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  1. sinister

    Eject! Eject! Eject! Is anything other than 3:00-4:00 OK?

    Unless you're going to do ridiculous military things (like shoot in sub-arctic conditions) I don't think it matters. If parts wear out, change them. MIL-SPEC simply means it works under a known/specified set of conditions at a price point a bidder thinks he can meet while still making a...
  2. sinister

    Eject! Eject! Eject! Is anything other than 3:00-4:00 OK?

    I am not sure you have a problem. The weapon functions and cycles perfectly and it seems your gas system doesn't foul much. Are you tuning for hits and to minimize stoppages or to save your brass? If you're just trying to solve an OCD geometry and brass collection problem I'd say save the...
  3. sinister

    Leather sewing thread and leather work

    Dude! Leather, Nomex thread, and brass GI snaps. You could be making bank producing suppressor holsters.
  4. sinister

    Rifle Scopes Seven Scopes with Issues or Something Else

    What is your bag filler? Bigger, lighter poly or plastic beads popular in run-and-gun bags are going to roll and and take more reps to settle than dense, heavy black volcanic benchrest sand in a leather bag on top of a Bald Eagle.
  5. sinister

    AR10 accuracy question

    What exactly are your requirements for this rifle and what is your shooting experience level at the ranges you wish to hit and score? Are you trying for benchrest precision -- because you're not going to get that with a thinner 16.5-inch barrel, piston operating system, and GI trigger. A GI E-...
  6. sinister

    Steel targets for 338 lapua

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

    Varget vs N140

    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:
  8. sinister

    Varget vs N140

    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.
  9. sinister

    Army M24 Build Thread

    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.
  10. sinister

    REM 9 1/2 primers in M118lr clone load?

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

    Army M24 Build Thread

    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).
  12. sinister

    SR25 Upper Compatibility

    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...
  13. sinister

    Sighting in at 100 meters. But im allready on 1 1/2 rotations.

    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...
  14. sinister

    Sighting in at 100 meters. But im allready on 1 1/2 rotations.

    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...
  15. sinister

    Army M24 Build Thread

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

    Army M24 Build Thread

    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).
  17. sinister

    M855A1 Accuracy and Velocity

    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...
  18. sinister

    M855A1 Accuracy and Velocity

    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...
  19. sinister

    Winchester Model 70: Need proof that the is was official used by army/police before '66.

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

    Winchester Model 70: Need proof that the is was official used by army/police before '66.

    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...
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