SOLD!

Ttt

Ttt

St Croix is a haul. It's more than thirty miles South. You can't see it at all from the rest of the USVI. Whereas you can see Porto Rico and the whole BVI except for Anagada, which is way out to the East. St . Croix is as cool as St. John. The locals are much nicer too. They have beach wall diving there too, which is pretty darn kewl.

Tra08 said:

Lmfao, Franklin Armory does have the F17-L, I believe it was. And it does happen to be .17 wsm..

Click to expand...

Damn your eyes! You got me to look at their website!

I bought 1000 Starline .223 cases when I started reloading .223 (for bolt rifle) several years ago. Still running it, couldn't ask for more wrt accuracy and longevity. I weighed 20 cases and weighed their H20 capacity - admirably consistent for budget brass.

I've never competed with my .223 so I saw no sense in buying top-shelf brass. But I've become so confident in its capability that I may switch from "Open" to Tactical" for this coming weekend's match...

This is pretty much me anytime I attempt a "unique jump" in any GTA game.

Login to view embedded media

Tex68w said:

Looks great! Now you need to pick up D. Wilsons ARCA rails.

Click to expand...

I have those on my LMT 6.5, they are outstanding. I'm actually trying to keep this rifle pretty lightweight, although the barrel profile a bit heavier than Factory LMT. Barrel profile is one thing that I'm willing to add a little weight on.

I know they don't add much, but I'm even avoiding backup iron sights and hunting around for a lightweight sling that I like

Pre-order is still live. I placed mine early this morning, thinking these were going to go fast.

Rob01 said:

There is enough room to write most anything you need on the pages. Never had an issue with room to write.

Click to expand...

I’ll clarify. I think Impact Data Books makes a great product that will probably fill the needs of most shooters. I still use some of their pages, but not all. I want to track data in a certain way and I find that many of the pages they offer have spaces for excess information that I don’t want to track and are missing spaces for information that I do want. I have also found that over the years what I want or need out of a data book has changed. I’m sure that I can undoubtedly make it work with what they provide but to keep things simple for me I have adopted a way to collect the data I want in a way that is best for me to understand when looking back on it later or if I don’t use the book for long enough that I somehow forget how I was going about it.

mosin46 said:

interesting. i was there in about 72/3. talked to some US expat biz owners who were leaving. they said that the anti white corruption and discrimination was impossible to deal with. did you see that kinda thing? maybe not when a cash fix was in?

Click to expand...

That was still accurate decades later. I was diving, on the water, and around hotels, so I didn’t have a whole lot of contact with the West Indians unless I went shopping. They are totally fine with tourists. They know which side of bread the butter goes on, but they knew if you lived and worked there and they hated us. There was one bar in Red Hook, the Warehouse, where all the white St. Tomians would go to drink where we wouldn't get fucked with. Pretty much both kinds of music on the jukebox, and fist fights over how you hunt deer (not kidding). The place was fucking great. Double or nothing with five dice against the bartender, and if you ordered a $5 rum and coke they would put a glass of ice in front of you with a can of coke and the bottle of rum. It was pour your own (because the coke cost more than the rum).

If I went to Napa, or Kmart, or the grocery store half the men and all the women would suck their teeth at me, which is the West Indian FU. They didn't want us there, but since most of them can't swim and most are scared of the ocean and petrified of sharks we pretty much have everything that's good to ourselves...

When I went down there I thought Rastas were kind of cool...till I met them. Honestly, nothing to recommend with West Indian culture. Most of their food is more Puertorriquena than anything else. The only people they hate more than whites are African Americans. They cannot fucking stand mainland blacks.

I took the written driving test five times because it was written in a form of English with no grammar and a heavy dose of double negatives meaning you had a fifty fifty shot at getting the question right. The first time I took it I loudly told the asshole grading it that it was not written in English, and that a first grader could have written it better. They would not tell me which questions I got wrong. I think they finally just gave it to me when they saw I would not quit and keep coming back till I randomly answered enough questions correctly. West Indians are worthless. Even the hotels preferred not to hire them if they could avoid it because they are so surly, lazy, and entitled.

I have always had a bunch of black friends in the States. The only black people on St. Thomas I was friends with were a captain from Baltimore and his white wife, and the Federal Prosecutor, who was from Georgia, and his Puerto Rican wife is wife. I did not make a single West Indian friend, mostly because they all seemed to resent me and treated everyone who lived there like shit. That is not to say you will have problems as a tourist, you won't. They can be charming if they want your money. There are a lot of really good restaurants on St. Thomas too.

So, yea, same same. Wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

Up

LRRPF52 said:

Most of the conspiracy theories have proven to be mild versions of a brutal truth, except the claims of fake moon landings, flat earth, and lizard people.

Please don’t let the lizard people be real. I don’t enjoy that one.

Click to expand...

The 80s chicks in that show were hot

XP1K said:

Yes. I hit them with an expander mandrel first, then cram them in a 308 die, and presto! 308 hybrid cases.

They'd probably make good 7-08's too. Or anything 308 based really.

Click to expand...

FWell that got my brain churning. The 308 woukd work ok for me. Wanting to push a 168 2750-2800 out of a 16". Maybe the 162 eld 2750-2800 would be cool in a 16" 7mm 08.

Boon20 said:

Are you taking about caseless ammo from the old HK prototype?

Click to expand...

Found it

It was called “metal storm”

alfmoonspace said:

What spotter are you using?

Click to expand...

Bushnell LMSS w/ Horus reticle, I love that thing. When a solid rail-mounted 1280x960ish 50mm+ lens <20 mK NETD thermal clip-on w/ good integrated LRF hits the market I will be sending the Impact 4000 back to the spotter.

jff_stvns said:

What is this strange muzzle forward device under your bolt ?
Never seen it before.
Love your rifle by the way, it’s very nice.

Click to expand...

jff_stvns said:

What is this strange muzzle forward device under your bolt ?
Never seen it before.
Love your rifle by the way, it’s very nice.

Click to expand...

Its a mount for the Vortex Impact 4k remote.

Still for sale. Let’s move this thing.

338LM_Sniper said:

Anyone know of a good scope mount that is around 1.8” height with zero MOA slope? My Accuracy International AX50 has a really high cheek riser and using a 1.5” high mount is too low for proper eye placement.

I really like the Spuhr SP-4024 mount but nobody has the older version with both rings having 6 screws, I really don’t like the SP-4024C version.

Any suggestions on a High Mount that has 6 screws per ring with zero MOA slope and atleast 1.7” high? It’s got to be able to take the blast from a 50 BMG.

Thanks for you input.

Click to expand...

When back in stock, this might help, and be less expensive than a new mount:


-Stan