Post by Roe on Mar 26, 2016 9:45:34 GMT -4
I'll admit it. I'm just not an archery guy. Oh, I had a bow, an old Oneida Tomcat that I shot with fingers. Even took a few whitetails with it, but when I damaged the tendons in my right hand and wrist and never quite made the transition to a wrist-style release, I gave the bow and all that went with it to the son of a good friend that was just starting into archery. He made good use of it and I never looked back.
Besides, my first love is firearms. I'm an inveterate gun nut and handloader, a self-proclaimed handgunner, both competing and hunting with a variety of pistols and revolvers for many years, and have a fairly substantial collection of both long guns and handguns, most of which see at least occasional use in the woods and fields of Michigan.
Much of the small game and many of the deer I've taken over the last 40 years have been taken with handguns. My first bear and my most recent bear both fell to an S&W 29-3 .44 Magnum that I've had since '82. I hunted with open sights for quite a few years but aging eyesight dictated the addition of a 2x Leupold.
Like any good Scoundrel, a few bear have fallen to leverguns, either a Marlin 336 Sporting Carbine in .35 Remington or an 1895 in the venerable .45-70
But by far the most bears have succumbed to a custom Remington 700 in .350 Remington Mag. I built this rifle specifically for bear hunting as a powerful yet lightweight (6.5 lbs field ready), weather-resistant carbine.
Pushing a handload topped with a 225gr Nosler Partition at 2700 fps from it's 20.5" barrel, it certainly qualifies as potent, and yet with it's feathery weight it handles like the proverbial magic wand. It may sound odd, but I think this rifle and I have developed some kind of psychic connection were, on occasion, it seemingly does it's thing all by itself, making shots I'm simply not capable of.
Either way, we've spent an enormous amount of time sharing baits together and I'm as fond of it as one would be of any old friend.
The .350RM in it's natural habitat.
Roe
Besides, my first love is firearms. I'm an inveterate gun nut and handloader, a self-proclaimed handgunner, both competing and hunting with a variety of pistols and revolvers for many years, and have a fairly substantial collection of both long guns and handguns, most of which see at least occasional use in the woods and fields of Michigan.
Much of the small game and many of the deer I've taken over the last 40 years have been taken with handguns. My first bear and my most recent bear both fell to an S&W 29-3 .44 Magnum that I've had since '82. I hunted with open sights for quite a few years but aging eyesight dictated the addition of a 2x Leupold.
Like any good Scoundrel, a few bear have fallen to leverguns, either a Marlin 336 Sporting Carbine in .35 Remington or an 1895 in the venerable .45-70
But by far the most bears have succumbed to a custom Remington 700 in .350 Remington Mag. I built this rifle specifically for bear hunting as a powerful yet lightweight (6.5 lbs field ready), weather-resistant carbine.
Pushing a handload topped with a 225gr Nosler Partition at 2700 fps from it's 20.5" barrel, it certainly qualifies as potent, and yet with it's feathery weight it handles like the proverbial magic wand. It may sound odd, but I think this rifle and I have developed some kind of psychic connection were, on occasion, it seemingly does it's thing all by itself, making shots I'm simply not capable of.
Either way, we've spent an enormous amount of time sharing baits together and I'm as fond of it as one would be of any old friend.
The .350RM in it's natural habitat.
Roe
