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    Rifle Scopes Any suggestions for dealing with a broken XOTIC?

    Re: Any suggestions for dealing with a broken XOTIC? I don't doubt that a bent parallax tube is possible, but for that to happen either 1.) they have terrible engineering and fragile materials or 2.) this is an <span style="font-weight: bold">extremely</span> poor quality product. This whole...
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    Rifle Scopes Any suggestions for dealing with a broken XOTIC?

    A friend of mine recently damaged his XOTIC while out hunting: it was dropped (while attached to a factory savage heavy-barrel in McM stock) from a height of about 2 ft, impacting mid-bell. It left a tiny ding, but completely bent the main tube so that the objective is basically touching the...
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    Gunsmithing To Bed or Not to Bed

    Re: To Bed or Not to Bed Two Rem 700 VS HS stocks. One was skim bedded, the other wasn't. I took my rifle to the range and shot the unbedded stock, then swapped stocks and shot the skim-bedded one. vs The light was failing at the time so it was almost rapid-fire for both. The unbedded...
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    What caused this?

    Re: What caused this? Supposedly you can minimize head separation by having a highly polished chamber (low friction), but the tradeoff is higher pressure on the bolt.
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    Range Report Testing for ballistic coefficients

    Re: Testing for ballistic coefficients <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bryan Litz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">On the high end, well, most of the adverse affects cited for <span style="font-style: italic">over stability</span> are myths. The...
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    Is the CED M2 Chronograph the best choice now?

    Re: Is the CED M2 Chronograph the best choice now? I have the CED Millennium. It's a nice unit: I typically use it under pretty nice conditions but so far it's always worked.