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  1. spamassassin

    Hunting & Fishing Pen Raised deer

    I know a farmer in South Africa that breeds game animals for trophy quality. He's got springbok with >20-inch long horns and regular size 50lbs bodies. It's comical. Out George, South Africa a friend of mine lives in a luxury gated community with a golf course... The golf course is home to some...
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    Hello from California

    It's funny as hell how schizophrenic a place, Kommiefornia, we both live in. OP couldn't be much more than 200 miles from me and is probably much closer but because he's on the right side of the coastal mountains and I'm on the wrong side so we might as well exist in different countries.
  3. spamassassin

    Optics U.S. Optics B-17 Gen2XR Reticle $1650

    As close to pristine condition as anything I've ever had mounted. U.S. Optics B-17, Gen2XR Reticle, fresh factory checkup. It's time for me to turn some of these long term safe residents into something I'll get more use out of. No ring marks I can make out. Glass is perfect. Works like a dream...
  4. spamassassin

    MPOs now $699- a good budget choice ?

    Have extensively messed with them under the other brand label, Crimson Trace 5 Series. There's a little lash in the clicks but otherwise they're fantastic optics for that money. The CT line had an original MSRP around $2k. I picked a number of them up on fire sale from Midway. Also got a bunch...
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    There is such a thing as too low

    Yes. It does. A really high mount produces an artificially flatter trajectory curve, artificial because there's no change in the bullet path, only in how we adjust for it. Small scale changes in scope height over bore, changes of around .5", produce really small scale effects. Large scale...
  6. spamassassin

    Siete vs Delta 5 Pro vs AT-X

    I went through this same exercise wanting the same thing, barrel changing and for me good zero retention was a major factor as was accessory/aftermarket barrel/caliber availability. If you want to be able to change barrels like it's on sale then you should consider the two rifles on the market...
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    Calling computer/software/electronic security savvy people

    Because the skill required to make such a device is not very high and the monetary reward for doing so is tremendous. All you need is the mindset and morality of a criminal and, not sure you're aware of this, most of the world's population are possessors of criminal mindsets who would do you...
  8. spamassassin

    One piece vs two piece bolts

    Define simpler design? The Savage 10/100 bolt is 3 major pieces but they're all mechanically locked together, not brazed or welded. It's more complex in terms of number of pieces but they're each easier to manufacture than a true 1-piece bolt or a 1-piece bolt body with a brazed on handle...
  9. spamassassin

    Nope

    You'll want to delete this post, become a supporting member before posting items for sale and post any for sale ads in the proper forum lest you find your account imperiled. ETA: Having those and not knowing anything about them is an indicator of misappropriation.
  10. spamassassin

    Caliber

    I hunt mostly with a .308 when I'm over there but anything substantially bigger than a white tail deer I prefer to use a .338WM or .375 Ruger or .338LM for, as indicated by size and distance. You don't need big bore magnums like a .375H&H/.375 Ruger for anything but the larger critters and...
  11. spamassassin

    Caliber

    The national food supply is the destination. Sometimes it goes through informal distribution where the farm owner distributes it to his workers and if there's room in the freezer they'll take some for themself. That's the mode that happened for everything I've hunted there. Sometimes, as I...
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    Official (DTA) SRS, HTI, Covert, Hunter Thread

    See. There's a joke of a sort that is used in my office. People will pantomime wearing a ball cap slightly off center and say, "You know I'm right. I'm always right." and when they do this they're saying that they're 100% certain that they're right and for everyone else to just shut it. The...
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    Official (DTA) SRS, HTI, Covert, Hunter Thread

    Finally got a chance to wring out all of my barrels at once and get my scope zero offsets. I started with my Steiner M7 at mechanical zero. Let's see who guesses which one I picked to be my index barrel (the one that I actually dialed the scope to zero on after getting offsets from the...
  14. spamassassin

    Caliber

    While that's sort of the truth of the matter, it's ignoring the more important fact that, "It's all fun and games till someone losses[sic] an eye." and the fact that it happens to literally the best of them once in a while. My personal and not insignificant experience with African game has given...
  15. spamassassin

    Caliber

    A .375 works fine on deer and doesn't even usually mess em up that bad, just pokes on through before they can expand much and they're not going fast enough to punch above their weight like .223rem. CB are not a cow, they're a couple thousand pounds of hate and horns and they're surprisingly...
  16. spamassassin

    Reefer outsell chocolate

    So there is someone other than me that loves the alkaline flavor of way too pure chocolate. I won't touch the stuff if it's not >85% but I really like the 95-99%. That's where the flavors that come out of it are intense and amazing and you'll never in your life experience them from even...
  17. spamassassin

    Why DA isnt Better than Pressure, temp and humidity in BC's

    What I've found as the years go by and I have more historical data to analyze is that it's really not necessarily helpful to test at even 20deg intervals. It can lead to confused results if the number of rounds fired in each band aren't sufficient to expose outliers living in the 2nd standard...
  18. spamassassin

    Reefer outsell chocolate

    No do alcohol. I'll wait.
  19. spamassassin

    Why DA isnt Better than Pressure, temp and humidity in BC's

    I've never thought I might fall in love with anyone but the woman I married but gotdamned if you're not making me rethink that pivot tables, vlookups, macros... nerdgasm
  20. spamassassin

    Why DA isnt Better than Pressure, temp and humidity in BC's

    While I personally think of .5inHg might be a little more granular than necessary, nobody ever died from having too good of information. Also...
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