Category: Tips
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Savage Axis Accessories
The Savage Axis is an incredibly inexpensive rifle and will be the starting point for a lot of hunters. I’ve got a few Axis-specific accessories below, but in order, here’s what I think should be replaced or upgraded: Trigger. It was hard to determine if I should recommend a $200 scope or a $100 trigger,…
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What is the most accurate 130 grain 270 Winchester?
I love the 270. It’s cheap, fast, accurate enough, comes in all sorts of rifles, carries enough to kill a deer at distance, and recoils well within reason. Out of my “popular hunting rounds” article, it’s easily my favorite. So when an opportunity to get a boxing sale Savage Axis came up, I got one…
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The 12 Most Popular Hunting Gear Posts of 2012
2012 has been a busy year. It’s the first year of HGG and things have been going well. In 2012, we completed: 10 rifle reviews 17 hunting equipment reviews 5 general tips articles 4 reloading articles 2 archery reviews and 2 wild game recipe articles Now, I wanted to re-share the most popular 12 of…
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338 Win Mag vs 338 Lapua Mag
I’ve found a lot of people finding my site when searching for differences between the 338 winchester magnum and the 338 Lapua Magnum and I wasn’t too pleased with some of the other results, so I thought I’d lay out all the differences in one spot. Performance The primary difference between the 338 Win mag…
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338 Lapua vs 300 Win Mag
Just as a foreword: this is a totally bunk comparison. 300 Winchester magnum and 338 Lapua magnum are both more than capable of taking down any game animal in North America at most any distance you’ll see them at. I just thought it’d be fun to compare and contrast the two of them. And while…
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Troubleshooting ARMS 18 jamming on M14
I think my rings were originally setup too far forward, so I moved them back to hopefully keep out of the way of incoming brass.
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Working on a tight or hard to engage safety
If your safety on your M305 or M14 is tough to engage, make sure the rifle is unloaded, swing the trigger guard up (or down depending on how you’re holding it), slip a pen or whatever into the safety hole, and rip that sucker back and forth until it starts to smooth out.