Bully

Airfare booked, bought, and paid for. I'm heading to MI the weekend of the 24th of February. I'm hoping to be shooting the rifle when I get home that Monday. I'll be posting in process build pics when I get home as well.

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Test ammo loaded up... because I’m a fucking child. Berger 82 boat tail target Berger 80.5 Fullbore Hornady 75 AMAX Sierra 80 SMK

I have a Kahr CM9. Great little pistol that I carry around the house when I'm in the mood. I've shot it a bunch and find it not at all unpleasant. The 686 and/or 686+ are some of the best handguns on the market. I have a 3" that is the last pistol that I will ever sell. That said, don't overlook the Ruger. I have an Alaskan and it's a beauty. Good luck with your decision.

I'm an Airedale fan. Great dogs. Not huge. They are terriers so can be energetic. If I had to go hypo, it's what I would look at.

This looks like a cool project. I like where you're taking it. I'm finishing up a stock for one of my builds. Wood work is fun.

Sometimes they have good pricing but with a little looking around it can usually be beat. On top of that, I have always found that their shipping times are very slow. It's taken close to a week before something shipped. I will use them for price comparisons but if I can find it somewhere else I'll usually pass on buying it from Optics Planet and go with someone that wants me to have the product I paid for.

I got a Gen1 APA Little bastard installed on a 308. It was awesome. I highly recommend them. https://www.americanprecisionarms.com/products-page/muzzlebrakes/little-bastard-brake/

I'm sure that gun shops will be thrilled about having to store ammo that they don't make a profit on.

I'll only comment on Scott Bach. He sucks. He, in the CR initiation meeting told firearms folks that were joining the range several lies that essentially were meant to scare them into falling into lock-step with the anti's. Now, if the info presented was a bit more level headed and he said, in effect: "It's not illegal, but it's also not a good idea" I wouldn't have taken issue with it. However he presented at least two things as being illegal that aren't. They aren't good ideas, tho. I emailed him personally and called him out. For his fear mongering, he sucks. Unfortunately I am a member of his range as it's, for me, the best value in my area. So, I pay my dues and that's about it.

My feelings as well. I think if @Rob0115 you hired a PI, you might get a surprise about how it all went down. I hope I'm wrong.

So, a few on here remember me with another screen name, "Topher". I've since abandoned that and gone to "Bully" for several reasons, one of which is my love of the bully-breeds. I currently am owned by an English and I can tell you that if anyone ever raised a hand to her or intended to do her harm, the gates of Satan's domicile would open and be unleashed upon that soul. I do want to know why the fuck the dogs were fed in an alley? Odd, that.

I'm pretty curious what the OP has decided.

He cut his hair. I imagine he's gone. He wants to go to college, apparently. Real life, not TWD. I don't think any colleges in TWD are accredited.

It's the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard of. What'll happen is this, Smokey will eat a kid. Everyone will get upset. The MSM will report that bear attacks are up and population is out of control. The state will then pay for "professional" game exterminators to shoot Smokey and the meat will go to waste. Or, the state will come up with a cockamamie plan to sterilize Mrs. Smokey which is pretty much an expensive and ineffective strategy to cull the breeding. It also just adds meds to a relatively natural species, which strikes me as abusive and just fucking odd. Then they'll raise our taxes yet again to further promote public safety. And no, the FUDD's won't wake up.

Buy a Savage Model 10 or 12. You want a different caliber in the same bolt face family, buy a barrel and screw it on. You want a different caliber in a different bolt face family, buy a barrel and bolt "head", attach and screw on the barrel. Stocks aplenty. Not as many as a Remington but still a bunch. No 2 stage triggers but the stuff from Timney and Rifle Basix will get the job done. Fun platform for the tinkerers among us.

Or a Savage. Ask @Old School about his .243

Same bullet, bigger case. Again, I'm not a 30cal guy but it's your loot. A 300WinMag in the right stock/chassis is a beautiful thing. I just like getting to the same point of impact with less recoil. Also, I love that you say you will have only one bolt gun. That's funny.

Morning happiness!! The dies showed up last evening. I had time this morning and set up a dummy round to use to set freebore when I chamber the barrel. It’s seated out there a bit. It’s the 80.5 FullBore Berger. I shot these in a 9 twist and they didn’t do well. The new barrel is much faster so they should fly. I have 75 Amax to test also. I’ll grab a box of 80 ELD-M for giggles also.

Thanks Patrick. I sprayed alternating black/grey in stripes as a base. Then sprayed paint on glass. Dabbed bubble wrap in paint and then onto stock.

This happened too...

Spent some time with Krylon and bubble wrap. Barreled action will be Cerakoted.

If you truly want big and bad, go 300Norma. Don't even look at anything else. If you want realistic, 308 and 300WinMag will do just about everything. Personally I'm not a big bore guy. I like my 6's and 6.5's. As far as "power", that would depend on what you mean. A 6.5C or 6.5x47L has more down range power past "x" yards than a 308 because of BC (ballistic coefficient). I've seen it first hand. I was in a small class with 3 guys shooting 308. I was shooting my 6.5/47. Beyond them needing to make wind calls on anything past 300 yards and me not needing to until it was past 500 yards, I shot at a 6" steel plate at 650 and smacked it so aggressively that it spun off the stand about a foot in the air. I have a witness. He saw it better than I did and said it was pretty spectacular. He also mentioned that it pissed him off because he was going to pull the trigger on it after me. So, before you go all "operator" it's best to define what you mean by what you say. If you want to have a flat trajectory to 6-700 yards pushing a relatively massive projectile, go Norma. Be prepared to spend. If you want to shoot at reasonable cost, with an effective round that will accomplish what most civilians need to accomplish on a range (dinging steel and punching paper) go with a 6mm or 6.5mm and don't look back. 6 or 6.5Creed and .243 would be my choices. If you want to learn wind and have a ton of fun at very reasonable cost, build a slow twist .223 shoot factory 55grain quality ammo all day. I'm really not a 308 guy. I had one (or two). The benefit of 308 is the relatively large availability of match quality factory ammo. The down sides are that given the recoil and somewhat low BC, the round just doesn't do that well for what I use it for. I don't know much, but feel free to PM me and I'll help in any way I can.

Let me put on my shocked face.

I'm in North Jersey, Paramus area. Does anyone local to me sell Duracoat? I can, and want to, apply it to my personal rifle stock but if I can skip shipping charges that would be awesome.