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stello1001 said:

It's the "heavy" barrel offering, although it's not really really heavy.

I've started thinking about maybe getting a new aftermarket barrel.

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The problem is probably.....Howa. Its an inexpensive hunting gun in my eyes, what you posted fits its price bracket. You roll the dice on these factory guns.

Have you tried 107 sierra or similar weigh class bullets?

I like those Howa Minis. I'd like one in a grendel or 7.62x39mm.

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Trying to find the right words to express how I feel about the Z boy. Oh yes, fuck him. He is only thinking of himself the little pos.

Holliday said:

Couple this with the trades being treated as the red headed stepchild in education and you have fewer homes being built. I was a carpenter/ builder for 25 years of my younger life. I witnessed this hand. When I started out, working with your hands and learning a trade was a respectable way to make a living.

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A man who works with his hands and gets dirty is a man earning an honest living.
If a man (or woman, god forbid I leave them out) has a trade and is good at it , he/she will always have a job and earn a good living.
Somewhere along the way the trades got reduced to being seen as secondary people. Bullshit!!
Computers and technology jobs got shoved down the throats of everyone. So many people with advanced degrees can't find jobs they spent huge amounts of money on in college degrees.
There is a reason when people have to call out a electrician or plumber get hit with high bills, limited number of people getting into those fields.
Try and find/get a mason. If you do, I'd be shocked if they're under 50.
I've been a full time farrier for 40 years and still going. I'm still going at it, I'm a horse guy at my core.
So, I can get real fired up about the being in the trades issue.

They are called punctured primers. It’s sending a jet of plasma down the primer and into the bolt face firing pin hole. Stop after one and fix, don’t keep grabbing the tiger by the tail.

Don’t use 400 primers, they are thinner and more easily punctured.

I can’t see much of the fuzzy firing pin but it likely popped a 400 once and the jet of plasma deformed it a bit making it more likely to puncture again, a vicious circle.

If we look at shooters world 6x47 and 6.5x47 load data with equivalently heavy for caliber bullets and interpolate, you’re over their max loads.

Max loads on thin primers is a recipe for this situation.

^ DIPSHIT ^ aka dead man walking

(is he hiding out in another country well away from Ukraine?)

Paid for and shipping out tomorrow.

ironman56 said:

Funny story about SAMBOS. Back in 1974 right before I joined the Air Force ,me and my brother had breakfast at the Sambos in Austin Texas, went to pay and the young male cashier gave me change for a ten ,I argued with him that I gave him a 20 ,he insisted I gave him a 10 , the manager was called and he finally gave me change for a 20 , got out to my truck and in the front seat was the 20 I insisted I gave the cashier, my brother wouldn't let me go back in , and make it right and him being my big brother I was not going to fight him over it ,but it always bothered me , just one more bad krama that I'm sure caught up with me some where down the road.

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Confessing here on the Hide for not making things right back then will not save you from shoveling coal in to the fires when you get to hell.
Karma is a bitch.

I don't "see" the IQ in my LHT 5-22 as anything special, heck the IQ in my Athlon ETR 15-60 BR scope is noticeably better. Well to be fair this ETR actually does have nice glass for it's price.
The poorly done LHT turrets shouldn't be in a scope of this price range and 6 mils per turn is such a head scratcher. I didn't even notice that was a thing until after the scope arrived and yes I research things more critically now.
The illume is almost daylight bright but it really should be a notch or two brighter to make out the reticle on low power, speaking of which the mil reticle isn't an impressive design anyway.
The rest is of the controls are normal.
Except it's pretty much the lightest scope in it's class which is why I bought mine and to be honest it's my least favorite scope on my least favorite light weight rifle. Translation - nope they don't get used much.
At least I got it at a decent price new from Liberty Optics right before Scott flew the coop.
I hate losing money so I'm kinda stuck with them at this point. Let's put it this way, I'd sell the scope first before I sold the rifle and the rifle has had a rough time in it's short existence.


I could have bought the March 4.5-28 instead at double the cost, thought saving the $ was the best decision at the time, but really wish I had gotten the March.
The designation Razor wasn't the best label to put on the LHT, at least to me.

Wake me up when someone of consequence gets what they deserve.
Fucking sock puppet show.

R

Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

The whole “mom’s basement” insult is proof of the propaganda boomers have lapped up like dogs.

Until after WWII it was normal for multi generational families to grow up together on the farm or estate. It’s how actual wealth was created. Bankers pushed for larger tax base and money growth so they could live like the leaches they are. They more than tripled the debt load because of the tradition of large families back then.

Generational living will be the only way out of this cycle. I hope you greedy boomers enjoy the rest home they put you all in.

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Personally, I see it less as an insult and more of proof that boomers just can't banter over the internet with the younger crowd. I've noticed that the average boomer on the internet has skin that is thinner than a nanometer. They feel they're entitled to trash talk anyone they want in the younger generation, but the second the trash talk gets reversed, they run and cry to the admins complaining about they aren't being respected. Fuck off! Both respect and disrespect have to be earned and not given away like some faggy participation trophy. The amount of entitlement they feel they deserve is so far off the charts it almost seems like a shitty SNL skit.

Anyways, the "mom's basement" thing obviously doesn't apply to me because I moved out of my parent's house when I was 17, but I would much rather be known as a mom's basement dwelling millennial than a thin skinned boomer who gets their feelings hurt by random strangers on the fucking internet!

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Ack!

Trend is the diminishment of the middle class until there is only very rich and very poor. The only way for the poor to get ahead would be to feed the war machine to fight war for the rich, until the poor realize that they have been had and rise up in a communistic type of frenzy and kill all the Marie Antoinettes and the Romanov's then to realize that they are still poor and their new leaders are the new rich.

Some animals are more equal than others.

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Sweet baby that's a good deal.

Interesting take, but swing and a miss. I’m not near as old as most here. The majority of my kids still live with me and all of them show me plenty of love. What I’m striving for and building now will go to them.

Long Range 338 said:

Thinking of how these cases work just by observing the way they are built - all the headspace will come from stretching at the connection to the case head, not stretch in the body and shoulder as we are accustomed to with brass cases. Even a die similar to their pistol die would most likely tear the case head from the body it looks like, making reloading very counterproductive.

If you wanted to do something similar to what Federal is doing with their Backcountry line of cartridges, this stuff could fill that niche.

Hopefully someone comes up with a solution for reloading that doesn’t destroy the cases.

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These seem to do pretty well:

What's the green composite stock?

sloporsche said:

There are many things in the path of life that could have derailed your fortune that you have no control over the luck /chance.

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I’m in my mid 70’s. Nothing happening now is a tragedy. And I overcame every single obstacle. I retired fully at age 55. Been on vacation ever since.