Busy shooting his rifles or his gun? Tires of trolls here ?

What do you think, for the country as a whole?
What about where you live?

Not me

I hope this didn’t ruin out Red wave come this November….

Biden stated if he gets the seats needed this November, filibuster is gone. We need to show up this November…

Just received my new 6br barrel for my archimedes. I’m having issues with chambering sized lapua 6br brass that was fired out of my other 6br, it is a bighorn tl2 with pva prefit. It appears the case is too fat at the head or webbing area of the case. I confirmed this by using a sharpie to color a case then try and close the bolt.

I had one piece of virgin lapua brass And it chambers fine. So I bought a rcbs small base sizing die. After sizing the cases still don’t fit and measuring the base of the small base sized and the factory fresh case there is .002” fatter on the fired and sized case.

Are there any tricks or tips to help me reuse my old stash of brass with this new barrel or am I stuck buying new brass?

nothing really new in this. been going on by all gov agencies for years. eg-fed trade and communications commissions have swat teams or their equivalent as does the EPA.

I would like to go beyond discussion on muzzle deflection and weight/length ratio.
Well respected gunsmiths (like A.Wheeler) as well as top f-class shooters say that balance is crucial for the rifle to properly slide in the rest and rear bag.

I find it difficul to balance a competition rifle with 24-28" 1.250" diameter barrel. If we want to have rifle balanced like Larry Potterfield suggest (i.e. 4"-5" in front of the trigger) we would have to skip the barrel's length and weight typical for competition rifles.
All my rifles are nose heavy. In order to improve the balance I would have to add 1-2kg in the buttstock. By doing that I would probably break weight limit for my class. How do you approach the rifle balance issue?

Curtis axiom 223 26 inch brux barrel 1in7 twist with tuner ,apa chode brake and triggertech diamond trigger. Gun was chambered by elemental industries out of Tennessee. Shoots 75 80 and 88 Eld bullets very well. Will give load info to buyer the group below is with 88 eld 2825 at 200 yards. Approximately 475 rounds down the barrel.
1650.00 shipped.

The Supreme Court followed up its June 23 landmark ruling that for the first time recognized a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, by issuing a series of rulings June 30 reversing federal appeals court decisions that upheld gun restrictions in California, New Jersey, Maryland, and Hawaii.

Courts will find it difficult to uphold the firearms laws in question after the high court’s June 30 and June 23 rulings.

In unsigned orders, all four cases were remanded June 30 to lower courts “for further consideration in light of” the Supreme Court’s June 23 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. In that 6–3 ruling, the high court invalidated New York state’s tough concealed-carry gun permitting system.

Lisa Caso sells guns at Caso’s Gun-A-Rama store in Jersey City, N.J., on March 25, 2021. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”


The Supreme Court has been strengthening Second Amendment protections in recent years. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court held the amendment protects “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,” and in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), that this right “is fully applicable to the States.”

It makes no sense to recognize Americans’ right to defend themselves in their homes while denying them the ability to defend themselves outside their homes, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote June 23 in the court’s majority opinion.

“After all, the Second Amendment guarantees an ‘individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,’ and confrontation can surely take place outside the home. … Many Americans hazard greater danger outside the home than in it,” Thomas wrote.

In the new orders, the Supreme Court summarily disposed of the four pending cases, simultaneously granting appellants’ petitions seeking review while skipping over the oral argument phase. Some lawyers call this process GVR, standing for grant, vacate, and remand.

In the Maryland case, Bianchi v. Frosh, court file 21-902, a coalition of 25 states led by Arizona challenged Maryland’s Firearms Safety Act of 2013. The statute, which was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in September 2021, required pistol purchasers to seek a license, complete safety training, and be fingerprinted. Maryland bans popular weapons such as the AR-15 and similar rifles and limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds.

Rifles are offered for sale at Freddie Bear Sports on April 8, 2021 in Tinley Park, Illinois.(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, a Democrat, was defiant after the remand order. Military-style firearms “pose grave risks to public safety, as recent mass shootings in other states have made clear,” Frosh stated. Despite the Bruen ruling, the state’s law remains in effect, he said. “Marylanders have a right to be protected from these dangerous weapons.”’


The California case, Duncan v. Bonta, court file 21-1194, challenged the state’s ban on magazines containing more than 10 rounds. The ban went further, requiring the confiscation of such magazines, which had previously been lawful to own. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld the ban in November 2021.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, is currently scrambling to deal with the fallout after his office leaked sensitive personal information, including the names and addresses of every concealed-carry permit holder in the state. Some holders say they now fear for their lives.

The New Jersey case, Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs Inc. v. Bruck, court file 20-1507, is similar to the California case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit affirmed the New Jersey law in December 2021.

Petitioners challenged the state law that bans 10-round magazines and requires that owners surrender such magazines to law enforcement. The law also forbids the transfer or sale of these magazines but allows owners to keep them if they modify them to reduce how many rounds may be held. Failing to comply with the law is a crime that can be punished with a sentence of up to 10 years of imprisonment and $150,000 in fines.

In Young v. Hawaii, court file 20-1639, a petitioner challenged Hawaii’s gun licensing system that allows the transportation of an unloaded firearm only in an enclosed container and only to and from a gun repair shop, target range, licensed gun dealer, hunting ground, or police station. Licensed firearms may only be used for hunting or target shooting. Licenses are issued by the chief of police of the county in which the gun owner lives.

Hawaii law requires gun owners to keep their weapons at their “place of business, residence, or sojourn.” Concealed-carry permit applicants must show they have “reason to fear injury to the applicant’s person or property” in order to obtain a permit. Permits allowing open carry are granted only “where the urgency or the need has been sufficiently indicated” and the applicant “is engaged in the protection of life and property.”

“Records show the state granted only 4 permits from 2000 to 2020,” KITV reports.

The Hawaii law was affirmed in March 2021 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Im curious.
Suppressors with a muzzlebrake on the end, like the SiCo Omega. Is it working or is it just a gimmick?

Some write that if the suppressor works efficietly enough there wont be enough pressure for the muzzlebrake to do its job, thus making it pointless. And I think that seems to make a lot of sense. But thats just me.
Still these suppressors are out there, not from a lot of makers but more than one. So there might be something to it?

What does the Hide say?

Anybody else celebrating? Been smoking BBQ for 12hrs with another 12hrs to go.

First, Season 6 of Peaky Blinders (after waiting like what, 2 years for it?) is absolutely fucking abysmal. I'm literally fighting myself to watch it and I'm only on episode 5. it's so awful I want to punch whoever wrote this' child in the face.

Also, Bushmills is vastly superior to Jameson's in every way possible. I don't even know how these are compared to each other. I think Jameson's exists just to see who has absolutely no fucking idea about anything and can be talked into drinking literal garbage.

Carry on.

** Sold** Selling a magnetospeed v3 however it is missing some of the spacers. I used a wiserprecison and then a mom mount so I never relied on the spacer.
Asking $200 shipped
Paypal F&F

Have 9 full boxes. And the 10th box is missing 5 rounds that I used to test with. Don’t have my 6gt anymore so no need for ammo. $325 take it

Gents, I am at a loss here. My final answer to this problem is that I just ordered a Brux barrel, and will get it chambered in 6.5x47 and spun on by Matt Stewart of Stewart Rifles.

However, that doesn't guarantee that my problem will go away, so I'm reaching out to see if anyone else (I'm sure) has encountered this problem, and what it eventually turned out to be.

Background: I have an FN SPR A1 that I bought in "as new" condition from a police supply place in FL. I have bedded the action and adjusted the trigger to 2-1/2lbs.

Accuracy: This rifle is not the tack driver that other people report (I have three FN SPRs myself). It will at least throw "normal" groups in the 1.5 MOA range, but in search of acceptable accuracy I've noticed an extremely wierd phenomenon...I have never, ever shot an otherwise good group that didn't contain a wild flier...like 1/2 - 1 mil off. At this point I have at least 7-8, (5) shot groups that have four rounds in a half inch or less...and one that is 2-3" out of the group...and never in the same direction. The other wild part is that this rifle just flat out shotgun patterns with any load that is even the slightest bit into the medium-range of charge weights.

Example: with 168gr Nosler Custom Competitions, over IMR-4064 in Federal brass, I have a node from 42.1 - 42.8gr where I get the 4+1 fliers. From 43.0 - 43.5 it just shoots 1.5 MOA. From 43.5 - 44.5 we're talking progressively opening up to 3 MOA. I've used 168gr and 175gr SMK as well, and Varget powder too. Same results.

Troubleshooting: 1) ammo: I tried my 168gr handloads for this SPR in one of my others, and shot all five shots into a .7 MOA group at 170 yards the other day. I then put five rounds of 175gr factory FGMM into my bad SPR and got another 4+1 group with a shot 3" out at the same distance. I repeated this process again the next day with a 168gr Hornady AMAX handload, but the bad SPR printed a 5-1/4" SHOTGUN PATTERN. I did it a third time with a proven load in one of my other SPRs, and got the same result for the third time. I've reloaded tens of thousands of rounds for many rifles over the last few decades, and while nobody is immune to a stupid moment...I think we can rule out my handloads at this point. I'm literally using the same components from the same tray, box and jug.

2) skill: I'm no Eric Cortina or whoever is the bad-ass marksmanship dude in your mind. However I have a decent background in marksmanship myself. This is an area where people often refuse to believe that they could be the problem. I still throw fliers, but that is a 2-3% of the time deal, not a 20% of the time problem. Let's just say that I have several rifles that are reliable 1/2 MOA or better.

3) Addressing the shot: I have this accuracy problem with the rifle shot off a rest, or a bipod. It makes no difference here. Bench or prone - no difference either.

4) Optics: I was using a Burris XTR II, which was on another rifle for a while and never gave me issues. I checked all screws twice, and nothing was loose (I use blue Loctite).

5) Bedding: I've bedded a dozen rifles or so in my life, and while I'm no amazing gunsmith I've never had a problem yet. When I pulled this rifle apart the bedding looked fine as in nothing had chipped etc... For being a McMillan stock, this A3 is the roughest I've ever seen in the action inlet (I've owned 4 not including the factory FN rifles). The barrel actually sits a few thousandths off in the channel, but is still fully free floated. It was one if the reasons why I bedded the action.

6) Crown: I swabbed the crown of the barrel with a q-tip and nothing caught.

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So that leaves me with guessing if I have a problem with the barrel (which is my guess), or potentially somewhere else that I can't think of (firing pin spring?).

The fact that this rifle turns into a Mosin Nagant the moment you get halfway up the charge weight is enough for me to rebarrel, but I'm sitting here wondering if I've overlooked something common that is going to turn this into another headache once I get the new tube screwed on.

I know that there were a few years where the chrome was coming off inside the barrel, but this rifle is a USRAC, New Haven gun and an FN 103xx serial. I think this was before the issues, and I've certainly never seen anything wierd coming off on the patches.

I really need to buy a borescope.

Sorry for the length, but I don't want to waste anyone's time on a suggestion that I might have already addressed.

So what do the experts think is going on here?

Starting a build on a rem 700 .308. Looking for a scope for long range shooting. I'd like to keep it around 500 bucks. I've looked at several vortex scopes and checked out the arken. I can't decide what are your opinions

Anybody have personal experience shooting ELR big calibers? I'm looking to get into the game and have a way to shoot out to a mile on some private land. I've only got a 6.5 creedmoor and want to invest in something that is better suited for that task but don't know where to start. What are the go to big boy calibers and cartridges for the ELR game? Opinions and personal experience welcome!