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Think Putin’s going to make a go at Finland?
The foreign ministry secretary who bragged about Putin’s strategic vision back in the 2000s said Finland, the Baltics, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Goergia would all be taken back, now that Russia has a strong man in again.

We were having the discussion with the guy who took me into Russia about Finland joining NATO, and the Russian foreign ministry secretary (one of his in-laws) said if Finland joined NATO, it would be seen as a provocation and threat to Russia, resulting in Finland being taken quickly, but they were planning to take it anyway.

I kind of placed this guy in the category of an old Soviet-era blowhard (which was true), but also didn’t just write him off altogether and remembered the list of countries on the plan. This was well before 2008.

My Irish Sniper partner and I competed in FinnSniper in 2008 in the summer, then I went to be an Observer-Controller in Erna Raid in Estonia. While we were running Erna Raid, Russia invaded Georgia. That conversation about Russia’s strategic vision immediately went to the top of my list and I felt we were on our way to watching history unfold once again.

As we speak, Putin is having the logistics infrastructure for thousands of soldiers being built right near the Finnish border, in similar fashion as was done before his invasion of Ukraine.
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Bell & Carlson Stock; need some insight

Definitely the model noted in the link in the post above.

I had an A2 clone for a Savage about 20 years ago. My example had the aluminum block canted in the mold I guess...the bottom of the forend had a good 5 degree left to right slope. I tried to make it work a few times at the range, but eventually sold it and never looked back. Probably an example of one, as B&C made a lot of stocks for Remington and a few others for many years and I don't recall anyone else ever discussing that issue.

Very similar to the designs of an H-S Precision, but with probably a little less focus on QC and more emphasis on being made to a price point. The good news is that B&C are about a third to half the cost of a Manners with a mini chassis...so for guys on a budget they should still work fine. I definitely agree with the above that the owner would be doing themself a benefit by skim bedding them though. If they could catch up to the market a bit with things like QD sling points, and wider barrel channels then they might have a bit more popularity. Their niche though is to drop-in factory barreled actions and go. As far a being structurally sound, they are perfectly fine.

Which brings me to the point that for second-hand sales, you're more limited to guys who are running nothing thicker than a factory Remington varmint barrel and bottom metal (or if they want to relieve the inlet). In today's 'tactical' rifle market, those are significantly less popular options.

That Anschutz rail is aftermarket.

I don't really have a good idea of what you'll get out of it. If you do sell it, might not hurt to come back here and let us know what it went for.
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Pope Death Watch... WITH A PRIZE!!! Quart of Maple Syrup to the winner!

Easy to answer. Daniel was seeing not just into the spirit world, he was seeing into the future. Of the beasts he saw we know that one was Alexander the Great and so on. The ancient of days he saw was obviously God. He also saw the son of man which is obviously a man, and that is the Man Christ Jesus. Not duality. He saw God and he saw the flesh that God would put on to save us. Read revelation 1. John describes the same thing as Daniel but calls it the Son of man. When we get to heaven we will see God. He will be sitting by himself on ONE throne. He will have scars in His hands, feet, and brow. And we will bow down and worship him.
This illustrates perfectly what is going on.

DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

A proper end mill is best (like @David Lott posted), as it has no point like a drill and will clean the entirety of the blind hole for the pin. It's best to have no, or a very small, corner radius.

MB
This flat nose works great,

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PortaJohn

When a teacher with communication skills this poor, and grammar skills this poor and so little mastery of the english language, makes a a video about quitting teaching because students aren't learning.....
Well, i am torn. It is good this idiot is leaving but who is gonna take jer place.

Dialing wind Question

I can confirm, they dial on the clock

or the Austin's do, ive seen both of them do it in person

its not every target or every stage, but it does happen

So how do they adjust their wind on the other stages? ;)

I am sure the stages they do are easier to do it on with either less movement/targets where you have the time to spare. And as I said being left handed makes it easier as you can see the windage knob while on the rifle like a right handed shooter can see the parallax.

Federal does it again 😅

Half the stuff they are saying isn't even true from what I am gathering. For example. It is a SAAMI approved cartridge, they did no testing of their own. Most of their BOLD statements are just opinions and assumptions.....
Well I don’t know it’s been months, there’s no published load data, no dies only a video where there’s a dude in a lab coat showing absolutely nothing of substance.
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Dialing wind Question

Ask them or go to a JTAC class. In the video above, he dials on the clock. They will bang that into your head.

lol well then all the power to them. I wouldn’t advise that to anyone let alone a new shooter. Way too much wasted time, especially for a newer shooter, in having to come off the rifle to see the windage knob and adjust it then get back on the rifle and on target when all you needed to do was a small shift in the reticle.

Sierra 6mm 107HPBT Matchking caution

Maybe so. There's a reason Palma shooters refer to the 2155 vs the 2156 for Sierras 30 cal 155 Match Kings. They left the old reliable tug boat design in play when they brought out the new sleeker design (their first design with the closed nose, AFAIK), so everyone used the model # to differentiate which one they were talking about. Later I think they wised up and just tweaked the design slightly to get a 169 or 177 rather than confuse the end user.

Same thing here - just saying 'S107MK' could be a newer closed nose design, or it could be the 'OG' version that I just finished off a 15+ year old 500ct box of - it's been a while since I had a 6mm anything 😉

PRS-Here I come! Follow my progress. UPDATED!

Here we go again. I shot in another Regional Qualifier match in Anderson, Texas this past weekend. I was prepared, but was I really? I noticed a few things that need some attention. Mostly, taking an extra second to steady up on the target and make a clean trigger squeeze. How about aiming at the middle of the target? How about actually measuring my misses? Only excuse I can come up with is this was my first match with 1:45 par times. Its an excuse and I know it.
I tried to go suppressed again, this time I had a new brake made that helped a lot, but I'm giving up on the suppressor and going back to the brake. Seems with the suppressor my speeds are way higher than without. Sometimes as much as 60 fps. Maybe it's my barrel showing some wear, who knows? I have another barrel procured and that will be going on this weekend.
Finished the match with 52 of 83 impacts with 73% hit rate compared to the winner (winner dropped 10).
Let me know what you think, I'm all ears. Just trying to get better.
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DeLane Dev Grp V-22S Single Shot Support

I've received a bit of outreach about what parts are in the kits and at the moment, I'll answer for everyone here by saying that every small component that is part of the action assembly will be in the comprehensive kits. I'll publish what's specifically in the kits later, but there are five:

1. Orange--Gen 1
2. Red--Gen 1.2
3. Purple--Gen 2
4. Blue--Gen 3 Repeater
5. Yellow--Gen 3 Single Shot

I won't be offering the action assembly components individually, so if you need a part, the kit is the only way to go. There's a lot involved in making this work and to ship a single part only to have to provide another single part for the same action/rifle later on is not efficient and there are many kits that will be shipped OCONUS.

I've also received numerous questions about magazines and if I have an equivalent to my original polymer magazines. Currently, I do not, but I will be making and supplying a new magazine later as part of the two actions that will use them, and the plan is, they will be backward compatible with the V-22.

Hope this helps,

MB

DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

I've received a bit of outreach about what parts are in the kits and at the moment, I'll answer for everyone here by saying that every small component that is part of the action assembly will be in the comprehensive kits. I'll publish what's specifically in the kits later, but there are five:

1. Orange--Gen 1
2. Red--Gen 1.2
3. Purple--Gen 2
4. Blue--Gen 3 Repeater
5. Yellow--Gen 3 Single Shot

I won't be offering the action assembly components individually, so if you need a part, the kit is the only way to go. There's a lot involved in making this work and to ship a single part only to have to provide another single part for the same action/rifle later on is not efficient and there are many kits that will be shipped OCONUS.

I've also received numerous questions about magazines and if I have an equivalent to my original polymer magazines. Currently, I do not, but I will be making and supplying a new magazine later as part of the two actions that will use them, and the plan is, they will be backward compatible with the V-22.

Hope this helps,

MB

DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

I assume a late 2024 Vudoo is cerakoted. Hand tap or drill good enough? I don’t have a workspace to fixture or drill press.
A proper end mill is best (like @David Lott posted), as it has no point like a drill and will clean the entirety of the blind hole for the pin. It's best to have no, or a very small, corner radius.

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223 freebore for 88-95gr

Some more modern bullets post-date the wylde chamber. 85.5 Berger comes to mind, I think the ideal throat/fb or whatever for 85.5 is around 100, but I'd have to check my notes. [ETA my notes show ideal "spec" FB for the 85.5 Hybrid @ 0.99 and for Beger 90VLD Target @ 1.06.]

I am well aware of that. Pretty much any 223 chamber is going to have to be 'non standard' to accommodate that class of bullets. But OP was lumping the 223 Wylde in with the 223 Rem Ackley Improved. There's absolutely nothing about the Wylde chamber itself - throat aside - to make load data materially different. The throating will of course make a huge difference, but it's entirely possible / common to have a Wylde chamber throated long.