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Which Kroger? I usually go to the one at 70/Appling, but sometimes end up at Kirby Whitten. Both are almost always out of toilet paper, but usually have some bread and meat (small or big packs). Bread was thin early on, so tortillas became my new bread for a while. Meat can be hit or miss. I don’t eat a lot of canned stuff and have stocked up on frozen vegetables, which are still usually available. I haven’t been in 10 days or so, so maybe all that has changed.

Wow, next week Chuck’s gonna be debating whether to get a Glock 17 or 34.

I may try to get it re-blued someday.

Will do. I would sell my 5.5 but it’s so beat up I would be ashamed to take any money for it.

LOL

Exactly. Property values increasing and more property being developed = increased tax revenue without a rate increase. Ya’ll keep those rate increases and mad growth and liberals moving in and conservatives moving in and traffic jams and hour commutes and higher appraisals and higher cost of living in Nashville. I guess living in Shelby County does have a couple perks.

This is my favorite paragraph. I can just imagine the howling coming from die-hard AR fans. Much thought has been given by the conference to the subject of semi-automatic actions for scout rifles. If a semiautomatic action were made which was sufficiently compact and otherwise acceptable, it should certainly be considered, but at this time there is no such action available. The whole concept of great rapidity of fire in a rifle has been weighed and found, not exactly wanting, but somewhat inconsequential. About the only circumstance in which a rifleman might need a volley of quickly repeated shots would be in the unfortunate and unexpected event of a "house clearing." Such a problem mightarise for a lone rifleman but the chances are very low. The primary purpose of a rifle is a first-shot hit, whether the target is game or a human antagonist. Semi-automatic fire does not assure this. As a matter of fact it sometimes detracts from it by letting the shooter believe that if he misses with his first shot he can always make up with a second. This is a bad attitude for a rifleman. As a result of these deliberations all prototype scouts will be bolt-actions unless and until something new in the way of the semi-automatic action appears.

I don’t agree with everything he wrote, but I sure enjoyed reading it.

EXACTLY. He didn’t rule out a semi-auto, but felt that none available would meet his needs. A standard AR sized rifle wouldn’t chamber a big enough round and an AR-10 sized frame would make the gun too heavy. Firepower and capacity were not important; handiness and practical accuracy were paramount. His essay about the rifle goes into lots of detail: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2014/10/2/throwback-thursday-the-scout-rifle/

I have a 5.5" that looks like it was recovered from the Titanic and I have my dad's 6.5" three screw model. My favorite is the 4 & 5/8 version. There's something about the ejector rod shroud being flush with the muzzle that's just cool.

Which ACOG? I'm not an ACOG expert, but I thought most were straight-power. I don't think Cooper would be a big fan of a LPVO, depending on how variable we are talking about. Cooper's original goal for the scout concept was a general-purpose bolt action, compact, lightweight, handy rifle with a forward mounted intermediate eye relief 3x (max) optic and he mentioned that 2x may be even better. His biggest reason for mounting forward was so the shooter could see the entire countryside as well as the crosshair on target. He reasoned that this mandates a low magnification to reduce disparity between the two eyes. This setup, in Cooper's opinion, allowed the fastest sighting arrangement possible. He mentioned other benefits as well--lower scope mounting, no pinching when operating the bolt, stripper clips can be used, and single-round loading while staying on target is easier. While he may have adjusted his goals or opinions over the years, everything I've read about him leads me to doubt it. I don't believe he would find a 1-6 or even a 1-4 very useful on his scout concept.

Just for clarity, do you have a .223 caliber rifle or a .257 caliber rifle?

Nobody said they were smart Marines.

I know a Marine who said when he and his buddies got bored in Iraq, they would have a big game of taser tag. I’m glad those guys are on our side.

Some manufacturers market flatpoints and truncated cone toward competitive shooters who have to knock down steel. A flatter bullet is less likely to ricochet or deflect off a steel popper than a round nose when hit at an angle or on the edge, or so the theory goes. I don’t necessarily buy this theory, but I know from experience that edge shots and glancing hits can fail to drop steel (especially when shooting minor), so FP and TC bullets may have a small advantage.

If I see a deal on a .40 I like, I may pick one up. .40 ammo didn’t vanish like 9mm did.

I’ve been shooting a G24 in USPSA Limited division for the last seven or eight months. It’s been massaged and I have it set up “just so.” It is indeed a shooter.

Some jacketed hollow point pistol bullets have a copper base instead of exposed lead, like many jacketed round nose and flat points. This can reduce fouling.

What rifle

If I ever get tired of shooting handguns, I’m gonna learn to play a guitar. That probably won’t happen, but that’s my plan.

The guy earned it.

Damn, a first class ticket was worth its weight in gold on that flight.

CZ 455 and a Ruger Mk II bull barrel. Both will shoot the lights out.

That Clark Kent fellow is the only guy that can do that.

Gotcha. My bad on the confusion.