Of course this is a somewhat rhetorical question, but there is an ounce of query in there. You see, I just picked up a new March FX 4.5-28x52 on sale from Eurooptic. If you have ever looked into this brand you will note that it is generally very expensive, and the premium is interesting considering most Japanese scopes, OEM, or otherwise are in general more affordable when compared to a ZCO, Tangent, or SnB. However from all I can tell this model is absolutely on par with any one of those brands, and it's understandable now why it commands a premium. Now, I have not had time yet to take it out to distance and see how it tracks but I can tell you that from every thing I can see it compares very well against a ZCO or an SNB, and even my old TT and Premier. This honestly feels like the most refined optic I have ever owned, and I have owned about every top tier brand besides a ZCO, now I feel I don't need a ZCO frankly. With the 4.5-28x52 the glass is stunning in clarity, pop, color, and resolution. The wide angle eyepiece offers a very wide field of view, more so than any of my other tactical scopes. Optically it's very impressive considering it's compact size, the glass is very reminiscent of a PM2 in color temperature. At the upper range the eyebox seems a little tight but otherwise 25x and lower it's fine. The turrets are very audible and positive, the zero stop is an eloquent design and easy to set. All of the controls are smooth and offer excellent feedback and lockup. The engravings even look premium and perfect. Though I will not take it out to distance until next week the reticle is excellent, it's not to thick, nor to thin at any mag, it's laser sharp, and all the markings are exactly where they should be, as a matter of fact the reticle was designed by our resident Dark Lord Of Optics, and i'll say great job Mr. Koshkin! Though March has been around for a while it's nice to see them coming out with something so premium. I think the other top tier European brands need a good Japanese competitor. I truly appreciate Japanese excellence, refinement, and attention to detail and the March FX 4.5-28x52 is a great example of Japanese perfectionism, in fact I am so impressed I may have to pick up another March should the need arise.

After I take this the distance I will report further on the scopes performance.

If you want a further review and way more detail on this optic I highly recommend Glassaholics extensive review and comparo against the Canada's main battleship the Tangent Theta.

Rifle Scopes - March 4.5-28x52 High Master Review and Comparison to Tangent Theta 5-25x56

March 4.5-28x52 High Master Review and Comparison to Tangent Theta 5-25x56 If I told you that you could have the benefits of a 4-20 and a 5-25 scope all in one scope would you be interested? Of course, companies like Hensoldt, Schmidt and March have been trying to solve this issue with...

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PWS Mk116 Mod 2 for sale. Used, in excellent working condition, approx. 800rd fired. Upgraded with BCM furniture and charging handle.

$1700.00

Posting for a buddy, text (214) 478-3941 if interested.

Thought I was going to put a RUM together, but need to free up some funds for something else.
26” Crown Ridge carbon fiber, 10 twist, 5R, with a remage nut, muzzle threaded 5/8-24.
Bought it lightly used, has no more than 300 rounds on it. Not sure who did the barrel work.

$500 shipped. PM me first, I will not PM you. Anyone else is a scammer.

PGD ARCH GEN 2 in multicam for sale
Has gen 3 rails, DBM gear cover (handmade custom in Poland for these helmets) in multicam, alloy Wilcox shroud, BOA, 4D pads.

Great condition, no issues.
$550 shipped

Hello everybody just want peoples opinion on my issue. So was cleaning my tikka after shooting 40 rounds for the first time. I used wipe out and soaked and also g96 and also clp 2000 foam. Many many patches and also bronze bore brush with bronze core. It made the whole barrel spotless and immaculate. However i noticed there is a circle of crud where bullets comes out the neck of case the carbon ring I believe see pic. I tried scrubbing so much other than spinning the brush on a drill which I do for my cheap rimfire. What chemicals are there that is strong enough to remove this ring.

I do love reddit and SH for their styles of forum, but also love discord communities for hanging out in too. Is there a general long range discord around? I've seen brand specific stuff and the reloading one from reddit, but that's about it.

I cant for the life of me figure out why I have so much inconsistency in neck tension with this brass. This is 2 times fired brass in the same chamber (howa), annealead with an AMP, then sized through a forster full length sizer with 262 ball. All necks brushed with graphite and bodies lubed with die wax before sizing. I see the inconsistency with my mandrel checker, and in the arm of the arbor press while seating. What is changing so much that I cant see, that is affecting this neck tension?

SOLD $350 shipped CONUS.

Paypal or Venmo.

508 pieces of Alpha 25 GT brass that has been fired 2 times. It was resized and annealed once.

Used once. Asking $50 shipped

Hey Everyone.

Just looking to get in touch with some long range precision shooters. Looking to sell an Accuracy International .308, and discuss scope options!

Thanks,

Chris

Looking into Knights Armament SR25 6.5 Creedmoor (.308?) 14.5 to 16” barrel-full time suppressed. Looking for experience with reliability, accuracy, issues, etc. Thanks

For Sale: MDT Baker Wings
Product details: New, not used. Has a couple scratches on it due to the items going against each other.
Asking Price: $100,- Shipping included.

$300

Don’t know much about it

Garmin Xero C1 Pro Chronograph light use. has original screen protector on it. Works great. I have two of these, no tripod. $430 shipped

Missed the return window and it’s just a little bigger than I’ll actually need. SOLD TYD. No trades at this time. Color is gray but it does have kind of a green hue to, not super dark wolf gray like some companies

Schmidt-Bender 3-20x50 PMII Ultra Short FFP
DTII+ Elevation turret MRAD CW (installed 2021), capped windage turret
Police P3L Reticle, Illuminated
"Shark fin" installed on magnification
Tenebraex lense covers

Overall, Very good condition! Sent scope in for removal of debris (internal grease splatter) in 2021 and install of the DTII+ Elevation turret, which also included thorough cleaning and inspection. P3L reticle is excellent for hunting, only center crosshair illuminates. Attached reticle pics are @ 5x and 18x. Elevation turret is CW. 34mm tube no ring marks. Weight of scope is 34.4 ounces. Excellent USA customer service located in Winchester Virginia should it be needed.

TYD $3200 $2800 TYD $2500 TYD

USPS Money order, Personal check or Paypal F&F Appreciated but by no means required.

USA Sales only!

TLDR:
I am right handed.
My right eye is crap. (its not a dominance thing, its a R-Eye 20/40, Left Eye 20/20 thing). One of the main reasons I was having trouble in field matches was I could not actually spot targets. As in Left Eye "there it is" Right Eye "What you talkin bout willis!"

So as the Spartans say I was gifted with a perfectly good spare eye. Conundrum:
(1) I can shoot left handed. Yes have to retrain, but I'm not a pro, so its not a horrible option. Obviously still early in the process so its awkward, but its doable.
(2) I shoot right handed/left shoulder. Still using my right hand as primary I am easily able to shoulder the rifle on the left and use it as intended. However, I worried about screwing up my fundamentals as now the right hand is at an angle to the gun and it may throw off my press and of course grip/shoulder pressure.

Any thoughts on which is better or just stfu and get to practicing the new way?

For sale: Geissele Super Charging Handle AR-15/M4 Black.
Product details: New in box, not used.
Asking price: $50,- Shipping included.

I have a like new FN 5.7x28 gen 3 MRD optics ready pistol with a trijicon rmr I traded for that just sits. It’s got a baldor light/laser on it and also has a kydex iwb holster that accommodates the light as well. Gun only has one mag, can’t find the other one to save my life. Would consider trades on hk pistols, staccato, 2011’s that take Glock mags, pre lock smith revolvers, and possibly other trades. $1300 for the whole package. Will add boot as needed. Will trade for Nightforce and Leupold MK5 optics as well

Selling a set of gently used APA 34mm true lock rings. Height on them is 1.250.

Looking to get $115 shipped

I'm sure this has been posted before, but I can't find it. I'm trying to upgrade so I can post sale/swap items, but my profile doesn't seem to have an "upgrade" option.

Advice?

Catch and release. Bought and shot one match with it but acquired a halo x. $60.00 shipped.

Selling these like new Binos and mounting adapter . Have everything in original box. Perfect condition , bought last year used once. Price is firm , I’ll pay shipping to lower 48.

Tried to think of a catchy title for this thread something like 338 Norma versus 22 Rimfire for Long Range or 22 Rimfire humbles a 338 Norma at Rayners Range today or some other catchy title but not sure what I'll do. This is mainly a thread about our day out and some things to pass along to others. The day started out with my Son and I heading out to Rayners Range so he could check some midrange settings on his 338 Norma for an upcoming ELR event. We took along our 22 rimfires since Tom also has a really nice 22 steel plate course with racks from 25 yards out to 250 yards. Similiar to mine but has more distance.

We stopped off at Toms 100 yard sight-in range so he could check his 100 yard zero, first cold bore shot a bullets width right of center and the second elongating the hole more towards center. Good nuff' he said and up the road we went to his lower half of the range which has targets from 235 yards out to 550 yards for his first half of his CF matches. He wanted to get a check at 500 and there was a rack at 487 which was close enough. There were 4 others at this stage so he got ready as the others were shooting. His first shot was 1" below center with the second splatters touching. He swung over and called the bolt on the 4"x6" plate and caught the right side of the bolt. Good Nuff" again.

You can't go up on the hill to shoot the 1000 yard plates since it's in the same series of racks being used at this location and you'd be shooting over top of their heads so we had to wait. While waiting he got out his Old Faithful Izhmash 22 LR toggle gun with a new 7-35 Arken on it. He'd previously got a good zero at our range but hadn't tried it out any farther. One of the other shooters asked what it was and Chris said a 22. Ahhh, what case you using since he had a 22 BR he was playing with. This is a 22 rimfire, what you going to shoot at here?

Chris dialed in the setting for 487 yards which I'll edit in later due to him being at work right now. He's using Strelok Pro and used his Kestrel for wind and came up with 2 Mil coming in from the right. They all were kinda watching and I kidded Chris "if you get a first round hit I'll buy lunch at the Zanesville Chinese buffet". I got down behind the Kowa spotting scope, he got ready and shot. I was looking for a trace since the 338 had a beautiful trace all the way to the target. I was just opening up my mouth to say I didn't see anything and we heard the distant distinct "DING". I could not believe it, I didn't see the impact due to it being a red target and didn't show the little hit. He shot again and it went just under it so his hit had to be low. He made a slight adjustment and ran 4 more hits. Then he angled over on the little 4x6 inch 30 point plate and again got a hit. His second shot at it did miss about an 1 1/2" off the left which is amazing.

OK, not many will believe it which I really don't care, there were 4 others there watching that couldn't believe it but we've shot that far at Rayners with our 22s quite a few times before, one of my videos is on Youtube hitting the 500 yard 16" target 8 out of 10 times a few years ago. He went on to check his 1000 yard setting and all went well as expected. We had a great lunch at the Buffet but was $30.00 poorer due to a poor wager.

Later that day I went over to meet up with a buddy that had just finished up a set of Long Gong targets (8", 6" and 4") set at 300 yards at a buddies range close by to home. I had my Remington 40X in a McCrees chassis with an Arken SH-4. I call this gun Old Faithful due to it's always been my best go long range gun. The wind at Rayners was pretty steady but here at Hoo Doo Valley it swirls, switches and just do Hoo Doo things that are crazy. Really tough range but offers a real challenge.

I set up the Garmin Chronograph to see how this same batch of Lapua Super Long Range Chris used at Rayners would do and have some data to share. I think I shot 11 shots to see how his targets would move when hit to make keeping score easy. They worked perfect, might get a center hit, then 3 inches off the right, then 6 inches off the left but elevation was really really great. EXT SPRD was 18.7 fps and STD DEV was 4.8 fps. Thats why it shoots so well. A buddy that was there wanted to try the two different versions of Wolf Target. We always thought the Old Wolf shot better than the new stuff so this should show up on the Garmin.

He shot the New stuff first and fired 10 shots, Wasn't very impressive with verticle hits on the 300 yard target.The EXT SPRD was 41.2 FPS and STD DEV was 11.6 fps. He then fired 9 shots of the Old Wolf with EXT SPRD 25.2 fps and STD DEV was 8.1 fps. It did had a bit better verticle spread on the 300 yard target. I know, I keep saying it's AMMO AMMO AMMO and don't care what equipment you bring but this does show there is a big difference especially at distance.

Lapua SLR



New Wolf by Eley



Old Wolf



So, which gun did better today at Rayners? The 338 Norma shooting nice tight groups out to 1000 and even out past 2000 yards or the lowly little 22 rimfire struggling and clawing it's way to get him hits at 487 yards? Both are winners to us but just does go to show you the little bugger can surprise when Mother Nature blesses us with a very consistent condition, nearly any slight change in wind, temperture, humidity, lighting or if someone sitting beside you on another bench looks at you weird groups or hits are a thing of the past and leaves you thinking bad things to say or blame it on.

Know this is long but thought it might be entertaining and maybe even contain a bit of info someone can find useful. Until we started playing with Lapua SLR or RWS R50 we had no idea there was another level of accuracy above what our old Wolf, SK Bia. other similiar ammo was giving us all these years. You may still get a round out of the good ones but it may be enough to catch an edge hit instead of dropping down under a small target. None of this may pertain to 50 yard Benchrest but seeing it happen at longer distances is a real eye opener to those not used to using Top Shelf ammo. You also gotta remember this was shot with a factory barreled Izhmash and an Arken scope. Not a high dollar setup and is the same gun that won the Iron Element ELR 22 rimfire match last year with 6/7 hits at 400 yards on a 12" plate with over 20 moa of wind dialed in. Makes ya wonder where to put the money when getting into longrange rimfire shooting?

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I have a nox35 thermal scope i purchased from thermalopticsplus Still under factory warranty. Comes with charger and big batteries, quick detach picatinny Mount and case and even coin. 4385$ shipped and insured.