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My glaucoma is starting to kill me! LoL!!!

well I just got my holy grail the MG-42. I have been trying to work out a deal with a guy for a BAR, we will see how that pans out.

I know when I was sent to the "armpit of the world" I always carried an m14. I always had pick of the armory when I went into the field and the 14 is what I chose. I can say that on a couple of occasions, I saw 16's and m4's jam catastrophically. Not something you want to see in a SHTF scenario. This is recently, not in the Vietnam days. I have also seen people get hit with the 5.56 and act like nothing happened, just keep moving. If you get hit with a .308, I dont care where, you are going down. All of the long shots I saw, they always called for the guy carrying the .308. Maybe one day the military will switch back to a real rifle round, not one that was designed to shoot woodchucks! When my life is on the line I guarantee I will not be carrying a glorified .22!

I normally shoot about 400rds of the 7.62x54 or 8mm when I shoot. I normally just bring a whole spam can or ammo can. By the time the can is about empty my shoulder is starting to get sore.

I will put my mosin PE sniper against any remchesterby at 200yds and see who does better. Those of you that have shot it know what I am talking about. People always blow it off as just a mosin until they see what it can do.

Mak, when I am home next time we HAVE to meet up and do some shootin. You name the surplus rifle that you want to try and I will bring it. SVT40's, 1903's, m1's, Mausers, Enfields You name it I got it.

It is beyond addicting. I am in the levels of it being a full blown sickness!!!!!! Wait till dealers start calling you to tell you about the new stuff they just got in. That is when I realized I had a problem.

I am not an expert, but I just went with it. I shot almost 250rds through mine and didnt have any issues with it. I figured if it was fine for the mosin extractor groove, the other groove will be just fine.

lookin good Ted. Cant wait to get home from work and "play" again.

well, the fun is going to have to wait until next time I come home. I go back to work on Sunday! :oops:

IT CAME!!!!!!!!

Count me in

I have to re-bore sight mine and play with it a little more. I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with it today. Looks good ted, have fun!

here are some targets. I wasn't going for perfect zero today because I am going to be replacing the rings(they are junk) and take it apart so I can "paint" it, so why go for perfection. Today I was testing and seeing how it grouped. I was rather happy. On the first target is my first zeroing in, you can see how I walked it into center. The second target I was "playing" at 100 yds and the last target is 250yds 2 shots. At 250 it shot low(who cares right now) but you can see they are tighter than a gnat's ass. The horrible wind today wasn't helping any, I am sure without the wind they would be tighter.

Actually there was one problem. The trigger I slapped in it just so I could test it was by far the worst mosin trigger I have ever seen. It had to be a 15lb pull. You needed to tie the trigger to the bumber of a truck to get it to go off. I guess that gives me reason to start making a run of triggers......

I am waiting on the pics of my targets. My dumb ass left them in the bed of Teds truck. Also I have a video of it in action coming too. It shot one ragged hole at 250 yds and was insane! Most of my day I was shooting 50 yds just to get everything zeroed. No issues with it what so ever, the stock even held up like a champ. I will say it makes the fireball of an m44 look like nothing.

hopefully this time tomorrow I am posting pictures of a target with one ragged hole!

the wait is the hardest part.

I talked with him last night, yes he does know I am not Jewish. When I was in the military, he had to jump through hoops to get me to be in his wedding. I felt a little out of place, there were a couple of hundred people there, and I was the only non Jewish person. He said he is not strict orthodox, and I dont need to go out of my way too much for him. I thought it would be cool to have a bunch of stuff ready and done for his stay though. I was just trying to impress him a little.

whoever is doing the flying in that video sucks. Too bouncy and not smooth enough!

I am having a friend and his family up next time I come home. He is Jewish and I would like to impress him and be prepared for his stay and have a bunch of kosher stuff in the house and follow some of the traditions. I would also like to get a general low down on dealing with kosher. I have googled a little bit and was overwhelmed by all of the web pages out there. Can somebody give me a general low down or point me in the right direction on the net?

It will be in MONDAY afternoon or Tuesday!!!!! We are going to have fun at CR on next Sat

WOW amazing story. Isn't it ironic that you dont even realize it but training kicks in.

I have been also working on re-snipering a really nice ex sniper that I have had for quite a few years. Today my tap and hardware came in so I got to work. Everything was going smoothly until I got to the last hole for a pin. I am drilling away and about halfway through BLINK all power goes out :evil: So about an hour goes by and it comes back on. It was on for a while, so I figured I'd get back to work. Turn on the drill press, start drilling and not even 2 seconds later BLINK, power goes out again. So about a half an hour goes by, then it comes back on. It has been on for about 35 minutes, so I figured lets get back to work. Turn on the drill press, the second I turn it on BLINK!!!!!! power goes out. About, 20 minutes later it comes back on. I wait about an hour and a half with solid power, turn on the drill press and get about a 1\16th of an inch and BLINK you guessed it. POWER WENT OUT!!!!!!!!! :twisted: I can actually at this point see where the bit is starting to come through the other side, and this is getting really frustrating. So finally about 3pm it came back on for good and I finished the project. If my neighbors didn't call to see if I had lost power, I would have thought my drill press was tripping a breaker. All I can say is that this sniper didn't want to be re-snipered. LOL