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    Rifle Scopes New scope company Element Optics

    In the past there were I was not aware they were no longer there, sorry for the misdirection, That being said the amount of counterfeit crap on AliExpress is staggering. wade
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    AMU M110's

    If you go with Palma brass I would use JP's high pressure bolt, the small primer'ed brass tends to blank easier than large primer brass. I have shot 6.5 x 47 Lapua brass in 22 and it's native 6.5 since it was available in the US it was about 3 years before other x47's started to show up on the...
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    Rifle Scopes Marines Pick VCOG 1-8 as new Common Optic

    I wonder if the ACOGs will hit the surplus market.
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    Rifle Scopes New scope company Element Optics

    I think we are seeing a bunch of new optics companies due to the Chinese manufactures that will build a scope to your specs, think menu. Choose the features you want and the quality standards and they churn out scopes that may meet the quality specs you dictated. You can chose the...
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    6.5 Grendel cheapo-build: south texas beater ranch gun

    Last night as I was trying to fall asleep I was thinking that the ultimate truck gun might be a 6.5 Grendel pistol with a brace might be the ultimate truck gun. This write up reinforces that idea and may have to add one to the collection and maybe a truck to go with it since I have not had a...
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    What to Build from Tikka 300WM?

    I am partial to making two big holes in just about anything I shoot and also burning a bunch of powder each squeeze of the trigger. I would recommend a Ruger 375 of maybe even the Ruger 416, hard to imagine a situation you would be under gunned. Capable to shooting anything on North America...
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    Twist Rates for 7mm RM

    I just ordered a 1-8.5" twist brux for a hunting rifle that will be chambered in 280 AI. I tend to shoot heavy for caliber so I don't have to worry about spinning light bullets too fast and blowing them up. Since I live in the midwest and hunt in the winter the air tends to be heavy so a...
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    Rifle Scopes still don't understand why less magnification is better

    I will answer the question as a hunter: Lower magnification makes target acquisition easier as your field of view is wider you are not looking down a soda straw. In general the light transmission is better at lower powers making those early and late minutes of the hunting day more productive...
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    Gunsmithing Piloted Finish Reamers: prebore or not?

    You follow the drill bit with a boring bar then the prebored hole is concentric with whatever point you indicated off of.
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    Shorty hunting builds

    It is very hard to go wrong when you go with a Bartlein barrel or any of the cut-rifled barrels coming out of wisconsin.
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    Gunsmithing Barrel Vise Help

    We have a Viper in the shop and it has handled everything we have thrown at it without a hiccup. I recently rebarreled an old Mauser 98, so the barrel had probably been on since about WWII or close to it. I tightened the bolts on the Viper vise as much as I could without a cheater bar, gave...
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    This is similar to something I have thought of setting up: standard weather anemometers next to wind flags and videoing the wind flags with the measured wind written on the screen as a means of teaching Long Range High Power shooters to estimate wind. The anemometers that can be read by...
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    Not at RO but spent 3 weeks testing with 4 USMC scout-sniper teams at Pōhakuloa, I had some health issues and left Lockheed right after that testing. I was not aware that Lockheed had a civilian version of a wind reading system on the market. wade
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    Lockheed's OneShot system did not use LIDAR, I was the lead engineer for the hardware implementation for the Lockheed OneShot. I will not discuss the phenomenology exploited by Lockheed's OneShot for obvious reasons but you can be assured that LIDAR was not the technique. wade
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    The more particles in the air that will reflect the laser light the greater the signal to noise ratio is for a LIDAR system, up to some limiting factor that too much signal (light) gets scattered out of the optical path back to the sensor. Higher signal to noise ratio in general will lead to...
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    I worked the OneShot program for Lockheed and the system we designed measured the wind at many ooints between the target and muzzle and the ballistics solution used the wind values in a step wise fashion to achieve the final ballistics solution. One issue that will always be present whether...
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    The End Of Wind Calling? -Trijicon Ventus -

    1550 nm lasers take a shortwave IR detector fewer of these out there than most other bands, 1550 nm is out of band for current and probably future NV gear. I don't think a max range of 500 yards will have great military applications it is at longer ranges that the hit rate declines rapidly.
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    Small ring mauser thoughts?

    I think the most economical way to build a high-quality sporterized Mauser is to search out a JC Higgins Model 50 or 51 rifle. These guns were sold by Sears and a few other catalog outfits and were assembled in the US on commerical FN 98 Mauser actions. The FN actions are some of the finer...
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    Rifle Scopes My arken 6-24 just got here

    Nothing is unusual in Walmart
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    Gunsmithing SBR Bolt Action question regarding Barrel fitting

    Given your freedom could be at risk I would call your local ATF office and ask them whether what you want to do is legal, ask for the determination in writing. In a court of law I would rather have a piece or paper from the ATF saying what I was doing was legal, instead of a bunch of forum...
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