Recent content by signal5

I need suggestions on some decent spotting scopes. I work for a local PD gang unit and we are going to buy a couple of spotting scopes to be used for surveillance. I wasn't given a budget but I know I can't get anything extremely high dollar. If anybody can make any suggestions I will...

Sorry I forgot to mention that's budget isn't set at 500. I don't mind paying some out of pocket. I just want what is best for me to carry on patrol. I am a local police officer assigned to a gang investigation unit.

I have had an eotech on my rifle for the last 10 years. The last two times I qualified with my patrol rifle my eotech was way off. I am going to upgrade to an aimpoint. Every august my dept gives us $500 for equipment. Which aimpoint should I go with. I was thinking the comp m4 but I'm not...

Should I use different sets of dies for 2 different rifles in the same caliber? I have a rem 700 in 308 and a dpms lr308. My dies are set for my rem 700 and I would most likely have to adjust the resizing die to fit the lr308. Is it worth it to get another set or should I adjust an use them...

Wouldn't all the carbon build up eventually freeze up the bearings?

Ok so I figured out that I could decap it by using a 1/16 punch and I opened up the flash hole with a 5/64 drill bit. I'm gonna load up a few of these and see how they work. Decapping it this way is a pain but I am gonna try to figure out a way to turn down a decapping pin in my decapping die.

I am still wondering what to do with all this brass, I would like to figure out how to decap it so I can use it.

I'm looking to get a case trimmer. These are the 2 models I have narrowed it down to. It seems as if the only difference is that the 2 comes with a universal shell holder and the original model you must buy the shell holders. Are there any other differences and is the universal shell holder...

Yeah I'm kinda new to reloading so I thought that lube was lube. Next time I go get supplies I'll pick up another kind of lube.

I finally got them to work, I lubed the cases a bit more that seemed to work.

I'm using the one shot from hornady. I have used it in the same manner with my other dies with no problems.

I bought some 30.06 hornady dies yesterday and it seems like every other case is getting stuck in it. I put plenty if line on the cases I just can't figure out why it's doing that. I have only been reloading about a month I am wondering if this is a common problem with hornady dies or if it's...

Thanks for the replies guys. I did my load testing yesterday with my can on and everything worked out great.

Very rarely will the federal government prosecute for one violent crime. In my years as a LEO I have not seem them prosecute unless it was a long term investigation. The only time they will prosecute for one incident is when they adopt a case from a local PD. The Feds will always allow the...

At what time during my load development is it safe to start using my suppressor? Or do I wait until I have found my most accurate load?