Recent content by Ontario Hunter

225 gr Barnes in 30-06 must have been a long cartridge?

You have good iron sights on the gun so I suggest investing in quick detach rings that will allow you to switch to irons if needed ... like pursuing a wounded buffalo into thick stuff. Also recommend a low power variable scope with no objective bell. Sans objective bell allows you to move the...

Should be okay. Sounds like you have a lot of meat on your bones. Maybe a little short if you were skinny like me.

Make sure scope is set up to fit you perfectly. Close your eyes, quickly mount the rifle, and open your eyes as soon as it's at your shoulder. Full field of view and crosshairs should be instantly visible. Raise or lower the scope as needed by changing the rings. Move scope forward or to...

I am 6'1" and 190 lbs. Not really recoil adverse as I regularly hunt a LOT of waterfowl and uplands with 3" mag 12 gauge. But that 404 is definitely the limit for me ... and my fragile retinas. Do NOT shoot your gun off the bench! Not without some added padding. You could get hurt. And I'm...

I'm not sure what you mean by a special heavy duty extractor needed for 416 Rigby. The receiver channel for magnum rifle is the same thickness and width as channel for standard action and the bolt diameters are the same. The extractors are the same except magnum are longer ... which does not...

Get on eBay and pick up a used single stage press. RCBS Rockchuck will do fine. I think the Hornady presses are okay too. Single stage presses are very simple machine so hard to find one that won't work. Avoid progressive reloaders! I have one for loading shotgun and often wish I didn't...

You've got a box full of tools there. Good for you. Better things to spend one's money on than a fleet of fancy guns. I have two rifles in my "battery": a Springfield 03A3 my dad built in 1962 (that I have totally rebuilt over the years since) and a 404J on Czech Mauser I built mostly for fun...

Well, the weight of bullet (among other factors) can make a difference in recoil between 300 WM and 338. The assumption is 338 would be heavier bullet but not necessarily.

30-06. I shot thirteen elk with my Springfield including two in one shot. Not desired but I'd already hit the bull and had to finish him. Didn't see the cow right behind him but it probably would not have made a difference. It was just before dark and snow disappearing fast. I had to put...

Any moose pushed up out of its bed. I once tracked a pair of Ontario moose two days in the snow. Even spent the night in the bush. They never stopped. Even ate on the move. I heard them once but as close as I could get. The larger one was bleeding so I assume it had been wounded. That's...

I pick and choose the two later Commandments upon which all others are built. Unfortunately God did not publish. He left it to men who are by nature imperfect. Without the seven deadly sins humans would not have survived as a species. But as Christ tried to tell us, we are beyond animals now...

Scholars still debate whether Peter actually authored the two books. He was supposed to have been a humble fisherman, and at that time very few in the general laboring population were literate. The language was also Greek not Hebrew. Perhaps he had a scribe with him during his travels...

No "denial." I merely said I'm cautious about reading too much into Paul. For example, I don't care much for his ordering wives to subjugate themselves to husbands. Gender equality, or at least mutual respect, seems to be what Christ advocated.

Imperfect people who repented. When has Trump ever admitted to making a mistake ... about anything? He had plenty of opportunity to admit the Jesus Trump thing was an impulsive screw up. Instead his response was "Oh ... uh ... that was just me as a doctor ... uh ... a Red Cross doctor ...