Series 70 Colt said:

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A.K.A Stockdoc

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Unfortunately due to illness he’s no longer doing them.

Not currently. Would like to keep it together.

theLBC said:

probably posted this before, but it makes me smile.

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he opened fire first, it's only logical for them to respond in kind.

(it's for the children)

I did not know of the existence of such things, and have one on order now:

Should be here next week, then we'll see a difference. As it is, My Lady says that she sees a definite difference in the laundry, simply by using the 'waste water' from the filter system. No matter what is 'in' the water, it still goes through 3 separate sediment/carbon filters and they remove a LOT of crap, just themselves.

This permeate pump should make a difference in our water bill, which incidentally has gone up 250%ish, over the past 20 years. And that was BEFORE hooking up the RO system this past Spring.

Imagine paying for a wild hog hunt, where the land land owner then sells the carcasses for an additional profit.

I’ve been saying it for years. For many land owners (pretty much every one selling hog hunts), wild hogs are a windfall, not the pest they are made out to be.

Just did an SE Colorado elk hunt in Sept walking up to 9 miles a day lugging semi- custom Seekins 300 PRC + P, 11 lb lb rifle and at age 73 that was no fun. I am building a 7 BC in a budget model that is much lighter but offers respectable accuracy to 600. Here is what I chose. Savage 7BC 110 Trail Hunter lite with 20". $580 from Buds. Factory weight is 7 lbs with Hogue overmolded 2.5-3 lb stock. Purchased Stockys `22 oz carbon that was clearance with very minor defect (had to hunt to find it) on grip, $299. should come in right at 6 lbs with the 110 for final weight. Will add bolt bushing kit and maybe accurizing IF I feel it is needed. For scope looking at Burris Signature HD 3-15x44mm Scope Ballistic E3 Reticle - Matte Black (200531) total weight should be no more that 7-7 1/4 lbs and 600 yard less than MOA accuracy on elk. Total cost will be about $1300-1400 depending on what rings I choose. Some early savages had bolt lift issue that has since been fixed and no recent reports of any issues. Yes, I dug into that in detail plus most accuracy issues are due to Hogue stock flexibilty and action torque. this gun will be a lighter carry, accurate rifle for elk and shooting up to 600.

Shooter McGavin said:

You can't get over 60 acres where I live for that cheap. For that much land here NTX you be paying close 10 million.

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And that has waterfront… that goes for $250K per acre minimum around here

75 is what i use

I know that this will probably get me run out of town on a rail, but a touch of non-ionized salt in the grind will take away the slight bitterness.

doubloon said:

Is that in Snow-beaner pesos?

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Still 44USD/lb

Action Guy said:

Respectfully, Sirhr, FN is in no way associated with General Dynamics. FN is a subsidiary of the FN Browning Group, based in Belgium.

AG

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You are absolutely right... My bad.

It was HK that GD was working with on the XM-8... and at the time, they stated they had no interest in civilian production. IIRC it was under consideration for acquisition by GD, probably contingent on the XM-8 getting adopted. BAE owned it at the time.

HK was later acquired by Private investors. But the president of the GD Armament and Technical products (Linda Hudson, my old boss) ended up as CEO of BAE a few years later.

This is more than 20 years ago... so apologise for the error and thanks for the correction!

Cheers,

Sirhr

flogxal said:

I have an RCA adjustable gas key that I haven't tried yet. One thing I wonder -- since it chokes gas at the carrier, rather than at the gas block further upstream toward the muzzle, do you notice any difference at the port? Or is the suppressor adding so much at the port it's not noticeable?

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The ejection port? I dunno, my ears and electronic hearing protection likely isn’t sensitive enough to tell a difference. The GA GP BCG already directs it all back into the upper so any extra port noise from the gas tube/RCA AGK is probably moot.

I am 100% not going to do that because I use these for a gas gun competitions and there’s absolutely no point in chasing it that far.

You can bluff until called out. And if the deck is full of shit and you want to play you have to bluff and hope you do not get called out until you get new deck. Actions right now seem borderline psychotic so far out one has to wonder wtf are elites smoking as they seem completely detached from reality. I think bastards feel their time is out and they are trying the “hail mary” of megabluff in the hopes the lie so big will be bought by plebs. Like Hitlers wunderwaffen in early 45…

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OK, it’s been a week and we’ve been randomly mixing in some of those other coffee types into our routine, and so far they all taste OK, but individually they all have very distinct differences from our preferred blend from Batdorf and Bronson. And then this morning my wife combined these two in equal parts without telling me, and I didn’t notice that she’d switched!



After she pointed it out I did notice that the taste wasn’t quite as smooth…definitely sharper, but that can be attributed to how the beans were roasted, or even how long it’s been since they were roasted. The beans are sourced from the same areas and are generally the same types of beans, so I think a lot of the difference is in the roasting method and time.

Since we always do 5# or more per order, the stuff we get is roasted by B&B just before it’s shipped, and that makes a real difference. I think these were roasted a bit more (longer) than our usual fare, and that tends to make the brew a bit more sharp (acidic?), which can be interpreted by my palate as a less smooth/more bitter brew.

This is the same reason we only grind enough beans for a day or two worth of coffee. Trust me, it matters.

That said, we liked this combo enough to try out a 5# order of both to get some beans that are freshly roasted…we’ll see how that goes!

Edit: I think that if we alter the ratio with a slight edge towards the medium roast, we’ll be very close. Having 5# of each will give us enough stock to experiment a bit.

Turkeytider said:

That’s true about competitive shooting. My remarks were coming from the perspective of a recreational, non- competitive shooter so were perhaps somewhat shortsighted. My apologies if anyone was offended. Certainly was not my intention.

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Brother I clean my weapons every time I am done shooting. I never store dirty so I agree

I never saw a weapon store scared for clean and oiled get ruined but sure have seen a bunch ruined from leaving dirty and dry

Frank Green said:

Why wait 400-450 rounds in between cleanings? Not poking at ya just asking. Yes a 308win or 223 gun for bore size vs case capacity they are easy on barrels but shoot a magnum round or a 6.5x284 or 6CM etc... your asking for problems.

Keep in mind as the barrel wears and the bore is getting rougher... it's going to change over time. When that barrel is new... sure I can see it going for say 200-300 rounds on a 308win... but when that barrel has a couple of thousand rounds on it... it might not hold accuracy for that long of a round count. Food for thought.

If I'm shooting F class Nationals or even a two day weekend match... I clean the gun that night so it's ready to go the next day.

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I found your barrels in 308 shoot that long between cleanings before accuracy starts to suffer. The cleaning regiment depends on rds to be shot the next day plus when shooting team sometimes we would double up on the “hot rifle “ if another rifle failed or quit shooting well. Heck TSA broke more than one of our team rifles over the years

Now when we were shooting Savage barrels I found I needed twenty rds to settle in if completely clean. Can’t always shoot twenty rds before going for record

I prefer to go 100-150 between cleanings but sometimes just get stuck going longer. They are always cleaned and oiled before stored

Hope that explains it

Rodney65 said:

Nice! How far are some of those longer shots in the last video?

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175y-225y. ish.

one more update. day 30. had 14 hits in a row until i missed light conditions today and sent it just over top of target.
25 hits, 5 misses - 83% hit rate

day 24 was at a club range and most similar target they had was 2/3 IPSC (4" head) at 465 yards but also -15* angle. still got the hit.

going forward i'm going to mix in some random stuff like thermal clip on, removing and reinstalling barrel on AXSR. need to sort out a better thermal target though as mine is always in shade.

theLBC said:

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Would someone please hit Shapiro with a hammer. What an annoying little fucktard.

wind gypsy said:

In the other discussion it was mentioned that Stiller for a while made some version of the "ramp thread" from the book but it wasn't popular so it got abandoned. This whole discussion also makes me wonder how this applies to "prefit" vs "fitted" barrels and how tennon threads cut a little looser to guarantee fit for the home gun plumber vs tighter "fitted" might impact the behavior of the joint. I was previously of the assumption that once torqued, this joint didn't move in the fitted vs pre-fit debates. This is all in the noise for most people as our performance on the gun is a much larger variable to improve but still interesting to me.

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"The Book" being Robert Vaughn's tome on his experiments in rifle repeatability experiments?

As far as thread fit... this is where pre-load comes into the question. In a threaded joint once the preload applied exceeds the load that the joint will cycle through it becomes moot for the low cycle count these joints see. Even though 10,000 rounds down a 223 barrel might sound like a lot it's still not even on most S-N diagrams for fatigue loading.

99% of the time when you have a feeding issue it’s due to the way the mag is setting in the bottom metal. If you have an adjustable mag catch you can usually fix the issue. I had one Manners stock with a mini chassis that would not work with my Vudoo but every other Manners worked fine. It was just how the mag fit in the DBM area.

CerebralDistortion said:

If you want a Sako barrel it does. If not, then pick one brand and have it threaded to M27X1.5. Also profile is important to fit the channel. There is not overly much space.

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Thanks. There is a review on Youtube the guy was saying that the barrels will need to be "hydraulically pressed" into the receivers and need to go back to Finland, but it sounds like that is not the case.