MidwestPX
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Therapy today consisted of hammer pairs, failure drills, box drills and shooting on the move from 25 to 5 yards. I shot the best box drill ever and I still can't shoot on the move worth a damn. I got progressively better with each iteration but there's so much room for improvement. And the blowback from my SCAR17 after 300 rounds (forgot my gloves):
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He should stick to art. His painting on ebay sold for $100K+
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My 870 had an X300U on it.
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Looks like blueprinted actions from PTG start at $640.
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I don't know what the end game is. He kinda wants the whole thing. I said buying a stock Remington 700 and shooting a few thousand rounds until you decide what you want would be better. Assuming you had $1000 budgeted for a chassis system like the one from accuracy international, what would the cost of a blueprinted and barreled gun in 308?
IIRC, you can get a blueprinted action from PTG (?) for $700-800.
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If you're dropping it in a chassis, why not just start with a blueprinted action and source the barrel you want in the caliber you want?
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My FB feed has so many posts from people mourning Pat's passing. Hopefully Heidi (his rottie who passed about a year ago) was waiting for him and he's got a pile of MCs to hand out.
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Yes it is.
I feel like an entire library just burned down to the ground and I only had time to read one book. His passing will be felt by everyone in the training community and the all freedom loving Americans.
I hope I can be half the man he was and be for one person what he was for me - a mentor, a touchstone, a sounding board, a confidant, a beacon, a friend.
Would that make you a quarter of a man? I mean, Pat was pretty short.
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Same incident as when he shot the snake that was maybe going to bite Awerbuck?
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Pat was one of my favorite instructors. Not just because of the content of his courses but delivery and correction. There is no replacing a man like Pat Rogers. When I saw it in my FB feed this morning, I literally sat dumbstruck for a minute or two. I was really looking forward to training under his watchful eye this September. We have lost a true warrior and teacher.
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Hi, my name is Ty. And I'm cross-dominant.
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My position on bugging out or traveling anywhere in this type of situation is known to those who read my long-winded posts.
Seems like everybody wants to go somewhere when the shit hits the fan. Like millenials on Friday night. But if you don't actually own property in a "safer" location you're dead. You going to live outdoors on the contents of your bug-out bag?
A guy on here once mentioned having three young children in the same post where he was fantasizing about his Battan-like "sur-vah-val" death march.
Even if you owned a place stocked with food fuel and weapons, unless it's in Montana, wherever you can walk or drive to will be as f****d up as where you're coming from, That is if you're even able to get there. The roads will be clogged. You'll be lucky to reach the outskirts of whatever town you live in, from where you'll never make it back home alive.
If you live in Newark or any other significant city when this happens save a round for yourself because that end will be preferable to anything the hungry unwashed barbarian hordes have in store for you.
I'm so glad I live in the middle of nowhere and while my more-remote bug out location is only six miles away, five of those six miles are on country gravel roads and the spot itself is tucked away and can't be seen from any road.
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Does the letter say what timeframe the breach occurred? I've purchased from AIM for work purposes but haven't received anything (yet) from them regarding this.
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I know somebody that has one. Converted Glock G17, not a G18. Transferrable. The price was...astronomical. Supposedly there are two out there.
That being said, if it was your life's goal to have one, it's really not that hard to get your SOT as long as you are willing to work in the gun business. And dealers can get G18s with love letters, which is also not that hard. Not just manufacturers converting 17s.
Glock will not sell 18s to SOTs. They will only do them direct to agencies on a Form 5. Any actual G18 in SOT hands is a result of the agency selling it.
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I know it's been a long time (far longer than I expected) but the site is finally nearing completion. The catalog is 80% loaded and the developers are waiting for a security update to the theme. Structurally, 90% of the way there to being ready for third party security testing (aka PCI compliance). No solid ETA yet as the theme update is completely out of our hands.
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I've got one. Neat toy but rather impractical without a stock.
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I'm at 24.2 gr of Varget and Hornady 75gr .223 pills.
I'm loading a similar charge weight. Here's some of my results (no powder charges listed intentionally)
The first block of data is pretty self-explanatory. The second block is actually the three highest charge weights from the first block. The third block is just one charge weight and is the charge weight that I chose to load. The last block of data is about a 1 grain spread between the three charges so I could "work up" due to the brass change.
In this block of data, the highest weight experienced very mild ejector swipe (I forgot to make a note of that). I load the second highest charge weight because it's either as accurate or slightly more accurate than the highest weight.
I should mention that these are being loaded on my 1050. I'm sure I could tighten things up by using my Rockchucker.
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I can understand that. Im gonna do my own ladder, either way.
Maybe you wouldnt mind answering if the powder load you ended up with is similar to using Varget? (If not, again, I understand)
You'd have to provide the charge weight as I've never used Varget. I've read too many posts about metering issues with Dillon PMs so I never considered it even though I know it works well with the caliber and is temperature insensitive.
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Ty,
Would you mind sharing your load data?
I'm tired of beating the bushes for Varget and am thinking about switching.
Ordinarily I'd be happy to share my recipes however I do not share anything that has a powder charge over book max for safety/liability reasons.
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Your DD has a seven twist barrel and I'd wager your Sig does too (99% sure it does but I would be lying if I said I knew Sig rifle details well enough to say with certainty without checking). I doubt you'll see much (if any) difference in accuracy when comparing FMJ 55gr to FMJ 62gr.
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Should be about .300-.302 (measured a few I have in the parts bin). The failures experienced with our out of spec batch had the handle binding up about 1/3 of the way through the travel as it was being pulled back. I can't speak to what exactly was out of spec as we just junked them once the issue was uncovered.
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You don't happen to have another charging handle to test with, do you? About 18 months ago, we sourced some charging handles that turned out to be out of spec and caused the same malfunction you're describing.
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Myself, I bought up a ton of IMI-made XM193. It's loaded hot and it's consistent. But truthfully, in a SHTF scenario, I'd be far more concerned about the training junkies with 500 rounds than stockpiling 20K. My point being, spend some money learning to fight with your guns rather than just feeding them. I'm also of the opinion that a SHTF scenario requires that you reload or at least have the equipment and knowledge to use it.
Soft shooting 20 gauge.
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I'm far from an expert on shotguns but the Beretta Kick Off system seems to work well. I have an 12ga A400 with a KO installed and my wife has no problem shooting it. This is the woman who complains about shooting an M1A or .308 AR because there's too much recoil. A friend of mine, his fiancee is probably under 100 soaking wet and she can shoot 300 12ga shells in one day through her A400 with KO without issue.