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Interesting! I will check that out. Thanks.

? Never thought of the subsonic issue with 300 Blackout.

Can't add anything to what has already been said. Ventura is a POS. Period.

Superior smallies look a lot like the one Magwa got. Same coloration. I have a rock ledge on the front of my property that during mayfly season, we can watch the big smallies patrol by. I have caught a bunch, the problem is getting them up the cliff without damaging them. By the time I would measure them and weigh them, they would be out of water a long time, so I just unhook them and let them go. I have got some big ones, don't know if any reached seven pounds. I will take a look in my files and see if I have any pics of them to post. I lost a hard drive last month with a lot of pictures. We have a ton of blue berries on our property usually, but not this year. Makes me wonder what the bears will do. Bad berry years are when they usually cause problems in the garbage around here.

Missed that writeup. Something like this makes sense for the Blackout, also for the AR10 in 338 Federal. Bigger slow moving bullets are harder to calculate trajectories for. Something like this would take a lot of the guess work out of it.

The reticle zooms, but the bullet compensator program only works at 12 x on the first generation eliminator. The Eliminator III it works at all magnifications.

Man, why didn't someone explain it this way to me when I was young? I ended up with one from the wife zone 30 years ago, but I had twenty years of dating and some of them were B_ts__t crazy! Fortunately I escaped with all my body parts intact.

One other comment: the optical clarity is somewhat disappointing. It is ok, but not to compare to A Nikon Monarch, for instance, or a Leopold. I hope that Burris improves that on the Gen 3 models.

No, Midway, $504. Free shipping.

When Burris recently discontinued their first generation 4 x 12 laser range finding scope, I was able to pick one up at an affordable price. I had a time trying to decide which of my rifles to try it on first. I eventually decided on my Colt HBAR 5.56 for a couple of reasons: 1. This scope is HUGE, it would take away from the handiness of one of my carbines. 2. The bullet drop ballistics are based on rifle barrels, and the velocities found by using them, 3. I had recently developed a hand load specifically for this rifle, and wanted to blue print it's ballistic curvature. First a couple of observations: my shooting that day was a testament on why you should never drink four cups of coffee on an empty stomach and then go to the range. I went at spur of the moment, so the coffee had already been consumed. My groups were, to put it mildly, very disappointing. Also, this rifle made me appreciate how much I have been spoiled lately by Armalite 2 stage triggers. This one will be getting a Geissele when I can afford it. That said, below is a picture of the rifle with the scope and sun hood on it. Told you it was huge! Per manufacturers instructions I sighted in the scope at 100 yards with my hand loads: 21 gr Reloader 15, CCI small rifle primers, 75 gr Hornady BTHP Match bullets. No FTF or FTE, no signs of overpressure. Thanks Night Force for running that load on Quickload. Below is my sight in target, I am embarrassed to say. After getting zeroed in best I could, I started the process of programming the electonics. What the eliminator does, is take a laser distance reading that is picked up by the ballistic computer, which then calculates holdover, and one of 39 orange LED's light up indicating your holdover aiming point. You can see this in the reticle picture below: Burriss provides a list of the most common manufactured cartridges/bullet designs with the data to program in. As I was shooting hand loads, I had to find the closest approximation, which was Black Hills reloads with a 75 gr hollow point match bullet. As my experience with Black Hills ammo is that it is "lively" I opted for one notch below. The code for programing is first you put a "1" in, which stands for an original 100 yard zero. For longer distances you can also use a 200 yard zero with some cartridges,which gives you extra usable range on the aiming system, followed in this case by "60" , which is the bullet drop at 500 yards for this cartridge combination , for a programming number of "160". As I thought my reload would be milder, I put in "161". I turned out to be wrong. Below was my first target at 200 yards. Keep in mind I was not compensating for windage. I reprogrammed for "160" and below was my second target. As you can see, the scope does nothing to compensate for windage, which was blowing from left to right about ten miles per hour. On the Eliminator III, they have windage compensation dots as seen in the reticle picture below. Conclusion: The Eliminator, when properly programed for the right cartridge bullet combination, worked out to two hundred yards. My next effort will be to find a 500 yard range to explore it's accuracy limits. Because of its size and weight, 26 ounces, I don't really see a field use for it, except for a situation where you are in a blind shooting at distance targets at varying ranges, like Prairie dog shooting, or maybe stand shooting out west. You aren't going to want to carry it up and down mountains all day. As a training tool, to get better at distance estimation, and better at learning proper holdover for a specific rifle/cartridge combination, I think it will be very useful. I intend to use it that way with all my rifles, to see what the specific needs are for each one. It also already taught me I need to work on my ability to read and compensate for the wind. At the price I got it for, it was worthwhile.

Just call Sol! Nah, not the best idea, never mind.

Best news up here the worst mosquito season in years has finally died down. Saw the mayfly hatch was actually visible on weather radars down by LaCrosse. That is good means the river is healthy and getting rid of some of the chemical contaminants.Pretty soon the only thing you can catch down there will be Asian carp.They don't eat insects.Up here I will be starting to chase fall chinooks and coho in about four weeks. Nothing as big as Magwa gets out west though.

As long as the competition is only at 500 yards, it should work. If you want to seriously compete, you need to get out and validate it with the weapon and specific cartridge/load you are using, as there will be minute variations that become a lot more substantial at 500 yards.

Dang it Magwa! Now I have the itch to go chase some small mouth. Usually have them around this time of year, but our Mayfly hatch is missing this year so I don't know if they will show up or not. Guess I better go see. No blueberry crop either. Weird summer.

Sized trimmed and primed 100 5.56 and 100 308 brass.

How cold is the water it lived in? If it is a Idaho mountain lake, I am guessing more towards 12 or maybe older. Here on Lake Superior, Cold water really slows down growth rate.

Congrats that is a heck of a small mouth. Good for you man about releasing it. Let he or she have lots of babies.

I started reading this thread and that name popped into my head. Read further down and DNP had suggested it. The only problem is it also sometimes references the guy in the furnace down under. How about a Celtic name? Maybe Brendan?

My only advice: you do that in the bathtub, don't bite the bubbles.

Sweet! I currently have a Burris Fairfield on my AR10T, soon to be transferred to my AR15 HBAR. Burris makes good stuff. Look forward to your writeup.

Nice, I really like the scope. Welcome from Wisconsin.

Time to move on.

Good article we need more like him.

It was, both Midway and Optics Planet were sold out in a day. It is being replaced by the Eliminator 3 which has upgraded distance, reticle, electronics and an improved laser rangefinder. But it is $1200. This I can afford. Will do a comprehensive write up after I get a chance to wring it out.

Man, I came very close to ordering a couple of uppers from them a while back. I am glad I didn't. Thanks for the heads up. Suspicious if they won't answer the phone.