I'll take em. Shoot me a message

This is a tool I made that works well.
Cut off a fired unsized neck from your brass. Solder a length of welding rod in the center. A diamond file to the end to create some small burrs. A dab of JB and spin it. It stops at the chamber, so no harm to the throat of rifling.

You can see in the pictures it is a Minox 5-25x56LR which is offered with only one reticle--the LR reticle

nad1967 said:

Ive PM'd you twice but maybe they are not going through.

What reticle on the Minox?

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4g64loser said:

I did too. I think OP is still having some account issues. Gonna give him all benefit of the doubt since I get frustrated with tech as well. Minox makes nice glass but, like zeiss, has a bad habit of poor reticle choice sometimes....

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Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

I put them together to make my point.

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What Bender is alluding to is something I have been seeing for some time now.

Economic cycles care about no one. And politicians are both economically clueless and functionally stupid, so no help is coming from .gov, no matter what they tell you. When you are born in a country determines a lot about your future. But so do the opportunities one takes vs those that are not taken. As a country declines so do the opportunities. Those who had the most opportunities had the best chance at a positive outcome. And the opposite is also true. But that’s where the rub is. I have found over time that neither camp understands what part of the cycle they were born into and this creates animosity. I find that largely understandable; if you don’t know the cycle you are in then you only have yourself and your peers to gauge off of. It’s like having blinders on.

The cycle the boomers grew up in is way different than what late gen X and later are in. We didn’t have the debt, dollar devaluation or taxes back then. It’s here now and it’s only going to get worse. And it is going to do so much quicker than most anticipate, to such an extent that it is going to catch many a boomer when they eventually look up and realize their savings have been eroded through dollar devaluation and they will not be able to live how they envisioned in their later years while the later generations will be trying to make ends meet as well. That’s what we are rolling into.

The practical aspect of this is that there are many that are tired of trying to make a run of it. This is how generational hatred and socialism enter. We are falling into both traps.

How many gen X or younger wouldn’t do the same things the boomers have done if they had the means? How many boomers would be pissed at the older generations if they were gen z?

Where we find ourselves in the economic cycle is more important than most think. This has all happened before, but no one remembers.

LOL ... I Seen this one looking more than rough, bad and alone this week, and It for sure seen better days since 68, but they are few of these left that are even on the road. If you find one these days restored and all matching build sheet #'s you going to pay-$.
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Cascade Hemi said:

I'm not even a little mad. My V3 works awesome without any IP parts. It works even awesome'er with the upgrades.

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I recently got the whole upgrade for my 2 V3’s. I haven’t had time to hook it up. It’s been a month since I’ve had it. I probably have time to put it all together this week. But just by reading through the manual, I’m a little confused about the setup for the A&D scale. I’m assuming the scale setup from the manual would be necessary even without the IP thrower? I only have the V3 IP upgrades with the shields and the keypads. But not the thrower.

gigamortis said:

The video footage of the suspected shooter descending from the roof and jumping to the ground definitely does not show a visible assembled rifle length object of any sort on his person.

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You. Are. Wrong.

gigamortis said:

Even if we were to believe the rifle to have been disassembled for transport to the shooting position, reassembling it and expecting the same zero as before is a crap shoot.

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That's because this didn't happen. You are experiencing cognitive dissonance by trying to argue that something that never happened... didn't happen.

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gigamortis said:

If I was a leftist assassin, I damn sure wouldn't waste getaway time by breaking a bolt action rifle down for a more easily portable package.

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Tyler Robinson didn't do this either. Where are you getting your misinformation?

gigamortis said:

Why even reassemble it later to just ditch it? The intended job of the murder weapon was already satisfied.

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Tyler Robinson didn't do this either. Where are you getting your misinformation?

gigamortis said:

How many other murder victims have you seen thrown in a casket so quickly? Normally, at least a week goes by for a detailed autopsy documenting bullet path/s to determine the direction of the shots.

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His funeral isn't for a while. They are probably doing a detailed post mortem and forensics report. Whether or not they release that information to the public is another story.

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i don’t believe he was wearing plates! And I wish people would stop with this .30-06 will take your arm off nonsense or do massive damage. Unless it started to yaw or was some kind of bullet designed to do damage then I don’t know why everyone has this idea that we would have seen massive trauma. More than likely it was an FMJ and just zipped right on through and unfortunately just happened to hit in a very bad area that is one of the least protected. Very sad.

Everything about this is very suspect but I don’t think he was wearing plates. It’s possible he could have put some on right before the Q&A but I don’t think it’s likely and if so they were the most hidden plates I’ve ever seen under a t shirt. I also feel pretty confident they would have stated as much by now.

I’ll take it.

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Dude’s got a great ass then!

Rules: let’s get an early start to Monday…

Growing up we always had to zero our rifles before hunting season. It made zero sense to me that we had to since it was done previously. But sure enough we had to make adjustments.

My first out of state hunt the first thing the experienced guy said we needed to do when we got to Colorado was zero rifles. Again why? How is my rifle losing zero in a hard case?

I swapped out Leupolds, March’s, and Swaro’s for NF’s. My main hunting rifle that bounces around in the SxS, strapped to my pack, etc hasn’t needed an adjustment in a few years now. I’ve used it in 4 western states on multiple hunts and it’s still zeroed.

I do believe there are levels of durability.

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popeye089 said:

Honestly, I don't even know or think I need the the thrower. If & when it comes out, yes, I'll probably still get it

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Based on what everyone says, if I had the V3/IP combo I probably wouldn’t care if it ever comes out. I have the IP Trickler and have to do the bulk dump manually, but I don’t think the thrower is going to save me very much time or effort. It works pretty well as it is. But it would make things simpler if it works well, so I will definitely buy it and I continue to look forward to getting it. But I have to admit, I’m pretty soured on the whole experience after we were told it was “ready” nearly two years ago, and then countless busted-deadlines since then. It’s looking pretty dubious. What a shame. It really is the Lucy/Charlie Brown football kick in real life.

Mean_Man said:

Try not to change more than one thing at a time. 9 1/2? Are you talking about primers? Remingtons? I don’t believe you’re recalling me talking about primers… probably someone else as about all I ever use is CCi or Federal match

The primers in your pictures… I have also seen that from rifles with generous large holes the firing pin/striker pass through. You may want to try to measure the hole in your bolt. I wouldn’t buy a gauge pin set just for that one time use though… a good dial caliper and a careful eye will get you pretty close (no you can’t stick the back side in a hole that small to measure it lol. But you can look at the inside of the main jaws and line it up to where they look flush with the ID of the hole and get pretty close.

ETA: also some primers are softer than others. And I see someone already commented on another potential cause.

I didn’t see what powder you’re loading. Measure case capacity, and don’t rely on what others get from their rifles. Different chambers in different rifles and different brass can have dramatic effects if things are just right or just wrong sort of like tolerance stacking.

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You mentioned skipping the seconds/pulls and I thought you meant components in general. I re-read your previous post and realized you were talking specifically about the bullets. For primers you suggested I try match primers.

Originally, I used white river energetics magnum primers that are seconds. They have performed pretty well though. I did however, try remington 9 1/2 standard large rifle primers this second time and sorted the pulled bullets to only use consistent measurement bullets on bullet base to ogive.

I am using varget, so I think that's a pretty good powder. I have Tac and blc-2 as well but I am going to avoid ball powders as much as I can.

Thank you for the advice. I will measure h2o capacity next time I an home and see where my brass is at.

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akmike47 said:

Because I have common sense enough to know you wouldn’t see them with body armor unlike half of you geniuses.

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Bateman's body armor had nipples on it. Did the teenage mutant ninja turtukes have nipples. Now you're wondering aren't you? Sicko.

Jingoist said:

Looking at the specs for comparison, MDT single-pull claims 5-15.5" of height, whereas the TBAC is a stubby 6.5-9" in height...extensions get you to 12", more than adequate (that's what she said).

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Yeah I get that. You were just saying target distances. Wanted clarification it was due to the range.

Eric1115 said:

That observation about same scope with different badging is an error. The 3-15 tract was tested but not the 2.5-15 that is the "same scope" as the Maven RS1.2. That tract has not been tested.

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The Tract Toric 2.5-15 was tested. I posted the same review on Rokslide, 24hr Campfire, and Long Range Hunting.

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stello1001 said:

So I should have probably clarified. The factory ammo I shot was just to get some sort of baseline. However, I was not trying to replicate it. I also like to shoot a group of factory ammo first to establish some sort of zero confirmation. It is called Bullets 1st by American Marksman. It is loaded with a 175 SMK.

My barrel is 22.5" long so I do not expect to near to those velocities with varget and 185 jugs. I understand measuring tools such as a comparator will only serve me to get MY measurements as there will be lots of variance. I will measure OAL next time I am home. My load was considerably longer next to the factory ammo. It did not fit in the plastic MDT mag so I had to use the MDT metal mags.

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As I mentioned before, I'd say you have maybe 1 gr more of Varget to work with until pressure signs start to appear, and that can gain you about 50+ fps more from your 40.8 grs you're at. Is it worth it? It looks like that load did pretty well for you and maybe there some seating depth tuning that might give you some improvement???

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