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SOLD WTS: Vortex Razor Gen III 6-36x56mm EBR-7D

Selling to fund a holiday emergency. A coworker's wife attempted to take her own life. Luckily she failed, but she has a traumatic brain injury and will be paralyzed for life. Funds will go to assist him with gas driving to the hospital and to buy their two girls some Christmas gifts.

Selling off a scope for a project that hadn't started yet.

Scope for sale: NIB Vortex Razor 6-36x56mm. Opened the box just for photos.

Asking $2250 shipped

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Optics Bino/ rangefinder sale

-Vortex diamondback 12x50- $70shipped
-Sig kilo 1600 rangefinder- $75 shipped
-bushnell fusion x 10x42 ranging Binos- $250 shipped


All items work and are without flaws . They have been used but barely . Just sitting around

Prices are OBO

Need gone

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Reloading Equipment WTS: Bullets (Berger 6mm-7.62mm hybrids), Lapua 260Rem SRP cases, 2500 DTACs

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Cleaning out my reloading room. Here are cases and bullets that someone else can put to use! All prices are for the items, plus actual shipping to your door. Please text to 317-727-6472 or DM with any questions:

From left to right:
1. Lapua 260 Remington, 100ct: $100/box. Of note, I have one box of 260 for sale, not 4! The other brass boxes are not yet for sale.

2. Berger 6.5mm 130gr AR, 100ct: $55/box

3. Berger 6.5mm 140gr Hybrid, 100ct: $70/box

4. Tubbs DTAC 6mm 115gr (old style, uncoated, same lot), 500ct: $180/box, or $875 for the lot

5. Berger 7mm 180gr Hybrid, 100ct: $60/box

6. Berger 7.62mm 230gr OTM, 100ct: $70/box

7. Berger 6mm 105gr Hybrid POINTED (with Whidden pointing die): $45/box (can include Whidden die for small extra charge)

Planning ahead...

So... this might be something a little different. Maybe, maybe not.

I've been historically *terrible* about planning ahead, other than for my main competition guns. Everything else... has been very 'ad-hoc', and that's probably being generous. That results with me having a number of guns that *don't* have loads ready, which is a bit of a bummer - and something I'm working on.

Once upon a time, long, long ago... I remember reading a reloading book (for those old enough to remember those!) where one of the pics showed the author planning things out on a calendar, like these stages/steps of brass prep on this evening, more steps this other evening, etc. etc. etc. range trip on this specific date i.e. Saturday afternoon, etc. These days, the book probably would have had a freakin' Gantt chart, but this was back in the time of day planners and such ;)

At the time, I considered that way too over-the-top detailed and/or rigid. I was more 'go with the flow, man' in my approach, feeling that it afforded me more flexibility to pivot with unexpected developments and/or time opportunities that popped up. Nowadays... I dunno. A little more regimented plan / schedule is starting to look more attractive.

I'm curious about what you do as far as 'planning ahead' for loading/reloading/testing?
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Looking for guidance MPA Vanquish Chassis

I know this is a relatively new chassis and I’m wondering if anyone has spent some time behind one or owns one yet and is able to compare it to the matrix pro 2.


I’m getting my first rifle for PRS and these are the two options I’m looking at. I will be getting it with the new competition lightweight stock that from what I’ve read seems to balance out the rifle better. Would love any insight that anyone has and your thoughts.

The Everyday Sniper Podcast: Simulcast Hell

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I am trying to simulcast this podcast to multiple destinations without using third party paid apps, but clearly that is not happening because the final product sounds like shit to me. All the feeds except the Vimeo Video one sounds like crap to me. The sound was doing that underwater thing.

But if you are good with this podcast, the topics I covered were pretty light.

PRS Divisions

Area419 One Piece Mount

This was two tries at this today and clearly my stuff is not correct to pull off a multiple destination cast.

If you go to the direct Vimeo video it's the best sound. Crazy right

Heck I bought a hardware product to do this and even that doesn't work on Mac correctly.
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Night Vision Long Distance Thermal Clipons ?

Prior to SHOT 2019, I posted in several threads that we were hoping for three possible announcements ... regarding long distance thermal clipons:

01 - Trijicon would have something to say about future prospects of them restarting manufacturing of UTC-x or UTC-xii. We heard nothing along those lines
... and availability of even the SKEET is unknown for commercial customers. Which is worse than we hoped for.

02 - LWTS-LR announcement including commercial availability. As of right now, it seems like 1-2 years while government contracts get filled is as good a guess as any.

03 - N-Vision Optics. We hoped that after a year of pushing their new Atlas (with BAE core) hand held spotter offerings ... they might announce new scopes and/or long distance thermal clipons.
They've had two long distance thermal clipons in the past ... their TC-50 and TC-50a (not to be confused with the PRG TC-50 :D ) ... and they did announce dedicated scopes.
But, posts from Max_R indicate no plan to use the BAE core for a thermal clipon in the future.

So short version is three strikes and we're out. No new long distance thermal clipon on the horizon. So what to do ? If a person really wants one
... then hunting down a used one ... or a new one gathering dust on some dealers shelf is an option. Or trying the PRG hoping it works.

But definitely not where I hoped we would be at this point :(

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Oh and what is a "long distance thermal clipon" ?
One that can support at least 8x magnification on the day scope by design (i.e. at least 2x front magnification, offset by 0.5x demagnification on the rear).
And ideally one that also has collimated Risley Prisms (CRP) on the rear to allow the unit to be moved from rifle to rifle with no POI shift,
provided day and night optic are mounted within the tolerance of the CRP
on board the night optic.

Most of the thermal clipons available commercially (and even the available military ones we can buy) are designed to support 4x on the day scope. They do not use the magnify/demagnify trick.
Yes, some of them have great images and you can squeeze the day scope magnification up to 5x or even 6x .. but by design they are 4x support. The 320s are even less ... 2x for sure, squeeze to 3x.

A long distance thermal clipon can help you get yotes out to 500yds ... and hit 12 inch heated steel out to 900yds, if you are so inclined. Not every one needs them, but some do.
Especially those going after yotes in more open terrain like found on the West side of the Mississippi.

Oh and what is the "inventory" of possible used ones to go after ?

FLIR T-75
N-Vision Optics TC-50, TC-50A
BAE UTC, UTC-x

All of these are designed to support 8x or higher on the day scope by using the magnify/demagnify trick.
There are a tiny few others out there, including some made by entities outside the USA. But even less is known about those than the above units.

Back in Nov 2016, I decided to go after one. I was inspired by a thread in which IRV posted and discussed the advantages of long distance thermal clipons.
Several hide members aided in the search including surgeon_shooter and i2_technologies

I pursued all three, the UTC-x, the T-75 and the TC-50. I came close to all three. At the last minute, FLIR changed their mind and decided they didn't want to sell to civilians.
Before my search and after, they did sell to civilians but I caught them at a bad moment. Some deal involving shady export to Japan was mentioned.
But I couldn't get a FLIR at that time. The UTC-x seemed to be unobtainium. I found two TC-50 towards the end of my search, and was about to pull the trigger when I found TWO dealers that had UTC-x gathering
dust on the shelf ... and one of those worked with me to get BAE approval to sell to me, so I wound up going that way.
But back in May 2017, the BAE OASYS program was still not shut down yet. By around Aug/Sept 2017 the OASYS program was shut down. So, the process I went thru is not repeatable in terms of approvals.
Now, you would be looking for a used UTC-x (or T-75 or TC-50) that seems non-shady and works. And extreme diligence is required as these units are still going for over $10k and the UTC-x
for twice that. So definitely a niche within a niche sort of activity.
I was hoping the market would shift and something in this space would be more commercially available. But it did not happen.
So, we are still waiting to see if the PRG TC-50 will meet requirements of working in the field. Other than that, nothing on the horizon for the next year.

Reloading Equipment 6.5, .308 and .277 Hornady Projectiles

Selling a few lots of bullets, all prices shipped. Payment via Venmo or PayPal FF. Send PM or claim here.

6.5 - $125 shipped
4 x 100 143 ELD-X, same lot. Two are fully sealed, one box has half the seal busted and the 4th is open box/sealed package.

30 cal - $60 shipped
1 x 54 150 SST
1 x 100 150 Interlock, sealed

.277 - $80 shipped
1 x 100 145 ELD-X, sealed box
1 x 100 130 SST, Sealed box
1 x 35 140 SST,

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  • Poll
Which do you prefer in competition - holdovers or adjusting turrets?

Holdovers or adjust turrets?

  • Holdover

    Votes: 13 22.0%
  • Adjust turrets

    Votes: 36 61.0%
  • Other?...

    Votes: 10 16.9%

Curious what you folks do in competitions - when you have your dope, do you adjust your turrets for each target or do you prefer to use holdovers?

I didn't pay attention at the last competition to what my group did - I did holdovers as it seemed quicker and I have a reticle that will account for it.

Unless I was really familiar with my optic and adjusting, I think holdovers would be easier/quicker than worrying about going a click or 3 too far. I was surprised just how quickly those two minutes go by when you're looking for the targets. :D

SOLD WTS mcmillian M40A3 smear stock (A4) ***price drop***

WTS: Mcmillian M40A3 smear stock (A4). New release smear. Two screw cheek riser. Sniper fill. Precision pillars. Inlet for right hand r700 or clones with M40 barrel and M5 bottom metal. 2 inch pictanny rail added to the fore end. Will Include sling stud.

$950 shipped conus

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