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  1. shoobe01

    Night Vision Let’s talk nods and muzzle devices

    Are blast cans a legal option? Often available from suppressor makers so you get their QD suppressor adapter, mount this not-at-all-sound-moderating device onto it before dark. A good flash hider with the blast/flash can over it is about halfway between a good flash hider and a suppressor. It...
  2. shoobe01

    Anyone have a floorless tipi tent?

    These are on many tents, and specifically are for bad weather, mostly snow and ice (though useful in just winds, really torrential rain). They even have a formal name but hell if I can remember it now, dammit. They can also be used to cheat if your initial setup isn't quite working, take out...
  3. shoobe01

    Anyone have a floorless tipi tent?

    First launched in the UK market so plausible to believe.
  4. shoobe01

    Anyone have a floorless tipi tent?

    Yes. I think the first couple years they made their pouches and packs in some eastern european country, but have long been +/- 100% Chinese made. They have a lot of products, I am sure some are made elsewhere, but similar low cost high volume places. Quality generally (I do not have a tent...
  5. shoobe01

    Anyone have a floorless tipi tent?

    If you like floorless (and I have been in lots of big canvas ones among others) the indeed as stated above: prepare for it. If at all wet, muddy, cold, etc then learn about sawing down spruce boughs or otherwise something to get up off the floor. Be sure to bring a saw, always. If you don't...
  6. shoobe01

    Ar pistol barrel length

    10.5" for pistol calibers of any sort, and .300. 12.5" for 5.56.
  7. shoobe01

    Ring brand survey

    Aero. I have plenty, but the last three-four have been Aero Precision. Mounts not rings. Reasonable number of sizes, heights, crazy light, very very straight and stiff despite very low weight; I run some quite heavy scopes and crash through brush and everything, though admittedly I have no...
  8. shoobe01

    Storing barrels long term

    Oh, good to know all. I haven't had to deal with those, no one gave me the MSDS. Will look harder for next time I have to use it!
  9. shoobe01

    Storing barrels long term

    Boehield (et al) is nice but maybe not for long-term, unattended storage. Say you spray down evenly, wrap in paper with some on that also, and then wrapping in plastic you will tend to get dry spots from where it rests or other reasons. Those are then not protected as well and can rust after...
  10. shoobe01

    Scope ring hanging off rail just a bit

    Not sure I can help as the quoted part is not a quote of anyone, much less me, from the rest of the thread. Forward scope ring alone, I'll try saying the same thing again: The scope has some "straight" cylindrical bits, connected to each other with "tapered" conical bits. These are, for...
  11. shoobe01

    Storing barrels long term

    Practically everything industrial (tools, etc) that you can pick up and needs to be stored more than a few days is either encased in (strippable tool-coating) wax or just stuck in a VCI bag, basically depending on how much picking it up will hurt you. I'd make sure no damage by also putting a...
  12. shoobe01

    DEF shortage

    I (among other things, as a consultant and vendor) design service tools for [a very big diesel engine maker]. I am not an expert on everything in the industry, but hear a lot of interesting stuff and haven't heard a whisper about this. I can't help but note no big mainstream news sources...
  13. shoobe01

    Left eye NOX w/ PVS on right?

    Even when it goes well and we get all paid, not near enough for this sort of gear. Stop reminding me!
  14. shoobe01

    Left eye NOX w/ PVS on right?

    Naw, nowhere that fun, never confuse me for someone without bad knees and childhood asthma :) Private/paid training groups. Mostly S&S and (the rainstorm event specifically) 1 Shepherd.
  15. shoobe01

    Scope ring hanging off rail just a bit

    Mmmmm.... no. I don't think that's something I universally said. As long as you aren't running into beam stiffness issues or — as here — attachment problems by hanging off the end of a support, longer is better. If it was this part, and it may be old-timey me, but I always worry about how the...
  16. shoobe01

    Fat Cattle Dead in Kansas

    I guess you aren't here in KS. It's hot, and humid as can be, and hot all damned day. Not cooling enough at night for the livestock to recover. I am told they can handle quite hot days in the sun, as long as they have a reasonable night (and access to water). As far as I have seen, the official...
  17. shoobe01

    Scope ring hanging off rail just a bit

    1000% move them. I think the forward ring is a bit forward on the tube anyway. The rail side is designed to work with full engagement in a bunch of ways. While it's all square and likely won't cause visible issues, if it does then one think keeping the base from tilting will be the scope. Do...
  18. shoobe01

    Scope slipping

    Good overall plan but there's a couple dozen Loctite products. Pretty sure the best is 620, retaining compound. For holding things like bearings in holes about the size of bearings so... same thing. https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/us/en/product/retaining-compounds/loctite_620.html I have used...
  19. shoobe01

    Night Vision Night Ops

    I was just thinking I hadn't talked to you in a while, wondered what was up. Good to see this.
  20. shoobe01

    BCM less expensive than Daniel Defense

    I have been around enough, in factories, helped design things, etc. and I DNGAF where things are made, but much more care about repeatability to a spec. My compressor (parts made in China but assembled and run in at an IR plant in the US) is a good example but Apple is a well known one: They...
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