HKSniper11B said:

Y'know what, I'm gonna step in on this one:

All you folks who say [Insert Cheap Scope Mfg Here] is better than a Leupold MK5HD: post up your 10, 15 and 20 round 100 Yard/meter shot groups and show me what you can do with yours. Because I don't buy the noise being generated for one second.

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I've quite consistently have had great success with my Leupold MK5HDs. And mated with my AT308s -- whether with Lothar-Walther or Bartlein/WinTac barrels -- the shot groups I've posted on here for a year and a half now speak for themselves.

The ONLY downside I've seen to a Leupold is the slightly narrow eyebox, which forces consistent cheek weld... I have a hard time even faulting this. Everything else has been stellar, whether it's the MK5HD 5-25x56mm or 7-35x56mm. The only eyebox I've seen better is from glass twice as expensive i.e. a Schmidt & Bender PMII Ultra Performance, ZCO, etc.

I'd take a MK5HD over a Zeiss S3 or S5, having compared them back-to-back at distance: the Leupold has better clarity, less color distortion, and puts less strain on your eyes. The only comparable scope in its class is a NF ATACR 7-35x that beats it on clarity and ruggedness, with the ATACR 5-25x having an odd distortion when compared to the same spec MK5HD. And the ATACR is almost a full $1000 more.

At under $2000 for MIL/LEO, the MK5HD is a fantastic scope for all that it does, with phenomenal light gathering and practically non-existent chromatic aberrations, even on max zoom while trying to engage 1200 yard IPSCs.

And the zero-stop system is the best I've ever used: the ease at which I can re-zero AND the zero-stop simultaneously in the field is phenomenal.

Both of my scopes track extremely consistently, turn after turn, having done multiple tests checking both. Further, I've seen these scopes take blows in muddy, rainy sniper competitions first hand, scuffed and banged up, and still perform without a hitch.

So if your bias is from using a Leupold M3 on a M24 from two decades ago (or more), or you are just parroting what others are saying to sound trendy? Put your money where your mouth is: post what you can do with your "cheap" scope, or shut up. The mouth-breathing keyboard warrior banter is exhausting.

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acts238 said:

I bought a t3x lite 300wm - then found the mag is only 3.350 shorter than even a sav mag. I read through some post here on aics mags and bottom metal where you cut the trigger face down and notch feed ramp -or not- to get to 3.500- sav mag length. which is still too short imo. maybe I didnt read enough post or misunderstood - is there no other options ? if not I may sell it without shooting it and move on back to Remington. any advice appreciated tia

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david walter said:

I have a bunch of 6.5 Creedmoors, including three Tikkas. Double shoulder surgery led to me dropping down in calibers.

I have a T3 stainless in 7mm Mag. Which I don’t need. Should I

1. Trade bolts and make it into a standard bolt face with a custom barrel like a 6Creed or XC

2. Rebarrel to some other magnum

3. Sell the barrel and think on it.

4. Sell it

5. Open to ideas.

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Blue Sky Country said:

Chance Wilkins steals EVERYTHING and tries to pass them off as his own original ideas and creations. That is the other reason why so many trolls fuck with him, because he steals their music, their logos, T-shirt designs etc. The main reason of course, is because he just cannot fucking stop messaging underage kids online and talking to them inappropriately. When that first happened on XBox Live, the trolls sent him a USB electric Kill Stick and the creep thought it was really full of pirated games like they told him, plugged it into his XBox and permanently bricked it. That was 2 years ago. Last month they sent him another Killstick concealed inside a $20 Walmart game controller and he bricked his second Xbox in the same fashion. Then came absolute savagery when the trolls hacked his PC and flooded it with viruses that froze his screen with gay porn every time he tried to access the Internet. Another person masquerading as a "computer expert" managed to get this mofo to delete the System 32 folder from his computer in the guise of helping him get rid of the viruses and now his PC is irreparably fucked too. All of this shit is fully documented with chapters covering each saga of the lulz.

Before MusicBizMarty passed away from a heroin OD he was literally shielding Chance from the other trolls while baiting him for rage and freakout content. Now that Marty is gone it is open season for the other goons to make his existence a living hell, and holy shit they are merciless but justified. Apparently somehow Ohio doesn't arrest pederasts if they did not arrange an actual meetup with a minor and that was how this motherfucker avoided charges just by skimming right under the radar, so if zapping all of his means of accessing the Web is the only way to keep him from messaging more kids, that is how the online watchdogs are going to do it...

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nkk said:

Any war you participate in to improve your own strategic position and boost your economy with a positive return on investment at very little to zero cost of human lives from your own side is a "good" proxy war. Vietnam was a great proxy war. For the USSR.

Can you explain what you think a proxy war is, and how hundreds of thousands of your own soldiers fighting and dying on foreign land is a proxy war in your mind?

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Maser said:

And to think Cyrax was one of my favorite MK characters.

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Dispatcher91 said:

I keep asking but get no response from the left. If Vietnam and Afghanistan were bad proxy wars, then how is the Ukraine a good one?

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Blue Sky Country said:

I think most people here have seen me post about that pedo lolcow Chance Wilkins AKA "Cyraxx" AKA "The Goblin of Akron Ohio" from time to time... (Though I think he's more of a ghoul than a goblin because he shows just as much disrespect for those who have passed away as he does for the living.)

Well, talking tough and making constant nonstop threats against anybody and everybody that crosses his path on the Internet is apparently not without consequences. He got confronted by another notorious ruffian Alex Tafini AKA "HellraiserBigT" and got his ass knocked the fuck out on his own front porch by BigT...

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The livestreams that happened afterwards documenting it were next level fucking surreal. EVERYBODY on the chat and on the participants' screens were either drunk out of their minds or stoned on various substances. Holy shit...

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lash said:

That’s just a justification used by those that think registration is a good idea. Not a personal attack.

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Shootinsurveyor said:

Seen some XTR2s around for a little over 500. To me, a old flagship scope is better than a (insert internet brand superscope).

Is the anything 500-600 that can compete? I’d love to know some other options.

I run one on my 22lr and really enjoy it. Contemplating getting a couple more.

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Bri0242 said:

Does the gift card special apply to Swaro scopes?

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