When I did mine we drilled some long concrete bolts into the existing slab and left about 4" extended above the pad to secure the new pad. It has worked great, its been 15 years and is still rock solid.

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Re: powder storage/SeanDaNailer.

Since You're supposed to keep firearms, powder, and primers separate. Further, explosive items shouldn't be confined in something like a heavy walled safe. Worst case, rapidly expanding gasses need to be able to safely expand. As I didn't want to get incinerated if there were to be a fire, I moved the bulk of my powder and primers out of my residential reloading room into the barn (cool dry place).

Since the barn is has been remodeled/updated and holds all the toys of a mini-farm, I had plans drawn up to move all flammable material out of the barn into an out of the way "Dynamite shack", where I'll keep powder/primers/gasoline/diesel/propane etc into it's own home.

Being zoned rural, I'll probably expand this from the approved plans to 12'x12' and begin excavation this fall. Yes, it will have a concrete pad. I'll see that it has proper ventilation.

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Mine has a Shilen 1/7.5 twist ratchet rifled barrel. I am hoping the ratchet rifling is gentler on the bullets. I only have 100 rds on mine, and don't shoot long strings of fire, so too soon to see.

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Mine had polygonal rifling. I don't think the down the barrel rifling has as big of an impact as the throat. Not that is has no impact. But I think rough and dirty throat areas are the major culprit.

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Kilimanjaro landed yesterday, brewed this AM. Now on my list of go tos. Thanks.

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Awesome

Between the CVR, FDR, and physical wreckage they will know exactly what happened.
If they were moved to cutoff due to some sort of failure it will be obvious to the investigators. Or if it was indeed sabotage, or just human error.

Those switches are 100% manual only.

after building numerous rifles that weren't quite ideal I will toss in my advice. go with a straight no taper as it puts more weight up front and 26 is a good length but 28 will give you a little more velocity and weight up front. I totally don't see the point of a tapered barrel in a PRS rig. I go with a 28 inch 1.1 diameter and the new fat bastard brake. it balances perfectly with no weights.

akmike47 said:

Several years ago I went cold turkey on carbs and sugar I looked at every label and probably ate a days carbs in a week if that. Only issue is you get used to no sugar and eat something like yellow mustard and realize it tastes like cake icing pretty much. I wasn’t even working out and was dropping weight.

I pretty much ate meat and green beans, mashed cauliflower, spinach, or peas. There’s a few real low carb “breads” out now

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I have wanted to do this for so long, but with my training I just don’t see how I can. Diet and nutrition is something I have always been very interested in. I have a very clean diet, but it is very carb & protein heavy. I train for endurance cycling (mountain bike specifically), carbs are my fuel source. I separate my training nutrition and daily nutrition by consuming a very different group of foods. On the bike it is as high glycemic carbs as I can get: glucose and fructose in a 1:0.8 to 1:1 ratio in the form of liquid, gels, or candies and pastries that I do not allow myself to eat off the bike. Off the bike it’s just lots of animal based protein, Greek yogurt with no BS in it, white and brown rice, sweet potatoes, oats, butter, nuts occasionally fruit, very minimal breads no pasta, no drinks with calories except milk (this is a BIG one, do not drink your calories), minimal vegetables except root vegetables. I have not had a soda or sports drink off the bike since like 2001-2002, or alcohol in well over 10 years and I don’t miss them.

I would love to cut the daily carbs but I just don’t have the power needed to do the training I do. My workouts will burn between 800 and 3500 calories at a time for “regular days” but on longer days I will go well over that where 5000 + isn’t uncommon. That is just the workout, never mind my BMR or normal activities during the day. Maybe one day I’ll try it again, I keep threatening my wife that I am going to… haha

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Apparently this creep was in the guard.

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Kilimanjaro landed yesterday, brewed this AM. Now on my list of go tos. Thanks.

Rob01 said:

With that action you can easily swap barrels so why not get two barrels instead of trying to get one to do two very different things?

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For right now hunting in the fall with a few PRS matches. I will get another barrel on order with the Black Friday sales. This will get me started.

W54/XM-388 said:

Those videos look kind of like some stuff from a few years back?

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These are all new , one where dude drops an explosive into APC is the latest mass casualty with 7KIA ,after leveling the place and pretty much wanton killing anything that moves ,IDF is soon to pass 1000KIA mark ,to barefoot prison inmates. One thing that is quite surprising they still operate armor unsupported, buttoned up and have people runing to place mines on them ,

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I brought this one back from the great Taco Bell wars of the 90's, back when beef burritos were 79 cents.
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Why all the empty M2A2 containers? Army Jerry would be livid.

Aftermath said:

IMHO...
Eliminate 16th Amendment, fed and state should not tax based upon income. To some extent, it disincentivizes the quest to earn more.FOSHO NOMO tax on SS benefits.
Eliminate 17th Amendment, Senators now spend more effort being re-elected and pandering to money than representing their state. Return to the time where they could be recalled mostly at will by their state.
Eliminate 19th Amendment, wtf were they even thinking?
Modify 22nd Amendment, the founders of this republic never intended politics be a profession and no kings. Extend to all 3 branches of guv
Eliminate 23rd Amendment, want to vote on POTUS? Move. The swamp there is real. Less guv, less support for that guv. LOTS less drug fueled parties would happen.
Eliminate property tax or restrict votes to property owners.
No tax of any sort on any firearms related item.
To carry the sentiment. free speech and all...no tax on paper, pens, ink, internet, computers, microphones, speakers, tvs....
Penalty of life in prison or possible execution for fed/state/local reps/employee/etc for violating any rights of citizens

I have a real long list.

Vote Aftermath for POTUS

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The 26th needs revision. At least age 26.

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I wouldn't use grease in it.

Try a different gun oil. I like purple ALG Go Juice.

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When I started shooting 500M+ about 15 years ago I was shooting .308 175 SMK’s at 2625FPS out of a 1-10”twist Savage 10BA. I was able to get 0.5-0.6 MOA without too much effort.
This was enough to keep me inside the V-Bull of a figure 11 target so I didn’t really look for anything else. At the time the cost of these bullets was $225/500 ($0.45 ea.)Canadian. They now cost $424/500 ($0.85 ea.)
185 gr Juggernaut’s when available are now selling for $122/100 ($1.22 ea.) I cannot see the difference on paper so I cannot justify the difference in price especially with the availability being spotty.

In 6.5 I am paying $625 Canadian for 1,000 139gr Lapua Scenars ($0.625 ea.) while Berger 140gr Hybrid Targets are now selling for $114/100 ($1.14 ea.) up from $104.99 2 weeks ago nearly double the cost of Lapua.

I will be shooting 1,000Y in the next few weeks and I am bringing along Lapua 139gr Scenar, Berger 140gr Hybrid Targets, Hornady 147ELD-M and possibly 140ELD-M for testing.
With threats of 30% tariffs looming I may switch entirety to Lapua bullets and Vihtavuori powders.

If I was shooting several hundred rounds a year I wouldn’t really be too concerned but at nearly 2,000 rounds a year the difference in price between Lapua and Berger will pay for the cost of the barrel.