planeflyer21

Appleseed Shoot...that's where you start. I'm a NRA Certified Instructor across the board, with various other licenses too. IF you can find a NRA First Shots Rifle clinic, those are pretty good but nowhere near what Appleseeds cover. AS focus is on safety and marksmanship basics (and why these skills are historically important).<<<<period The NRA course crams those in with every type of rifle action, how they operate, different types of activities for rifle shooting, etc. Both courses take two days. Both days of Appleseed are on the range. Fully half of the NRA class is classroom time. They held an AS at MSC this weekend. Got a couple of Rifleman scores from the participants. One man got his orange hat, to start helping out with shoots up in Northern AZ. In short, the NRA Rifle class will show you everything about shooting rifles, the Appleseed will have you shooting your rifle. Jon

If it's your property shoot what you want. Here in the desert we're getting shooting places shutdown from shooters littering like pigs on one prong, and the counties giving building permits out around sanctioned shooting ranges on the other. TVs, computers, hot water heaters, glass bottles, plastic bottles, propane bottles and tanks, pallets, boxes, paper targets, usually left behind with piles of brass and steel cases too. Multiple times our orginization SAFE Inc has paid for roll-off dumpsters to clean up these trash piles left by other shooters, labor provided by us, other shooting and hunting orginizations, Boy Scouts. Within weeks piles of trash would be back. Reddington Pass is now shut down for shooting due to irresponsible shooters providing such a great image of the shooting community..."We're all pigs! Enjoy our filthy mess!" Sportsman's Warehouse employees used to go out and clean up Ironwood National Forest shooting areas...but jerk shooters couldn't get the hint. Now Ironwood is shut down for shooting also. If you get caught shooting out there for shooting's sake, it is a $250 fine. IMO shoot what you want. But haul out more than you brought. Jon

This raises all sorts of suspicions with me. First the short: And then the full feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItQ_OD7TqE Jon

The specs Brownell's gives the adjustable LOP for the PRS as 13 1/4"-14 1/2", while the MagPul website states that LOP is 13.8"-14.8". MagPul also adds that the stock is 10.45"-11.45" unmounted. While I ordered the extension at the same time as the stock, I slipped the stock onto the rifle both with and without the extension...it looked stubby extensionless. I'm 5'11" and still have the stock in the middle of the adjustment range. Jon

The PRS is much shorter than you would expect, with the 1" stock extension really not so noticeable. Here's the bugger...the screws that come with the extension are the incorrect head type to mount the PRS. The threads are 1/4-28 fine thread. You can get a screw at your local hardware store but it will not be vented, i.e., doesn't have a hole drilled down the center of the axis. On my 20" Operator I did three things at once: changed to polymer magazines, switched to a LP gas block, and switched the stock out to the PRS. IMO that non-vented stock screw makes just enough back pressure to cause a FTE every 6 or 8 rounds. I really need to get back on that. Jon

Yeah, shepp, I think it is 2 hours until shut-off on my Vortex. Another thing I like about the PSTs, there is an off position on the switch in between each level of illumination. Jon

Love the camo bubba! How do you like that grip? Jon

Ouch! Those are pricey. Jon

Being a cheap ass, I first noticed setback on premium pistol ammuntion...the round that would get rechambered multiple times in the 1911 carry magazines. While I've not noticed it in rifle loads, I'm sure it happens. When we reload/handload ammo, one thing people tend to forget is that as powder charge volume goes down with a given caliber's case capacity (.223 versus .30-06), the percentage of charge variation increases greatly as a percentage with the same deviation in weight. In otherwords, if you have a powder charge of 50 grains in a .30-06 loaded and checked to 1/2 grain deviance (a 1% allowance), that 1/2 grain deviance in a 20 grain powder load (same powder) in a smaller caliber becomes a 4% allowance...a potential 8% spread between high and low. If you're loading at the maximum tolerance for a caliber, you are already pushing that envelope. Add into that bullet setback and your pressures from round to round may be a source of extreme frustration. Has anyone done a "setback experiment"? Jon

That's funny. I don't recall any issues with A2 grips long ago. But after having shot many rifles with better engineered grips and grabbing an A2, it was all yucky and stuff. Jon

Whew...I thought it was just me. My first Appleseed I forgot tools to adjust sights with, couldn't even aim with Kentucky windage. Once someone located a small enough screwdriver to adjust my rear sight, it was 6-year-old's wiggly tooth loose. Forgetting match ammo is still better than remembering the wrong caliber ammo. Interestingly, both the LAR-8s shoot low/left with the 147gr ammo when zeroed with the 175gr (or if zeroed for the 147gr the 175gr is high/right)...by 5" or more. What fancy illuminated reticle scope did you get, that doesn't shut off automatically after a couple of hours? Jon

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Shop press and voila! Jon

That pic's too dark R...better take several more in the light and post them again. Jon

That's great they work on guns too! <laughs> 800' won't make much of a difference. We're at half of Mt. Washington's height when we shoot out in the desert here. Drop isn't affected that much. Jon

$100 won't even cover the brass for one round...or the powder. Jon

I don't even care about that (much). That laws are set up so that he can break the law, then cry it isn't his fault due to a "disability" and SUE for wrongful termination is beyond words. :909: :whip2: Jon

Just made it up to identify those taking the science of being impaired to new levels. http://news.yahoo.com/fired-oregon-officer-alcoholism-disability-175551436.html My Mom, Aunt, and Grandfather were in a major carwreck in the late 1940s. He had his right leg amputated...twice...once below the knee and once above the knee. Mom's mangled leg was only saved by a Veteran surgeon well versed in the fairly new science of grafting. Both worked their asses off. His hobby was maintaining a HUGE garden...seriously large. Some of the "urban farming" projects I've seen aren't as big as his garden was...and he did it with a plastic leg or on crutches (his fancy wooden legs were for business or formal occasions). She raised three kids mostly on her own, working low-paying office jobs usually, having to elevate her legs after work daily. I know plenty of other people that have "made due" with physical and mental maimings over the years also. This whole "it isn't your fault your lame (choose your definition)" is really getting old. We need to bring back ass whipings, tar-and-featherings, and stocks. Jon

:laughing4: <laughs> <lmao> Jon

THAT is a keeper! Jon

Anybody want to pitch in on one? Jon

Yup BLKSHEEP...that's the kind my wife always got. And the back of your brain says "How does someone so small hold so much?!" Jon

3 1/2#s is very doable. Jon

How difficult is it to add additional firearms to the trusts? Jon

Excellent! Those guys are great over there. I ordered during hurricane Katrina and got it in about a week. I went MOA, just because it's what I'm used to. Jon