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Hey, brother - don't ever forget that I'm HERE for you, no matter what you need. I'm also here to help all the window-lickers in the back of the bus, because we just can't leave them behind. One day - we're gonna NEED those fuckers on OUR side... Watch this quote wind up on a CNN News feed somewhere... HEY!!! CNN!!!... Lick THIS!!...

@billymagg - this is our shooting range, brother... THIS is the SDTF... I wouldn't kid you about something like this... My brother, @blue109 on the gun... How far you wanna go is up to you, and your gun, man. We can accommodate you...

Oh, I suspect that you might be fukked, brother. See, now you'll have family in Tucson - that's where DM AFB is... and the main shooting range of the crew here,during the shots - is just a tiny bit WEST of there. I think @billymagg wants us to look out for the youngin's - but once billymagg comes out here - he's DONE... First time we hear about it, we set up a "local shoot" - same place, brothers, SDTF, and THEN we hook him for one of the major shoots. I think billymagg don't know what he just got himself into, here... EDIT- SDTF is the Secret Desert Test Facility...

That next piece of information in the story is exactly it, brother. Tracking is looking at what's supposed to be there - and is different. You have to be able to pick out what's different, than what it's supposed to be. Tracking PEOPLE is way different. Toe digs, heel digs, impression depth - tell you alot about what just crossed your terrain - if you KNOW you terrain, which is step 1. You can get to a point where you can look at a sand wash, look at a bunch of prints, and pretty much determine how many of them there were, how much of a load they were carrying, and what speed they were moving at. Impression depth, toe digs and heel digs tell you all that. Step 1 is finding out what's supposed to be there, and that next piece of information in the story is finding what is different, from what's supposed to be there - that's the only clue you're gonna get, tracking something. You are tracking something, and it's gonna disturb nature, when it moves - you'll either see what it disturbed, or you'll miss it. Whether you find it, depends on your perception skills. Miss it, or don't miss it - when it turned a corner or stepped over a rock - it disturbed something. You,... you have to find that something that was disturbed... Broken grass straw, turned branch, missing moss off a rock, twist in the dirt, leaves missing from a tree branch... If it's not right, then it's not right - and something that was an outside force caused it - the wind didn't do it - and that's what you're looking for... Something forced what you're seeing there, on the ground, dirt, grass, terrain... That's your clue - keep going, because you're on the right track... Before you think you'll be a tracking ninja - you need to get into your terrain and you need to find out "what RIGHT looks like..." You need to know your surroundings. Drop you in the north woods of Michigan, and tell you "TRACK!" ... Well, WTF is normal here, man?... Dump you into Afghanistan, and tell you to track people... "Shiit, Bro - this is all ROCK up here at 8k feet - WTF am I LOOKING FOR up here, besides people shiitting in the ROCKS?!!?..." Sounds crazy, but that's all part of it. It's not the same, everywhere, and it depends on what you're tracking, and where you're tracking it. Blood trail from a deer is child's play. It's bleeding. If you didn't find it, it's because you missed the end of the blood trail, whe it piled up into something - because that's what they do. They're dead,know they're dead,and the pile up into the underbrush... Calm down, go back to "last blood" - and start your re-track from RIGHT THERE. If you've already BEEN everywhere else - that deer or orther critter is within 50 yards circumference from that last blood. I guaranteed it - it just piled up so hard, in that last panic, that it buried itself in dirt - and you can't see it... Tracking is a skill - but it's also an artform. I'm definitely not at any "artform" level. That's a different breed of man, right there. I've worked with two people in my entire life that were like that, and it's pretty fucking scary, what they see and know, when they're walking. The one guy (brother) that made the biggest impression on me, and influenced me the most, was a Hopi Indian, and he was an 18C, Special Forces Engineer. For a 5'4" dude that weighed about 170lbs - he was an unstoppable force, all by himself. Lifetime lessons from him, just watching him work, and do what he needed to do. Irwin R. (Ernie) Pohleahla - I hope you read this brother. Search me out if you find it.

If I get one used, and it's a nice rig, I'll lay that thing aside for you, brother. I'll have it pulled, until you could get here - and I'd make sure they know that we only need to pay the bills on it - not make money. Hey, it's my way to talk you into a road trip down here, right?... Come down to Fall Shoot with Eric - leave Fall Shoot with Eric towing a rental trailer with your new RZR 900 on it - back home to you... I'll do what I can, brother, rest assured...

If you're gonna shoot the the exact same hand-loaded brass from a bolt gun AND a semi-auto, or several semi-auto guns, then the Small Base dies are what you should be using. If you were only shooting the exact same brass, through the exact same bolt gun, ALL the time - then you could get away with just a standard sizing die, and just enough to bump the shoulder back, maybe 0.002" at most - and that gun would LOVE that brass. If you're mixing-and-matching a loaded cartridge between a few semis and bolt guns - then the Small Base die is the only true friend that you really have - and it's gonna size that brass down to fit into the most demanding chamber, no matter what the specs are, bolt-gun or AR semi - minimum case dimensions for the brass, but more for minimum case dimensions for the specs/drawings on that specific cartridge - Small Base dies bring that fired brass all the way down to the dimensions of the cartridge, in it's original form - unfired. All the other dies, that "say they're your friend..." - they'll just fuk you over. They like to talk like they can perform, like the hookers in the bar - but they can't do for you what the Small Base die can... She's your bitch, right there, if that's what you're doing... Sorry, brother - had to break it down in terms that made sense, so you could understand it...

If you have a 1:7" twist barrel, then the best factory loaded ammo you can get right now is the Hornady 6mm ARC Match ammo, with the 108gr ELD-M as the loaded projectile. That ammo is a winner, hands down. It's about "badass enough" that I hope my handloads can replicate it, and beat it. If my handloads can't beat it, then I'm screwed, royally. It's unreal ammo for 6 ARC. Right now. This is what everything else has to compete against, and I can personally say it's some pretty badass loaded ammo. I hope I can keep up with it...

Checking headspace with a barrel installed are exactly what headspace gauges do.... Mounted barrel, installed bolt - headspace gauges tell you if you're good, or not good. In-service weapons, and the Field gauge, are few and far between.. . What are you accomplishing here, with this device?...

Same to you, brother - YOU stay safe and healthy, and keep pumping them out. I'm a few weeks out on two more A5 H3 buffers from you, from what I've already seen, over the VLTOR A5 H2s... You have a superior product. You're forcing me to "reposition" some other VLTOR A5 H2 buffers that I already have...

This is the first issue. Why did they want the upper back?... Call Moriarti Arms, and see what's going on here. Ask for "Juliya" and see if she takes the call. This is who you're looking to talk to about your issue:

Get the garbage out of your gun - and I don't care who told you it wasthe "gold ticket" - get the junk parts out of your gun, build a gun with real, no-shiit reliable parts..... Then come in here and tell us what your failures are. We can identify bullshiit parts and junk parts real quick - and it usually hurts "feelings." Building a running gun doesn't have a single thing to do with "feelings", though. We don't care about your "feelings." You want a running gun? Don't get butt-hurt when we tell you that you have bulshiit parts in there, that don't work, and were sold to you on a whim, hypothesis, unproven theory, whatever... Just man up and fix your gun, so you have a running gun. That's the only thing we care about here...

Hydraulic buffers have hydraulics in them, which means they have seals, to seal in the hydraulics. And seals fail over time, and when they do, your gun fails. You have a catastrophic gun failure (it won't cycle after that buffer fails), and your gun won't function at all after that buffer fails. Hydraulic buffers are a stupid reason to build a gun, or build a recoil system - but it's smart from the manufacturer side of the house - when your shiit fails, in your gaming competition that you just took last place in, you have to go back to them, and get another... They just built in their own "if you want reliable, you NEED US!" standpoint. Bullshiit. This isn't about games, and high scores during a competition. This is about a reliable rifle. Period. Build whatever you want, but if you're not a Gamer, then don't build a Play Rifle - build a real rifle, that will work all the time, with whatever ammo you feed it. Hey, once you do that - go build your Gamer Gun to run competitions with, adjustable gas blocks, reduced-weight carriers, all that - and win money on the Gamer Circuit - you might get sponsors to cover parts. Around here, we give not one shiit about a Gamer Gun, High-Points Scores in Whatever Circuit that you're currently Gamer-winning... Just Ain't Care... Please reference 2:09 in this video... This is what you'll see... I've never seen a mechanical buffer fail. Ever. Have tried to kill several, have I failed at killing them. Even militarily, through a very, very high round-count for an individual weapon. There's a simple rule behind this - You Don't Complicate Shiit With Complicated Shiit... If you DO complicate shiit with complicated shiit (like hydraulic buffers), then you better know what the min and max is on the life of those things. And, expect complicated failures,that not many people can diagnose. We can diagnose them here - and do regularly, and laugh when they happen - and when it happens, you need to know - You did this to your self... There's no lifespan on a mechanical buffer - it'll last until you break the buffer bumper on the end of it. Because it's not complicated... Still never been able to break one, and I've tried.

^^^ That's a bad little bastard, right there - I'll vouch for it. I only have one, but I need another. It's worth every penny. I raided this off my 16" Grendel M4, to finish the 18" M16A4 - I need another another one to put back on the Grendel M4...

That had to be a painful one, brother - but possibly expected. H2s are bad. They're not H2Rs, but they're still supercharged liter bikes, "detuned for the street..." They're fuckin' SICK. Kawi requires dealers to put 20 miles on a streetbike before they sell it - part of the build and "Pre-Delivery Inspection" process. I worked at a Kawi dealer and we got one of the H2s. Someone bought it - YeeHaw!~~!~~~ Gotta prep it, and get 20 miles on it, boys!!! I got to turn about 4 miles on it, and we were right beside I-17 highway, north of Phoenix. I ripped it up for 4 miles, but not hard enough to abuse the new-buyers new tires... I went easy, but had some hard roll-on accelerations. That bike gets the blood pumpin'. I dream of being able to rip an H2R one day...

Ooooooh, this one is gonna be a painful (expensive) learning experience... I hope someone chimes in with the POF Revolution reports in the next 36 hours, and saves his ass...

You just became my new Hero...

That makes perfect sense now... I thought you were using those powders for one load workup... I was thinking WOW! That's some crazy range of powders to be using... Varget is great for .308 Win and 5.56 heavies. RL-15 is just about it's twin, too. I switched to RL-15 after the 2012 Shortage... I'm running Accurate 2495 for my .308 Win 178gr ELD-X loads now. I run RL-22 for my .260 Rem, .300 Win Mag, and .338 LM loads.

I LOVE this comment...

That 01 GSX-R 1000 was a monster of a bike, man. They never should have changed it after that, it was a beast.

What cartridge are you loading, brother?... That's a wide range, on those powders right there...

I'm an M-109 ninja, brother. Been building them and hot-rodding them since they came out. I have a 2007 blue and while LE and a 2011 black and orange LE in the garage. Lemme know when you wanna stretch that 300 PRC out a little. I'm about 161 miles from SV. That's a short drive, in AZ...

One thing about the accuracy - if they're all crimped the same way, at the same tension - then once the primer ignites, they'll have that same neck tension and build to the same pressure - before the projectile is launched from the case. If anything, they make ammo more accurate, that way. You'll definitely see more consistent muzzle velocities, if you're shooting with a chronograph. It's just another piece of the puzzle, brother... Plus - you crimp everything that goes through a semi-auto, like Sisco said, and crimping is absolutely mandatory for anything tube fed, like a 45-70 leever gun. If you've ever seen bullet set-back, it's some pretty skeery shiit - and it compacts the powder charge, and spikes the pressure because of that. Bullet set-back is pretty bad through a semi-auto - it would be completely catastrophic if it ever happened in my 45-70, with the 405gr projectiles I load for that thing. It wouldn't be a blown-up gun - I'd have a blown up torso...

Very familiar with Black Tower, brother. I ran one side of the NCO Academy, then crossed over to run the other side. After that, I stood up L CO, 111th - the Terp Company. What a handfull that was. We stood up in 2006, so you definitely heard some of the shiit that those guys started. What a trainwreck. That made me retire, right there, in 2007. Also very familiar with SV Shooting Range - great place to shoot, since everything else out there in the public lands is shut down. Starting in 2010, I was one of the AppleSeed Instructors out there - if there was a course, I was on the firing line, and teaching some history. If you ever went into the local Suzuki dealership - I was the Service Manager. We crossed paths, at some point - inevitable in that small town. I moved up towards Phoenix in summer 2013, and have been here ever since. We'll shoot together, sometime. I have access to shoot out to 2200 yards, so if there's ever anything you want to test out or do, just let me know. If you can basically travel a little west of Casa Grande, you'll make it to my wide-open desert-paradise range.