One thing that helped me gain control over "buck fever" was archery 3D shooting. I'll never forget the first time I shot at a buck with my bow. It was inside ten yards from a tree stand and I somehow shot right under it. The buck only jumped about ten feet and waited for me. I was so nervous I dropped the second arrow and the aluminum shaft made a loud noise as it hit my tree stand and tumbled to the ground. Twice was enough, and I never saw that deer again. I later joined a 3D archery league just for fun with some friends, and shooting at life size targets of animals helped me more than you might think. I was better and a little calmer the next season and managed to take a doe at 25 yards without dropping any arrows! 🤣

Speaking of hand loads, I’ve gotta brag on the loads I’ve figured out for my ole Remington 700 in .300 Winchester Magnum. It’s a 27”, 1:9 twist Crown Ridge Barrel Works barrel that I’ve owned for many years. My loads are 76 grains of H-1000, Hornady brass, full length resize, 225 grain Hornady ELD’s and an overall length of 3.455”. I’m getting a fantastic consistent velocity of 2,805 fps average with an extreme spread of 6 fps. I’ve been loading for many years and have never worked up a load, especially for a hated belted magnum, that is so consistent. Love the channel Ron, and I always look forward to the next video. Cheers.

I trained my son to shoot his first buck by shooting at a scale buck target (paper) at 100m from a bench. Once he mastered shot placement, we practiced different shooting positions. His first buck (Springbuck) was taken at just over 100m and it was a perfect shot.

I just bought a Sako S20 chambered in 6.5 PRC. It's my first bolt action rifle.

Thanks Ron! Please keep a plug in for the .284 Winchester. Great deer cartridge!

Thanks again Ron, I love the Pod Cast Premiers on YT. Yeah, I have a Charlie Waterman book on my shelf in front of me because my friend's mom did the illustrations in it. She used to do illustrations for PA Outdoors and I think Field and Stream. He gave me a copy of one of the original drawings to go along with the book "The Part I Remember". I was telling him all about these Waterman stories that I was reading and he presented me with the book and one of his mom's drawings for it. Cool little piece of history.

I feel like if you are an efficient tracker, such as finding bedding zones understanding the way a dear or animal works, then I think that can consider yourself as a good hunter, maybe even effective and efficient. Great video as always Mr Ron Spomer

Ron-Thanks for the upload on the .270, vs 6.5...270 has been on my mind quite a bit. My son he's 12 and I are the going to be Hunting Elk,and Mule deer mostly. Most of our shots will be less than 300 yards. So I'm thinkin' .270win., .308win., and the 6.8 western or maybe the new 7mm prc.. Cant really go wrong with any of those, But probably .270 .. Thanks Ron!

A HUNTER is A Person Thats RESPECTS The Game, They Are Hunting, And make Sure Of There Shots, Clean Kills If You want To Do Those Long Range Shots Go TO the Range, It Does Not Matter If You Wound The PAPER

Been hunting with a 270 win for 20+ years and love it. Also love my 7mm-08. Got a 6.5creedmor but haven't hunted with it yet. Thinking about getting a 6.5 PRC. Can't wait for the video. Ron, your awesome. Thanks

I love it! thanks! :) Ahh Yes the dreaded Coriolis effect. pat pat pat :) Your Pod Cast''s really help me on so many hunting subjects all the time and, you discribed the seperation of bullets vs the earths rotation so well you should have pats or better. You are so easy to listen to (honest and caring) So regarding the flip flopper difference from the northern hemisphere vs the southern hemisphere of the earth, the earth when you look down on the north pole, and the sun in front of you, the earth appears to rotate clockwise. When you look down on the south pole of the earth with the sun in front of you, the earth appears to rotate counter clockwise. Another way to look at it for the understanding of perspective is if you have a see through wall clock and are looking through from the front face, the hands of the clock rotate clockwise. Turn the clock around and from the back the hands turn counter clockwise. Without perspective who is to say in what direction anything is really turning?? WoW yeah my mind hurts too! all the time. I am with you!! regarding just being out, listening to the animals, the breeze in the trees, Just being in nature, seeing the animals, ethical hunting, good old Kentucky windage and having some great advetures :) Thank you Ron Spomer :)

I did not put in ballistics on my last COMM because you descibed it so well. It was the first time I had heard it put that way...

I got these 6.5mm Nosler ballistics tips loaded up for my 6.5 PRC with some Reloader 26 I found a gun show. 3,040 fps with quarter-mil groups. I’m pretty stoked for rifles to open.

Another excellent video Mr. Spomer! Always a pleasure!

Since youve been covering the 300 blk a lot. It was a wildcat cart from the 223/556. You can cut the shoulder off and size it. Some need neck turned. you have any questions about it let me know cuz i handload and “tinker” from 110g to 225gr The blk likes magnum pistol powder like h110 and cfe blk It can use the same mags, with supersonic 110gr vmax @ 18.5gr max 2500fps and the subsonics 220grainers @ 1050fps with cfe blk 11gr. Both cycle the action wothout adjustment. Parent modern day case is 223/556. Takes same magazine as std ar. Usgi al or steel work best with long 2.25” bullets/subs

So much about .30-30 Win. Have you heard about the .308 Creedmoor... it's like .308 Winchester but with a touch of magic, eh? Love my 260 Rem.

The best way to deal with buck fever is proper breathing. Don't bring up the rifle, until you can breath through the shakes. This always helps with accuracy as any sniper can attest.

I got a Remington 700 in .270 did I make a good choice?

For the buck fever cure- I found that hunting other game besides big game, such as birds or varmits helped me get comfortable with getting behind a firearm and having a real target on the other side of your sights. And doing 3-gun and NRL competitions helps you get comfortable in an uncomfortable setting. Its never the same as an Elk or big buck on a hunt you've been planning for months or years, but it certainly can't hurt.

Enjoy hearing you talk about your 284. My father hunted with a win. 100 in 284. Poor excuse of a rifle but great cal.

Wish the 270 had 1 in 8 twist barrel. Even 1 in 9.

We think of bullets as horizontally traveling objects. But they are also vertical objects. As soon as they are free of the barrel, they start falling until they hit something, usually the earth. The speed of the bullet and the angle you fire determines how much time they spend falling. It's like artillery, but instead of focusing on where a round hits the earth, we try and hit game before the round hits the earth. Sighting tells you in a repeatable way where the bullet will hit an object at a specific distance. Weight doesn't affect the rate of fall, so lighter bullets don't stay aloft longer because of the weight, per se, although more weight usually means more frontal area and therefore more drag (lower BC). and that reduces velocity faster.

Great podcast Ron. Really looking forward to hearing your book/author list on the next on! 👏

I would love to see a 257. Weatherby vs 25-06AI comparison

Myself knowing my barrel will last my life with no more then goes tru it, then the fact I use other guns as well. I’m pretty good with barrel life unless something changes. Even a trip to dog town added in, I’d be be less then 40 rounds a year. It will outlast me. Thanks Ron for sharing these fun and informative videos. 🎥💪🏽💯👍

Hi Ron. Another interesting vid. Thanks! I'm late to this discussion, but wanted to touch on the concept of ethical hunting - which you address in the context of what is a "real" hunter. This is a thorny topic, with lots of subjective opinions. To me, though, clear guidance comes from the Boone and Crockett Club (which I subscribe to) and the concept of "fair chase," defined as: "the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper or unfair advantage over the game animals." I do not see how anyone could consider taking a game animal at long range to be "fair chase" when the animal has no possible way of using its natural abilities to escape. This is clearly taking unfair advantage. Plus the real "ethical" hunter would never take a shot on a game animal unless they are very certain they could hit the vitals with the first shot. Very few people can guarantee a first shot hit in the vitals at ranges beyond their hunting rifle's MPBR (say +/- 3") when field shooting and all the variables like wind, shooting position, steep angles, temperature, buck fever etc. come in to play and really do affect accuracy. Plus, good luck tracking a wounded animal that was shot from 1000 yards away. Simply put, the ethical hunter is not in the business of leaving wounded animals in the field, or using animals for target practice.

I liked the information you provided on the .284 Winchester, and you seem to like the cartridge very much, so It begs the question: Have you ever used the 22-284? What did you hunt, if anything with it, and what do you think of it?

Enjoyed this episode very much.

Regarding the loudness of rifle fire. The distinction is between sound intensity (power per unit area) and perceived loudness of sounds (how loud the noise seems). Here's what to remember: intensity doubles with every 3 dBA increase; loudness generally doubles with every 10 dBA increase. If your protectors reduce sound levels by 20 dBA, the intensity decreases by a factor of 100 while it will sound will be 4 times less loud. A really good protector can reduce levels by 30 dB which means reducing the sound intensity by 1,000 and loudness by a factor of 8. The objective is to reduce the intensity; reductions in loudness go along for the ride. The commentator's recommendation is on spot: wear good, high quality hearing protectors with high NRR and use a suppressor if you can.

I remember watching Ron on the TV, there was a season I thought the 243 was bout the only caliber you where using at that time. I’m I just remembering wrong or was there a season you favorited the 243. Thanks again for sharing these videos. 🎥💪🏽💯👍

Best way to beat the adrenaline is to deploy in a combat zone.😂

🧐 Ron, it would be nice if you would provide more specific numbers as to the barrel life of these two cartridges, as that is the title of this video? 🤷‍♂️

Back in 1959 I went hunting with my father and younger brother. We were hunting outside of Republic Washington, and stayed at a local farm. The farm was run by two brothers, these were hillbillies. We started out from the farm and on a ridge was a whitetail. One of the brothers placed the butt of his rifle on the ground and carefully lined up the shot. Yes, the angle was near 45°. He shot just as the deer crossed the ridgeline. His response was We better go see , so we climbed the ridge and on the otherside was a four point buck. That bullit had hit this deer on the far side of the ridge, and killed it dead. We had venison for dinner. I think it was Storm King Mountain...but my memory fades...

Can't wait for that Angles video

Lol love your podcasts and videos!

Thanks

Just a thought I had..What is the comparible weatherby cartridge to the 30-06? with all of its wonderfull options. I am sure you would know better than me :) Thanks

On the hunting question I would say what I do is waiting sitting in a blind. I feel hunting is going out looking for the game and then harvesting it. I have bone both.

Wanted to add this on bullet drop: Gravity acts on all objects at 32.2 ft/s^2 or 9.81m/s^2. A faster and more aerodynamic bullet will have less drop only because gravity has less time to act on it (meaning it gets to the target faster than a slower moving bullet). 2 identically shaped bullets, fired from the same location/altitude, fired on the same trajectory, but travelling at different velocities, and in flight for 5 seconds will drop the same amount. However the 2 bullets will cover different horizontal distances in that 5 second flight. If you want the slower bullet to reach the same distant target as the faster one, you have to aim higher because the slower one takes longer to get to the target, giving gravity more time to act on it.

Does anyone know if you can use the same load data for H4831 as H4831sc. I can't find the short cut in my reloading manual?

The thing that will probably help the most, and that was not mentioned, to help with "buck fever" is competition. Whether it's NRL Hunter or 3D archery matches, there is nothing that will get your nerves going like competition. Even if you're just competing for fun or for training, the excitement and stress of competition is as close as you can get to an actual hunting situation.

If you drop a bullet from your hand onto the floor it will drop to the floor at the same rate as when it's moving at 2,000 feet per second. The forward speed has no impact on drop. But if you aim the barrel up a little, you're putting upward energy into the bullet.. You're literally tossing it up- so it goes up some- before it falls back down. This is no different standing still or flying fast. "flat" shooting cartridges are simply fast cartridges. The more speed it has, the quicker it gets to the target and has less time to fall, and you have to compensate less. But Ron is spot on, your muzzle must be raised to compensate for drop. You sight your rifle scope or iron sights, adjusting just that.

Yeah, bullets have guidance systems (called barrels). They can rise or fall depending on the zero on the homing devices (called sights/scopes).

I have never gotten buck fever before the animal is down, but I _always_ get the shakes afterwards. Call it backwards buck fever, I guess.

Decibels are measured logarithmically. This is a way of counting or measuring something that increases rapidly, or exponentially. For example, every increase of 10 dB on the decibel scale is equal to a 10-fold increase in sound pressure level (SPL). Near silence is expressed as 0 dB but a sound measured at 10 dB is actually 10 times louder. If a sound is 20 dB, that's 100 times louder than near silence.

Depends on situation. Survival or recreational 400 yards and in is ethical

Spot and stalk comes to my mind. I grew up hunting out west. Mule deer and elk. Also squirrels and rabits when we were kids. We ate every thig we took. That's hunting in my mind. I have nothing against how people like to hunt just keep it legal. And pack it all out not just the racks.

Long Range shooters, (including snipers), adjust for - angle of attack, spin drift, altitude, atmospheric pressure, wind and temperature; I have never met a competition long range shooter who worried about the latitude or direction the range is facing. If the coriolis effect can't affect a balloon, why would it affect a bullet in flight?

Pretty good explanation of Coriolis but I would clarify one thing. When shooting north (in the northern hemisphere), it's not the fact that Earth is spinning and moving sideways that causes the error. It's the fact that your target is closer to the Earth's axis of rotation than you are, and therefore it moves at a different speed than you during the bullet's flight. At the equator you're shots will be nearly parallel to Earth's axis of rotation, and Coriolis is negligible. But at the 45th parallel you're shooting at a 45 degree angle down toward that axis. Your target is traveling a smaller circle as the planet rotates so it has to move more slowly. When shooting southward the effect is reversed, but so is the direction of rotation relative to your target. This is why the effect will always tend to push your bullets to the right when shooting north or south. I live near the 40th parallel and my corrections with a 270 WSM are only 0.5 inches at 500 yards. At 1000 yards it's around 2-3 inches. Anytime I shoot past 600 yards at anything I use my ballistic calculator anyway so it's a simple matter of acquiring the azimuth (direction) and my calculator adjusts automatically. Your advice to ignore Coriolis when shooting 600 yards or less is solid gold, my friend. Keep up the great work.

Having crossed the Equator on a ship, I can tell you that Toilets Do Not change the direction that they flush. The spin direction of a toilet, is determined by the manufacturer. The Coriolis effect is real; Hurricanes and Tornadoes spin in different directions. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds moving north are diverted eastward, and winds moving south are diverted westward. In the Southern Hemisphere, winds traveling toward the equator will move eastward, and winds traveling toward the South Pole will curve west.

Speaking of buck fever. I’ve always thought of things that made me angry. Yes I’m excited after the shot but during the process I’m angry so I’m not shaking or likely to miss.

I get wound up on whitetail deer bucks and does lol doe fever I have seen in real life lol but I have shot elk with a bow and thought it was like shooting a horse didn't do much for me idk but it was weird been way more wound up over deer especially muley version

I believe it is a myth about spinning water direction in the different hemispheres.

Hunting books? Peter Capstick!!!

I am from Sunny Southern Indiana...

On the audio version, I could not find the barrel life topic of barrel life.

According to my calculations, the Earth is rotating a little slower than the 24,000 miles an hour that you stated; it is closer to 1,166 mi. per hr.

The army guy forgot he shot a 3 round group to sight in before qualifying. Or at least that's what I remember.

That bullet arc thing is like arguing about the earth being flat. I think some people are just messing with others but that leads to people actually believing the bull shoot. I think a small part of it is looking at graphs that aren't to scale. The Y axis is always in inches and the X axis in hundreds of yards. There are 3,600 inches in each of those 100 yards. You only visualize the arc when that distance is condensed relative to elevation. I have been told (but am no expert) that the M1A iron sights are designed to bisect the trajectory at both 100 and 300 yards to efficiently utilize the maximum point blank range of the 5.56 Nato ammo in combat scenarios.

Books? Authors can be WDM Bell, Jim Corbett, Vladimir Arsenyev, Finn Aagaard, Peter Capstick, Jim Fergus, Bill Heavey, Thomas McGuane, Stephen Bodio, Barry Lopez, and more

Would love to see a video on 7.62x39

The right way is the only way

Also, to control buck fever, don't FEAR missing. Don't look at the whole animal.....just look where you want to hit it.

As far as what is a hunter, I agree with ethical. However ethical is very situational. If I am in survival mode, which means if I don't kill, I don't eat, the ethics change, from sport hunting. The American Indians ran bison off cliffs to get a few steaks and a nice blanket. People could say it was wasteful. However it was the fastest, easiest and safest way to hunt a very dangerous animal.

Coriolis effect changes with latitude. The earth moves faster at the equator.

47 years old, never had buck fever, I must be dead inside.

Barrel life? When I buy a new rifle I do everything I can to wear out the cheap factory barrel. So I can have it replaced with a Bartline barrel. Townson Whelan said only accurate rifles are interesting. Good bedding and a Bartline barrel are real interesting.

Mr. Sp;omer, why is it when you're zeroing your your rifle, your bullet will shoot low at 25 yds, then goes a little higher at 50 yds, then in about a 100;yds, your bullet will hit about the center of your target? I would appreciate why do the bullet behave that way?

Bullets do not have left and will follow the same whether you drop it with no velocity imparted upon it or if it's shot out of a gun. That is if you put a gun loaded with a let's say 30 ought 6 bullet and then you took the bullet out of the case and had it sitting at the same height and had the gun and the barrel super level in a viceless say and you shot them both you would find if you could somehow detect it that the bullet shot from the rifle and the bullet dropped to the ground at the moment the rifle was fired would actually hit the ground within thousandths of a second of each other in the air only being with the human timing of things it's just how physics works. Now that doesn't mean you can't have some kind of wind up drift of draft that could give you the illusion of lift but a bullet is not a lifting body it's not like a wing it doesn't create lift the only thing even remotely you could say about that is with any truthful in it is that the twist dozen Park torque on the bullet and sometimes as the bullet spins slows down it can cause it to torque one way or the other depending on which way the twist is and I've seen guys in the oil hurt of guys shooting at thousand plus yard distances with 308 rounds have to take that kind of stuff into account just because of 308 and a thousand yards is a rough rough or should I say a tall order to to do anyway thanks for letting me share

264 win mag history please

If you get buck fever you are not a hunter! Facts

I find that 400 yards is about as far as I shoot. Most shots are 100-200 yards. Long shots are situational and the circumstances determine the distance at which the hunter feels competent. The worst thing is to wound an animal and it escapes or suffers needlessly. I found that the most fun of hunting was the stalk.

Long shooting of big horn sheep, has to be done in most cases from long range

There are South American tribes that up with Poison arrows, and they are most definitely ethical hunters

45/70 factory loads are not loaded down...Remington's 405 grain load is the one exception and cowboy loads , as well! Check out Buffalo Bore loads Mr. S ...these ain't your trap door loads!!

Earth is spinning at about 1000 mph, if it's spin was 24000 mph a day would be only one hour long, but I'm sure you know that you just got your numbers crossed 🙃.. great content as always.

This is what I’m saying

Buck fever AND hubris.

Jack London?

The Coriolis affect and the ethos affect are two different things. They have different affects according to location on the globe

Funny to hear people go into hand loading, but then they're seeking shortcut the work of load development for each rifle.

The revolution ammo it's actually lever lotion like Revolution but lever Lucian, anyway it's a play on words but they make a 30-30 round that has a polymer tip that is a spitzer bullet and is much quicker and has much more punch than a regular round noses 30-30 ammo. The polymer tip in this 30-30 bullet is actually a little soft to the touch then the polymer tips and say like anything else like the green tip 556 ammo so because it's a little softer you don't have the risk of magazine internal detonation from recoil if you are running your 30-30 ammo in a like a model what is it 94.96 Winchester lever action and I meant 94 or 96 but and I'm retarded because I actually have a 1960 model 94 or I think it is 94 for some reason I'm thinking 96 but I could be wrong but it's great my granddad gave it to me and it's super mega accurate and those Revolution Levolution ammo by Hornady is just awesome and probably actually and I don't have 300 Blackout here beside me as far as info but I would bet that that ammo about Hornady with the Spitzer shape of the bullet and a ballistic tip would definitely outperform the 300 Blackout. Now there's no guns that are set up like a gun that shoots 300 Blackout like a AR-15 that shoots 30-30 partially because 30-30 is a rim cartridge and Because unless you were to take 308 bullets and use those to reload your own 30-30 rounds so they would then look like a 300 Blackout or a 30-06 round, if you do that then you again have a 30-30 bullet that will absolutely rip and certainly do equal to a 300 Blackout and I've used both, being a 308 bullet that was bought in bulk by Hornady and then they were used to reload 3030 brass and they were just awesome and because these were not polytipped with the soft spongy type tip you could only load one of the chamber and then load the first one in the magazine so you basically use your 30-30 as a two-shot gun and that way again you avoided the possibility of having a eruption from a detonation inside the tube magazine so you're limited to just the two rounds but a lot of long distance hunting guns only hold three rounds so you know if you're hunting anything you only have a couple shots so I don't see it as a big disadvantage. But my 30-30 is top eject because of the year it was made, so I would have to put a pistol scope that has a really long eye relief in front of the ejection port and just make sure I set the scope exactly right and use the right scope the right pistol scope and then I could actually run a scope on it and you know hit 300 yards commonly without too much trouble. Right now I've got it zero to hit 300 I'm sorry 200 yards where it is right now. If you aim the iron stock sites at a Target at 200 yards you will hit it dead on where you're aiming. This gun is so accurate it really is amazing considering how old it is too and when it was made. And I really don't know much about this gun as far as the Twist and the rifling and the direction and how many rifling grooves it has and like I said I don't know which direction it's twist is or the ratio you know 1 to10 or is it 1 to 7 or what the hell is it? My point in this message or comment is that there are 30-30 rounds out there that are highly competitive to even a modern round. And especially if you took a 30-30 case or brass as it might be referred to and took a 308 which is a 30 caliber round which is what 30-30 shoots and what I mean by 308 is you bought a 308 bullet Spitzer and then loaded it into a 30-30 brass and then made it a little spicy increase the pressure a little bit because the model 94 is a pretty beefy chamber breach on that gun you could give it a little more juice not crazy but just a little more and you would for sure then at that point you would have around that would definitely be equal or better than a regular 300 Blackout. And I don't know what weights of ingrains, that a regular 300 Blackout bullet would weigh but I think 120 110 to 150 somewhere around there is what a 30-30 bullet would weigh or you can definitely get them in that range but if you were using a 308 is the bullet and a Reload situation you could use a whole range of weights and if you needed to go on the Lighter Side to increase your velocity you might end up getting the same energy in pounds of force by increasing the velocity and get better ballistic performance it would take some trial and error but I have no doubt that a 30-30 could perform as well as a 300 Blackout cartridge

That is sniping not hunting if you need to take in spin drift to factor hold when shooting

Ron if it's all about gravity why do bullets fall at a different rate at different altitudes? Air pressure and density have an affect. If they didn't I'd never been able to throw a curve ball that rose and dived. Golf balls rise and dive and land soft or run out off of spin rate. Ask a physicist,they'll tell you.

Barrel life? Need a show on ammo life because it takes 23 years to go through a box. 😂

Actually, airplane fly same time. From New York to California. And from california to new york. Doesn't matter which way earth spinn.

Sadly, the art of the stalk to a high percentage one shot kill distance has been forgotten, and now it seems everyone is a sniper and an operator. You never get to see the wounded animals running off on these long range shooting U tubes. The inability to perfectly dope wind over great distances where wind can change vertically and laterally ( never a constant) grows exponential with increased distance. Add an error in ranging, imperfect rest, mirage which occurs even on a winter day (optic aberrations) and none of this long range stuff meets the ethical test. Add spin drift, Coriolis effect, variation in velocity between rounds and the errors further multiply. Take the 7mm REM Mag, a very flat shooting cartridge with reasonable B.C. At 500 yards, a 20 mph full value wind ( common in Utah, Montana and Colorado will displace a 160 grain bullet approx 27 inches. That’s a gut shot deer or Elk or a blown off leg. Well outside the pie plate goal for the kill zone. Hunters (especially our young hunters) need to be taught to have enough respect for our big game to close the distance by stalking or passing up the shot.

This is a no-brainer people. Why would you sight in 2 inches high at 100 in order to hit dead on at 200. Obviously the barrel is pointed up. Come on folks.

You said diameter and I'm fairly sure you meant circumference. Grandma is doing fine. She forgives you for stepping on her.

Let's see 6.5 hard to find ammo 270 everyone sells that...

Listen to the Zen master bullets fall instantly when they leave a barrel that’s perfectly level. No you Army boys don’t have magic pixy dust fueling your rifles that make a bullet rise out of the bore. Science wins this one.

LOL there is no arc through a dialed scope.

The 25 meter zero target for the Army is supposed to replicate the 300 meter target. Zero at 25 meters and as long as your fundamentals are good you should make hits at all ranges out to 300 meters as long as you aim center mass.

What? Hunting from helicopters is hunting. For us modern day at least. Just like hunting with thermal and night vision. These are almost exclusively used for nuisance hogs and coyotes

Acceleration due to gravity is 32 feet per second per second. The formula has seconds squared, or times itself. Like your podcast, just nitpicking.

I don't think a poacher means one is not a hunter. There are some exceedingly poor people in this country (and a lot more to come given the economy has been destroyed) and I don't look down on anyone for taking game without gov't permission if they need it in order to eat. That's just survival. Maybe my colloquial understanding of poaching is different, but where I grew up it covered the antler hunters that left the carcass behind as well as the guy that took a deer out of season/without a stamp for personal food. Now if you're spotlighting deer just for the antlers or taking 10 elk a year to line your pockets from sale of meat/antlers/etc it's illegal for good reason. In those cases, no, I wouldn't call them hunters. They're just greedy

I am a 243 guy. I fell into the 6.5 prc "new" cartridge trap and am happy for it. When you pass 300 yards, it is stable and dependable. Windy days on my range, 6.5 PRC really gives no shits out to 500.

Are you a real hunter if you hunt over feeders and bait piles on small patches of private property???

bore cleaning could be a session in itself. greatly over rated. rarely needed. sort of like people who think fire out the muzzle mean un burned powder - so much misinformation

Shoot more deer is the way to get past buck fever. Shoot every doe you can for a few seasons..atleast 10 here in Georgia. Donate or give friends the meat you can't use.