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It's beautiful, clean, coal! Friggin' hippies.

DownhillFromHere said:

My son got his best internship via a guy I knew through one of the gun clubs to which I belonged. Totally chance thing - so your asking here on SH is not a bad idea at all.

My son is a software engineer. I understand about "social skills... currently under construction." He struggled so hard with his senior-year job fairs and interviews... but he did land with the company he interned with and is now a well-compensated senior engineer there. But his human social skills remain "under construction."

Interestingly, after four years there, he was laid off during the pandemic, but landed less than a month later with a big raise. But he still helped a former coworker who was saddled with his responsibilities. Then, when he was laid off from the new job after just a few months as the pandemic wore on, he was brought back into his former company with a promotion and another raise. He's been there now almost ten years.

I wish your son luck. Persistence is everything. After I graduated college fifty years ago next spring, I worked for well over a year at a subsistence farm job that, some days, would gag a maggot. But when I landed, it was in a dream role using practical skills I picked up as part of my job search. And some of life's best lessons were learned on that farm job - not the least of which is how it feels to be looked at like you're nothing and how persistence can feel so futile.

Tell your son DON'T GIVE UP, and even menial subsistence jobs have value.

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thanks for the kind words, sounds like my second "real" w2 job in my late teens, i was, among other things, a "hub hopper" , i would run in front of the blade and shoot grade with a hand level. sometimes the blade would hit a hidden manhole cover and i would have to go down into the live sewer and clean out all the rocks and dirt. i think the driver did it on purpose sometimes. always nice to see the tampons and turds flowing again after i got done. never saw OSHA anywhere as i went down into a confined space over and over again, too stupid to know about hydrogen sulfide at the time.

i'm hoping he does get something menial just to build some life experience. we had hope for something thru my wifes work, the third party IT company that helps them with their security but he just heard back from them that they are not big enough to do a summer gig.

bdubmkg said:

Last night I was loading some 6.5cm and I decided to see how much difference there was in the weights of each case. All hornady.
Most of the brass hovered around the 158 to 160 gr area but had a decent amount of them that were in the lower 150s.
It got me thinking, how much does this affect round consistency? I would think it would if you have a case that's 8+ grain weight difference.

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Since there is certainly some correlation for a brass weight and its case volume, a significant difference like that can indeed affect consistency for velocity and on target. I've tested this by weighing my Lapua brass comparing those that were the most light to the that were the most heavy. Culling out the outliers can help with getting better consistency (lower ES's and SD's).

Old Man with Gun said:

I weigh mine and there is higher velocity with heavier brass and better SD when I batch them by weight groups.

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Yup, the heavier brass tends to have less volume, which will increase velocity given the same powder charge. I too like to "batch them" after culling out the outliers, which I found helps a lot in getting lower SD's and ES's.

Short-bus said:

Well, they wanted to look like they were a gang banger, so why not give 'em the gang banger treatment. "Experts" is becoming such a loose term. I suppose I can declare myself an expert at whatever I choose, and as long as I can somehow manage to market myself successfully as such, then I can be declared an expert in that field. Just because they're an expert, doesn't mean they can't be completely full of shit.

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So, what I hear you saying is, you spelled "Expertologist" wrong.

andy311 said:

No problem with the MDT metal mags. I also have the MDT polymer magazine and it is definitely a tighter fit than the metal mag.

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Awesome! Thank you very much!!!!

jNCgUN said:

That’s what I did. Unfortunately the Anemotracker app wasn’t able to find my vector.
My Vector is running firmware 180 and the Anemotracter ver. 17-02-2025

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Is that a Calypso AB Mini? That firmware is out of date.

beetroot said:

Sounds a little high to start with.
I recent looked at every thread I could find for loads in the 168gr range, IMR 4064 and Varget seems to shoot well for many people around 42gr.

I'd start be looking 41-45(maybe 46).
These are all the loads I found people using.

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I will start with 42 as recommended by you and a friend, and then do some loads in the upper spectrum, so low and high ish..

Thanks!

1. Is false. You first have to find the target with your eyeball. Having a RDS doesn't help you do that. 1. Find it. 2. Create a target reference point. 3. Point your gun at the target reference point. 4. Look inside your scope. Your target will be there (could require up or down movement but not side to side.)

Sent a pm about this scope.

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Anyone else shooting at the Tx Precision match this weekend?

babyguppy said:

mom needs to be locked away and receive mental treatments..

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You misspelled executed.
Any mother that would willingly subject their own child to this abuse is irredeemable.

R

The D said:

“Cheap Chinese shit”, or cheaper consumer goods, as they’re called in the real world is the exact reason everyone’s standard of living improves. Just because you don’t need to rely on cheaper goods/services to survive doesn’t mean everyone else can

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Mentioned was manufactured as they destroyed blue collar job markets that financed the middle class for decades.
Getting cheaper goods may not equal better standards of living.

R

I picked up a Otter Creek Labs Lithium. With these quick approval times I couldn't help myself!

the updated Tirant 9 HD is on the Henry 357 and the Lithium is below it. I'll get a chance to compare and contrast this weekend and report back.

PNW_Steve said:

Hey Everyone,

I am having some trouble sorting out correct buffer spring and weight.

Can anyone point me to a good troubleshooting thread or resource?

I have a 10.5, pistol gas, 300BO. I started with a carbine buffer and spring and had short stroking trouble. At the advice of a LGS, I replaced the carbine buffer with an H3. It still short strokes. Brass ejects but it doesn't pick up another round.

I also have an 18 inch, rifle gas, .223 Wylde that had the same problem.

What do you all recommend?

Thanks

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First of all, if your lgs suggested a heavier buffer to fix a short stroking issue, I'd stop asking them for advise.

I'm gonna guess that this is something that you threw together. The problem could be any number of things. Leaking gas key, bad rings, really bad fit between the barrel and gas block, undersized gas port in the barrel, etc.

First, you need to be using dedicated 300bo mags with subs. They are much longer than supers and will get hung up in a 5.56 pmag or similar mags. Get yourself a proper mag and load one round into it. Chamber the round and fire it. Do this a few times. What happens? Does the bolt lock back on all of them, some of them, none of them? If it doesn't lock back on all of them, my guess would be that you're undergassed. Check gas port size. What size you should have kind of depends on whether you're running supers or subs ... suppressed or unsuppressed. Are you running a traditional can or flow through?

Despite what has become a popular notion, ARs are not just tinker toys. Just because your throw AR parts together and it comes out looking like an AR doesn't mean it's gonna run like it's supposed to and just asking what buffer and spring should I get usually doesn't lead to a solution.

I'm not ranting. I'm just trying to make the point that if you have a true interest, read a book. It will explain what all of the parts do and why. Once you understand that, it gets pretty simple.

Without actually being able to put hands on, we are all just shooting in the dark.

ForeverZ01 said:

I have a set of whidden dies for 300 norma 250 shipped

i have 95 once fired cleaned brass and 9 once fired primed for 225 shipped

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I want the dies. how did how do for you?

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Sorry guys it sold! - Richard

Attention we have this last unit at pre-Tariff price! VECTRONIX SHOOTING SOLUTIONS VECTOR 12x42 Rangefinding Binocular w/MSR-DMR Reticle 917238 $2,899.00 https://cstactical.com/vectronix-vector-x-rangefinding-binocular/

Depending on how much our cost goes up, we might not be stocking them until the price comes back down - Richard

Bonita is a crap fish but slow smoked over oak it is not bad. We always trolled sailing to the islands, Akron hibachi and some seasoned driftwood from the island and a slow smoke, we free dive small blue fin and yellow fin, do them the same way, have to smoke the oil out of them.