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    Vintage pic thread: Your oldest firearms

    My pic hosting site is down, but I have a muzzleloader (fowling piece?) which was carried by my great-great-great grandfather in the Ontario Militia during the little-known post-Civil War Feinian Raids, when Irish-American Civil War veterans attempted to invade Canada in an ill-fated attempt to...
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    Advanced Marksmanship Life Without Bipods

    A lot depends where and what you hunt. Where I live, it's a lot of flatter open fields and the majority of my shots are off a bipod. Just came back from WY, shot 1 animal off a bipod and another offhand. Last year took my elk in the mountains of MT at 730 yards from a bipod. I feel a bipod...
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    Revised AR15 build - need affirmation or condemnation

    With my precision .223 AR I stuck with a 22" barrel. I also would not recommend the 26". If you are interested in the bolt gun, get any short action Rem700 pattern action of your choice. Get a Remage barrel in the length and contour of your choice from Bugholes, McGowen, or another source...
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    SUPER light AR-15 for vehicle carry???

    Lots of options...like the pistol and Palmetto recommendations. 15-25 yards...nothing more than 100...I'd save some weight and ditch any or any substantial optics. Especially anything with a battery for a truck gun.
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    More blood boiling bullshit.

    I have a daughter who is smart, but has some learning and ADD issues. Perhaps related to being a preemie. Medication helped for awhile, then it didn't switched meds, it still works but not entirely. At the end of the day, she will need to be responsible for her performance regardless of if...
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    Rifle for Local Steel & F-Class Matches

    If you don't plan on going for the gold, don't buy a $6K rifle. My dedicated 284Win F-class rifle cost $5K all in, with me taking the barreled action from Kelbly and bedding it into the McMillan stock myself. If you aren't getting an all-in F-Open rifle for $6K you are wasting your money. I'd...
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    This Weekend's Fun

    long range F-class on Saturday, getting the 2-story shooting house project on my home range to the operational stage on Sunday.
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    .300 blk out hunting bullets

    Thank you for sparing us any more of this ignorance. "Bigger is better", but you can't comprehend why a .308 kills better than a 45ACP. LOL.
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    Well, we haven't had many bear stories...

    Actually I think a better lesson is when in bear country, ALWAYS have your gun on you. Not in your backpack feet away. When I'm in grizz country my pistol rides on the waistband of my pack in a paddle holster in easy reach. If I drop the pack, that holster is immediately transferred to my...
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    .300 blk out hunting bullets

    No, it's actually correct. Mass (225gr) has very little meaning if it's just penciling through. "Bigger is better", you say, and .358 is bigger than .308 and this is especially true when the .358 can expand and the .308 does not. At least the 9mm bullet is designed to expand at its launched...
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    Another new campaign low

    Ad placement is about maximizing traffic. One could always criticize placement depending upon a number of factors. Unless they are actively leveraging some aspect of the impending disaster, rather than passively leveraging the click traffic, I'm not impressed.
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    Scaffolding for a raised shooting platform?

    I don't think anyone is questioning the safety; this stuff is designed to be set up on the ground without concrete or reinforcement. It's about stability. I have plenty of time on scaffolding from summer painting jobs and it's fine for what it is designed for, but by the time I put enough work...
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    Scaffolding for a raised shooting platform?

    Stairs... top goes on this weekend.
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    Scaffolding for a raised shooting platform?

    I doubt above ground concrete blocks will be stable, and if you have any wind there it won't be up for long. My kids' real playhouse had a single 4X4 set 3ft deep with concrete holding it in, a 70mph storm from pulled it up 3 inches so I sunk 3 more. For this platform I used an auger on a...
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    Scaffolding for a raised shooting platform?

    What started out as a desire for shade over the shooting position in the hot Indiana summer has certainly morphed. I figured, why not use the opportunity to get past the pesky issue of not being able to shoot the full 300 of the range from prone due to land contour....Then the kids were begging...
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    Sasse (R) NE Fucking Nails It!

    Really good speech. I'm sure most of his colleagues could care less, but if he were to seek a higher office I would remember this.
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    Scaffolding for a raised shooting platform?

    I have used those a lot; you will not be happy as a shooting platform. Here is my solution. Not done, now installing stairs and platform at the top of this. Then a roof above on poles not yet bolted up.
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    Why do people seem down on Savage rifles?

    Short answer is gear snobs, and their comments are rarely based on actual performance. I have more rounds through Savages than anything else. In a factory rifle I’ll take them over Remington for accuracy and barrel quality every time. Plenty of people shoot their rifles in f class and do...
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    How do you get your new toys into the house without pissing her off?

    Agreed with Trebek on two accounts: 1) Separate finances are an illusions, BUT (see below) 2) When you have to hide things you have a shitty relationship Separate finances may be an illusion legally, but from a budget management perspective, it can allow people to help manage their independent...
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    Build vs Buy, your experience.

    If I just wanted something to shoot half decently, I'd buy. If I wanted for any particular use or cared about real accuracy, I'd build. I have a RRA and it's a very accurate AR, it's just not quite the configuration I favor so it doesn't get shot much. In fact I pulled the lower to put on my...
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