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Your "Inventory..." How did it get that way?

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I was always nice to the grumpy old retired ex police dog handler who still worked as a civilian at the police station I worked at.

He used to run a small police museum at another police station before it was turned into office spaces and all the museum guns went into storage for about 15 years.
He found out that I was a collector and gave all the guns to me because I had the right licences for the machine guns and pistols.

Overnight, my collection increased by a Thompson M1A1 and a Reising Mod 55 SMG, a couple of dozen pistols, including a 1917 DWM Luger, a P38, a 1914 made Colt 1911 commercial model and a 4" S&W Model 12 Airweight. A 1972 made Ruger Single Six was in almost mint condition.

Having legally owned sawn off shotguns and cut down rifles is very unusual in New Zealand and always attract comments when I occasionally show them at collector's meets.

A couple of rifles, including a BRNO 601 .223 bolt action that was the NZ Police issue rifle for a while in the 1970s, and a sporterised Lee Enfield .303 that was taken as payment by a lawyer who (unsuccessfully) defended the previous owner on a murder charge and later donated the rifle to the museum when he was a High Court Judge.

Some of the guns were previously exhibits in terrible crimes and my wife would be horrified if she knew the stories behind them.
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New RF bino from Vectronix!!! Vector X

BigJimFish
Secant said:
Did you have production models of both? The published specs state the Geovid have slightly wider FoV compared to Vectors (10x42 Geovids=342-ft @ 1,000yds; 10x42 Vectors=333-ft @1,000 yds). The production Vectors that I had side-by-side with the Geovids in my previous picture had edge distortion. I'd agree that color was slightly better in my Geovids, and I thought resolution was slightly better in the Geovids as well.

Overall, the Vectors were very close to the Geovids, but my takeaway was that the Geovids optically outperformed the Vectors in both good and poor lighting conditions.
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Well that is very interesting. The vectors I have are pre-production though their optical components are production. The electronics have a slightly different firmware in the fpga and cannot be OTA updated on the unit I have at least. For Fov comparison I was just parroting the company given statistics on the FOV as I have 8x production geovids so they can't be side by side compared on FOV. For resolution I scaled the optical chart to compensate for the magnification. I wonder whose spec sheet changed in that time. I just looked back at my review and I had compared the Fov stat between the Vector X 10x42 and Geovid Pro 42. Evidently, someone has changed their published stat from what it was at that time perhaps due to a typo or some other error. I have now updated my reveiw to reflect this data. Thanks for pointing it out.
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FN SCAR IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE SCAR! US and Belgium Production is over.

mkollman74
corsairpilot62 said:
So the stupidly overpriced rifle is going to get even more stupidly overpriced?

Can’t wait for the gunbroker bubba to sell one for $27,000 cause “socom” and “discontinued” and “i know what i got”
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Free markets and shit - bitches...
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Accessories McMillan HTG Rem 700 Desert Smear

Zhomeguy
Package deal is you're interested, a PTG (RR Series) M40A1 Rem 700 SA Receiver with appropriate receiver mouth cuts, and scope mount cuts and a Brux M24 1-11.25 twist 308 Barrel blank, and a Badger M4 BDL style (closely matches the W70 style bottom metal) and a Walker trigger, all for $2000 shipped. Basically a built kit. Or if your serious ,my other posted McMillan Dark Forest HTG stock with the W70 style BM, the Brux barrel blank and Walker trigger for $2150..pretty much a bargain....
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