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My harbor freight digital does great for what i need. When I start loading I test it on a known length piece of metal on my bench. I've had the caliper for about 3 years now and not one issue. The batteries last forever too. I have only replaced them twice. I buy spares and keep them on hand just in case.

where are you located? maybe if you are anywhere near north jersey you should swing up for one of our milsurp madness shoots.

I am easy this year. I need a new one piece cleaning rod(I actually wore mine out) and a couple bales of patches. I go through patches real quick and am too lazy to cut up T-shirts.

To be honest caine I dont remember. It has been about 2yrs since I shot this gun. I remember it did good with Hungarian Surplus, but I never fired handloads out of it.

I went over to my range today to test some handloads for a couple of my Mosin Snipers. Well I start shootin my "restored" 1933 PE and an old timer that hangs around my range comes by. He looks through the spotting scope as I finish the string and he shouts " MY O MY BOY, WOOO WEEEE, THAT IS SOME DARN TOOTIN GOOD SHOOTIN!" I can see that the group is close but he wont let me look through my spotting scope. He says "you gotta walk down there and see this in person." So I trudge down to the 100yd targets half freezing and this is what i saw. I think I found that magical combination when it comes to this rifle........ 10 shots at 100 dialing in Final 5 shots. Dialed in The culprit And who says that Mosins arent accurate?

I carried a M16 in the field in the butthole of the earth and NEVER found it to be reliable(recently in Afghan and Iraq and other places not Vietnam). It is underpowered and requires high maintenance and is not suitable for the sandy rugged environments that they are employed. The 5.56 is a great round if you want to take out taliban midgets or rabid chipmunks but it lacks stopping power. The platform is not reliable enough. I am actually disturbed that the govt keeps this platform, as I have seen first hand the effects of what happens when it has its little issues that haven't been worked out in 40yrs, but the media reports that it has. I have had one fail on me at the worst possible situation and have seen others fail catastrophically in the same situation. Now before I hear that "oh my AR runs perfectly after thousands of rounds at CR under the covered range bays with the best ammo and lubricants possible," think about this. In real life, those arent even remotely reasonable environments. In Iraq you could always tell a new guy because his rifle was still black. Over time, no matter how much you scrub your rifle turns brown from the moon dust sand over there. Watch the news and you will notice. Also how about the lack of cleaning kits STILL at FOB's. This is a common occurrence this day and age believe it or not. So unless you have carried one in the field and had your life depend on it, your opinions are biased and you are seeing the world through a guilded cage. You are living in Hamptons high life and haven't been down to the ghetto at all. I believe that the M16 is the biggest POS known to man. The only soldiers that like it are the ones that never shot anything else before they enlisted. Been there done that and believe me many troops hate the rifle because of the lack of reliability and stopping power. I carried a 14 whenever possible and there is a reason they are pulling 14's out of the armories and issuing them now. There is a reason an AR WILL NEVER BE IN MY COLLECTION Steps off soap box

without rebarreling the rifle is TRASH. Do not shoot it at all. Welding and screwing is not a safe option. the chamber is fugged so the only way to feasibly fix is to remove the old barrel and spin a new one on.

Wow with a name like that I already like ya....

Quick question for yall. Which RCBS shell holder do you use for 7.5 Swiss? RCBS says #2 but the rim of my Privi brass is too thick and wont fit in the shell holder. Do I have a defective shell holder?

Here is one of Mussolini's body guards Carcanos that I picked up today. It is confirmed a moschettieri del duce carcano. I didn't even know when I bought it. ( I picked it up because it's purdy!) This has a black stained stock and a heavily tarnished silver plate on many of the parts. I am not going to clean it too much until I find more info on it but here it is. Note the remnants of plating on the magazine and around the screws on the barrel bands. You can see the plating good in the gap between the stock and hand guard on the barrel. I wanna take it apart to get some good pics but I am not going to touch it until I see if I'll destroy the value.

By far my biggest pet peeve right here. You need to earn the right! Good post by the way.

you missed out, they were 5.99

converted about 200 8mm, prepped the brass for about 200 30-06, and loaded about 100 8mm.

if you are going to buy the stuff learn to use it, not put it on for the sake of putting it on. I saw a guy with a laser on an ar at the range one day. He never bothered to get it set up right and had it on for months. I commented on it and he said "I put it on because it looks cool" If the shooting sports are turning into a tacti-tard wallet/lack of brains contest I truly fear for our future. Overall they make others that enjoy the 2nd Amendment look like a bunch of black gun toting idiots.

I could cover a couple of caliber conversions if anyone is interested. It is amazing what 30-06 brass can be turned into.

They are calling for 12-15 for me. YAY!

+1. It is quite a bit of fun to see the guys that have more money in crap bolted to the rifle than the rifle itself. I laugh when I see the tacti-tards that never served in the military carry stuff labeled as tactical because they see it on video games or they think it's cool.

Does anyone else get any winter projects to keep themselves busy while the snow is falling? I do one every year and thinking big time out of the box on this one. A 7.62x39 detachable single stack ak mag MOSIN! HMMMM, the gears in my head are spinning. Anyone else doing any builds or restorations this winter?

Mine came in yesterday and was exactly as advertised just really dirty. The cleaning process has begun! It does have an 1896 receiver and a stamped follower so there is some interesting suff so far. The stock is post 1955 because it has the reinforcing biscuits behind the buttplate and square finger joints at the stock splice. It should clean up nicely and hopefully shoot as good. Pics comin later.

heads up that midway has caldwell orange peel factory second targets at an awesome price. I ordered a bunch and love these targets.... http://www.midwayusa.com/Product/867456/caldwell-targets-orange-peel-factory-seconds-5-1-2-self-adhesive-bullseye-50-sheet-pack

If I name them can I use them as tax write offs? If so I have my own town!!!

Fah-Q Dan

negative. I am still wet for another day........ I will be having some beers on bourbon street this time tomorrow.

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