Handsome Rob

Yeah, I need to tighten it up under my binos I think. I'll try it with my hunting clothes, & pack & have a proper play around with the adjustment. I'll have more time this weekend to fiddle around... It's a friction fit. I wish it snapped into place, but it does have an adjustable retention screw. Even completely undone I can't shake it out. I tried like hell to 'snag' it loose when it's adjusted up & I can't get it to unintentionally come free.

Gaahh.....you've got glass wrists!

Ohhh....I gotcha, lol! Google 'how mirrors work' It's a 5½" super Blackhawk stainless .44 mag with custom, slim grips.

Huh?

It's got enough adjustment that I can easily pull it right up onto my chest if I'm fishing.

Just received this, this morning, from Alaris tactical. I'm really liking the way it sits under my bino harness. I think this will be my 'final solution' for my bear carry!!

OH! OH! OH!!! And as The Wife just pointed ought, that's assuming that eagles don't actually poop!! Bear in mind that actual lead solid are non digestible, I'm going to go ahead & make the assumption that the stupid eagle actually shat out a good 90% of the lead it ingested!! I would alter my guess to state that I'd bet it consumed less lead in it's life that is contained in 10 gallons of tap water.

Please let me be the first to call bull$hit on that. Bear in mind it's living along the largest concentration of wolves, badgers, bears, lions & corvids in the lower 48, how much carrion containing lead fragments must the thing have had to have eaten in it's life. A bird that is primarily a hunting raptor & not a scavenger, to boot. Over an average lifespan of 30 years (Google) that single bird must've eaten just about every single carcass shot within 30 miles of Yellowstone AND been unlucky enough to have found every trace of lead, from every bullet. I'm sorry, but the math simply doesn't work for me. Further studies have shown that actually consuming the average quantity of lead found in a recovered animal carcass, on a regular basis, has literally ZERO effect on (human) health. Think about it....the average hunting bullet out west (primarily big .30s & 7s) weighs 180gn, give or take. If a recovered bullet retains 50% of it's mass (low estimate) & 50% of shots are passthroughs (SUPER low estimate...) statistically speaking, the average uncovered mule deer, antelope or elk, weighing a (WAG) average of 300lb therefore contains 45gn of bullet. Call 5gn of that jacket & you've got 40gn of lead. The average critter is around 50% edible meat, innards & skin. Therefore the average pound of meat contains 0.0000380952gn of actual lead. The average golden eagle eats ½ to 1lb of meat per day (Google), split the difference & call that ¾lb, so 0.00002857140gn of lead per day. At an average lifespan of 10950 days, that's a total of 0.31285683gn of lead in it's entire life. That's 1.75 No.12 shot, to put it in reasonable terms. A hair under a third of a grain of lead, in it's entire life. I'm calling a hard "BOLLOCKS" on the whole deal.....

Ammunitiontogo.com is always my go to. Not sure if they're the cheapest around, but I remember not being pissed at their shipping cost for my first order! They're usually really quick too.

And to top it all, Gheenoe has the best customer support, fanbase & owners club of any boat manufacturer out there! You don't see jetski owners organising week long rallies in the Keys!

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Yep, for 5k & a weekend in Florida I could put you into at least 10 suitable Gheenoes right now. Locally..... https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/562032780976092/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/322240471766178/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/339950326623323/

For a budget north if $10k, you're daft for going with a jetski. For one thing, they lose their resale value quicker than most laptops & for another the maintenance cost for a jet drive is silly. I'd go with Mac's idea of a Gheenoe Super 16. I regularly fish from one with a buddy in Florida & there's nothing you can't do in it. Probably the best bang for the buck thing in small water craft!

I'm still waiting my order of black tips to come in, but I've been working up loads with 110 Hornady & Sierra bullets. The Sierra's are just cheap barrel break fodder, but I've found that if they're accurate in a rifle, it'll usually shoot anything well. I picked up a couple of hundred Hornady blems & they have the same bearing surface length (within a couple thou, anyway) as the Tac-TXs so I'm hoping I can do development & sighting work with those, then just bang off a couple of the high dollar Barnes for verification.

Freaking rabbit hole got me...... I free floated the 223 upper with a $12 eBay M-lok fore end, switched out the scope for a slightly more versatile Barska Euro 30 3-9. Added a cheap drop in trigger which I stripped apart & did a little stone & polish work. Those 2 things alone shrank my group sizes from 4" average to sub 1" I also picked up a real deal on a 300blk upper (sub $200, no bolt or carrier) & installed a Leopold Mk Freedom 1.5-4 (thanks @Wade195) Still working up supersonic loads for that, but it's showing a ton of promise. I'm now running right at $700, for everything! I still consider this to be one of my better bargain buys!

I'm running either a Kifaru Eastern ruck, or an Exo 5500. I also wear an Alaskan Guide Gear bino harness all the time. I considered a holster for my pack & that would mostly work bow hunting, but my major concern is when I'm elbows deep in an elk or antelope, with my pack off & my rifle a couple of steps away. If it's anything like the GunfightersInc job, it seems like I'd be able to position it almost anywhere from center to my left rib cage, high chest or low belly (depending on the strap lengths on this one) Unfortunately I'm not exactly athletically built & bits of me get in the way..... 5½" From a standard, leather belt holster, I can draw, cock & be on target near as dammit as quick as I could with my g29 or SRH, the only other pistols I've ever really trained with.

I tried a drop leg with my Redhawk in Montana once. Once. As far as I know it's still at the bottom of the basin I threw it in! Chest carry seems to be 10:1 preferred for bear defence carry out west & in AK. I think mostly because it's complete unobtrusive whilst using trekking poles or climbing through thick brush. I thought I'd got it dialled in with my G29 & Safariland drop-and-offset, but it was constantly in my way & I ended up leaving the damn thing in the truck after a couple of days hunting. Apparently trying to get from your hip, around a pack is much harder. Especially if you're pinned. The science (for want of a better word) says that in a big bear encounter, your instinct makes you cover your vitals & tuck up. That makes a low chest carry actually more instinctive. I know it's something I'm going to have to practice with a lot.

I've been looking for a good chest holster for my SBH .44 without spending silly money. It's literally something I'll use maybe 10 days a year. I found a company called Alaris Tactical that make a holster very similar to the Gunfighter Kenai. It's actually called a Kodiak...... http://alaristactical.net/kodiak-chest-holsters.html But it's only $80. Has anyone got any experience or comments on these before I order one? It looks exactly like what I want, at a price I'm happy to pay, but I have nothing in the way of experience to guide me here.

The Wife & I watched it last night. Very good movie. Kevin Costner seems to be much better these days!

In TN, unless you know a private land owner with a BAD hog problem, you can basically forget it. There are plenty around, but chasing the things around the eastern mountains, without dogs, is an exercise in futility. They're extremely wary, have immense ranges & are virtually nocturnal. There's always a chance you might bump into one, every now & then, but you've got to be super dedicated to actually target the things with any chance of success. Honestly, I'd take a run to south Carolina, Georgia, Alabama or Florida to stand a reasonable chance. It's a cheap hunting vacation on public land. Usually a $40-100 license plus traveling expenses. Altamaha wild fowl management area in south Georgia is a quick 8 hour drive & is thick with the things. There's great fishing, primitive camping (or cheap hotels in Darien) and several thousand acres of swampy wetlands to roam around in. It's mostly muzzleloader/shotgun only, but that's absolutely no disadvantage as you can only really see 50yds max in the palmettos anyway! I've never NOT seen hogs when I've been there (and lots of cotton mouths....) & generally average a pig a day, if I put the time in. A good GPS is essential, as is at least one thermacell, and not being afraid of lots of walking in ankle-ball deep water. It's mostly miserable as hell, to be honest. 90+ degrees with matching humidity, but it's the most pork rich environment I've ever hunted, this side of west Texas.

Sorry, I think I'm using the wrong words.... I meant barrel nut, not delta ring!

Is it a 'Get out so I can renovate!' Or a 'Get out so I renovate, then you can move right back in. Sorry for the inconvenience' Situation?

No, it's a true free float. Comes with it's own barrel nut. Not one of the handy clamp styles either.....

Off the top of my head, there's the .17 bumblebee, .240 cobra, .25-20 copperhead (I think...) .25 tomcat, I think 6mm (?) Swift. I know there's a Swift in there somewhere......

Bump. Sorry, replied to another post & this is kinda urgent-er!