Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

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gzig5 said:
This is important and something I've always struggled with. I tend to "over-prepare" and would have way more stuff in my pack than needed when I hunted the Sierra in Northern California. To be fair, it was big country and there wasn't anyone else around or cell phones so you had to be somewhat prepared in case you got turned around or a snow squall popped up out of nowhere. But I still struggle with that today, even though we have decent cell coverage, I'm humping less than a half mile to the farthest stand, and I can still see the farmhouse from most of the stands.
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We all do if we are honest with ourselves! Where we Elk hunt we are miles and miles from services. And yep I am determined to put the kitchen sink in my pack every trip! I can give you several stories about this one or that one getting lost including my wife. We make a point every morning of establishing who is hunting which side of which mountain. She got to chasing elk and ended up on totally different mountain then she specified. She ran out of daylight. Did I mention she did not put a flashlight in her “daypack” ! She got very disoriented and had seen big cat tracks all day. Nothing says dark like a mountain in BFE Idaho in the middle of the night. We searched for her well into the morning ever widening the search ring. We knew she would head down till she cut a logging road. Did I mention it was chilly and raining? As our search circle widened I finally found her just before dawn soaking wet, very cold, walking a road on the wrong mountain, hard but valuable lesson learned. On plus side she has never made fun of my pack again, plus She has never deviated from her proclaimed hunting area since. And she always has a flashlight! That was one very spooked young lady.
 
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So today I finally got my 30mm rings for the Cooper Rifle. While I am not a ELR competitor I do like a milled recoil lug in the scope ring for full engagement on the rail face. See picture, these are Warn rings. I am sure there are better rings but I have had good luck with Warn. I feel like I should try another shorter set to get the scope to sit a bit lower but this ain’t a bad start. Note this rifle is one of a handful made with inventory receivers from Cooper Montana when Nighthawk here in Arkansas bought them out. As a result it still has the original Cooper Montana on receiver but was completely assembled in Arkansas. There is not a lot of them floating around! I am honored to have it. Moving forward all the Coopers will have the Cooper/Arkansas moniker on the receivers. The wood is stunning the rifle was hand built per Nighthawk standards. It is amazing. Of course none of that means jack diddle do if it won’t shoot! This weather breaks I will see!

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Sublime one said:
So today I finally got my 30mm rings for the Cooper Rifle. While I am not a ELR competitor I do like a milled recoil lug in the scope ring for full engagement on the rail face. See picture, these are Warn rings. I am sure there are better rings but I have had good luck with Warn. I feel like I should try another shorter set to get the scope to sit a bit lower but this ain’t a bad start. Note this rifle is one of a handful made with inventory receivers from Cooper Montana when Nighthawk here in Arkansas bought them out. As a result it still has the original Cooper Montana on receiver but was completely assembled in Arkansas. There is not a lot of them floating around! I am honored to have it. Moving forward all the Coopers will have the Cooper/Arkansas moniker on the receivers. The wood is stunning the rifle was hand built per Nighthawk standards. It is amazing. Of course none of that means jack diddle do if it won’t shoot! This weather breaks I will see!

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That's butt ugly... You should send it to me and not clutter up the safe ..

Just saying
 
Sublime one said:
So today I finally got my 30mm rings for the Cooper Rifle. While I am not a ELR competitor I do like a milled recoil lug in the scope ring for full engagement on the rail face. See picture, these are Warn rings. I am sure there are better rings but I have had good luck with Warn. I feel like I should try another shorter set to get the scope to sit a bit lower but this ain’t a bad start. Note this rifle is one of a handful made with inventory receivers from Cooper Montana when Nighthawk here in Arkansas bought them out. As a result it still has the original Cooper Montana on receiver but was completely assembled in Arkansas. There is not a lot of them floating around! I am honored to have it. Moving forward all the Coopers will have the Cooper/Arkansas moniker on the receivers. The wood is stunning the rifle was hand built per Nighthawk standards. It is amazing. Of course none of that means jack diddle do if it won’t shoot! This weather breaks I will see!

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Thats beuityful! Remind me what caliber?
 
Bodyperson said:
I'v seen some amazing shots with that caliber. 1000 yards. Lazy bastards.
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That seems to be a trend these days longer and longer shots. While I have shot about a zillion rounds at 1000 yards my personal limit is right at 400 yards these days. While I fully understand my equipment is capable of much more I just don’t see very good anymore. My eyesight has really deteriorated post sixty years old! I am still an advocate of mil dot and I don’t need my scope to talk to my watch via blue tooth. The four hundred yard thing goes out the window if I am in overwatch or protecting home and hearth. I still put in the work to figure out my dope for the longer distances. I can’t wait to dial this Cooper in. It has sub one written all over it. The target that came with the rifle by Nighthawk was well under one. I got waaaaaaaay more deviation in my hands and eyes than the equipment!
 
That looks excellent the way it is. Probably don't need to spend money trying lower rings if it feels right. Can't wait to see your results. Cooper rifles had a reputation for accuracy, so hopefully this one lives up to it.

Do you have plans for a specific projectile or will you be trying out a few?
 

The stock on that rifle is sick! But I’d be afraid to take it in the woods for fear of dinging it up. I can’t have nice things.:(
 
Sublime one said:
So this little beauty jumped in my truck and followed me home. It is numbers matching HnR complete with CMP stamp. The picture does not do the wood or rifle justice. Arguably one of my favorite rifles to shoot of all time. Garands just reek Merica!

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Ha. And you thought you didn't need one anymore.
Stock looks new but dry. Time for some RLO! (Raw linseed oil)
I think CMP used Boyds for a while, but they also used NOS at one time.

I'm told this is a Springfield made replacement by those who claim to know the subtle differences in machining.
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Bobzilla said:
That looks excellent the way it is. Probably don't need to spend money trying lower rings if it feels right. Can't wait to see your results. Cooper rifles had a reputation for accuracy, so hopefully this one lives up to it.

Do you have plans for a specific projectile or will you be trying out a few?
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At this point I am going to go with a tried and true recipe using 4895. My happy plan is to not have a special recipe for the Cooper. But I fear the geek in me will demand it, trying to wring out all the accuracy I can! I will do my best to keep the geek in the box!
 
Mattax said:
Ha. And you thought you didn't need one anymore.
Stock looks new but dry. Time for some RLO! (Raw linseed oil)
I think CMP used Boyds for a while, but they also used NOS at one time.

I'm told this is a Springfield made replacement by those who claim to know the subtle differences in machining.
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I agree, I need to give the stock some love. I saw something on my feed a long time ago where a guy did exotic drop dead gorgeous replacement stocks for Garands. I may pursue that. Make the purists crazy! But I may want to run some matches and I gotta pass tech inspection!
 
gzig5 said:
The stock on that rifle is sick! But I’d be afraid to take it in the woods for fear of dinging it up. I can’t have nice things.:(
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That is one thing I have never struggled with. I could take that rifle and toss it in the mud at the bottom of the duck blind and never think a thing about it. Please note I do not duck hunt with a rifle, the bottom of a duck blind was just the nastiest, dirtiest, most filthy environment I could think of for an analogy!
 
Sublime one said:
That is one thing I have never struggled with. I could take that rifle and toss it in the mud at the bottom of the duck blind and never think a thing about it. Please note I do not duck hunt with a rifle, the bottom of a duck blind was just the nastiest, dirtiest, most filthy environment I could think of for an analogy!
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That’s fair. I prefer to use firearms as they are intended as well. But, a really nice piece of wood makes me slow down and pay more attention to not hurting it, which is distracting. So I just have standard wood or composite on most of my hunting guns. I’ve got better wood on trap guns and my LR prone rifles that are used in more controlled environments.
 
All right ya bunch of heathens, not often am I very serious, but the following is totally serious. A buddy of mine just sent me a picture of one of his guys with both entry and exit wound on the leg from holstering his pistol in a SERPA rig. His trigger finger was not in the guard and pistol was all but holstered when it went off. There is a reason DOD etc etc do not allow this type holster. Many LEO do in fact use them yet to this day. I am considering banning them from our facility. The issue is I train a lot of LEOs, many of whom are still rocking SERPA rigs, how do I prepare them when I won’t let them use their duty rig? A quandary for sure. I switched away from SERPA to thumb drive (I had the option) a few years back, but this incident this week shook me up a bit since the individual involved is well known to me. Kind of a Debbie downer post and I apologize. But if it keeps one of you or someone you know from having a similar incident the post has merit. Disclaimer: I utilized a SERPA and fired thousands of rounds in training with zero issues. In and out of the holster thousands of reps.
 
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