Don't own one or use one but I thought this vid was pretty good explainer.
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I think I've actually got a low hour 360 in my closet.

TTT

Unfortunately my Lapua/AA brass doesn't appear to have a heavier support area near the base. Lapua 6.5 Grendel cases were one of the original "belted case" cases in 6 ARC. I do not have the belted case issue with my converted Lapua cases, but they will swell some down low. My Wilson FL bushing die will get that out though. Now that I have more or less settled on loads, I am more gentle on my cases.

I will say Lapua is a SOB running through the Sgt of Arms die used as a pass through. A great lube is mandatory!

honzo said:

Solid reminder why once companies leave the Founder, “asshole”, phase things become bloated, slow and expensive. Probably why everyone uses European and Asian products once the product is more complex than a chunk of metal with holes.

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I don’t share that opinion.

Bantam1 said:

It made me rethink all of the things we do to try and squeeze some accuracy out of the gas guns. I think a good barrel and bolt with straight receivers are capable of more than enough accuracy. Or maybe I just got lucky twice.

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My anecdotal experience has kinda led me down the same path. When I first putting AR's together with intentions on making them more accurate I didn't even think about bedding, I was running a WOA barrel, in a standard M4 receiver, a good 2-stage trigger, and running a standard FA BCG. Decent factory match was yielding sub-MOA and that worked for me out to 600 yards. Last year I started doing some parts swaps and logged the data to see if there were any improvements and generally all the configurations shot the same with decent factory match ammo. 16" WOA in a BCM thermofit upper was sub-MOA, an 18" WOA barrel in a bedded Vltor upper was sub-MOA, same 16" barrel in bedded in the Vltor was the same, and same goes for the 18" WOA in the BCM upper. This also includes swapping optics between the configurations and using different handguards so it's not like one really had a leg up on the other one either.

I believe also that a good barrel, good ammunition, and good technique are going to contribute more to accuracy than bedding. My two accuracy focused AR's are bedded, it didn't seem to hurt anything but also doesn't seem to have drastically improved accuracy.

Great update!

Are there any plans to increase the maximum number of targets per card within the kestrel to match the app?

Pharmseller said:

Craigslist

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Bingo

akmike47 said:

Doesn’t work

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I wouldn’t know and don’t care. It was a humor post.

171farm said:

Doug, do you have any experience with the MeoHunters?

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I saw them at SHOT, however, we will not bring in any Meopta's until they reopen a facility here in the USA

VinceY said:

I would love to have this scope, but your latest bad feedback makes me hesitant

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I met this guy in person and bought some stuff off of him. Seemed like a solid and honest dude.

Monday night things got awful. Pain was … wow. Throwing up, shakes….

About 10pm I went to the ER at Hugh Chatham in Elkin. They saw me immediately, gave me fluids, fentanyl and zofran. The relief was incredible .

A CT with contrast found I was passing a rather large kidney stone. So better than the suspected gall stone but still far worse than the other 2 kidney stones I had years ago.

I came home about 1am and got some glorious sleep. Still waiting for the stone to come the rest of the way. I have some pain meds in case.

I appreciate prayer.

I tested my hit indicator housing last weekend, and it worked fine. Side note, 338lm will throw one right off the back of a 10", 3/8" thick plate by about 5ft at 525yds pretty easily, even with a monster rare earth magnet holding it on the back of the plate. (It was fine when I picked it up and slid the angled reflector back into the housing)

I can't imagine this wouldn't hold up to 22lr without an issue.