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For someone to be cocky enough, without a real ranging reticle etched into the glass of their binos, to accurately measure what they are calling on you - Someone telling you that "You are 0.3 Low" - is just guessing. Sounds tough, though. Motherfucker, they sure SOUND like they know what they're talking about. They don't. That was Bravado - looks cool in the crowd. Most people believe it, and think they know what they're sayin.... Reality is different.

At distance, I can actually fuq you up with a set of these binoculars. This is not common. This is the reticle in them. This isn't civilian shiit, and very few civilian companies even know this is a thing.

My MAIN ISSUE is with something that can think they can CALL... "You are 0.3 mils LOW!" When that person does NOT have a ranging reticle, in MILS, in their spotting scope, or binos. THAT is Bravado, bullshiit, and not accurate. But it sounds tough to everyone else, that's at the match. First thing THEY think is "Wow! This guy really know his shiit!" And NOT. It was guessing, from the get go. Sounds cool though - until it backfires on you, as the Spotter, and someone calls you on your shiit calls... Someone that really knows...

Hardly EVER. It's a special set of glass, if you have a ranging reticle in it. Those aren't normal. Military Steiner Binos - those have a MIL ranging reticle in them. Commercial, civilian stuff - very rare. Some do, though. In this case I was talking about - no ranging reticle. Guesses about what people were shooting. Bad guesses. Spotting, you don't know what some asshead is running, no idea - it's either Mils or MOA. No clue. Most snotty Spotters ASS-ume Mils, and call that, arrogantly. Hey, might have that MOA shooter on the line. That's a SPOTTER PROBLEM... Whence doing this shiit for a minute, you LEARN... CALL TARGET SIZE. That's what a GOOD SPOTTER does. Don't care what you're shooting, Mils or MO-AHS, doesn't matter. I'm calling your last splash in relation to the target - "you were LOW ONE TARGET, and HALF TARGET LEFT!" If I do THAT, as a spotter, I don't have to worry about what your reticle system is - and I don't care what you're shooting. I gave you an accurate call, based in dirt flying, and YOU figure out what your next step is gonna be, for correction... My input is yours - decision now is yours.

Every single time I turn .308 Match brass down to .264, for the .260 Remington, I turn the necks. That gas gun (both of them, old and new) have been nothing but stellar for accuracy.

So, as soon as she mentioned vegetable, you lost focus. Right, got it. I guarantee you if I cook that, you'll eat it. And, you'll LIKE it... See if this one turns you on, you Savage...

I'm gonna hit it for lunch tomorrow, just to see, brother. EDIT - I will concur, on the Whataburger side of this house, with you. Their Mushroom Swiss is my favorite of all time - caveat... after Burger Chef went down. I gotta say, back in the day, the Burger Chef Mushroom Swiss was the bombdigity. The Whataburger Mushroom and Swiss was a "limited time" thing, and hung on the menu for over 4 years. They'll bring it back, here and there. In those times, nobody beats Whataburger for that one. https://stories.whataburger.com/mushroom-swiss-burger-returns/

In addition to what the gentlemen have mentioned above, I'd also toss Midwest Industries into the running. I have my preferences, and if I'm ranking them, it's definitely LaRue in 1st place, ADM as #2, and Midwest bring up the podium. I love every single one of my LaRue mounts, and there's many of them in the house. I'll give one exception to the above - the original Aimpoint 30mm red dot mount was a badass piece of kit. It was the Aimpoint QRP Mount.

Last match - most popular call was "OH! 0.3 Mils LOW!" Or 0.3 Mils left or right, or whatever. It was 0.3 mils, from a spotter that didn't have a Mil reticle in his spotting scope. I'm done with that. You know who you are. Even told a world-class 3-gun shooter that told his zero was off by 0.3 Mils. It wasn't, confirmed later, by said Badass 3-gun shooter, later. Told me I was 0.3 or 0.4 mils low, before my long distance stages - I wasn''t, but adjusted based on info from the first stage I shot. Funny, used my original dope next stage, and smoked the timed stage. Weird how that was off. Bad spotter is how that was off, nothing more. Be accurate. Being cute for videos on the internet isn't accurate enough. Know math. Practice it. Be better. Don't guess to sound tough in videos,and try to impress people that don't know any different. I know the difference between shiit calls, and accurate calls. Been in this game long enough to spot the bullshiiters.

Spotters. Shot Callers... I'm gonna let loose with this right now. If YOU THINK. THAT. YOU. ... Are that "professional "Spotter" that everyone can depend on - you better be that. You better know your dope at distance, you better know your calls, and if you have enough BALLS to call someone "OH! 0.2 Mils LOW" and you're calling a shot at one mile - you better already know that 0.1 Mil off at one full mile is 6.33" off... 0.2 Mils is 12.5 inches... Know your shiit... I'll leave this here right now. I've seen some SHIIT calls from people that think they can spot, bravado takes over, and they think they can start talking tough on the internet. "OH! 0.2 Mils low - come up 0.2..." At a mile, that's 12.5" difference on correction - huge. They sounded tough about the call, looked real good in a video, and everyone watching is mesmerized about their abilities - and it would have taken the shooter above the plate.... Sounded cool, though. On video. They don't even know what kind of come up that is, at that distance. Just sounding tough on the internet. You guys that shoot distance - better have a good spotter. The Spotter is the more experienced shooter, in a military 2-man Sniper team. The "Sniper" is just a monkey on the gun, doing what the Spotter tells him to do. Junior guy. If you're gonna be a Spotter - you better know your shiit - or don't talk any shiit about it... Math is easy - this is nothing more than a Math Problem. Distance is easy. One TENTH of ONE MIL at 1k yards is 3.6 inches. ONE FULL MIL at 1k yards is 36 inches. Extapolate that out from 1k yards to 1760 yards, and one TENTH is 6.33 inches - for every single click you tell someone .This is WHY math is easy, and Mils work - the average human is 18 inches wide, shoulder-to-shoulder. So, if he's ONE MIL in your scope - 18" wide shoulder-to-shoulder - he's 500 yards away... See how easy that is? This isn't hard. But, once you're on the internet, looking tough about it - it's easy to see where you fuq your "professional calls" up. I'm just sayin'... Do better, people. Learn the fuqn math and do it right. Off now...

Haven't seen this topic too much, but just tripped over this one. I'll try it this weekend and see what's up. Post up any other breakfast stuff you find, or do...

I'll say this, too - the rigid straps have their place, now. For winching. I've be in this position ONE time, and it's never happened to me again. My Jeep went through a really nasty, wet, muddy hillclimb,on a brand new cut trail. Next dude didn't make it. I was on top, and threw out almost 150 ft of steel winch cable, and it wouldn't reach him. Attached one of the 30 ft straps - didn't get to him. Another clevis, and the other 30 ft strap got to him. That's almost 210 ft of winch action - I'll never run the drum all the way out, leave at least 4 or 5 wraps on the final layer on the drum. It took all that to get that dude up that hill. I wouldn't want to use stretch straps for that - only rigid straps. With the engine holding 3k RPM in neutral on that pull, foot buried on brake, that pull almost killed my engine, the electrical drain was so high. After that weekend, the Jeep had dual batteries, a battery isolator, and the only thing running off the second deep-cycle battery was the winch. It also got a 190-amp alternator. Same upgrades, at the same time.

It's a change in technology, man, and worth it's weight in gold. I always rocked 2 x 3" straps, 30' long, for this - Sometimes, you need to take that slack in the strap up, with force, to unstick someone. That's when they either get unstuck - or shiit breaks. Never broke a 3" strap, but I've broken mounting attachments, or mounting points. Hazard of the game. IMHO, the kinetic or stretch straps are a gamechanger. You hit that thing hard, to unstick, it stretches to it's limit, and when it has to contract again - it's yanking some stuck bastard right out - or breaking something. The chance of breaking something is alot less with these kinds of straps, than the rigid straps. It's a far greater technology, now.