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Recent content by Rabidwolf

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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection You mean this one? http://www.midwayusa.com/product/598484/...t-reticle-matte
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection 5X should be just about right. I usually use 4X but can't think that 5 would be worse.
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection No rifle season in Iowa. My hunting will be done in Colorado
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection Yea 15X fixed is too high for hunting.
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection Hopefully my last tax form gets here asap so we can figure out how much we are getting back. Maybe I'll have some extra I can swindle out of my wife lol.
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection http://swfa.com/SWFA-SS-3-9x42-Tactical-30mm-Riflescope-P50716.aspx This one?
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Re: Help with optics selection This looks like a good scope that I should be able to be used hunting and should work out to 600yds.
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    Rifle Scopes Help with optics selection

    Ok first off I am fairly broke. I am a full time college student who stays home with my two kids while my wife works full time. So I do have some money but most of it is what I have scraped together here and there doing odd jobs. When we get our tax retuen am am going to be getting an...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    Re: Looking to get into long range shooting need help Would a .308 work for elk hunting in Colorado? I was recommended on a different forum to skip the 06 and either step down to a .308 which would save me money or up to a 300 for. I like the idea of being able to shoot cheaper since 80% of...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    Re: Looking to get into long range shooting need help When I was a teen I used to shoot 20+ rounds through a 7mm mag on range trips. I am not really worried about the recoil for myself. From reading and talking with people I was highly recommended the 06 for a hunting cartridge since it...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    Re: Looking to get into long range shooting need help Ok I have read good things about both rifles. From what I gather both would work for what I am wanting but the Remmy would allow more customization. If I was planning on using it for hunting and as a target rifle out to 600 in your...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    Re: Looking to get into long range shooting need help I may have to look into the .260 as well as the .243 for my wife. As for Rem vs weatherby and just adding a stock, well I want a rifle tat will be used for hunting but most of the time will be used at the range working my way out to 600...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    Re: Looking to get into long range shooting need help So I have been doing some reading and it looks like the Rem 700 SPS would be a good place to start, would this be correct? Otherwise I was looking at a Weatherby Vanguard series 2 as they both fall into my price range. The plan is to...
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    Looking to get into long range shooting need help

    I am planning on buying a 30-06 or a 7mm in the near future to use as a elk rifle as well as for shooting out to 600yds. The longest distance I have experience shooting is about 300 and that was years ago. My question is when I go to buy a rifle what would be the best option to start with for...