What's the worst gun forum besides thehighroad and defensivecarry? It's time for another troll campaign.

How many Americans did this security lapse kill?

Sirhr

Pretty much brand new, been to the range once but just don’t shoot 22lr.

CZ457 in 22lr
Proof Carbon Barrel
Area 419 15MOA scope base
Timney Trigger

$1250 Shipped, $1450 with the optic/rings

Selling a MPA BA COMP. Inlet for r700. This is a folder model, it will come with, spigot, nvg bridge, internal and external weights. It also have been cerakoted.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Asking $800 shipped

Payment via PayPal f&f or buyer pays fees, Venmo, Zelle.

$2100 shipped to your door. Brand new. Box has been opened but never seen rings or the outdoors.

2 actions for sale

1. Defiance Deviant branded as RWS Gunsmithing action. 308BF. Black nitride. Trigger not included. $1100 shipped

2. Defiance Deviant branded as RWS Gunsmithing action. 223BF. Stainless/unfinished. Trigger not included. $1100 shipped

This Saturday I am finally heading to my first PRS match. I never have been in any sort of competition with shooting and I have no clue what to expect. I just figured since I am a man of lots of questions, I'll do fine finding my way around. But I was curious what others take as far as a case and mags.

I only have my Pelican hard case which my rifle is broken down in. I noticed in the rules that the rifle cannot be out of the case until at the platform. Not sure what that means exactly. Does it mean I have to put my rifle away when I am finished shooting between stages? Or is there usually a bench, or somewhere that folks leave their rifles un-chambered? Would I be better off going to these matches with a nylon case with the rifle fully assembled?
As for mags? I know they have each stage ranging from 10-12 rounds. I only have one 10 round mag, plus 2 rounds on the side of my rifle for manual feed. Should I have 2 mags, or could I get away with one for now?

In excellent condition. Black carbon shell.. 1400$ shipped

PRICE DROP

This is a brand new (unfired 6mm CM). I will cover shipping and shipping insurance to your FFL of choice. Listed below is everything that is included/has been done to the rifle. Asking $2500 $2000 for it (no trades). Please note the posting has been updated for rifle only.

With the pic rail and the ACRA plate the rifle weights 9.4 lbs. If you are looking for a lighter package do have a MDT HNT 26 chassis that I could switch out of the XRS that would reduce the rifle weight by 2.3 lbs for a slight upcharge ($2500).

MDT XRS Chassis (or will sub for MDT HNT 26 Chassis)
MDT M-Lok ARCA Rail
Oregon Mountain Rifle Co. Carbon Barrel, 6mm Creed, 24", 1-7T, 5/8 x 24 threaded, SS OMR Break
Oregon Mountain Rifle Co. Bolt Shroud
Oregon Mountain Rifle Co. Bolt Titanium Bolt Handle and Carbon Fiber Bolt Knob
Oregon Mountain Rifle Co. Action Work and Barrel Instal
Tikka Action (unfired)
20 MOA Pic Rail

Anybody know of a good company to send an AR upper to get a pin and welded muzzle device removed and new one installed. The one I have used in the past mills off the old one and there is a good chance some of the threads will be damaged that way. Looking for someone reputable that could do it without damaging threads.... Thanks!

PSA

Hey guys. A friend of mine reached out and said that he got taken. This was a first time online order for them.

Purchased some ammo through McClain Ammunition.

Looking through the email string, my friend should have walked away.

Order process seemed to go as usual, but then payment method required was PayPal. (red flag #1). I have never heard of a business requiring / changing the payment method to PP.

Second red flag was that the price sounded too good to be true.

Third red flag was that the original PP link and the actual one that payment was wade to didn’t match.

Fourth red flag was the reply email was from “mail.ru”

Did a search for them and didn’t find anything favorable

With the holidays coming up, just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Think youre having a bad day? Be thankful, very thankful.

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Impact short action, 308BF
SPF
Trigger not included but can be for additional price

For sale XTR Pro 5.5-30 SCR2 reticle. Great scope. I have too many so one had to go. $SOLD

hoped montana would stay a worthwhile place. looks like it is going into the shithole like colorado. my FL remains on the edge.

I have a v22 vudoo with a 24” 1.2 barrel.
Comes with keg bravo weights, 5 mags, and a Triggertech Diamond
Let me know if you have any questions.
$1950
Shipped to your ffl

After reading up on one depressing thread I thought I'd start this one going in the opposite direction w/a couple of "feelgood" incidents.

Had an Eotech for about 5 years/way past warranty. Decided at this late date to switch the base so it swings over for a lefty. Screws were frozen.

Heated the thing up so hot trying to get the screws out I thought I'd warp the casing, and the screws wouldn't budge.




Called up Eotech, told them it way past warranty, but otherwise it still worked like a charm, but the screws were frozen, I'd like to send it in to see if they could try to do something w/it.


Offered to pay what it takes to get the screws loose and swap the base, so they said send it in.


Got the thing back about a week later, swapped over for a "lefty" w/new screws in it (no charge), w/a note, "it's on us". I made point of calling them to say "thank you".




Paid March for my scope, then waited months, just before March was going to ship, saw a video where somebody else asked them to mod the turrets for the same scope I've got for louder clicks. I asked them if they could delay the ship of the scope, do the mod, then ship it to me whatever the charge 4 the upgrade was going to be.

They contacted me back asap, said I'd waited a long time so they'd do it immediately, expedite shipping, and did it "no charge".

"No charge" for a mod that wasn't in the original deal.


Been in a dealership called "Rifle Supply" in OC, never saw an argument, an employee/saleman w/a shitty attitude, everybody eager to be helpful.

Maybe I've never been there on the "wrong" day, but tje place is pleasant to got to.


I've had other manufacturers and dealers do some "feelgood"/no charge gestures showing that they care about you as a customer and I've talked to quite a number of folks around here who're kind and helpful.

Trevor Jacob has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for intentionally crashing a small plane in a YouTube publicity stunt.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Jacob confessed to “intentionally crashing his single-engine airplane in a California national forest to gain views for a sponsorship deal, resulting in potentially serious legal trouble.”
“Jacob’s admission came as part of a plea agreement filed in federal court in Los Angeles, where he pleaded guilty to the charge of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation,” it reported at the time.
The offense carried a potential of 20 years in prison. Jacob received only six months. KTLA 5 provided some history of the event:

Prosecutors say Jacob waited two days to report the crash to the National Transportation Safety Board which told him to preserve the wreckage. He stalled the investigation by telling NTSB officials that he didn’t know where the plane went down, according to the DOJ.
More than two weeks after the crash, he and a friend flew a helicopter to the crash site and airlifted the wreckage to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck.

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The U.S. Department of Justice accused Jacob of cutting up and destroying “the airplane wreckage and, over several days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere.”
The FAA also revoked Jacob’s pilot’s license.

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“It appears that [Jacob] exercised exceptionally poor judgment in committing this offense,” prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum.


“[Jacob] most likely committed this offense to generate social media and news coverage for himself and to obtain financial gain. Nevertheless, this type of ‘daredevil’ conduct cannot be tolerated.”

I have 4 boxes of 500 Berger 109 LRHT bullets. $1120 shipped(lower 48) or best offer. I will split if someone wants a single box of 500(lot # 2753).
3 boxes lot# 2378
1 box lot# 2753

Selling one straight and one curved TT diamond. safety but no bolt release. Single stage for those that dont know.

$250 shipped each CONUS
To

Accuracy International AT-X AICS Chassis System for Short Action Rem 700. This is the long upper version in black.

This model

The black cerakote isn't the best, it has some marks around the magwell and at the action mounting points. It would look fantastic with a fresh coat of cerakote or paint. The trigger hanger on my Impact did not played well with the removable mag catch on the top of the chassis so I removed some material from the top of the mag catch to make it work. I ended up running the Impact without this mag catch and it runs perfectly.

Fits all Rem 700 clone short actions.

This is the gen 3 version with the thumb adjustment knobs. Picture from EO shows an order version.

$950. Shipping and insurance to US50 is on me. The only trades that I'm looking for are: T6xi, Zeiss S3 or Razor G3.

Not a vintage sniper rifle topic, but an interesting article on the 58-year old Ukrainian sniper who likely set a new wartime record. Domestic Ukrainian rifle with a US Bartlein barrel and a Japanese March-FX scope, looks like a 4-40x52 Genesis version. Ammunition was custom made in Ukraine. Article outlines use of ballistic software, incredible skill and clearly some incredible luck.



The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2023

KYIV—The Ukrainian sniper had lain still for hours in near freezing temperatures when the command came to take the shot at a Russian soldier almost 2½ miles away. “You can,” his spotter said, and Vyacheslav Kovalskiy pulled his trigger.

The bullet took around nine seconds to reach its target, who doubled up and fell, according to a video of the shot reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Kovalskiy and Ukraine say the shot set a new sniping distance record, breaking the previously acknowledged mark by more than 850 feet.

While combat hits such as this aren’t verified by a third-party adjudicator, the shot has offered Ukraine a morale boost when the country’s forces are struggling to make headway at the front line. A Ukrainian sniper, using a Ukrainian-made weapon and bullet, had broken the record. Sniping has played a prominent role in the war with Russia, where static front lines in a flat landscape suit the discipline, even as drones and mines change the way the marksmen operate.



Custom-made rounds used by Ukrainian snipers.



For conventional sniping, there are a lot of variables that are hard to quantify.

The macabre record was also a shot heard around the world of snipers, a group of highly skilled shooters who have long pushed the boundaries of just how far a bullet can travel with accuracy. Some are skeptical that Kovalskiy’s shot was a record.

To hit targets at ever-longer distances, snipers lean heavily on math, calculating a host of technical factors, from the air’s humidity to wind speed, temperature and the curvature of the earth. They also need a good rifle and a lot of luck.

On Nov. 18, Kovalskiy was already packing his rifle by the time the bullet reached its destination and a member of his team shouted that it was a hit. The shot was filmed and on reviewing the footage later, Kovalskiy and other snipers concluded it had been deadly.

“I was thinking that Russians would now know that is what Ukrainians are capable of,” Kovalskiy said, who hasn’t previously been named or spoken to the media.

“Let them sit at home and be afraid,” he added.

Several snipers and ballistics experts contacted by the Journal said that while the shot is possible with the equipment described, it would be hard to execute given the uncontrollable variables, not least the weather, that would have to be taken into account at such distances.

“For conventional sniping, there are so many variables that are hard to quantify, so the reality is anything over about 1,300 meters (about 4,265 feet) can be more luck than skill,” said Steve Walsh, a former U.S. Marines sniper instructor.

Kovalskiy’s shot hit around 12,470 feet, around a third longer than the Golden Gate Bridge. That distance would break a record of 11,600 feet set in 2017 by a member of the Canadian Special Forces in Iraq.

The 58-year-old former businessman’s journey to martial mythology started just before day break on Nov. 18, when he and his spotter, a partner who calculates distance, wind speed and other variables, set up positions across the river from a Russian military base in the Kherson region of east Ukraine.

The two men, who are part of a military counterintelligence division of the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, observed groups of Russian soldiers cutting wood. They considered these men’s ranks too low to shoot. At around noon, a group of five soldiers appeared and Kovalskiy noticed one instructing. He had his officer.

The spotter set to work. He used a laser to measure the distance to the soldiers. Using specialist software and meteorological data he concluded that there was a strong wind that would move the bullet around 200 feet from its trajectory. He calculated humidity and temperature, which affects how fast the bullet travels.

Even the spin and curvature of the earth has to be factored in for long-distance shots. By the time the bullet gets to its set distance, the target has already shifted with the earth’s rotation.



Ukrainian sniper Vyacheslav Kovalskiy packs up a custom made sniper rifle.



The scope on a Ukrainian sniper’s custom-made rifle.

Using all these variables, Kovalskiy tested a shot around 1,000 feet to the side of the target. It was a miss, the spotter told him.

They had got the wind speed wrong.
He quickly reset, reloaded and aimed.

“You have to (shoot) immediately because the wind changes constantly,” Kovalskiy said.

In video of the shot, the Russian officer can be seen gesticulating to men who had gathered around him. The spotter gave his usual command that he should fire.

“You can,” he said.

Kovalskiy pulled his trigger. The video shows a gap from shot to impact of around nine seconds, a period long enough that a target can have moved. U.S. ballistics expert Brad Millard timed the shot in footage and said that it was the correct time that this sort of bullet would take to hit 12,470 feet.

A sniper will aim their barrel above a target because gravity forces the bullet down. Kovalskiy’s shot was like a mini artillery shell, traveling over 330 feet above the level of the target before descending toward the unaware officer.

In the footage, the officer doubles up and falls and his men flee. The video ends.

The shot has been widely covered by Ukrainian news websites. It was also noted with pride by Ukrainian soldiers on the front line. In the Kreminna Forest in east Ukraine, a former sniper turned artilleryman said hearing the news was a “punch the air” moment.

“Everyone was talking about it,” he said.



Vyacheslav Kovalskiy holds a typical sniper round and a larger handmade custom round that he and his spotter used to shoot at a Russian soldier.

Ukraine needs a boost. A much-heralded counteroffensive has been stymied by stubborn Russian defense. The country has lost tens of thousands of soldiers and Russia continues to bomb civilian sites.
Countries in war often turn to combat legends to build morale, and countries in the former Soviet Union have a history of elevating the sniper to hero status. At the start of this war, Ukrainians traded stories of the “Ghost of Kyiv,” a Ukrainian jet-fighter pilot credited with shooting down several Russian planes. The Ukrainian military later said that rather than an individual pilot, the “Ghost of Kyiv” was meant as a composite symbolizing the combined heroism of its pilots.

Millard, the U.S. expert who designs software to test gun ballistics, says he doubts how the Ukrainian sniper team knows for sure that the officer was killed.

The shot hit its target in the chest or stomach area, Kovalskiy said. Having seen footage many times, he is certain that the soldier died because of the way he doubled up and dropped immediately. The bullet they used was also so large, and would have traveled at such a speed, that it would be impossible to survive such a hit, he said.

“There is no chance he survived,” Kovalskiy said.

The lack of confirmation that the shot was fatal is likely to lead to continued skepticism. When British sniper Craig Harrison broke the then-record in Afghanistan in 2009, killing two, the British military confirmed sightings of the corpses.
Kovalskiy says that online critics are incorrectly basing many of their calculations on the type of bullet used by the record-setting Canadian sniper.

A round is made of the actual projectile that hits a target and the casing that contains the explosive material that takes it there. Kovalskiy’s round was custom-made by a local gunsmith. It has a similar projectile to the Canadian round but a larger case that could pack more propellant, making it faster.

At a location in Kyiv, Kovalskiy and his spotter laid out their gun and bullets for inspection.

The long, thin gun is a specialist sniper rifle called the Lord of the Horizon, of which Kovalskiy’s is one of around 10. The rounds are 16 cm long.

The barrel was made by the U.S. company Bartlein Barrels and the scope comes from Japan. But the rest is Ukrainian, adding to local pride.

Kovalskiy and his spotter wonder why there is so much skepticism about a shot of this distance when targets, albeit stationary, have been achieved at these lengths several times in competitions such as the King of Two Miles in the U.S.

The two men are no ordinary snipers. Kovalskiy has been winning long-distance shooting competitions in Europe and North America for decades and first met his spotter at such competitions in Ukraine.

But this time, Kovalskiy hit a man, not an inanimate target. Unlike most soldiers, who may never see an enemy’s face let alone know if they have killed them, snipers head out seeking to kill people whom they can clearly see and generally have little doubt if they have taken a life.

Harrison, the former British sniper, said that the record is a heavy crown to wear.

Though he has since written a book about his experiences, the sniper says the actual record brought him misery for years. He was named by the British military without his permission, which led to threats against his life and that of his family, he said.

Harrison said sniping contributed to severe post-traumatic stress disorder that he has suffered after fighting in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I will carry that last instant of their life in my mind forever. I know it will never leave me,” he wrote in his book.

Kovalskiy and his spotter say they have no regrets about killing Russians. Despite his age, the Ukrainian signed up as a sniper on the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

“It doesn’t worry me a gram,” Kovalskiy said.

Ievgeniia Sivorka contributed to this article.