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You'll want the hardened steel. T-1 (for armor) or Abrasion Resistant (AR) 500. At least 5/8-inch inside of 500 yards.

The Double Alpha .223 powder funnel/insert for Dillon powder measures is mirror-polished inside and helps more than I thought possible for progressive-loading stick powder:

I've not used N140, but I've burned up quite a bit of N135 and N540. I'd buy the four cans of VV at the price of three Vargets. N135 flows really smoothly through Dillon and Redding measures.

Typical post office. My last certified mail payment for a scope mount took 17 days to deliver with tracking obviously not working. It took two "Where's my mail?" tracers and they were useless. Submit a tracer after the appropriate time elapses.

You won't notice much difference. Neither is a benchrest rifle, and as mentioned, M118LR brass isn't particularly precision noteworthy.

PEQ/PAQ should go on the side or a diving board. The top Pic rail space would be for a passive or thermal clip-on (otherwise, as you can see, your scope is occluded).

You should be able to use any SR-25 slant cut on a Larue. Just note Armalite AR-10A upper holes (.274") are smaller than KAC - LMT - Stag (.277) and will need slight reaming. Here are Knight and Larue uppers swapped on each others' lowers: Stripped Stag-10 uppers are around $180...

Ah. Let's assume 10 MILS per rotation (per the manual, 20 per youtube), 32 MILS total. With 32 MILS total elevation range, ideally half that is center-of-tube at 16 up from bottom. A 20-MOA slope zero will be ~6.7 MILS down, or 9.3 MILS up from bottom for a 100-yard zero (approximately one...

NQM, technically the reason for a sloped rail is to center your reticle at your most-used range setting. This potentially offers you the maximum left-right windage range if you click for range correction, and to center the crosshairs in the middle or clearest, no-distortion center of your lens...

Thank you. Your monitors and eyeballs are much better than mine. I thought the objective bells were bigger:

How, pray tell, can you determine that? I only know they exist because one of my guys (MSG Jared Van Aalst) told me he'd shot one (either when he was in 3rd Ranger Battalion or at Regiment).

The original requirement was for a lead-free round to keep Massachusetts federal and National Guard small arms ranges from being closed as lead hazards. Whether or not it performs well against barriers and body armor was a coincidental benefit of the R&D, but not a stated requirement. I'd take...

I coached an Army ROTC Combat Shooting Team at a Senior Military College from 2015 through 2020. We shot a bunch of M855A1 through M16A2s, M16A4s, and M4A1s at our home range, at Fort Benning, and various places in between. It is better than M855 but is not a magic cartridge. At 400 Yards and...

... for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.

I think Chandler or Senich posted documents showing Van Orden sent Model 70 sniper versions to both the Army and Marines -- but they weren't standard-issue. Base competition teams at division, interservice, and National Matches shot Model 70s in any rifle / any sight and Palma categories...