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Ukraine war Bullshit.

Well it seems to me that their “soviet doctrine” fares whole lot better than nato trained army of zealots who seem to have been sitting on their ears in german bases. Face it you and nato don’t have a clue how to fight serious war and track record since WWII proves it. Time of selling “US army” greatness is long past all that remained is pathetic collection of “game changers” and obsolete tactics that bore no fruit.
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Who wants to boycott 3 shot group reviews & reviewers?

^ This is why I loosely test brand new combinations with small sample shot groups. If I am after half-minute performance, and a small sample throws a one MOA 2+1... I see no need to fire 27 more rounds to verify that it will still not perform as I want. As I narrow in on my desired load, the sample sizes get larger and are repeated.

The old 'Sniper's Hide 5x5' was a pretty awesome target idea. I foresee that coming back around with time. We just need to wait out the trend of guys telling each other to shoot "anudder fitty".

Why do people load so hot?

Yes the two powder have different POI mostly due to the speed difference
I am not used to seeing that much shift. Most of my loads for rifle seem to be within .1 or .2 despite powder and bullet weight changes. 53 v max over 8208 and 80 a max over varget are only .1 E .1 W. It was very similar on my last 223 barrel also between 53 v max and the 77smk. Same goes for my 308 168 and 178 loads. That looks more like around .5 or is my perspective messed up.

Any Desert Tech HTI 50 BMG Owners?

@wooferocau Just got an HTI 50, what bipod do u have? I have shot an AI 50 off a tripod, the back leg was fully extended and you could shoot in the prone position. It hardly kicked at all as the back leg extended took the brunt of the recoil, it had a brake, but I am not sure what kind. Going to try to find pics. Actually shot a setup done by Bryan Morgan, the 2014 PRS champ.. was on a Cabelas Experience with Nightforce in 2018. You can find video of my wife shooting the AX50 on youtube under user sorleski .. you might be able to see the leg of the tripod extended backwards.. I also got a T6, having a gunsmith fit to barrel and then drill some ports in the top. Will post pics when all done.
I use the Terminator T6 on my 50.....but I also shoot with blast Shields..
Had an old friend out yesterday actually to shoot the 50....
For as long as it have known him I have always regarded him as a fabulous marksman.....
He still is...
1 Mile ...plate is 16"...

BTW.....he loved the HTI...

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Good Shoot?

Middle of the night; dude clearing his house and smokes a black bear (sound only works in full screen for some reason):

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Thoughts off the top of my head:

Interested in knowing what ammunition he used. Not a big bear, but they’re tough, and usually don’t go down easy.

Nice work on the shooting; looked like good CNS shots right off the bat. Good job. However, less than stellar job clearing the house. If that had been an actual armed intruder, he’d have gotten smoked.

Bonus points for having a sling, but he should have had his support arm through it… much harder to have your weapon taken away from you and used against you. No stone to throw though, he did better than I probably would have done in the middle of the night.

Ukraine war Bullshit.

could be. that is how they fought ww2. no deviation from orders from higher up. promotion on ability to carry that out. they have had no combat since then except Afghanistan which was a totally diff setting like VN for our ww2 era higher ups. results the same MOL. small unit initiative is how the Germans beat them so badly at 1st. their weapons were actually as good or better.
wonder whether the small unit leadership has or will improve. seems it will have to for success in the new combat environ.
if you notice the reporting is about brigades,the Russ have 300k men RTG. in ww2 they committed 100s of Ks to millions at Smolensk,Kiev,Moscow,Stalingrad,Bagration,Berlin. big change and needing much better trained and educated troops.

CHINA WAR INEVITABLE...SOONER THAN LATER

ICC IS A FUCKING JOKE. Your arrogance is nothing next to those fucks we've sanctioned and barred from entering or owning a matchstick of the USA. Not even Obama or Biden were dumb enough to push on that rotting corpse. Leave that shit for African warlords to worry about. It's even more irrelevant than the UN or the WTO has become. When we just bypass them they don't matter. When we sanction them we're saying fuck you. It's really only a tool for the left to claim moral high ground because of all the shithole dictatorships who agree with their point of view and their critical theory.

I've said I think those institutions are broken and fundamentally flawed from their inception. Other than some window dressing on certain decisions I fail to see how any of those have driven any history or mattered at all. They certainly could have were they to exclude all countries and the cultures who are incapable of executing first principals (including in Europe), the very ones the RBIO claimed to champion.

Those institutions are bad because they betray their founding principals, not because they are true to them. How is that hard to understand?
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Vortex Razor LHT

It’s something that is useless unless you want to play mathematician. When you are laying behind your scope are you figuring out the apparent FOV? No. You see what you see. Seeing as this is the first I heard of this super important specification and never needed it to hit what I was aiming at then that will be filed under useless info for me. You have fun with your calculations 😆
Apparent field of view let's you compare how big the image looks between scopes without having them in hand.

Your 8" phones screen has the same FOV as your 60" flat screen, and a 60ft Imax screen. 🤣🤣
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Vortex Razor LHT

Useless unless I want to play mathematicians… or, you know, be able to actually compare a scopes specs as experienced by the shooter.
Maybe you should go back to laying behind your scope instead of trying to offer advice on them since you can’t be bothered to learn about them.

I will do that as it’s much more fun anyways. Never needed apparent FOV so I am sure I will be just fine. Sorry I tried to help him. I won’t again.

Vortex Razor LHT

It’s something that is useless unless you want to play mathematician. When you are laying behind your scope are you figuring out the apparent FOV? No. You see what you see. Seeing as this is the first I heard of this super important specification and never needed it to hit what I was aiming at then that will be filed under useless info for me. You have fun with your calculations 😆
Useless unless I want to play mathematicians… or, you know, be able to actually compare a scopes specs as experienced by the shooter.
Maybe you should go back to laying behind your scope instead of trying to offer advice on them since you can’t be bothered to learn about them.
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Vortex Razor LHT

Real FOV is what the scope sees. Apparent FOV is Real FOV in degrees multiplied by magnification.

Apparent FOV determines is how big the image looks to your eye.

ILya
That's what I wanted to know. Do both the LHT razors have a similarly smallish apparent field of view. Compared to the heavier scopes like the lrhs. Is it a function of the eye peice and ocular lens size also?