Mean_Man said:

Good grief I know there's a no nude version of this thread but dang... does it have to be half a page on every page nearly?

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You probably belong somewhere more prudish

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Good enough to take plenty of bets from the normies who dont respect the little 223 lol.

20 moa base should be fine.

Terminals depend on bullet choice here... a 300 or 350g hard cast is going right through a deer out there pretty damn far... a light for caliber hollow point probably not. Subs at 500 yards is generally tough simply due to SD and variation in the rounds. You gotta really be on your game to get it consistent.

It can be done, but man its a pain in the ass before you start dealing with the drops and wind. It's like you're starting out behind the curve I guess is what I'm saying.

Powder and bullet choice? Need to choose wisely here. Not sure how your case fill is gonna be, and that can play hell right off with shots out there past 400 yards. Will need to find a bullet/powder that gives good case fill.

Inside 300 yards is doable for sure without Hercules level effort... sometimes you get lucky, but i prefer 200 yards and closer for most subsonic stuff, especially hunting... closer is better and what those rounds do best. Expanding subsonic and big wide flat noses do well.

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Mean_Man said:

Screw that noise. I like my lead bullets and lead core bullets. I like that they tend to be more accurate, expand more easily, cost less, weigh more for the length, and probably one or two more advantages vs monolithic copper, or some special alloy.

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If the Gubbernment decides your not allowed use lead ammo then it doesn't really matter what you'd prefer to use.

That's the main reason behind the .21 sharps.

Lancer mags are great, but I only use them for 300BLK so I have a tactile and visual differentiation from the mags I use for my 5.56/.223 uppers. I use Magpul or GI mags (steel or aluminum) with Magpul followers for my regular uppers, and they work well for me.

If you only have one caliber upper for that gun, try them all and use the one you like best.

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She's gonna need some help getting that off. And stuff.

Aussie Joe said:

Dirty D after he assumed "the position" on St Paddys day

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That’s how I sleep after I bang your mom

actually we could buy it and import it from anywhere like our antibiotics etc. something else to tariff. opiates are as cheap to make as aspirin. huge markup and tax source for somebody.

some random China thoughts.
Taiwan a big ? mark with a complex history. Japanese possession til '45. mainland always considered them kinda backwards "yellow trash". didn't pay it much attention. that changed when Chiang essentially invaded it in '49 after Mao's win. remember the artillery exchanges at Quemoy and Matsu in 50s? the Nixon China action and making up the 1 china idea to bug Russia and split the commie world is a cause of a bunch of our problems. Chiang being there caused Mao to get interested. the idea to help China get rich and become a "democracy" was more idiocy. that and losing our manufacturing base caused by greedy unions,execs and the IRS was our added suicidal idiocy. BTW Taiwan was never ruled by Peking or really considered a part of China during it's long imperial history.
protecting Taiwan with force will get us trashed. big ocean full of bad subs. eventually would go nuc because our neocons couldn't take another defeat like VN or ME. kinda like China invading Cuba.

Pull the bullet on a known "hard to close round" and try to chamber that empty case w/o a bullet. That would isolate the possibility of over size cases, which are not uncommon.

You could have more than one thing going on.....

Usually, jamming a bullet into a tight leader or throat that hard would result in a bullet staying stuck in the bore and powder all in the action when extracting the case. Rub marks on the bullet may only be a secondary issue. Maybe, maybe not...

Isolate and remove one thing at a time from the equation.