New hunting rifle.....and a scope question.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

Right on Jeff.

All this talk about deer is making me hungry. To bad it's not hunting season yet. I have a craving for some back strap, and it sucks that I can't get venison at the grocery store. Guess I'll have to whack a few more this year than last to tie me over for the year.

Heathens, all of you!

Let me go and hug a tree somewhere and commune with nature, all the while in my leather boots, using a leather belt and a leather hat keeping the sun from burning my silly head!

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by phred68

I thought we were using BLUE for sarcasm now... Burnin', there must be some blue in there somewhere...

"Some" blue?

[vash]

hmmm. i dont ever mount my own scope. the gunsmith has a tool that aligns the two scope rings perfectly. you dont want them out of alignment even a tiny bit, and the scope itself makes the worst alignment tool. i have seen tubes crushed, rings tweeked...

let them do it. cheap enough, and they are the pros.

me and a buddy anchored a deer last weekend. 57 yards, with a bow.

[charleskieffner]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

All of my scoped rifles have Loctite on the screws holding the bases to the reciever. They will shoot loose eventually without it, and they are a PIA to get to. You lose your zero when they get loose and have to dissassemble the whole works to fix it. I've never used it on the screws on the rings that actually clamp the scope. They will shoot loose as well, but it gets to be pretty routine to check them every time you clean the gun. You can't do that with the base screws.

165 grain bullets in the '06 are a popular compromise between the traditional 150 and 180 grain weights. They shoot almost as flat as 150's and carry almost as much momentum as 180's. They also tend to be very accurate in the standard 10" twist '06 barrels. They will work great for your application, and kill deer deader than a fence post, but they will tear up some meat at woods ranges.

The Core-Locks and other "cup and core" traditional bullet designs are notorious for inflicting a lot of meat damage. More important in this regard (than weight) these days is the various bullet constructions available. A little bit "tougher" bullet won't tear them up as bad, because it won't tear itself up so bad on impact. I'm a big fan of the old Nosler Partition, but there are others. You can find these "premium" bullets in any weight from 150 to 200 grains in factory ammo from Federal and others. You would have to re-check your zero, even using the same weight, but the difference in performance might be worth it. Hell, you will need to re-check it anyway once you get back to the mid west, so you might look at getting some flavor of "premium" loads with better bullets.

I've killed deer and other critters with quite a few different rifles and calibers; a couple of them '06's (Model 70 Winchester and Number 1 Ruger). My '06 loads have used 180 and 200 Sierras, 180 and 200 Partitions, 180 Barnes X Bullets, and 180 Winchester Fail Safes. The Sierras are the old "cup and core" bullets and tend to do a lot of damage. The Partitions, X Bullets, and Fail Safes are in the "premium" bullet class. They do noticably less damage while still killing as well as anything else.

+1

all my rifles use loctite ...............all of my scope rings and bases have NEVER shot loose.

how does mcmillian firearms and robar send their rifles out? with loctite on bases and rings.

dont fool yourself they WILL SHOOT LOOSE!

now hot tip of the day.............take g/friends/wifes nail polish and paint RED LINE across allen head onto ring. that way you can look down and see if allen heads have loosened up.

blue loctite only unless you want to use blow torch on ones you red loctited to remove. kinda would ruin finish on rifle and scope.

pretty much upon take down and cleaning of rifle/pistol/shotgun any and all screws get blue loctite placed on them upon reassembly. they get bounced and abused on quads in/out trucks, up/down hills dropped, fallen on etc. .

[sjf911]

Originally Posted by on-ramp

that's BS. nobody HAS to kill for food. you are in AMERICA. food is always close, visit your local grocery store.

This is so delusional it belongs on the god thread. I love it.

By the way, I am a blue loctite fan on all of the screws. 30-06 seems a bit overkill for venison. We usually reserve that one for the elk. 7mm, .243, .270, or even a 30-30 in brush country for deer.

[on-ramp]

[kstar]