Recent content by calling4life

I bought a 4" 500 and a couple years back had a custom 1/12 twist barrel put on it, it was also threaded to put a real muzzle brake on it. It now finishes at about 5" with my muzzle brake. You can shoot 500 JRH or 500 S&W short in these, and then there are reduced recoil 500 S&W loads...

The average bear shot here in MN is 140lbs. Our DNR talks about having live trapped 800lb black bears. Guy poached one north of that a few years back. I say that because you tend to get this idea that everyone is patient and waiting and killing big things. bear, elk, whatever, but the reality...

The biggest thing for me is straight-line penetration. So I test penetration by angling wood and shooting through it. So, say, a 1" thick piece of wood angled at me at 45 degrees, then there may be several inches of nothing, then another piece of wood angle away from me, then something like...

There's a 730gr wide flat nose hardcast for the .458s And I know there's a 770gr for the 500NE, 500 Jeff guys, could likely be sized down to 505 Gibbs I would imagine. There is another in 715gr for the 505 as well as for the bigger 500 jeffs and such. Just in case anybody is wondering, I...

Here's a quick watch, this shows you how to practice for defense against an animal.

I used the A-frame in discussion because you had it in your testing, so you'd obviously be familiar with it and it was already in the thread, I also use it because it is ubiquitous as far as bonded lead bullets go. Honestly was not trying to do some one-upmanship, wouldn't be having this...

I think you missed my intent of the second point, the point to which your response started "I am not here to argue." But that's fine, I'm not here to argue either, I'm here to understand the entirety of the performance. So, moving on: To the first point, are you stating that once we are past...

When testing those 458 raptors in your medium, how far did the petals penetrate? Did you measure that specifically, as that would be what I'd want to know to compare them to an expanded A frame or the like. Essentially, it's the "expanded" damage wound channel length, past that is just the...

Opticsplanet has a good deal going on right now. I have no affiliation with them.

Is it winter in MN? I can't tell, I'm NW of Cloquet and we don't have any snow, it's 41 and sunny, the river next to me is wide open. Makes me wonder if the fury is going to come 10-fold over the next couple of months or if we're really not going to have a winter.

First person on planet earth to think A frames are a bullet prone to failure... I've never even read another comment like that with regard to A frames, let alone met anyone that had issues with them.

Ok, but give more details. What gauge is the shotgun, where did you get the hornet inserts/who makes them, and show some targets so we can see what kind of accuracy that can be expected. Oh, and do you need a gunsmith to install them. Please

Have them bring in Griz, the rich skiers I'm sure are just besides themselves not being able to see the cuddly teddy bears.

Where are you located?

Joe Biden on the bolt, he was lost. None-the-less, it's fair enough, practical accuracy is the goal with these guns, as far as I can tell that guy with the double did great. So whether that was a master titled guy running the bolt and a master titled guy running the double, to some degree...