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Optics VETERANS DAY INSANE PRICING ON EVERY AGM PRODUCT!!!

PM with what model you want and I’ll give you a Veterans Day price you will love! Thermals, NV, Clip ons you pick.

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Geissele Heavy Barrels. (Update 28OCT24)

Has anyone had any time behind these new heavy profile Geissele barrel??

I just picked one up from Primary Arms with thier Halloween sale. They look to be the same profile as the barrels I custom order. Only thing I would have done differently is 5/8x24 threads and a intermediate gas length.

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Night Vision Thermal question regarding Burris

I know the general sentiment on here regarding the Burris thermals, but I have an opportunity to pick up one of the V3 640 scopes for about $2700. Optics Planet has them for $3500 currently. I do not currently own any thermal optics and have little experience with them. My intended use is to thin out the coyote population on my hunting land, which would likely consist of shots out to 250ish max. My question is, am I be better served to spend the same amount of money on a different optic, which would bump me down to 384 in most cases, or get the discounted 640 Burris?

Thanks

Tikka T3X CTR First Shots...WOW!

Today I took out a new Tikka T3X CTR in 6.5 CM shooting for the first time and I have to say I'm really impressed. I was just using old hand loads (with varying powder charges working up in 0.3 grain increments) I had lying around for a different rifle. I labelled the groups in order. It seems the groups tightened up as I shot more. All groups are 5 shot groups at 100 yards. The average group size was 0.57 MOA and all groups were under 1 MOA. I can't wait to see how she shoots with a bit of load development.

The other cool thing is that the first group being low was a result of crudely boresighting the gun. I shot in the middle of 4 targets sheets to make sure I got on paper. Turns out, I was only 1 inch low on elevation (the point of aim was the red dot above the group) and dead on for windage. It doesn't get much better than that. It was probably pure luck, but I'll take it. :ROFLMAO:

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Firearms WTS Rem SS 700 in 7 RSAUM, dies and brass

Remington SS 700 (highly desirable S prefix) in 7 RSAUM APA brake, dies and brass.

Remington TI stock painted brown. Action has been recently bedded and APA micro bastard brake installed and loctited in place.

Rifle was used as back up gun by previous owner and less than 100 rds fired. I bought it for elk hunt and then decided to go with a 6.5 PRC. Never fired a shot yet.

Trigger is factory.

Weight with Leupold scope and rings is 8 lb 3 oz. Scope and rings not for sale.

Redding dies, one FL sizer, one Neck sizer and one micrometer seater.

94 rds of once fired Norma brass. Brass resized, primer pockets reamed. Did not trim yet as not near trim lengths now. Already primed with rem 9 1/2 magnum primers. Was going to run expander mandrel thru them but not done yet. I can go either way for buyer.

Had done lot of research on loads and powders will give that to buyer.

$1550 shipped.

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Distance to the lands question, and a thank you!

1. Do you measure distance to the lands everytime you swap bullets or once and done good enough?

2. I had a bunch of 212 grain eldx 30 cal bullets and 6.5mm sst given to me but some of them are tarnished, almost as if they were not kept in a climate controlled area there’s no rough spots on them or anything just a few discolored here and there. Are they good to run?

I also just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who helped me on my reloading journey. I was brand new to this but was eager to learn so I read threw a few reloading manuals and reached out to a PRS buddy of mine and asked if I could watch him go threw his reloading process. I learned more in 30 minutes watching and talking with him than I did in any of those books.

Someone on here recommended I start with the 6.5 creedmoor as it’s easy to learn on so that’s what I did and here are some results. I know they’re 3 shot groups but this is coming out of a Ruger American with a thin barrel and I just didn’t want to waste components as I’m learning. I tweaked this load a little more and got SD down in the 4s keep in mind it’s a 22” barrel.
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I figured maybe I just got lucky as that gun has always shot good for what it is so I started working on my older remmington 700 .270 that has hardly ever shot sub MOA and now that’s my most accurate deer rifle. A few pictures of the gun and results.
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I’m sure there could be improvement but for my first reloads I was pretty happy and now I’m looking at expander mandrels and annealing to further increase precision. My simple reloading setup.
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Rifle Scopes 1x prism and magnifier

So apparently I have an astigatism, haha... I have red dots on almost all my rifles (as offsets on bolt and offsets or primaries on gas guns) and pistols and have no issues using them effectively although the dot isn't necessarily super crisp (this is with quality red dots, Aimpoint Micros, Acros, PROs). I had only ever really used magnifiers with Eotechs (EXPS 3-2 and 3-4) and the dots although not perfectly crisp, were usable. Yesterday I tried a 6x Vortex magnifier behind my Aimpoint Pro and the dot was just a messy diagonal splotch...

Since I doubt that a higher end magnifier would make any difference, that got me to thinking about trying a 1x prism with a magnifier. When I look at Primary Arms' website, they say their 1x is compatible with their magnifier. Vortex however says that their 1x prism isn't compatible with their magnifier. Being that I don't imagine the "tech" is any different between those 2 brands (as they're just OEMing china stuff anyways) I was curious why one brand would say it's a go and another wouldn't. The only real issue I could imagine would potentially be eye relief so I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's tried this kind of setup. Is this a viable setup or am I better to just get an Eotech? Is there a reason that the dots are crisper with a holo like the Eotech than with red dot like an Aimpoint?

Tying it all together, APMobile, Calypso and LRFs?

So I was reading up on the Calypso and am trying to envision the end state. As an FNG to precision I'm attending my first NRL Hunter event (teamed with a good buddy) in April. I love being efficient (read "lazy"), we are spending lots of time on our workflow. The simpler and easier we can make work, the more time we have for the actually spotting and shooting, right?

So with the Calypso, you can feed the ABMobile app automagically and get your readings, which is wonderful. If you put it in relative wind mode, you can bolt it to the diving board of your rifle and have wind "built in" (I know, wind is tricky and what you feel may not be what is happening elsewhere). But, at least, it is something and very cool.

So now what I'm trying to figure out is how to integrate the LRF Binos. Because I'm in a team event, in a perfect world the spotter would find all four targets (or one target, or two targets, whatever), and then, as part of the workflow, laze the first target. This would then update my APMobile app with range (wind is already there as I'm pointing my rifle at it), and I've got my dope without having to check anything.

Are there LRF binos out there that can sync this way with AB Mobile (or some other app, preferably using the AB engine)?

Cheers!

Rifle Scopes Blinded, Randomized scope testing

With all the vastly varying anecdotal reports of IQ between scopes, I think a blinded, randomized controlled trial of scopes would be very interesting. Because there’s some degree of objectivity and methodology in evaluating IQ, I think this could be very revealing.
Bias seems to be one of the greatest influences on individuals as far as I can tell. Whether conscious or subconscious, it can be hard to admit a $600 scope is optically close to a $4k scope.
Just like some people taste soap with cilantro or prefer different flavors than others, I believe vision is the same way. This may be obvious to some folks but it’s definitely not accepted main stream because people continue to argue to the point of insults (myself included 🤣) over IQ of scopes. In contrast, most everyone is in agreement that scope features are subjective, so no need to try and examine that. The test could be standardized to be blinded. It would take some effort but certainly doable. A way to make diopter, magnification and parallax adjustments without fingering the scope. The trial would need to include a professional eye examination and history as well obviously.

SOLD Wilson Combat ETU-M2 AR Trigger

$150

Brand new in the box - Excellent 2-stage trigger. Extremely crisp break with a very short take-up and a short, tactile reset.

The Wilson TTU-M2 is probably the best kept secret in AR triggers. This is the upgraded version with the nitride coating on all the components.

Payment accepted via PayPal. UPS shipping included in the price.

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