Did anybody else have feedback coming from todays show? The audio was pretty bad today, usually it is great.

Your right about the magnum rifles.A friend of mine had a 300 weatherby a shoulder breaking ground shaking monster.He shot a doe at 60 yards and it hit her so hard that hair from her right shoulder was pushed out the other shoulder it turned her inside out.The big 5 non magnum in this area is the 243-270-308-30-06 and the british 303.I seen that on a show on PBS Missouri Consevation.

Jack,
Awsome show today. I\’m probably going to have to listen to it 1 or 2 more times and take notes.

Jeb, if you look on the right of the page there are approximately 50 tags for different topics discussed. Do you have an interest in any of those?

It looks to me that the economy, gardening, food storage, lifestyle planning and permaculture are of interest to many here. My main goals now are reducing my debt and increasing my food supply through gardening, preservation and storage.

yeah, its redundant sometimes. but so is church and i keep going. repetition. key to learning. not ganging up on jeb. or jack. i check out too, but that\’s because i tend to space out thinking of how what jack is talking about applies to me or how i can apply it to my life/preps.

rock on preppers!!!

I am not even half way through this episode. Very cool, very informative. I need the repetition so I even listen to older episodes again. This one will be a reference for sure. Way to go Jack!

I enjoyed today’s show, I already knew 90% of it, but I enjoy the way you tell it. The little history lessons were nice also.

Your comment about the armchairs complaining about someone calling a magazine a “clip” reminds me of a training session on the flight deck when I was in the navy. We were phasing out the .45 pistols for the new 9mm pistols, and a Fire Controlman was talking to someone else about the pistol and kept saying “clip” when he was showing the magazine. This was one of our Chief Gunner’s Mate’s pet peeves, so when he walked past, he said “It’s a magazine, not a clip.” FC1 turned to Chief and said, “What’s the difference, Chief?” Chief replied, “A clip is disposable. A magazine is not.” FC1 threw the magazine he was holding over the side and said, “It looks pretty disposable to me, Chief.” It was pretty funny, but FC1 took a lot of heat for doing that. Just thought I’d share.

Great show today!

Hey Jack, really enjoyed the show! I have something to add to your point about magnums not really being that necessary. I have a friend that’s teaching me about reloading, and he’s very particular about his loads. He has a good number of guns, and has been seriously hunting and reloading for over 25 years. He usually hunts out at 500-600 yards, and hunts a good variety of animals, Pronghorn, Whitetail, Muleys, Elk, Moose, you get the idea. He has a good collection of hunting rifles, and yet the one that he prefers to use is the .270, even hunting out at 600 yards.
One of his guns is a Remington 700 in .300 Win Mag. All he’s had done to it is barrel floated and action glass bedded. He’s worked up a load here he got two 1 1/8 inch groups at 300 yards and one 1 1/4 inch group at 400 yards. This is a guy that has a great selection of guns, some of them really powerful, and yet he prefers the .270. That’s telling for me.
Also, I’ve been noticing some issues with your audio compression program that you use. It’s a bit frustrating when parts of sentences get clipped off. I don’t know if you can adjust the setting, but if something could be done it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

This is a Superb! broadcast. Will definitely replay it; so much info I had to write stuff down.

Are you aware of the new Marlin lever action .308 Express chambering? Uses a slightly tapered case (a la AK47?) for easier extraction if I read the report right; the ammo is Hornaday using a pointed non-metallic tip. This increases effective accuracy from 200 out to 400 yards. Pretty amazing.

Keep up the great work, you explain things in a well thought out way.Here\’s an html:
http://www.gunsandammo.com/content/the-marlin-express?page=1

I don’t mind some repetition from time to time. I don’t think I’ll EVER learn all the gardening info I need, for one thing. That may a bit more complex than rifle ballistics, but today’s show explained things in a way that might help some of US teach OTHERS about the subject.

I especially tuned in to the info on the 6.5×55 and 45-70, 2 guns that are high on my list.

Which, as far as show topics goes, leads me to a topic suggestion: optics. Sights [the metal ones might be hard to describe, though], scopes, rifle and pistol; lasers and holographic, and, finally, binoculars, day and night vision. One topic of particular interest to me, is the scout mount for rifles, which seems to me to be well suited to the 45-70 guide gun as well as the Swedish Mauser, with the mount fitting right into the rear sight.

Yer thoughts?

My only criticism is not the “repetition” issue, Jack’s very good at shuffling his topics, but the unusual lack of organization on the topic. My take is that it is a huge topic and he’s got a ton of info in his head that he’s passionate about and wants to share. My suggestion is to make a macro to micro chart of the topics and stick to those points so that the listener gets the logic of the discussion.

As an example of a topic that he omitted was the .22LR. It is true that he’s recently discussed it but that topic should have been in there, and so should have been shotguns calibers. Well, IMO.

Jack: all I’m saying is great topic, but we need more on this. Thanks.

Here’s some info [from Wikipedia] I wanted to “ask” Jack as I was listening to his program.

Why is it shotgun gauges and not caliber?
The caliber of shotguns is measured in terms of gauge (U.S.) or bore (U.K.). The gauge number is the determined by the weight, in fractions of a pound, of a solid sphere of lead with a diameter equal to the inside diameter of the barrel. So a 10 gauge shotgun nominally should have an inside diameter equal to that of a sphere made from one-tenth of a pound of lead. By far the most common gauges are 12 (0.729 in, 18.5 mm diameter) and 20 (0.614 in, 15.6 mm), although .410 (= 67), 32, 28, 24, 16, and 10 (19.7 mm) gauge and 9 mm (.355 in.) and .22 (5.5 mm) rimfire calibres have also been produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_gauge_shotguns

What’s the “06” mean in the 30-06?
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced “thirty-aught-six”, “thirty-oh-six”) or 7.62 x 63 mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 (hence “06”) and standardized, used until the 1960s and early 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

Also, what good is it to know that ’06 in 30-06 means that it was adopted by the US military in 1906 when the SHTF? Jack, I thought you did a great job of putting across the information that makes the biggest difference and threshing out the chaff.