Old Time Grizzly Guns

Gatehouse said:
That's what I was getting at. Probably only need 3 powders, get a jug of each, a bunch of primers and you are good for a long time. Bullets and brass can be mailed for the same price as anything else as they aren't HAZMAT. Forget about loading for the shotgun. It's not really worth getting set up to do that, but metallic cartridges are easy.
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I have gon into store to buy powder but windup over whelmed on what powder to get or thay are out of powder and wind up picking up as much factory ammo I can afford
When I do buy a new or used rifle it is the price and availability of the ammo I look at first
 
carverk said:
I have gon into store to buy powder but windup over whelmed on what powder to get or thay are out of powder and wind up picking up as much factory ammo I can afford
When I do buy a new or used rifle it is the price and availability of the ammo I look at first
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H4350 for the 6.5x55, H4831 for the 7 rem Mag, 44 mag, H110 for heavy loads or WW231 for light loads.

308 and 357 , I have never loaded for.

Look up starting loads on line from official sources and be careful!

Good luck.
 
MiG25 said:
According to my long since passed Grandfather pretty much any gun bigger than a 22 is a good Grizzly Gun. He killed over 50 Grizzlies, the first with a 44-40, the last with the 243 Winchester, with stops at the 25-20, 32-20, 30-30, 9mm Luger, 30-06, and 7mm Weatherby. The only one he said was marginal was the 9mm. The 25-20, 32-20 and 44-40 were best suited to "bow and arrow range", the 30-30 was just fine for protection, and the 30-06 and the magnums only offered increased range, which he minimized by saying that one still has to cover the distance to skin them.

He would joke with George Landreth about how Grizzlies were supposed to be killed with a shell loaded into an empty gun with trembling fingers.

Anyways, I'll never match that and actual experience seems counter to what is commonly read.
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H:S: lol :d jmo RJ
 
I've had good success on two powders.
IMR 4320 and IMR 4350.
Now some H110 is in the mix too.
Might arf tuh splerg awn sum powder fur the 45-70 if thet
dang berd ever dits it's talefeathers x Kannerder.

Hayya Caverk, take that chap up awn hizz awffer.
Yewl have fun pizz'in r'ound with gunpowder and reloding.
 
kamlooky said:
I've had good success on two powders.
IMR 4320 and IMR 4350.
Now some H110 is in the mix too.
Might arf tuh splerg awn sum powder fur the 45-70 if thet
dang berd ever dits it's talefeathers x Kannerder.

Hayya Caverk, take that chap up awn hizz awffer.
Yewl have fun pizz'in r'ound with gunpowder and reloding.
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I am looking forward to reloading but it has to wait till spring I'm off to Northern Alberta for work seems like I spend more time traveling to work then working lol
 
MiG25 said:
They didn't have guys on the internet telling them 30-30 was marginal for deer.
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With good marketing from the fire arms manufactures the 30-30 will becom marginal for rabbits and grouse
Anybody with Internet common sense and good ethics knows you have to hunt rabbits with a 357 ruger
 
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carverk said:
With good marketing from the fire arms manufactures the 30-30 will becom marginal for rabbits and grouse
Anybody with Internet common sense and good ethics knows you have to hunt rabbits with a 357 ruger
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it's funny, I've never heard anyone who doesn't read hunting mags or use the Internet say that the 30-30 is inadequate for anything.

Lots of guys thought the 270 was a big gun.
 
MiG25 said:
it's funny, I've never heard anyone who doesn't read hunting mags or use the Internet say that the 30-30 is inadequate for anything.

Lots of guys thought the 270 was a big gun.
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You should see some of the young superstars we get out on the pipeline they can't work for five minutes without sticking their nose in their phone and talk about gullible thay believe everything they see on The Internet it's bloody ridiculous
Today's progress is making people more intelligent I would rather go back to being a caveman and being free to think for myself
 
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carverk said:
You should see some of the young superstars we get out on the pipeline they can't work for five minutes without sticking their nose in their phone and talk about gullible thay believe everything they see on The Internet it's bloody ridiculous
Today's progress is making people more intelligent I would rather go back to being a caveman and being free to think for myself
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Carverk, you are great on here and you really have things figured out.
 
H4831 said:
Carverk, you are great on here and you really have things figured out.
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People have always been gullible to what they read, espescially if written by someone of perceived authority or superior intelligence. This didn't just happen since the dawn of facebook.
 
heronfish said:
People have always been gullible to what they read, espescially if written by someone of perceived authority or superior intelligence. This didn't just happen since the dawn of facebook.
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I bin suck in from time to time my salf and had to buy a rifle in the latest and gratis caber that is impractical and had to buy but then I com to my senses Sumtime to late and wind up selling it on EE
 
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I asked my still living Grandmother about this stuff (she is much younger than him and now very old, nearly 100). She said him and his companions used to get $100 selling Grizzly hides or sheep heads to rich Americans that came up to hunt. She said her Father-in-Law got a thousand dollars for a sheep head in the 1920's, must have been some sheep.
 
carverk said:
This is Grizly Country...

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Yep, that river valley looks pretty "grizzlyish."
 
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