This man gives us an HOUR AND A HALF of his thoughts, for people all over the world to learn a valuable skill. I think we have not enough thumbs up or good comments!

Never a wasted minute watching your videos. Great job 👍

Wow... I’ve been shooting and hunting for the better part of 45 years, and there’s not a single video of yours that hasn’t taught me something new, or clarified something that I had wondered about previously. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your knowledge and teaching skills.

@TheKasmir65

4 жыл бұрын

Could not have said that any better.

@troylisatoole1401

4 жыл бұрын

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@giltam2hotmailcom

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely...! I feel exactly the same...

@dennisjuanitaboldt3475

2 жыл бұрын

I thank you

@Jeff_Seely

2 жыл бұрын

I've recently come across a quote from Neil Degrasse Tyson that goes, “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong”. I join you in those sentiments. I start the videos, thinking I knew something, and I leave the videos, knowing that I know something, now, of a topic that I thought I knew.

I just want to say that I really appreciate your thoughtful, straightforward and well informed tutorials. I cannot overstate the enormity or importance of your guidance in my quest for improved firearms handling and enjoyment. Really, you are top notch and your efforts are greatly appreciated here in Ottawa. Anything to do with the awesome 6.5x55 Swede would be eagerly consumed!

With emphasis on simplicity this is the way a rookie 70 year old wingshooter sighted in my new vortex crossfire scope on my Ruger American 243. After bore sighting the barrel and adjusting the scope on a target at 25yds I secured my rifle and took two shots at the bullseye. This resulted in two shots through one hole at two inches left and an inch and a half up creating a point of impact. With the rifle secured, I aimed the crosshairs on the bullseye. Then without moving the rifle I moved the crosshairs left and up to the bullet hole. I then reaimed back on the bullseye and put a hole through the center. This method was incredibly fast and without any mental gymnastics. As always enjoyed your video! All the best to you and Bennie.

@GunBlue490

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's the method I employ, but it requires an absolutely secure sandbag rest which few have, or the aid of a second person to turn the turret knobs. But it is indeed the swiftest and can be done at any range without computations. I may illustrate that method one of these days.

@TheBanjoFlyBoy

5 жыл бұрын

I used an old black & decker "Workmate" table vice with a folded towel to protect the rifle. I sat it on a level concrete slab. It worked great! I used 70gr hollow points initially and later got some 95gr Win silver tips for a 100yd check. Amazingly, it was spot on! I consider myself lucky in that regard! Thanks for all you do! Yes, I think this method would make a great video🔫

I find your video's very helpful. You come across extremely experienced and competent. I really appreciate that. A little background on me. As a boy my Dad would take me shooting with him every weekend to teach me gun safety as well as some pointers on how to hold a rifle correctly not to mention handguns. By the time I was a teenager I was more interested in sports and girls. When I was 20 years old my wife and I had our first of five children. Sadly some year's later I lost my Dad to cancer Literally diagnosed 2 months later passed away. It was a very difficult time for me and the last thing on my mind was shooting or anything to do with guns as it reminded me of my Dad. I'm am now 50 years old and very much a sport shooter my wife and I enjoy shooting together. Any way Dad never got around to teach me How to Sight in a rifle with A-scope let alone mount the scope. At my age everyone thinks you should know by now. Hell I'd be one of them if the shoe was on the other foot but it's not. Probably ego driven but I would be completely inbarest to have to ask somebody how to sight in A-scoped rifle or even how to place one on the rifle correctly. That's When I stumbled across one of your videos. I thought to myself thank GOD!!! I'm now subscribed to you video Channel and enjoy it very much. I just wanted to thank you for your experience and effort. GOD bless you and your family!!! Sincerely Tony G.

When people like this guy go so will a lot of the knowledge very few people who really really know what they are talking about thanks for all of your informative video's.

@GunBlue490

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The timelessness of media such as this is precisely why I am producing these, so that the information won't die with me. Knowledge of this sort, articulated from one who has known and validates it firsthand, has a way of ringing true to a great number of folks, who will carry it on, into the future.

@Raevenswood

4 жыл бұрын

@@GunBlue490 I was thinking about this and how I hope you live a lot longer but also that these videos will be an archive of your knowledge for years to come and hopefully generations to come.

@redrock425

3 жыл бұрын

@@GunBlue490 Yes it concerns me that not enough young people are getting into shooting. It takes them a lot of the skills missing in many today, responsibility, patience, concentration, respect and plenty more besides. Enjoying your videos here in sunny England, thanks for taking the time to produce them.

Another excellent instruction, thank you! I always learn an incredible amount from your no-nonsense, logical wisdom. I'm about to sight in my new rifle and scope as well, so this advice is particularly timely for me. I also have plenty of wilderness around me (in VT), so whenever possible I like to head out there to shoot mostly shorter distances. (I'm a stickler about cleaning up after myself, btw, which I wish everyone would do. And fortunately most do in my state.) I'm always a little nervous about going out there to shoot, because I rarely come across anyone else who does, so I'm hoping it isn't frowned upon. But there's nothing I love more than grabbing my portable ham radio, a rifle, and heading for the hills. All the best to you!

This is a strong individual with a lot of class. It's really cool that he freely shares his knowledge which seems infinite... from the point of impact all the way back up range to to the manufacturer. I've been shooting 55 years & he's taught me alot. Thank you,thank you,thank you.

An excellent video and clear instruction and information re: the theory and process of sighting in, as well as great info about loads setup. I particularly like your approach and style of speaking as if I am hanging out at the range or at the shop. Thanks again

Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos, they are some of the most informative videos one can find anywhere. The way you explain everything in such detail and historical reference is very educational and engaging. The fact that you unashamedly include God at the end of each video is refreshing to say the least. I enjoy each and every one and hope to see more in the future. May God bless you and your family and thanks again.

GunBlue490 - I echo many of the positive comments below. I thank you for your efforts to teach firearm safety, shooting and good, solid and dependable methods. I can't wait to use them myself. Thank you so much. :-)

Thanks for sharing your passion with us. You are American patriotic. Really admire it! I learned a lot at watching your clips. Don't forget your American Brittany is originaly coming from France a century ago! I will be more than flatted if you want come visiting me in Canada(Thompson,MB). God bless!

I love this man. He has so much wisdom from experience. He is no poser but the real deal...a true Renaissance man.

Thank you for sharing your expertise! Your videos are the best!

Great video! Those 700 CDL SF are beautiful rifles. I've had two. 7mm-08 and now currently a .257 Wby Mag. Both tack drivers!

A no-nonsense approach to attaching a scope with practicality and effectiveness. When I received my bench rifle and scope and friend lent me his ring lapping and scope leveling kit and I did use it but I had not seen your videos on this topic yet. Well, I did see your video shortly after and used your approach on my wife's rifle as well as my daughters and all I can say is that I look back at that kit, feeling a bit comical for obsessing over that whole thing. All three guns hold their accuracy but the difference is that I spent three times longer, lapping and bedding rings with futility on that first rifle. It is not needed, I definitely am convinced of it. Also, I went with your idea of using canvas money bags filled with very fine blasting sand and they are dead steady. I think it cost me about 25 bucks to make four of them and I love using them for rifles and pistols alike. They are perfect!

Watched both of your videos last night. Scope mounting and scope sighting in. Thank you for doing these videos. The videos were very helpful. I use a plumb line when checking reticle to vertical. inexpensive - a string and hang anything on it that has some weight. Easy to see also. Use a white string to contrast to the reticle. Made purchase of scope base and rings today for a new scope I am mounting on a Remington 700 - a gun from 1970 which is in great shape.

Fantastic tutorial, you're kind of knowledge only comes with years of trial and error so to speak. I enjoyed watching you show us how you calibrate the scope the proper way, believe it or not many how to posts leave this step out. Thank you for this video it was very interesting and helpful.. God bless...

Love the vids, my grandson is at the age where he loves to shoot. Your videos help me to train him to be safe and a good marksman. Thank you so very much, I’ve been shooting for 50+ years but I learn something from every one of your videos.

@eb1684

Жыл бұрын

Your grandson is a good person.

Very much enjoyed finally getting you out of the shop and office for a field trip.

The cookoo clock in the background sounds like the one I had as a kid. Very good video as always. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.

I watched your video on how to mount a scope on a rifle and you are awesome that's why I'm watching this video I just discovered you and I'm grateful for your experience and videos

Really appreciate your videos Sir, very informative and enhancing for shooters.

Thank You Sir. and God bless You and Your family. Always good to hear something from other sources.

great video very enjoyable! please continue making them! I just found your channel tonight

Just learning. Very helpful! This, and the scope mounting... er... "scope attaching" video. Thank you.

What an excellent video. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the video...I thought that it was going to be something...shorter and with more ...simplicity, as the title states. Unfortunately, I fell asleep after about, maybe 15 minutes into the video so I'll have to watch it again. But I'm definitely saving it!!! I'm sure it's just as valuable as your other videos!!! Have a happy New Year!!! 🤠🇨🇱🇱🇷

The height of your sight, above your bore, is a VERY important measurement. This is basically the starting trajectory, or angle, of your bullet. This is why AR shooters can use a 50-200 yard zero. Their optic is sitting higher above the bore, than most other rifles. With a hunting rifle, which has the scope mounted closer to the bore, your zero will be more like 35-200, or 50-130. This is because the bullet starts out at a more upward angle, when the optic is mounted high above the bore, like on the AR. In contrast, the bullet starts out on a flatter trajectory, when the optic is close to the bore, like on a hunting rifle. I hope this makes sense... It would be easier with a pencil and paper, to draw the different trajectories, and angles.

@alanmeyers3957

10 ай бұрын

Incorrect sir, the amount of drop at a given distance absolutely has to do with the velocity weight, etc. of the projectile. It has nothing to do with the height of the sight.

I seen a good few of your videos and learned a lot from you. Thanks for all your wonderful help. And I like Our Lady of Guadalupe on your computer and the San Damiano Crucifix by your deer mounts.

I love my Savage .223!!! I hit 10 water bottles(16 oz) in a row the other day, from 200 yards. I was very pleased!!! I didn't do this on my first try. It took lots of discipline, concentration, and fine tuning. 200 yards is a long ways, if you've never sat down and tried it... A water bottle is a little over 2" wide, so you basically have to shoot MOA, 10 times in a row. Don't be too quick to say how easy it is, until you sit down and try it. lol

I would like to say thank you. Great information on scopes.

A wealth of information is in every one of your videos. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas and God Bless you and your family.

Thank you sir I’m very attentive to what you’re saying I have several rifles with scopes and other Justin like what you’re doing you’re confirming that I’m OK thank you very much and God bless you sir!✝️

Another excellent video chocked full of great information as usual... thanks GB490!

I'm sure you hear this often but, I'd like to express my thanks to you. This video has clarified and simplified so many things for me. Using published load data (Nosler) and the ballistics calculator I've determined the ideal zero range for my 7mm-08 should be 260 yards. That would give me a dead zero at 25 yards and less than 6 inches of drop at 325 yards. Short story, as long as I do my part any deer that presents itself at 300 yards (and in) is going to have its goose cooked.

@denisrailey777

3 жыл бұрын

Deer & Goose two different animals? Lol. nz humour.

Fantastic information videos. Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much watched all of your video very informative thank you🕶"

Super job, very much appreciated sir!

Great info for a beginner like me. love your videos, thank you.

Excellent video and information sir!

We need to send your work to the Gun Magazines and Websites...I know that your function over form plus pragmatic approach would without a doubt place you next to names such as Jack O Conner, Elmer Keith and many others,Thank you for giving so much time to your KZread Followers. Ps. Glad Benny is doing better. God Bless you and your Family sir..

I just discovered you yesterday. I'm now a subscriber and have watched two videos in two days. Thank you. I'm new to deer hunting and appreciate your scope aid.

Thanks for this video.

Hi from South Africa. Only recently stumbled onto your channel and catching up. Really appreciated your talk on brass annealing. Enjoyed this video very much when you shared your views of your countryside. Beautiful country you live in.

@GunBlue490

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would like to visit your country some day, also.

Great information! That road is actually better than my driveway!

Greetings from Tromso, Northern Norway. Love Your videos - Your experience, common sense, historical knowledge and elaborate explanations really makes it. Erik

@GunBlue490

7 жыл бұрын

Erik Traasdahl My regards to Norge! Have visited our friends in Moss twice. Beautiful country.

I watched tour video on gun cleaning. I have been doing this sport for a long time and found out that l don’t know everything yet. LOL 😂 I went to Rona’s and picked up a 4litre jug of mineral spirits a few years ago. It will last me for the rest of my life and it works just as good or better than any thing at the gun shop.🇨🇦🤠

@alcantrell5340

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it will last that long, it will evaporate before then.

I'm going to have to listen to this again to get this instruction on "mid-point tragectory" to adjust my new Weaver.

Thank you sir for your informative video. God bless

I built a perfect small shooting bench that is 3 legged where the legs are out about 45 degrees and the bottom where they bite into the ground totally keep the top area of the bench centered within the ground surface area. No vibration at all, and made sure chair does not connect to it. The 3 legs makes all feet touch ground properly. I made it over 20 years ago and will make a new one. The 50 lbs was just fine for me then but I want an aluminum one down to 25 lbs of the same exact size.

Another great video.

Thanks! As always your videos are informative, particularly the discussion of MOA adjustments at 25 yards and how to center your scope without a bore site. I hope you don't mind a couple suggestions. First, I might use a factory load cartridge. Most people who are making hand loads probably know how to sight in already and the novice will likely be using factory ammunition. It might be useful to reference a manufacturer's data on the web for BC and Muzzle Velocity. Hornady's site is very useful both for the ballistics calculator and for cartridge data. I think it necessary to mention that many (most?) hunting rifles don't have a 24" barrel, maybe 22 or 20 inch, so the MV might be reduced somewhat in the calculator. Incidentally my new CZ 308 shoots just under 1 inch at a hundred with Hornady American Whitetail 150's but my other hunting arms range from to just over an inch to two or so and accuracy varies with different ammunition not to mention the occasional flyers in any given group. Finally, it has been my experience that ballistics tables are a starting point. Sometimes I am quite surprised with what I expect from a given cartridge at a given range and what I actually get. So, I give it a final few clicks for elevation and I'm good to go tomorrow morning for that wily wapiti! Just so you know an inch high at a hundred is a Montana standard of measure. Thanks again for your help in all your videos.

@raynelson5827

6 жыл бұрын

Sooo, another hunting season has come and gone in Montana. Very enjoyable, but not much of that cold snowy weather that I prefer. Anyway, I have been studying Hornady's ballistics tables for my 30.06 and 308. I'm coming round to the notion that my tried and true "inch high at a hundred" probably isn't the best sight in point. In fact the calculator shows that three inches or so will give me a fine point blank range out to about 275 or so. I'm not usually comfortable shooting out to 300 and beyond but have taken long shots at elk with success in the past. Also, I shoot to about 1-2 inch groups at 100 yards off a bench. So, I'm thinking that a 2-3"ish high sight in group at 100 ought to just about do it. That should give me a center of the body elevation hold from very close in (like this year) out to as far as I usually care to shoot. My other rule of thumb that tells me to always hold on hair for long shots is still as good as ever I think.

Agree, knowingly or unknowingly people become dependent (sometimes obsessively) with 'aids' in using their firearms. It is better to build your skills than lean on technology. Those are my words, not his. Also, when sighting-in I like to shoot until I can leave the range having strong confidence in the rifle and myself. Although, some days things just aren't in sync so, I come back another day. Enjoyed it the video! God Bless!

Great video I enjoyed very much atvb Steve

An old gunsmith I knew, now deceased, who also shot benchrest taught me to make sand bags from the legs of worn out Bluejeans. Just cut the pant legs off in sections the approximate length of bags you want. Turn the leg inside out sew one end shut with a faily large needle and dental floss. Turn leg back right side out then roll a flap inside itself and sew nearly shut, leaving a 3 or 4 inch opening fill with sand then finish sewing shut. I like to use plain clay ( cheap&unsented kitty litter. It's lighter than sand and your bags will be more pliable. You can make bags of varying diameter by using different size jeans. Kids jeans are great for making "sissy" bags using bird shot.

He's right about the lead sled , who wants to drag that to the range , and yes tripods can be a heavy piece of equipment on a hunting rifle.

I've always used as much cradling as possible when matching gun and sights/scope... To make sure the gun and sights are paired we'll. THEN I shoot from various positions I may find myself in after I know it won't be the gun and optic pairing. :) Does that make sense?.... NM! I'm watching some more your videos now and I get where you're coming from and know your history better and saw that video where you were shooting by the lonely pond in the woods and you only took seven shots I think but explained a lot and showed me your set up on the rickety laminated door and now I get your concern about cradles and I agree

Really interesting insight at the end. I read Lee's book and I don't think he mentioned that very interesting phenomena. Thanks from Texas.

Thankyou again, so for a 223 with 20" barrel 1/8 twist do I sight in using a ballistic chart for a 24" barrel as an approximation of what my bullet placement should be , understanding that there will be small differences? Would there be any difference between the 20" vs 24" at 100 yards? 200 yards? 300 yards? Regards, Roger

Like the others below I wish to thank you for your videos. I will typically view them several times and refer back to them frequently. In your inimitable avuncular style I feel like I am sitting with you and you are speaking directly to me as though I were a family member. Again, thank you. In the introduction to your video you adopt the third person style of a reviewer or someone who has been asked to write the forward on a book. This is probably a first on KZread as are your admonishments directing your viewer not to be wasteful. By the way I think your intro was well written. I have two questions; 1) How do you deal with the heartbeat motion in the scope and 2) It appears that the rifle you were siting in is new, what are your thoughts on barrel break in? I wish you a speedy recovery from your cataract surgery. Thank you for your kind response. Best regards

@GunBlue490

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments. The beating heart is one of several distractions that shooters sometimes deal with. It's actually not a very serious issue in most field positions, and I've never experienced it while shooting from a heavy bench. I've only experienced it from portable benches, as my chest is pressing directly against my heart. Even then, the movement that I see through a 14X scope is less than 3/8ths of an inch, at most. Your second question prompts me to do a short video on this subject. Briefly stated, there is no break in procedure. That rifle is fairly new, but has fired roughly 100 shots with various test loads thus far. The first five groups of three averaged 5/8ths of an inch, with the largest group 7/8ths, and the smallest 3/8ths. After freefloating and glass bedding, accuracy became more consistent, with most groups under 1/2 inch. Bullets are much, much, much softer than barrel steel. Bullets cannot break in a barrel, not even in the least. What bullets do is to rub off some of their softer gilding metal on the microscopic irregularities of a bore, filling in the low spots. With rough barrels, as made with the cutting process called hook or broached rifling, this has a positive effect of smoothing the bore, thus effectively conditioning it. Such a barrel will generally improve quickly with the first few shots, where its best accuracy will be established. The matter has become grossly overstated. That is to say, a barrel might gain 10 percent more accuracy after conditioning, at most. It's hardly a dramatic amount. Many modern barrels are now made with a process called hammer forging, whereby the barrel is formed around a smooth mandrel, leaving a superior glass-like interior. In my personal experience with such guns, they have shot superbly from the first shot, and continue to record the same accuracy from that point, with no discernable conditioning. It has always been my practice to clean my barrels, using the method described in my video, after every shooting session, and at least every 30 shots, if practical. A simple dry brushing in the field and a cotton patch is of great benefit until one can get to a cleaning bench. This will aleviate any roughness caused by powder and bullet metal. I do not subscribe to the recently spawned belief that copper fouling should be chemically or otherwise aggressively removed, beyond what a bronze brush easily takes care of. Removing all copper removes whatever conditioning took place! Besides that, these chemicals do attack barrel steel, which is confirmed by the warning on some bottles to not allow sustained wetting. Chemicals are not that selective. They work on copper as a corrosive agent that is supposed to be limited to the time it takes to attack copper, and no more. That's not an exacting process, which assaults steel to some degree every time they are used. Factory lapped bores are extremely smooth, but it's a process that is done before the barrel crown or chamber is made, as it would erode the edges of the crown and start of the rifling. I would NEVER use post-manufacture lapping procedures that one sees being recommended, which will degrade the barrel in the areas stated, which is well known to barrel makers. I have owned a great many rifles in my life, made with different rifling techniques, and by different manufacturers, over the course of several decades. Not one was inaccurate, and most recorded their fair share of magnificent groups. Tight action bedding, and free floating, combined with good loads and good bullets, produces great accuracy. One of the most consistently and superbly accurate rifles I have ever owned is my Redfield Olympic peep sighted, 1939 vintage Model 99, in the old 300 Savage. That gun, which was owned by an old Alaska meat hunter, was abused and almost killed with oil that saturated its gorgeous stock, but was never cleaned until I got it. It certainly was never broken in. It shoots 5/8 inch groups with regularity, and that's limited only by its lack of a scope, which I won't drill it for, owing to its vintage value.

I’m boycotting the NFL and have watched three of your videos this evening. I really should have boycotted the NFL much sooner since your videos are infinitely more entertaining and valuable to my interests. Take care!

I'm curious why you didn't make the initial windage adjustment using the rear scope base, because you were starting with a mechanical center on the scope adjustment. I use Weaver Top Mount rings or Leupold Dual Dovetail rings. With the Leupold rings I've found a use for a lapping bar. To get the ring bores parallel I use the lapping bar very lightly for two or three strokes then check the wear pattern. It should be uniform. If not, twist the rings appropriately and recheck. The object is not to remove metal, just to help get the bores in line.

Wanted to ask a question. When you hit the target after making your adjustments you were expecting it to hit the paper 2.1 inches above the bullseye based upon the ballistic calculations table (it showed 2.1” at 100 yards I believe 39:31 into video). Thanks for sharing your depth of knowledge with the world!

Terrific.

I believe my method to be a bit simpler and straight forward (at least for bolt action). Tape a piece of paper to the wall and draw a vertical line the length of which is the same length as the distance from the center of your scope to the center of the bore (usually around 1.5 inches). Look thru the bore of the gun, as far as possible from the wall (unless you live in a huge mansion than come a bit closer so you can see the bottom of the line on the paper thru the bore), align the sight thru your bore to the bottom of the line (helps to have some kind of adjustable rest). Now look thru the scope and align the scope for the cross hair to sit at the top of the line. Done. Go to your favorite shooting spot and shoot at 100 yards. No need to first shoot at 25 yards as the rough alignment has already been done without even firing a shot. Fine tune. Done. With this method I have never been off more than a couple inches at 100 yards, which can than be easily fine tuned as described in the video. Basically you are cutting out having to set up at 25 yards first and than again at 100 yards. Shooters at ranges will appreciate this as cease fires are often far and few in between to move from 25 to 100 yards.

How exactly would a direct head wind, or tail wind affect your trajectory? Would you simply look at it, as increasing, or decreasing the velocity? Or does it actually have an effect on the actual trajectory? I've always wondered about this...

I had a question about when I'm zeroing my rifle in I've tried two or three difference scope ring sets and three or four Scopes and I don't know what I'm doing wrong but when I go to start zeroing them in it gets real close in that I mean the first and second shot for the one hit the bullseye and then the third through whatever it feels like doing shots are dancing around and I can't get the tight groups that I was getting before do you know what is causing that issue because I've tried damn near everything I can think of and it's getting pretty frustrating if you could please answer my question I would greatly appreciate it

What rifle and caliber? Very nice setup. Great video!

I think that is the same sandbag rest that I have, I bought it about 40 years ago!

Brilliant information. I use an air rifle so I just FF to 52:00 for the general info.

My Nosler reloading guide #9 does not have the ballistic coefficient tables as presented?

I am a new AR 15 owner and watched your video on cleaning and lubing. You showed the underside of the bolt with small divits adjacent to the gas key hole and stressed that when assembling the bolt into the carrier that bolt must be placed with the divits to the bottom. What is the purpose for these divits please?

Placing a piece of bicycle inner tube on the scope, over the area where the parallax adjustment is, will prevent moving the adjustment.

A more accurate and less time consuming way to sight in is. 1. the first shot was left it does not matter if its 3" or 2" and you don't have to count clicks 2. With the cross hairs still on the center target and not moving the gun.... 3. Turn the turrets while looking through the scope. Turn them so the cross hairs intersect the bullet hole. 4. Done your next shot will be dead center (providing you did not move the gun while lining it up) very easy and wastes the least amount of ammo.

As usual, I learned a lot. Also seeing your home woods, I understand why shots at deer are often less than 40-50 yards. I would love to hear you talk about how you hunt deer in your neck of the woods? I live in Houston and many of the areas I would like to hunt have very thick cover as well. Piney Woods in East Texas. Walking in the summer, I've come up on deer grazing along the edge of a road, but its illegal to shoot down a road or across a road and walking through the forrest is very difficult. Its a lot different than what I am use too. Most of my hunting has been relatively open country in Colorado, Washington, California and Montana.

@Hungrybird474

2 жыл бұрын

It’s pretty boring . Mostly we sit in trees along a path with some corn out and cameras tell us when they come in to eat . Or the walking way . Keep walking , you ll see one eventually or walk right by a deer . They ll put their heads right down . They like to lay where they can see and Gtfo quick if needed . Smart animals .

Respect.

@17:19 as he comments, off goes the Coocoo clock alarm, lol. Caught me totally unprepared.

The Remington 700 cdl sf is my dream rifle, when I get ready to pull the trigger on getting one they never have one of the calibers I want available

@denisrailey777

3 жыл бұрын

Try harder. You can get what you want. World wide internet. Good luck.

@williamhall7349

Жыл бұрын

@@denisrailey777 try guns international

nice rifle 👍

Accuracy in the field is profoundly different than that from a bench at a range for sure. I have been critiqued by others for failing to use a bipod when shooting, but my end goal is not to kill paper X as precisely as possible.

What brand is the shooting rest?

Texas panhandle 👍🏻👍🏻 windy as hell.

Looks like some nice Deer Hunting woods there

I make my own bags by using worn out jean legs. I sew one end closed, insert a 1 pound bag of beans or rice then close the other end. Been working fine for years. I have upgraded to a Caldwell adjustable front forearm rest and use my bean bags for the butt-stock.

@cavscout62

3 жыл бұрын

I knew I wasn’t the only person to do this! 👍

Great video.....and so informative. The portable bench looked nice....you mentioned laminating a door to make it. How did you attach the pipe legs...are they threaded and screwed into a holder on the bottom or do you have a way to fold them?

@GunBlue490

7 жыл бұрын

George1mac They are very simple threaded pipe flanges, found in any hardware store. I have also made such benches by gluing three good 2x10s edge to edge with yellow carpenters glue, and then I glue a sheet of 1/4 inch tempered Masonite to each side, which stiffens it.

@GunBlue490

7 жыл бұрын

George1mac They are very simple threaded pipe flanges, found in any hardware store. I have also made such benches by gluing three good 2x10s edge to edge with yellow carpenters glue, and then I glue a sheet of 1/4 inch tempered Masonite to each side, which stiffens it.

@George1mac

7 жыл бұрын

GunBlue....thank you!!!...I really like the simplicity of your idea for gluing the 2x10's and reinforcing them to make the bench...It will be my next project. I recently dug a backstop and made a pistol trap target and a base for placing a log rifle target holder. I will only be able to sight in at 25-75 yards, but that will give me a good initial grouping. I needed the bench to be portabe as my wife has curious horses she will let in the area from time to time. I spent most of the day watching your videos....will need to do so again but with a notebook in hand....this from a guy who has loaded my own .308bhunting rounds for 20+ years...after watching I realize I'm still a neophyte.

I forgot to say my grandson is 17 but his mother is a big anti gun libtard. But knowing he can shoot when he gets to my house is a big draw. She kept him away from me for 8 years so we have a lot of catching up to do. We’re deer hunting thanksgiving day and for me it’s a day of considerable thanks. But thank you for all your work and your willingness to share it.

I like shooting from a range bag even if I have a bi- pod and I am in the field most times I lay my rifle over a round bale of hay while I am shooting Groundhogs.

only question I have will light loads have an effect on your zero vs standard or worked up optimum loads or will they have to be re-zeroed?

@GunBlue490

5 жыл бұрын

Every load requires a new zero. Trajectory is a function of bullet drop, and drop is affected by velocity. Higher velocity bullets have a quicker time of flight to any given range, with less drop, and vice versa. The effect will be less apparent at shorter ranges, but magnify as range increases. Similarly, different bullet designs, brands, and weights will cause trajectory variations. Not all variations will be on the vertical plane, and because barrel vibrations are circular, can easily cause significant changes to horizontal impact points, that may be much more influential than trajectory slope. For rather obscure reasons, some cartridges are more sensitive to these variations than others, while other cartridge and bullet combinations can be remarkably consistent despite having significant differerences in bullet weights and velocities. Always check your zero with ANY change.

My question would be this,......since 2008 reloading components are nearly impossible to find. And Ammunition hard to find,.......so is there a bolt action gun that can safely shoot both .223 and 556? And is there any difference between 308 and 7.62 X 51 ammunition? When it was possible to reload,.....I never used maximum loads. I started at the minimum and worked my way up till the smallest group with a clean barrel,....I used 5 shot groups. There was one gun that shot better with hotter loads,......but it was the only one I ran across. Now I noticed they have changed,...the primer descriptions and make up? The only one I can think of now is CCI 41,.......see because you need to know what there for before you pay $8.99 X100 at Dunhams. There was something like they were made of thicker metal?

I have a question and from watching your technique for mounting scopes I think you can help me. I have an AR platform and mounted a Konus 8 X-32X56mm KonusPro F30 First Focal plane and I run out of adjustment trying to zero it. So I centered both the elevation and windage turrets and set the rifle in a vise then at 25yd's I put up a target. With a laser in the end of the bore to put me on target then looking through the scope and the vertical radical was off to the left about 4-1/2" and the horizontal radical was about 3" high. So the 64K dollar question is how do I fix this scope misalignment to the bore? HELP! Thanks JR

@cavscout62

3 жыл бұрын

Return that Konus and buy a 1st focal plane scope from Primary Arms in Houston, Tx.

@jrockett11

3 жыл бұрын

@@cavscout62 This scope is a first focal pane scope if you would have read the description I explained what I had. But thanks anyway I appreciate your response.

I love your cuckoo clock! I have one as well.

What kind of rifle did you have?

From Wyoming, can confirm.

@texasviking1

3 жыл бұрын

Texas panhandle 💨

So when sighting in at 25 yards we want to multiply it by 4? Small example if I’m 3inches high on an 100 yards yard, with 1/4 click then I would go 12 clicks, but on 25 yard that 3inch high would be 48 clicks? Is this correct?

@GunBlue490

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct.

You are right on the money. Common sense rules. Too bad it is at a loss nowadays.

the first year I hunted deer my glasses were fogging up. I removed them and changed the focus of the scope. but it was a pain to have glasses on for viewing and take them off for shooting. what should I have done? thanks

@GunBlue490

8 жыл бұрын

Anti fogging agents are made for glasses that really work. Contact your eyeglass supplier, and I bet they have something.

Are scopes installed on rifles?

my god, I feel like I have just been through a university course. Thankyou. Incredible information

@payoloscovknorris6596

4 жыл бұрын

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