I’m trying to match as closely as possible the trajectory of my heavy 6.5x47 to a soon-to-be built compact 6.5 PRC (for a hunting rifle). What is the minimum barrel length for the PRC that will get a 140 class bullet to around 2750?

I’d like to match the the two, if possible, for simplicity.

Closet clean out, comes with an atlas bipod and arca adapter

$1000 tyd

Vortex Razor HD Gen II 4.5-27x56mm Rifle Scope - RZR42708. EBR-7C MRAD

Scope comes with everything shown in photos. Includes original box, caps, sunshade, and paperwork. Scope has virtually no scratches anywhere or ring marks (from over tightening).

However - scope does have discoloration where rings were mounted and some discoloration on bell and sunshade from being wrapped in scope tape. Check out pictures for details.

$1750 shipped. No trades

PayPal FF or Venmo. G&S add 3%

No longer have a 22cal rifle so time to clean out the shelves.

5-100 count boxes of Hornady 88gr ELD-M

77’s have been SOLD

Also have an 8lb jug of CFE223 & 1000 wolf SRP that I’ll be looking to get rid of as well if interested

$150 shipped for the bullets

$100 for the primers (local)

$250 for the powder (local)
Located in central Oregon, willing to meet in Portland, Eugene, or central Oregon



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Nightforce ATACR 7-35 Mil-XT Dark Earth C661

Like new C661 7-35 ATACR dark earth, comes as seen with NF ultramount 1.540, and corresponding RAP-i in dark earth. Scope and mount are like new with no marks, comes with all factory parts and pieces for both scope and mount. Not looking for any trades other than a 5-25 PMII H59 plus cash. not looking to separate scope and mount.


$3100 shipped via UPS 2nd day air. Insurance is extra.

Paypal F&F, Venmo F&F, or Zelle.
Have a good amount of feedback on other sites such as Tacswap I would be more than happy to provide for peace of mind.

Never seen these selling for this cheap before. Ever... Not even on Black Friday. They usually sell for $869.99 everywhere else and currently $607-$613 on Amazon. They're fantastic Chinese made scopes and are much better quality at least two levels higher than the new Bushnell Match Pro ED if that seller is legit and $565.49? Has anyone ordered from them before?

Not promoting sales just asking if these guys are legit since this price is much cheaper than even what their lower priced SFP Midas BTR Gen 2 sells for.

Hey guys, long time reader: just joined because this is driving me bonkers in my reloads.

I've been running a 16" christensen Arms G2 rifle at the range, working out a setup with a maximum point blank range, etc. but for fun I like to work on my reloads to try and maximize muzzle velocities, and change the "curve" of the bullet's path to maximize my "I can just aim like a dummy and still hit" range.

For example: with a MV of 2525 (what I'm managing with my own reloads), I can point and click out to 275 yards and reliably hit a 4inch target without thinking about it (and I've verified it having a good ol' time plenty of times).

Recently, however, I was bringing a new box of reloads, testing various powder charges (Varget), and I was ranging around 2520-2530 on a hot day here in Vegas.
I had another "control" box of Nexus Ammo, something I picked up a while back, and the darned thing was shooting 2770-2780 fps on my rig without a problem (5 rounds in a row, it managed to maintain those speeds!).

This feels like one of those moments in reloading where you maybe accidentally "hit" that perfect powder charge, or primer, and suddenly everything starts to get really tight and zeroed in. Problem is: its with a manufacturer's load, and I have no idea how to replicate it with my reloads! I have the exact same bullet as they use (Sierra Matchking 175 grain HPBTs), and I'm happy to use the exact same brass (you bet your butt I will once I've shot them all out!), but I have no idea of the powder composition to match this.

I was running my OAL to around 2.810 because of my maximum magazine length (this is an AR-10 gas gun if I didn't mention it before). I measured their OALs and they were running a tad shorter at 2.798-2.805 in the 18 rounds I tested. And the primary reason I was TRYING to run as long of an OAL as I can, is because when I put 44 grains of Varget in, I was getting serious pressure concerns. Even popped a primer, so I decided to back off. My results were as follows:
44.4 grains varget - Popped primer, obvious flattening of primers (with the classic black look of doom)
43.0 grains varget - Obvious flattening of primers, but no popped out primers
42.0 grains varget - shot the tightest groups I had, but I THINK are still slightly showing signs of pressure, with ONE random cartridge dropping a primer. Not sure if that's randomly the case being loose BEFORE hand, or if I'm STILL over-pressured?
41.0 grains varget - Groups opened up slightly, but no signs of pressure... though now I'm starting to second-guess myself, and I'm maybe not great at spotting the pressure beyond the VERY obvious "dropping primers" level.

I'm fairly new to precision reloading. I've reloaded plenty, but the precision part is new to me. I know it may be silly to some to "precision" chase with an AR-10 gas gun, but my wife and I love having things capable out to as close to 400m as we can get without "holding over", so I really wanted to pursue this if possible.

If anybody has any tips on figuring out what on earth these guys did to achieve these muzzle velocities, or perhaps maybe I'm overlooking huge parts of reloading that I'm just whiffing on? For example: I'm measuring cases before I reload: and making sure they're all under 2.005", but sometimes cases are quite a bit under that, and I don't do anything different: I just load em the same as long as they're under the recommended trim length. Then when I seat, I do it based on the magazine maximum length (I manually measured it with a caliper before I realized magpul had posted it somewhere haha). So I'm achieving consistent OAL (but good lord: with a gas gun, how on earth WOULD you even test the jam, or test the lands? I've only seen it done on bolt actions). I'm using the same, CCI large rifle primers, No 200. Most of my brass is my old once-fired Hornady brass. Does anybody see any major issues I need to focus on more, or perhaps have an insight as to the powders these guys use (or whatever they use to achieve these speeds?)? I'm hoping to find any way I can to run lower pressures, but with higher MV. Any help would be greatly appreciated

And I apologize if this ran on too long: I just didn't want to leave anything out if possible.

Additionally: I've added pictures. My previous posting of this topic seems to have vanished (the top right shows "0" messages for me... unsure why?). I realize now, looking carefully, that EVERY case is showing pressure signs, even the nexus arms ones. Still, I'm hoping that I can at least ACHIEVE the "relative" higher MV's as Nexus with my own reloads, if that makes sense (while lowering overall pressure to remove those obvious signs - yes I realize those are over-pressure, in some cases by quite a bit... I'm doing my best to learn here, and improve as I go). Note: Nexus picture is named appropriately. The loads 1-4 are DECREASING in pressure (load 1 was the 44.4 grains, down to 41 grains).

donor rifle was a T3x stainless
22” 223 medium heavy Palma bartlien barrel, seamless muzzle thread protector. (500rds)
Manners PRS1 TK. I letter for EFR
2 223 mags
I don’t remember what my buddy did but it’s the best tikka trigger I’ve ever touched
Everybody that shoots this gun falls in love with it. I just don’t have any 223 factory match left and don’t want to spend money on it.
$2,200 (scope, rings and bipod not included)
No trades.

Heavy fill going for 90 plus shipping broken and had layered lotion for water repelling

Vortex Razor HD Gen II 3-18x50 RZR-31802 MRAD EBR-2C

Comes with original box, sunshade, caps, and paperwork.

Very good condition. Only scuff mark is on the coin slot for the windage turret cap. See pic.

Some discoloration from scope wrap tape. See pics.

$1100 shipped. No trades.

PayPal FF or Venmo. GS add 3%

So having kid most of you may under stand the "Have you seen my ...." where the item in question is in plain sight in an obvious spot

In our family I dub that person "Worst Searcher Ever".

Fast Forward to tonight, unpacking still and getting ready to fire up some 308 in brand new Peterson brass. The first 50 are sitting right by the press, the second 50 are....Lost.

I get the floodlights on in the reloading room. I go through each and every shelf item by item. I go to my office and search through the remaining boxes. I search the ammo stash. The powder stash. I clean up my office and find my old digital calibers. I find 200 new 6.5 manbun brass.

I get out the flashlight and search everything AGAIN to make sure it's not lurking in a corner. I totally get OCD and cannot rest even though I have plenty of 308 brass, but I MUST FIND THE MISSING BRASS.

Having learned that I get pissed and obsessed when shit goes missing (son still taunts me about a missing box of Bergers that I totally lost my shit over) I call down wife and daughter to give assistance.

I pull out the box and say it looks lik this, showing her the existing box, cat runs in, I turn around to grab the cat and there, on the brass shelf is the second box. In front.

WORST FUCKING SEARCHER EVER

taunting may now commence....

Brand new still in box from PVA 1-6.5CM(SOLD) and 1-223AI 26-inch Medium Palma cerakoted black paid $785 ea ...will sell for $575 plus shipping.

So, I know there’s a thread about “what are you drinking right now”. But I wanna know, what do you all think is the best bourbon out there?
Blantons is good. But ever since John Wick started drinking the shit, it’s fn rediculous to get. Here in the Peoples Republic of Virginia, the ABC nazis ration the shit out. F dat!
I have since gone to Woodford Reserve Double Oaked. Smooth with a great finish. Another great one for you SC men is Blue Run. That stuff is righteous!

But hey, what do you all think?

I guess you really don’t need more than say 20x for long range (out to 1000 yards) based on some recent posts huh?

Outside of SB what are the top 18x or so optics I should be looking at (no vortex)

Precision is the goal. 308 and 6.5prc would be the calibers.

Back the blue !!!!!

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Cz457 varmint. Heavy barrel. full set up, Bushnell match pro scope, 8oz trigger spring , area 419 30 MOA scope base mount. 5round and 10 round magazine. Ready for production class

That called me a member of the Federal Bureau of indecency

I repeat, I Am Not, Am Not a member of the Federal Bureau of Indecent (actions)

I demand who ever did this, retract immediately. Also, I have not yet sold the Bridge.

Still for Sail. Good Price on the bridge.

Aint no democrat either.

RIP, Tina. We'll make sure that "Big wheel keeps on Turnin'...."

For sale Super Trickler Gen 1 with or without scale, your choose. Everything works perfectly, I just decided to go with dual Autotricklers.

Supertrickler asking $650
Supertrickler w/ scale asking $1100
Open to reasonable offers as well.

Prices are shipped in the lower 48

Today we have a Used Vortex and Sig Optics. The Sig was mounted once basically new.

Vortex Razor Gen II 4.5-27x56 EBR-7C MOA Riflescope RZR-$1800​

SIERRA6BDX 5-30X56 MM comes with Athlon Rings- $1300​

So, my wife and I just finished 15 days on a Viking death barge travelling the oceans blue. I am 60 and I was easily 30-40 years younger than 98% of the ship. Apparently, the Viking ship is literally a Viking ship, packed with corpses and set off into the ocean to be set aflame and send these geezers to Valhalla, hahahaha. When we got to the airport they had a 100 year old woman in a wheelchair they were rolling towards the gates, she took a 160 day around the world cruise and I doubt she was aware of it.

Here's the story. Several months ago we had friends ask us if we could join them on a cruise, they are nice enough and the husband is a decent enough guy with a slightly cuck relationship with his wife. We had know them for years, she is an over-educated, retired know-it-all from a family of over-educated assholes who have not had success at anything but college classes. She is 15 years older than her husband (it turns out) and has had very little success in any career and she has had three. As she fails, she returns to school and acquires another masters or PHd and heads into another field to be marginal. She is so much smarter than the rest of us that we simply do not understand how fucking brilliant she is, no kidding.

I had speculated to my bride that there may be a reason they have a hard time finding "friends" to cruise with. We wanted to do the first adventure of this sort and figured it would be easier with friends who knew the ropes. Hahahaha, what a mistake. We flew from two separate airports because we live near two different major airports and met them on the ship. Things started going downhill when the Bitch asked my wife what books she had read lately? My wife was finishing a book on Christianity in Great Britian during the early period. Bitch says, "My father said religion is for people with weak minds, you don 't believe that crap do you?" And then she goes into an hour rant on how God is not real.

The next day we tour several museums and enjoy a walk around London. Trouble starts when my step counter on my Samsung phone says I have walked farther than her fucking husband. She believes they walk farther than us and the extra steps I walk when I wander off to look at various displays or admire the view are measured at a higher rate than her husband's shitty Apple watch. Over the course of the next ten days, this becomes a serious problem for her and a source of constant irritation.

It agitates this bitch so much, that before we meet them for the daily excursion, I go walk two laps of the ship before we meet them. This gives me 1/2 mile of additional distance/steps and this fucker cannot catch up, hahahahahaha.

They only go on recommended ship excursions, no shopping, no wandering to see sites unaccompanied. We gladly take the extra bus ride to go see stuff we like or the local shops. We took a side trip to Dover Castle and spent the afternoon wandering the place, hell we saw a Spitfire flying over the castle in what was one of my favorite memories of the trip. Sadly, the plane didn't show up well in pictures. But, an actual Spitfire flying over an actual critical WWII base in actual England, how cool is that???

Two days later, this bitch asks me if I felt we should have nuked the Japanese in WWII? I said, "Yes" and cited the reasons including their refusal to surrender and their plans to fight to the death as a nation. She exploded, she hates Truman, she hates America, she fucking knows they would have surrendered if America had filmed the nuke tests and then sent the film to Japan for them to review. I cited their war crimes, the torture and murder of American POW's and civilians, the enslavement of Koreans and Chinese for labor and sexual slavery, the Japanese habit of beheading prisoners and conduct against cities like Nanking. Essentially, they were evil, violent, racist and unreasonable and they got what they deserved. After a tantrum and admitting she knew nothing of their conduct during the war, she fled the room. The next morning at breakfast she tried to argue with my wife to make her point. My wife declined and told her to try it with me instead, lol.

After she got mad, they started missing us on tours or getting on the other bus, we really did not care. They preferred eating in the restaurant and we preferred the self serve cafe, two different floors on the boat, thankfully. We did join them for dinner a couple of times, they refuse to eat beef, pork, chicken or seafood or whatever the special of the day was at wherever they ate and thus they require something special. They are kinda vegan, they lack some enzymes or some such shit and require extra effort at every meal. Every time the husband got a plate of food, she stole stuff and picked off his plate uninvited.

As a special treat, this fucking woman wears flip flops to the formal dining area and washes her feet with the cloth napkin at dinner. No shit, this one is impossible to make up. She has feet like a dairy cow, being over-educated is no reason for decent hygiene anyway. So during the meal she is complaining how her feet were swelling in her orthopedic shoes from the days walking so she switched to ghetto grade shower shoes for dinner. She then asks the waitress for a cup of ice and when it arrives she uses the napkin to rub the ice on her hooves during the meal. We parted before dessert was offered and headed away from them. From this point on we stayed away from each other as much as possible.

Fast forward five days to the last night of the trip. I get a text from the husband that says, "Sorry you turned out not to be compatible travel friends, good luck on your future travels, we have canceled any future plans with you." I replied, "Yes, we decided to do the same thing and I canceled our future plans a week ago." And blocked them.

The trip was fun when they were not around, people talked to us when they were not around. We had dinner with people other than them and had a wonderful time. We did excursions with people other than them and had fun.

Now, what about Viking? They were great at the airport and we got a cab to the ship. The downside was the van driver had no idea Viking was a cruise line and he was looking for a boat. He drove around for an extra hour before he got the courage to ask if we were going to a hotel.

Viking does include damn near everything in the total cost, nothing was extra except tips and selected tours. The restaurants serve versions of the food in the "World Cafe" so there is no reason to go to them unless you have brought to many nice dress shirts, they are filled with the same elderly people as everything else. They even had an old drunk bastard who loved dressing like Joe Biden and talking leftist politics to loudly.

The room was nice, smaller than you might think and the balcony was great for sitting watching the boat leave port or whatever. They kept it spotless and we tipped our stateroom attendants extra since they went the extra mile. I had them do a little laundry, socks washed 50 cents each, lol. It came back clean, folded and in a gift box.

Viking is also a great cruise if you have dementia, are crippled or aged or have serious mobility issues. We saw several people who probably had no idea why there was an ocean so close to their bedroom. If you are aged and no space is available in the retirement home, for the same, $8-10K a month you can ship granny on a trip around the world. About 50% of the ship cannot walk at 2 miles per hour or climb stairs. So you have to sift thru them to find people who can enjoy the walks and trips and maybe chat with over dinner.

The most entertaining part of the trip is the elevators, there are two sets of four elevators, so when you stand waiting for a ride, any one of them will ding. 90% of the time it is behind you. We had an old guy on our deck who missed his elevator EVERY single time. "DING!" and he starts looking for the door to open, it opens behind him to the left, he looks behind him to the right, the door closes and elevator moves on. He pushes the button, a min later,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"DING!" and he looks front left, it opens front right and closes before he moves. Every morning he was stuck at the elevators. We said, "Good Morning" and held the door for him when he was trapped there and we saw him. It became a habit to get this poor guy to breakfast before he starved.

Update: There are two or three videos of the cruise on YouTube now. There was a weird couple of "bloggers" with 156 followers filming their every adventure and making the crews life a hell by constantly asking for access to people or places on the boat or walking around with that stupid "selfie stick" poking it thru the crowd to film themselves. And a guy who lives on the Thames and videos ships coming and going. Canceling the next trip was as easy as booking it, maybe more so. While more travel in retirement is still the plan, these miserable people have really put my wife off cruising. It will take some time to repair that problem. After a month to think about it, I still enjoyed the cruise. The cabin was smallish, but I enjoy my truck camper and it was bigger than that.

The longest line I waited in was maybe 8-10 people long the entire two weeks. The food was very nice all the time. Every meal had something different to try, they always had good sushi and baked goods. Tea time was handy if you got back to the boat in time and were starving. There were several groups of people who all came from the same city or state and had become fast friends so they had plenty of fun together. We met two retired Air Force navigators who lived a few miles away from us at the Greenwich Observatory. We were all polite, but they were officers and I retired a SNCO so they had zero interest in even dining together, it was mutual so no worries.

Viking does a great job getting you off the ship too. Busses to the airport were on time and they had staff in the dozens to get you and your luggage to the check-in on time. There was one single south Asian guy who reeked of dry piss and stale unwashed pussy so bad he would gag people. He about choked a few people at lunch one day and I was making a face and looking away when an older guy asked me, "Can you smell that?" I nodded, he said, "My wife is turning green." and chuckled. Then he mentioned it to a ship's officer who came by. The next day the stinker was odor free. No drama, it was just addressed and corrected.

If you hate long miserable lines, do not require a casino, orgy, drunk young people and Vegas style entertainment to travel they are a good choice. Everything you needed to enjoy the trip, except the post trip tip, was really included. Except travel companions and you need to choose them carefully.



The things you learn about people when you spend time with them are surprising, lol.

I finally got around to replacing a barrel on my MPA 300-WM with a McGowen Pre-Fit. Everything went perfectly ... until it didn't. Bolt would not close on the Go-Gauge, nor will it close on a dummy round, and it won't even close on a sized case. I've replaced a couple of barrels before and they all went perfectly ... never had a Go-Gauge failure. Not sure what my next steps are to solve this, and would appreciate any advice from anyone that's experienced a Go-Gauge failure on a pre-fit barrel. Thanks!

Selling like new Manners PRS TCS Stock $1600 shipped

SOLD $95 insured tyd lower 48

I've gone the rounds on this barrel and tired of dealing with it. This is the current state after the mfg addressed a headspace issues and evidently reamed the throat.

Would you let it be and shoot it or send it off to get fixed by a competent smith?