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  1. shoobe01

    Where Does the Light Go?

    And close your dust cover. :)
  2. shoobe01

    FBI Sniper Rifles

    A Baer guy pops up on this thread with his recollection of configuration and timing for the original SRPs. https://www.1911forum.com/threads/original-srp.142802/ One of those is that they did a bunch of different things, from whole guns to just top end replacements to just barrels and... the...
  3. shoobe01

    What filling for rear bag?

    This is the most important comment. I have several bags, not just different shapes and sizes, but different uses. Heavy and dense ones that are hard to mold but therefore also hold their shape, for benchrest stuff like sighting (I am not a BR shooter otherwise). Sand, and the heavier the...
  4. shoobe01

    Night Vision TNVC "Supergain" Tubes

    ITAR is not a ban. It's just regulatory control with oversight to assure critical defense-applicable items are not mailed out willy-nilly to people we don't like. Mission statements for the orgs that authorize exports tell the tale: So, we (the USG) like the ROK, and trust them, and their...
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    Night Vision TNVC "Supergain" Tubes

    Super-gain (with a hyphen though) is absolutely an L3-Harris term — not just something TNVC dreamed up — but agree, I cannot tell from the marketing if this is just a new name to put on all those tubes or there's an actually different/better one. Marketing stuff, minimal specs...
  6. shoobe01

    Suppressors Is a suppressor worth it if you need to wear ear pro anyway

    +1000 I had actually forgotten how unpleasant rifles are until I went to this LR workshop last year. Under a metal roof, maybe 2 other suppressed guns. Some WinMags with brakes to boot. I make barricades from my gear to make it tolerable, still was so tired after a full day of that I just...
  7. shoobe01

    Night Vision Wilcox BOSS-Xe - the Swiss Army Knife of weapon optics!

    Is there any better (simple) example of the over-doing everything to make it worse, than the windage dial? It says BOTH "windage" and "right" [with arrow]. Windage? You had to /say/ windage on the actual sticker?
  8. shoobe01

    Help Grey Ghost Precision

    Oh yeah. Been through the bought out and "nothing about your accounts will change." Cost me a lot of money, as things TOTALLY changed. Trust them even less than you did before until you get used to the new policies and culture.
  9. shoobe01

    Help Grey Ghost Precision

    You used a credit card and the bank didn't tell YOU they were declining? I get declined SMS, Email and sometimes calls the millisecond it happens. Then, can respond "yeah, that's me" and re-run it instantly. So: good tip for everyone to check with the bank soonest, as they can tell you if the...
  10. shoobe01

    Everybody Needs At Least One AMR In Their Collection! Gotta Love A Barrett!

    Watch out, you'll scratch up your original paint job like that!
  11. shoobe01

    Non-civilian LRF

    It is not like a "military stuff" law, the regulation is from the FDA, it's a literal safety reg. IR has the very lower power restrictions because it's invisible so you don't blink from the bright light, and the first sign of danger is pain meaning damage already done. FDA hates that sort of...
  12. shoobe01

    CMMG Banshee Radial Delayed PCC

    Deployed friend keeps shipping stuff to my house, and I (with permission and reports back!) use it. Have gotten his radial blowback SBR upper (8"?) to work on my lower, and it is pretty great. I have, for years now, shot a mostly-Colt 9mm upper with ACS mags and an adapter for IDPA days, since...
  13. shoobe01

    Spotters Rifle scope as spotter ?

    Agree with the above. Good optics for shooting are good enough for much target finding, shot fall spotting, but not the eyebox. Mounting other than on a rifle is a PITA. One of my favorite things is to shoot with a friend, and we're both behind the rifle. Started at a class, so we got more...
  14. shoobe01

    Sidearms & Scatterguns Holster question... belt vs. drop leg

    Belt, always by default. As stated, doesn't move around as much, which is literally always good. Drop is only to clear other gear. I used to drop a lot to get around armor. Smaller PCs taking over mean that's not a thing, so I have a shorter drop that lets me run a ruck belt at the normal...
  15. shoobe01

    Etched reticle pistol site

    My opinion: Yes. I gave up on EOTech before it was trendy, with battery issues. Never got to be upset at the long term conspiracy to have thermal shift. Plus, you want me to take this seriously?
  16. shoobe01

    Toughest ar stock?

    In the late 90s, early 2000s, it is reputably reported that a large LE agency actually asked someone to make them a stronger stock (and got it, big order) for their shotguns because... they used them to break down doors, and they kept breaking the existing stocks. It is left as an exercise for...
  17. shoobe01

    Toughest ar stock?

    OP is a big weirdo but solid question: I have seen a lot of broken things.... The original plastic telefolder. Several of these, mostly the toe cracking off, but also a couple of the adjuster levers breaking. Often ignored and you stick a rubber buttpad over it, tape it on around the...
  18. shoobe01

    Etched reticle pistol site

    I have terrible eyes. Moderate adjustment, but mostly in all aspects. That little chart of your eye prescription? I have numbers in all the boxes, both eyes. Not eligible for laser etc surgery, and glasses per the eye doc are only gonna do so much. Oh, also in my 50s, so for years have had...
  19. shoobe01

    Night Vision Let’s talk nods and muzzle devices

    Ah! Too many prong types, have seen but not for a long time and seems to work well also. Forgot to include that in my list. I mean /reputable/ prong types. Hundreds of fly by night machine shops doing knockoffs of all these.
  20. shoobe01

    Night Vision Let’s talk nods and muzzle devices

    Also worth reposting this from elsewhere I wrote it up, edited lightly for current context: Long, long ago in a rifle class, the instructor had a little experiment at the end of the night shooting time, and we each, in turn, fired our guns while the others watched, to see how various muzzle...
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