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Let me be the first to congratulate JCoop in making Master with the half gun! CCP that is. I believe we now have a 6 gun master on our hands! I just hope his head will still fit in his car for the ride home! Congrats bro!

I've not seen any turkey posts on here yet. I know its 2  weeks, 6 days, and 17 hours from today but, I'm a little excited. Gonna make some slate calls in a few days. Doing a few things around the house until opener.

Guess they don't like paying their fair share :up:   http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/californias-carls-jr-says-so-long-golden-state/

This actually isn't how I planned on doing this, but I misread the instructions for doing it the way I did want and ended up with this. However, the more I look at it, the less disappointed I am with how it turned out. The green on this is actually closer to Magpul foliage, but my iPhone makes it look a bit blue.

Remind me not to piss you off.

Well Joe you'll be glad to know me and my big head made home. Thanks guys, one more check mark on the bucket list.

Since you brought up Instagram, here's a video that the younger guys might appreciate if their wife is an Instagram nut.   [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKi-o4rHw[/media]

Awesome stages today, a gazillion ways to shoot it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhQ3L6Z0dM

Well, I suppose I can add one more thing here. Back in 79, I attended Pennsylvania Gunsmithing School and a good part of that 18 month full time school was all about building custom rifles from blanks. Once all the physical attributes of the custom rifle's owner were properly converted to stock dimensions such as trigger pull length, drop of the comb off the line of sight, butt plate pitch and drop, the final test was simple. The rifle's owner was instructed to stand at a ready rifle position with a visual target in mind, close his eyes while looking at the target. Shoulder the rifle in one swift move and open his eyes. If the rifle "fit" him, he should be pretty darn close to have overlaid cross hairs on the target. A comfortable cheek weld at line of sight becomes a bit more prevalent for Trap/Skeet/bird hunters since time on target is in seconds. Not so much for deer hunters. I prefer a low as you can go scope on a rifle in classic Weaver rings simply because they are light weight and can be quickly screwed off the bases with the back edge of a knife to get at irons. You can throw all sorts of money at QD rings but Weavers work on everything. If I were to mount them on big kickers, put a dab of basic rubber cement in the ring saddle before you tighten em down. I tested that out on a Win 70 375 H&H that would clover leaf factory ammo consistently out of a cold barrel and the scope never budged. 2 extreme examples of a high comb offering good line of "scope sight" check welds are here in these 2 I built years ago.

Guys, I greatly appreciate all the comments. I do think I've gotten a few pointers from you.   And as to the title of my post...well, I've backed off on that. For now.   Thru a bunch of hit and miss adventures with different icons, I've found my way around enough to do the things I've been doing previously.   I'll never be as tech informed as the majority of you, and I can live with that.   Thanks for all the help and advice.

My guess is either: Or And since you said it can hold more than five and go for infinity...I am leaning towards the second. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just closed the deal on one!!   My first MG....looking forward to it. 

I think mebbe next weekend I may be going to OKC with some buddies from church. Let's party! I have a little semi-auto 12g I haven't had a chance to try out yet. And a laptop to destroy. :-D

You should really look into the Ruger Precision Rifles.  Guns and Leather had one in 308 a week ago.  For two rifles, it would likely save you about a thousand dollars and a great amount of time.  

You get none (opportunities) that do not benefit Leadership.   Current Leadership must be changed to change any of the limits currently placed on your Rights.

Fun match today.

  She will be there for everyone to shoot.

Brownells alluded to help from Nodak Spud with the new retro lower on another forum. Prices about the same as Nodak or McKay, less wait though :). I plan to do a late 60's build soon. Just wish they'd have gone grey phosphate instead of black on the lowers.

I love seeing them out in the fields year round, but have never gotten the bug to Turkey hunt. That's all I need is another hobby! :lol:

He couldn't have done it without my training.......what, I held the timer that counts

Are they going to make the furniture available too? That has been the difficult to find part in my understanding.

Got one too, same handle as on here.

I listened to it long enough to hear them rip off ACDC and Metallica. Not a bad song, just made me want to hear the previously named bands.

I tolerated about twenty seconds of that, definitely not my musical genre.

I have one.   www.instagram.com/dtv_tactical_innovations

I use it but mostly just to look at pics of custom polymer pistols that are on Instagram but not on their website...

Art Linkletter would be so proud......

If I were to hunt with that 30-30, I would get a 2X7 32mm scope and set it up on Weaver rings. Use lows or medium height rings which ever get the objective as low over the barrel as you can get without touching. Reason for this set up is the 2 power will give you such a wide field of view (way better than most any 3X9) in most 30-30 ranges that it will be very easy to pick up anything as soon as you shoulder the gun. The low mounted scope enhances the fast check weld and target acquisition is a snap. Back when I had a store front gun shop, I used to sell Winchester 150 grain Hollow Points. The guys that used that round on deer loved the way it put deer down right where they stood. I think the 170 grain factory loads are just too slow and just don't have the shocking speed of the 150's.

boo.

Best powders I've found for my .308s have been Varget for up to 150gn & IMR3031 or 4064 for 165s & up. My glass preference is Vortex. They're all good & I don't think there's anything better in the price range. SWFA SS are also good for their fixed power glass, but their variables have felt 'sloppy' in my experience & the clarity was no better than average. I'd be looking at a 1:11 twist as a good 'compromise' It'll work with pretty well everything. If you're definitely sticking with tiny 110s 1:12 may be a little better, but you'll hardly see a difference inside 500yds I use Redding & Lee dies & I have no complaints with either. Both are the basic versions. If you're buying fully processed brass, they'd a guy on Facebook called Wes Sage (Sage's reloading supplies) who'd prices cannot be beaten! If you want unprocessed, I think I have a couple hundred spare you can have. Toss me a fiddy & I'll F/L size & wet tumble them for you! ;) The older savage '3 screw' triggers are a cinch to work on. Obviously newer Accutriggers need no intro. Rifle Basix are the go-to replacement & it's $90 well spent for the SAV1 model.

Just as a f'rinstance.... Not including the scope, I put this together for around $600 And this is what it does at 200yds...

This. BRD is an agressive malady for which I have yet to find a cure. Happily. As a couple have mentioned, I work on the trigger first, and it's what gives me the most satisfaction out of any upgrade I perform. I have CMC 3.5lb single stage drop-ins in two guns and love them. Super crisp, great reset. I have both a curved and flat trigger, and like them both. If I had it to do over again, I think I'd go flat for both, as the finger placement is just a little further forward and puts me at the perfect spot for a straigher pull without curling my finger at all. My last build was a cheap/rush job, and a pistol. In that case I wasn't going for a light target trigger, but I didn't want a gritty 6lb milspec either. I went with the ALG coated job for like $55 on sale last fall and am VERY impressed it for the money. Uber smooth, and juuuussssstt a little creep after takeup and before it breaks. The movement is perfectly smooth, however. Reset isn't as nice or short as the CMCs, but it's also less than 1/3rd the cost. The other thing I do on every gun is change the grip. I hate those plastic milspec jobs. I like the Ergo grip with the rubbery texture and mild finger grooves. After that, each gun has its own premise, so optics, rails, stock, etc will be different for each one. Yes... mags and ammo. Lots. Of each. I've come to prefer the Israeli E-Lander steel mags. I was all up in the magpul bandwagon for a long time, but I'm over polymer mags now. I'm moving over to all E Lander mags. They're a little heavier, but go into all of my guns easier, and I've NEVER had a round pop out of a mag due to a little jostling or sitting loaded for a long time. I can't say that about all of my magpuls. Most of all, have fun!

Understand that you have already contacted BRD. There is no turning back and that's ok. You will wake up one morning with bins full of extra AR parts that will necessitate building more varieties of AR's. Just accept the reality and embrace it. ?

Get some training.   Seriously, if you have never shot an AR based firearm now is the perfect time for some instruction.  This will keep you from developing any bad techniques or procedures.   Besides, learning to Run-The-Gun is a real "blast."   :cool:   

I have the M&P and liked it so well I got a 2nd one.   One of them runs a bump-fire stock that is a little hard on the gun (heats it up fast and runs a lot of rounds thru it)  and its taken the abuse without complaint.    I liked those 2 so well I got a M&P 308 to go with them.   They are well made guns at a good price backed by a solid company that will fix it if something breaks (haven't had anything break on the ARs but they were good about a revolver that went bad).    As far as stuff ... I keep it pretty simple.    An optic,  a fore-end grip, a sling are all I need.   My grip has a cheap bipod in it that will do in an emergency.    First recommendation...  even though 223 is cheap, reloading it is cheaper and its a high round count style of shooting.   You might want to look into it.  Its a little intense with having to trim brass but I have been glad to do it.  Then again, I have a hungry gun so its just a thought.   Holding it... fore-end grip and sling grips are worth learning.  There are videos on this all over the web.   Its not difficult, just something you need to see a few times.   Last one ... leave it alone and shoot it for a while.    You can spend another 500 bucks replacing parts and fooling with it,  but the gun is fine out of the box.   If you wanted a 2000 dollar AR, sell this one and go buy a 2000 dollar custom colt.   This isn't really an upgrade gun -- if you get snobbish youll want to replace 50% of it and if you aren't snobbish, leaving it alone is great.

Get a Savage and don't look back.   search for "savage" using my name and you will see a lot of reasons why you want to go with a savage.   If you want to discuss it call me.

I just watched a review that was more like a torture test on these knives, very impressive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSXcwIfeqs

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I have a pretty nice museum of mounts going on in my cabinet, all of which are the see-thru variety, all of which were taken off of Tennessee three hundred dollar bills (336 30-30s) I detest the things passionately. Crap-to-no-cheek weld, wobbly zeroes, at least one screw is ALWAYS cross-threaded/stripped & they look like a broken tooth in a super model's head. Add a padded, tooled leather sling (4"wide) & you've got disgusting in a nutshell.

Actually, a proper cheek weld is of greater concern to me than the other issues.

Dry martinis and hand-rolled cigars.  That's where it's at.

I'm an IT guy, and I have to keep up with the latest MS stuff, so I forced myself to use and get used to Win8.1. I didn't like it at first, but I learned to get around in it. Eventually when I got the interface kinks worked out, I was OK with it.    I did upgrade to Win 10, and I think it is SO much better than 8.1. I know folks that resisted the Win8 upgrade due to the drastic interface change, and they have been able to deal with the Win 10 interface much better. They just jumped right in and figured it out. Mostly that is due to the Start Button being back.   I've not found anything that didn't work after the upgrade. There may be some tweaking to do to make it more user friendly for me. All in all I really like Win 10. It's what Win 8 should have been. This interface is just enough different than Win7 to make it feel more modern, but just enough like it to still feel familiar in getting around.   I'd say give it some more time and see if you can't work out the kinks.What specifically don't you like about it? Perhaps we can help make it more to your liking.

What you should be doing is this.   PRACTICE, PRACTICE AND MORE PRACTICE!   Unload the gun and practice drawing, a lot. And do that for an hour a day every day for a week then at least once a week after that. A lot of muscle memory can be established without firing a single shot. Under stressful situations your body will do all kinds of silly stuff but if you have enough practice your body will default to the muscle memory. You may not be able to hear, have tunnelvision or freeze but if you practice enough to draw your gun and fire from muscle memory that will help combat that. It is not a bad idea to do some exercise to get your heart rate up either. Stress from exercise (I mean REAL exercise) is similar to the effects adrenaline has on the body.   This is my normal practice routine at home. I will make sure the gun is unloaded and no ammunition is around (I am forgetful and recognize accidents do happen). Then I kind of meander in front of the television or talk to my wife. Then I make a mental note of a color. When someone on television is wearing the same color I draw and fire at that person. You normally get a few seconds before the camera goes to someone else so it does put a bit of a rush on you. It will show you if you have any fundamental flaws in how you carry or draw.   And then when you think you have trained enough it is time to contact a professional to attend a class. Cool Hand Luke, Prag and Gotthegoods are all great people who are part of training people every week. It would not be wasted money to learn from them. And before anyone thinks the cost of a class is too much think about this. We all have insurance on our homes or cars in the event of something bad happening. Training is no different in that it is something you hope you never have to use but when you do you sure are glad you had it. And the knowledge you gain is something you will keep forever. That is something that no person can ever take from you.   And finally how loud and obnoxious a trainer is does not relate to how good of a trainer someone is. I would rather have a calm professional than some drill sergeant jackwagon trying to belittle me after I have spent a lot of money. I would feel like a fool if I paid someone to abuse me.   Great advice but I caution anyone against leaving booby traps to intentionally harm someone. You cannot injure someone just for coming onto your property and that is exactly what most booby-traps will do. Not to mention the risk to those I love. But if you injure someone intentionally with a booby trap you will likely be charged criminally and then sued.

Can I have my bag back? :)

So it's a frozen alien.

Either an ex-wife or a frozen alien.

  Everything we produce in the US will be produced in the Gallatin facility.  So for now, that includes the 92/M9 family, the Nano, Pico, PX4 Subcompact, Neos, and the Bobcat and Tomcat pistols.     In addition, we produce the A300 shotguns, and the ARX100 rifle.     And hopefully will be more to come in the future, as we are setting the stage for a ton of capability and capacity at the new "campus".     Would love that, but hear there is like a 3 year wait list!  I have been shooting a few IDPA evenings with the TAP group at Sumner Gun and Supply on Wednesdays.  I have very little experience with that stuff, but had a good time so far at least!   Thanks for the warm welcome.  It is truly remarkable how people are receiving us here in Middle TN.  I almost think I know what it is like to feel like a rock star!   :biglol:       I will mention (if OK by the moderators) that we will be auctioning off a few factory tours next Friday night (for use in the coming few months) at the "Night Out with Station Camp" fundraiser for the Station Camp band.  If anyone is interested in tickets to the dinner and auction, I might know someone who can help...   Steve

Smith and Wesson 686. No more words needed. :love: