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That couldn't be more Detroit if they tried

If you're hunting from a SAFE position and don't mind losing a lot of ones that you hit (poorly) on the run...then the 5.56 will suffice.

Most of those places don't want hunters sticking 20 animals with bullets...kind of reduces the chances of charging more hunters down the road.

I've killed pigs that were as tall and long as bucks with a 5.56, it all depends on where you hit them. And when you can't guarantee exactly where that next shot is going it has fallen way behind other cartridges. My safety also depends on killing them and not having a wounded and pissed off pig turning on me in the dark. Therefore I never recommend the 5.56 for solo hunters at night.

Nope. You have free will. Make good choices or bad. Part of being a man.

For my Bolt gun I just got 400 pieces of Lapua Brass.

I plan to try my CAT ODB on the one I am building.

I am picking up a Theorem L from my dealer tomorrow.

I use the 5.11 42” double rifle case or the Savior Urban Warfare bag

Chuck Mawhinney.

Did a lot of bad ass stuff.
Didn't say shit about anything to anybody.

Decades after his Vietnam service, other dudes found his name in the records and hunted him down.
He didn't want anything to do with them dragging him into public view.
They persisted and pretty much forced him into somewhat of a spotlight that he did not seek.

He quietly assisted with training around a few places and allowed them to use his name for some service member fundraisers.

He passed away last year still trying to be quiet and enjoy his home in Oregon.

He and others like him are the ones to look up to.

ETA: My hat is off to every cook, janitor, clerk, truck driver, etc. that served. It takes a hundred of them doing their thing to get each tier one dude ready and to the fight.

While they may not be getting shot at, I still appreciate them. Team effort.

any material written anywhere on this York deal. the story was hard to believe. but,by the time we got into it most of the best class German troops and officers were dead and more likely to be discouraged,ready to give up and not wanting to die for a lost cause. my take on it anyway. maybe couldn't have been done in 1916?

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I have found various SK/Lapua ammo here…


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LRRPF52 said:

So the natural response that should have happened already with ammo is more US-based production and manufacturing opportunities for US employees.

The only reason US customers buy foreign-made ammo is because they’ve been under-cutting us on costs, using cheaper labor in Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Korea.

Combined with anti-gun traitors who also happen to be on Russian and Chicom bribery payroll over the past several generations, there has been a concerted effort to suppress US ammunition-manufacturing capacity.

Look at Council for a Livable World and all the US politicians they have helped get elected illegally with foreign influence. Every one of them reads like a who’s-who of anti-gun, anti-2A legislators.

This whole things is so much bigger than trade. The ammunition industry is a microcosm of a lot of it.

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would be interested in your take on the rifle scope world. i don't mean holographics,red dots etc don't use them. seems to me that that industry is a quite fragmented area of the trade issue.

For a second I thought you took pics of your rifle at a baseball game but on further inspection I'm guessing it's a skeet/trap field? . Talon grip tape?

EODsniper said:

What were the results you were getting with the 75 eldms? The price seems too good to be true on those. My biggest challenge is finding a bullet to go with before buying in bulk. Everything will be over varget since I have a very large amount of that and it already shoots great in my 6arc. So far I’ve narrowed it down to
75gr Berger vld
75gr Hornady eldm
77gr Sierra matchkings
77gr Hornady aeromatch
80gr Sierra matchkings

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I’ve been able to get .5” groups if do my part with the ELD-M’s but most have been like .7” or smaller. I haven’t really worked up a load since I just hit 150ish rounds down the barrel, so I’m thinking it’ll shirk a bit more once I get them dialed in better.

Ronin22 said:

I appreciate your background knowledge on who is suspected of this level of dupery. Possibly they had a beef with Frank? I don’t know.

I’ll just preface I know Frank is watching this thread, so I know he’s in the room.

I’ll be perfectly clear here. I’ve owned Bartlein barrels. They shot great! But that was years before I knew of abrasives in bore cleaning. I’m not attacking Frank or his company on the performance & quality of his barrels. I would expect to be drawn & quartered if I was just saying “Barlein Sucks” so totally different conversation/debate we’re having here.

But to put it frankly, Frank as an individual, separate from his barrel company, because we’re not discussing barrels here, isn’t giving this a fair & unbiased shake. It’s abundantly evident. So nobody, including Frank, wants their product reputation shit on. However, in lack of substantial evidence, Frank is totally fine ratfucking these abrasive cleaner companies & their products. Even when presented with a case where there’s no damage. If that’s not bias I don’t know what is!

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Bias is what I just saw in your reply. Cool do you love the stuff, Great, your toys, your process. Frank passes on his experience with abrasive cleaners and if you and your crack lickers read what he said it was far more than just a couple of moss covered jerks. You have your evidence that it is harmless but effective, wonderful. He is also free to pass judgement on the use of metal brushes and abrasive cleaners. He has as much, actually a much broader set, of experiences and example than you. We are free to do with our toys as we see fit and discuss it. You seem determined to gain approval for you product or kill every dissenting voice, well, stick it and twirl.

Rookie said:

Tell me the John Chapman story is real, right?

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Well with how hard the navy fought to stop him getting the MOH, yes the story is probably correct.

What's the real scoop on York?

I have read a ton of books about MOH winners. Love that genre of books. It's a hard thing to swallow finding out its mostly BS. Seen Lone Survivor and American Sniper about a thousand times. I guess I bought into it all. Tell me the John Chapman story is real, right?

MK20 said:

As an example, if the average IQ is 100, and the lowest half of the people in the group had an average IQ of 70, then this theory says that the group collective IQ will be 90.

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Way too generous.
I think you need to look more into the unproportional effect of the truly stupid.

I’m using a Hornady progressive, not a Dillon but can answer how I do it.

I clean brass before each round through the press.
1) I clean.
2) Dump a few hundred cases in a plastic shoe box and spray the cases with lanolin/alcohol.
3) Run the lubed brass through the press, de cap, full length size without expander button, mandrel the neck. 3 separate dies.
4) Run brass through tumbler to remove lube.
5) Trim/chamfer in a giraurd if needed.
6) Dump clean brass back into case feeder and run through the press to load with the following steps on the press.
De cap to remove possible flash hole obstructions, prime, mandrel again incase I dented a neck, manually dump powder through a Dillon powder funnel measured using precision trickler, seat bullet, last step crimp if desired.

I don’t anneal every time but when I do anneal I do it before sizing the brass.

All my work is done on the progressive, no single stage.

I do not lube case necks before seating bullets. When I ss tumbled I had issues with inconsistent seating depth and resistance. I swapped back to vibratory cleaning and no issues since.

Some people look normal on the outside, but their self confidence is poor because of parental abuse, parental bullying, or even sexual abuse. By 40 years old he should have gotten over much of that, but some people are slow learners.

Imagine a boy being repeatedly raped by his father, uncle, someone of trust. He would never, ever be completely normal. This guy was a jerk, but it appears to me that he was trying to prove something to everyone because of his lack of self confidence.

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What is the true story, or where can I find it?

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You sort of have to piece it together yourself.

Start with looking into the Marines that were there and and what they planned before the SEAL got involved, then you can look into the footage that the "Taliban" (not really taliban but who gives a fuck) shot themselves.

Then look at what the Marines did in Operation Whalers.
You can also read an account of the Afghani guy that saved Luttrel but I'm not sure how truthful it is and haven't read it personally.