Tom River - Simple Living
Tom River - Simple Living
Our goal at Tom River - Simple Living is to simplify life by getting back to basics such as hunting, fishing, gardening, and woodworking. And a big part of that is reacquiring skills that our great grandparents would have taken for granted but that someone how got lost in the 20th century.
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I can hardly make anything out with that bore scope.
I carry and use a Swiss Army Knife every day. Like someone else who posted, the tools I use the most are the toothpick and scissors. They are well made, light weight, practical knives with.a lifetime warranty.
I agree with you guys 👍 great video
Thing was /is a gametaker , make no mistake. The 180g round nose was excellent .I had a friend with a custom made combo gun , 26 inch smooth bore under a 26 inch ..303 barrel. Skinner sight on the tang and he could SHOOT. The rimmed cartridge was easy to pull out with fingernails from the break barrel breach. In the field there's ZERO difference between 308 or 30/06 , at least with the 150g ammo.Oh...and by the way, NONE were as good as my 270 Win with a 160g Nosler partition !
I honestly don't understand why people get so caught up in cartridge wars. If you like it, shoot it. If you hate it, don't shoot it. Resulting video length: four seconds.
I bought a Winchester Featherlite chambered in 280 Rem. years ago and have never felt under gunned. I live in Idaho and hunt antelope, deer (both white tail and mule deer), and elk, with the occasional black bear. I'm a reloader and am able to get 7mm Rem Mag velocities with the 280 Rem. A couple of years ago I got a Kimber Mountain Ascent chambered in 280 AI, which has given me even more velocity without the powder charge or recoil of the magnums. The rifle weighs 5.4 pounds and only 6.6 pounds with scope and loaded. I can carry this rifle up and down the mountains all day long. Both the 280 Rem and the 280 AI are very accurate rounds, even in my two light weight rifles. I own several other rifles that I bought for various specific purposes, but 9 times out of ten, I'll grab one of my 280's
TC30 is what Hornady really used to create the Creed.
joining in late but wanted to say thanks for the video. And you are correct that anything you do needs to be carefully considered and what you do needs to be quality workmanship. The valuation issue is a hurdle for some people, it comes down to are you investing for return in your guns or are you interested in extracting best performance. I do not advocate major alterations but mass produced arms can be significantly improved performance wise with almost invisible tinkering. With regard to action bedding, a skillful, tasteful bedding job will leave minimal evidence, just a little bedding compound where it is not seen. Barrel bedding is a mixed bag opinion wise, it can be done without being visible. However with barrel bedding I tend to prefer a bit of fore end tension on the barrel. Yes it could affect point of impact consistency, for a multitude of reasons, of which moving stock wood is the chief cause. But I firmly believe that barrel vibrations are usefully dampened with barrel contact to the stock. A shooter needs to be aware of how they hold the rifle for every shot, especially with any intended contact of the barrel to the stock, consistency every time is the name of the game otherwise point of impact will rove all over the place.Great candidates for accurizing work are mass produced guns of modern genera, they are often in need to have fine detail tuning and they are not investment grade guns.
Good god if only I could get Tom and Gunblue together for a few beers it would be life changing. Note book would be needed. I’d pick their brains till they had enough lol. Tom you need to write a book so we have this experience and knowledge for ever.
Still own some Enfield rifles, in varying conditions, not one of them will not kill a deer 1st shot.I do love old military rifles, they all seam to be servisable and even if they have had honest use they are great shooters.VLA
Every time I look at one of those My eyes hurt. What an ugly stock!
Thank you for your insight into .303 British. I’m an American that chose a .303 Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk2 as his first firearm, and these old Lee-Enfields are near and dear to me. I have an Australian issue Lithgow 1943 No.1 Mk3 that was previously sporterized with an ATI polymer stock, and I’m thinking of making it into a full blown deer rifle now. Are there any recommendations for aftermarket iron sights or scope mounts that work well for these Lee-Enfields?
S&k makes a good scope mount for the Lee Enfield. It will put the scope up high but it is solid.
Love your videos man but this one is not it. Youre coming across like the kind of guy that would have no problem with "common sense" gun control or as long as your hunting rifles dont get banned then its fine for all the "duds" to lose theirs. As someone who loves old and new rifles you must know that when they get done banning that ar 15 theyre coming for your wood stocked hunting rifles next. Also, I have seen terrible gun safety from old and young people so this poor gun safety thing only being something that people with ar's do is asinine. I do love all your other content though. Take care
Hows that 303 going?
Looking good and feeling good definitely have a positive impact on your psyche but head to toe camo is unnecessary. People go out for a week with damn near $10k worth of gear and never fill a tag
The commentary on marketing is as sobering as and electric shock in the arse.
Bloke that's the perfeckt glizzey fir chummin
Great video!👍🏽😊❤️🇺🇸
I got the ruger mk1 m77 2506rem varment hb its gods finger death stick 🐈⬛🐖🐐🐁🦬🦊🐇🐦⬛🦘🇦🇺👍🏻 18:27
When the U.S. military invented the 30-06 round they tested it on human cadavers and live cattle. Worked just fine on them.
Hmmm fn fabrique national is usually very good nowadays anyways
I love Tom dude he’s great I got model 70 257 bob I love it getting rare now
Best cartridge ever! Take down anything - esp. N. Am. Grd apes.
James Paris Lee was born in Hawick, Roxburgh, Scotland on August 28, 1831, His family immigrated to Canada when he was a kid. Wallaceburg, Ontario is the home of the first Lee Rifle, the predecessor to the Lee-Enfield Rifle. So not American but Canadian.
I have used the versatile 280 for moose/deer/bear for many yrs, I'm a handloader & consider it the best all-around cartridge for anything in N America, minus big teeth & claws.
Fantastic work
I appreciate your down to earth attitude
Shot bear elk mule deer whitetail and antelope. Awesome cartridge. 150 gr poster partition!!!!
Knew a man who had a sporterized 06 Springfield, a model 52 sportier and a 1911 45. He hunted everything in the world with the 06 and the 52.
This cartridge has been used to hunt the most dangerous game on earth.. Another man who is hunting you.
Joey mentioned picking a spot on the shoulder. Well I can relate as with my 243 I put 3 shots inside a dime at 100 yards. Thanks to low recoil that made a .38 inch group with an off-the rack, Stevens 200 with no accutrigger and no accustock, possible.
Cut my teeth on hunting all through the 70s with a 303 Brit. 180 gr. Silver tips and Remington round nose. Moose, elk and deer never lost one, 303 won’t drop them like hit by lightning but they will drop typically from 5-75 yards. I still have two 303 in the locker, one shorter and one original WW1 Mk3. 🇨🇦
I have lots of tools and they have saved me hundreds of thousands, made me millions and now enables me to be near self sufficient. Tools: cooking, gardening, hunting, fishing, building, plumbing, wood work, electrical, machining, transportation, storage, sewing, refining etc. While not a master (marvel at what they do and how much they drive progress) I am a jack of all trades. Tools are essential.
Thank you it’s helped me
13th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company H Coosa Mountaineers.
This is great news. The deer don't know the difference. Plus you can put a 180 grain core lock in the 08 with great results.
Tom, just so I understand what you are saying in this video: you are not actually ZEROING your rifle at 100 yards but for a MPR (maximum point blank range) for 6", meaning that the rifle is actually zeroed at 23 yards and again at 215 yards respectively? And you are actually 'high' about 2.83" at 100 yards? You accomplish this by using the MBR calculator and setting the bullet to hit ABOVE the 100 yard bullseye by that amount?
The fn fal was originally to be chambered in 280
What a grat storey!🤙
what a lovely shack !
Nice step by step vid!
I moved a turn of the century...1900s. House and basically rebuilt it back in 08 to 09. Every day after work and weekends. I do not envy you. I've a nice house..with not a crazy amount of money in it. But wow, I look back. It was a heck of a lot of work. Good luck with it. I believe your right..the drums are sure beating out that prediction down in South Ga. Glad I'm way out in the woods.
It's 3 yrs since you did this video. I just bought a JC Higgins model 50. Which has a FN reciver and a Crome Linned Barrell High Standard I believe. It's my 4th Mauser Action. First 3 I built from actions. 450 Bushmaster, 243, 280 Ackley improved and now this 30 06. It was overlooked for no telling how long because people don't have the knowledge. But it's a jewel. I got it for a very good price. Even better. To me nothing beats a Mauser Action. Thanks for your videos. Found them very informative and well done.
I just bought a JC Higgins 60 last week too! It’s the plain model but looks like it just came out of the box new😳 I put it in lay a way at my local mom and pop gun store🙌 I had just picked up a Browning safari in 7 rem mag that looks like it just came out of the box! Been looking for both of these for a couple years at this condition and prices. 60+ years collecting and having bought and owned about 2,500 over the years but they still get my heart pounding everytime I see one and put it into my hands and bring it to the shoulder is magical just like the first rifle was so many years ago🥰 Gunsholic and no plans of recovering anytime soon😱
Just found your page. I love your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Tom, for the time you make to create these moments. In a galactic maelstrom of horseshit, I behold your videos as diamonds. You restore humanity for me, amongst the popular barbarism that seems to have taken hold of the world. I really appreciate your content.
I used to have a problem with "sportified" Enfield's , now I see the added utility of a well done conversion. The rifle I learnt to shoot with was a .22 version with rear sights forward of the action ,it was it's original configuration and was easy to shoot prone or from a bench but hard work for a skinny 12 year old to shoot off hand.
As a twenty something in todays world I truly appreciate your words of wisdom. Thank you for being a little bit of what’s been missing!
My new gun is savage axis in 25-06 and one in 243 but I always go back to old school stuff model 94 in 30-30 or my grandma Winchester in32-20 or my old military surplus guns
Excellent history lesson. And great sermon material about dealing with human conflicts.