While wiping down and going through my newest rifle today I noticed some things that I thought may be abnormal wear on the action and bolt. I compared it to all of my factory rifles with significantly more rounds through them and none of them have the same scratches, marring, wear. Most notably on the inside of the action where the bolt lever rests is scratched up, on the centerline of the action adjacent to it has a chunk out of the coating, and I'm just concerned about it.

This is my first custom rifle and I was a bit dismayed at how much smoother my Tikka factory actions were and how much less the would bind when cycling the bolt.

For context the rifle is chambered in 300 Norma, it is a lone peak razor action. The rifle was built in May/June, It has 80 rounds of federal premium ammo through it and has been used entirely on the range with a relatively slow rate of fire.

any insight would be awesome, hopefully I'm just overly worried because it's my first custom build

Happy New Year.

I'll be taking a trip from East Texas to Arizona later this week. I want to avoid Dallas traffic and not lose travel time sitting in traffic. My best guess is that I'll be rolling through Dallas around 7am.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

What is an ESG score and how does it effect you? Ever hear the term "Get woke go broke?" well here you go.

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By Andrea Widburg
While the mainstream media, at least in 2020, tracked deaths with the fanaticism of an insurance company, they’ve always lacked accuracy. That’s why it matters when a major American insurance company, which is in the business of accurate data about deaths, announces that Americans in the 18-64 age bracket are dying in unprecedented numbers. The same data suggests that these aren’t COVID deaths, which makes them much more sinister.

OneAmerica is a major insurance company located in Indianapolis with annual revenue of around $2 billion and total assets of around $74 billion. This is not a fly-by-night internet “insurance” company. OneAmerica is the real deal, selling both individual and group life insurance, and it has data and actuarial tables that go back 145 years. It’s also a progressive company that boasts about “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” right on its home page. In other words, it’s not some “scary” right-wing reactionary firm.
During a news conference last week, OneAmerica’s CEO, Scott Davison, had a startling announcement—working-age Americans are dying in unprecedented numbers:

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

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Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.
“And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

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More remarkably still, these are not COVID deaths. Instead, they are totally different death count from the COVID count the media insisted we know during Trump’s last year and jettisoned during Biden’s first year.

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At the same conference, Brian Tabor, the president of the Indiana Hospital Association, spoke about the tremendous caseload in hospitals, not from COVID, but from all sorts of other things. He added, “unfortunately, the average Hoosiers’ health has declined during the pandemic.” Indeed,

In a follow-up call, he said he did not have a breakdown showing why so many people in the state are being hospitalized – for what conditions or ailments. But he said the extraordinarily high death rate quoted by Davison matched what hospitals in the state are seeing.

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And here’s the death data you’ve all expected to see:

The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it’s been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday.

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In other words, more Americans are dying since the vaccine than ever before. That last paragraph may be the beginning of a huge, upcoming bolus of evidence showing that the anti-jabbers were right all along: The injection that rejoices under the misnomer of a “vaccination” is, instead, a life-taker, not a life-saver.
The two years of COVID mismanagement, though, may also mean that myriad other health conditions are causing these deaths. Those people whose chronic or fatal conditions (e.g., heart disease, cancer) went untreated with lockdowns may finally have succumbed. We may also be seeing the terrible assault on immune systems, not from jabs, but from depression, economic stress, substance abuse, lack of exercise, lack of sunlight, and lack of human contact.
The one thing that’s clear is that the bean counters whose businesses depend on getting the numbers right are telling us that Americans’ health under Dr. Fauci in Year One and the Biden administration and Fauci) in Year Two has been disastrous. We can expect Year Three to be equally bad because the same management is in place. The only thing that will change this trajectory is to throw the bums out, first in the November 2022 election and again in the November 2024 election. Their mismanagement is killing us.

Wondering if a 1 in 9 twist is good enough for hornady 105 hpbt

This is a one of a kind V-22 that VGW made and donated to the Army Sniper Association in 2019 *if my memory serves me about the year. The ASA auctioned it off at the banquet after the International Sniper Comp that year. I won the auction (of course ). As you can see VGW engraved the "S arrow" of the ASA on the action, bottom metal, and rings. The rifle is a hammer, like all the VGW rifles I have owned. It doesn't have a lot of rounds through it, but I haven't kept track of exactly how many. Here are the specs:
-V-22 1st gen action
-20" MTU Bartlein barrel 16t
-VGW bottom metal
-Timney trigger single stage
-McMillan HTG M40A1 woodland stock *not bedded
-EGW rings with the "S arrow" engraved on the top cap
-Bushnell Forge 3-18 MRAD:
-1 magazine
*Bipod is not included

*SOLD*
$3200 Rifle, scope, and rings
$2600 Rifle, & rings (they really are / should stay as a package)
Shipping will depend on where your located but we can come up with a fair price for that & I may need a day or two to get a cheap hard case to ship in something we can work out in the conditions of the sale.

Up for sale is very cool custom trainer with 24' Bartlein MTU non threaded barrel in 223 , 1:7 tw . Rifle is new/unfired . Will ship to your FFL for $4350 for the whole package you see in pics minus bipod . Scope is in excellent condition with one tiny nick on the bell housing . SPUHR is new also but no box ..

Every match I have shot that had a hidden target w a give distance, but they give you a sighting target to aim at, I have missed. is there an
easy math formula for this? Or, am I over thinking this and the answer is in front of my face?

no words

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-Remington 700 SA
-R700 trigger, tuned and very nice
-18" Broughton 10t heavy contour with a McRee 3 port brake
-McRee Precision folding chassis with NV mount
-2 AICS mags & 1 McRee mag
-APA rings
-Mcree 20 MOA base
-Bushnell DMR 3.5-21X50
-Rifle was built by Scott McRee and chambered for 118LR and it's an absolute hammer with LR and FGMM (see target pics)
-aprox 625 rounds on the barrel
-Eagle scope and muzzle cover
-350 pieces of 1X fired LR brass out of this rifle if you want it
*SOLD*$2200 for the rifle, 3 mags, scope, rings, and Eagle covers
*shipping depends on your location but we can figure out a reasonable price

Here are 5 - 5 shot groups with 118LR at 100 yards (shot indoors). 27 boxes of this ammo is also available if you buy the rifle for $810


Only trade I'm interested in is a new / like new Sig Cross in 6.5 CM

If anyone has a few hours to watch a good murder 'did he do it' show; The Murders at Starved Rock. This was in the 50s regardless, makes a good case for reasonable doubt by today's legal standard. Interesting

Anything that stands out or are all the quality actions on par with each other? Goal would be to shoot long 223 out of AICS mags possibly 223AI.

Cleaning out a little to make room for other stuff. I have three scopes for sale. Prices are shipped CONUS and insured.

Nightforce C507 5.5-22x56 NXS
MOAR-T reticle
Zerostop
.25 MOA adjustments
No box, but never mounted or used. I'm the original owner. Bought it for an MK13 Mod 5 build, but then scored a S&B at a great price. I threw the box away at the office when it arrived to hide it from my wife .... absolutely new and flawless (except for the lack of box). Has not left the safe except to take pictures.
$old

Nightforce C462 2.5-10x24 NXS
MOAR reticle
Zerostop
.25 MOA adjustments
With box and everything that comes from factory. Looks like it was never mounted. Bought it from a Hide member, put it in the safe, and then didn't need it. Superbly minty.
$old

March Tactical 1.5-15x42
MTR-5 reticle
.25 MOA adjustments
With box and everything that comes from factory. I am the original owner. I mounted it in lapped rings, but then removed before ever firing rifle (opted for a different reticle). No marks at all. Superbly minty.
$old

Post pics of your hunting wagons. Range wagons. Bug out wagons.

ill start. This is my 99 jeep cherokee. Shes old, but gets me everywhere i need to go.

All you slugs can post here instead of shifting up the other thread

i have an old claw foot cast iron tub in my master bath, it deep wide, perfect for a bath, she we care to.
you cant buy new things like this any longer so, i believe i would like to re porcelain it.

looking for guidance and opinions, please

Stumbled on this on cable...

So far, about 30 minutes in... it's pretty formulaic. Looks kind of low budget. Ex Marine Sniper vs. Cartels. But Liam Neeson ain't bad.

Nice M14!

Looking like it's going to be a fun watch.

Sirhr

**** WARNING **** Read on before you watch this POS movie.... **** END WARNING ****

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I wasn't expecting much. But I must admit the brands/ types I thought would do well did not! I found this really enlightening.

I'd like to trade these bullets but might sell. The shipping is dependant on the deal we make but in general the prices do not include shipping.


.264 - 500 - 140 gr. ELDM Hornady

Trades I'd want are below. I can add cash as well if need be also.

-Hornady 75gr .224 cal Match.

-6mm Berger 105 or 108 , possible a little heavier

-Lapua 6cm brass- SRP

-223 Lapua Brass

-6.5cm starline LRP / Lapua LRP

So, I have a GettR Account for 2022

Twitter is a disaster, but social media is a necessary evil,


It's mainly to advertise stuff from here

For use on a Sako S20, 300wm.

Hunting< 600 yards and occasionally steel at 1000+.

Weight not a major concern. Was looking at the sig sierra 6 bdx scope as I have a capable range finder but looks like you're limited to 800 yards without additional equipment.

Thanks,
Chris

So going to be getting a few referrals at work and wanting to step up to something with a little more energy left down range. I love my 6.5 and can hit out to a mile on 2nd round quite frequently (still learning wind but aren't we all) so I'm looking st a bergara hmr left hand in either 300wm or buying that one dropping a prc barrel on it. Don't know why they can't sell it from the factory in prc because they make the hmr in prc but not for us southpaws. It'll mainly be my longer range gun and when I hunt something bigger than whitetails. With my 6.5 I bought it in 308 and got back into precision shooting then when I got my recoil control and somewhat wind reading I got a good deal on my creedmoor barrel and swapped over. So kind of the same idea get used to magnum then swap to prc. had a Weatherby about 12 years ago but it was a light weight vanguard and it beat everyone who fired it so gotta a little learning curve there I'm sure.