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It just doesn't feel the same

I couldn't agree more. Perhaps it's my fine, triple-milled Italian shave soap, but the homos are coming out of the woodwork wanting to fight when I refuse to respond to their PMs asking for dick pics.

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

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I drove my son and his buddies 4 1/2 hrs north to hike and camp . So I ask them what'd ya pack to eat . Over half of it was Chef Boyardee . So I responded with Chef YoAmBeeeee . Come back to pick them up and every other statement is " Chef YO AM BEE!! .
Be careful what you say round the youngins. 😆

Ridgeline Defense RD-15 LPR

Whatever happened to the shorter option? Not everyone wants a 15" rail, but I guess I can fire up the bandsaw...
There is a single 11.5” MLOK only LPR concept rifle we built for reasons. I like the idea of offering different LPR barrel and hand guard options and I think it will be a thing at some point in the future once LPR production is back on track.

6.5 Creedmoor

I’ve been shooting the 6.5 creed for the last 12 years. My go to was always 41.8 H4350 with a 140 ELD and 15 thou jump. Always gave me 2800 fps with a 24-26” Krieger. Always a solid recipe, like old reliable. Recently I tried RL-16 with a 130 hybrid. 🤯42.2 with a .020 jump. 2900 fps. SD’s in the 3’s and bugholes like I’ve never seen before. Has easily been the most accurate and consistent load I’ve tried over the years. Wish found it sooner.
Luckily for me, I have 16 pounds of RL-16 and like 2500 130 AR Hybrids...

Why do people load so hot?

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Lake City 7.62 brass is thick. I'm up to the case neck with 43.0gr IMR-4064. Learned that the hard way after popping a couple primers right off the bat during load development.

Lake City LR brass is just not good. I don't remember the H2O capacity, but my ES across 20 cases was over 1.5gr. No wonder my ES was in the 30s and SD in the teens regardless of how carefully I was loading. 15 years ago the lore around here spoke of the superiority of LC LR brass... but now you'll see recommendations for other stuff done by competitive .308 shooters... and for a reason.
Could be I have better than average Lake City LR brass - mine is 2005 thru 2011 - I got a good deal and bought a bunch.

I happen to be reloading 308 with LC LR. I grabbed ten random pieces. All had been sized and decapped, primer pockets dirty. I also grabbed ten random pieces of brand new Lapua, primer pockets clean. Just for grins, I weighted each population and ran basic stats.

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using only case weight, my LCLR is more consistent than new Lapua. The pedantic among you will notice that the Lake City is on the average about 3 grains heaver than Lapua.

I think my Lake City shoots not quite as well as Lapua but loaded exactly the same (same shoulder, primer, powder and charge, bullet and COL) both are 0.4 and 0.5 MOA at 100 yards and that is good enough for me.