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Frank Green
carbonbased said:
Wanted to run a barrel contour question by you guys. Anyone ever put a #5 contour on their AI?

Background:
This will be a coyote and pdog barrel (22-250, I don’t reload), so with coyotes that means a bit of walking. I could go with a lighter #5 contour or a M24/M40. Going 20”-ish, so not sure how much weight I’d save at that length.

@Frank Green implies the M24/M40 is either identical or quite close to the current so-called “2018” contour. I might be reading too much into his statement.

But I don’t have a feel for the #5. Never seen one, or if I did I didn’t know it at the time.

I do know that the 20” factory 308 that came on the rifle definitely has a slimmer contour than the 6br prefit I bought from Mile High.

Thanks for your help.
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I think your talking about the 6518 contour. Has a really short breech length and then a quick taper down to like .900" diameter and it's .900" at the muzzle correct?

That contour would be lighter than a M40 contour.

Not sure what/who's #5 contour you are talking about.

A Remington varmint contour vs the AW contour as in the pic below... weight wise about a wash.

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X - Vectronix Shooting Solutions

CSTactical
Tx_Aggie said:
The Tariff on Swiss goods has been paused for 90 days, correct? Are these price increases dependent upon the Tariffs taking effect, or are they already set going forward? Will inventory that comes into the US before the pause ends still be subject to the price increase?
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I don't know, there's things are dynamic and I don't have time to monitor the situation. All I and @Sendero_Man know is that the price is increasing for dealers by the distributor going forward. Even if I did the research it would not change the fact that the cost on our end is going up a significant amount and we will not entertain stocking them at these prices on low margin products.

Not directed at you @Tx_Aggie this is just in general :)

(RANT TIME) You can't imagine how many customers ask to pay what we pay for our products when they don't understand how little we actually make when running a small business is ultra expensive (Especially in the firearm business, and if you're not just working out of your home) and for many dealers we are direct with we sometimes pay up front. Also there's requirements of commiting to $$$$$$$$$ a year to make a certain margin or $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to make 5% more margin.

-Richard
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What is it Worth? Older Leupold Mark 4 10x

Basic user
Gotcha. Understand completely. I think most of us now that are older and have a little more disposable income are starting to acquire all the things that made our eyes widen as kids. I know I am at least lol. The older FN SPRs with the fluted barrels and the black A3 stock is one that comes to mind actually, amongst others.
Incidentally, I never wanted an M40A1, but about 5 months ago I got bit by the bug so now I'm after that shit too. Fuckin never seems to stop.
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Retesting some reloads today. Very odd results!

S
OREGUN said:
I completely agree that the small sample sizes don’t tell the whole story. I thought I read somewhere on here that your SDx5 should be close to your ES if your data set is approaching a meaningful size….your aren’t even close. So, philosophically, I agree with everything said here. However, it’s possible that something else changed. Are you saying you shot five shots and had “good stats” and then a week later did everything the same and had “bad data”? Further, the good data was 6/10 and the bad was 20/60?

What I find hard to believe is that you found the best data set and then the worst, in two consecutive, same sample size, tests. It would be much more likely to be a case of “you got lucky” if your stats got worse by some smaller amount. So if you told us you shot three five shot groups and your sd/es data was all over a broad range or if you came back on session two and shot 20 rounds and your data went to shit. But to have terrific data followed by terrible (by a factor of 10) stretches the imagination for me. You MAY have encountered statistical outliers on the good and the bad end in consecutive tests but it’s possible you did something to make the problem worse.

Do you leave powder in the hopper? Was it a new jug that has now been open for a week. Do you calibrate your scale each time? Do you lube your mandrel and then do anything to wipe the lube out or to re-lube the necks if time has passed since mandrelling?

Just as an aside, I never get my most consistent velocities with virgin brass.
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Ya. I don't buy that whole got lucky thing. In my 20 years of reloading I have never seen where you do a ladder test one week. Then repeat the test the next week and get totally different results. Brand new Alpha brass. In fact the only thing the brass needed was to chamfer and debur the case mouths. Everything was right on with the brass. The length. The sizing. The headspace. Same jug of powder. I never leave powder in the powder measure. Neck tension set with the Wilson mandrel on the brass. Using an A&D scale that is calibrated at every session. Granted. These were reloaded at different times but with all things equal this should not change the results. NOTHING changed when reloading the same rounds. The only difference was that the first 30 rounds shot were in a fully cleaned barrel. The next 30 were shot without cleaning. It's a new PVA barrel with 150 rounds down the pipe. I don't see how 30 rounds fouled the barrel so bad to get those results. I just spent an hour cleaning the barrel again and I will do the test all over again this weekend. I may also redo the test with some multi fired Lapua brass. Who knows. Maybe it is because of the virgin brass but I've had virgin Lapua brass and never had results like this. Now the other thing is. Could it be the Garmin chrono? Who knows. When I got home to look at the results, the Garmin did a software update.
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Competition .223 muzzle break help

bohem
The PVA Jetblast is available in 1/2-28, self timing, has excellent recoil reduction and no concussion back on the shooter. It checks all the boxes that @bross412 is looking for and it's very affordable compared to a lot of other options on the market.
It's also proven to be effective on precision rifles where there is no tolerance for brakes to cause POI and group issues.

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Jet Blast Muzzle Brake

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Free Hazmat one day only 4/15/25

BobinNC
Bacarrat said:
Too bad they offset the "free hazmat" by already jacking up the made up prices.
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So let's see if your right or if your FOS, shall we?

Hodgdon Direct charges $427.99 for 8 lbs of H4350 Shipping plus Hazmat of $50.50 to my AO

Natchez Charges $399.99 for 8 lbs of H4350 Shipping plus Free Hazmat of $22.32 to my AO

Well how about that. Natchez is charging less than the company that makes the powder.

Now I don't care if you buy from Natchez, or locally out of some guys trunk. But don't shit on a post just because you think you know better.

And if you really know better, then give everybody a break and let us know where this "promised land" of everything is cheaper lies.
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New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

DocUSMCRetired
tenringx said:
@DocUSMCRetired any thoughts the above and being able to easily capture/stream the wind once and have it apply to the individual targets if you shoot the azimuth like you can in the ‘device’ screen?
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I have shared it internally for us to discuss.
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What is it Worth? Older Leupold Mark 4 10x

diggler1833
Basic user said:
Ok, then I'm guessing a GWOT M14 then.
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There was a time when I lusted after a lot of rifles during deployments about 20 years ago. It was something to make the days pass for me (besides gym time). Unfortunately back then I was married to a blood-sucking and bank-depleting leech. After my divorce and re-marriage to the right woman this time, I'm kind of compiling my old list of rifles that I always wanted.

I'm not really an M39 fan.
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Question on Temp stability

C
Have a question for you all on Temp stability on Powder.
I am getting ready to work on a 6 Arc I have in a gas gun. From all the reading I do the Leverevoloution powder shows to have the best velocity as well as the best ES/SD numbers from everything I have read.
But I have also seen where a lot say it is not temp stabile as some other powders.
I plan to hunt with this rifle this year so the temp stability is pretty important to me as during our seasons it might be 70 degrees one day and two days later it might be 10 degrees.
Have any of you all seen temp issues from the LVR powder that you would consider an issue?

I have Varget at home as well but it seems to yield a lower velocity but I know it is much more temp stable.
There are other powders that are listed for the 6Arc but they are also harder for me to get ahold of.
The only other easily obtainable powder for me is CFE223. But I have never used it so don't know much about it.

Just looking to get some opinions from you all that have more experience than me.
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Competition .223 muzzle break help

N_Turs
Check out Unrivaled, I have their UB tunable brake on my run and gun ar. Ive been every impressed with the performance and my rifle has like zero muzzle rise. I can hit some pretty fast split times with it and still keep on target. That being said the brake is nasty and would kick up alot of dust shooting prone. If this is more of a long range gun id just get a can for it.
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