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Damn, Albro - you have some serious skills AND badass machinery running!!! WOW!!!

This is epic - and oh, so true...

We're gonna see if @billymagg blows his 0600 deadline tomorrow morning, and actually delivers pics...

You have about 3 years, from now, and you'll "like sleeping in to 0600..."

Did that for too long. Tired of it. ^^^He knows what I'm talking about... 0600 is fine for me these days... @billymagg, just so you know...

So, here's the deal. I'll rip down the .224 Valk this weekend and rebuild it as a 6 ARC. That's really just a barrel change on the Valk. Next Tuesday, the MangetoSpeed V3 gets here, so I'll gather initial zero info and ammo-accuracy info next weekend. Midway has some teaser pricing on the Magnetospeed for $339. Haven't been to Midway in a long time, so I logged in, updated all my info, put that fucker in my cart, and proceeded to checkout. I check shipping choices on it before I logged in and did all that update shiit-2 days, $20. Cool. Whilst going through the checkout process, I notice that there's no place to check or select your Method of Shipment... and it defaulted to a $10.98 shipping charge, with an estimated delivery range of 25~28 August... You read that right. So, I back up, edit the cart, and go back through the whole process again, from that screen that tells me 2 days for $20. And I go back in the cart again- and you cannot select an alternate (or ANY) shipping method. No problem. I've already had it with shooting this thing, and I'm NOT waiting until the end of August to start this process - I need to start it when it's hot as fuk here, now, so I can see how much this changes in the next 6 or 7 months, when I can get the cool-weather data. I don't need to wait until NEXT summer to gather my hot-weather data. That would be ignorant. So, I come back here, click the Brownell's Sponsor link (like a responsible .308AR'er should do - get clicks for the forum), and I search the MagetoSpeed V3 in a hard case - $380, my price is $360. Fuk it, let's go. I select 2-day for $20, pay $380, and Brownell's will have my chrono here next Tuseday. And next weekend, I can fire this damn thing already. Larry Potterfield - you should have had other shipping methods available. My time is worth way more than the $21 savings you had that device listed for. Brownell's just kicked your ass again. Now that my is over - I'll be shooting this 6 ARC, at least in temporary form, on the morning of Sunday, August 9th. I hope it's 115*, too. Need to grab that shocking "hot-as-fuk" weather data and performance numbers. Full chrono data and full Kestrel weather data will be reported. Next target to knock down is 8lbs of Accurate 2520 powder. I'm down to about 2lbs of it now, maybe a little more. I have a source, and it's pretty good right now.

Damnit. I knew I should have saved those damn things.

I did forget that... But, I recall now! Two schools for me at Devens, one was a "tactical training course" for assignments to field units, as an intel dude. Radios, generators, tents, 292 antennas - that stuff. Next time there was not long before they shut it down, BNCOC in '91.

Indeed, you can. That's a viable solution, too.

You're really gonna do that to us? Are you serious?!!? Not even a picture here to go with this awesome story?! I'm recommending you for remedial training, starting a 0600 tomorrow morning...

Damn. You guys are both MI. I knew right away on Nam62, when he posted that patch. Rex, that shocked my, 05D, huh? Pretty damn cool, guys. I signed up as a 98C, SIGINT Analyst, and realized real quick that I hated Intel Geeks. I gravitated my way towards Infantry and SF units, and stayed my happy ass in those as much as I could. One tour I couldn't avoid was "another trip back to Korea" and I ended up in 3rd MI BN (AE). These days its a Beechcraft RC-12, that looks like a flying porcupine, and the DeHaviland Dash 7. All told, between 4 tours and 10 TDYs in Korea, it's eaten up 6 solid years of my life. 73 months, to be exact. When we first got the Dash 7s, they were painted exactly like this... These days, I've heard that they paint them different.

@Bear,I have a feeling you're gonna fit in just fine around here...

What is your shooting goal, here? 1000 yards is your starting point? Or is it Home Defense? Maybe you're hunting deer, and the longest shot you'll ever take will be 185 yards? What's your goal for this gun? That's the most important question that needs to be answered. Can't offer you ANY valid advice without your input on that part of the equation. By the way - a 10lb .308AR is pretty fucking light. A loaded 20-rd mag weighs 2lbs, just on it's own. Magnified optics in a decent mount is another 2lbs. My experience.

That's a whole bunch of fucked up words that you combined into things that don't exist. What country do you live in? ESL, by chance? (English as a Second Language)... PLEASE start your own topic about what you're trying to do here. The thread you jumped into was already 4 years-ish old. I look forward to your new topic. I hope you're not a troll, or a fake-bot, working your way in here. We'll find out shortly. I'm going out on a limb here, and predicting...

I use Vet Wrap to hold that poop down - and I do it, too. It comes in colors, including Woodland Camo. That's my cheekrest on my .300 Win Mag, right like that. In the old Army days, you cut a chunk off your Sleep Mat off, and used 100mph tape to fix it to your buttstock. Vet Wrap is alot easier.

Brother, you jsut turned a lesson into a Mantra. 1.5 guns should REALLY be 2.0 guns. I think you just made 1.5 guns into 3.0 guns, if I read your post right...

Oh, Damn... You're gonna be FUN around here!...

I was a Varget-only guy before 2012. Once Sandy Hook happened - I kid you not - Varget disappeared, and I had to find a suitable replacement. I found RL-15. I've never turned back. It was my .308 Heavy-load powder, until recently. It's still my 5.56 Heavy-load powder, and that won't change. My 5.56 loads are dialed for my 18" guns, and they're badass. I recently switched up my .308 Heavy-load powder at the same time I switched projectiles. Before, I was only loading the Hornady 178gr HPBT Match projectile. I've switched over to the Hornady 178 ELD-X for all my precision .308 Win loads now, and forever. It's a far superior projectile. With that, my powder changed to Accurate 2495. I couldn't be happier.

I had that feeling when the first one hit - that was a commercial airliner inside a recently-declared No Fly Zone. It wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. I knew then that it was no "accident." When the second plane hit the other tower, I knew I was right.

Your wife is yelling THIS right now...

I'm running RL-22 for my .260 Rem, and it LOVES that powder. Grab a pound of that and play around. From a 20" barrel, I'm getting 2650fps with Hornady 147 ELD-M projos. 43.0 grains was my most accurate charge, before I started seeing pressure signs, before the next accuracy node that I would have hit. I know for positive that they switched over to RL-15 for the Mk 262 loaded ammo. That was the Mk 262 Mod 1 change. I think I remember hearing about that for the M118LR revisions, too, after they discovered it on the 5.56 heavies. I'll go back through the power point slides from Doc Roberts, about that.

You may not realize it, but you actually subsidize what it takes to keep me on payroll. I actually get paid nothing - but it takes alot to keep me here when I go off on a dumbass - and that's where the "value" comes in... I've launched some pretty legendary ass-reamings here, which further caused Drew to directly shiit a Rabid Monkey straight out of his ass... It's everything the other guys here can do, just to keep me around... and NOT be Banned...

Yep, they're calling 1:8" twist these days, for the heavies. 103gr ELD-X (.512 G1), 105gr HPBT (.530 G1), and 108gr ELD-M (.536 G1) from Hornady are pretty badass. My 6 ARC is a 1:7" twist, so I'm gonna shoot the heaviest thing that I can find for that bastard. Right now it's the 108 ELD-Ms. 200 factory loaded rounds already waiting, and another 300 to load and "determine my handload..." After that, I'm switching to the 110gr A-Tips. They're rollin' a .604 G1, which is just crazy. The .243 Win bolt gun I have is a 26" heavy barrel, but it's a 1:9 1/8" twist. I think I'll stick to the 95gr stuff for that, which are still good. I'll try some heavies in it, and see what it likes. If it doesn't like any 103, 105, or 108gr stuff - I'll just load that up and shoot it through the 6 ARC.

New 6.5G BCG arrives tomorrow. I'll build this thing this weekend. Well, I'll rip down and rebuild the Valk, into a 6 ARC. For the upper, it's just a barrel replacement, so it's nothing to do. Replace a different BCG, load a different mag... Done. Shoot groups, or re-zero a scope to shoot real groups. That's minor. If I can get my hands on a MagnetoSpeed V3 before this weekend, I'll shoot the initial shot strings this weekend. Yeah, when it's 116* here. FML.

I'll find out, brother. You know for a fact that I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. 1.5 mils of difference at 850 yards is HUGE! 50* to 105* is huge, too. And it's in the Relative Pressure... "Station Pressure" in my Kestrel... Sam at Panhandle Precision explains this much better than I can... Kudos to Sam. GunWerks blows this out, too, in a written article - but he breaks it down to Density Altitude. DA is a combination of pressure, temp, and humidity, into one number - and it's an important number: https://www.gunwerks.com/blog/long-range-pursuit-2/post/shooting-under-pressure-22