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I did some turkey hunting the last two weekends. Tried to get my 15yo daughter on a Jake this AM but it wasn’t to be. Cut a new lane and installed a backstop at the ranch where I can shoot 785 yards. Rang the steel on the first shot which was cool. Steel through phone skope: I shot an NRL Hunter match about a month ago in Brownfield. Tons of fun and really stepped my long range game up.
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@CleverNickname is the portal to Pan’s Labyrinth on your place?
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Got our first bobcat trail cam photo last week in Lampasas, pretty cool.
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When I’m hunting in a remote area (no cell signal and/or hours for an ambulance), I always carry a tourniquet. I don’t worry too much about band aids /blisters, etc. But fractures resulting in ruptured arteries or an incidental GSW to a limb that results in bleeding out are catastrophic problems that I’d like to have a solution for.
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@Hamttx Very cool. In what decade was he a PH and in what countries did he do most of his guiding? Any interesting stories? PH and hunting guide stories can be pretty great.
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@Hamttx feel free to indulge us in living vicariously through your journey sir if you have a hunt or are planning one for this new rifle purchase
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I put 20 rounds through my 375 last weekend. I have decent reloading experience with it and have been hunting with it several times over the last 6 years. I’m actually looking at doing a new 375 rifle build in another year or so. There’s options beyond Winchester I can list if you’re interested, and I’m at your service if you have any questions. Africahunting.com is also a great resource.
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Here’s a pretty nice US made one on GB with dies, etc. The seller says the new production models are foreign made. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1084635776
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@USCATX A: I’m seeing a lower leg when I zoom in, highlighted markup below. B: the buck is standing with perfect posture and his weight pretty evenly distributed, and they tend to show some really weird posture if they’re missing a leg, like that photo above.
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Have the protein timed to open during times when hunters are in blinds and hopefully the deer will be at your place getting a snack instead of getting shot at the neighbor’s.
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My experience: my folks bought 180 acres low fence about 7 years ago. It had not been hunted for about five years prior. It had a good number of nice framed eight pointers but nothing beyond eight points. We started feeding protein (timed, not 100% year-round) and putting in fall/winter food plots and the next year we had 9 pointers, the year after that we had 10 pointers. Two years ago we had a small framed 14 point, and other nice bucks. We have mostly decent neighbors that don’t shoot everything that walks, but the nutrition worked. Now we have too many does and my dad won’t let me get the doe numbers down to correct proportions, which definitely can also become an issue IMO reducing your buck’s quality. We only had one 9 point and maybe one 10 point this year. Here’s a good one from a few years back:
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For Federal being such a big manufacturer, they have been almost an afterthought in the precision / higher end rifle cartridge market. The honest feedback Federal needs to hear is this IMO: “Hornady stubbed their toe with the 7PRC by not being able to source enough Reloader 26 powder to meet demand. They had to drop down to different powders at lower velocities, which disappointed a lot of adopters of the 7 PRC. That said, if handloaders or alternate suppliers had Reloader 26 available (like Federal did) they were able to generate the specified velocity (3000fps with a 175ELDX from a 26” barrel) and accuracy (sub MOA) that Hornady advertised. Regarding the 7 Backcountry: If Federal doesn’t have tight enough QC regarding this high-pressure ammunition to keep their velocity standard deviations for a normal shot string (6-10) below ~25ft./s and maximum velocity spreads below ~60 ft./s; this cartridge will be dead on arrival. The long range hunting and shooting community are very detail oriented, shoot with chronos and they will not tolerate inconsistent ammunition. So if there’s a problem, Federal needs to get it fixed immediately and not send out inconsistent product.” The Allterra video laid it out really well: basically it doesn’t really matter if the bullet from the 7 backcountry has X inches less drop and more velo than the 7 PRC at 800 yards; if the ammo won’t shoot sub MOA, you’re going to fucking miss a lot, and people will not tolerate that. Hornady understood this and publicly said “we had to source different powder and slow the velo down to keep the accuracy, which is the highest priority”. I assume if you told a Federal guy this they would react as though you’re telling them their baby is ugly, but that’s the truth IMO.
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These are all good points to consider. Our bucks don’t dominate the feeders, as I believe we have too many does. The fawns stand with the does and pick up the protein that falls to the ground at our place. It looks like this a lot:
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I have two of the Hammer timed protein heads on my protein feeders (the units that Krivoman uses), and I have had good luck with them with the exception of some very dry low protein feed we got once that tended to clog up the drop pipe, other than that, good reliability.
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Also, according to Shoot2Hunt, RCBS has paused tooling development for reloading dies as the steel casings are so hard it takes about 12 passes through dies to reload. So probably a non-reloadable cartridge between that and Federal I believe said the powder they’re using isn’t commercially available.
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