@ironpony52
I don't recognize that volume knob in the pic as being Fender. Do you have a pic of the whole original guitar?

Can you do the 10-22 style for .22WSM or .17 HMR but with the shock cord for a bolt action rifle?

1/2x28 on .300’s? They chose….poorly.

I have no problems with the 1 I have. Was getting hits out to 754 yards last week with my 16" Mod H

Again, these story’s are fantastic, T think 15 years here went before I thought to myself” damn, the perfect thread just appeared.
Veer G would approve, probably.

Just checking is this still available?

NHPiper said:

How did they fair in temps below freezing?

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In the south I don’t see those temps enough to test it honestly. Sorry

91Eunozs said:

It’s all good, his buddy just has to channel his inner Jeff Healy! LoL

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Well...you're not wrong!
Edit 1: Poor Jeff. Cancer took his eyesight as a kid, causing him to learn to play that way for some reason, only to return and take his life as an adult at the peak of his career.
Edit 2: I see you Liked my post with a laughing emogee before I posted Edit 1. So this edit is to credit you for those reading to know that you weren't laughing at Edit 1.

ironpony52 said:

This is what I noted before I disassembled the original.

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That sure looks like a 24" scale, which is definitely NOT standard for a Strat. Measure the distance from the back (fretboard side) of the nut to the 12th fret. If it's 12.0", then that would confirm it's a 24" scale. On the other hand, if the donor guitar measured exactly 25-1/4" (as pictured) from whatever point of the nut you originally measured, to the backside of the bridge, and you duplicated that EXACTLY, you should be OK, assuming the guitar intonated correctly to begin with. Note that 25-1/4" in the picture is not the "scale-length". Scale-length technically refers to the length of the vibrating string, which goes from the back (fretboard) side of the nut to the bridge SADDLE (not the back of the bridge). Since each saddle has to be in a slightly different place for the string to intonate properly, "scale-length" is really just sort of an average of these individual distances.

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You said it started as a Fender Strat? If you will notice, the cutout in the body on the bottom side of the neck extends all the way back to the 21st fret. Your body/neck intersection stops at the 15th. Either way, nobody’s playing anything above the 15th on your design. I’m not saying that’s unacceptable, it’s just the trade off you made, esthetics vs playability. All those frets above 15 (maybe 16 or 17) are unusable.

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It’s all good, his buddy just has to channel his inner Jeff Healy! LoL

BLEE said:

Depends, if you want to hack off an arm, or lay open a carotid.

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Well, one could open a carotid and take off the head at the same time with a three foot blade.

I appreciate your input. I’ve been looking at vortex lht. The razor is little over budget….

We will see. I don’t want to buy then regret what I got so I’m taking my time.

Yeah there are so many wants. I’m trying to do this the right way without going way over budget. I figured a wmlrf is pretty important if I ever do need it in different styles of shooting and a basic quality mono lrf will do the handheld portion.

Honestly my Bushnell elite from 2013 is in great shape and pretty sharp. I’m curious how much better 2k glass will be. I guess its obvious at distance

TahoeDust said:

Don't really know about deleting stuff, but how many shots do you think it took to fill it up? Must be a ton, not a lot of data to store.

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If it's like the Labradar, it's not the number of shots, but rather the number of Strings. I think the LR filled up at 100 Strings before it started to write over the oldest ones. I want to say the Garmin is the same/similar.

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What smoker are you using?

Is it possible that the grease gun method would force grease down the gas tube and do the work that gas would normally do? Just throwing that out there...

We were shooting at 1000 out at the high power range at CRC at some steel I had put out at the end of the pits. I hit the 12" plate and it spun sideways and got stuck on something. I told my buddy that I'd just shoot the edge of the plate and spin it back around. He said he'd buy lunch if I could do it before the mag ran out. Sure as shit, next shot I hit the plate and it spins back around. We go down and look at it and there is a streak ripped through the paint about half way across the plate. That was with a .308 AR-10, GASP!! I felt pretty cool. It was lucky as shit but I was trying to do it.

The cicada reference is a great one…same here, maybe mixed in with some tea kettles. Sucks.

Sounds weird, but relatively large doses of vitamin E seem to help me quite a bit. I take one 400 IU (180mg) dose in the morning, and another in the late afternoon. When I first started taking it I didn’t think it was working, so I stopped after a couple months, but within a couple days of stopping I noticed the ringing was back, and it seemed much, much louder….reality was that it had gotten better, but the improvement was so gradual, I just didn’t notice.

Still on that regimen now, and it doesn’t make the tinnitus go away, but it is a lot better.

Overwhelmingly negative.

hlee said:

AR15.com, for whatever it is worth, but the post cites references…

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I'm surprised phosphate lasted longer tbh I thought for sure the chrome would've won

Are these medium or high ?

They're scarce here too - Basically have to go the custom route if (like me) you prefer nice timber. SCA are doing a chassis for the LA101:
https://www.scsa-au.com/tsp-x

I don't own a 457 but there are so many after market options available for that rifle, Lithgow in factory form wouldn't be in the race.

SupersonicJ said:

What does the line conditioner do?

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i was wondering the same thing

ruger35 said:

Found an old post that outlined it. Going to test it out tomorrow.

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Worth doing. my adjustment is basically maxed out but I know I’m hitting the target. I’ve used some buddies that haven’t done it and you can tell it’s not spot on