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Nicest Winchester I owned or shot was my 94 XTR 7-30 Waters. Made in mid 80's I reckon. Beautiful rifle, shot inch groups give or take, balanced perfect with the 24" barrel. Probably THE rifle I wish I had back. Needed money and had to sell it. My dads old pre WWII is sure a great rifle but is ...

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I let the bitch dog pick for me.

Pack the pups out of the nest and see who she picks first. That's my pup.

Scientific, huh?

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The level heads on here who have said we've only heard one side are the folks who're most correct (in regards to the news story). I have to agree there, that the article was very biased and made to jerk tears (and knee's). I will admit I am a knee jerk kind of guy at times. A lot of the feeling that...

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Thanks for the clarification madman4570, you didn't read anything else in my post though. If you want to humanize your dog (or cat, or deer, or elk), go ahead. I don't shoot on sight, usually. After the deuputy visited me about the dead dogs, I had another come by me herding cattle down the road and...

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Buck Elliot, you are right on here. Thank you. I see a great deal of this in my neck of the woods as well. I have done in many dogs who "wouldn't hurt a flee". Having a herd of sheep (and cattle, and horses, and kids) next to a new subdivision or two has been a real experience let me tell ...

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Great buck and I really like your rifle set up. I think you'll like a 35 Rem as well. Congratulations.

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Way to go men. I love my 99's too.

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This thread strikes home for me too. Just yesterday I went up through the top end of my place checking stackyards (I have a neighbor with breachy cows). My cattle are still up on a different place where the snow has been blown off the feed a little. Anyway when I get up there and look there are four...

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Looks like good elk country Danny. Nice picture. I am going after a cow in these later hunts down here. Lots of tracking snow where I am going. We got about 1.5' up at the section I'm headed to, if I can get there. It's a shame about them wolves. They ran the elk (and me) out of the Yellowstone and ...

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Well, me and Griff are about on the same page (and it sounds like a bunch of others too). I commend you Griff for being man enough to post the picture after Steve put his up. I refuse to do so :oops: . Seriously, looks great. Problem is, I wouldn't know how to use a good portion of it. Everything I ...

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We've been awful cold. A foot of snow last week, still have most of it. It was -1 two days ago and we haven't been above 25 for a week. I may have to start feeding my young/old cows if we don't either get some wind or a warm spell. Good Godfrey, we just finished feeding cows the first of June. Seems...

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I know of two neighbors that were killed by horses. One of my friends father was bucked off his horse and hit his head on a corral post and did him in. The other was a young girl about 8 or so who wrapped the bridle reins around her wrist and the horse spooked and ran off. Drug her to death and took...

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That's a pretty funny story (the brown shoes and khaki pants part). I had to explain away my broken right hand (with a classic boxers fracture) to my division officer one night (LTJG, USN). He let me off with the excuse that I hurt it in a fall and not from a bad aimed punch that hit a Marine in the...

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Wow Griff, that's a bad spot to be in for sure. Lucky they didn't wind up putting what was left of you in a coffee can.
When I see all these kids out at ropings with tennis shoes on I tell them stories like that.

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Thanks Danny. I can't find a high school kid other than my boy to ride the green ones. I can't afford to have him laid up, he's doing all my gathering and horseback work! I've been nursing this pelvis for a year and a half not knowing what it was that was hurting so bad. Had been taking a lot of Ibu...

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I use horses a lot. Ranching for a living puts me close to them daily. I harness two teams every day in the winter and use them for chores and haying in the summer. Horseback most all year. My own experience says you will get hurt some time, no matter who you are. I get along well with my horses and...

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I use RL-15 as well. It is the top powder for my 308's and 300 Savages as well. Meters well too. Usually get close to top velocity and accuracy with this powder. Beside those two cartriges I use it in my 35 Rem, 35 Whelen, 260 Rem, and 22-250. Very versatile.

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Forgot to send a picture or two.

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I just got my heifers in to start watching them here Don. Cows start closer to the 1st of April for me. We have about a foot of new snow today. Back in the brush it's up to my hip pockets. I am really hoping for a good 'chinook' so I don't have to plow calving grounds. My team is tired from pushing ...

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Barrel forward, near side. I don't like to have to walk around my horse to get my gun out. I hate lined scabbards and hate cordura. Besides the moisture problem in lined scabbards, they make your leg stick out from your horses ribs so far as to be uncomfortable and makes it darn hard to make contact...

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I have one. It is a great little rifle. Mine shoots H4198 and IMR4198 loads really well. Open sights at 50yds and you can get 3 of them to touch on a good day. Like has been stated, really well made rifle in every way. I used the 46 grain Hornady Bee bullet a lot. It won't deform in the magazine and...

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I shot a 270 BLR this fall sighting it in for a friend who was too busy. That was a very good shooting rifle. I fed it some 140 grain Accubond handloads as well as some 130 grain Rem factory loads. Shot very well indeed. With those Accubonds and IMR 4831 that gun will shoot 7/8" for three shots...

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71/1886 do it for me too. I shoot Marlins a lot and like them but they are just not as easy on the eyes. I also have a few Savage 99's that I think are pretty neat in their own way as is the 88 Winchester that I have, but still I think the 71 is what gets my heart rate up the fastest.

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Thanks everyone. I have an '86 already and am going after a '95 next year if I get to feeling rich. I like that 348 cartrige just fine and can't wait to put it to use. I did draw an antelope tag and may have to take it out for that too. Hell, I might even shoot a deer this year and I haven't done th...

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I got my hands on a Browning Model 71 Carbine. It should be here in time for elk hunting this fall. A friend of mine has had it since it was new and has shot it very little and it's never seen a hunting trip. I'm so excited about this one. While I was in the Navy I tried to order one of the first ru...

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Doc, in WY we can buy our deer and elk over the counter (and black bear, small game, etc.). There are limited quota areas for these as well. You guys can sure shoot a pile of deer down there. Personally I can only eat a deer and an elk in one year with my family of six. There is a lot of meat on an ...

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We live in a double wide (modular). Went to build down here on the ranch and had troubles with flood insurance. Can't really understand the thinking there, it's not like we're gonna jack this thing up and move in time when the river jumps the banks. I had one guy (old H.S. friend) come and visit and...

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Growing up reading gun magazines, I'd heard nothing good about the 300 Savage. Some said it was 'not inherently accurate', 'accuracy never set me on my ear', stuff like that. Also read that it was in every way inferior to the 308. So it wasn't until later in life that I tried a model 99 in 300 and f...

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I have both and it's a real toss up which I like best. I used my Marlins to kill an awful lot of elk and deer. I haven't killed much with my '86. It's a heavy *** and no slings, no scope. I'm sure that is the reason. To be practical I guess I'd say go Marlin. It's cheaper and mine have taken some se...

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I've had a couple. One is just like yours. Steel frame, made in Belgium. Horrible trigger on it sometimes though. Off the bench it shoots tight, little groups with RL 15 and 165 Hornady spire points. Really a good load for everything. I gave this rifle to my nephew, who is extremely deadly with that...

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Snowing here again this morning. I am headed out to get my saddlehorse and go gather bulls for trich testing. Not a nice day. Some of the folks who have pasture up by mine went up with their cattle on the 15th. Not a stick of feed up there! I think the BLM oughta kick them off that lease, they reall...

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Yes it's shaping up for a good hay year here too Don it just needs to warm up. I'm on the Farm Service Agency committee over here and this last week the snow reports were saying that we are from 110% to 173% of normal for snow pack :shock: . If it warms up too fast we might be looking for a dry knob...

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You're so right Meeteetse. Ben Johnson was a cowboy in real life. If I remember right he was a world champ in team roping waaaaay back. He most always rode some good looking horses in his movies. Looked to be broke pretty good too. I always liked the black horse he rode in Hang 'Em High. Looked like...

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I hope to finish branding next week. We still rope and drag them to the fire. It's just too much fun that way. Sometimes we don't sort the mothers off first. Really keeps the ground help on their toes when mama is blowing snot in their hind pockets! I'm still feeding cows :( . Just unharnessed my te...

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I'm with ornery on the horsemanship. Lot's of bad, bad, horsemanship. Also lot's of horses that don't look to be very well broke. The one thing that sticks out at me is the hats. Why is it since Crocodile Dundee and Man From Snowy River that these new 'westerns' have Australian outback style hats? T...

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Thanks for the tip Don. I only have one more little bunch to brand (20-25 late calves), so will try that. I feel the same way on the 4 wheelers. Great for some of the irrigating when the fly's get too bad for the horses. Wouldn't be caught dead herding cows with one. Funny story though. I was riding...

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No branding going on here this week Don. We had 5" of snow day before yesterday and about 10" more yesterday. It's going to be a sloppy wet *** for a while here. Had to 'wade' through snow and mud up over my knees in the corral to get my team to go feed cows. I cleaned part of the corrals ...

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Yes he is and has been a good friend. More like a brother to me. My folks took him and two of his brother's in when they were young (they had a bad situation at home) and raised them on the ranch with the rest of us hooligans. He's big guy (6'6", 275 lb) with a big heart. Probably the strongest...

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Hey thanks Danny. I'll give it a try. I put some Redfield bases on it today at lunch (had to come in out of the wind and snow, cold ***!) while sitting by the fire. I'm going to mount a Weaver 2-7X on it. I really don't think this rifle has seen more than a couple boxes of shells shot through it. If...

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I suspected something like that being the reason Rusty. It's a shame there are people like that in this world.
So if no one here can give me an idea when this rifle was made, does anyone have some place I can go to and find out?

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Serial # on this gun is 101xxxx (I've wondered why everyone x's out part of the ser #, that's why I did it :lol: ). Seems like a well made rifle. The color case hardening on the lever is bright and good looking. Nice wood. Wood to metal fit is good too. My oldest daughter has dibs on this one. She a...

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A good friend of mine stopped by this weekend to tell us he may be moving back east. He had with him a Model 99 Savage in 243. He told my kids it was theirs to use forever as long as they never sell it. His father won it on a punchboard ticket in town way back when. His kids don't like hunting and s...

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Tycer, do you use any filler (dacron, cream of wheat, etc.) with that load?

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I've seen the solar powered ones but I went cheap and got one that runs on D cell batteries. Works good. I actually had it for just grazing my saddle and pack animals but started putting it around camp at night in the grizzly country. I can't swear that it works but have not had Mr. Grizz in my camp...

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I forgot to say that one good thing about them 'plywood' stocks is that when you beat the hell out of them it doesn't make you feel so bad!

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I quite like it and I WILL own one by this fall (I hope). Mine will be in the 45-70.

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Well put Buck Elliot. Like I've said many times before (here and other places) keeping the wolves inside the expanded (as proposed by the state of Wy) Yellowstone ecosystem is more than generous and will keep plenty of wolves in JellyStone Park for almost no one to see. I was in the Du Noir a few ye...

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If I get headed that direction I'll get ahold of you Don. You gotta love calving season. I'll vouch for the stress factor as well. Your entire years income made or lost in a couple months. One year my brother bought a bull that he swore would calve easy enough to put over the heifers. We were chargi...

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I'll cut my alfalfa about the 10th of July and grass hay usually just before the 24th. I like to have a good start before county fair hits as all my 'hands' are gone for a few days showing their projects. I'd like to see that Wheatland country again. I haven't been there since I was a kid. Sure look...

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My heifers will start around the 10th of March. I start my cows closer to the 1st of April. I freeze too many ears and tails off the show calves if I go any earlier. Don may go out on grass a little earlier than I do. We won't be through feeding until mid May. For some reason in '02 we had 13 sets o...

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