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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TacticalHunter</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Besides the velocity change when the temp are different, have any of you experience your groups open up? </div></div> Mine did but I figured...
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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting /<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: hondo1312</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I recall a post by kraigWY stating he has experienced about 1 MOA of vertical shift per 15-20 deg F change. </div></div> This makes sense I was...
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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stranded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Remember if you do the work of two somebody gets laid off. Friends of the boss never get laid off. You must be young it's too cold here in Ne. for...
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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting Hahaha the union frowns upon that or I would
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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting That's pretty much what I was looking.for. I had an idea that being colder the powder would burn slower giving less muzzle velocity. But I'm still pretty green and tend to over think stuff so I figured I'd ask. Thanks for the responses! Now if anyone has tips on how...
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    cold weather shooting

    Re: cold weather shooting Thanks a lot!
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    cold weather shooting

    Sitting here at work I was thinking about how I've read that temperature effects your shot. But in what way? I've tried searching for it already. Say I was zeroed in at 70 degrees today its 5 degrees what kind of changes would be present? Shooting a Remington.700 sps tactical with 168 gr...
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    what'd i do wrong???

    Re: what'd i do wrong??? Good deal guys. Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna give it a shot this weekend!
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    what'd i do wrong???

    Re: what'd i do wrong??? Thanks. I'm going back out this weekend to give that a shot. Also going to take a poster board with a grid drawn on It. If I miss that then I'm in deep shit. What other info should I have provided? I'm new to this.
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    what'd i do wrong???

    Re: what'd i do wrong??? Hmmmm..... I was shooting off my bags on a bench. Maybe I should use a bipod next time?
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    what'd i do wrong???

    Re: what'd i do wrong??? Everything was tight and has loctite on it. Plus I was using Federal gold medal match 168gr bthp ammo. I forgot that part.
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    what'd i do wrong???

    Ok. First day at the range. It was busy so I started at the 50yd stand. I zeroed about 3 inches high and got a good 5 shot group. Anything farther I wasn't even hitting the stand. I pulled the bolt and bore sighted at 100 once it opened. Still nothing. I'm confused angry and outta ammo til next...
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    Member Link Up Anyone in NORTHEAST OHIO???

    Re: Anyone in NORTHEAST OHIO??? Thank you guys for all the replies! I'm definitely going to look into all of these places in the near future.
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    Member Link Up Anyone in NORTHEAST OHIO???

    Does anyone around Youngstown area know of anywhere to shoot? I have a bunch of unreliable friends with sweet property so I need somewhere new tp go regularly so I can actually get accustomed to my rifle.
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    Ar-15 problems ......

    Re: Ar-15 problems ...... The set screws were loose. I'm going to tighten them down and put loctite on them and run it this weekend. If the problem continues I'm going to get a new gas tube and block.