Recent content by smoothy8500

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    First post here, but question regarding m855 ammo

    This sounds more and more like the typical questions on Arfcom.... :rolleyes:
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    Healt friendly brass polish

    Healthiest choice is no polish-you don't need it. Just use walnut or corn cobb media in your vibratory cleaner.
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    Keystone Pipeline Conspiracy Theories?

    Hmmmmm, just maybe, could it be that Greenpeace was actually right about the potential it could rupture?
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    Ballistic calculators disagree with my actual elevation amounts - help please!

    We do the same, and quit calibrating the targets due to the constant changing of POI/POA on the screen. With that said, shooters should be skeptical of using an E-target to establish a hard zero, unless it's their own target with confirmed calibration.
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    Ballistic calculators disagree with my actual elevation amounts - help please!

    Yeah, if you had said in the first post that E-targets were being used, a few of us would have asked "did you calibrate the targets?" ShotMarker and Silver Mountain have to be calibrated, because the electronics will say "center" where it "thinks" is center. You would check your electronic...
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    M40A1 USMC spec clip slot drawing.

    Obviously....
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    SS United States

    Yeah, we have the Queen Mary as a museum in Long Beach Ca, not that impressed and it's cost the city and states tons of cash for "upgrades" in the past despite being well kept. So gotta say no....
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    Xero failures

    Eh, if it breaks inside it will be described as "dropped or abuse" which is probably written within the owner's manual under warranty denial.
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    GAP M40a5 or GAP M24

    What happened, I thought no wait time?....
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    Very disappointed

    Amazingly, FGMM 168 seems to shoot just as well at 600yds as 100, so it's not such a big deal.
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    Are these tooling marks unacceptable in a barrel ?

    Hmmm, OP didn't get the answer he wanted....
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    Metric trajectory correction formula

    Just when they finally quit engraving elevation knobs with " click = 1 cm/100meter" so Americans would buy their scopes....
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    7PRC problem. Brand new prefit barrel, reputable smith, bolt wont close on freshly sized new brass

    What did the vendor say when you asked about this?
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    7PRC problem. Brand new prefit barrel, reputable smith, bolt wont close on freshly sized new brass

    Well, brand new brass SAAMI cartridge headspace spec is usually less than the chamber headspace spec, so something is amiss. And yes, the die is squeezing the shoulder forward a few thou.
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    Friend from childhood recently passed. Left me his guns. Need some advice on one.

    Blast and Parkerizing it yourself. Buy the decent mix from Brownells or Lauer.
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