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  1. flyboy

    Little Father’s Day RDB and 36M

    Today I had a great time taking my dad out to try the new RDB and my recently freed SiCo 36m. What a great little combo. It’s not accurate by the hides standards but then again that not really what a rifle like this is for. It’s also not exactly an easy rifle to shoot off a bag or get really...
  2. flyboy

    Range Report Can't get the program shooter to calculate density altitude

    So it was 50* out two days ago when I went to the range. I set up like always and just for grins decided to wing it and guess what my drop was gonna be for 1000 in these conditions. I added a bit to my last dope witch was for 78* and big miss. Oh well. I pull out my phone and start trying to get...
  3. flyboy

    Rifle Scopes Mil turret conversion for luepold vx3 lrt

    A while back I remember rumors coming out that luepold was gonna be allowing people to send in their old m1 knob scopes for mil turrets for a fee. Did that ever happen and where would one go to get that process started. Thanks in advance.
  4. flyboy

    Maggie’s Ever get the feeling it's time to move on?

    I got the wonderful news from work that I'm being investigated about an event where a minimum wage employee fecked up but to get out of it blamed it on me. Well obviously I'm at fault. They have pretty much made up their mind I'm told by my union rep. I'm tired of this world of not appreciating...
  5. flyboy

    Shipping powder and primers?

    My dad has an 8lb jug of powder and 1000 primers to give me but he's kinda on the other side of the country. What's the process for shipping this stuff.
  6. flyboy

    Where is the "wife's rifle" thread?

    Some day soon I'll be building my wife a rifle, but it needs girly colors on it. How many of you have one to show.
  7. flyboy

    Hunting & Fishing Hunting in west PA

    I'm going to be a new resident in Debois Pa starting next week and am looking forward to hunting and fishing up in that part of the country. Anyone with knowlage of the area, laws and the like would be wonderful.
  8. flyboy

    In Need of Buisness "sniper" Shoe for winter

    Well, Not really. I'm moving up to Debois PA next week for work, and well, work requires a black dress shoe. But with the snow and all they let not so dressy black shoes slide. Now I'm from Texas and we don't exactly get alot of ice and snow in Houston so I'm lookin for advice for those of...
  9. flyboy

    My New 7-08 Build Is Done UPDATE!

    Got the barreled action in the mail today. Specs are Remmy 700 trued by RWS Gunsmithing (great work) Rock Creek MTU .284 barrel 8.7 twist finished to 24", Flutes done buy RWS Badger FTE Brake McRee Stock (love this thing, thanks to Scott) Seekins 30moa base Leupold Rings Leupold VX3 LR/T...
  10. flyboy

    Big Plus 1 for Scott at McRee

    After talking with Scott on Monday. Thursday, I ordered and paid for a Mcree Tmag stock with alternating colors with FDE and Black. Scott being a great business man and all around good guy got it in the mail same day and to my door this morning. I couldn't be happier with the stocks quality...
  11. flyboy

    Week of the show offs

    What is it in the last week, just about anything has had its own Showoff thread. I thought the precision rifle thread was great or something pertaining to a particular rifle but its been one normal, not special look at what i bought thread after another.
  12. flyboy

    Winter Bumper Cars

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  13. flyboy

    Help with starting kids in shooting.

    I'll be taking a friend and his 9 year old son to the range tomorrow. The friend has a decent amount of firearms handing but not recently. The kid is new to firearms, but as i understand it has been shooting his Daisy BB gun under the supervision of the father for a while. My question is I...
  14. flyboy

    Hornady's 2011 Catalog

    I just got the new catalog and Hornady has been hard at work with some exciting new products. First and probably most well known is there new line of Match BTHP's including a 6mm 105g with a .530 BC, .030 more than the A-Max counterpart. They are introducing a new line of match grade Steel...
  15. flyboy

    Gunsmithing Touble Removing Scope Base. Help

    Two screws on my scope base decided that they didn't want to come out the easy way and the Alan key made nice round holes in the tops of them. I'm going to be drilling the heads off the bolts as a start to get the base off but wanted to know any tricks for getting the threaded part out of the...
  16. flyboy

    HAPPY B-DAY TO ME

    Got a great B-day present today, A call for an interview at an airline. Been over two years since I last got paid to fly so its a good day.
  17. flyboy

    USAF crashes C-17 in airshow practice. 4 dead.

    http://www.adn.com/2010/07/28/1385727/cargo-plane-reported-down-on-base.html <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Four confirmed dead in Elmendorf plane crash</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt">By LISA...
  18. flyboy

    Gunsmithing AIAW Barrels without sending the rifle in

    Who all does this. I've heard GAP and APA but I'm also under the impression that others do aswell.
  19. flyboy

    7-08 vs. 284 Win Pro's and Con's

    I'm looking into the two for a future build and was wondering if the book gains of the 284 win would be realised in a 22" or so barrel. Also I've looked and only found 3000 as a barrel life expectation, but that was on 6mmbr.com so I'm guessing they would replace way before I would notice a real...
  20. flyboy

    168 Amax transonic performance???

    I will have a opportunity to shoot past 1000 yards, possible to 1200+ in a few weeds and was wondering if the 168 Amax suffered from the same transonic destabilization problems as the 168 SMK's. The thing is I have a bunch of 168 Amax's and only a hand full of the 175's so if I can get away...