Edsel said:

Please zoom in on the image at the lower right hand corner, and tell me if it elicits a visceral sensation of disgust.

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Looking for land mines?

Mike Casselton said:

Have you eaten there in the last couple of years?
Everything tastes like it came from a box or a can.

It ain't home cookin...

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Stopped at two locations during a trip this year. Service and food was what you would expect at McDonald’s. We’re done.

skyewalker said:

Lot #?

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Lot # 3240392

Meanwhile, old abused 7 mag:

I know, it’s only one group and I need to shoot it more, but this gun seems to like those old Remington 9.5M primers. It did the same thing a couple years ago when shooting 168 Custom Comps with H4831SC……..maybe I should try those primes in my wsm……..

Snuby642 said:

A lot of dead people and our billions spent and we are basically right back to square one.

Not to mention a country in ruins.

Is this not exactly where we started less billions in stolen graft?

https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/world-news/putins-ukraine-demands-give-up-donbas-no-nato-and-no-western-troops/

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1+ million dead, Russia occupies more land, and they (Russia) have more leverage at the negotiating table than before.

Raytheon stock is looking good though, so I guess there's some winners out of this...

EddieNFL said:

Does that make me a 15 percenter?

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That percentage seems really high.....I only know a few people who took it. My entire family and most of my friends said fuck that shit......and I'm in Komifornia

Sold pending funds

DownhillFromHere said:

Mike, a spring question and a trigger question related to this ^^^ post:

• Firing pin spring: After maybe 12-14k rounds on my 2019-vintage V22 (serial 20xx), is a new firing pin spring advisable? As far as what the rifle is telling me re accuracy, all is copacetic. I very seldom disassemble the bolt for cleaning; when I've done so, its innards are clean with a film of lube visible.
• Trigger: Is there any way for a semi-skilled student of precision rifle to quantify drag imparted by the trigger, which, according to your preceding post, affects ignition consistency? I have a TT Diamond; action is in an MPA BA Comp chassis.

Inquiring minds wanna know.

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There’s no hard and fast rule. I have high round count rifles with the original spring and others that I’ve had to change the spring. Usually one will know when it needs to be changed.

Short answer, yes.

MB

Here’s what I’m looking at with the 300wsm, note the smallest group was at 200 yards……..

When shooting the .751” group in the middle picture, I literally shot one, then cooled the barrel with a mattress pump and hose, then shot another one for three shots. I was trying to see if barrel was moving as it heated up, but the results are inconclusive. I wish I had a closer range to shoot at.

Still available.

Well we are not getting anything out of the deal unless your part of the graft or hold stock in the mic.

Not a damned thing.

Did you notice the amount of dead Norks? There were around 100 pics on their commemoration… So much for huge meat wave attacks..

Bump

Garmin 100%

If you wanna save a couple bucks the athlon version seems to be working well also.

So, all of that is bad?

Drew890 said:

Just to be clear, she’s 53 years old not a 30 something.

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Ok… that’s just a 20-year old publicity photo.

powdahound76 said:

200 eldx at 2816 with 7828ssc for me.

Will hold 1/2 MOA to 600 yds.

Open to trying a different bullet?


I do know Ray or someone from Zermatt will be back with you pretty quickly.
They just rock

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I got them up to 2800 fps, but the groups opened up even worse. This barrel has been the pickiest barrel I’ve ever owned. It coppered up in the last 6” like mad even though I folwed the recommended break in procedure. I finally went back to shoot one, clean, shoot one clean, for a few and that finally smoothed it out; well, that and the other 175 rounds down the tube . It pretty much negated all the 180 and 200 Accubond bullets I sent down range trying to find a load. I was told that my KRG-b might be causing the fliers I was having as well as switching bullets and some times powders while testing loads, without cleaning in between and shooting 5-15 rounds to re-season the bore………thank goodness none of my other rifles require this; from my 44 year old Ruger 7 mag to my $200 close out Aero 6.5 cm barrel. It’s now sitting in my Peak 44 Bastion and seems to shoot a little bit more consistent, although that could be because the barrel finally broke in. My other rifles and barrels don’t seem to care if I clean between changing bullets or not and just consistently turn in decent groups. I’m running out of time, as my range requires a 2.5+ hour round trip drive and I’ve been out there 5 times……..I went yesterday and this load shot from 1/2 moa to 1 moa, with most being closer to 1 moa. I just don’t have time to go back and try the Accubonds, which have worked well in my other guns. Yesterday, I took out my old 7 mag, that’s going to be my backup gun, and for the first time tried some 160 Accubonds with R26 in it. That rifle has been abused, I got it when I was 13, and it suffered through my Barnes bullet and cleaning with CR-10 phase 25 years ago. It grouped 1-1.5 moa until the load with old Remington 9.5M primers and then went to 1/2”. One range trip, load development complete. If you saw the inside of the barrel, you would not guess 1.5 moa or less would be possible, but there it is.

All these headaches because I want to hunt suppressed . It would have been much less trouble to use my 25 year old R93 300 win that tosses 200 Partitions boringly into 3/4” at 2972 fps, but it’s not threaded. I looked at getting a custom 20” threaded 300 wsm barrel for it, but it was going to cost $1975. I should have just dropped the coin instead of being cheap and buying a $1050 match barrel for my Origin, but who knew

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I’ll take the other

Eta. Payment sent

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Here is some more info. Evidently Uganda isnt taking felons, so probably just letting them on the streets. If they thought they were leaving a bad situation to go to the US, they went from the frying pan and into the fire. No social services, huge poverty problem, etc. And they better not be gay if they are going to Uganda, big no-no. About the only way they are going to survive is to hook on the street or get into crime.

Bigjake83 said:

The short and simple answer is Leverage, just the same as using a pry bar.

Yes the barrel is secured into the upper with the barrel nut that holds the barrel extension secured and torqued to the face of the upper receiver threads so now the Barrel Nut and Upper Receiver are ONE.

Now you attach the handguard (PRYBAR) to the outer surface area of the barrel nut and upper, the end of the Handguard where we all attach our mounting attachments for bipod and various other attachments is now the handle of the prybar and now any load/torque applied is now highly amplified by leverage and transferred straight back to the barrel nut and your upper.

Obviously other factors such as handguard length and upper receiver design all come in to effect and can strengthen and reduce the POI shift effect when torque is transferred.

A good example of two Conventional Style Upper Receiver and handguard mounting designs that are easy to conduct a simple side by side POI shift comparison are the Geissele Upper handguard Combo with thier Mil Spec Forged Uppers and the SOLGW Broadsword.

They both attached directly to the Barrel nut but the SOLGW design has a thick walled Upper with tongue and groove style inserts at each corner of the handguard that are press fit firmly into their Milled slots of the upper receiver along with a thick barrel nut which I believe is also longer.

With the SOLGW design the torque that is transferred is equally divided between the barrel nut and the Upper Upper
Receiver where with with the Geissele it's all transferred straight to the barrel nut.

True Free Floating Designs and semi monolithic upper receivers do a fantastic job reducing or removing any and all POI Shift no matter how much load is applied to the end of the handguard.

If this doesn't help you understand then I would suggest you try conducting your own field POI Shift test (Constructivist learning theory )and see for yourself, theoretical speculation will only get you so far no matter how sound your reasoning may seem.

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Winner winner…chicken dinner…