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  1. shoobe01

    No more Scout Snipers

    Is this a real thing or just give your office a new acronym taken further? Do all 0317s magically turn into 0322s? Does the schoolhouse just turn into a "Recon Sniper" school and in the end... very little changes?
  2. shoobe01

    Help me not fail college

    My only two new comments: Selection bias much? Surveymonkey (or Google Forms, or ANYTHING but taking photos and asking us to type a ton of answers if you want online answers. If it's on paper... why? Is this supposed to be an intercept survey? WAY too long. Long enough you need to provide...
  3. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    Range day: PVS-30, 200 yds about 8x, illum on Increasingly having a good time with the MSR2. Worried there was a lot going on but now getting used to it after decades of dots, using most of the bits properly, and today (well, before dusk and dark) the lighting was such that the floating dot...
  4. shoobe01

    Hernia surgery recovery time

    Believe the recovery timelines. For everything. Have a friend who didn't listen and his ankle healed a couple degrees off-straight. Whoops, that is what it is forever now. Over time I've realized (and heard from others) the classic war movie thing of the guy sneaking out of the hospital etc to...
  5. shoobe01

    Vacation GoBag....

    Oh yeah, this thread. Last time in the field, after a long movement my team-mate rotated his NODs up as he approached the road, 10 yards from the truck. Not yet out of the woods, stick to the eye. Evacuated him, even have a firefighter who drives an ambulance or hoists people into helicopters to...
  6. shoobe01

    FBI Sniper Rifles

    Oh /I/ know, just starting with photo. AM32 PATRONE, UEBUNG (cartridge, exercise), DM18A1B1 (I suspect there are other variations going back in time). Developed from earlier Norwegian practice ammo. 10 grain bullet molded along with the case. On firing the bullet bit separates and has an MV...
  7. shoobe01

    FBI Sniper Rifles

    Okay okay okay, hold up. That is something we need to see. Found a few references but bad photos, vague. Anyone got any more on the configuration, practice, qual, and use of the 760s? Blue bullet, or blue all over like this?
  8. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    Buncha tasks this weekend, aside from work there was some repacking of my standard kit, fixing a kerosene stove, erecting an MCPS to dry from last weekend, etc. But also, mount up the 3-18x on the GAP10.
  9. shoobe01

    Need a new sleeping bag for 2023 Idaho hunt

    Since it's been suggested several times: I am not as excited about surplus MSS as many people are. It's slightly old tech now, so pretty heavy and bulky by the time you get the full system up and running, and: Surplus Used, unknown care levels, cold wx stuff may or may not work to anything...
  10. shoobe01

    Need a new sleeping bag for 2023 Idaho hunt

    First, indeed glad you aren't trying to go on a budget to minus-15° F :) Sounds like you are doing what I pack for: hope for heated tents, bring enough for cold camping. I have been to slightly minus zero in a good cold camp tent (tent+fly, NOT a one layer tipi! That trip literally almost...
  11. shoobe01

    Night Vision Passive aiming with lpvo?

    Possible, not optimal even at 1x with an NV setting. Highly susceptible to parallax deviation so even if you get on the dot your accuracy can suffer. IME: There may be scopes with different optical performance that work better, but even things like the SPECTRE DR is not as good at 1x as a reflex...
  12. shoobe01

    TSA finds 84 MM weapon at San Antonio airport.

    TSA policy is, when not just arbitrary and capricious — Their actual policy states "TSA officers have the discretion to prohibit any item through the screening checkpoint if they believe it poses a security threat." — it is also the worst possible thing when written. For weapons: if it looks a...
  13. shoobe01

    Bushmaster 17s

    Before he started making his own guns, K&M made lots of upgrades and accessories for the old Bushmaster versions. If anyone knows, or can provide spares and parts — though it's a small shop and they are busy — It'll be Ken McAlister. https://www.kmarms.com/M17S300.html...
  14. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    And now I have a 3-18 MSR2 Green illum also in the house. There's a non-zero chance that I'll end up with all three of these, even if temporarily for... some reason.
  15. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    Ah, reading the manual a bit now, I see some details are /supposed/ to be hard to see at low magnification. Interesting reticle.
  16. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    Ahhhhh!!!! Now I get it. "Floating dot" as in separated from the rest of the reticle with a space, not... like S&B non-illum reticles with a separate dot on top of that as the illum bit. I see now, good to know. Will get more into it when I get a chance to update the reticle chart in my...
  17. shoobe01

    Steiner T6xi

    Now I am back in the country I have taken some embarassingly mediocre photos to annoy everyone. It's a T6xi, MSR2. There's a red illuminated cross on the reticle diagram. With a center illuminated cross (all these are set at about 12x) in... green. And, the rest (well, minus the heavy...
  18. shoobe01

    Help with local range for long range 22lr

    Not true. And I have seen... ...as well. Berms are built to be soft material to absorb the impact and reduce blowback striking other materials like previous bullets, and — as much as practical — for bullets to strike as close to perpendicular as you can get it. Rocks and even trees can cause...
  19. shoobe01

    Scope tape/wrap

    GunSkins https://www.gunskins.com/ has several (admittedly camo) products that are very bright. If not exposed to too much weather, etc simple cohesive wrap (medical wrap) more or less only sticks to itself, mostly available in very bright colors, can get single rolls at the drug store. Or...
  20. shoobe01

    Any tips progressive eyeglasses wearers and scopes?

    I also run caps on all scopes, and just witness mark with a paint pen where UP on the cap should be. With a cap, the lump for the hinge means it is almost entirely unlikely to be knocked more than about 30° off, so no multi-rotation worries, and I just rotate back up to level then get to...
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