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LeftyJason said:
Out of surgery. Went well. Staying in hospital til at least tomorrow. I think 1 rod in tibia and maybe 4 screws. Breaks were clean transverse at same height. Will try to work on xrays tomorrow.
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Glad to hear . Hope the rest of your journey goes smooth . Stay positive . I joke a lot with the Healthcare Staff . It keeps the mood light and happy . They tend to be more engaging and happy . Gotta think their job must be hard dealing with gloomy winers and people living in a low point in life .
Borrowed one from a guy my buddy knew .
So this guy skydives . One day he jumps and his shoot no worky .
Don't recall the particulars ; fowled , no open etc . Guy takes the ultimate hard landing . Fast forward to ER .
Nurse : Any allergies ?
Mr. Thudd. : Yes . Gravity. 😂
Guy lived and choose to be happy and have the best day of his life everyday .
So when I was asked ;
ER Nurse : Treedoggy , any allergies ?
Treeprojectile : Yes . Guardrails . 😜 .
Also when asked , "how did this happen " ?
"My stunt double called out ."
Or
"It's a love story . Boy meets Bike . Bike meets guardrail . It was like magic , instant sparks . I knew instantly cause I had that funny feeling in my tummy , and my forearm and ankle and knee and left side of my torso ."
Funny but not meant to be was a moment of clarity whilst the ketamine was starting to kick in in the ambulance . I outta nowhere spit out " I am so fucked " . EMT answers back that "man you're ok and this could have been really bad . This will work out , you're ok " . I responded with no not that . I can't drink beer tonight . He laughed and I responded , I don't think you understand I really love the taste of beer .
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Consistency, or lack thereof

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Josh Umsted said:
A little more history. This was a good load that turned out to be inconsistent. One bench group and two positions.

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I wish the shots on these targets were labeled in order fired. It looks to me like your rifle is trying to shoot two groups on each target. That's either you being inconsistent behind the gun, or something is shifting. Or maybe dragging.

I know you said your rifle was in an oryx chassis, but I had a 700 LTR that did the two group thing until I changed stocks. Put it in a bedded stock and that problem disappeared.

As to the dragging comment. I have a 700 in 300winmag that I chased my tail with off and on for years. Three barrels, three different smiths, four different stocks/chassis, 600 plus rounds of "load development" never found anything it would consistently shoot well. Not typical for a winmag. Some days it would hammer. Reload it and it would shotgun. Ended up being the firing pin assembly. Totally fixed it.

After much reading here (a few post from Chad Dixon of LRI were most helpful) and watching a pile of gunsmithing videos on YouTube about blueprinting the 700 bolt, I tore into mine and lo and behold, that was the source of all my problems. I've done it to all my 700's now and even the ones I thought shot good got better.

If your rifle has the J lock firing pin assembly in it like my LTR did, scrap it and order a pin assembly from GreTan.
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