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I'm pretty set on the 88s... After today, I know I'm supersonic to 1150 yards, brother. How far will your 80s get you?...

Oh my Lord, did they make a good one with this one... Single-stack 9mm... So, this thing is the slide from a Glock 43... It's also the longer frame from the Glock 48... It's the 43X... SAME SHIIT that sent the Glock Fan-Bois on FIRE with the 19X. They all wanted a longer slide on a shorter frame, and Glock gave us the 19X - SHORTER slide on a FULLSIZE frame... They lost their shiit over it... The Glock Fan-Bois blew an ass-gasket over the 19X... This is another "X" that they can vent over. Short slide, long frame, ... 43 slide, 48 frame... 43X. SHAZAM!!! GAWD DAYUM, DOES THIS THING SHOOT!!! This is a bad little skinny hooker right here, and it "feels good in the hand." Exactly what you'd want a bad little skinny hooker to feel like. Does it shoot? Gawd Dayum, DOES IT SHOOT!!! What a great little, skinny-girlfriend gun. I'll get more into this one, and 50-yard 5-step this thing. It's pretty damn impressive. I probably put 350 rounds through it today. It's just night-sights away from being my carry gun. (For the record, I don't have that gay silver slide - mine is all black, as it should be..._)

I disagree... The Hornady 88 ELD-M is the Go-To projectile, with CFE 223...

She was a hoot, man - bring her back out before she ships to Basic...

I'll answer this in colors. #1.MOA sucks. Let's move beyond that, though. If it's 100.8 MOA of total elevation travel, that's 50.4 MOA UP and 50.4 MOA DOWN, on a zero-MOA mount. Should be, anyway. My .260 Rem with a Hornady 147 ELD-M handload, pushing 2650fps MV, runs a 100 yard zero. It's 8.5 mils of drop to 1000 yards. Confirmed, at 1000 yards. mils to MOA = x 3.4377. 8.5 mils x 3.4377 = 29.22 MOA. I'd say that your information is pretty damn accurate, and the Hornady 147 6.5CM ammo is pushing 2650fps. No other way around that data. Why would you want to do this? That's setting the very center of your scope up for a 1000-yard ZERO. And that info isn't even correct. You have 50 MOA UP and DOWN with the internal travel of that scope, as stated. You can use a zero-MOA mount, and still make 1000 yards easily. Just dialing. Check it out. I have a LaRue LT-158 mount on my .260. That's 10 MOA built into that mount. MORE than what I'll ever need, with my internal scope adjustments. My load is supersonic to 1500 yards. At that distance, I'm 17.2 mils of drop. For your case, multiply that by 3.4377 to get the MOA equivalent... That's 59.12 MOA, to 1500 yards... You can almost DIAL 1500 yards with that scope, with a zero-MOA mount... You don't NEED a 30-MOA mount, not at all. More on this story... These 6.5s (both Creedmoor and .260 Rem) have a very similar flight path as a good/great 300 Win Mag round. I'm rolling some pretty serious 225gr Win Mag loads, through a bolt gun. I have a 30 MOA mount on that gun. Different scope, but the internal travel limitations on that scope leave me with nothing less than a 500-yard zero. So, it has a 500-yard zero. My goal for that load was to keep it supersonic to a mile. The 30-MOA mount and 500-yard zero keeps that load supersonic to 1800 yards - achieved my goal. Had to work out a 2-mile solution for a .375 CheyTac bolt gun. Best I could do was an EIGHTY-MOA (80 MOA) combination for the scope mount, to keep it supersonic to 2300 yards. It's all holding, after that, to 3520 yards... I think you're reading into this scope-travel and MOA-mounts more than you need to...

This was a fucking great day, brother... Can't thank you enough, just for being in it all... I mean that - and not just because we're brothers, and you're just a 'lil tanner than me...

I can send you a 5mm borescope camera - if you promise to send that fucker back to me... I don't use it often, but when I need it, I REALLY NEED IT... Lemme know, brother.

You beat the "reloading deficit" - you still have 1550 more than you reloaded, which is always a bonus...

Next Local Get Together is SuperBowl Sunday. Because, fuk the NFL. Look for reports, details, and more shenanigans coming up soon...

Much praise for the quick reaction of those two, that did what they had to.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-church-shooting-texas-injured-active Today. Over in 6 seconds. Texas church shooting: Gunman kills 2, 'heroic' parishioners take down shooter A gunman opened fire in a Texas church on Sunday, killing two people and injuring others before two "heroic" parishioners shot and killed him at the scene, police said. The shooting unfolded around 10 a.m. at the West Freeway Church of Christ, in the city of White Settlement, just outside Fort Worth, police said. "It's all very tragic," Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman Mike Drivdahl told reporters. White Settlement Police Chief J.P. Bevering told reporters Sunday afternoon that the gunman entered the church and sat down with the parishioners. He then got up, pulled out a shotgun, and shot two parishioners who died at a nearby hospital. Two armed parishioners who were volunteer security guards returned fire and killed the gunman. "The suspect was stopped thanks to the quick and heroic actions of those safety members inside the church," Bevering said. Separately, two people who suffered minor injuries were treated and released at the scene. During a news conference later Sunday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lauded the quick reactions of the church’s "well-trained" security team, calling their heroism "unparalleled." He said, "This team responded quickly and within six seconds, the shooting was over." He noted that the security team's quick response saved an "untold number of lives." The victims ranged in age from 30 to 60 years old, according to MedStar, the ambulance service provider to Fort Worth and other cities in North Texas. A witness to the shooting told KTVT the gunman walked up to a server with a shotgun during communion and opened fire before parishioners inside the church took him down. “It was the most scariest thing. You feel like your life is flashing before you," Isabel Arreola told the television station. "I was so worried about my little one." The church was apparently live streaming the service when the shooting took place, Fox 4 reported. "Unfortunately, this country has seen so many of these that we've actually gotten used to it at this point. And it's tragic and it's a terrible situation, especially during the holiday season," Jeoff Williams, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at the news conference. "I would like to point out that we have a couple of heroic parishioners who stopped short of just anything that you can even imagine, saved countless lives, and our hearts are going out to them and their families as well." Images from the scene showed a massive emergency response. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott called the shooting an "evil act of violence" at the church. "Places of worship are meant to be sacred, and I am grateful for the church members who acted quickly to take down the shooter and help prevent further loss of life," the governor said in a statement. "Cecilia and I ask all Texans to join us in praying for the White Settlement community and for all those affected by this horrible tragedy." Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted about the shooting, asking for prayers for "any victims and their families, this congregation, and the law enforcement officials at the scene." Agents from the Dallas Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives said they were responding to the scene of the reported shooting. Local and federal law enforcement agencies were continuing to investigate the shooter's identity and motivation for the shooting. The identities of the deceased were not released. White Settlement is located about eight miles west of Fort Worth. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

I wish you looked more like him... It would be even more epic, brother...

Holy shiit, this thread is fan-fucking-tastic. I love you guys like you don't even know. However... Ron... YOU, MY FRIEND, ARE MY TOURETTE'S HERO!!!

That stuff right there runs dirty as hell, brother. Bet that gummed up the works from the get-go...

@Cunuckgaucho asked me what's all in my chest rig, at the last Fall Shoot. I started to tell him what's in there, and said, "We'll get everything out and go over it all in awhile..." Things got so crazy, that we never ended up doing that... Well, I keep two small notebooks in there, and a good pen. One notebook is a cheap little throw-away, that I write anything and everything in. Once I confirm some information, it then gets crossed over into the Rite-In-The-Rain "permanent notebook." I got a BUNCH of data today from shooting, that needs to be crossed over to the permanent notebook now...

My brothers - you gotta get on whatever frequent-flyer program @Matt.Cross is on... He either flies out here for free, or for $12 or something insane like that... Ron R2 - Not Ron Doc - you were almost here, brother. You were just up there with the grandkids, in Reno... That's WELL WITHIN Striking distance of this pile of dirt... @Robert@FULL30 - just wanted you to see this one, brother... Maybe, one day, I can rope you into coming out here for a big shoot. It's likely something you will never experience anywhere else, and it's DEFINITELY something that you will never forget...

Load development, for me, was a HUGE SUCCESS today. Fucking OUTSTANDING! .224 Valk with Hornady 88gr ELD-Ms is solved. The .308 Win load with Hornady 178gr ELD-X (the expanding hunting projo), SOLVED. New powder, that I happen to have 8lbs of - gonna be used, and it's good. .224 Valk ended up at: 18" BA SPR barrel, rifle gas // Hornady 88gr ELD-M projo // 2692fps // Hodgdon CFE 223 powder, 26.2gr // CCI 41 primer // mix of Hornady and Federal brass. Fucking stellar results from it. That's the Chosen One, for my 88s in the Valk. Supersonic to 1150 yards. Hornady Max listed load for this one, in the online Erata Data, is 26.0gr of CFE 223. Hmmm... .308 Win load - this is gonna get crossed over into my Rem bolt gun, too. Mk11 Mod 0 // 18.5" Kreiger Criterion barrel from Fulton Armory, rifle gas // Hornady 178gr ELD-X projo // 2530 fps // Accurate 2495 powder, 40.6gr // CCI 200 primer // used all the NEXUS Match brass for these loads. I'll try other brass, too, but this brass was GREAT to work with. At 40.6gr, best one, it was a 5-rd group at 0.689". The group below it was 40.4gr, and came in at 0.696". I'm tempted to try 40.5gr and 40.7gr, and see what they do. Right now, I have a winner, though... This load will keep a heavy .308 Win projo supersonic to 1050 yards. Hornady Max listed load for this one, in the 10 Manual, is 40.2gr of Accurate 2495. Hmmm again... Hornady always lists their max loads a little "conservatively."

We ate like Champs today... I need to get a new grill before every major outing... I'm glad you made it down, brother - what a riot. You gotta see if you can make the Spring Shoot. It'll pretty much be the same Usual Suspects you met today, plus one Matt Cross and a Canadian Wildman, and maybe even @Magwa. It's camping out there for that one, the firepit, night shoots, High Angle, all that...

That things was worth it's weight on gold today, brother - I love it already. When I got up this morning, it was 32 degrees. Weird for here. We had a great time out there today, got out there around 10am, and stayed until it was time to beat the sunset outta there... @JBMatt and Tommy beat us out there, came down and went straight to the site. @MikedaddyH brought a friend from work, girl that's going in the Air Force in a couple weeks. @Merle came down... First thing I did when we got out there was unload the truck and fire up that griddle - straight to Chorizo and eggs, for breakfast burritos! Matt brought his chrono, and got a TON of load development done. I doped out all my .308 Win 178 ELD-X loads, and .224 Valk loads... Grilled up a late afternoon lunch of NY Strips and brats. Gave the little grill a good workout for it's first outing, and it did fantastic. I'll be working on the final data for all my shooting info in the next couple days. Ran the hell out of that little G43X - that thing is one hell of a shooter! Straight to a set of AmeriGlo night sights and a carry holster for that one. Overall, one hell of a great day, very mild winds if there were any winds at all. When it was blowing, it wasn't over 3mph. I'm glad that those that could make it, did. Great people and a great time.

Wilson Combat 16" Ranger profile or Recon Tactical profile. Either one. That will fit your bill, right there. Fuk is going on here, with you, @ARTrooper?...

What ammo, brother?

Are you even serious, or are you fucking around here? Best place to get a Wilson Combat barrel? You have to be joking me, Eric.

ABSOLUTELY have it checked!!! Davidson Defense only deals in Blem Parts, and nothing more. What's the Blem on that one? Is it functional, or cosmetic? Their parts are not worth the risk, for their low prices. Their low prices are because they only deal in Blem Parts.

I think what was mentioned was enough, man... That barrel will do him proud, for what he wants and needs it to do - even at distance...

He's in RGR Rgt right now, deploying his ass off. Interrogator. Went into the Intel Career Field like me, but the opposite side of it. He's a fucking stud. I need to get ahold of his dumb ass, and "direct" him towards a SOF Static Line Jumpmaster Course, hosted by an SF Group... Regular Army Jumpmaster course doesn't allow you to run your own Drop Zone. Just release jumpers from an aircraft. SOF Static Line Jumpmaster Course certifies you to run your own Drop Zones, up to three aircraft at once. I went through that in 1995, then started teaching it in 1999 - went through a HELL of a 5-year run on it, too. Homie needs to be able to run a Drop Zone...