"And STAY DOWN!!" - Larry and TrapLine - Puttin' a Serious Hurt on a Bitch!
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Ohhh and don't worrry about caliber, just get good with what you have. If you are buying something then pick one and be it. Deer are pretty happy to die from just about every cartridge. stay out of the mags till you get good at managing recoil
What the bleep are you goin' on about here? What Rx do you have... Cause I want some of that shizzle! (EDIT: is that better Aeon?)
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You should be ok, just keep it cold and dry if it still in the cooler. I don’t think you would get any slippage, but working a stinky, stinkier, animal no fun. Dry ice will help keep it cold and dry instead of water ice.
was responding to this question @TrapLine posted
"What do you guys think would be a good caliber to cover lanes like this, for a deer at the far end? I was thinking 6.5, what do you think? over/under "
that's what the frak i am going on about..... go easy on the F bombs or nbk will make me turn the word filter back on
Ah ok... well.. then why not make use of the "REPLY" functionality the site soo graciously offers then! Otherwise, logically, I... as the OP will naturally assume it's supposed to be directed towards me somehow. And you know... having a derisive/insulting phrase in it like "man bun"... let's just say it doesn't invoke a friendly reaction.
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I remember that you've got to completely remove ALL the bits of flesh before you salt it... otherwise it's a total PITA trying to remove those bits after they've been salted and are hard and sorta crusty-ish.
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Trap use the rifle u are use to.
That's why they make Tactical Scopes.
Windage and elevation......
That's why they make Tactical Scopes.
Windage and elevation......
I wish I could, cant buy M16’s with grenade launchers, lol. 300 yards with the iron sights all day.
I sold all my rifles when the kids were born years ago so starting fresh. Most of the sets look about 350 yards but want something that hits like a sledge still after 350 yards.
350yds is a real far shot on a 25lb coyote. My experience is most come in less than 100 and the majority come a lot closer like I am not surprised to shoot one at 30yds.
My coyote gun is a bolt action 243 with a CDS it will knock down a yote at 400 all day but like I said I never get that chance because most the time they are coming in hot. Anything over 250yds is going to start dropping fast you would need to start dialing or have a scope with hold overs. Make sure if it is second focal plane you know what power to set it to for your hold overs to Work.
RE: Hold overs - You can go checkout Nikon's Spoton online app... then after you pick the caliber and load, and they've got a good list of store bought ammo vendors to choose from and if not found you can plug in the values yourself directly.. then plug in the desired Zero Distance you want and the Target Distance (distance to the target you have available to sight-in with, which can be more or less than Zero distance) and it will tell you how far below or above the bullseye that bullet should hit at that target in order to be dead on at your desired Zero distance.
Then... they have other real nice functionalities such as the Ballistics Report which generates a quick little spreadsheet that you can printout a handy field card from which will list the bullets calculated path at each 10yds... or 25yds increments... up to 250yds...or 500yds... your preference in the available settings.
And you can plug in wind speed and direction too and it'll also add that into the spreadsheet (as well the functionality to display an image of their BDC reticles at the various magnification powers you elect to choose on that apps main screen, but that only helps you if using their scopes).
It's a valuable tool for helping you decide ahead of time at what distance would be the optimal distance for you to choose as your zeroing distance, especially if you don't have a BDC scope.
You can change the settings until you achieve a spreadsheet of values for the bullets path that gives you the least amount of deviation from line-of-sight for the maximum distance possible so that in real-life situations where the target presents itself with hardly any time for you to be running thru your memory what your bullet drop values are at distance X or Y... you can know that you've set things ahead of time such that you know if you just whip the crosshairs on your target (at the normal desired shot placement locations) and go BANG!... that you are for sure going to hit within a circle of ??? diameter over ??? yards of distance out from you before the drop starts getting excessive.
FYI... I did the math a while back when I just got into all this and shooting a typical sized sparrow at 20yds is mathematically visually the equivalent to what you'd see when trying to place the crosshairs on a deer of typical size at 200 yds.
Then... they have other real nice functionalities such as the Ballistics Report which generates a quick little spreadsheet that you can printout a handy field card from which will list the bullets calculated path at each 10yds... or 25yds increments... up to 250yds...or 500yds... your preference in the available settings.
And you can plug in wind speed and direction too and it'll also add that into the spreadsheet (as well the functionality to display an image of their BDC reticles at the various magnification powers you elect to choose on that apps main screen, but that only helps you if using their scopes).
It's a valuable tool for helping you decide ahead of time at what distance would be the optimal distance for you to choose as your zeroing distance, especially if you don't have a BDC scope.
You can change the settings until you achieve a spreadsheet of values for the bullets path that gives you the least amount of deviation from line-of-sight for the maximum distance possible so that in real-life situations where the target presents itself with hardly any time for you to be running thru your memory what your bullet drop values are at distance X or Y... you can know that you've set things ahead of time such that you know if you just whip the crosshairs on your target (at the normal desired shot placement locations) and go BANG!... that you are for sure going to hit within a circle of ??? diameter over ??? yards of distance out from you before the drop starts getting excessive.
FYI... I did the math a while back when I just got into all this and shooting a typical sized sparrow at 20yds is mathematically visually the equivalent to what you'd see when trying to place the crosshairs on a deer of typical size at 200 yds.
BTW... and this is a serious question, are you accustomed to having people, with no motive to do so, lie to you a lot or something? Is it that you have little experience in this life with men of their word or something?
I'm just trying to understand why it is that you seem to have such a hard time believing that a person wouldn't "try anything once", ya know? And...I don't mean just to single you out in that regard either, I did notice that several others oddly had this same disbelief that a person wouldn't commit to trying something new that they said they would try... especially something as harmless as eating something that, at worst, doesn't taste good.
Just trying to understand what the big deal is, is all.
Anyway... like I said... I'm of the belief that you can make just about anything taste good if you have the right food prep knowledge and experience. Conversely, just like I also know you can make really delicious food horrible if you don't know what you're doing in terms of meal prep and how to cook it. Broiling a RibEye comes to mind. You go just that one minute over in broiling... it goes from the peak of delicousness into being super dry and something you have to force down with a lot of water to drink, ya know?