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The Shot You’ll Never Forget Giveaway - Enter To Win A Barrel From Rifle Barrel Blanks!

After watching his channel for a bit, I entered Texas Plinking's 1MOA at 1000 yard challenge on YouTube (Episode 23). I took my MPA BA Comp in 6.5CM to try it out. I was the last one to shoot and the wind was crazy in west Texas... I had a pretty decent grouping going, but had not yet connected with that 10" plate by the time I got through my 9th round. I was sweating bullets when I sent that final round (even though it was like 30 degrees outside). Whew!!! I was so relieved when I saw the impact on the plate. For those that have never tried it, a 10" plate at 1000 yds looks tiny through your scope! It's also difficult to adjust off of misses when the wind is gusting and switchy... I had shot at that distance before, but only at much larger targets. It felt great to be able to connect and I'm looking forward to going back with a different rifle to try.
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I have yet to actually kill a GT barrel. Pulled wife's at 2800 and it was still shooting, but getting long in the tooth. Probably would have died between 3200 and 3500, my best guess. She was running Berger 109s at 2930 with 33.7 of RL15.5. It seems they all have started to drop velocity around 2500, so I don't go much farther and just pull them.
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I’m finishing out my second barrel with DTACS, got a JTAC class this weekend and I’ll pull it when I get home and put the new one on. On both I’ve pretty much found the BTO that shot best and left it there for the life of the barrel. Two completely different free bores and both shot really good in the .050-.060 off range with the 115’s.
I went to DTACs on my last barrel too. I set them at .045 which is just in front of neck shoulder junction with a .120 Freebore. 37 of N160 @ 2845. Just put a new barrel on my GT. Hope to shoot it this weekend.
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The Shot You’ll Never Forget Giveaway - Enter To Win A Barrel From Rifle Barrel Blanks!

When I was 8 I had a pellet gun. By 9, I was pretty good with it. I went on a pheasant hunt out west with my dad, uncle, grandpa, and some of their buddies. While they hunted a section bird cover, I would usually tag along and shoot cattails with my pellet gun. They would puff when I hit them. Reactive targets for a 3rd grader!

I remember my grandpa driving up with his friend along side me on the road where I was shooting cattails 6 yards across the ditch. He was on oxygen, so he didn’t get too far from his truck. His friend says out the window “see that one with the crooked top? Bet you can’t cut it in half.” I knew at this point that the only way to actually cut one in half was to break the stem inside. Which is damn tough with a .177 BB, it almost never happened. You can shoot one 20 times and just have it puff seeds. In short, I was being set up. What they didn’t know is I had about 5 BB’s through that same ‘tail already.

So I concentrated on the center of that cattail and shot one BB. It cleanly broke in half. No clue how I managed it. The friend yelled “Holy cow he actually did it! Did you see that?” My grandpa was grinning from ear to ear. I didn’t know it at the time but he had won a few bench rest championships in his day, and I had made him proud, and in front of his friend was even better! Won’t ever forget it.
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Mexican Senate President Floats a Plan to Annex Part of United States as Illegal Aliens Continue to Cause Mayhem in LA

The Mexicans were neutral because of their ongoing revolution. Hard to say if this was real or false flag to pull us in to the war:

agree. my memory of the story is hazy. it is an interesting one. i vaguely remember something about a fake message or something. i may have that confused with the Dreyfus affair. oldishness is not memory enhancing.

Mexican Senate President Floats a Plan to Annex Part of United States as Illegal Aliens Continue to Cause Mayhem in LA

Sam Huston should have whipped out Santa Anna's army when he had the chance at San Jacinto then hung the prick. Sam had a lot of Mexican support at the time. some were killed at the Alamo and Goliad. should have kept going south and grabbed a lot more. likely could have taken over peacefully,sorta. Mexican war,border shit a la Pancho,illegal immigration could have been avoided maybe. Huston's wife was Mexican. Mexican people were getting abused by Santa Anna before and after the Texas war. they could likely have been attached to us peacefully and been happy and better off.

Israel/iran

Are you partial to Iran or just saying that we need to not be so overly friendly with Israel?
Overly friendly is not the same as absolute cucks that pay money to get fucked up their ass by Israel and whose legislators fly Israel first flags in their offices ,who cant run for any public office withot first sucking some ME tribe cock and being fully beholden to them due to some underage honey trap they were taped faling into . Just remember aside from Afghanistan every war since 9/11 US fought was on the behest of Israel, specifically Netanyahu. Hence every life lost in those adventures ->Israel->Netanyahu you should be calling for this guy to be hanged form the first tree you find not cheering it on while being robbed and likely soon loosing people to his actions again.



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Israel/iran

IDF cannot do that by itself conventionally imho
Israel like always starts shit that then gets US involved as Israeli capability to fight a conventional war in minimal to non existent they require 24/7 logistical support and financing to bomb a parking lot sized Gaza that is walled in and where no one can actually shoot back

Mexican Senate President Floats a Plan to Annex Part of United States as Illegal Aliens Continue to Cause Mayhem in LA

actually a bit of truth there. Kaiser Bill started a plan to use Mexico and Mexicans as an invasion op. in 1915?-don't remember. actually the only possible reason for us to get into ww1. i need to look it up. don't remember the time line real well.

What are your favorite barrels

With barrels, I'd expect that everyone is using pretty high precision CNC machines. Most good CNC's are down to 0.001" or so of accuracy. With barrel mfgs making the same barrels the same way, is one paying a huge premium for reputation vs steel quality? How would a person objectively qualify a good barrel from a great barrel?
No 2 barrels are the same! Each has its own peculiarities. That said in general practice Cut Rifle barrels are more likely to be hammers and have less stress. You buy reputation and thee get a great smith to chamber and thread it. Again you buy reputation and are more likely to get a great shooting barrel. Just because some nitwit has a cnc machine does not mean anything. There are great smiths using ancient lathes and turning out spectacular barrels. It is all about the skill of the person running the tool!

Israel/iran

It's time for two things:

1) a definitive, "few hundred years long" fix of our republic, crush the Left, and reset us back to liberty & peace

2) a definitive fix by Israel against their hostile neighbors, and Israel's expulsion of the Gazans out of the part of Israel known as Gaza.
gonna be a lot of disagreement here on this issue,unlike the general take on Ukraine. should be spicy.
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