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Got an old mountain mule deer yesterday with my 6.5x55 and a factory Nosler Trophy Grade round with the Accubond. Shot was almost perfectly flat across a canyon at 465 yards, energy should’ve been around 1200 ft/lbs. Buck was facing uphill vertically, bullet went in perfectly centered on the spine and just about in line with the rear of the shoulders. Buck went down but required a follow-up shot upon recovery. We recovered the bullet in the backstrap mushroomed about halfway through, which...

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Not sure how many other whisky lovers there are here but I am one of them.

Do a bit of writing occasionally for a few hunting magazines and nothing is a better accompaniment to writing than a nice dram.

I grew up on a farm in Northern Kentucky and we raised tobacco. My dad got me into hunting at a very young age but didn’t get me into deer hunting until I was about 13. I’m assuming he didn’t get me into it earlier in life because he saw it as a “hunt alone” kind of hunt. I didn’t see it that way and started taking my sine deer hunting when he was 9 but anyway.

Back in the late 80’s if you saw a couple bucks in the 2 week season you were lucky on our farm. Let’s flash forward to around...

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I picked up an M70 Classic Stainless in 300 Win Mag from a local pawn shop for $475. I went over every bit of it to find out why it was so cheap, but it appears to be in good condition. It has one of those BOSS thingers on it. My first instinct was to remove it and put a thread cap on it, but the threaded portion is quite a bit longer than normal. If I cut the threaded portion off, the barrel will be about 22 3/4” long. Seems kinda short for a 300.

Thinking of rebarreling it. I...

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