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    Feedback Good Guy List

    @softcock is good to go. Just completed my second purchase: a bolt pouch this time. It arrived quickly and is manufactured to the same very high level of quality as the other products I've purchased from him. He emailed me right after he shipped it to tell me that he'd forgotten to pack a...
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    Rifle Scopes Steiner M7Xi 4-28x56

    M5Xi does.
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    Rifle Scopes Steiner M7Xi 4-28x56

    I've had an M5Xi with MSR2 for the last week or so. It's still unmounted, but I've had a great time milling objects and just looking at the world through it. Were you able to directly compare the M7Xi to the M5Xi?
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    Rifle Scopes Paypal F&F... is this a scam?

    Nearly all of Paypal's history is post Peter Thiel. He was a co-founder, but cashed out along with all the other shareholders when the company was sold to Ebay in 2002. Now that Paypal has been spun out of Ebay as its own publicly-traded company, it's possible that Thiel owns shares, but he's...
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    Rifle Scopes 20moa base question

    You may have better luck searching the site using Google. For example, go to google.com and enter this in the search box: site:snipershide.com "ruger precision rifle" "20 moa" If you're confident in your measurement of a 0.04" drop from rear to front of your rail, and if your rail is...
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    Rifle Scopes Image-quality evaluation

    I adjusted the diopter and parallax, but I didn't set magnification the same on every scope. Instead, I adjusted the scopes I was comparing to the same FOV. And yeah, it makes sense now that by doing that, I was setting the magnification of the better-FOV scope higher -- so naturally its image...
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    Rifle Scopes Image-quality evaluation

    Great info, guys. Thank you.
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    Hearing Protection

    Alas, some of us live where that ear pro can't be used.
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    Hearing Protection

    I don't have easy access to the Otto website at the moment, but I think those two numbers may both be for the regular non-amplified mode: For continuous loud noise like machinery or a chainsaw or something, they attenuate with a 15 NRR, and for impulse noise like gunshots they attenuate to "40"...
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    Rifle Scopes Image-quality evaluation

    Thank you, @ken226, that's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Yes, I'm grateful to everyone whose reviews and discussion here led me to buy the scopes that I ended up getting. My shopping experience showed me that I wasn't anywhere near knowledgeable enough to select a scope based on...
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    Rifle Scopes Image-quality evaluation

    This question is probably for Ilya or one of the other experts, but I'm open to input from anyone. When I was shopping for scopes and just looking through them indoors in a store, or very briefly outdoors, I noticed that sometimes the lower-priced/lower-reputation scopes seemed noticeably...
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    Hearing Protection

    A brochure for the current-generation commercial version of the Nacre/Honeywell QuietPro is attached. The military-surplus units you'll find on Ebay are similar, although they won't be rechargeable. As @culater says, they're military grade: very rugged (except for the eartips themselves, which...
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    Hearing Protection

    ... or 5 cents if you wait for a sale. No, there's really nothing better than the foam plugs. At best, if you use the included foam earpieces or buy Comply foam earpieces, the Ottos will protect your hearing about as well as the super-cheap foam plugs -- the Otto NRR is the NRR of the...
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    I giggle every time I look...

    Congratulations on the purchase. I love mine, too. Just watched this Tac A1 review, which begins with a great line: "So far I've had about 600 rounds through this rifle and I understand that's not many. However, I have to get this video out before somebody buys a precision rifle that isn't...
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    Rifle Scopes Anyone see a problem with this setup? Spuhr, Vortex, AI

    I hope I'm not misunderstanding what you're saying. Apologies if I am. Are you referring to this? That's true only if the mount-to-objective distance happens to be 6 inches, which is the distance they show by default on their secondary page. But if you enter other distances, of course the...
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    Rifle Scopes Anyone see a problem with this setup? Spuhr, Vortex, AI

    Hmm. If you're talking about the calculator on the main http://www.mil-rad.com/scope_ring_calculator page, that's not what I'm seeing. On that page, these inputs result in a calculated 4.00 mm clearance: Scope model: Schmidt & Bender 5-25x56 PM II 34mm Scope cap wrap thickness: 2mm Mount...
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    Rifle Scopes Anyone see a problem with this setup? Spuhr, Vortex, AI

    The calculator on that page doesn't take rake/cant into consideration; it assumes 0MOA rings/mount. They also have a Cant Offset calculator at http://www.mil-rad.com/scope_cant_calculator that tries to calculate the rake-induced clearance reduction, but it probably won't produce the right result...
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    Rifle Scopes Anyone see a problem with this setup? Spuhr, Vortex, AI

    Different rifle, but a rail is a rail, right? This is my Tikka Tac A1 with the same scope as yours and a Spuhr mount just like yours but with 6 mils of rake. Fits fine with Aadmount caps, even with the sunshade attached (although the photo in this post shows it without the sunshade), so I would...
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns Handguns...show 'em

    Such pretty guns in this thread. I only shoot two pistols these days -- the Ruger Standard ("MK I") that my dad gave me on my 13th birthday, and an FN FiveSeven with a bunch of crap bolted onto it. I really like them both and the Ruger has sentimental value to me, but neither one is special in...
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    Feedback Good Guy List

    This won't come as a surprise to anyone, but @LibertyOptics is GTG. I just received the second scope I've purchased from him: super-easy transaction, and the price was really, really right.
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