Mini skirts and Make-up. Free love was not bad

Two things: non-corrosive primers and today's ultra tight tolerance machining.

The internet!

Assistance and information on hunting, reloading, on and on.

Conservation -- more game (in the US), easier access.

Dan

quote:

bucko
Posted 05 June 2008 01:56
1, slower and more consistant powders
2, quality of telescopic sights
3, quality of the new premium bullets

Bucko my list includes your 3 plus one.
1. The wing safety for a Mauser 98 action.
2. Quality telescopic sights for said modified action.
3. Slower and more consistant powders.
4. Quality of the new premium bullets.

Still have to go with better clothing.
GORE-TEX....

Womens Lib.
My brother tells me that after years of unhappy captivity (marriage) his wife liberated him.

#1 .270 Win.

#2 .30/06 Spfd.

#3 Barnes TSX's

Inside plumbing in every home who wants it.

Interste freeway system and the trucks that haul stuff on them.

Refrigeration/Air conditioning.

Metalurgy.

All of which either directly contrubutes or aids in all of the time available to create other new stuff.

Vaccines. Without yellow fever, polio and smallpox vaccines, we wouldn't be able to travel to hunt, particularly in the tropics. I seem to recall that smallpox vaccine has been around more than a hundred years, but it, along with typhoid vaccine, is right in there.