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    Safe Recommendations

    My comment on this as someone that has worked as a locksmith, installed alarm systems, and has drilled open safes: 1) It is imperative that the safe door be a true 1/2" plate steel today. 1/4" plate steel walls as wall if you can swing it. If you can't afford a 1/2" plate steel door safe, get...
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    Rifle Scopes Using the rifle scope as a carrying handle for your rifle

    Scopes do break. That's why these companies all have service departments. And they do break more than any other part of a rifle in my experience even if they are high end. Why push your luck by using it in a way it was not designed (they are not designed to be carrying handles). Even if they...
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    Rifle Scopes What mag range for PRS style comps

    I rarely go above 15X in a match. Only time I may do it is for know your limit stages that are paper based or maybe closer very small targets. There was a couple times I did go to 4X for very close target engagements. Mostly 6-8X is the lowest I go for offhand shooting and similar unstable...
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    Rifle Scopes Using the rifle scope as a carrying handle for your rifle

    I think it's a bad habit and would avoid doing it. Even if the scope is fine with it mechanically, you can accidentally move elevation/windage knobs and not know it, etc. I also think it's easier to drop the rifle when not being held securely where it belongs, plus it's slower to bring into...
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    Gun Safe recommendations

    Best value in a gun safe for the security is the Amsec BF. Other major brands do not compare. I used to drill open safes and the model I personally recommended to people were the Graffunder if you have the coin, or the Amsec BF or higher rated Amsec if you don't. But even then, I think the...
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    Sako TRG / TRG-S M995 Thread **Sticky??**

    The rifle bare without the bipod and magazine is 11.5 lbs. It is in .260. If I pull off the muzzle brake (which for a 260 probably isn't needed), it would be about 11.2 lbs. Magazine is about 5 ozs. So let's call it 12.0lbs. with magazine and some ammo and a sling. If I put on my 20" steel...
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    Sell everything for AIAX MC?

    I have an AW and TRG with action wrenches and barrels I can swap. I have also owned multi-caliber like the DTA. I found that switching calibers was a pain because of the need to re-check zeroes and the thought that my rifle was never "stable" and just ready to go. There were too many variables...
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    Sako TRG / TRG-S M995 Thread **Sticky??**

    I just put a Leupold Mk6 3-18 on my TRG. It dropped 1lb. over the S&B 5-25 that was on it. Photos below wearing 260 Hardy Carbon barrel. I need to get it to the range to test it out, but in dry firing the new scope is working out well with eye relief and power range.
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    Rifle Scopes Thoughts on the Leupold Mark 6?

    I just got one to replace a S&B 5-25 on my TRG. I mounted it last night and my impressions are all really early: It's 1 lb. lighter than the S&B and much shorter. Most of the competing compact scopes are all at least 1/2lb heavier than the Leupold. Most full size tactical scopes are 1lb...
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    HELP!!! Cannon Safe WON'T UNLOCK!!!

    I used to work on safes and electronic locks have a much higher failure rate over a good quality mechanical. But today even the mechanicals on lower end safes can be a bit cheap. A higher end S&G lock or LaGard would be my pick. You could also retrofit a Lagard key lock onto the safe if you...
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    HELP!!! Cannon Safe WON'T UNLOCK!!!

    If the lock is good and hosed with new battery, you could try rapping on the door with a sand filled mallet or maybe your fist with a sharp blow. Reason being some lock mechanisms may be sticking and a hard strike may free it up to open. If you have a cheap safe with thin skin steel, be sure not...
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    G7 BR2 or Leica HD-B?

    I also recently bought the HD-B and have been using them hunting. They will show a mil drop out to 1000 yards that exactly matches my ballistic computer, plus they automatically incorporate the temp, barometer and incline into the calculation instantly along with the excellent glass. I just used...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    Parallax adjustment being off could explain the rest of the error. But if the wrong mil unit was being used for the comparison the 2% error that was reported is now near 0%. The March scopes were maybe tested against the wrong mil unit compared to the other scopes. Again, I don't know. Calz...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    March calibrates their turrets to NATO mils, not USMC mils according to the manufacturer. I believe the Army uses the NATO standard if I'm not mistaken. The difference is whether the unit of measure is a mathematical mil measure of 1/6283 or the NATO version that is 1/6400. March is using 1/6400...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    Your scope is not off. March scopes use Army mils, not the USMC mils used in this test. The testing of the March scopes was likely done to the wrong unit. This is probably why the two March scopes tested had nearly identical results. They are calibrated for a different mil unit. All you need...
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    leica geovid 10*42

    My Leica HD-Bs have no problem ranging to 1000 yards in bright sun, and typically out to the full 2000 yards in the same conditions isn't an issue. The HD-B also have a full ballistics computer complete with environmental/angle compensation with custom drop tables. If you point the HD-B at a...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    Yep. I understand. Not trying to defend everything here. Just pointing out that the aperture size is going to largely determine the resolution and detail the scope can resolve at the most optimum conditions. In telescope land that is something called the Rayleigh resolution limit: Resolution...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    I own the March scope and also NightForce and also a Steiner at 56mm. They are all great scopes in their own ways. The overwhelming point to take away from the March vs. others in this test is basically that aperture wins. So in testing you see clearly that 56mm objectives are clustering at the...
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    Rifle Scopes 2014's Best Scope ShootOut

    As with telescopes, all else being equal, aperture wins in terms of optical performance: Telescope Buyers' FAQ - Part Two Yep. I have a 16" kit telescope that beats the finest 3" refractors on the planet when I compare them. The larger objective collects a lot of photons. However, the 3"...
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    Rangefinder and Binocular combo, any ideas?

    The new leica hdb gives full range, angle corrected range, angle, temp and barometer correction with your custom drop table generated from their website. I have a pair and they give full atmospheric corrected drop for my rifle out to 1000 yards. The drop correction is in mils, inches or MOA and...
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