Jacob - thank you so much to you and everyone else for their hospitality. I came for the train up and the match. It was my first time west of the Mississippi and first 2 day match. To say it was a great experience is the understatement of the year. The stages were challenging but doable when your fundamentals were on point. I learned more about me as a shooter and my gear in a week than I've learned up to this point. Really enjoyed the challenge of the movers and the tripod injury stage. Its way harder than you think.

Huge shout out to the ROs for braving the weather and doing an amazing job and to all the sponsors that supported the match.

Don't know if/when I'll be able to make it back down but I definitely want to come again.

Travis224 said:

I had my gunsmith convert over my 18" Rimx proof research carbon barrel to my vudoo action. Funny enough, after coming the breech, it fits and shoots equally on all 3 of my vudoo actions I currently have. It's been cut with the good ol 52D reamer and was a test to see if the 52 chamber makes this decent shooting barrel shoot even better (was a solid performer already but does shoot noticably better now with same ammo). I also knew that the harmonic temperament is different between carbon fiber and stainless steel. I was able to " tune" my JK Armament suppressor by adding baffles and shooting it till it hit a sweet spot. I was knocking over sparrows (7 for 10) at distances of 90-115yds with ok ammo, not Tenex or Centerfire X lol.

This was theory and I wasn't willing to lose that much money by selling it at a loss so I got it to a vudoo and I'm pleased that it works. Benchrest season is coming and to make under the weight cap and play in Custom Class at our club of 10.5 lbs I hope to run this as a full benchrest rig

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From what you have seen do all your Vudoo actions time and headspace the same?

Bacarrat said:

Trump and Musk have nothing to gain from being in politics. They can just sit it out and still be fine. What they are doing is amazing. The Dems are just made because they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

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You sure about that Clarke? I mean Musk's whole world is predicated on Gov Cheese. Out of curiosity - who (or what) do you think is reviewing the weekly progress reports of Fed workers (those few who's cabinet level Secretaries have told the employees to respond)? Think a man with an AI company and an inside track may try to get a foot in the door with a grand plan to get rid of Fed workers (which I like b/c I like small gov) and replace them an efficient payment system (his) and AI over people in pursuit of more cheese / power? Nah....couldn't be like that...... especially not from a guy who wants to put chips in people's heads.

My hope is that people become pissed off enough that a foreigner is doing all of this, that it leads to the question - who is a dual citizen in Congress and why the fuck are they not forced to disclose this / why are they serving?

Jackomason said:

I could be wrong but I belive that's a completely different barrel. The one in this thread is a 416R rifle cut barrel and the one in the other thread is CHF.

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Yeah I know that, I just wanted you to see what the current 16" and 14.5 heavy Contour barrels are producing pretty hard to beat that accuracy in fact I'm almost kind of skeptive that accuracy game will be marginal.

I took both of my 16" and 14.5" Geissele heavy Contour barrels out yesterday and I will post pictures of the groups here in a second, thay all look to be Sub Half MOA.

It's kind of damn hard to beat that.

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Sold!

Called Savage hit the button to "order parts". They will not sell a single part for the impulse. Can not, will not, just plain impossible. The reason I got is that it's a new rifle. Been out what, 4 years? What a bunch of savages.

Unless you count standing in line at an airport to get a ridiculously overpriced muffin, I've yet to set foot in a coffee shop. That isn't to belittle those who frequent them. It is just my position in how I avoid places where the general bulk of the population is guaranteed to annoy me.

I understand the need for camaraderie between old folks, and lack of viable alternative locations for those in small towns... But at some point you have to choose to either gather someplace else to revisit the 'old days', or you have to merge with the new. Since I dislike modernism in all cultural forms, you can revert to my first sentence for how I cope/avoid them.

Best of luck OP. Hope that you can continue to outlast them.

Malum Prohibitum said:

Lake Oswego is 0.8% black.

The state has a very low percentage of black residents, though. Only 2.2% of Oregon's population is black. The state constitution banned settlement by blacks to discourage free blacks from relocating there. Oregon banned slavery in 1843 to keep blacks in servitude from being located there. In 1844 they amended the law to provide some time for slaveholders to remove their property under penalty of manumission should they fail to do so. Once freed, they could not remain. Males had two years to leave, and females had three (guess here, but that was so the man could find a place to settle and then send for his wife).

Oddly, all of this was more of a threat than reality, but the law effectively discouraged free blacks from settling there. I have found only one black farmer who moved over the Columbia River voluntarily to avoid the law (see link below). There were so few blacks in the state (128) that their white farmer neighbors took up for them, and the law basically was not enforced.

Oregon was the only state admitted to the union with an exclusion clause. Oregon removed it in 1926.

Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon

Oregon's racial makeup has been shaped by three Black exclusion laws that were in place during much of the region's early history. These laws, all later rescin…

www.oregonencyclopedia.org

The low percentage is an artifact of history and the fact Oregon has never had a robust economic growth period in industry that attracted a large population of blacks to emigrate for work, such as, for example, Detroit.

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How long have lived in Lake Oswego? Did you hear they are going to have to open up access the lake to the public?

https://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/ne...cle_a03f1606-f87e-11ef-aa34-836c2d691f16.html

Bgriff008 said:

lol. We have guys that step up. So there’s that. But yea we still have a couple that hang back. But there’s always volunteers so no one is bitching about lack of help. The RO issue is a range requirement and they’re funny about who ROs are. Safety concern.

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I’m usually constantly spotting, timing, or scoring (I hate scoring) and have had to hand whatever I’m doing over to someone else so I can prep and it’s almost a struggle to get some of these guys to lift a damn finger.

FuhQ said:

Nice, which one? I might need to get the hookup until Aero gets their shit back together.

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Sent the info.

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These people.....are fucking imsane.

The Dems were very smart to have Slotkin (one of the more normal and rational Deamonrats) and not one of the crazed mutants deliver the rebuttal. She did pretty good with the busted hand they have. She avoided all the 80/20 issues that have been killing their numbers. Of course, almost everything she said isn't possible with Democrat policies, and she blames Trump in the first month of his Presidency when our current situation is entirely the fault of The Biden Admin and Democrat policies. The rebuttal was like a throwback to the 1980s before they went insane, but that is NOT the Democrat Party of today.

Her attack on Elon and DOGE fell totally flat, as a vast majority of Americans are horrified by the outright theft and leftist graft they are uncovering. Fighting to stop reform of the Federal government is a total looser for them politically, but that is their power center and all they have left, so they kind of have no choice.

Slotkin may be believable and seem reasonable in terms of national security, but her entire party isn't. I think it's also dumb for them to still be pretending that Trump is in league with Putin, and their anti-Russian freakout is getting pretty tired.

All in all her rebuttal actually tried to speak to the 80% of America that is not the Democrat base. That is really the only path out of the wilderness for them. While those congressional Dems are horrified at how much Trump has accomplished in a month, I think fully half of Kamala voters, who don't like Trump, are actually clapping along with us, and are starting to look like the Republicans who held their noses to vote for Trump. "I don't like him, but I liked his policies." Since this is a one and done Presidency that certainly works for me, and if they can sustain that President JD is easy to imagine.

Trump's approval rating is supposedly around 50%, but 73% approved of the SOTU? Half again who disapprove of him liked that? How does that work?

hlee said:

Hell, BJJ tournaments are coed up through age 14 or 16 as it is.

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There are a lot of different BJJ Tournament organizers. About 80% of the 24 tournaments that my kids have been in are either Grappling Industries or American Grappling Federation. Each of those routinely combine genders from 4-11 years old.

At older ages: when a competitor has no match in their bracket they may offer a choice of a mixed gender match or a refund. Then it's up to the parent and the kid.

We both know that a 15 year old girl who can fight even with a 15 year old boy the same weight and training is less than one in a million.

Bgriff008 said:

Agreed, we all do that. Everyone helps with spotting, timers, scoring. Still too much time between shooting stages. Makes for a longer day than it should be. 4 hours plus to shoot 8 stages. On avg we get 60 plus shooters and it pushes to 5-6 hours. It’s Why I stopped playing golf 15 plus years ago. I’m just saying there is a way to reduce time and they have yet to make it happen.

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If that were always the case. I’ve been to matches before where it’s the same three or four shooters doing all the work while everyone else stands around with their hands in their pockets.

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Trump and Musk have nothing to gain from being in politics. They can just sit it out and still be fine. What they are doing is amazing. The Dems are just made because they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

DeathBeforeDismount said:

If it was up to me.

Once you place top 20 at 2 day matches for an Amateur, you get bumped to Marksman
Once you place top 10 at 2 day matches as a MKM, you get bumped to Semi Pro
Once you place top 5 at a 2 day match you get bumped to Pro.

If an AM places top 5 at a 2 day, they need go straight to Pro. There is no actual way someone just gets that lucky, especially at a 2 day

All this delayed bullshit waiting for the end of the year just screws over legit competition within divisions. People due to technicalities or whatever shouldn't be taking hardware at every match when they clearly are a different class of shooter.

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I could get down with this. It’s clear, concise and actionable.

Bigjake83 said:

It has nothing to do with SPR barrels, John Hollinger is the Godfather of High Power Competition Match Barrels.

And in regards to Geissele SPR Barrels...

Geissele's New Heavy Barrel and SOLGW Broadsword project. (Up Date, 1st Load development session 18DEC24))

Just finished this build today, looking forward to running it through it's paces. The Broadsword Builder kit is extremely rigid and well built with clean machining work. The face of the Upper Receiver is true and showed virtually no Runout The Upper with it's heavy construction and increased...

www.snipershide.com

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I could be wrong but I belive that's a completely different barrel. The one in this thread is a 416R rifle cut barrel and the one in the other thread is CHF.

37L1 said:

that would be a methtake.

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You’ve never had a trailer park smoothie have ya?