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straightshooter1 · Sep 13, 2025

XTREM HTR16 said:
What weight range do you accept for primers?

I don't approach it by selecting any particular weight or weight range. What I want are those primers of the same weight or close to the same for any batch of cartridges loaded. It's when their weights are far apart that I will see a difference. Like in the picture below there were those that weighed 3.36 grs and those at the other end that weighed 3.50 grs. When I loaded and compared the results, there was a corresponding different in velocity (lighter ones had less velocity than the heavier ones), which if they were not sorted, there'd be a higher SD. We're not talking about a BIG difference, but a difference non the less.

So when I'm priming my cases, like say 50, I'll use 50 primers from the same weight or if there's not enough, then I'll go to the next weight in primers. Doing this keeps my SD's consistently on the lower end (like SD's of 4-5's, where I might normally get about 7's).

Maggot · Sep 13, 2025

Camelfilter said:
Yup.

Once the switch gets flipped to "on", it will not be over until it's finished. It would not be a show, nor a party, nor an event.

Mind ALL, not something I wish for nor EVER want to see in The Greatest Country on Earth. These United States.

-It would be horrific beyond pale!

Something most simply do not understand, nor can even comprehend.

On the plus side, it would leave a lot more for those left, and less draw on dwindling resources. See, I'm a greenie.

Fig · Sep 13, 2025

theLBC said:

As has been posted, we feel it when darkness celebrated Charlie’s murder.

Maggot · Sep 13, 2025

Billo said:
Fascists like to ban things, timing is inconsequential

I've been on a bunch of shooting websites. @Lowlight and the Hide mods are about the most permissive I've seen, even that devil PMI

. On most you would have been gone after your first post. If youre smart, you'll learn to STFU and listen. But arent, and you wont.

patriot07 · Sep 13, 2025

FourT6and2 said:
My Deviant Tactical is Cerakoted inside and out. But the bolt body is parkerized. It's the smoothest action I've ever tried. Smoother than others that are DLC'd, Nitrided, etc. The parkerizing is very thin and holds oil well. No issues. If your is Cerakoted AND the bolt is also Cerakoted, that's probably the issue.

Bolt is not cerakoted

As soon as I cleaned it out as best I could, it smoothed out a lot.

It’s at Defiance now. I’m sure they’ll do what they can and it’ll be even better

StephenShivers · Sep 13, 2025

My son is left eye dominant, so he shoots lefty. I am having a lefty .308 built for his college graduation. I'm using the Strasser left hand straight pull in their Rem 700 footprint action. They are as smooth as I've used, and I'm a Sauer model 90 bolt action guy, which are about as smooth a bolt action you can get.

LRRPF52 · Sep 13, 2025

Just taking 3 of them to the range takes up most of the day between me and the boy.

I haven’t shot the 24” Lilja fluted, 16” Lilja Wasp, 14.5”, 10.5”, and AA 18” fluted in years.

Still waiting on which can I want for the 10.5”, haven’t messed with it much.

I just put a bipod on the 16” Lilja Wasp so might take it out next time, but the reticle in the scope leaves a lot to be desired for the distances we shoot. Would be great out to 400yds. If it had the GRSC reticle, I’d have been taking out every time probably in-place of one of the 18” guns. It’s such a handy little gun, very lightweight, but stupid-accurate and pleasant to shoot.

It has the Burris 1.5-6x42, which has really nice FOV and more than sufficient clarity, easy to acquire exit pupil. I wish I had that exact scope but with the GRSC reticle. I’d just leave it on 6x and plug away.

I started adding up how much just any one of the Grendels has in it, and you start out with what you thought was an affordable base AR-15 at around $1500-$2200, then once suppressed, glassed, mounts, bipods, Cerakote, and other doo-dads, you’re looking at $5-$6k.

Can’t scale that to every one of them when you don’t even shoot them. The LaRue has the most money in it topped with Razor G3 and propped-up with TBAC Bipod I think, doesn’t even have a can.

Fig · Sep 13, 2025

BCP said:
The Smith Mundt act didn’t/doesn’t hold broadcasters accountable for lying.

No, but it does make it illegal for the government to run disinformation psy-ops against the American people, which the Obama administration decriminalized.

Jsp556 · Sep 13, 2025

Billo said:
So your that guy who can't handle the truth, just own it, the Radical right is eating itself alive, bring some facts cause there is Zero value attached to Kirks memory.

You sound vaccinated.

AXMC · Sep 13, 2025

Price drop

koshkin · Sep 13, 2025

carbonbased said:
~~Do you think some~~ How much of of the zero-shifting that some people see is due to degreasing everything and dry mounting? (I know this is impossible question. Looking for a spitball estimate.)

I know you tend to wet mount your scopes. I’ve started to as well.

Wet mounting, when done correctly, decreases the probability of issues. To be fair, I do not grease the screws. I have not found that to make any difference.

I put some grease onto the three datum surfaces of the stanag clamp.

How much of the zero shifting is due to dry mounting is completely unclear. I have seen a ridiculous amount of stupid shit with the way people mount scopes. Generally, if they tell me that a professional at a local gun store mounted their scope the right way, a probability of something retarded done is at about 80%.

ILya

mi650 · Sep 13, 2025

Out my back door, about 60 seconds after my dad and I got done shooting one day.

Can't really see it too well, but there's a berm down there.

LRRPF52 · Sep 13, 2025

DeathBeforeDismount said:
Should be a pretty easy thing to machine. Get some prints done and have a machine shop make a batch of them for you.

The hard thing with extensions is when to grind the feed ramps in the processes schedule, due to oblongation after heat-treat.

CNC machining the basic dimensions is easy up until looking at the ramps and when to heat.

koshkin · Sep 13, 2025

newguy2k3v2 said:
But will it satisfy the people who are bae or bust?

The "bust" people will be forever unhappy.

Most people just want a good image and a well engineered device. They'll be happy.

ILya

Dirt Nap · Sep 13, 2025

Offers?

Aimsmall55 · Sep 13, 2025

Thanks guys. I appreciate the feedback. Cheers

stello1001 · Sep 13, 2025

beetroot said:
Is anyone using 108gr Scenars?

I know Frank and Chris like the 100gr ELD-M, but the BC on that is terrible.

The 108 Scenar on the other had is fairly respectable and should be more than enough for middle distance comps (700-800yard max).

Maybe the grendel guys run them. I shoot grendel too but I use the 107 smk.

mi650 · Sep 13, 2025

TimC in KY said:
I was fortunate that my son has a great work ethic. From early on he put in the time, effort and practice to excel at everything he tried. Baseball and basketball did not work for him but he did get a full scholarship for golf. Afterwords he paid for his masters and CPA degree.

I understand what you mean by 50/50. If they are both happy, more power to them. It is a good example of personal choice determining the outcome.

My kids were both co-valedictorian in high school, and graduated magna cum laude from college. They put in the work in school, but my son still has the insatiable drive to succeed that my daughter seems to have lost.

Barneybdb · Sep 13, 2025

LRRPF52 · Sep 13, 2025

Even for yotes, take a 20” .223 Wylde and put it next to a 12” Grendel shooting 90gr TNT.

Listen to how each one hits steel at 400yds. I’ll never waste a Small Rifle Primer on 5.56 brass again, and I’ve been that way for years now. Too easy to just buy 5.56 factory ammo at that point.

There isn’t anything you can do to a 5.56 to get it to catch up, including going with a longer barrel.

I look at all my 16” 5.56 guns now and think about how I should slowly convert each one over with a barrel-swap, though I already can’t shoot even half of my Grendels as it is.

The 12” Grendel with 5” can goes with me regularly, as it’s so easy to pack.

I still have 14.5” 5.56 for HD, depending on what level in the house I’m on though.

koshkin · Sep 13, 2025

kombayotch said:
Even if the screen on the back and the camera/lens on the front of the thermal were perfectly aligned, the thermal would also need to be colinear with the scope. It isn't just the up/down/left/right position that matters, it's the angle the thermal sits at. Non-repeatability with clamp mounts is likely caused by inconsistent angular alignment during installation. The attachment point is at the back of the thermal, which is far away from it's front lens. You have a long tube being held out at one end. A very small angular misalignment will cause an offset.

Here is an exaggerated depiction:

View attachment 8651316

This would position the center of the screen toward the edge of the center of the day scope image, but it will not impact that aiming point.

ILya

Barneybdb · Sep 13, 2025

FourT6and2 · Sep 13, 2025

NoDopes said:
Trans boyfriend looks like a furry.

Has a name for this other person been released? I wonder if it's the person some people found earlier, whose FB profile was scrubbed, who had some really weird photos and content up. If so, that person knew who the killer was before the FBI. Which means they kept it a secret until they were forced to cooperate.

XTREM HTR16 · Sep 13, 2025

straightshooter1 said:
I only reload for to calibers . . . .308 and 6.5 PRC. My SD's run between 4 to 7.5, the higher number typically do to a higher number of shots, like 20 or more. When fire forming some new .308 Alpha brass, using my best load that I've been using, got an SD of 6.2 from 80 shots.

On another occasion, I got some Remington 9 1/2 primers to try for the first time and using a power I hadn't used in a long time and it produce an SD of 20.4 with 45 rounds fired. What the H . . .??? Going to my favorite load but with these 9 1/2's and managed an SD of 14.2 with just 10 shots. A month later, I tried another load with a good powder and 40 shots got me an SD 14.4. What's left if this brick of 9 1/2's is ready to given away as I can't get them to do well. All my other various primers have worked well with those loads giving me single digit SD's . . . including Remington 7 1/2's. Apparently, this batch of 9 1/2's are just not consistent as the other primers I have.

Because my reloading process has consistently given me low to mid single digit SD's over the years, I've got a lot of confidence in my reloading procedure:

Deprime
Anneal
Wet tumble (no pins) or remove outer oxidation from annealing with steel wool for small jobs
Clean primer pockets
FL Size, no expander ball, using 4-5 seconds dwell time
Dry Tumble with rice media
Expand necks to neck tension with mandrel
3-way trim to length (Giraud).
Prime to consistent seating depth
Charge with very consistent powder weights (using FX-120i)
Seat bullets to very consistent seating depth.

But. . . there's other things I do that's not part of the regular process:
* Uniform primer pockets
* Debur flash holes
* Turn necks
* Sort primers by weight
* Sort bullets by BTO (where comparator touches same place as the seating pin)
* Weigh batch of brass and cull out the outliers

All of this helps with SD's and most importantly what I get on targets. Is all of this necessary for a hunting gun? NOPE! How about a basic off the shelf factory gun? NOPE! But I find it all can help a decent factory gun or one that's been given a good barrel. But not everyone has the time to do a lot of this like I do nor likes taking the time to do it.

What weight range do you accept for primers?

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