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Number of Factory Loads when Breaking In New Rifle?

For shooters without reloading machines: How many different factory loads do you INITIALLY try when breaking in and zeroing a brand new rifle, and how many rounds of each do you initially buy?

It's tempting to buy ammo in bulk for the pricing, but there's always the chance the rifle might not like it.

At least 3-4 different factory loads, perhaps total of 40 rounds each, seems smart, but I'm a newb to precision rifle.

Thanks in advance!

UN doing UN stuff

Looks like the UN is continuing its line of effort to normalize kid piddling.


I’ve read JBS reports going back years that said they were in to this shit, and worse
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Lesson-Learned: Primer Storage and Humidity

I stumbled across a few articles about storing primers and how humidity affects them over long durations (aka: "years"). I live in Central Oregon, basically High Desert, and I store my primers on the shelf in my reloading room in my house, which is temp and humidity controlled to about 70° and 35% respectively. Historically I figured that was fine, but what I've read lately, and the amount of money I have invested in my 12,000-ish primers, made me re-think that practice.

So I bought a sealed (waterproof) plastic tub for storage, and a batch of little desiccant packages ... and loaded the tub with my primers and threw in a couple of desiccant packs. Within a few days, my desiccant had turned from "orange" to "dark green" indicating they were saturated. I pulled them out, and threw in two more packs and a few days later, same result.

I'll keep doing this until I get desiccant that doesn't saturate, and then ratchet back to a schedule that works to keep my primer stock nice and dry.

Lesson-Learned: Storing primers in a temperature-and-humidity-controlled environment "on a shelf" ... isn't good enough to keep them dry and reliable for years. I needed a sealed container and desiccant packs to guarantee a "bang" instead of a "click" 5-10 years down the road.

Hope this helps someone else that, like me, thought "on a shelf" was the right place for long-term primer storage.

The most honest criminal I’ve ever seen

Guy killed a child rapist who was his new cell mate, cop asked him why he flushed the shoe strings he strangled him with down the toilet, he says I don’t know, I’m in prison I obviously don’t make good decisions, when he was asked why he did it he said he raped a little girl some crimes just shouldn’t be committed. After he killed him he packed up his stuff because he knew he was going to solitary and got into bed and went to sleep.

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Optics Spring Cleaning

Sig 3000 BDX's $800
Burris Veracity 5-25x50 $650
300 WBY Mag Dies (never used) $200
300 WSM Dies (100 rnds) $200
CTK mono pod $50
Prices do not include shipping
Prefer Venmo.

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Precision Rifle Gear RRS SC DUO

Had no idea RRS had this until this week, these are money to mount accessories to your rails.

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Co Witness is surprisingly close to on even with no aiming. I can put a telephone pole in the fov so you don’t have to hunt for it, it’s comfortable at 20x to transition between them.

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I will have a video explainer tomorrow

Officers shoot homeowner after going to wrong address

Short long of it, officers responded to a call, went to the wrong address, the homeowner opened the door in the middle of the night with a firearm, the officers shot him on the spot(and killed him).
1) I haven’t seen the body cam footage because they haven’t released it, but I’ve gone to the door a few times after a knock in the middle of the night, and I highly doubt this guy opened the door with the muzzle pointed out, like myself I would bet the gun was at his side.
2) If you can’t verify the address you probably shouldn’t be a police officer.
3) I’m so sick of statements after something like this happens that say what this police chief said after, the normal we feel for the family, then of course the standard we are investigating. What exactly are you investigating that would take longer than watching the video? The facts are not in dispute, your officers were at the wrong address. You already have statements from everyone there, read the statements, watch the 2 or 3 body cam videos and say what happened. I’m well aware they are just trying to put time in between the act and themselves hoping it will go away, but that’s exactly what makes me sick. I suspect they didn’t like the facts the body cam presented, so we get the blanket we feel for the families and now we need a lengthy investigation on something that is apparently obvious.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bodycam-...-armed-homeowner-after-responding-wrong-house
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Ar15 5.56 77smk going transonic

Rifle is shooting 77gr SMK’s at 2783 fps muzzle, I am at sea level. My ballistic app says between 750-800 yards it was going transonic and I guess it didn’t lie. I shot earlier at 790 yards and noticed my 1/2-3/4 moa rifle was struggling to consistently hit a 1.5 moa plate. I kinda thought the 77 SMK would handle the transition better but maybe not. Any other experience especially at sea level? will the 77 gr TMK handle it any better? i noticed it would only gain me about 75 yards at the same velocity.

Teens pretty much take control of Chicago streets

Teens in mass terrorizing who ever is on the streets, stealing what they wish, vandalizing in mass, but these are the ones companies should be forced to hire because the only reason they haven’t gotten ahead is their lack of opportunity due to their skin color or gender. Of course the mayor just basically says it’s not that bad they are misunderstood.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-...akeover-chaos-not-constructive-demonize-youth
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You helped in the bedroom, now I need your help with a grill…

Y’all were right about the bamboo bedsheets…

…so now it’s time for a grill. We are moving out of the worst HOA (AKA base housing…eww I know right? Like totally a poor commune… ew) and I need a new grill.

I was leaning towards a blackstone but I was worried about not getting a good sear on my steaks, which is a weekly event.

Wife was like “just get a large cast iron top for a regular grill” but I dunno. Never had a blackstone and a lot of peeps speak highly of them. Others recommend a smoker but I don’t have the time to get into that (matches and crying about the results of said matches takes up most of my time).


Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

Talk amongst yourselves…

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Sidearms & Scatterguns Educate me on this 1911 - Camp Peary?

If anyone has info I’d appreciate it! I was told this is a 1911 built for Camp Peary. It’s on a 1918 Colt frame (per Colt SN lookup). Textured front/back grip, top, and in front of trigger guard. Larger dovetail safety, enlarged magazine release and slide release.

Any information would be great appreciated! Is it actually made for Camp Peary? Who would have built this? Approx. value?

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SOLD Giraud power case trimmer

Giraud case trimmer with the following


2 cutting heads set up for the following....
6mm
6.5mm

Case holders
6 BR/Dasher (giraud branded)
6.5 Creed (giraud branded)
6.5 PRC (I designed this and printed on 3d printer. works well!)
.223 Remington (I designed this and printed on 3d printer. works well!)

asking 650 shipped to CONUSA.

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How to build a device that will do popup targets and then drop them.

A friend and fellow member here has occasional shoots at his farm and we're always looking for new ideas for challenges. I thought to make a little divice, inexpensively, that could be put behind a rock or log and an unknown distance, then have it pop up and the shooter only has say 15 seconds to identify, range, aim, and fire. Inexpensive is important. Simple remote control would be nice. Come on you engineers. Other ideas welcome.

Reloading Equipment Reloading Equipment Lot - 308 triway trimmer and more

All remaining (not sale pending or sold) items TYD for $110.

Individual prices below - willing to break up the lot but ask for a minimum of $50 per shipment (i.e. I’m not going to ship a $5 item by itself) unless you pay extra for shipping. If you hit >$50 total I’ll ship it for free.

If you want to pick up (I’m in Cedar Rapids, IA), I’ll knock 10% off the prices.

LMK if you have any questions or need more pics.

Giraud Tri-Way Trimmer 308
$85​
Lyman Primer Pocket Uniformer Tool
$15​
K&M Professional Flash Hole Uniformer Standard .080"
$15​
Lee Perfect Powder Measure
$15​
Lee Powder Funnel
$2​
Hornady Cartridge Headspace Gauge Bushing 400 Diameter
$5​
Kinetic bullet puller (National Metallic)
$10​
RCBS Primer Turning Tray
$5​
Lee decapping die, small amount of surface rust but no pitting inside
$5​
Sierra Tipped Match King .308 cal 168gr, 98 ct (full box minus 2)
$35​
SOLD - Hornady Unique, small amount used up
$5​
SOLD - Hornady Lock-N-Load Bullet Comparator Basic Set with 6 Inserts$25
SOLD - Sinclair Concentricity Gauge$95
SOLD - Forster Co-Ax Press with “S” jaws, like new condition$300
SOLD - Forster Bench Rest Full Length Sizer Die 308$45
SOLD - Forstner Ultra Micrometer 308 Seating Die$85
SOLD - Lapua 308 Brass, 50 CT, brand new
$40​
SOLD - Hornady M-1 Case Tumbler$65
SOLD - Frankford Arsenal Perfect Fit Reloading Tray Size 5
$4​

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20 Rd mags - what are people using?

I have a bunch of 30 round mags for my KAC SR-15, but looking to get some 20 rounders for prone shooting and steel Safari matches.

#1 priority is reliability. From my cursory research people loved the OKAY industry mags, which have recently gone out of business. I've heard the first gen magpuls were iffy, I'm assuming the new ones are GTG?

I hear mixed things about pretty much all other 20 rounders on the market.