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Let’s hope for a Glorious Day….

pmclaine

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    Coffee? Check!

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    Eggs and bacon? Check!

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    Stuff ready for the truck? Part of it.

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    Not boding well for todays shooting when you can’t even center the orange dot.

    Good thing is the target doesn’t resemble a human form. I think that’s illegal in Massachusetts as if August 2.

    Our communists realized good Americans were using their heroes images as targets and took offense.
     
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    No matter how the shooting goes, have FUN !
    I second that emotion! I always try to shoot better on each range trip, but if I don`t I don`t let it upset me. It`s time in which I can concentrate on something I enjoy and not think about the chores at home to be done, bills to pay, etc., etc. for a while. I think everybody needs SOMETHING like that.
     
    Todays conditions….

    67’ , 29.84HG, 84%RH, DALT 747, wind 0.

    Kestrel says use 1.31U/.04R

    Using same ammo 175FGMM from same lot as last I will start at 1.6U/.1R

    Expecting to be a little high.

    Clean/Cold Bore, pulled a snake to remove the Kroil. Usually don’t but deciding this barrel deserves a little anal love.
     
    Not boding well for todays shooting when you can’t even center the orange dot.

    Good thing is the target doesn’t resemble a human form. I think that’s illegal in Massachusetts as if August 2.

    Our communists realized good Americans were using their heroes images as targets and took offense.
    Are you serious about human form targets in Massachusetts? If so, that will be my daily, " Glad I was born, raised, and live in the South as opposed to up East or West Coast " indicator.
     
    I was getting a wif of what you were stepping in until the snake reference then you lost me.
    Love the rifle but the cream colored Limey scope ruined it for me🤣.
    Just fucking with you, got a pinched nerve in my lower back and I am about as much fun right now as an asshole with no opening after a go at the all you can eat buffet.
     
    What is on target….

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    I thought I saw C/CB at 2300 and made an adjustment .1D. Maybe I can go to .2R.

    Doesn’t matter now I have this giant engorged nutsack, I won’t be comfortable at the bench and will fuck up the next 15.

    Fire for effect from here on out.
     
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    Are you serious about human form targets in Massachusetts? If so, that will be my daily, " Glad I was born, raised, and live in the South as opposed to up East or West Coast " indicator.

    Wouldn't doubt some new law about such. Sadly.

    Glad we made an escape out West to Oregon, although Oregon is also falling. Just. Washington State just went nuts anti-2A recently...
     
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    Pulling this thing out of the safe I had to move two rifles.

    The M40 was like a dainty child’s toy. Elegant and refined.

    The LMT MWS was weightier and muscular. I generally think of it as a pig.

    Than I grabbed this thing and I thought there was a small child in the safe holding the rifle inside.

    Can’t believe it’s heavier than the MWS.

    Shot 16. Seems Zen intact.
     
    Twenty Rounds fired.

    I marked what I could be pretty sure of.

    I think I am going to see a solid beatdown at 1600-1700 in the black, just outside the orange center.

    Good thing about this target is the impacts in white should stand out.

    I see none.

    I will go down range now and see 15 rounds hit the crossing of grid lines and were hidden misses.
     
    Targets……..Up!

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    Three inch circle, 300 yards, twenty touching black.

    I think I can say this gun shoots 1MOA twenty rounds long.

    Clean backer to show no wild ones I hid.

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    The barrel is Bartlein.

    21 inch

    9.5:8.75 LHGT

    Carbon Steel

    @Frank Green told me personally how this barrel came about one day when we were in Olongapo Subic Bay.

    He was walking across his shop drinking coffee spiked with Ripits wondering if he could have sold the navy barrel linings for the Iowa class in both RH and LH twist for use depending on the hemisphere. His mind being sure Willis “Ching” Lee would have lusted for something similiar during his battle with Karishima.

    Had the technology been available Karishima would have been Dead Right There rather than stumbling away Dead to have some airplane take credit for doing what the thirty plus shot holes “Ching” Lee put through her did.

    Anyway he looked at the pile of barrel blanks and noted one with a glowing blue aura and emitting a “hum” of powerful force. Looking at the list of customers my name was next and he decided that would be mine.

    It was sent to his basement were magical trolls did some finish to it before sending it to LRI.

    Had it been possible this barrel was going to be, IIRC, 1.2 at the muzzle but carbon steel is limited to 1.0 (or something close to that).

    God had told me he wanted me to Parkerize all the steel, so it all worked out perfect.
     
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    Not boding well for todays shooting when you can’t even center the orange dot.

    Good thing is the target doesn’t resemble a human form. I think that’s illegal in Massachusetts as if August 2.

    Our communists realized good Americans were using their heroes images as targets and took offense.
    Move to Texas
     
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    Are you serious about human form targets in Massachusetts? If so, that will be my daily, " Glad I was born, raised, and live in the South as opposed to up East or West Coast " indicator.
    Lived in CA for a couple of years, and local rifle range had same policy regarding “human targets.”

    I just looked up statutes in CA. Not to drag this thread political, but lol… Bill currently in CA legislature…

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