I haveca neighbor that has at least 8 cats. And they have a dog door for them to come and go.
There basically Ferrell cats. It gets them from the animal shelter and if they stick around there his pets. I have put up with them fir years.  But it's gotten way out of hand. Any dirt on my property is just a litter box.  My boat whis was stored in a tent style boat house was covered with muddy cat trscks and the carpet with matted cat hair. I have hundreds of pics of them on trail camera.  And called the city. But there is nothing legal you can do. As s there is no limit to the amount of cats you can have and there not restricted to thete property like dogs. I don't want to to kill them just discouraged them from my property.
I've tried peppermint oil with some success.  But it dosent work in winter. Anybody have good methods for keeping cats away ?

I mounted my scopes today on my 340 and 300 Weatherbys. They are the same Rifle with slightly different scopes and a different hinged floor plate. But look very similar.
It reminded me of a Jim Zumbo hunting trip on his TV show. His show was sponsored by Remington.  And he had a 300 and 338 Ultra Mags that were identical in appearance.
He was mule deer hunting out west and had brought the 338 but had ammo for the 300. Honest mistake.  But had to make a last minute long drive to find some 338 Ultra mag ammo.
Needless to say it flattened the mule deer.
Just wondering if anyone has done the same thing?

Before I send away for my custom dials . I was wondering how much does Elevation effect performance? My home state of MI has a avg Elev of 550 ft. Newfoundland is 2700 ft. And WY is 6700 ft. Is it wise to go with A mid way Elev.of say 4000 ft ?
And does anyone have experience with them just how accurate are they ?
Thank You

I remember looking through the old gun catalogs at the cartridge velocities.  One that always stood out was the 30-06 accelerator I believe it was listed at 4080 fps at the muzzle.
I see where a guy on the Weatherby FB blog has loaded a 30-378 with one. He's guessing it to shoot at 6000 fps. Hope it works for him. But I wouldn't want to be near him when he test it.

I have bought a couple different leveling products that really don't work.  I came up with this method that works well as long as you have a flat area on your base you can access.
I use 3 levels a flat piece of steel. A  stock channel  tool works well. I balance the flat steel with a level on each side and a 3rd level on the cap or top screw. In this case my son's scope is canted. I am going to loosen the rings straighten it so all 3 are level and slowly tighten them back up. It works every time on my rifles.

I took my Remington model 700 ML to the range just to chronograph the muzzle  velocity to compare with the 450 bushmaster.  Shooting the same bullet.  With 3 pellets 150 grains  of win triple 7 It  just went over 2000 fps. Compared to the 450 BM at 2200. I have the chance to hunt lower MI farm land wich is shotgun only or certain straight wall cartridges. But I thought I'd see if my ML can equal the 450 BM it would be good enough.
But my first shot seemed to go off instantly. I wasn't sure what happened. I have never had it happen to me. And I have owned this ML for 25 years and never touched the trigger. So I reloaded it and it went off with very little trigger pressure.  The 3rd shot went of as soon as I flipped off the safety.  That was enough.  In tearing it down now to see if the trigger has some corrosion build up. But I don't see any. But I will test it as soon as I put the bolt back together.  Needles to say A Bagara Ridge rifle in 450 BM is in my future.  I wish Weatherby made one in there Vanguard line.

To Bad they only showed him taking a few shots smoking a pair of doubles.
But Vincent Hancock won his 4th straight Olympic Gold medal in sheet today.
And a fellow Texan won the Silver. Good Job guys !!

I shot my first deer using the Barnes TTSX
From A 30-06 it was the 165 grain.
The shot was about 20 yards at a steep angle from tree stand. I didn't see the exit hole until it was hanging on the buck pole. I thought it was weird the it wouldn't exit from a 20 yard neck shot. I had taken pics of it lying there to text to my boys and freind. So once I seen the exit hole I thought I bet I can find that Bullet. I went back for a couple days of muzzle loading this weekend and brought a metal detector.  With in 5 minutes I was holding the bullet. In perfect condition and weighing 163. 3 grains.
I have read many of you praise this bullet so I had to try it.
It exceeded my expectations..
Thank You