Recent content by C.W. Richter

Do you know Les Claypool? He grew up in that area and LOVES fishing (has written many songs about it! Many funny ones involving the dumping of cheese off-shore to drive the price up, etc. Send it to Africa!) I think he/his wife finally got to the point where they bought a winery! All he...

My Grandfather RIP was an exec for a "stevedoring" Co. that did shipping, tugboating and airport shipments by land. *He used to bring the C&H individual sugar packet (for hotels, restaurants, institutions, etc.) home and up to a fam vaca place when I was a kid. Though I've driven around and...

I like them! (M77s-all variants. NOT the newer, non M77 variants.) Ruger is famed for being tough, actions being too tight and triggers way too heavy!! Shot a pile of old wood/blued M77s owned by elders as a kid, then later picked up a MkII in 22-250...After some valve lapping compound...

The whole thing is interesting, but 28:30ish to your inquiry and other points above (he praises NF bullets in his books)... but he's talking specifically about a 375 (the legal min. in many places.) The shot placement/results comments are spectacular...

Agreed fully on the SST (used 'em a bunch on deer.) I did seem some higher velocity uh-ohs using RN bullets...the V has to be suitable for them (not orig. designed for high V rigs. 06s, 757, etc. N/P!) I did see one Nos 160 disintegrate very badly w/ poor penetration in a 6.5 mag, original...

*my 757 AI would do the trick as well (any 7 mag or std. 757 for that matter, using similar bullet logic.)

I think it's Kevin Robertson that has a great writeup about Leopard bullets (and Art Alphin of A-Sq fame wrote a LOT about this subject, and even developed the RIP "Lion Load" bullet, specifically designed for cats-that have a rather interesting nervous system that disrupts easily via use of...

It's an investment that pays off when you sell it (as said above.) We have some family properties that have appreciated 2-3x in recent years. The bills (taxes, utilities, etc.) can easily be paid via firewood, timber, nat. gas rights, hay, fishing access etc. Also little cabins/campsites, RV...

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Using a 500 gr slug, generally speaking, in .458 cases based on the HH, for each 0.1" increase in case length (powder capacity,) there's a corresponding ~70fps increase in V using the same powder, if the selected one can allow a max., compressed load. So, 2100 for the WM, 2300 for the Lott, and...

74.0 of IMR 4320 provides about the same data as Varget below using 400s (but I haven't tested its accuracy on the Chatfield-Taylor. I think the 350 TTSX would work well in the US for your purposes (and I see they were getting 2500ish fps out of it. A little faster, a little flatter, but you...

Oregon! (That's Joe Biden holding the axe, explaining to the Mannns that it's no longer useful, and these new voters would do ALL the work from now on!) ;)

Yeah! I forget some of the brand names today...They're close enough to where I power wash heavy mud off of tractors, etc., so next time i do that i'll bring 'em all outside, blast 'em off and take a family portrait! lol

*They did NOT wipe out the elk, mountain lion, deer, turkeys, bear, fish etc.-commercial hunters DID by or about 1900! But thankfully, all but the mountain lion and E. Elk are thriving here today due to Teddy Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, et. al.!!!!!

*And that octagonal bbl looks BEEFY for a "shotgun!" No worries. I had an old family 1800s plains rifle that was drilled out for scattergun use. It was SO hefty-there's no way it'd ever blow up. Fairly similar looking, but of course a muzzleloader and the lock operated a cap. Ancestors took...