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Accessories Rifle mount your Garmin Xero - McLeod Precision

In stock now. 3 Cerakote colors. $89 including shipping. Includes ARCA clamp.

- Coyote Tan
- Stealth Grey
- Black

CNC machined from 6061-T6511 Aluminum.
Option to buy without clamp and use your own. (see mounting details on website) $74 shipped.

Buy at mcleodprecision.com
All credit cards, Apple Pay and PayPal.

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SOLD Nightforce SHV 4-14x50mm Mil-R MRAD

For sale is a Nightforce SHV 4-14x50mm scope with the Mil-R illuminated reticle and MRAD knobs. Scope has some faint ring marks from being swapped around a few times, but is otherwise in excellent condition since it was only used at the range. Box and accessories are included, as is an NXS sunshade.

$800 shipped. I am not interested in trade offers at this time. SOLD!!!

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SOLD Price lowered - March X High Master 10-60x56 MTR-2

March-X "High Master" 10-60x56 Riflescope, Super ED lenses made with high-refractive glass, the scope offers edge-to-edge clarity, natural color, and a high resolution image. The scope features a tactical style reticle in the second focal plane, parallax correction, and exposed turrets The March-X "High Master" 10-60x56 Riflescope is an ideal optic for competition, benchrest shooting, or varmint hunting.

Bought about 6-7 month ago new. Sold the rifle so no longer need the scope.

Mint 99.9% LNIB

$2800 shipped, insurance is extra

PayPal or Zelle

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Zeiss and Sphur compatibility

I purchased a Zeiss LRP S5 5-25x56 and Spuhr 4001C to upgrade/decrease weight from a Vortex Razor 4.5-27x56 and vortex mount for prs, NRL Hunter and occasionally Coues. My previous rings were 1” and fit over bore but barely. I tried 1.5” and it was way too tall for me and my cheek, I couldn’t run the bolt. This 1.18 is perfect height, perfect but when I torqued it down it was touching at the base where it attached to the pic rail and the bottom bell of the scope, are the Zeiss and Sphur incompatible? (I’ve only jumped into prs ect last year and still have lots to learn.)
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Firearms WTS Sig 516 7 1/2" upper and Sig 716 12" upper

Both of these are extremely difficult to find in the short barrel flavor and make it very handy for a takedown backpack type setup. I can send more pics if requested to email, PM's or text. Only trades might be on that old Colt you've got tucked away that you aren't really in to.

SIG 716 (.308) 12.5" piston upper - quad rail, flip up front and rear sights, complete with piston, bolt carrier group and charging handle. The perfect short upper for your big blaster, adjustable piston to regulate operation unsuppressed, suppressed or even shut off the gas to make it a single shot. This has been fired maybe 200 rounds with Hornady factory ammo only back when I had my 716. It looks basically new. These are hard to find and perfect for your registered 716 SBR in the bigger caliber. There's a standard birdcage hider on the front, mostly as thread protection as I removed my old AAC hider off of it. Just make sure you have the stamp before you try it out! $850 shipped to anywhere legal in the US via priority mail.
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SPF SIG 516 (5.56) 7.5” piston upper - quad rail, complete with bolt carrier group, charging handle and piston. This is a clean upper and was only fired with maybe 2-300 rounds of factory Hornady ammo. The adjustable piston system allows you to regulate operation in unsuppressed, suppressed or even shut off the gas to make it a single shot if you want. These are hard to find and perfect for your registered SBR. It pins right on most of the AR lowers out there. I had it on a Colt and Noveske lower and the mate up was perfect. $750 shipped anywhere legal in the US via priority mail. SPF
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FOV issues and patents

I realize this has been discussed in some detail but this isn’t necessarily about the absurd, imo, patent by a certain company. This is about other companies adhering to it but not giving a disclaimer to potential buyers.

So say I buy a new Schmidt, a zeiss v8, a tt, or some other 3-5k optic expecting it to match their stated claims.

In most cases the specs on their us sites or in their catalog are listed with the exact same specs as they’re listed in Germany, be it in feet fov, apparent, or angular fov. Zeiss list their V8’s as having 24 degree fov’s both on the us website and in us catalogs.

So I spend 4k on optic x expecting a certain fov that’s listed on their site and in their catalog, but I get a neutered altered optic unsuspecting.

So my question is, how is this legal and how can they not let potential buyers know they are altering their products or give some sort of disclaimer.

SOLD Hodgdon Varget Powder Northern VA Area VA, MD, WV

I have 16 1lb bottles of Varget for sale in the Northern Virginia, MD, WV area.
  • Price: $42 per pound
  • Quantity: 16 pounds
    • 11 lbs of Lot: 1071519 7126
    • 5 lbs of Lot: 1061919 7126
  • Lot Consistency: All powder is from the same manufacturing lot, ensuring uniform performance across all rounds.
  • Condition: Unopened and stored in a dehumidified climate-controlled environment to maintain quality.
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bad lot of steel and rumors

I'm probably opening a can of worms here but I'm going to put this to rest once and for all.

A rumor was started a while back somewhere in PRS that we had a bad lot of steel. The main thing that was said was our barrels where dying prematurely and that Hawk Hill barrels where lasting longer. Also a comment a few times was thrown in there about stress.

That rumor was flat out BS! Thinking it was coming from Hawk Hill as that kept getting relayed to me I even called Shawn at Hawk Hill. We helped him with different things when he started out.

So when I called Shawn and told him what I was calling about and if it was either coming out of his shop or from his shooters I asked him to put a stop to it. Shawn told me and reaffirmed to me that it wasn't coming from him at all and I'll quote what he said in the very next sentence right here..... "Frank if that was true then we would be having problems as well...as our steel comes out of your heat lots." Which that was another reason why I called him. He's using the same steel! So there is no way that there was any truth to it.

I want you all to think of this as well. We make and ship on average 200 or more ammunition test barrels a month. The barrels could be pressure and velocity test barrels (which can also be used for accuracy testing), finished accuracy test barrels and or accuracy blanks that the end user does the finish work on themselves. About 90% of the ammunition test barrels we ship out we do the finish work on complete. Chambers etc...and the test barrels are getting used pronto. They are not sitting on a shelf somewhere for 10 years etc in most cases.

A good example.... just in one caliber one ammunition maker where the accuracy requirement for the box ammo is .65moa. They are burning thru a minimum of 10 barrels a month to the tune of over 5k rounds of ammunition being fired thru them (it's a big magnum round so it's a barrel burner). This is every month and this has been being done for a few years now. If there was truly a bad lot of steel etc.... places like this are going to be calling us way sooner than anyone else. The steel we use for test barrels is the same material we use for anyone else ordering a barrel from us. We don't have special steel just for test barrels etc... or sort stuff out just for test barrels and you and I get the left overs.

If there truly is a problem with steel.... I'm going to hear it from the Gov't, an ammunition maker, a bullet maker etc... way sooner than I hear it from someone that gets a barrel or two or a few a year.

When someone has a problem and blames it on the barrel/bad steel. You have to take what you hear with a grain of salt at times. At times you and I don't always get the whole picture of what is going on.

I can throw Murphy's law in here and say.... if someone does have a problem with a barrel could it be with that particular barrel and that one piece of steel. Sure but one barrel out of a whole heat lot of material doesn't mean the whole lot is bad etc...and one heat lot of material for us can make 10k or more barrels.

Have we've gotten a particular lot of material and had issues with it. You bet.... but it wasn't barrel life or accuracy issues or anything like that. It was the way it was machining. We got a hold of the mill and rejected the whole lot and they took it back and replaced it. Out of that lot of material we only shipped 14 barrels and they where all 30cal and I know the shop they went to. No safety issues or accuracy or barrel life issues. It was strictly machining issues and what affected it was the way the mill made the material. By the way this lot of steel was back in 2009 and you can thank the Obama administration for that! Because what that administration did made the mill take short cuts.

Later, Frank
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Anschütz R700

Fair disclosure: I'm not at all noobie shooter, but I'm a rank observer from the sidelines in rimfire precision. I've done some searching, but there's several bucketfuls of posts, here and in general, of which I've read many but hardly close to all. Same for Anschütz specifically. And I'm neither a trained (or untrained) gunsmith, nor a designer, never mind a mechanical engineer.

Here's an interesting question that's been clicking around my frontal lobes since Strasser offered their RS700 action, with examples in chassis aimed at PRS/NRL competitions. Anschütz's various actions dominate several target disciplines. Their Fortner action dominates biathlon, and biathlon is the closest "Euro-competition" to North American "practical" ones. (Yes, I know that PRS/NRL styles of shooting are taking off in other places.) Rimfire in various forms is as well.

While the Tikka T1x and CZ457 are often used, the Vudoo iterations, the Zermatt RimX, and to some extent the Bergara actions seem to dominate. Most of the courses of fire I've seen do not involve outright speed shooting, but there are some that do. Either way, the faster one can cycle the rifle, the more time there is for marksmanship. Tests I've seen show that a straight-pull will beat a turn-bolt with equally experienced operators.

When Steven Boelter was at Anschütz NA, he did a lot of interesting small-output projects, including some rifles more or less aimed at the stuff we're talking about. Still, at this point, unless I'm missing something, a variant of their biathlon rifle is the closest Anschütz comes. And I read that shooters aren't fond of their magazines and the limited stock/chassis availability.


I find myself wondering whether it would be worthwhile for them to reengineer their Fortner (and, maybe, their 54 repeater) actions to fit a Rem 700 pattern and accept one of the series of factory and aftermarket AICS form magazines, or if not, their own. I should thinj that there would be a reasonable (read profitable) level of appeal. For that matter, I wonder the same about CZ and Tikka. The reasons are self-evident.


Interested to know what my betters think.

Cheers.

SOLD TS Customs / CRB Prefit Barrel for Impact 737

TS Customs / CRB Prefit Barrel for Impact 737
6BR - Alpha Reamer - .120" FB
28" Competition Contour
5/8x24 Threads
7.5 twist

$625 Shipped (CONUS)

I picked this up with the intention of building another rifle, but this endeavor will just be an unneeded distraction. I can include some Alpha 6BR brass, new, for another $110. The brass is not available without buying the barrel.
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Rifle Scopes SPR/DMR scope suggestions

First post so I hope it’s in the correct area.

Just put together a 6arc 18” SPR/DMR ish rifle. Looking to put a good scope on it to possibly get into some longer distance shooting training.

I was seeing the NF Atacr 4-16 FFP with the Tremor 3 reticle is a good option or would it be better to get the 4-20?

Also for the mount what would be the best Height over bore QD mount? I will be switching back and forth from thermal and this scope.

Thanks for any advice on these.