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This thread has taught me I am the most fortunate sonofabitch to ever buy a rifle.
Travis Same here.....never had a bobble with a Leupold...not even the dreaded entry level CDS dial.....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Unless your bases are bedded/pinned/milled into the receiver.... you're still relying on friction.
On the suggestion of said Leupold "fan boy", I took it home and JB Welded the bases to the receiver... same Talleys, same scope. After that, I don't remember ever having to re-zero it. Good move. Had a lightweight 7 mag that I epoxy'd the bases. The system held zero until the barrel was cooked.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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The best thing to come out of this is some good buys when people dump their Leupolds...... 
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
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If you don't dial- Leupolds work about as well as most better scopes. If you dial- choose scopes that have consistently proven to work. Yep - scope adjusters didn't evolve from micrometers... BTW -- for JeffO (JAFO or whatever)... Air Force guys believe in engaging a target beyond the other persons effective range... I think the other branches stole that from us flyboys, and it's why they call us prop heads - especially when we out shoot'em when they didn't expect it. That being said - if you are shooting game beyond their range that they can sense it then me dropping a guided arrow from a plane is hunting... WTF .... Pretty sure hunting is a sport. - war is not. - so don't call shooting something beyond the range it can sense you hunting... Spot
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This thread has taught me I am the most fortunate sonofabitch to ever buy a rifle.
Travis This∆∆∆ I was reading some thread earlier where a guy "didn't think he owned a rifle that hadn't flown out of a moving vehicle at least once" For Christ's sake. The level of one-up-manship has reached a fever pitch around here. Get [bleep] real. I take better care of my digging bar than that. It's a god damn rifle and optic not a Cat D10
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This thread has taught me I am the most fortunate sonofabitch to ever buy a rifle.
Travis This∆∆∆ I was reading some thread earlier where a guy "didn't think he owned a rifle that hadn't flown out of a moving vehicle at least once" For Christ's sake. The level of one-up-manship has reached a fever pitch around here. Get [bleep] real. I take better care of my digging bar than that. It's a god damn rifle and optic not a Cat D10 It's a bit cliche to tell a person "you owe me a keyboard," but I no bullschit took a swig of beer as I was reading this and damn near lost it. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I've called elk in to a foot in front of me and I could have killed them with an axe.
They weren't aware of me til I wanted them to be. All this time I thought I was hunting. Thanks for bursting my bubble.
LOL
The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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I've called elk in to a foot in front of me and I could have killed them with an axe.
They weren't aware of me til I wanted them to be. All this time I thought I was hunting. Thanks for bursting my bubble.
LOL Now if you had farted loud, I'm pretty sure the elk would have heard it ... Funny [bleep] (sorry for the pun) - had a deer do the same getting about 3 feet from me last year, so I farted... Well because I had to - Damn funny, his eyeballs got all squirrelly... I couldn't keep from laughin' out loud at him as he half ran half trotted off... Kind of all freaked out. - now if someone can't say something smart here I'll be deeply disappointed.
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What load for your 270 Montana?
59 grains of H4831sc, CCI 200, bullets seated out as far as magbox will allow.
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This thread has taught me I am the most fortunate sonofabitch to ever buy a rifle.
Travis Same here.....never had a bobble with a Leupold...not even the dreaded entry level CDS dial..... Add me to the list.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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What load for your 270 Montana?
59 grains of H4831sc, CCI 200, bullets seated out as far as magbox will allow. that sounds like a JB load!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Old school grouse load....
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Z I've called elk in to a foot in front of me and I could have killed them with an axe.
They weren't aware of me til I wanted them to be. All this time I thought I was hunting. Thanks for bursting my bubble.
LOL Now if you had farted loud, I'm pretty sure the elk would have heard it ... Funny [bleep] (sorry for the pun) - had a deer do the same getting about 3 feet from me last year, so I farted... Well because I had to - Damn funny, his eyeballs got all squirrelly... I couldn't keep from laughin' out loud at him as he half ran half trotted off... Kind of all freaked out. - now if someone can't say something smart here I'll be deeply disappointed. My 6 year old asked me to hang a trail camera one night so she could see pictures of deer. They stood 15' away and watched me the whole time. She was like "oh, I hope we see one!!" Yup baby girl, I guarantee it....
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Old school grouse load.... Kills and cleans at the same time. PHWAM! POOF! GFY, Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Bro, aim for the neck....
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Bro, aim for the neck.... That's what she said....
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This thread is a disaster......
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I agree this thread was started with bad intentions from
the start.
Leupold has over 50% of the scope market. So I suppose
they will have some problems along the way.
The high end boys can bitch and say how good their scopes are.
Let them cry and complain against the market leader.
The vast majority of scope users including most all Leupold users will just carry on in happiness.
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Unless your bases are bedded/pinned/milled into the receiver.... you're still relying on friction.
I had a Supper Sniper 3-9 on my .260 that tended to wander a bit. One day, in the presence of one of the Leupold defenders on this post, it fell over while it was leaning on the tailgate. It wasn't on paper after the fall. On the suggestion of said Leupold "fan boy", I took it home and JB Welded the bases to the receiver... same Talleys, same scope. After that, I don't remember ever having to re-zero it. Frickin Leupold fanboys.  Mounts shifting on the receiver happens a bunch.
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What load for your 270 Montana?
59 grains of H4831sc, CCI 200, bullets seated out as far as magbox will allow. Thanks! What type and grain of Bullet?
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