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  1. J

    Stock inletting questions

    That's really cool and I look forward to seeing how it goes. Has the widespread adoption of ARCA caused you to flatten/straighten/widen the forends of some stocks? For some models I imagine it's in your head of "people are going to want to put a rail on this".
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    Stock inletting questions

    The widespread adoption of ARCA in the LR shooting and hunting communities must be a big deal for stock/chassis makers. A few chassis makers already machine in integral ARCA rails since they're dealing with metal anyway. But I also imagine it has influenced some of the traditional stockmakers to...
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    Stock inletting questions

    How much of a challenge/annoyance is it for you that bolt stops, ejection ports, etc differ so much between custom R700 clones? Mainly in regards to the aesthetics of how the stock matches up with the action. Would it be a pain in the ass to inlet for trigger hangers such as the Impact ones to...
  4. J

    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    @Formidilosus out of curiosity, are AW magazines in AW-cut R700 two lug actions generally pretty reliable? For my next barreled action (LP Fuzion) I ordered a Hawkins with an AW mag latch since the action is AW cut I figured I'd try those out. I've heard AW mags function best with three lug...
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    The Shoot2hunt Podcast

    For those who are kept up at night by hypothetical situations where their mag drops free and they lose it, use the MDT hunter DBM. It has a lock button that prevents your mag from dropping free. That'll solve that imaginary problem for those interested if you use a Remington pattern action...
  6. J

    Long Range Lead Slinging Story on Meateater Podcast

    No one replied to Wingshooter though? I'm going to remain hopeful for your reading comprehension and just assume you didn't read the thread before replying.
  7. J

    Staying sharp in the offseason

    Something I'll be doing starting this year is taking at least one precision rifle class in the summer/fall every year. Next year I'll also start doing some NRL22 matches to see how I like them, with the idea of possibly branching out to a centerfire NRL match.
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    Long Range Lead Slinging Story on Meateater Podcast

    I don't think a single person has, if you're referring to him lobbing 700 yard hail mary shots at an animal. The discussion was more about people trying to extrapolate what he did to paint all longer-range hunting as unethical and careless.
  9. J

    Long range shooting challenge from Backfire

    That could be a pretty fun thing to watch when it happens. I realize he's just showing off his rifles and getting a video made for views so it's not that serious but I don't get why he thinks he needs to go with a lighter weight option. He asked Backfire and was told it would be a rifle you...
  10. J

    Long Range Lead Slinging Story on Meateater Podcast

    I think some people are uncomfortable discussing the fact that archery has some of the same ethical challenges that long range shooting does. Archery is certainly more fair-chase oriented but the actual shots themselves have a lot of challenges in common with LR.
  11. J

    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    I think we should follow Occam's Razor when it comes to demonstrably greedy mega corporations. The company has a dodgy record and something in line with cost-cutting and low safety standards happened. The most likely explanation is cost-cutting via lax safety standards and possibly bad fuel...
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    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    The corporation that was sanctioned 8 months ago for punishing a whistleblower who reported unpermitted alcohol consumption and faulty safety equipment? They had to pay the guy $700,000, reinstate him after firing him under false pretenses for reporting safety concerns, and revise their policy...
  13. J

    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    It's not possible to reinforce that bridge to withstand this sort of incident. The ship was 950 feet long weighing 117,000 tons impacting at about 8 knots. I don't think people fully understand the scale of how much mass/inertia that is. Most ports (or at least a lot) don't allow cargo ships to...
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    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    It's pretty clearly an unfortunate accident caused by corporate greed. The crew sent multiple maydays out as the incident was happening which allowed police to stop more cars from coming onto the bridge. Maersk just got sanctioned 8 months ago for trying to force its employees to route their...
  15. J

    Tikka vs Springfield vs Seekings

    Don't we know how they'll perform based on how they're designed? Monolithic bullets will poke a hole in an animal and pulverize the hell out of a rock on the other side of it. As far as terminal damage I don't think it's even in dispute that they're more about giving an exit hole than killing an...
  16. J

    Long Range Rifle Questions

    It's not that I don't trust him to tell the truth of an event that he saw, such as someone either shot or shot at an elk and it did not die. I don't trust people, even guides, to accurately determine the reason that thing happened especially when the animal was never recovered. Guides have a...
  17. J

    A Newbies Positive NRLHunter Experience in Detail

    Thanks for the write up, it sounds like a bunch of fun. I'm going to look to try some NRL22 matches next year for starters and then branch out to centerfire later on.
  18. J

    Bipod Opinions

    I switched from an Atlas CAL to an MDT Ckye Pod. Way more versatility and easier to deploy. The problems you run into are just the extra weight of carrying the bipod. However there are some systems where you don't need to keep the bipod attached to the rifle, I think the Spartan system is one of...
  19. J

    Montana Rifle Co. Junction 308Win Field Evaluation

    I think it's more about older hunters thinking any CRF is better than PF due to books they read or stories they heard about dangerous game hunting in Africa. As Form said, a lot of CRF is done wrong. It's also slightly more difficult to do CRF in precision bolt rifles. That's not to say there...
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    Montana Rifle Co. Junction 308Win Field Evaluation

    CRF has a mythos behind it due to old dangerous game hunters in Africa. Which isn't very relevant these days.
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