Recent content by Jwg223

Correct. Monos like higher spin. Also note that rotational velocity decay is far lower than longitudinal.

Barnes bullets are weight and caliber specific. Some are designed better than others and had more R&D put into them than others. A "bad" combo will yield iffy results. The 70gr .224 cal Barnes bullet got an amazing amount of real world R&D and tweaks done to it. That is part of why I use it. I...

I mean...yes...but I figured that this crowd tended to choose more ice picks than grenades.

That's any bullet, though. You need to keep the velocity within the expected performance envelope if you don't want an ice pick.

I think something that is often neglected in terminal ballistics is the effect of twist rate as well as retained velocity through the target. Re: twist rate Twist rate, especially with monos like TSX greatly assists in maximum expansion at a given velocity. It helps "spin the bullet open" for...

I've found Barnes to work amazingly well on "soft" critters. I absolutely murder coyotes with them, as well as the smaller deer in the southern Midwest. They expand violently and immediately, even past 100 yards from my 11.5" SBR. It is typical to see it "blow the stuffing out" of animals at the...

I use 70gr TSX pretty much exclusively to hunt deer with, using my 11.5" SBR. Here is one I harvested at 95 yards. This is what the same round/rifle does to the lung area on a smaller deer (or larger, this one just happened to be smaller) on a pass-through at around 80 yards: Bullet...

I just figured I'd share my hunting story from this year. My girlfriend (She's sharp and learns extremely rapidly, as in, she had never shot anything but a .22 before, and I had her making accurate and rapid hits on a 25 yard target using my pump gun and 12ga slugs in about 3 hours of shooting...

Shot at 23 yards, traveled 68 yards.

When you buy a Swarovski, kahles, S&B, Leupold Mk6 or mk8, etc, it's more than a product. It's the reputation of that company. They tend to back it. I'd not let anyone but Swarovski touch it.

It's only a matter of time before this isn't a 4/1 thing. I mean, at the rate technology is going, would it really be that hard to do with a .30 caliber projectile in 5-10 years time?

This is an example of why I prefer a LPV over a RDS. I took this picture WELL AFTER sunset. You must excuse the potato I used to take the photo, obviously resolution of the optic is not this poor. I took the photo to emphasize how a LPV on 1x with an illuminated reticle works VERY well when the...

Chuck Hawks has his own opinions... That said, the .30 magnums are popular because that caliber has spawned some amazing bullets. So what did wildcatters and companies do? They took amazing bullets and made them go faster. I think they are popular because their development was economical. It's...

It's not so much overkill as iti s going to be annoying as hell. A) It's more weight to lug around. B) with the lowest power being 5x, it's going to suck for things up close. C)If you ever choose to set it at 25x, I hope you're shooting off of a bag, or sled, at least a bipod with a rear bag...

Far too many people will compensate for crap glass by "adding x's" to the equation. "For $600, I can get 4x more power with this brand vs. $600 for that brand giving me 4x less...." is a common sentiment. I cannot count the number of scopes I've looked through at the local shooting range that...