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Just so everyone can name another song other than 'Ride, Captain, Ride'. Some nice scenery here...

Yeah, seeing the title, I though this might be from a kinky porno vid. It is a bit kinky...

Kinda lays to rest the whole concept of 'bulletproof'. Big, fast bullets.

I kid... Hard to believe these cost less that $3.00 to make in the 1940s. Surviving examples go for 2-3K, Vintage Ordnance makes a reproduction. Rifled instead of smoothbore, still a bit spendy.

I had a similar deal with flitecontrol buck in my S-12. One hole out to about 12 yards with muzzle nut attatched, patterns indistinguishable from regular buck with polychoke attached. I don't know if it's the collet 'petals' or passing through the cutts compensator, but it does make a difference. Only use the polychoke for sporting clays now.

Wait... was he momentarily waving a french battle flag there at about 46 seconds?

Remember, short, controlled bursts... I have GOT to get down to Knob Creek one of these days.

Not the a Nimitz, but still a fairly scary collection of hardware. Battle group Alpha, Iowa, Midway & supports. The numbers are kinda scary (regardless) if you convert them to handloading measurements. Heaviest loads I ever rolled were 405 gr 45-70 using about 48 grains of powder. 16"/50 WWII AP 'load' burned 4.6 million grains of propellant to send a 18.9 million grain projectile downrange. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-and-hear-the-last-time-the-battleship-wisconsin-f-1707956997 http://warshipsimages.com/7515/iowa-class-16-gun-vs-armor-taken-from-ijn-sh

Carry ammo and load magazines. In answer to OP scenario: Beer budget-Mosins. Champagne budget- M92 or M85NP (with tritium D/I RMR instead of Fastfire RDS, no switches or batteries to worry about) Small enough for youngsters & the petite to shoot. I can't say if mine is typical, but it's utterly reliable (except with thermold mags) with every ammo I've tried, good for a head shot at 100 yards & probably holds 'minute of man' accuracy out to 200-250 yards. Groups here were at 50 yards.

Getting out of bed is dangerous. Staying in bed is dangerous: most folks in this country die in bed... What to do? LIVE!

Happy Birthday Wolverine!

Vortex Crossfire II 6-18x44 AO, BDC reticle.

Or empty brass.

Yes. Be careful if you shop for 'compliace parts', those need to be US manufacture.

Seems like I remember something about maintenance-free batteries having some arsenic alloyed into the lead.

There's also the FAB/Mako T-pod. Big: fill large hands nicely. A bit pricey, also available with a light (I believe it's 100 lumens, momentary switch has to be held in) or housing to attach your own light. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can grip it too low, hitting the lock buttons to de-couple the halves & drop the legs. Just need to train with it more, maybe. Watch out for counterfeits with these, too.

Nice!

The only time you can have too much ammo is in a house fire. (Or, when it's time to move...)

I'll probably go with a pre-built upper for now. Figure out barrel replacement when the first barrel 'shoots-out' (won't hold MOA/sub-MOA, give it to my nephew, he'll be tickled). I'll have to do some research on BHW barrels too. Dual reticle Shepard scopes are interesting, I've always thought any kind of range-finding reticle on a variable-power scope should be FFP. 3-9 POSP (not IP-21) for PSL is a good example. Bears more looking into. Spacehog, maybe you just happened to get a lemon. Hope you can get it sorted out with mfg. 1-8 twist sounds like the best compromise to work w

Got invited to a prairie dog hunt next summer up in South Dakota. Sadly, nothing I currently have is really appropriate for plinking such little targets out to 300 or more yards. So maybe it's time for another AR upper. I'm thinkin' 18"- 20" barrel with 1:8 twist & 223 Wilde chamber (so I can still hit something with cheap 55gr fmj, smite small critters out to maybe 350 yards with 50-55 gr stuff [might spin little 40 grain pills apart?] and reach out a bit further with 75-77 gr stuff for bigger, tougher 'varmints'. RRA has a plug & play 20" 1-8 upper that's supposed to be goo

Happy Birthday!

Practice your Tueller drills.

I have to agree that most of their stuff is overpriced. Albion is spendy, but is supposed to be about the best 'production' large cutlery. Love their Gallowglass. Arms and Armor is supposed to be pretty good too. I've been seriously thinking about their hollow-ground Henry V, (big fan of type XVIIIs & wish I could find an old Angus Trim AT-1557) but for the money, I'll almost certainly end up getting another rifle (and optics & mounts). A/A Henry V: Someone who knows what they're doing with AT-1557, I'd probably look like Van Gogh at the 22 second mark.

Cough, sputter... You owe me a keyboard, Dad!