Deer Camp Cold Bore Challenge

[348win]

If ya never heard of it before:

Its easy to remember
I like it as a gold standard

(I read it somewhere, not my idea)

All hunters that show upta camp; attempt challenge in good faith, or else you showed up unprepared for the woods, and need adjustments asap


Cold bore rifles
Beer can @ 100yds

Scope or open sights doesn't matter.

For those that say "Were gonna do WHAT!"
They showed up unprepared.......

I find a lot of people never tried shooting 100yds or understand how flat and accurate center fire rifles really are.
Its proof they aren't ready and time to step up, and slow down and learn. Get that rifle dialed in. The game your after deserves a clean kill.
And even if you ain't hunting, the challenge applies. Ain't no use in having guns around that aint sighted in!!!!!!

Like my friend said wisely "The Woods Ain't No Place For An Ego"
(Another one to LIVE by.....literally)

[348win]

I was extremely enthused yesterday.....

32-20

yard popper Load, quiet, shoots flat to 90yds

Head out w one of my new "high power" loads.
I switched powder recently

1 cartridge
Set on tailgate of truck back rest against firewood, knees for steadys.

Smoked the 8" steel.
166yds lasered.

90gr @ fast/fps but not make your ears ring hahaha

Told my kid how happy this makes me that both my loads are same sight dope. Hard to come by the full power and low power loads both working out to same sight adjustment.

One shot and put the gun away.
Very satisfying.

[Gobblerforge]

I insist every gun I hunt with is sighted in and checked cold. Repeatedly. I have never hunted with a warmed barrel. It is fun to do when farting around outside all day. Get set up and take a shot. Say a 22 for squirrel. Go do something and come back later and take a shot. Repeat. As opposed to wondering where the shot will hit, by the end of the day, I am looking for one ragged hole. On a related point I am the same with my muzzle loader. I got it as a kit for christmas in 1972 and dad and I built it. I have found that clean, my first shot is spot on every time. It stays loaded year in and year out. I read, as a kid deeply into mountain man stuff, that the gun over the fireplace in the cabin of frontier home was always loaded and ready. I started doing experiments 40 years ago where I would clean the gun after a hunt or shoot and load it and hung it up. My longest spell was almost 10 years. Pulled it down and it was perfect. Cold.

[Bronco]

Can we drink the beer before shooting the can ??
If yes then I am in !

[Old No7]

Here's an even better and much more challenging version of the "cold bore" challenge...

* Show up the day before, wake up an hour before light

* Be on "your stand" (or the firing line) by 1/2 hour before

* Sit however you want on the ground -- while not moving at all

* 2 hours later, when prompted, raise your rifle and take that shot

-> That, my friends, is how we practice COLD bore shooting in Maine.

Testing the gun & load is one thing -- sometimes you gotta test the nut behind the trigger...

Old No7

[Griff]

-> That, my friends, is how we practice COLD bore shooting in Maine.[/i]
Testing the gun & load is one thing -- sometimes you gotta test the nut behind the trigger...
Old No7

"Maine," day before deer opener... brrr... sounds cold... can I get a third option?

[Bryan Austin]

Something needs to be implicated to represent Buck Fever....then fire!!!

[jeepnik]

I didn't know there was any way other than cold to sight in a rifle used for hunting. Takes longer what with the wait time necessary between shots. But once done you don't have to wonder where it will hit with that first round. Oh by the way, I had an uncle from New Hampshire. He insisted that if you sighted your rifle you wanted the weather as close as possible to what you would be hunting in. In other words, don't sight in on a hot summer day and take your shot on a snowy early morning.

[horsesoldier03]

I am definitely getting excited for Deer Season. Just picked up this Weatherby Vanguard with Spiral Fluted #3 barrel contour in .308 to be my new deer rifle. I put 6 rounds in 1" at just less than 100 yards with FED 150 and WIN 180 grain. With Scope and Sling it is still right at 9 lbs and only 40".