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    Range Report JBM dope card is screwing with me. Starting to get frustrated! What am I missing!?!

    Thanks for the suggestions Damoncali. I've spent a lot of time in the past shooting my 6.5cm over my f1 Chrony. Never had a reason to doubt it until my dope went all wonky on me. I had been trying to chrono over a big range of temps to track any velocity shifts with my loads. The F1 has shown me...
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    Range Report JBM dope card is screwing with me. Starting to get frustrated! What am I missing!?!

    Thanks Bryan, I'm definitely going to give this some more thought, but at this point I have no reason to doubt the ranges. My 550 (500M) came from established berms at a silhouette range, and everything else from a a site-in range and known distance targets at a recent match. The match...
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    Range Report JBM dope card is screwing with me. Starting to get frustrated! What am I missing!?!

    I've been struggling with this for a while now. I've been through 2 iPhone apps, loads of JBM print outs, stacks of chrono numbers with a cheap F1, and two scopes (swfa 5-20, and now a kahles 6-24) that have both passed tracking testes with flying colors... I'm shooting 140 A-max in a 25" 6.5cm...
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    Rifle Scopes S&B.. NF.. where to put the money on first really high end glass???

    Understood. Nice find! I'm getting ready to spend the big money (for the first time) on a top-tier optic, and that price would have definitely put a Premier at the top of my list! I appreciate the advice. Funny, I immediately starting checking all the major vendor sites for a Premier sale after...
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    Rifle Scopes S&B.. NF.. where to put the money on first really high end glass???

    Whoa! Is there more of that to go around? Or was that a one time deal? Can you point me in the right direction?
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    8000 rds on Bighorn action

    I'm all for it! I used to go down to Flagstaff once in a while where Steve123 would consistently serve us up an ass-whoopin' in the air rifle field target matches. Tons of fun! I'd love to shoot a long range match with those guys ...But I think its about a 12 hour drive for us....
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    8000 rds on Bighorn action

    Thanks for the good info Steve. Have you been shooting the 6.5 SAUM at matches? Does it feel like cheating? haha! But seriously, I'd love to know what you think of the SAUM so far. Pros vs any cons so far? I assumed there'd be a ton of recoil, but it sounds like you've got that covered with...
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    8000 rds on Bighorn action

    Kevin and I did a quick rifle swap for some "bonus" shots on that 1150 plate after that match last weekend. It was my first time behind a 6mm. I was surprised to find very little difference between his 105's (3000+fps) and my 140's (2800fps) on target. It felt to me like the sound of the steel...
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    Remington 223 sps tactical out of the box turd

    I couldn't get the 69smk's to shoot in my 20" 1:9. I also tried a bunch of various factory ammo… and a bunch of hand loads with other ~69g -77g bullets...no joy… Then I stumbled onto a fantastic load when I tried some 73g bergers! OH MAN! Completely transformed the gun. Now I LOVE shooting that...
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    Rifle Scopes Scopes for Air Rifles

    Kiba, Thanks for all the good info. For a second there you had me all excited that the S&B 3-20 might do 10yds! haha.. I agree with you on that G2DMR reticle. I have a bushnell 6-24x ffp with the G2DMR on my rapid and think its a great fit. Fantastic reticle for air power shooting as well...
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    Rifle Scopes Scopes for Air Rifles

    I spend a ton of time shooting my air rifles, and I've been through a bunch of the lower end scopes rated for spring guns with 10yd parallax. Its hard to find a good variable FFP mil/mil scope with decent glass that doesn't cost more than $700 or so. Kiba is right on the money with his advice...
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    Rifle Raffle to help a Colorado Member.

    Congrats to MrBungle! The support and generosity of the community here has been absolutely amazing. My wife has been saying: "Our house was just a location, community is where you really find your home." After seeing all this support from you guys, I have to agree with her. Things are looking...
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    Rifle Raffle to help a Colorado Member.

    I gotta send a huge THANKS out to everybody involved with this. As you can imagine, my wife and I are in a world of sh*t right now, and it means more to us than I can say to see this kind of generosity and support from all of you guys. We are absolutely amazed and overwhelmed by how many good...
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    Rifle Scopes Quality lower end optic for Dad's air rifle - I have no clue

    If a fixed power scope is OK for his uses, then I highly suggest looking at the SWFA $300 fixed power models. Excellent japanese glass, they all focus down to 10yds, mil turrets, an excellent reticle, they're built like tanks... Choose from 6x,10x,12x, 16x.... You have to spend some serious...
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    First, I'll admit I'm a relative newb to loading, so I'm all ears when it comes to suggestions from you guys... But I thought I read that jammed was a good place to start load development when looking for pressure signs. Pressure is only going to drop as you come off the lands to start fiddling...
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    Quick update: I tried some 77smk's and 77g Noslers jammed w/ 23.5, 24.0, and 24.5g's of RL-15 in my 20" 1:9... No love for the Noslers. The targets show that there may be some hope for the smk's on the slower end (~2600fps)... Then I found some 73g Bergers! WHOOOO-AHHHH! I've never seen this...
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    Cool. Thanks for that. I've been digging around and it seems like varget is pretty close to the RL15 that I've got sitting here. Would you agree? 24g's of RL15 was giving me about 2750fps with 69smk's in my 20" 1:9....
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    Niles, Thanks again for the info. I just ordered some smk 77's and some nosler 77's to see what my 20" 1:9 will do with them. Do you have any powder recommendations? Right now all I've got handy is RL15. Sounds like I might as well start load development with the 77's jammed, eh? What's...
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    Ptaylor, Very NICE looking set-up you've got there! Thanks for the pic. So, I assume you are getting those 80g A-max's to feed just fine in your AI mag? Are they a pretty tight fit? And are your loads jammed or jumping?
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    Range Report Anybody shooting 80g bullets in .223?

    Thanks for sharing all that wisdom guys! Niles: thanks for the link to that other thread. Good info there! So, thinner air at altitude allows me to get away with a little more as far as heavy bullets in my 1:9? Is there a simple explanation for that? 5000ft is the LOWEST I've been...
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