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If you are going to go for AE, and I would suggest that you do then tapering into the study for that might be good too. Drill General hard....and integrate a bit of study for the AE. I gave AE a full month and really sweated that exam :-). Bill

There is a chirp image avail that is actually a live cd, so you boot the computer off CDROM or thumb drive. https://sourceforge.net/p/chirplivecd/wiki/Home/ That gets around some of the issues folks may have. Bill

I get totally what you are saying and as an adult somehow I am driven to the 98-99 percentile. College classes WERE 95% or better was A, I think they backed off that. But to hit a for sure 95 a hell of a lot of 98-100 sure help :-). I have a friend who is into MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) tho, he will hammer a MOOC for a week and absorb a lot of it and pass with say a 75-80%, then move on to the next class. He is IMHO a truly brilliant guy and really quick to be up onto a new device or protocol. Some of the ones he is hammering out are preq for something with a lot more meat in it too :-). Bill

The "A and C" example is just a general "how to do better at tests" hint :-). I am a VE but I really do not have time to help out much. It is somewhat a shame that some tests involve subtle attempts to trip up the test taker so that getting a good score is a combination of knowing the material (what the test is supposed to be grading) and seeing how good the test taker is at taking tests :-). Fortunately for Hams your score does not matter a bit. Bill

Overall I think there are test taking skills. Another thing I forgot to mention is watching out for A being right, and C being right, and D being "A and C" :-). 2 weeks would be a heavy lift to really absorb the maths, absorbing the maths is good really but a heavy lift in 2 weeks probably. But drilling all the question questions and just totally blowing off the math will get the job done, and the only people who ever see your score are at the test site :-). The test result is purely binary really :-). Pass/Fail....but General and Extra to a degree build on the base from learning all the Technician material. The question pool for Extra is a lot bigger and the test is 50 questions, I sweated Extra a LOT more :-). There is a place to look online to see when your call sign is assigned, it took me about a week as I recall, and that was in 2013 Bill

KD8VUV here :-). Took Tech and General same day. Had really studied Tech hard and gotten well into General. I am a 98%-100% guy on tests, that is my goal and I achieved it. Took another month to study for Extra. I used the online study and drilled about 1/2 hour a day. Some actual learning, some rote memory. One clue I found is that if stumped "the longest answer is often the correct one". And on forward resistance of diodes "if it starts with G the answer is .3, the others are .7".....created that one on my own :-). Germanium is the "G". :-). Check not only your answers but also check how you have filled out the answer sheet, it is one that you darken in ellipses...people will get one off than miss all the subsequent ones. I have helped with the tests, and honestly most people pass. Most places you can pay and re test, the next test will be different questions. You can elect to skip the math too.

Make sure you do not inhale those ones .001 and in that range :-). A human hair is .003 or so depending on color :-).

I ordered 3 triggers and got them way quicker than I’d hoped :-). I agree it is crazy out there as far as finding in stock parts or reloading components. Bill

Honestly I have had some of them about a year, but I just put them on, sight in, and leave them alone, my uses do not find me adjusting elevation for other ranges once sighted in. There are some avail that have a huge knob to tighten them down, the one pictured with the flat head screw is a lot nicer, personally I would never buy the one with the knob. Bill

I read a 400 page thread on ARFcom where people who actually owned the $2500 thing posted and nobody ever measured one to see if it was over the 13.5 "length of pull". I am not going to go back and read 200 more pages ;-). Nuttin about that thing made me want to sell $2500 worth of plasma to get one ;-).

Ordered up one of these, they get decent reviews for the most part. Needs a different mount for co witness but that is not a primary concern to start with. Primary Arms SLx Advanced Rotary Knob Microdot Red Dot Sight - FDE

I am really fond of the UTG sights And a Tasco TRS-25 co witness with them....using the large aperture as a ghost ring pretty much. Got the tailhook ordered, ordered some ASC 15 rounds mags in FDE, ordered three of the LaRue MBT-2S triggers, ordered a Kaw Valley linear brake in FDE. So all the parts should be ordered, some are here.

Correct, will use FDE Tailhook 2.

Got a bunch more stuff ordered. Faxon 12" gunner profile barrel Aero precision BCG M-LOK rail covers, Type 2 Magpul hand stop.

Wife has been saying she wants an AR. Wants something "not everybody has". Lined up some parts to build her something unique :-). Aero M4E1 lower (picking up today) Aero M4E1 stripped upper (on order) Aero 12" qunatum rail and BAR nut (on order). Will use black rail and FDE furniture with FDE M-LOK rail cover type 2. Thinking of using a KAW Valley linear comp to make sure muzzle is clear of 12" rail :-).

Kind of thinking the 90 grain GMX might be a good option to create a barrier blind round maybe.

Looks like Graf and sons has brass too.

That is a good way to do that, I had a couple ideas rattling around but this one will work fine :-).

GA Precision. It shipped. Bill

Thinking a little on muzzle brakes. Most if not all barrels are coming 5/8-24 thread. That leaves us with mostly 308 brakes. Another option is to take a 5.56 brake and open up the bore dia. For a couple of my projects I am cutting the muzzle threads myself. Surefire makes a break but it technically is a 6.5mm brake. https://www.surefire.com/products/suppressors-division/muzzle-devices/socom-muzzle-brake/?sku=SFMB-65-5/8-24 I'm really a devotee of the cheaper Surefire procomp.

Ordered some brass, that was in stock. Dies from Optics planet, estimated 3-5 days, shell holder. I have pretty much settled on 10.5-11" In for a penny in for a pound, to 300 yards the difference between 11" and 14.5 is not huge enough to pull me away from the original concept of a short light setup :-). Load data is here, posted it in the master thread too, recommend downloading it because it will only be there until the next Hornady manual comes out. Faxon barrel and Brownells BCG showed up. Bill

Posting the Hornady data here. They dropped in bolt action data too, not sure if it was there before, the bolt gun data goes to 62,000 PSI. https://www.hornady.com/support/load-data/ I would recommend saving the data because they only leave it posted there until the next manual comes out I think.

Heard a story from a guy who was a truck driver once, he saw some ladies of that persuasion working the lot, then they went into the bathroom, lady trucker he knew went in there and 30 seconds came RUNNING back out of there, he asked her what happened and she said the lizards were using the sinks as parts washers hehe..

Yea those are still avail, about ready to grab a few, I'm not into keymod but but I'd settle I guess :-). The one they decided to make instead is a lot heavier, and they do not make an 8" as far as I can tell. The one I have must be a 10" tho by the look of it.

Using the Hornady ballistics calculator gives a better perspective.