98Z5V

Hell Yeah!

AAR. Key Takeaways. First, there was no contact with the target. Actual elevation at the platform is 1390 feet, Density Altitude was 3900 feet. Temp was 91*, humidity was 22%. This is the first time I've shot the gun since putting the Ivey mount on there with the EGW custom 60 MOA rail on the action. I had to check zero on the gun. With the elevation turret buried all the way down, I'm 1.3" high at 100 yards - I'll take that. All the scope travel is UP, all 34 Mils of it. With the target hanging system that I cobbled together yesterday, it went up very easily, even though that plate weighs 163 lbs. It's secure, and it'll swing. Winds were a consistent 8mph from the left. At that distance, is was an 8 Mil windhold, and Dope called for 71.8 Mils of elevation. The handload is Vairog new brass, CCI 250 primers, 88.5gr of Accurate MagPro powder, 300gr Hornady A-Tip projectiles, seated to book length, 3.680" COAL. This gives me 2650 fps muzzle velocity from my 24" barrel. Lesson 1. The target location is in some rocky terrain, so spotting any splash is difficult. I saw some feedback on mine, but there was a 300 PRC on the hill running 225gr projectiles - hard to spot any splash. Rigo ran his 7 PRC with 195s, and I only saw 1 splash over 5 shots - and he was exactly 1 Mil low, good wind call, on the one I could spot. Can the 7 PRC get there? Hell yeah it can. With an Ivey mount. Does it have the energy or the weight? Time will tell. I don't think the .30 Cals are gonna be any good at this, either - just not enough weight going downrange, even if you're running the 250s. Lesson 2. Trust your Dope, but make sure you have accurate Dope. Mine called for 71.8 Mils of elevation, and the really good splash had was exactly 1 Mil low - so I dialed to 72.8 Mils. Getting a consistent wind of 8 mph really helped - being able to accurately read the wind via mirage was important - the wind hold called for was correct, 8 Mils left. Lesson 3. That 163 lb plate is a real bastard to hang, even with 2 guys, and even with a good target hanger system. I'm cutting that thing in half, horizontally, and we'll use 2" steel 1/4" bar stock to bolt the two halves together, at the target location. That will make loading it, transporting it, and setting it up (as well as tear down) much easier. Lesson 4. More target flashers. We ran 2 flashers, one right and one left, top 1/3 of the plate. This is a heavy plate - and it's gonna take alot to make it vibrate and wiggle. And set off a flasher. The "rock test" on the back of the plate proved that. A rock on the back of the plate, on a side, would set off that side's flasher, but not the other one. This plate will have 8 flashers on it. 2 ea, top, bottom, sides. Evenly spaced. That'll do it... Gonna be some fun times coming up for the Fall Shoot. Over the summer, I'm taking the gun apart and shipping the barreled action back to Savage, and having them install the newer 30" barrel in it, and return the original 24" back to me. That should give me the potential for another 150 fps mussle velocity, so 2800 fps, and I can back the load down to 2750 fps from where I am now. In theory. Might as well Cerakote the chassis while the important parts are back at the factory. Fun times coming up... Proof Of Concept is complete. Someone is hitting this thing this Fall Shoot.

Yep, you read that right. Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums. CRASH. LAPD CRASH. The Unit. Rampart Division was the roughest - as it should have been. This can never happen again in today's policing world - but it's so desperately needed, especially in today's world. Schrödinger's cat, if you get the analogy. Nobody does it better than PopoMedic. He rocks.

So am I, brother - I'm actually a little skeered... Everything is prepped, packed, ready to go in the morning. We'll see what shakes out. I have 29 rounds loaded, to play with. Hope it's enough to get close...

Well, he said "Susan and TIM" so I had to ask...

36.8544" equals ONE MOA at 3,520 yards, so we're looking at trying to get close to a 1.3-ish MOA target. Gonna be Spicy... Men, we can either talk about it - or get out there and try to BE about it... I'll pull my Big Girl Panties up real tight before I shoot this thing...

48 x 48 target is ready to go for tomorrow morning. Target hanger stand is height adjustable, so we can tune it on the hill and make it level. LET'S GOOOOOOO !!!!!

Running some Grade 70 tow chain for this one, brother. No offense... Going big as we can. Someone is gonna MISS a 48" x 48" target - but they're gonna brag their ass off about how badass they were for hitting a chain link at 2 miles, and walk away like they're the sheit... I've seen people MISS a Full IPSC target at 450 yards, and talk about how badass they are for shooting the 1/4" piece of 550 cord that was hanging the target - right before they fuckked it up for everyone... Real life...

@Armed Eye Doc, this is the new one, and I gotta ask you a serious question... Who is TIm?...

Tomorrow morning (Saturday), I'm mocking up our temporary target stand in the backyard, drilling the target plate corners, getting all the hardware set in the target plate, and painting the target plate as it hangs. Sometime tomorrow afternoon, I'll post a pic of the thing. It's 5/16" hot-rolled steel plate, 48" x 48", and that fukker weighs 163 lbs. It's FAT. As Fuk.

@Magwa - Don't hate me, brother - I need to make sure this thing is up to standards before you come down here...

Sunday morning, we are shooting the 2-Mile target for Proof Of Concept. Anyone want to jump in? Get your as to SDTF, and we'll make it happen.

This is the Daily, in Casa De Pain, with the two bigass black male twin cats. They THROW. I'll try to get some vids of them getting after it - and it's totally random, so I need to be ready. Daily Chaos.

Massie was a Juggernaut, before. When his wife died, he turned into a piece of shiit. "Thomas Massie's wife, Rhonda Kay Howard Massie, passed away on June 27, 2024. They were married for over 30 years and had four children together." Since that time, and directy after that time of her death, there was a change in him - and his own personal politics. He was a beast before that. He wasted away, after that. I get it. I hate to see people saying he was so great, such an amazing person - yeah, I get it - HE WAS... For alot of years. His wife passed, and he's a different person now, fighting things he didn't fight before - that he stood up for before. He went South. Fukk that guy. Here's his voting record - but this is information from his own website. Gives you something to look at, though. I'll dig for the real numbers. https://massie.house.gov/voterecord/ He changed after his wife died. Yeah, got it. After that, he wasn't the Champion of the things he was before. I feel no remorse...

This is my local Rep, Navy SEAL Eli Crane, PInal County, AZ, questioning Mr. Cekada. I think it went well. Side note - I'm blessed to have Eli Crane...

@Armed Eye Doc, FunDay Monday, let it RIP!

Absorb those two topics I posted, just post back in here in your thread on this and let me know what questions you have. This is all easily solvable, man. Fret not. H2 isn't where you'll be, though - you'll be at H3.

Shitcan your entire recoil system. Totally. Read this: If you haven't already described your entire gun, soup to nuts, then do it. Read this Waterboarding thread. All the numbers are very, very important, if you want a functioning gun, regardless of ammo selection. It makes a difference.

What's the buffer length on what you have now, and what's the internal depth of the receiver extension that's on the gun?

Also, what are the details on your recoil system as it sits right now? There might be options.

I'm sure it's directly related - Tungsten is in very short supply right now...

You either will, or you won't. I don't have a choice - it's ingrained in the Brain Pan that I'm stuck with...

I'll have the thing professionally framed. Serious. It's that badass...