DeathBeforeDismount said:

Tell that to every competent pistol shooter from high level military, law enforcement and competitive shooters. There is a reason a dot is used. It's vastly superior.

The same idiots were probably touting the same shit when the aimpoint came out...and how iron sighted m16 and m4 were more reliable.....meanwhile.....

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I teach pistol, carbine and rifle
The red dot is so much easier to get students to hit consistently with so no doubt it’s far superior to irons

In addition you don’t need a perfect sight picture with a red dot

Red dots are here to stay.

I tell people all the time
Once horse cavalry ruled the battlefield but times change. Adapt or die

I choose to adapt

beetroot said:

I'll try some of the Hornady brass I've got, then look at turning the powder charge.

I didn't really want to start reloading another cartridge, yet here we are.

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I use Hornady brass and top of my head my load was around 44.5grns. Shouldn’t be too hard to swap over.

WeR0206 said:

I had a similar issue with virgin alpha brass needing the shoulder bumped back a few thou so they didn’t stick in my chamber with headspaced bolt. Virgin hornady brass was fine and didn’t need to be bumped back or anything so it seems to depend on the manufacturer and how tight your bolt is on your chamber. My headspaced bolt closed very tight on a 1.191” go gauge so it didn’t have much wiggle room. When I switched to a non headspaced spare bolt out of curiosity it closed fine on the virgin alpha brass without any shoulder bump

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Edit 10-13, Nosler brass not Norma

I also had no issues with factory Hornaday loads. The Nosler shoots pretty good, all things considered. It’s just a little extra work before priming. Since most of this brass is going to get left on the range (2 gun/tactical biathlon) I want the cheapest brass I can get my hands in that won’t separate.

I wish I would have gone with a Redding type S small base over the RCBS. I really would like more than .002” neck tension, even with the taper crimp. I tried polishing the RCBS expander ball, then tried running it in a drill over a file. I literally could not get it to remove material from that expander. Maybe they sell an undersized ball?

Rob01 said:

I use that bullet in my bolt guns at 2750fps and have shot it in matches to 1250 yards without issue. Actually hit the target more than anyone else in my squad at that 1250. Might need to tweak the load some if the groups are opening up at longer ranges if the brass change doesn’t do it.

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I'll try some of the Hornady brass I've got, then look at turning the powder charge.

I didn't really want to start reloading another cartridge, yet here we are.

Longshot231 said:

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I was taught in my automotive school that all electronics come with factory smoke. When you let it out it can never go back in and the electronic part will not work without it.

Samuel Whittemore said:

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To what end?

That goes for all the "theories".

Why all the bull shit?
Was he really that important outside of his narrow scope of things to involve all this falderal?

Fuck Ukraine

Fuck Britain fuck the EU.

beetroot said:

That's the answer I wanted to hear.
Thinking about it I have some other once fired brass I could try easily enough (Federal, Hornady, Sako).

I don't know much about the who projectile stability thing, was just a thought considering I get good groups at 100 and 300, but opens up after that.

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I use that bullet in my bolt guns at 2750fps and have shot it in matches to 1250 yards without issue. Actually hit the target more than anyone else in my squad at that 1250. Might need to tweak the load some if the groups are opening up at longer ranges if the brass change doesn’t do it.

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I am a boomer so I grew up using iron sights
A few years ago my pistol shooting started going bad because de I could not get good sight picture with iron sights anymore

I switched to a red dot and my pistol shooting is back to very good

I found not all red dots are equal. I have settled on Vortex Defenders and no issues in last couple of years. The new ones with enclosed emitters are my favorite ones
Before the Defenders I was using a Delta point Pro which is good but I was always adjusting the dot brightness because it would blur if too bright because I have a nystagmus

I have tried the new Burris Fastfire. e. Not bad but glass is sup par when doing long shots 50 plus yards.
Meprolight MPO. Not bad but mounting system sucks
Trijicon HD. Very good but cost is crazy

mr_snipers_hide said:

I am looking closely at the Hydrogen and Jolene; on paper they perform very similarly wrt sound reduction at the shooter’s ear, though the Hydrogen measured significantly higher on backpressure. Is that something that you notice shooting behind a bolt-action in your experience with these two?

Thanks!

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Back pressure is a concern for automatics. I haven't noticed any real difference in backpressure on a bolt gun.

Is the Downpour jacket in the first pic very light weight or does it have any insulation to it?

bigbore said:

Does yours have the "dimple"?

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No its an earlier serial in the 200s