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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/czech-it-company-gobbles-up-us-ammo-manufacturers-remington-federal-cci-and-others-being-sold-off/ar-AA1izXil?ocid=msedgdh Czech IT gobbles up US Ammunition manufacturing companies..................Whoa. One 30 yr. old Czech guy is about to own, pending regulatory hurdles, Vista's ammo businesses, your Federal, Speer, CCI, Remington, etc. Incidentally, this same Czech company / guy also owns 70% stake in Fiocchi. Trying to think through the consequences of that. There is a common opinion that Vista has been making a killing on ammo sales recently. I don't have access to their books and I don't know one way or another. However, it seems unlikely that a company would sell their proverbial cash cow unless a) the cow is not making as much cash as we think or b) the company thinks that we're at the peak prices and wants to sell at peak value. In other words, I wonder if Vista thinks that the prices will have to come down. I guess we'll have to wait and see. I am not too happy about one company, especially foreign one, having an outsized influence on US ammo market and prices.

It definitely sounds concerning! As a general rule, I don't like any kind of monopoly. So, let's hope like hell that this young industry titan shares the sentiment of many of his countrymen when it comes to gun rights. The Czech Republic, having been Nazi-occupied and then Soviet-occupied for far too many years, has turned out to be a real defiant "outlier" in Europe when it comes to gun rights. They even added individual gun rights into their constitution a couple of years back (and that was largely influenced by their study and appreciation of our own 2nd Amendment - as I've read in other articles, and not the one cited here). Czech Lawmakers Vote to add 2nd Amendment to Constitution :: Guns.com Ooops - father-of-three was quicker on the draw!! LOL.

The Czech Republic is one of the European countries that has an appreciation for NATO (along with Poland and a few other countries) and I believe actually pays the appropriate amount to fund NATO. With that in mind, they are more pro-gun. I believe Winchester has an ammo plant there as as well. However, selling the company to a country outside the US allows anti-gunners like Biden to ban imports from even more countries. Given the back-door attempts to get around the second amendment, I can see Biden and Biden-types inventing problems with countries like The Czech Republic and Serbia (Prvi Partizan!) to ban more imports.

Women? Doing long range shooting? With DOPE books? And ballistic calculators? And maybe with chronographs to boot? Oh... The Horror! Remind me to stay well out of her range.

I've been using this one for years. https://shooterscalculator.com/ballistic-trajectory-chart.php You can change variables, print charts and graphs, and get any info you need.

A lot of apps need to know specifics about your ammo, and especially with your long barrel, you may be getting significantly different fps than what boxed ammo or your handloads say you should be. You'll want at least a chrono if you want some more accurate info in an app. I know rimfire is a different beast, but at 200 yards, all the app(s) I use have been off by multiple mils between calculations and real world experience. Part is me using box FPS numbers, part is no one seems to know the correct BC for .22s, and part is probably that the places I've zeroed are not a true 50 or 100 yards (Clinton being 53yd for the 50 berm) I know a lot of (rimfire) people use a Kestrel, but I honestly am not sure what functions it has, if it is a chrono, wind speed guage, etc. I believe it links to an app, possibly their own. As for apps, you are unfortunately too late for easily getting Strelok (Pro), which is one of the best ones I know of. It is a Russian developer, so it isn't available in the play store unless you already had it, apparently. The free version had fewer options, but was still very useful. I have used Shooting Solution for years, which apparently is also delisted now. Not sure why. Lapua Ballistics is still available and I have used that. But with .22s, even their own app and shooting Lapua ammo does not show the expected results. That said, it gives you lots of options for data entry on your cartridge and is worth a download. I expect it is perfectly adequate for centerfire. Each app has a nice feature the others are missing, so youll probably want multiple apps anyway. I forget what scope model you have, but I think I saw a Vortex app in the list. May be worth looking into if that has anything useful in it

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Use a CCW in a prohibited location and face felony charges? No thanks. Even in a mass shooter incident N.J. would still hit you with weapons offenses and enjoy doing it.

Firing isn’t the issue I’m speaking of - sure, a heavy muzzle-end will help with recoil effect, but you can do the same with a brake/comp without the weight. It’s driving the muzzle to engage multiple targets in the horizontal or even vertical plane. Starting and stopping the rifle as you point it at targets. For that you want any significant extra weight at the center of balance, which is usually where the mag is, or between the center of balance and your shoulder.