Recent content by Hootsmon

Hunters are after one-shot kills. Wounding an animal is undesirable. Maximum range is thus limited to where the hunter can clearly identify the animal and make a clean kill with a fair degree of certainty. Bullet drop and wind allowance will be a few inches at most and easily compensated with...

Yeah, I thought of that. Tried sighting on a different building. Same deal. It was a cinder block building on a poured concrete slab. A canted reticle is no big deal on a hunting scope that will only be adjusted for sighting in. I don't think it's acceptable for a tactical scope, especially...

I helped a buddy mount a Mark 4 on his Steyr Scout. We set the rifle up level, using a spirit level on the rail. Set the scope in the mounts with the spirit level on the elevation turret -perfectly level. Checked the rifle again, still level. Everything level as can be. Looked through the scope...

There is a few gun shops around western Missouri who have some CCI SV. They ration it to only one or two boxes at a time, but this is a huge improvement to the last few months (NONE at all, at least not on the days I went shopping). Keep an eye on GunBot find 223 5.56 AR-15 ammo in stock, they...

Thanks for the welcome. A few people have mentioned that Thai place, it must be good.

Hi, just moved to the Kansas City area, my wife works over at Ft Leavenworth. I'm an old-school machinist by trade, I can single-point a good thread and put files and scrapers to good use but CNC machines are a mystery to me. That may limit my work options around here, but I'm sure to find...