So I FL resized my 6.5prc lapua brass .001-.002" . They chambered in the rifle first 4-5 rounds, so I finished the reloading process. Now they chamber, but are very tight. I have to force the bolt. Shoulder must have been borderline too tight.

So my options are:
1. pull the bullets and deprime, start over
2. shoot em and deal with having to give it some force to chamber
3. pull bullets and FL size, wipe lube off, charge, seat bullet again

Thanks in advance

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Federal authorities are investigating suspicious letters sent to election offices in five states – Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Georgia.

The FBI said that "in at least four instances, preliminary tests … indicated the presence of fentanyl," according to a bulletin disseminated to state and local law enforcement and obtained by ABC News.

An image of one of the letters obtained by ABC News indicates the intent was to "end elections now."

"We are in charge now and there is no more need for them," the letter reads.


PHOTO: Investigators are probing mysterious letters sent to election offices, including this one. (Pierce County Auditor’s Office)
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said in a statement Thursday that envelopes containing "unknown powdery substances" were discovered Wednesday by election workers in several counties, prompting evacuations of those offices.

An initial test of a white powdery substance in one envelope that was sent to the county elections office tested positive for fentanyl, the Spokane Police Department said.

Another letter sent to an election office in Washington state had a substance that tested positive for baking soda, not fentanyl, Officer Shelbie Boyd of the Tacoma Police Department told ABC News. The state will take it to a lab for additional testing.

Chris Loftis, the director of communications for Washington State Patrol, said a state bomb squad that responded to an election office in Pierce County on Wednesday found a message advising that the intent of the letter was to "stop the election."

MORE: Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms

In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed that election workers in Fulton County were sent a suspicious letter and that no other counties in the state appear to have been targeted.

The letter was intercepted before it arrived at the election office, Raffensperger said at a press conference. No motive has been determined, he said.


PHOTO: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks at a press conference, Nov. 9, 2023, after a letter laced with fentanyl was been sent to the Fulton County Elections Office. (WSB-TV)
"We're working with our state and federal partners to determine if any additional Georgia officials are being targeted," Raffensperger said in a statement earlier. "Domestic terrorists will not trample on our right to free and fair elections."

A Fulton County spokesperson said no additional information was immediately available.

In Lane County, Oregon, officials also temporarily closed an election office on Wednesday after a suspicious piece of mail arrived, a county spokeswoman told ABC News.

"Certainly it's somber today," county spokeswoman Devon Ashbridge told ABC News. "I can't imagine coming to work and realizing that someone at minimum wanted to terrorize you and potentially harm you. We're doing what we can to support our staff."

While the incident in Oregon did not impact any election deadlines, Ashbridge said the office closure did delay ballot counting. The office expects to be caught up by the end of the day.

Officials in California also confirmed Thursday to ABC News that the Postal Service "intercepted two suspicious envelopes headed to local election facilities," but have not yet determined the contents of that mail.

Additionally, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI are investigating a letter containing an unknown substance that was sent to the Attorney General of Texas' office, according to law enforcement. Initial tests on the substance came back negative, officials said Thursday.

Authorities did not say if the letter sent to the Texas AG is connected to the ones from other states.

In light of the recent Mental Health Crisis that unfolded in ye ol Bear Pit it got me thinking about what I do to reset/ not go insane. I work my ass off managing projects for a large pipeline company, wife is a Neurologist, we have two little kids ect ect, shit gets hectic.

When my wife and I bought our place in the country I dug about an acre pond, the construction, stocking and managing the fish population to grow big bass has become one of my primary ways to reset. It's like an aquarium on steroids, but it's not frowned upon to eat the fish. It's 100' from the back door, just 20-30 mins here and there is instant reset.


What's your reset method?

Dont see this too often.

Hunter Takes 'Two-for-One' Buck with a Deadhead Stuck to It​

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13 hours ago — A Canadian hunter found a 10-point buck that was carrying around the head of an 8-point. He shot once and went home with a pair of trophies.

I was hunting (Cow Elk Muzzle Loader).
I was on a herd of 8 and trying to cut them off, but they got around me. I drove my vehicle up a little ways to cut them off. I
jumped out with just my Muzzle Loader and bino harness on. They went above me, I heard them mewing, so I approached slowly. Got close enough to smell them, hear them and get eyes on all of their tracks. They continued to allude me as the wind would shift and they'd get a scent and move quicker. But their tracks were easy to follow, and I did. At this point I am about a mile from the truck. Any way I ended up over 5 miles from the vehicle. I did waypoint the vehicle as I left, just in case, plus I had onyx on my phone, yet forgot to track myself with it.

I got further than I wanted to, but when you are close you don't want to stop. I never realized how far away I was til I got to a place I knew was way further than intended (Power line clear cut) and then all of the sudden got weird ringing in my ear, kind of dizzy, and confused.

I live at 6000', normally hunt at 10,500-11,000'. I spend all summer on the mountain and have never gotten altitude sickness, even up to 12,000 where we snowmobile. My current altitude was only 7100.

Well I decided to let them go, knowing I was a ways from the truck, no water, no pack and made some poor decisions.
I looked at my onyx map and started to head in the direction I thought the truck was at. My sense of bearings is pretty accurate and incredible. I have come out of my anticipated area off course before but never more than a hundred yards or so depending on deep in I went, my directional sense is always on pretty good.

I was about a mile into my hike back from the power line clear cut, when I realized the onyx map doesn't utilize you directional heading as up. So I turned my phone and then got totally confused all at once. It was worthless to me for some reason.
I saw a mountain peak I knew, and then looked at the sun, and realized I was clearly heading North, when I should've been heading SW.
I turned and regained that mile and logged another mile when I again realized my truck was to my right and not just in front of me.
My GPS (In reach Delorme) gave me a compass calibration requirement. I am like "what the heck I don't need this right now".
It said my truck was 2.8 miles away to my right, as I thought, so I ignored the recal.
I am thinking it was only about 1.5-2 at the most, but trusted the GPS.

By now I have logged close to 7 miles.
I'm in pretty good shape, hunted elk, deer in the mountains all fall, logged close to 50 miles this year (early tags filled) and last year well over a hundred.
But by now I am exhausted, short of breath, definitely thirsty, confused and dizzy. Temps were low 40's, I wasn't hot, I wasn't cold.
I stayed as close to an irrigation ditch as I could for as long as I could in case I got to the point where I had to have water.

I have never been so disorientated , confused of exhausted before, ever.

I turned tracking on my onyx, so I could tell which way I was actually heading as I no longer trusted my sense of direction. I wasn't trusting anything my mind was telling me as it felt like I was getting mixed signals from it. 2 more times I went in one direction only to reverse it and head back the other way.
I finally got to the main dirt road, but it was one I didn't recognize and now really began to get anxious.

My back is chronic, yet it was no longer hurting, it went numb. My hips were locking up. My GPS said I still had 2 miles to the truck.
I knew I was in trouble.

I called my wife and told her I needed her to come out where my truck was and follow that road.
Eventually she finds me on the road.
She asks what the heck is going on.

I couldn't explain it
My head was filled with ringing, cloudiness and confusion.
At one point I couldn't even make heads or tales of my onyx map info.
the entire rest of the day I was in a haze.

I removed the clothes I had on and the puffy, under chama hoody and the merino base long sleeve were totaly soaked. I mean twice their weight.
I knew I was dehydrated, yet not enough to risk giardia unless it was a better option than dieing.
lol

I feel it was almost dehydration/ altitude sickess?
But earlier that year...
When I killed my bull (8:00 pm) I stayed on the mountain all night (till 11:30) processing it. it was raining and I had on my outer rain coat.
When I got back to the Ranger to drive the 6 miles back to base camp I was shivering like hypothermia set in.
When I took off my coat I realized I was soaked to the bone, not from rain ,but from sweat. I was again at that first time totally soaked from sweat due to the rain slicker and amount of worked it took to break down the bull.
Yet even in that I never felt cloudy or confused.

I never cramped up, but I did have hip pain (which I always due to a chronic back).
My mouth was dry and I had a hard time speaking to her on the phone. Yet I was salivating and trying to retain all my mouth moisture and not spit it out.

I know this is long, and I am not after you should of, shouldn't have. I am not after sympathy or criticism.... I gave as many details as I can not to bore you but fill you in on what happened.
Has this feeling hit any of you before who have had altitude sickness and or dehydration, panic?
I was only at 7100' and I live at 6000 and am always at close to 10,000.


I never felt panic as I could get on top of ridges and see town about 8 miles away. I knew my general area very well, and there were even homes only 3 miles away from where I was.

Anybody get in this situation and experience this?

Selling my Uber rare rail, was planning on building this out but decided to go with the standard Mk18 rail. NOT A CHOP AND IS THE REAL DEAL. Note the dual screws at the front.

Only trades I’m looking for will be FDE MK18 RIS with KAC FDE front sight plus cash

Or a impact 737R in .223

2400 shipped and insured.

I have a rare first run AO chassis for AI AT/AW/AX/AT-X in Pale Brown that has only been test fit and never been bonded.
Comes with epoxy kit, screws and bedding alignment screws, short bridge and rail and 2 internal weights (1 is 1lb and the other is 2lb)
This was originally $1200
Asking SOLD shipped in CONUS
PM if interested.
Thanks

I have a Used Trigger Tech Pro Curved that was in my B14R. Has a few hundred rounds on it. Located in the Sioux Falls SD area.

$***shipped tyd PP F&F or Venmo. If you want to pay with PP G&S add 3%

Leofoto SA-404CL with Anvil-30 style ball head 550

I just bought a ATX chassis and bought a PMAG AICS magazine. The mag is too loose and undersized and readily falls out on its own. Could that be a chassis problem or just a pmag issue? .....or should I be ordering the AI AtX mags? Im so confused on which mag That chassis takes. Thanks.

Not gonna lie.. I got my first debate chubby last night

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I just got home from a terrifying range experience. I'll start by saying that I've been reloading for years, am very diligent and attentive to detail, tend to load conservatively and am generally a pretty cautious person with all things reloading.

That said, I picked up a new old stock Ruger M77 Mark 2 rifle from an online seller this past week. I wanted something with less carbon fiber and modern tactical vibes like most of my stuff is these days, and something with a walnut stock and some classic lines seemed perfect. The rifle came packaged just like I had teleported back in time to the 1990s. I loaded up some "conservative" rounds to get it on paper and start sighting in the scope I had mounted early today.

I went to the range, got setup to get it on paper at 50 yards after bore sighting it in. I load in 3 rounds thinking, chamber the first and setup for the first shot.

Then a boom, but the bad kind.

I saw a crazy red flash in my face and the rifle stock exploded all over the place. My worst nightmare as a reloader.

I escaped with some small cuts on my face and trigger hand, and of course some shock.

The RO and others at my club came over to help inspect and assess the situation. A gave up a couple of my loads for them to examine, captured it as a "range incident" and I was on my way.

Of course I was immediately questioning myself and what I might have done wrong with the load, imagining myself contacting Ruger to have the rifle examined, and wondering what I could learn from this and if I had just made an expensive mistake without recourse.

I got home and went to my reloading bench. One thing I had told the guys at the range was: "I don't load pistol cartridges, or possess any powder with unusually fast or slow burn rates". (given I primarily load for 4-5 calibers using a narrow range of powders - I have 4350, RL17, 4381, etc.).

I couldn't possibly have loaded the modest 30.06 case with enough powder from one of those to explode my rifle, right?

I went to my bench and pulled out the jug of RL17 I had used....to see that it was RL7, not 17. I've never intentionally ordered any 7, as I've not had any use for it. I did however order 3 jugs of 17 many years ago to stockpile for my 6.5cm that seemed to really like it. Apparently I received 2 of the 17 and one of the 7 and just never noticed it.

I had always remembered to keep the powder jug used for a given load, adjacent my chargemaster to ensure I knew what was being loaded at all times - standard best practice. Yet I stupidly assumed the only Reloader powder I owned was the 17 and didn't even notice the missing "1" from the front of the jug. Lesson learned. Now to see if the destruction is limited to the bottom metal and stock. Ruger will have to open the action for me as the bolt is jammed in place. I'm fearful the entire receiver could be damaged enough for this to be a total write-off attributed to sloppy reloading. I'm crossing my fingers Ruger has a decent proposal for to salvage it.

Alright you fellow crayon eaters what ya got?

Full SAKO TRG-42 build in 300 Norma. All work was performed by GA Precision in 2015.

Only reason I’m selling is my neck can no longer take the recoil shooting prone anymore! It’s why I changed it from a 338 Lapua, and I’ve shot too many rounds over my lifetime. I’m over 60 now and just can’t handle the recoil like I used too!

27.25” Bartlein 1:8 twist Sendero contour, threaded metric, M18x1.0 same as original. 300 rounds down the barrel, mostly three shot groups, slow fire, only five or five + when I was testing it at the Nightforce ELR Match as a RO. Load is the 230 Berger behind 83.5 H1000 F215M in Norma brass going 2,975 f/s. Laser beam out to a mile, proven performer mostly used for hunting.

Comes with:
SAKO TRG Three ring 34 mm scope mount, built in 30 moa slope.
TRG Bipod
TRG muzzle brake
Extra TRG five round magazine
TRG 10 mm cheek riser (Tan)
Sinclair O-Ring bore rod guide
Savvy Sniper SAW Rifle Sling
68+ pieces of 1x Norma brass (SS Media cleaned, and FL sized)
Plus something like 100+ New Norma brass.

The rifle is in mint condition. Only two small camel hump Tan paint marks at the butt stock between the stock and spacer.

Not a single mark anywhere else.

Bolt has so little wear it’s hard to tell it’s a used gun!

No rust on the steel rings. Everything on this rifle works, functions, feeds and performs flawlessly in every manner. Best trigger for any application too!

$3,500.00 plus shipping and insurance costs from my local FFL to yours in the original SAKO TRG42 Box. It will be double boxed.

Accessories will be shipped separately.

The 'singularity' is coming.

A Scientist Says the Singularity Will Happen by 2031​

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Picked this up locally for a build that isn’t going to happen. Just trying to get out of it what I paid.

The receiver was sent in new and hasn’t seen any rounds. I did do a little polishing of the bolt body and bolt handle area (shown in pics) but otherwise hasn’t been used.

All work done by LRI

SA, standard bolt face
Threads, bolt face, and lugs trued
Threaded bolt handle
Pined larger recoil lug
8/40 scope base screws

SOLD shipped action only

Only trade would be for a 6.5 CM barrel for a defiance. Shoot me a pm with any questions. Thanks

Hey folks, im looking for a budget start up gun. I currently have a chassis for a R700 so a barreled action is good to. Let me know what you got.

Thanks

Pretty good flick. Not Quentin's best, but like all his stuff, over the top violence, with a comedic touch, interesting cinematography, and good acting. I've always liked Banderas and his side kick Steve Buscemi is good as well.

Had multiple orders come through, and I only need one. New in box. SOLD

I have a Free Carbon Fiber barrel cert from Proof.
Valued at $1395.
Selling for $700.

So I know there are literally no right or wrong answers, but I thought it'd be fun to see what everyone's opinion was.

My opinion will differ greatly than someone hunting whitetail over a food plot or from a tree or box, but here are my 10 favorite.

Smallest to largest:

1-22lr varmints like sage rats etc
2-223 for bigger varmints a bit farther away like coyotes etc.
3-243 varmint/antelope & deer cross over cartridge. Kids first "big" rifle.
4-30-30 not particularly awesome in any category, but still a classic cowboy cartrige that is fun to shoot, & can get er done on most critters at reasonable ranges.
5- 308 great ladies or kids all round cartridge
6- 270 North American all round cartridge with light recoil {I'm partial to the WSM}
7- 30-06 North American all round cartridge with more bullet selection. All time classic.
8- 300mag (take your pick) I prefer Win Mag, or WSM, but am fond of Wby too. Best all round caliber ever. Period. Ya I'm opinionated. But, I'm right too.
9- 338 (again pick one){I prefer Win Mag version} but depending on chambering, its today's "go to" LR (caliber) to which all others are compared. And it's plenty of medicine at most any range for anything in Anything on North America with Strong constitution, or a mean streak.
10- 375 (H&H, Wby,what ever, take your pick) {im an ol' H&H fan}everything else including Africa

So what are your favorites let see?

Hello all,
Was wondering if someone can share some light how to fix my problem. So I have a reload that I’m doing shooting a suppressed .308win
42.7 Varget ccibr2 Lapua brass Hornady eldx 178 grain bullets.

Sometimes I can cycle easy other times the handle lifts easy but my brass gets stuck in the chamber. I have to pull the bolt extremely hard to eject my case. What can be the culprit? I’m using a Wilson fl sizing die with a bushing. I’m thinking either the base of the cartridge is getting stuck or the neck. Will annealing fix this issue? Is it because I’m shooting suppressed? Is it cus I’m bumping the shoulder to far back? Has anyone experienced this issue before? It’s strange because even with lighter loads (42 grains I can experience the same thing)

Scope Sold!

Nightforce 2.5-20x50 NX8 with the Mil-C reticle.

Scope is factory new in a sealed box, I took delivery this week and never opened it.

Black
Zerostop
30mm tube
28.3 oz
Illuminated
12" long

I changed direction on my reticle selection, selling for $1650 shipped.

Prefer zelle for payment.


Will trade for

ATACR 4-16 Mil Xt + cash on my end
NX8 2.5-20 Mil Xt



Please DM any questions, reasonable offers considered.