Coldboremiracle Blog

The coldboremiracle blog is a collection of stories and information I hope you’ll find helpful

Picking the Right Rifle Twist Rate and Barrel Length

A 25 For ’25: a modern 25-06 Remington

The Guns of King of 2 Miles

The Race to the Bottom: Smaller Bullets Carrying a Heavier Load

Six Ways to Sunday: Supreme Six-millimeter Cartridges

Hunting with Magnums: Does a Magnum’s Might Make Right?

The 6.5 Cartridge Dilemma

What is an LPVO and do you need one?

us optics

The 6.5 Grendel

Maximum Magnification; Finding the Right Magnification for Your Scope

Fast Twist and Quiet Shooting: The 8.6 Blackout

All You Need to Know About Parallax

Why Use Canted Scope Mounts and How Much?

Are Subsonic Cartridges Superior?

Painting Your Gun

The End of Hunting as we know it

Hooking New Shooters with Pistol Caliber Carbines

Primary arms

Carbon Fiber Firearms

Varmint Hunting Makes Better Hunters and Shooters

The Big Three Rifle Scope Adjustments: understanding how they work

Aim Small, Miss Small: Getting the Most Out of Your Target Practice

Hunting with an AK?

Does Size Really Matter? Hunting Calibers and Overkill

Putting Together an AR 15: My latest AR project

Learning the Outdoors: How do you teach instinct?

The Short and Sweet 7.62Ă—39 Soviet

.243 Winchester, the little Winchester that did

Hunting Roots

Best Red Dots for your Rifle: Enclosed Emitter

Five Guns for Varmint Season

What is “getting scoped” and why is it an unfortunate ritual?

Bullet Penetration and Tumbling

Relentless Knives Perpetual Edge Fillet Knife

Ruger M77 Overhaul: Turning 50 aint so bad

Hunting with kids: more effort with more rewards

The 338 Lapua Magnum: a legend in its time

Putting Together a Battle Belt

Lever guns and revolvers: Perfect Pairs

Minute of Angle: what is it? and how to use MOA

Is .223 good for hunting deer sized game?

Why Upgrade Your Riflescope?

Ode To The Bullpup

Turning a Military Surplus rifle into a Hunting Rifle

Top Five Cartridges For Long-Range Shooting

Direct Thread or QD Suppressors?

Long-Range shooting with Short Barrels

Barrel Twist and Other Wizardry

Optics: First Focal Plane vs Second Focal Plane

First Round Pop – Why The First Shot Is The Loudest Using A Suppressor

6.5 Creedmoor Against the World

Rifle Scope Tracking: Good Bad or Otherwise

Off Season Activities

Tool-less Bore Sighting

Ammunition Prepping

WHAT GEAR DO I NEED FOR AN ELK HUNT?

Impact Velocity, and its effects.

What Cant Can Do

More Guns, or Multi-caliber Guns?

Elusive Rifles for More Elusive Prey

Long-Range Shooting Course: Bruised Egos, and Knees

The Best Shotguns for Duck Hunting

Magnum Legends: 300WM vs. 7MM RM

The 257 Blackjack

Waterfowl hunting: great for everyone

Building Your Dream Rifle

Tips for better marksmanship

Exploring The Shooting Positions

What is Windage and Why/When to adjust for it

A Ten Year Old Texas Legend

Operation Quarter Lord, the 25 Creedmoor

High Tech Hunting

Is Shot Placement More Important than cartridge and bullet selection?

The Little Things

Memories

Memorial Day 

A Place to Hide

A Rifle for Coldboremiracle Junior: Custom Remington 700

Rebuilding a Hunter

Choosing the Right Cartridge