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Thermal Scopes for Beginners

I've been impressed with the 400x300 Burris scopes for the money. I use a NOX 35, but my son uses a first gen Burris BTS50 and it has been a great investment, killed many pigs and coyotes. I'm testing an Athlon Cronus 640 CL right now and it is very impressive at a $3100ish street price. It isn't $2000, and it is a clip on, but it is a whole lot of thermal and has a laser range finder for the $$.

Ultimately I'd strongly suggest considering spending a LITTLE more thank $2k and getting a used 640 unit still under warranty out of the classifieds.

Why do we educate our enemy's in the first place?

we constantly educate our Chinese friends in nuc physics

And Pakistani, and Indian, and Saudi, and sub-Saharan Africa, and beaners, and anyone else who pays full-freight non-scholarship tuition. Which is govt subsidized.

Start your own universities. Arabs invented the %^**ing zero. The Chinese invented writing. The Indians invented… well… let’s say Skurpees. Whatever.

They bray on about their thousand year cultures… or 5,000… or whatever. Complain about America endlessly. Your culture and country is so good, you educate your best and brightest. Then try and come up with things like indoor plumbing, electrical wires that aren’t like a ball of wool the cat got into… and stop pissing in your fucking drinking water.

Instead, you want to come fuck up our part of the world where in 200 years we put a man on the moon while the rest of you still worship cows and put ashtrays in your ears. (Sadly, retards here do that now more than Africans… but you know what I mean.)

Let’s get back to where kids in America aren’t getting to college… illiterate!!!

talk me outta a MOA scope….😳

i know, i know…im not a guy w a bunch of high end optics, have made due over a few decades(yea older guy w 4 grandkids approaching retirement) using mostly super snipers, first the original 10x MIL/MOA versions, then added a couple MIL/Mil ones. grabbed a PH 3-15 many years ago as my lone alpha scope. been doin rimfire comps, and some LR steel shooting w the same scopes ive had forever it seems. Im one scpoe short, for a 300WSM thats been on the back burner for ages, but ive finally been working with and getting some decent results.

anyways i walk into a shop today and see they still have a Tangent Theta 3-15 professional MOA thats been there for over a year, but theyve dropped the price to 2500, could probably get it out the door for closer to 2k cash….tempting, but i gotta admit i feel slightly disadvantaged when i pick up one of my rifles still topped off w a MOA super sniper.

thoughts? all appreciated

lear
OK, I'll talk you out of an MOA.

Get an IPHY.

I did when I ordered a USO, and I've never looked back.

#Imperial
#mils=commie
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talk me outta a MOA scope….😳

One of the best scopes in the world for a 60% discount? I would find a home for it, MOA be damned.

I love my old PH, and this reminds me of its better baby brother.

i travel for work alot and come up here where the scope is all summer. i checked the scope out last year but was not interested at the 3800 they were asking. got up here for the first time this year and saw it was still there but marked down, figured id ask here for some thoughts while i consider my options

thx everyone, if i grab it ill post some pix

lear

Gunsmithing Tubb's final finish lapping bullets; lets hear it.

Borescope came in and the Centurion MK12 barrel was definitely rough just past the chamber. And I wasn’t too impressed with the gas port either. I have maybe 600 rounds on it.

My KAC LPR with Krieger has some fire cracking which is to be expected given the >6k round count, but down the barrel and gas port looked good.

I did the full FF system on the Centurion and 10 of the TMS. Following the instructions and cleaning every 5 rounds etc.

After the 15 rounds and cleaning, the ‘chatter’ looked better but not completely gone. I was running out of light so I cleaned it well and shot three 5-round groups with my 77gr SMK loads. .96, .93, and .70moa. I have struggled to get under 1-1.5moa before.

I’m going to deep clean again tonight and tomorrow do 10 more TMS, clean again, and see what it’ll do.

I’ll probably give my KAC LPR Krieger 5 or 10 of the other TMS and see what it does to the fire cracking.

Now that I have a borescope I can inspect any barrels I get before firing a shot and decide if the FF/TMS system is necessary before I struggle for 4 months lol.

talk me outta a MOA scope….😳

I don't see how it will hurt you. The advantage of mils is they make it easier to communicate with others using mils.

It does not sound like you're doing that.
would be some, usually shoot w a spotter, and i remember when we got our first spotting scope w a reticle, suddenly moa was no longer a good option w that mil spotter, that was a game changer for us.

Not sure if there are different levels of dead or a miss between any system, be it MOA, MIL, IPHY or Minute of Duck? Knowing how to operate all systems is an advantage. Go with the system you are best with under high stress, because when its all on the line you will ALWAYS revert to your lowest level of training/usage.
and thats MIL anymore for me…i have my last remaining moa scopes on a varmint plinker 223 bolt gun and an M1a. I hate the thouht of goin on a nice hunt out west or something and screwin the pooch w MOA. the matching turrets and reticle may help. i dunno, its a pretty screamin deal but im not surprised it hasnt sold. ill probably offer 2k for it and get shot down initially, but im good at long sieges, and they will give eventually i bet
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No charges for slamming elderly man on head , causing brain bleed and broken back

Well at least one here whom like to mount dicks says because people are shit black hood rats cops should just beat or kill them on sight because nothing else works after trying no other method .

And G hate to steal you thunder but I have a post about this . No worries my only concern is spreading the word - young old handicapped and infirm that’s when we see brave hero’s in action - Face tattoos or epstine clients forget about it .
yea,don't see much kicking in of doors on MS 13