The Vortex Recon spotter with reticle mentioned would be another option especially if wanting to keep the weight down and still have a reticle.

RAVAGE88 said:

Absolutely, by adhering to two, simple dimensions (as it pertains to the chassis itself) that drive the vertical positioning of the magazine. Of course there are other things to consider, but assuming those are as they should be, the rest is simple.

MB

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Are you willing to share those dimensions at some point so we can evaluate the chassis that conform or don't conform to them? That would be good info. I suspect it is likely a small group of them that do but don't know. Have experience personally with MDT ACC Premier Gen1/2, ACC Elite, MPA Matrix Pro 2 and XLR Element. All are a bit different as you might imagine and all seem to have gone the route of the maligned adjustable mag catch.

The ACC Elite delrin dowels never really worked for me. They seem to be trying to solve the side to side issue where as most of my fitment issues I find are vertical not side to side.

I find to get the right vertical alignment I can't run the magazine super tight with the catch. For most riles that will place the magazine too high in relation to the chamber and cause it to shave on the top of the chamber. Aligning it vertically means it is a bit loose in the mag well which then start to cause issues with either upward pressure on the mag (hitting a rooftop, table top, etc) or rearward pressure on the mag from loading into a barricade/prop which then causes the feed angle to change due the magazine rocking clockwise in the action and causing the round to nosedive into the bottom of the chamber. It is this rocking that causes many of us to run barricade stops which helps with the latter problem of the round hitting the bottom of the chamber but is useless with the issue of upward pressure on the mag.

I find the idea Kenny at DPG is working on around an adjustable mag plate that attaches to bottom of action to help with fore/aft lockup fairly interesting. Trying to sovle a similar problem to the plunger in your DBM I think?

Thanks,

Chris

168BTHPM said:

Combat fishing in Alaska.

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We are up on the Kenai in Soldotna now. This shit is insane.

Why does this make me think of the Helsinki Upper Decker Incident of '84, you all know how that went!!!
The horror!

Since Vortex discontinued the Ranger HDs there is nothing even close to your price range that IMO is even serviceable. I have UHDs, but I use the Rangers because I like having the Mil Reticle more than a little more clarity and contrast. Honestly, the UHDs have sat in the box for about a year, as my chest binos are of lower quality but with a much higher field of view.

I would buy Vortex Diamondbacks before Bushnell or Athlon, but then again I wouldn't buy any of them. I'd save my money for a nice pair of Binos that are a pleasure to look through for hours.

Going to also totally disagree on the tripod. If you're glancing at something sure, but if you are looking at the same targets for 20 minutes your eye strain from looking at shakycam is going to actually hurt. Having a steady platform is a minimum for me.

Rob01 said:

To me a reticle in a spotter or bino has nothing to do with UKD as we have LRF now and you are very rarely asked to mil targets now. It has to do with getting width/height of target to use as reference for holds. You look at a target and it’s .9 mils wide and your wind call is about .6 mils then you can figure your hold point before even getting on the rifle while on the clock so you save time as well.

And you can’t look through your rifle scope all the time at most matches like you can with a spotter so the rifle scope isn’t really a replacement.

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I also find it useful for giving calls to new shooters that they can actually use. Every time some spotter calls out a linear correction at an NRL22 match it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Obviously not at bad at .22 close range, but still a horrible habit to get into making you useless as a spotter for anything but.

$1025 shipped

FINAL PRICE DROP. WONT GO LOWER.
CANNOT USE PAYPAL GOODS AND SERVICES ANYMORE.

ill include a long action mag magazone aics with chassis. or action. whatever goes first.

W54/XM-388 said:

GPS for civilians is one thing
GPS for the rest of the world is also one thing

Accurate, reliable, very hard to jam positioning systems for our actual military when it actually counts are a whole different business.

Russians have their own version as well, so do the Chinese.

However that being said most modern cell phone users use GPS + antenna maps in cities, so hard to say how accurate or not they would be if GPS for civilians isn't working for a bit.

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The reason I bring it up is that some of the same GPS satellites used by the military are used for civilian GPS. Its a dual use system. Some US civilian systems also use the Russian GLONASS satellites, comingling the two or tie into GLONASS only, usually its just a setting. Drones are an example.

AND the other hiccup: the DoD leases commercial satellite bandwidth when needed. In theory that could make them a target as well which would have further very unsavory implications. There are estimates that up to 40% of SATCOM use is met through this route, with Starlink no doubt being a part of it. So yeah, all those Musk satellites would definitely be in the mix.

ChrisKinsman said:

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If anyone happens to be going could be an “interesting” show for them.

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It’s going to interesting when someone slips and the truth comes out. Everyone is blaming the “new” guys…might be the old crew that was the disaster.

Can’t wait lol

ChrisKinsman said:

I guess a question for Mike is can you ever get an action in a chassis to feed as well as a stock with a dbm? Is that the choice you are ultimately making moving to a chassis? Challenges getting things to function properly?

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Absolutely, by adhering to two, simple dimensions (as it pertains to the chassis itself) that drive the vertical positioning of the magazine. Of course there are other things to consider, but assuming those are as they should be, the rest is simple.

MB

DDGKunia said:

Is there any intent for maztech integration?

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It is on our post launch radar. Our top priority is ensuring that the launch goes smoothly before moving onto additional features.

iceng said:

Anyone know what's going on ? Apparently there is some shit going down.

Or is it forboden to talk about ?

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I don’t even know what the title of this post means

@168BTHPM interviewing an Asian dude

I'm probably the only one here who has actually been to the Golan Heights despite there being so many Middle Eastern and Jewish history experts.

The Joos have been defending the Druze Christians for generations, and just because they are Christian does not exempt them from compulsory military service. Virtually every male and most of the women are IDF veterans. That said, they're concentrated in the North near the Golan Heights, though you can't tell any difference from the Jewish areas like you can the Arab ones. I wonder how many Syrian Druze would say they're worried about the Jews rather than the Jihadis? Some of the posts here are ignorant and assinine. Tell me again how wishing for the only spit of land the Jews control to be destroyed has nothing to do with your hatred of Jews.



The only reason they took it from the Syrians was it's strategic importance three generations ago. Today Syria doesn't have T-54s that can't fire depressed, so really the strategic importance is much diminished.

There is absolutely no reason for the Israelis to hit the Jihadis in Syria EXCEPT for the reasons they've given. You're right; nobody seems to GAF about the Druze EXCEPT the Israelis, and that may have something to do with (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_Druze) there being a ton of them serving in all capacities in Israel, and all the ones in the Arab states living as dhimi serfs.

If someone was mascaraing Christian villages just across our border I'm pretty sure that some of us Christians would argue to do something about it, and if the government didn't we would probably do something about it without them. In this case the Israeli government, that has a lot of Druze in it, is doing something. Claiming it's nefarious just proves who you really are.

tl;dr: For .22 matches (at least the ones I shoot), if I was starting from scratch, I'd buy a pair of decent 10x42 binos for $300-500 and be done. Light, compact, no tripod needed.
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For the rimfire PRS-style matches I've shot, my decades-old cheapie Nikon 10x50s are just right. For NRL22 inside 150 yards, as often as not I've carried an ancient pair of compact 7x35s. My Meopta MeoStar B1 15x56s are overpowered for simply locating targets among terrain features under 200 yards and really need to be on a tripod; the only time I'd want 15x for rimfire is if I'm an RO on glass.

My .$02.

We are down to just one black ZC210 with the DMR in stock right now - Richard

Good progress on the Magazine portion of the system-oriented project.
Although the material can't handle the spring pressure, the purpose of the exercise depicted in pictures was to qualify the driving equations for magazine capacity, starting with the 10-round version. As luck would have it, my first sample is a perfect 10 rounds with further downward movement of the follower of half a bullet diameter. This protects our brethren that are unfortunate enough to live in states that suck.

From here, I can alter the equation to hit 12, 15 and Tony Gimmellie 17 rounder.
A shout out and THANK YOU to my long-time friend and professional colleague, Josh Kunz, for turning the 3D prints around so fast. It's guys like this that keep projects like this moving and the network of collab is growing.
Lastly, the printed version of the magazine fits beautifully in the Badger Ordnance M5, my legacy DBM (more recently branded as VGW) and the new line of DDG DBMs.

As would be expected based on my studies/findings, it's loose in other DBMs that I physically have sitting on my workbench, further validating the larger dimensions compared to foundational information from Accuracy International and hence, the adjustable things we see these days that really don't need to be adjustable.

MB

Bootssgt12 said:

Lot# on 140rdf?

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CShooter92 said:

I’m looking to build a 22 Creed but have a couple questions.

It’ll be a dedicated coyote rifle and I wanna shoot 75gr bullets. Thinking the ELD-M.
I’ve got a Proof carbon barrel cert that I’m going to use. Planning on a 22” for easy maneuverability, not suppressed. Should I go with a 7 or 8 twist?

Regarding brass, I have a cert for free Lapua brass. I was thinking of just getting 6mm creed and necking it down. I already have a 6.5 creed Type S die. Could I use this with a smaller bushing to size all my brass? Or should I be looking for a 22 creed die?

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The 75 ELDM is an excellent choice for coyotes. I shot 58 last season with that bullet, and maybe 3 or 4 even took another step.
8 twist should be fine. That's what I use. Check out Staball 6.5 for powder. Hornady load data shows it about 150fps faster than H4350, and while RL26 is faster yet, you can actually buy Staball right now, and a max charge actually fits in a Creed case. My testing so far with a new barrel lines up pretty well with their data.
I'm necking down 6mm Creed Lapua brass with an RCBS bushing die and .250 bushing. No problems.

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Some of us, do care. I have many black friends and I want them to prosper just like the rest of us. Except that most of us, black, yellow, white, purple, arent really prospering at this point. We're surviving until the axe falls.