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Accuracy International Picture Thread

Phase 1:
Play musical scopes because you get life lessons on why your vortex and leupold make you supah ghey.

Phase 2:
Sell it a few years down the road in a mome.t of weakness. Come back to these threads because you miss the best people on this forum who are too good to go into any other threads. Feel regret and sell of your 6dasher 36# Frankenstein and try to find an AI only to find out the one you want has gone up in value.

Now you are back where you started but likely the dollar value lost of an entire 2nd AI.
I'm going with Phase 3. Buy more barrels since I have all the bolts for the MC.
 
Phase 1:
Play musical scopes because you get life lessons on why your vortex and leupold make you supah ghey.

Phase 2:
Sell it a few years down the road in a mome.t of weakness. Come back to these threads because you miss the best people on this forum who are too good to go into any other threads. Feel regret and sell of your 6dasher 36# Frankenstein and try to find an AI only to find out the one you want has gone up in value.

Now you are back where you started but likely the dollar value lost of an entire 2nd AI.
I'm a huge fan of the MK5HD and will not be ashamed of it. Same for the MK4HD with PR2 reticle. Especially with the massive military discount they give current and prior service. Haters be damned.
 
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I'm a huge fan of the MK5HD and will not be ashamed of it. Same for the MK4HD with PR2 reticle. Especially with the massive military discount they give current and prior service. Haters be damned.

Leupold internal tracking engineering personified....

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Uh nooo and that is pretty well documented in a lot of places that they have issues tracking 100%
I can vouch for the current 2024+ MK5HD scopes compared to what I'm seeing from QA from 2-5 years ago. I'm immensely pleased with the quality of the MK5HD frankly. Both on my own, and what I've seen of the military issued on the Barrett MK22.

And no I won't lower my voice 😉
 
I can vouch for the current 2024+ MK5HD scopes compared to what I'm seeing from QA from 2-5 years ago. I'm immensely pleased with the quality of the MK5HD frankly. Both on my own, and what I've seen of the military issued on the Barrett MK22.

And no I won't lower my voice 😉

It's cool I still remember hitting my m3a in country to get it to start moving with the turret again.... Pretty will known thing on active duty if you were an actual 11bb4 .... Every once in awhile the ole leupy needs a smack to track
 
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It's cool I still remember hitting my m3a in country to get it to start moving with the turret again.... Pretty will known thing on active duty if you were an actual 11bb4 .... Every once in awhile time the ole leupy needs a smack to track
Oh I sure as shit wouldn't want to run the old Leupolds. Especially not the MIL/MOA M3A on the M24. I will alwYs love the M24 but f×ck were things archaic in those early years of the GWoT for our generation's snipers, OEF/OIF era.

No, I wasn't a B4. Let's make that clear. 11B1P.

All that said, seriously take a look at the most current MK5HDs. Get your hands on one somehow, visit a shop, something. I picked it over a Nightforce NX8, ATACR and Zeiss. Only scope I've loved more -- that's a solid $1500-2000 more -- was the S&B Ultra Performance and PMIIs.
 
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Oh I sure as shit wouldn't want to run the old Leupolds. Especially not the MIL/MOA M3A on the M24. I will alwYs love the M24 but f×ck were things archaic in those early years of the GWoT for our generation's snipers, OEF/OIF era.

No, I wasn't a B4. Let's make that clear. 11B1P.

All that said, seriously take a look at the most current MK5HDs. Get your hands on one somehow, visit a shop, something. I picked it over a Nightforce NX8, ATACR and Zeiss. Only scope I've loved more -- that's a solid $1500-2000 more -- was the S&B Ultra Performance and PMIIs.

I have.... Witness marks usually don't line up glass is better but leupy rnd I doubt is running anything better inside mechanically which in my theory is why they are light
 
All that said, seriously take a look at the most current MK5HDs. Get your hands on one somehow, visit a shop, something. I picked it over a Nightforce NX8, ATACR and Zeiss. Only scope I've loved more -- that's a solid $1500-2000 more -- was the S&B Ultra Performance and PMIIs.
Unfortunately, the first nice scope I ever bought was a Mk5hd 5-25 with their horrible CCH reticle. Horrible to me, at least.

Scope was mechanically satisfying with a nice locking turret method. Had a nice matte finish. But gdamn my eyes swam when looking through it due to that reticle.

And minimum focus was 50yds or so, which I discovered I didn’t like that much. Not a hindrance when shooting things, but a pain when dry firing at close targets.

I should look through a sample with a better reticle. But so many of their designs have tons of dashes, which I found I cannot stand.
 
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A years supply of barrels turns into a decade or more supply once you start poppin out crotch goblins

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I guess in 10-15 years it might be exponentially the other way tho

Got 3 boys. Here are the youngest. 200rds is a regular afternoon. Can go double that if they bring a friend.

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Meh. Their like kids I like them all. AI , sids chick and fix , desert techs , etc.

AIs and side chick and fix are prolly my fav bolt guns though

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Wish I still had that axsa even tho it would just collect dirt.

Everyone needs a nice custom light barrel. Or a fix

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With Kevins attitude when he was on here, you couldn’t pay me to buy anything of his.
 
I'm not well versed in the AE line. When did they switch to the AW style bolt? Was the AE MKIII the first?

I honestly thought all AEs had the sloped bolt. You learn something new every day...

Correct…the MKIII was the first to get the AW style bolt.


It was also my first AI as I wanted the 3 position safety.
 
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Added a Vortex Impact 4000. I get to test it out to 1260 next weekend. I hope it rains so I get some realistic expectations of this rangefinder. At 1/5 the price of a Wilcox I’m expecting 1/5 the effective range.

I’m not sure if I’m using too long of a screwdriver but the “clicks” for zeroing are hyper mushy. Sometimes I can feel them sometimes I can’t.
 
Interesting how the skins are the old style 1-piece front ends though. I had assumed the MKIII was produced with the newer 2-piece versions almost similar to what you see on the AT’s. It is possible the skins were swapped though.
 
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Added a Vortex Impact 4000. I get to test it out to 1260 next weekend. I hope it rains so I get some realistic expectations of this rangefinder. At 1/5 the price of a Wilcox I’m expecting 1/5 the effective range.

I’m not sure if I’m using too long of a screwdriver but the “clicks” for zeroing are hyper mushy. Sometimes I can feel them sometimes I can’t.
I’ve said it before, but dang I like that paint job.

have a Frank emoji on me :frank: lol
 
Got out today... first time in months thanks to the birth of my son (not crotchety about it). Bit rusty, took the AT out configured in 20" 308 gentleman (suppressed). Also took my Xm3 and Sako TRG22a1 to decide their fate (Commodus gave them a thumbs down).

Anyway something I was able to do is compare 308 barrel lengths to the same velocity. Unfortunately it's 3 different barrel brands and 3 different chambers. Still, interesting results.
Barrels were 18.5", 20" and 26", excuse my shooting....its embarrassing.

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30-50fps faster in an 18.5" compared to the 20". Both were suppressed (18.5 w/ fa762ss, 20" with omega 300). The 18.5" has a tighter match chamber compared to whatever AI puts in their barrels and round count is close enough to not matter.

Another thing that's interesting is the left and middle are same brass, bullet, powder, charge weight and the only difference is the primer. CCI standard in the "old m118lr" and Ginex in the "new m118lr". Speed is better as well as es/SD. I had thought Ginex was the generic name of CCI but I'm second guessing that info.
 
Managed to get a few rounds in today as well.

Talk about a disparity between groups. Shot my factory 6.5 CM barrel that I was bitching about the copper fouling in today. Just one box of factory 140 ELD-M so I could use it up. It averaged ~2/3 MOA for 4x5 when I shot it last year with the same ammo...but was wearing a Hellfire brake then. I left the end of the barrel bare today.

Two shots to get a rough zero, and then the next 5 went into .4". I was pretty stoked, so I brought out the chronograph as I was letting the barrel cool. Next group of 5 went into damn near MOA 😄 with an ES of 90! But it had one round that read 77 FPS high, so I loaded my last 8 and shot the group on the left. Look at that badass ES and SD.

Looked at what i wrote on the box of factory 140 ELD-M that I shot a year ago...2,671 FPS, ES - 102, SD - 44.

LOL, no wonder the Hornady guys don't trust small sample sizes. They're shooting their own stuff. 😉

I think there is some potential here for loads that weren't constructed by Hellen Keller.

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Managed to get a few rounds in today as well.

Talk about a disparity between groups. Shot my factory 6.5 CM barrel that I was bitching about the copper fouling in today. Just one box of factory 140 ELD-M so I could use it up. It averaged ~2/3 MOA for 4x5 when I shot it last year with the same ammo...but was wearing a Hellfire brake then. I left the end of the barrel bare today.

Two shots to get a rough zero, and then the next 5 went into .4". I was pretty stoked, so I brought out the chronograph as I was letting the barrel cool. Next group of 5 went into damn near MOA 😄 with an ES of 90! But it had one round that read 77 FPS high, so I loaded my last 8 and shot the group on the left. Look at that badass ES and SD.

Looked at what i wrote on the box of factory 140 ELD-M that I shot a year ago...2,671 FPS, ES - 102, SD - 44.

LOL, no wonder the Hornady guys don't trust small sample sizes. They're shooting their own stuff. 😉

I think there is some potential here for loads that weren't constructed by Hellen Keller.

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You should just send me that rifle since it’s a turd
 
You should just send me that rifle since it’s a turd

The rifle is just fine. This particular barrel is somewhat questionable as it holds more copper than a meth head's side yard. However with ES at 81, 90, and 102 for the three groups I've shot over the chronograph... It might end up being a hammer if I can get it to smooth out. Round count is 78 now.

Go start an OF page. I've made almost four dollars now selling photos of my leather cheerio in just 8 months. Some guy named "Dan" apparently can't get enough of them.
 
The rifle is just fine. This particular barrel is somewhat questionable as it holds more copper than a meth head's side yard. However with ES at 81, 90, and 102 for the three groups I've shot over the chronograph... It might end up being a hammer if I can get it to smooth out. Round count is 78 now.

Go start an OF page. I've made almost four dollars now selling photos of my leather cheerio in just 8 months. Some guy named "Dan" apparently can't get enough of them.
It’s called OnlyFeet

DM me some feet pics and we can make you whole