I am new to PRS and long range overall. Started in February this year shooting only factory ammo. First barrel was a proof prefit for my Zeus. 1-8 twist. It only liked 147 ELD-M's. I switched to a 7.5 twist in a Patriot valley arms/Osprey Barrel Works barrel and it loved Berger factory 144 ammo. I moved to CRB custom cut barrel and it shoots better than I can shoot it. .3 groups at best so far. The 7.5 twist barrel really makes Hornady 147 ELD and 140's shine. Best though was the factory berger 144.
I saved all the brass. 2000 hornady factory cases and 800 Lapua LRP factory for reloading like I do now. Case of Hornady factory 140's was $397 at ammo.com and factory Berger 144 was $500 at Eurooptic.com. The federal GMM 140 with the berger bullets did not perform well in my Proof and I never tried it again.

Ttt

@Dirty D with his noodle in a Catfish hole ........

Made it back to Texas and the Athlon helped feed some more coyotes.

I let a friend of mine who is considering one use the unit half trip, and it was the good half for him.

Unit mounted on a Smoke Composites handguard with the skeletonized rail. Rifle is a Craddock built custom with a 6.5 Grendel Pangris mod 2. He was hitting 1.5" @ 100 with Hornady SST by design, was curious about the 120 Noslers and they turned out to be dead on at 100. He clipped on the Athlon and was 1" high at 100 yet again, no zero'ing was necessary. This proved repeatable as he replaced our old frame and steel this trip and he put it to good use off/on and checked it over three days.

The proof is in the pudding, he anchored two pigs without any drama. I'm biased against the Noslers because they are so slow I feel like you could achieve the velocity numbers with a stout slingshot, but, they continue to kill as well as anything else we've used up to an including Hornady SST and Underwood Triple Shock. Can't argue with results. They also seem to be quite accurate in general.

Laser range finder confirming distances - 70 and 180 in these cases - let you know where to hold.

Interestingly enough, he started with a Trijicon 3-9x40 Accupoint which isn't a perfect host. He threw a Strike Eagle on for the sake of trying it with an LPVO and I didn't see a huge difference between the image behind a Strike Eagle and a Leupold VX6 HD 1-6. YMMV...

Here's the best explanation I've seen for how the conditions developed to bring about this disaster -

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It can't be emphasized enough that this occurred in the early morning hours when most people were asleep.

Ichi said:

Amazing will to survive...

This shows the helicopter crash and Dave get out of the helicopter while he was covered in flames.

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What a stud.
Damn.

Pics?

brought ours out this weekend. good glass, great thermal host.

is this sold?

Bump

I just recently bought one of their QDT Inverted. There's a lot of truth in the saying "you get what you pay for". I had been using a relatively(compared to RRS) cheap photography tripod. 75mm bowl, carbon fiber, but it was nowhere close to being as sturdy or as practical as the Two Vets. The length adjusters are quicker, the leg locks are easier to work, and the inverted feature of the legs is the way tripods should have been to start with.

Hecouldgoalltheway said:

There are chapters missing from the Bible, and there are things that were added to control the population. I don't believe God expects us to allow ourselves to be driven to extinction. You may disagree, and I'll respect your opinion, but while I am a Christian, I do not for one second believe that the bible is the infallible word of God, on it's 7th translation, version 6, translated by a king who's other great literary works included cataloging mythical demons and such.

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I am sorry but your statements about the Bible show a lack of understanding of Bibliology, Canonicity, and textual criticism. The OT was written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the New Testament in Greek. Any translation is based of the original Hebrew and Greek texts, which we have many thousands of copies of. I am assuming you from a tradition that held strictly to the KJV, so that maybe part of your misunderstanding of Bible translations. Further, when you say entire chapters are missing and things added intentionally in order to control the population, can you please sight what chapters and concepts to which you are referring? If you are attempting to reference the differences of the apocryphal text between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, I think you have a profound misunderstanding about that whole subject. So please elaborate and reference what you mean because broad, unspecific claims with such reaching implications need to be specifically referenced.

Also the Nazis and Christian discussion (this is not directed to you Heouldgoalltheway): The entire question of how such evil was committed by seemingly common people has multiple levels to it, and my point is not to get into the anthropological, sociological, or physiological answers here. What I would like to address is the Church in German and its support for the Nazi party. The first issue is the Lutheran church in Germany was very much a church of the state. Just like Rome was, the Anglican Church was in England, and the Swiss reformed church under Huldrych Zwingli (go read some stories about that). The point is when the church is closely connected to the centers of power of the state, the state will leverage the institutional church to support their ends. This is what happened in Germany. So to say the Christians in Germany supported Nazism is kind of a misnomer, it was the institutional power of the church that backed the state. Buy not everyone supported this. Reading the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer helps illustrate all this.

CStroud said:

Must be, it’s certainly no special edition or anything.

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I dunno but that’s got to be one of the best pieces of kit I’ve ever purchased!

Brentwood, PA? Suburb of Pittsburgh?

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@alexj-12 I’ve been a user for 15 years (ok, I’ve been a lurker) and am trying to send PM’s but do not have the ability either. Apparently this is not an isolated issue, but maybe this will help…

Thanks

Oh no, just need to trim down a few, and figured to do a mod 3 vs mod 5.

So you’re going to keep shooting it anyway knowing full well it’s over pressure because you don’t want to throw away 700rd of junk ass ammo… you’re too damn dumb for you’re own good. Do you eat rotten leftovers out of your refrigerator because you don’t want to waste it? Or do you throw it in the trash?

That ammo is a hell of a lot cheaper than a blown up rifle or ER bill. Don’t expect any sympathy if you blow your shit up.