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Recent content by wilecoyote

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    Prone Hurts!

    ...My neck is 57 yrs old_ professionally drawing first and at the desktop now don't are the best of fitness exercises, and my relaxation comes from the prone shooting , even better if with padded jacket & sling_ my pain is a bliss, because is telling me that something in the equipement setting...
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    Green Beret officer forced out of service

    "...I never left the battlefield defeated. I never lost a man. Well over 20 awards for valor for the men that I fought alongside. We went after 'em every single day. I brought all my men home. That's it," Gant said..." perhaps, if he had been loved by some turkish officer,as peter 'o...
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    us there something wrong with cleaning brass before reloading?

    G.I.G.O. law : Garbage In, Garbage Out_ same as feeding an engine w.dirty fuel & dirty oil (maybe this man wasn't an ol'timer: it was only old)
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    Improving bolt lift DIY

    in all my ignorance, I'm not a fan of cutting coils on any OEM spring, even more if I don't have buyed first some OEM replacement springs _ it would be better, on my book, find and try first some spring with slightly thinner coils , but of the same overall lenght, if available _ about my 700...
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    Maggie’s Yoga pants...?

    I respectfully disagree_The matter was well clear & interesting even when I was younger _ (standards ? I'm sorry, I don't speak English...)
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    222 reloads

    maybe using a thin, longer, pipe between the brass and the powder funnel could help you to have a better settlement of the powder throwed in the case, gaining some useful room, as once done by benchresters...
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    How hard is it really to be accurate at 300-400 yards with an ar 15

    ...well,Sir, even worse, for MY ego, has been (and is at today) shooting an M16A2 toy-clone in .22 rimfire, prone,sling & irons... cheaper? yes_ forgiving? not_
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    .22lr Colt M16 by Walther,Ulm

    in the meantime I was able to fully disassemble a Walther-Colt M16: it's a f'in nightmare, beside being engineered as a toy, with the materials of a toy... if, as stated by usmcchet9296, it was stupid for Colt put on it their name, it was also stupid for Wather lowering their standard to make...
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    100 Years ago today

    ...what a f'k : it's a Springfield, NOT a carcano ! shoot it and be happy (both)
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    100 Years ago today

    my granfather was drafted to the WWI at 16yrs._ despite the hunger, diseases and misery of that state, he confessed me that he would goin'back at anytime , in exchange to be again teenager as during "his" wartime_
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    .22lr Colt M16 by Walther,Ulm

    well, I'm not deep in black rifles, but it seems belonging to entirely a different league than the Walther plinker toy ...
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    Tuning Cartridge OAL

    tha real bonus of the LADDER test is the focusing of the attn. on the powder charges only,at first, allowing to work on the COAL as next step_ that's the reason because I like it better_ Is it worth taking it further and playing w/ OAL if I'm happy with the performance of both rifles? Has...
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    .22lr Colt M16 by Walther,Ulm

    Thank you about the info !_ ( an AR upper as possible replacement,"here", would not be a problem, anyway, because the hypotetical swap would be strictly forbidden by our laws, and could cost really heavy legal consequences... )
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    .22lr Colt M16 by Walther,Ulm

    in any way we can spell it, the translation is ever pot metal...