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Rifle Scopes New bushnell XRS3 has illumination!!

stello1001
Why the fuck and how the fuck are they advertised and marketing new scopes when they can't even answer phones from paying customers for months. There's people who need warranty services that either never find a way to make contact with an actual human at Bushnell or get blown off when someone does answer.
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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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Dead Eye Dick said:
After decades of fighting the latest windows upgrades, windows viruses, I decided, enough is enough. I’m a fruit company man. Give me my Mac. At least the thing works. However, still tied to Word and Excell.

In my world, Word with its built in WordBasic was the highlight of Windows. Give me a day or so, and I could make it really sing, make it solve problems and reduce tasks from days to virtually seconds.

One of my past employments had us doing next years contracts. We started in March. Everyone in the office struggled to get the contract forms done by the start of the fiscal year which was July 1. Those forms were several pages long and had all kinds of little items needing changing, hidden in and about all the legalese wording.

I wrote an applet inside Word that pulled up the form from the individual client’s folder, / subdirectory, opened the file, went to each item needing changes for the new year, gave me options and always one option was choose my own if what I needed was not listed. Took about five minutes to complete the form, printed it out and refied the form under a new name in the clients directory on my computer. No worries about errors, no long hand typing, no going back over and over again after the supervisions found missed items, just five and done. Get it in for review, get it signed (I always enjoyed being otu in the field rather than tied to the office) and done. Took me a week total and I had the second highest caseload in the entire office. Everyone struggled for months.

Now here is the sad part. I offered to install this app on everyone else’s computers. NO, that’s too hard. My wife, Brenda, who also worked in the office loved it. She bemoaned the day I left because I would no longer be available to write new apps or update old apps as the need arose. Everyone else, for all I know, they are still trying to get those contracts done. They started last month.

Days gone by. No longer coding. Its a use it or lose it and Its been so long and with no need to do so, my skills are gone. But in the ballsy days of the 80’s and 90’s when personal computers were a real novelty and writing something that ran quick on those 80286’s was a valuable skill. (the 80386 and 486 were much much better.) The old 8088, you fellows can’t beleive how slow those once state of the art PC’s were.

Funny thing, installing my compiler and editors on my 286 took something like two hours or more. When I installed it on my first 486 it took 17 minutes and ten of those seventeen were feeding discs into the computer. I use this little iPad a lot and its probably a million times faster than the 486. Still wrote some really good, commercial grade stuff on those old warhorses.
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Never got into coding outside of dos in school. Started doing VersaCad on a 80286 back in the late ‘80’s. Boy my HP G-7 laptop running Autodesk Civil 3D runs circles around it now.
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Thou shall not take the king's fish(bluefin)

M
yes,the king does not want you to catch his snapper,grouper,trigger fish,red fish,snook,tile fish or trout. here in FL if you go very far out into deeper water you are stuck with NOAA "rules". AKA laws that the uniform hangers in a boat are happy to fuck you over about. if you follow how those laws have changed over the years,it is easy to see how the attempt to kill rec fishing is ongoing. got to get fish for our under the table supporters to sell. the way commercial limits are decided and sold is one of the clearest examples of financial corruption you will ever see. follow how their population studies are run and funded. the long standing red snapper story is the perfect example.
and here in FL the fresh water and hunting regs are about as fucked up as anywhere else in America. but then FWC is quite corrupt and run by some very shady people and staffed by some real respect my authority (and power) types.
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Sidearms & Scatterguns Getting into wheel-guns: S&W 986 or 627 PC / V Comp?

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Qpski said:
I have been firing two 627s, one 4" and one 5", with Starline brass and TKCustom moonclips for a number of years. I'm using four grams of 231/HP38 in a 160-gram roundnose Bayou bullet. For a long time, this combo has been excellent. I believe the same configuration will satisfy you. Investing in a BMT moon clip tool is highly recommended. It's the greatest one available. It facilitates quick and simple mooning and demooning.
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Are you loading grams or grains?
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6mm ARC Gas Gun Barrel Lengths and Muzzle Velocities

Gtscotty
The information you're looking for and more has been discussed in this thread, worth doing some reading there.

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New 6mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge

I hadn't seen this posted here yet, but SAAMI added a 6mm Grendel derivative called the 6mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge or 6mm ARC to their newly accepted cartridges list. 6mm ARC introduction pdf The case looks like the shoulder has been moved back, and the neck is a little shorter as compared...
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I have a 21", an 18", had a 12.5", and have a 13" on order. My 18" is my general purpose rifle, light enough for hunting and accurate/fast enough for non-match range use. Outside of a more specialized range only gun, I don't have any interest in going longer again, and sometimes think the 18" would be better as a 16", but it shoots too good to chop or replace. The 13" should scratch that itch and be another good hunting rifle though.

Here's one of my go to loads for the 18":

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It's accurate and I wound up using it in a 12.5" upper to take two deer this year, worked well, although was starting out closer to 2,400 fps in that barrel length. LVR gives top velocity and good accuracy in the ARC, but the price you pay is temp sensitivity and it's fairly dirty.

I did play with AR-Comp some and it shows promise at lower velocities, but I suspect is probably still over gas-gun pressures.

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Most folks using a gas gun seem to be using factory ammo, or loads with LVR, AA2520 or CFE223. It also seems like a lot of the bolt breakage stories seem to come from people trying to run Varget and the like at decent velocities.
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