Groundhogs, being large rodents, are extremely hard to kill RTD, without them running to their holes. We have a rule that unless it's there RTD it don't count. To kill them RTD (at distances up to and occasionally beyond 1000 yards) you need a flat shooting cartridge that has >= 1200 ft-lbs or more energy on impact.

Here's one I got 2 years ago with a 338LM and 285 ELD-M. RTD
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And this one was hit in the belly; flipped him in the air, and he made a bee-line to his hole with his guts hanging out of him - a not uncommon occurrence. They're tough as hell.
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Mike Islander said:

This was the initial rebuild of my left knee tendons in 2016. Used a long portion of my right IT Band and a piece of the right patella tendon. TKR was four years later and far less traumatic, though the night after surgery was very uncomfortable. Would definitely not want to do both at the same time!

TKR was July 2, 2020. I rucked a 50 pound pack about 1.5 miles onto a local sea island and camped to honor the victims of September 11th just 71 days later. You can see there was far less trauma from the TKR. This was taken 11 days out. At exactly 90 days out I was back on the dirt bike for over an hour of mountain trail riding. TKR was a far better result.

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Hope you spent extra time working that left leg…. Atrophy from subconsciously putting all your weight on your right leg.

AMHIK.

My left calf is still pretty good, but my left thigh is almost 2” diameter smaller than my right because my left knee’s completely fucked. Every annual med checkup the VA suggests a total knee replacement, and every year I tell ‘em to pound sand, I’ll just keep on with the knee injections every 3-6 months.

May have to get it done soon though; almost to the point where I can’t walk, and I ain’t gettin’ any younger. Takes a lot longer to heal/recuperate these days.

12 round magazine capacity.....please!

carbonbased said:

Dang, 7PRC for varmints? Jeez

As Mr. Small Caliber, I’ll see myself out lol

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I wouldn't use a 7prc for elk, let alone varmints, but everyone is on their own journey.

codym said:

Not the same model but I have the 4.5x28 with the LDK reticle. It’s a nice piece of glass, fov is amazing. They ship it with this ring that fits between the sun shade and the scope that does excellent at cutting mirage. I have the shuriken turrets and I’m not in love with the clicks but the visibility and spacing is really good, no guessing if you dialed a tenth over under. I did a tall target test and it was spot on 6 mils up and back down. It fell out of the rack into a cement floor, gave a pretty nasty mark, knocked it of zero. I repeated the tall target test and it tracked perfectly up 6 mils and back to zero. I keep wanting to find something wrong with this scope but it’s really good and the glass is excellent. Not quite as sharp as my zco’s but really good.

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The ring to which you refer is called a Modifier Disk (MD). What is does is reduce the size of the aperture (objective) by 50% and thus increases the depth of field viewed through the riflescope. The objective lens diameter is 52MM, and it makes for a handy riflescope. I have one on an AR-10, a rifle which is heavy enough as it is without plunking a heavy riflescope on it.

How do you like the LDK reticle?

I find the clicks on the shuriken turrets to be very positive and extremely accurate. I have the same turrets on my Majesta sitting on top of my match rifle and I really like them. However, I would like to know what you do not like about them.

I have not banged up my scopes like you have, yet, so I'm glad to hear about your torture test experiment. Those 4mm thick tubes can really take some punishment.

Still available

drewh said:

Most of what I shoot has 10 round stages, so I would like those available. Would a 5 round be shorter, or use the same body. a 5 round would be nice to have.

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If I do a five-round mag, it'll be shorter than the other mag bodies.

MB

I shoot a 28" 223 because it was going to take longer than I wanted for 30".

chevy_man said:

Depending on what you plan on doing, a dog that starts life riding around in your truck with you everywhere is never bad.

My crew cab is more for the dogs than the kids. They just load up in the back seat and ride around everywhere with me.

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Mine rides with me daily as well

drewh said:

Most of what I shoot has 10 round stages, so I would like those available. Would a 5 round be shorter, or use the same body. a 5 round would be nice to have.

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10, please.

Infidel4life11 said:

You have a Bergara HMR PRO. That’s pretty much the Cadillac of factory 700s.

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I can't help but feel like some tape and a sharpie would solve OP's issue here.

Maybe a label maker if he is feeling classy.

VargmatII said:

I assumed that the Finnish army chose the same scope for their set-up. But I could definitely be wrong on that part.
We run the Hensoldt on this side of Östersjön, that I can confirm.

In fact I find it interesting that there is two completely different scopes chosen on the mutual procurement contract.

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I do not know exactly how it work on that side of the pond, but here it is not all that uncommon for the specific units to have a couple of options of different optics. They go with what they prefer.

Steiner has been very active in Europe with their M7Xi scopes, so I see them issued a fair bit. It seems that they have gotten some design wins that would nearly automatically go to Hensoldt or S&B in the past. I thought that Kahles' K328i was going after some of the same contracts, so it will be interesting to see if anything is reshuffled in the next couple of years.

ILya

Yeah. Set it and forget it.

You can get there with flame - and much easier than 20 years ago, since how to do it right is more obvious today - and there are certain advantages of having an automated hopper (not that Rube Goldberg contraption the "AMP-maiden" or whatever they call it - don't bother with that gizmo). That's why I keep the giraud, for my 223 and 308 cases that I do in bulk and don't really care about "perfect"

I kept the Giraud since I had it first, and it was going to be a PITA to sell/ship, not worth the $$$. But if I started with the AMP, I don't know if I'd get teh Giraud or go with the Ugly or the Annealeze for ~$300

But I'll tell you what, if you're staring at a pile of 500+ 223 cases, that you have to do one at a time with the AMP, you better have a bottle of something there to help get you through the session