Recent content by Jerry-B-WI

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    Catscratch House and Habitat build

    It's just a fence post??? Would have been more interesting if it was a altar for satanic sacrifices to the Jayhawks whitetail gods.
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    Catscratch House and Habitat build

    What's the fence full of rocks for, besides hanging coyotes?
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    30-06 ammo for elk

    I highly recommend trying this if you have the time and resources. I had read somewhere that about 20" of ballistic gelatin would stop a bullet fired from a rifle. Not fully believing what I read I set out on an experiment. Where I used to work we made metal canisters that were about 7 1/4...
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    RIP to the biggest POS

    I thought I heard taps being played this morning.
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    Chokecherry for lawn tree?

    I think you'd be rolling out the welcome mat to both.
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    6.5 creedmore?

    If you get yourself the 3rd edition of the Hornady Handbook it has a very good explanation of this, complete with illustrations. I can't say I've heard of the "doughnut" but Hornady explains what happens upon firing and what happens when you resize cases, whether it's full length, partial...
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    6.5 creedmore?

    Doesn't case stretch happen when the firing pin forces the case forward into the chamber seating the case shoulder against the chamber shoulder. Then the primer ignites blowing the case sides out to grab the chamber walls and forcing the case head back against the bolt face. If the case is...
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    6.5 creedmore?

    Why would the 22-250 have anymore case stretch than any other cartridge hat headspaces on the shoulder? Case stretch should be able to be controlled with proper sizing die adjustment.
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    Reloading for the 280 Remington

    If I'm over charge I just lick my finger and pick up a few kernels with my finger tip. Ball powder usually goes through a measure like sht through a tin horn. I use W748 for my 300 savage and 30-30 dumps great through my measure.
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    Reloading for the 280 Remington

    $1070 for an auto trickler? That's just nuts unless you're in the business of reloading. I do it for the enjoyment and satisfaction. Just screwing around one time I pulled the motor out of an old cassette player and mounted it with a battery box and momentary push button switch. I mounted a...
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    Reloading for the 280 Remington

    Do you use that powder measure/scale for all your handloading? I've never used an electronic scale. Never loaded that volume of rifle cartridges that I needed the supposed speed and convenience of one. Never loaded more than 50 at a time and for handgun I just used a powder measure and threw...
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    Porcupine control

    Shoot everyone I can. Supposedly they're easily trapped in a live or box trap. I've read that salt and apples are the preferred bait. I guess they don't get much salt in their diet and that's why it works so well.
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    Spring is here

    Saw a piece on the news the other day about the mild winter temps. and the effects on insects. They said the ticks will wake up and get active when the temp. outside hits 45*. The permethrin seems to help as does wearing knee boots with my pants tucked in.
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    Drag Harrows for ATV?

    Just picked one up last week. I want to use it to work up the areas I had mulched into food plots. Help clear off the larger debris and work the plots for seeding without discing so deep as to bring up all the weeds in the seed bed.
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    .257 Roberts vs .243 Winchester

    Sometimes it's not time in the game, but making something that's not commercially available. I used to shoot handgun metallic silhouette. I shot a .357 mag but used sub .38 loads that were very accurate out of my handgun. Don't have any idea where you'd buy that. I used to buy primers 5k at a...
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