Good job !! yea it's sometimes a good thing to hang around when something doesn't seem right. 

friends took their snow mobiles up to one our mtn lakes yesterday for some ice fishing little over 9000 ft,  forest service road gates are closed , but they leave side access for snow mobiles.  I'll talk to them tomorrow and see how they did.  most all the animals up high have dropped down to lower elevations except black bears in hybernation.   It's like another world snow drifts and wind,  I still have  snow at my place  down lower at 6400 ft, starting to melt, elk have been around the property the last month from the storms,   too damn cold for my bones. 

I think it goes in cycles when the demorats hold the cards,  I would be more concerned about new laws and shortages/prices of primers and powders. 

I miss our long talks on the phone,  he mixed me an evan williams whiskey & coke out hunting and then poured it in an ice filled  32 ounce or so circle K plastic mug  full to the top half whiskey half coke I figured at that point we were going to have a great hunt.  He was one of a kind. 

Of my family and friends  that shoot the various 7mm mags,   some use the rem 7mm mag, some use 7mm stw, several use custom built 7mm rem ultra mags,  and I have a 7mm Wby Deluxe which just sits there collecting dust.   Honestly  for what we do I don't see any advantage of some of these newer prc type cartridges  over our  older 7mm mags or our 300 Weatherby's using heavy weight high B/C bullets at long ranges  and if you are going to hunt big animals (not target shoot) at these extra long ranges it might be wise to choose one of the better 338 wildcats or factory 338 mags if you want to push the range limits. some of our friends and family are really poking out there.    Now if a person wants or doesn't already have a good prc in some suitable cartridge in  7mm mag or 300 mag then by all means get what you want. 

I wonder what happened to Oregon Jim , Dubyan,  and Mikey from Oregon he  hasn't been on here for years.   There was another guy a NAS Car builder who moved to Washington State forgot his name haven't heard from him in years also.   Hope they are ok.   As for shooting these types of groups at anything past 1000 yds I got to see it to believe it let alone 2000 + Yds.    The 30-378 was kind of the in thing when came out and started getting some traction.  It's a very good long range caliber and several aquaintances  I know use it here in AZ for long range cross canyon Coues deer and Elk.  Plinking targets at 1000 yds + ranges is one thing, and actually taking big game at these longer ranges is a whole different ball game.  One thing without getting into the quick load programs and tinker with what if's  it would not surprise me for someone to push a really light off the shelf bullets , with the right powder, in excess of 4000 fps + in a 30-378 in a 30 " barrel, but then you start  increasing bullet drops  at these extended ranges when using lighter bullets.   

Nice doggy's ,  looks like a lot of fun

I can totally get the want part of a new gun,  the biggest issue I have is I rarely use what I have   with the exception of my favorites for hunting.  I do prefer lighter weight rifles (not these new heavy precision rifles per say), we do hunt long ranges.  since most of the local hunters we hang with are hunting long ranges sometimes past 1000 yds using calibers from 7mm Rem &  7mm ultra mags, stw's, various big 30's, .  Me personally if I were going to get a new long range rifle is would most likely be a Weatherby composite stock in 338 Lapua.  None of this bigger long range 7mm and larger 338 ammo is cheap as is half the other long range ammo,  unless you re-load most of us do.    If you are hunting  big bull elk for instance any of the 7mm mags are fully capable of whacking a bull at 600-700 yds with power to spare as long as you hit it right. I do think the trend here locally is going to some of the newer PRC calibers shooting heavy bullets,  I don't know any of our friends using Weaterby RPM calibers not to say that's bad it's just not as popular where I live,  there are some guy's using some very powerful wildcats in the 30 to 375 caliber sizes.  You start hunting bigger elk at really extended ranges it becomes more a bullet issue than a pure caliber issue,  most really good long range hunters can hit what they are aiming at or they just don't shoot (why risk it), anyway it's the bullet that does the job and that's where it's important to choose wisely.  Recently  hunter passed on 4 very large bulls  that were sky lighted on the ridge @ 200 yds all very nice bulls with one heavier mass 6 by with a bunch of kickers,  not shooting was the right thing to do not knowing what was beyond the target.  That same hunt some yea hoo's were shooting in our direction I'm sure they didn't see us and we didn't see them "BUT" anyone that's ever been shot at knows that distinctive bullet breaking the sound barrier crack before the boom and you start hitting the ground.   I kind of look at it if you want something get it,  can't take it with you so might as well enjoy it while you can.