18” barrel, 1/8 twist, 6.5cm on a 110 action.
I had 120eldm’s and 127lrx’s loaded…
All of them .030 jump.

20 rounds each, with 5 rounds at each charge weight. Middle of the road loads per book range.

I shot 1 round of factory 140 just to double check I was on paper (top left square). It was within an inch of my POA so I moved on to the first batch of 127’s….terrible…

Shot a second factory 140 back at the same top left square for POA. About an inch from the first 140 I shot. So I knew the gun/scope checked out.

I then shot 4 of the 5 next load of 127’s
A total of 9x 127’s…minute of truck door!

Drove to the target and they all look like they tumbled…

I then shot 5 of the 120eldms, (quicker than I normally would cause I just had to know!) and they’re what I would hope for for a first batch of 5 during load development.

Anybody have experience with anything similar? What little I’ve found, these Barnes LRX’s may like a lot more jump, but that still wouldn't make up the difference of what was a terrible showing from the 9 rounds I fired. And it still wouldn’t explain what appears to be rounds tumbling/not stabilizing.

The 120eldm results tell me that my barrel is capable of running these lighter bullets, but so far, not the 127LRX’s!!

Pics for better clarity.
Clean cardboard with yellow tape was the 120eldm’s shot after the 127’s

Any thoughts?

Suuure, Nick.

What…

…ever.

Some information found somewhere in this thread.

When the sync process is interrupted by the app inexplicably getting stuck on "connecting," certain Shot Sessions can be tagged as having been "synced" and will be removed from the queue.

As a result, the app will refuse to download them from the chronograph - and thusly, one cannot email themselves their *.csv files for record - keeping.

Thus far, Garmin has not rectified the issues with Shot Sessions being dropped from the sync process.

Hey everyone,


I'm starting to dip my toes into the PRS world and would really appreciate some feedback from those of you with more experience. Right now, I’m weighing two options for my first setup:

• Tikka T3X CTR dropped into an MDT chassis (XRS)
• Ruger Precision Rifle (RPR), most likely in 6.5 Creedmoor

My goal is to stay under $1,500 for the rifle and base upgrades (excluding glass), and I'm hoping to land something that will serve me well for local matches while leaving room to grow as I improve.


A few things I'm considering:

• Accuracy and out-of-the-box performance
• Long-term reliability and upgrade paths
• Overall ergonomics and ease of getting match-ready
• Resale value down the line if I upgrade

I know both platforms have their followings, but I’d love to hear from those who’ve run both (or seen them at matches) and can speak to how they stack up in real-world PRS use.


Any input—good, bad, or lessons learned—is very welcome. Appreciate the help!

I’ll just say that this article highlights the very thing we see here on the forum.

And yes, I’m posting the full text of the essay even though I realize many will ignore it or skim and post anyway, because that is exactly what this essay is about.
—————-
Credentialled But Illiterate: The Reading Crisis at the Heart of Education

By Patrick Keeney

In his trenchant essay, “The Average College Student Is Illiterate,” Hilarius Bookbinder sounds the alarm over the precipitous decline in student literacy.

It is a sobering account. Bookbinder (a pseudonym) teaches in the humanities and draws upon years of classroom experience. He observes that many of his students are functionally illiterate. They are unable to engage with serious adult literature and often find the very act of reading tedious. As a result, they avoid it whenever possible. This aversion manifests in predictable ways: skimming texts without comprehension, failing to identify key arguments, and struggling with exam questions simply because they haven’t read them carefully.

His reflections reveal the troubling reality of liberal learning today and the formidable challenge educators face in fostering genuine intellectual engagement. Bookbinder places the blame squarely on society. “I don’t blame K–12 teachers,” he writes. “This is not an educational system problem. This is a societal problem.”

Of course, he has a point, but this is too lenient. It overlooks the significant structural failures within the K–12 system itself—failures that have deprioritized foundational literacy, neglected intellectual rigor, and left students unprepared for the demands of higher education.

Over the past several decades, elementary and secondary schools have increasingly adopted a pedagogical model prioritizing technological fluency and emotional well-being over developing serious intellectual habits. As one parent noted in response to Bookbinder’s piece, children are now “pushed into technology (computers, iPads) as early as kindergarten” and “are not required to read entire books, let alone write about them.”

This new orthodoxy exalts engagement over comprehension, screen fluency over print literacy, and the consequence is a generation of students ill-equipped for the demands of higher education.

More troubling still is the retreat from rigor. In the name of preserving students’ self-esteem, schools are often reluctant to challenge students, hold them accountable, or insist upon high standards of excellence. The result is a dangerous turn to what has been called the therapeutic approach to education. Students are flattered rather than instructed, and their self-esteem is affirmed regardless of whether they have done anything estimable. The essential work of education—discerning truth from error, cultivating judgment, introducing the young to the intellectual heritage of their civilization—is displaced by therapeutic aims.

And so, when these students arrive at university, their failure becomes apparent. Every professor has stories—students who cannot follow a basic line of reasoning, who confuse anecdote with argument, or who, without the slightest embarrassment, announce that they are “not readers,” as though this were a harmless personal quirk rather than a disqualification fromserious intellectual life. Once isolated anecdotes, such stories are now commonplace, as Bookbinder documents.

The university effectively becomes a triage center for the wounded products of a broken educational pipeline. Professors are increasingly urged to accommodate: to simplify readings, moderate expectations, and reward effort rather than genuine achievement. The result has been a steady erosion of standards and academic benchmarks.

But this is not merely an educational failure. It is a moral one. Literacy is not simply a technical skill—it is a form of ethical and intellectual development. It requires cultivating patience, empathy, and sound judgment. It demands that we sit still and listen attentively to the minds and voices of others. If students cannot do this, then we are not educating them. At best, we are merely credentialing them.

To be literate, in the fullest sense, is to participate in the great conversation of civilization. It is to gain access to and be initiated into the shared understandings of a community. A liberal education, properly understood, is neither vocational training nor a self-esteem project. It is a moral and intellectual discipline that presupposes a conception of the good and an account of the human person as more than a bundle of appetites or a mere consumer. It sees the human being as a moral agent, capable of self-transcendence and shaping a life toward truth, beauty, and meaning.

We deceive ourselves if we believe the decline in student literacy is a neutral development. We must resist the fashionable cynicism that shrugs and says this is simply the way of the world. We are told that deep reading is obsolete in the internet age, with its endless screens and omnipresent mobile phones. Our society increasingly treats the reading of serious texts not as an essential ability at the core of educational engagement, but as a quaint indulgence from abygone era.

Such resignation is not only intellectually lazy but morally perilous. The capacity to read deeply, write clearly, follow and test a line of reasoning—these are habits of mind without which neither democracy nor the life of the mind can flourish.

Education has always been about elevation. Liberal learning, as the name implies, is about liberating the individual from the contingencies and limitations of his or her birth. It is the deliberate act of lifting students’ minds above distraction, above appetite, above the noise of the present moment. To “meet students where they are” may be a necessary pedagogical starting point, but it must never be mistaken for the destination. The true aim of education is not to affirm students as they are, but to form them into what they might become. It is to awaken their capacities for reason, imagination, and judgment—and to summon them toward the best versions of themselves.

An earlier version of this essay was previously published in The Epoch Times

Someone is either severely retarded or the Feds are entrapping people

Okay, so we only polled one person on the coolest bolt handle poll, and it was me and I voted for these. Still. They're awesome. Get ya some!

These are live and available on our site. 416 Stainless steel. Single piece bolt handle and knobs and 5/16-24 adapters for B14R and T1X rifles. Complete specs are on the site.

B14R Handle with Cylinder Shaped Knob- $59.99


B14R Replacement Bolt Handle with Tear Drop shaped Knob- $59.99


B14R 5/16-24 Adapter for Standard Bolt Knobs- $39.99


Tikka T1X Replacement Bolt Handle with Cylinder Shaped Knob- $63.99


Tikka T1X Replacement Bolt Handle with Tear Drop Shaped Knob- $63.99


Tikka T1X 5/16-24 Bolt Handle Adapter for Standard Bolt Knobs- $43.99

Free Proof Carbon Fiber Barrel Certificate.
$1399 retail value. Expires 12/31/2025
$800

This is why we need to put ANTIFA, their funders, their fighters and *especially* their trolls on the foreign terrorist list.

And start putting them in Guantanamo and, when outside the US Borders, droning the fuck out of them.

This is total foreign terrorism. Funded not only by people like this LBP POS... but by his links to ChiComs. And other foreign actors.

Game on, cupcakes.

Hope we will see this run up/down the funding and 'orders' chain. Wonder how long it takes to get to Kenyans in Kalorama.

Just 'sayin?

Sirhr

JP 34mm CANTILEVER MOUNT 1.5”

Used for one match only. Excellent condition. $250 shipped. Venmo or PPFF

Excellent condition savage model 11 in 223. Has the Savage AccuStock with a aluminum chassis bedding block. Includes the 4-12x Redhead Pursuit scope on it.

4.41 inch spacing, bottom release. 22 inch barrel, 1:9 twist

$325 shipped now.

for the price of an Axis get a much better stock, 11 action and a scope, a complete hunting package.

McMillan a3 Molded camo with new Badger EFR (all parts included)
Remington 700 inlet bedded for an IMPACT 737r
Remington Varmint barrel channel
M5 bottom metal inlet

Shipped conus $800

PPFF VENMO

Any questions or more pics, let me know.

I need to catch up, I got a few suppressors now and no covers. What is your favorite suppressor cover and why?

Figured I’d ask here, but I’m looking for some SK Long Range rifle match if anyone has any. Let me know whatcha got.

Does anyone have experience with 8.6 blackout?

What are the typical muzzle velocities from a 12.5 inch barrel for sub sonic and super sonic?

What is the velocity difference between a gas gun and a bolt action?

Do you have a drop and velocity chart? What about wind deflection?

WTB American Precision Arms (APA) 30MM LOW (.750) Rings.

have 4 new in box Athlon rangecraft...need to move these on out.. $340 shipped ... wife's been remodeling too much..

I've often thought of saying "you're welcome" when I hold the door and it isn't acknowledged. In life, it's important to be deliberate and direct, but one can take it too far and that line is very blurry.

A Black Texas woman Cecelia Simpson, 41, and her 20 year old daughter held the store's door for another young Black woman Keona Hampton, 22, and when the PERP didn't say thanks, the mother verbally noted it. It escalated, and when the mother and 20 Y.O. daughter tried to deescalate and leave in their car, the perp shot and killed her.

We need a purge of all illegals, Visa offenders, Dems, RINOs, addicts, violent offenders, convicted habitual offenders, etc. Make Our Republic Great Again!


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For sale is an MDT Premier Gen2 chassis in Rem 700 SA. Chassis was mounted to a Bergara B14R Heavy action and shot 50ish rounds through it at an indoor shooting range. Chassis is virtually new. $800 shipped.

Login to view embedded media I saw this and wow its zippy. 5,220.8 fps. They say that they maxed out the garmin c1. So whos gonna build one and give it a go. This tickles my fancy but not high on the list cuz my plates full learning still lol.

• Wiebad Cheekpad for Manners TCS: $25 SOLD
• Pure Precision M5 Bottom Metal $100
• BAT Action Wrench (.900”) $50
• Cole-Tac Ammo Novel $50 SOLD
• High Speed Gear TACO mag pouch $30

All prices shipped

ALG Defense (Made by Geissele) ACT Advanced Combat Trigger AR15/AR10 New in Package.
Comes with Milspec Tan spring and Reduced Weight Purple Spring.
$65.00 SHIPPED
Best single stage upgrade for the price.

I have a Steiner c35 clip on, that I would like to trade towards a
Rh25/pfn640 V2,
pvs30
Arc CDG
Optics
ATX, AT or ATXC
will also hear other trade offers. Thanks

Looking to get a 4-24 put on my hunting rifle let me know what you want for it

I'm moving on to the 25 cal game and letting go of the last few items I have on 6mm... I have a LNIB set of LE Wilson 6-BRA Micrometer seater die (for arbor press)+ Bushing FL sizing die (Short Action Customs .267 bushing installed and included) + Case gage (Case gage, gage block and micrometer included). This set I used to load about 150 rounds of 6BRA earlier this year, but I have no more use for it.

Price on the entire set is $SOLD shipped and insured to your door. Several payment methods welcomed, just DM me and we’ll figure it out... This lot is priced to sell, retail on all these items together is north of 340 bucks.. Save yourself some cash and get this one instead of buying brand new.

Have any questions? DM me, I’ll take as many pictures and videos as you’d need and I’m open to FaceTime verification calls so you can have peace of mind.

American Rifle Company Archimedes action with the following.
-24” 1:8 twist threaded 5/8x24 6.5 Creedmoor PVA Rock Creek prefit (600 rds)
- American Rifle Company Xylo Chassis with Forward Optic Mount
- Trigger Tech Diamond 2 stage Flat
- Action Wrench
- extra Magnum Bolt face and Extractor. OPTICS/BIPOD NOT INCLUDED

Pm me for more info/pics/whatever or if my pricing seems off.

Will trade towards an ATX, AT or ATX-C. Maybe a CDG…

$2800