc. It is about KNOWING: knowing when not to shoot liberates us to shoot. Overconfidence is as bad as under confidence. It is the same as being out of time----timing off. To be in the present, this is where marksmanship is made. Marksmanship doesn’t happen; marksmanship is made. In the present, right down through hammer fall. David Bradshaw
|
|
KRal
.375 Atomic
Posts: 1,030
|
Post by KRal on Jan 18, 2020 11:40:00 GMT -5
Marksmanship demonstrated by Kim and Dick remind me of a time, hunting with Dr. Kenneth Oehler. I asked the chronograph maestro what he wants in a deer cartridge. “Forgiveness,” says Oehler. He was carrying his Remington M700 .30-06 with a Hornady 180 Spire Point handload. Anyone who’s been around a few bends in the road appreciates----or should----FORGIVENESS. Way I see it, forgiveness applies to cartridge & bullet. Forgiveness does not apply to marksmanship. It is up to us to hold true, squeeze all the way through. This is exactly the lesson I see in Kim’s work, in Dick’s work, James from Jersey, Ken O’Neill, etc. It is about KNOWING: knowing when not to shoot liberates us to shoot. Overconfidence is a bad as under confidence. It is the same as being out of time----timing off. To be in the present, this is where marksmanship is made. Marksmanship doesn’t happen; marksmanship is made. In the present, right down to hammer fall. David Bradshaw Thanks for the kind words, David. As you know, as well as many others,, marksmanship requires focus, focus on many things simultaneously...breathing; sight picture; grip pressure; form; trigger squeeze and follow through, to name the basics. Repetitious focus (practice) results in muscle memory of many muscles: brain; eyes; arms; hands; fingers; and torso, to name a few. Marksmanship muscle memory results in proper bullet placement when that moment of truth presents itself, because sometimes there’s not enough time to THINK about the shot.
|
|