I am looking for an elastic ammo holder I can slip over my wrist that holds 2-4 rounds.
Any idea where I can find one?

Fox Ridge Outfitters and Uncle Mike's. The Uncle Mike's Wrist Ammo Carrier holds 6 rifle type rounds, while the Frank's Wrist Quick Loader is designed to hold 2 quick follow-up large capacity pistol rounds. Frank's Wrist Reloader didn't work for me with JDJ type wildcats. It was too loose and I have lost cartridges out of both while hunting in rough terrain. You can get either or both at www.foxridgeoutfitters.com ...Rusty.

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I bought one that you are supposed to slip over a rifle stock. I worked great for me. It was a little snug at first but loosened up nicely.
Mike

This is how I got mine or made mine. I went wally world after hunting season and saw a cartridge belt loop on sale. I bought one cut it to desire length and sawn two straps with velcro. total cost was 5.99 plus a little of work. I was able to make more than one from a single belt.

I hope this help.

I use the same rig as Mike mentioned -- and mine all came from either wally-world or cabelas. They work fine on the arm but stretch enough to double for use on a rifle stock as well. But these do not work for .223-sized cartridges as you are apt to lose a few.

I use the Uncle Mikes Wrist Ammo Carrier. I have used it with .30-30 AI's, .250 Savage's and up to .284 Winchesters. I have also used it with .223 Remingtons but like has been said they do not fit very tightly.

The only modification I did was to add a stip of material and velcro onto the one end so it is a little bigger and fits over the coat sleeve on my hunting coats.



Others may use them differently but I wear mine on my shooting wrist. I find this works for me. I never take my hand off of the Pistol Grip, just squeeze on the trigger guard to open the action, pluck the empty out with my left hand, then grab a fresh round with my left hand and insert it into the open chamber.

Larry

OK, Larry, enough teasing. Tell us more about the deer and gun you took it with...

The Deer was a smaller 4x4 Buck shot on opening morning right at sunrise (11-17-07) here in Roberts County South Dakota.

As per the Handgun, it started life out as a 15" Stainless-Steel 7mm-08 that was rechambered buy David White to .284 Winchester. I used a 140gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip pushed by a max charge of H-4831SC, Winchester Brass, Federal Gold Medal Match Primers. Muzzle velocity is 2665 FPS, and the accuracy is great. During one of my practice sessions prior to Deer Season I shot a 3 shot 100 yard group from the bench of .451" center to center using a Harris BR Bipod for a rest.

The shot on the buck was an easy one, 150 yards broadside. At the shot the buck bucked like he had been goosed with a sharp stick and took off at top speed. He ran about 20 yards and disappeared behind a willow thicket, and I was sick. Well I found him behind the willows stone dead, total distance he traveled after the shot was 50 - 70 yards.

I never did look to see if a rib bone was hit on entrance, but the lungs were destroyed, a rib struck on exit leaving a quarter sized exit hole.

My nephew helped me drag the buck out from behind the willows onto a meadow. After we took a couple photos I started field dressing the buck. I had just opened him up when I heard shots about a quarter mile north of us. Well instead of telling my nephew and wife to grab their guns, I said let's get this done so we can get back to hunting. About that quick a nice doe emerged from the rice cane out onto the meadow we were in. The worse part is the really dandy 5x5 buck I had been watching prior to season was right on her tail. They ran about 75 yards from us and then disappeared into the rice cane on the other side. I almost cried.

Larry

Congrats on the buck. And it sounds like you've found a sweet load for that barrel. Your load also helps dispell the interent myth that pistol barrels must use faster powders as opposed to rifle-length barrels.

Your story about the 5x5 is a little like what's going on here. I saw a gorgeous 8-point (4x4) 2 weeks before the season, and I thought I had him patterned pretty well.

You can guess the rest of the story: since opening day, I have seen neither hide nor hair of the brute. He's either in someone else's freezer or has simply learned the Houdini act for deer season. With my luck, I'll see him alive and well the day AFTER the season closes...

Actually Bobby this is the second .284 Handgun I have worked with. The first was a HS Precision Pro 2000 in .284. In that Handgun we tried 120gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips, 139gr. Hornady SST's, and finally 140gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips with powders ranging from H-4895 to H-4350 to H-4831SC.

In the end the load I am using in this .284 came from a internet friend (XPHunter). Ole XPHunter knows his stuff, and has been there, done that with the .284. This load shot good right off, and to be honest the more this barrel gets shot the better it seems to shoot.

My Deer Hunting story actually gets WORSE. A farmer buddy told me about a monster buck (5x5 or 6x6 at least 22" wide and 13" tall) on his property. He said a guy learned of this buck and has been trespassing trying to get a shot at it. My buddy told me to get out there and try to get a crack at that buck.

Well Sunday Morning at 10 AM I had my chance. This buck was standing beside a shelterbelt on a ridge with a smaller fork horn and a doe. There was no way to get closer and I knew they were not going to stand there forever.

I got prone with the BR Model Harris Bipod and held the crosshairs of the 3x12x Burris on the bucks chest. I thought man that a long ways out there, so I moved the crosshairs up and held with a little daylight between the crosshair and the bucks back. When everything was rock steady I touched the trigger.

Well I MISSED BIG TIME. My bullet struck right between his legs throwing dirt onto the buck, and he was gone. Seeing how low my shot was I got up and thought about things. All of a sudden I said to myself, self you are an idiot, you have combined soy beans in that same field and know full well that that shelterbelt is 1/4 mile from where I was laying. When I checked my ballistics chart for the drop that would hit it pretty close.

Yep I've hunted that area every morning and afternoon since and have NOT seen hide nor hair of that buck.

I have faith in you Bobby, you'll find your buck, or hopefully a nicer one. Good luck.

Larry

Misses like that sure do hurt -- and stay on the mind for a long time as well.

There's one from the early 90s that still has me asking myself "why did I do that?"

I was hunting aoudad, and there was one particular small band that kept eluding our best efforts. Then, at one point, we noticed them heading up a steep hillside some 500 yards away, so we got back in the catch-up mode.

We had gone maybe 20 yards when the guide grabbed me by the shirt and pointed directly to the right. There, looking right at us, was a very nice ram -- a ram that looked like he would bolt at any second. I got prone, used my backpack as a rest and placed the crosshairs of the 2.5-7x so that just a sliver of daylight remained over the ram's back.

As I touched off a shot and saw a white puff linger behind the ram, I realized what I had done. The distance across that canyon was only about 200 yards, the range at which my .257 JDJ was dead-on. Something in me took over and made me compensate for a 325 yard shot. Yes, it LOOKED like 300+, but just a couple months before, I sat there and ranged almost this exact spot when a whitetail doe emerged between the junipers.

I still don't know if it was my haste or just a variation of buck fever. But whatever it was, it certainly clouded my judgment.

I did finally succeed and put a 100 grain Ballistic Tip slightly high on the shoulder of a young (3 year-old) ram. The bullet wrecked the top of the lungs before exiting and left a relatively small exit as it passed through the off-side ribs.

The bullet was close enough to the spine to impart shock and put the ram down on the spot for an instant kill. I still remember the guide saying "Reload! These things have a habit of packing lots of lead."

It was lights out, though. The range turned out to be 190 yards, virtually the same distance as the earlier shot that I flubbed.

Now, some 15 years later, the thing I remember most about that entire hunt is that miss. It's crazy...

Anyway, you'll get that buck. You've done your homework, know your guns and loads intimately will put that knowledge and experience to good use the next time he appears.

I'm looking forward to seeing a picture of that monster, by the way...

snow,
thanks for making this post since it reminded me to order a couple more of the mike's wrist holders. i have used them for years with satisfaction. my two are so worn out now I need to have a coat on to use them.

Bobby,
Like you, I don't buy into the internet myth that slow powders don't work well in SP's either.
My primary powders for my SP's:
H-4350, H-4831, H-1000, and Retumbo.
I also use Varget and H-4895, but not nearly as much as the others first listed.

Larry,
Congrats onthe deer. Also, sadly, i still miss myself from time to time, and it holds on to you for a while.
If you ever want to head this way for some PD shooting let me know. I have a great place for some LR PD'ing.

Thanks guys

Ernie the snow in that photo disappeared buy noon that day. However we recently did get another dusting of snow and with high temps this week in the low 20's it should stick around a few days.

Yep we all remember our misses. Man they seem to stick in the mind forever. This one is a sore spot for me as I knew how far that shelterbelt was from where I was at, and it just didn't register. Like Bobby made reference to, I think the excitement (Buck Fever) took over a clouded my judgement or something. I had heard guys talking about this buck, the land owner told me about this buck, I just never expected to get a chance at him with all the vehicle traffic that has been up and down these shelterbelts.

I am going to go out there this afternoon (if this wind dies down a little, it is gusting over 35 MPH right now) and sit and wait to see if I can spot this big guy and figure out where he is now living.

Larry

Larry,
Get a rangefinder buddy You know what they say about the memory
Good luck tonight.
I had more misses or bad shots (200-250 yards)this year in one day than I have had in my entire hunting combined, due to a misunderstanding (on my part) about my reticle (where the optical center is). I had never been so frustrated in my life. I literally considered stomping my XP's into the ground.
As far as long range misses, I missed (kill zone), but hit the front leg just below the torso of an antelope doe this past September at over 900 yards. I have went over the shot more than several times and accept I made a mistake in proper set-up but I do not believe buck/doe fever had anything to do with it, but there was some urgency which must not be there (at least for me) when shooting long.
Next time I find myself at LR, I will make sure I do it right. My consience doesn't like the beating it has been getting.

Sorry for the snowwolfe.

I know Ernie, I keep telling Mrs. Santa Claus that I need one but she is not listening. Memory, heck that was the one thing I had going for me. If I loose that I am in big trouble.

That Buck Sunday morning is the longest shot at a Deer I have attmpted with a Single Shot Speciality Pistol. I have shot quite a few out at 275 - 300 yards, and to be honest, with the right rest those are getting quite easy if that is possible.

Not to get too off topic (kind of highjacked this thread) how are you coming with the .30-30 AI?

Larry

Haven't shot it since I did intial load development.

Snowwolfe,
You can always do what I do.... make your own wrist ammo holders. Go to your local Wal-Mart, Fred's, grocery store, etc. and buy one of the thin, insulated canned drink holders. Try to find the type that are rather "stretchy." Don't get the type that are thick. Cut out the bottom of the holder so the holder will slip onto your wrist/arm. With the ammo holder on your wrist, I like for the rounds to be oriented going across my arm (i.e. perpendicular), not the same direction as my arm. Using an awl, make 2 holes for each round. Then use a larger diameter Phillips head screw driver to stretch out the holes. For a short round like the 223 Rem, the holes will only be about 1-1 1/2" apart. Longer rounds like the 308 Win will have holes about 1 1/2-2" apart. Depending on the size of the round, I can usually fit 4-5 loaded rounds in the ammo holder. I've made separate ammo holders for each of my commonly used hunting rounds. Like someone mentioned earlier, I also carry the ammo holder on the wrist of my dominant hand. The description sounds much more complicated that what it really is. Just look at pictures of commerically available ammo holders and I think you'll easily grasp the idea. Gary T.