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Anything not in the comfort zone, which would be home range where all shooting up to that point has occurred.
Gotcha. Well, the way I think of it is as camping trip + rifle match. If you cover both those bases then you're golden.

As far as match stuff I only bring what I'm going to be packing on my back for the day of shooting, plus extra ammo if it's a 2 day.

Weather gear as needed.
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Your PVA prefit experience

My best 5 shot group at 100 yards with a PVA prefit. 6.5cm with about 1400 rounds on it. It’s always been a tack driver and still is. 2400 rounds now and checked zero before my match this Saturday and shot a group not much bigger. Have a 6BRA barrel coming tomorrow from him and have no doubt what it will be capable of!
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212eldx in .308 hybrid cases?

Yeah mag length 2.830 for the 175s and a bit longer for the 177s.
I don't do 185s there is no advantage low BC for the weight. I jump to 200 SMK .715 BC, 208s okay, 225s better, then rhe 230 and .8 plus g1 bcs is where its at with 8 and 9 twist barrels.
The best powders are not always readily available.

22" 9 twist Bartlein 230 Atips 2600 fps single load, or put a long action on your 308.

The shorter the barrel the larger the handicap.
And 18" would be around 2800 to 2850 with 177 gr SMK...powder availability hurts this project...but there is always an improvement on any powder, but some not as much.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, and your patience. I’ll search around more before I get into it.

I’ve converted cases before and now have access to some high end equipment to make the job way easier and faster. No more neck turning with a hand held cutter and a dewalt, thank god.

All my SA stuff has mags 2.950 internal, little bit more room to put bullets where they need to be.

Looking forward to this project, your 308 speeds are right there with my 24” 300 wsm.
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88 eld-m in .223 bolt gun

I shoot cfe223 and have great results. Get hits out to 1000 at matches with it. People can’t believe it’s a 223. My chamber has a long freebore so the 88’s are loaded long. I had to modify my accurate mags so the bullets would fit. Can’t run tac worh 88’s in prs but I don’t care. I just use it for 1 day matches and run in open. I actually won a regional prs match with it last year, match had about 30 shooters.

Night Vision The Official: Steiner C35 Thermal Clip-on Review and User Thread!

So what is wrong with just using the Burris mount. Doesn't it align and work fine with traditional 1-6 lpvos, which I thought was the preferred magnificent range anyways? Is it solely the larger 56mm optics that's the issue?
anything over 30-32mm tube is a no-go. ACOG doesn't work well.

I use it with a clamp on with a 3-18x50 with great success - and medicore repeatability. Its essentially a confirmation of zero and tweak almost every time if you're expecting precision. Its a shame because it is capable of 8-10X resolution due to the screen having better than typical resolution.
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Noveske DDF Barrels

So I'll admit, I'm not very tactical. I just kill pigs and coyotes, usually with a 12.5" or 20" Grendel, Noveske builds, Noveske barrels.

I struggle to understand what is gained from "heating them up" with 40 rounds and checking accuracy at that point. It is a free country and if you want to do 5 mag dumps and check accuracy - hell, I'm academically curious at that point myself - but... why?

As I say every chance I get, I have 3 Noveske Grendels and on most days with factory Hornady ammo, I can reliably generate .6 MOA 5 shot groups. I've struggled to put 10 in 1", but I got tired of spending $25 at a whack on what is ultimately vanity. And, perhaps I should simply slow down, but what I'm really getting at is this -

I think of these guns as precision rifles. They're capable of real world hitting a 3-4" target at 300-400 yards, and we're using factory ammo. With handloads, we're likley under half a minute.

I can't imagine ever getting off 15-20 rounds fast in practice. Even with a pack of 50 pigs, they be scattered, smothered and covered by the time I got through a mag. And, if I'm shooting that many movers and my accuracy went from .6 MOA to 1.5 MOA - I'm pretty sure the pig hauling ass across the field would be a bigger problem than the groups opening up a bit. I don't see the benefit in chewing out the neck any faster.

If you're looking at this from a competition angle or you're fast roping into a terrorist compound, mea culpa - but beyond that
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March tracking error

That guy's a major fucking tool, I'd take anything he says or "Tests" with a huge grain of salt.
He claims to be an expert but I'd bet my bottom dollar he'd get his ass kicked in a PRS match by any random selection of dudes on this forum!

I bought a 4.5-28 when they first came out and I've put it through the ringer over the past 4 years.
It tracks true, verified to 1940 yards on my 300NMI, holds zero, and has really solid glass. Optically I'd put it between my 7-35 ATACR and ZCO 527, with a massive win in FOV.

The only disadvantage it has as a competition optic is the eye box isn't very forgiving, same with the parallax.
Not terrible, but definitely not as good as the 7-35 ATACR.
You really need to get behind the 5-42 Gen 2 with my reticle in it!! The 4.5-28 does have a tighter eyebox but the new 5-42x is a fantastic optic some should be coming to the wild here shortly. As for parallax I basically don’t touch it all day during a match. The glass in the 5-42 Gen 2 is also really really damn good. We’ve compared it side by side with the theta and zcos and many guys have said the march is actually better glass. I’ve had actual users of zcos and Thetas come look and actually go that’s actually better than my scope is.
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Possible ATF honeypot website.

Sorry, but if the option of making the beast with two backs with a hot ATF Chick is not part of the deal.... then it's not a honeypot.

It's a sting.


Just want to make sure you know that a honey trap involves the possibility banging hot sketchy chicks with major career aspirations and no morals.

Sirhr

PS. You don't want to know what a mudpot is... But Barney Frank would be able to explain.
Words...mean things. Keeping it real, Brother!