Huskydriver said:

That wood paneling tho.....
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It really ties the room together.

monkeypunch said:

Can you tell me more about the .458 build? I want to do a 12.5" build but the only way it looks doable is to buy a Ruger American Ranch and trow everything away but the action and start from there. What chassis did you end up with?

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It's a Rem700 action 308 bolt head. It started out as a "cheap" build concept but quickly departed from that. Started out with a cheap laminate stock and Wyatt DBM, required some mods of the follower to keep rounds from creeping forward and feed correctly. Factory exctractor would not retain control of brass on extraction given how short they were, case mouth would bounce against inside of action and dislodge cases from extractor and drop them on top of mag. Off to longrifles.com for an M16 extractor, problem solved. Gun works with 500gr Maker bullets, flat nose lead bullets for plinking are single feed.

A couple issues, despite bedding and an attempt to float, the gun gets screwy if I restrain it in a tripod clamp or anything similar. Also possibly getting issues pushing the Makers too fast, optical chrono is saying 1050fps but in cross-referencing this chrono with a labradar (have to take can off) with a 375 Raptor it seems the optical chrono is reporting low. So they are fast and possibly starting to open due to air resistance. I fixed the Raptor by slowing them under 1000fps on the labrader, will try that with the SOCOM.

The 375 Raptor is on a Pork Sword chassis. I'm now putting the SOCOM on an XLR ATOM, which is a direct competitor to the Pork Sword with a more robust back end attachment. This will solve what I think is a barrel floating issue.

America doesn't need a cesspool to clean out.

Trump's beginning to piss me off with running around trying to make a peace deal as a personal trophy I guess?

He needs to send a lackey without any power to do anything around to all the shit holes and coddle their nuts and tell them we feel your pain and will get back to you, next.

Stop sending troops or money over seas and work on North America first then South America next.

The only bodies of water we need to be concerned about crossing is the Rio Grande, the Gulf of America and the Panama Canal.

In that order.

Like the 20 Practical, a big advantage is you can take advantage of surplus 223 brass. The 6x45 does blow up prairie dogs with more authority than a 223. I built one in a bolt gun and I like it, it's an internal mag hunting build because it was initially intended as an gateway youth gun for my kids to do close range deer given 6mm minimum bullet diameter regulations.

Now a number of years on, I've also built a 6mmARC bolt gun. It's simply better at everything. So 6x45 isn't bad, it has the brass thing going on, but the ARC kind of overshines it.

Ttt

One of my buddies built an Arc with the exact barrel, sub MOA gun, pushes 80 gr ~ 2900. Great barrel!

DarnYankeeUSMC said:

Cuz you left them down the last time you got off. Like you always do.

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Toilet seat down… pegs up… make up your mind!

Sirhr

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Terry Cross said:

Wow. In an insulated ice chest! Must be a pic from a rich kid's place.

Ours was mixed with a boat paddle in a large green garbage can.

A few large Dixie cups later and the world would be "Crystal Clear".

Fun Fact: Adding mixed fruit for color and texture is cute until it gets caught in your nose a few hours later on the return trip back up.

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Jungle juice spiked with everclear that we could get at tax free NH liquor store for, IIRC, about $30 a gallon….

Definitely did the job!

Sirhr

Soulezoo said:

I'm an investor with Blackout coffee, so help me out there, Bud...

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Just ordered 4 different types to see if I can replicate my preferred Dancing Goats medium-dark roast…



Gonna be tough to beat that Batdorf & Bronson Dancing Goats blend though… I mean it when I say it’s the best coffee I’ve ever had, and I’ve tried many, many brands and types from all over the world.

Closest I’ve come to matching this was coffee we grabbed at a train station just outside Rome, and another that was very different, but still a very nice cup of joe at a little cafe in downtown Christchurch, NZ back when I was flying the ice missions to McMurdo Station.

Edit: Both of those used a dark roast Illy brand beans IIRC, despite being on opposite sides of the world…so anything along those lines clearly suits my palate. Any recommendations?

akmike47 said:

Man that’s a POS, but I want one. I was a sailing mother fucker back in the day my dad’s buddy always had nice boats and he taught us to sail. Luckily for him I took to it and would drop what I was doing to go so he never had trouble finding someone to do all the work while he sat back

I’m a loud motor mind of guy, but there’s something about sailing.

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Is it puff power or poof power ?????

MadDuner said:

I am happy for you that you are willing to reload 5.56 for your family.
And yes, I’ve got a Dillon that I use to reload with too.
5.56 needed in bulk is not worth my time spent at the bench reloading.

I’m not sure why results that show there is a difference in performance between types of ammo has you sounding vaccinated. And yes, the rifle that shoots a .75 moa group also shoots a 4 moa with different ammo.

IF you are finished throwing down insults about my shitty little groups and my shitty little pumpkin blaster…

Do you agree or disagree that ammo is one of the variables between groups?

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This! I think I’ve already stated it in this same thread but one of the first things I do when getting a new ghetto blaster is get a variety of ammo from a variety of different manufacturers in a variety of weights. Most barrels are somewhat picky or will shoot certain things better than others. It’s just how it is.

Certain twists usually prefer a certain weight range. It all makes a difference and as MadDuner pointed out, you can get wildly different results out of the same blaster. Find what it likes and shoot that.

For me, most of my 1-7 twist AR barrels love razorcore and when I say love I mean some of the best groups I’ve ever seen out of an AR were achieved with this stuff. And like MadDuner, at a certain point, reloading isn’t worth my time. It’s not inherently cheaper, better? Maybe. In my case, I get such good groups with Razorcore that it makes zero sense to roll my own. I’m not going to reload and get better results and even if I do, it’s splitting hairs difference and really makes no sense to get that deep in the weeds on a weapon system that I know I’ll never engage or use most likely past 300-500yds, max. In most cases 200yds is a stretch and frankly I just don’t care or need tiny little groups at that distance. As long as I’m getting hits on a man sized target with speed, accuracy and consistency, then that’s all I care about. I’m not shooting my AR 700+ yds. If I’m shooting that far with an AR then something is horribly wrong. At those distances I’m not picking up an AR at all. Far better tools for the job for those engagements.

I can vouch for the quality and usefulness of these little units...

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Wow. In an insulated ice chest! Must be a pic from a rich kid's place.

Ours was mixed with a boat paddle in a large green garbage can.

A few large Dixie cups later and the world would be "Crystal Clear".

Fun Fact: Adding mixed fruit for color and texture is cute until it gets caught in your nose a few hours later on the return trip back up.

Eostech said:

That's . . . not how it's going to go. The expendable populations of Europe aren't the illegals if you listen to what their leaders say.

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Yeah if something big kicked off they'd send the white men first and foremost. They aren't sending any of their precious rapefugees to the frontlines.

It's got a dark ring in it, but you can't feel it. At least not with a paperclip. Need to get a pick and see what it feels like. It looks like gasses are escaping around the steel head and starting to etch the chamber.

Thinking back on it, I set this barrel back and rechambered it not that long ago. I noted it in my book for this rifle when I did it, but I'm not that into tracking exact round count on this rifle. As a somewhat educated guess, I'd say this chamber has less than 300 hybrids through it. I think I'm done with them.