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What I mean is a heavily constructed bullet is less likely to frag meat wherever it hits.
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Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Ya I shoot all year so they are always zero'd
Never have to change anything unless I switch ammo Same here.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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Just when traveling long distances.
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Campfire Regular
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Yes, I check the zero on the rifle. Then I go rabbit hunting as it is good practice. Lobbing mortars at rabbits doesn't count as hunting... 
Only a dingleberry, not yet a Turdlike person, maybe someday!!! I am happier than a retard in a room full of bouncy balls right now!! Joe.
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Campfire Oracle
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Does too! 
Life Member SCI
Life Member DSC
Member New Mexico Shooting Sports Association
Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell
Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
Ken
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Check zero every year. Everything is good till it isn’t. Hasbeen
hasbeen
(Better a has been than a never was!)
NRA Patron member
Try to live your life where the preacher doesn't have to lie at your funeral
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Campfire Ranger
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Some people play golf, some go fishing, some go shooting. Just different ways to relax. You like most here, are better off reading and lookin at pics than yakin. As I’ve said for years, shiit ain’t hard as far as wares, it’s the doin most have problems with… 👍 Jud, mathman is far from a rookie....
- Greg
Success is found at the intersection of planning, hard work, and stubbornness.
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Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Mathman, this means no more pms about how good bullets kill! 🤣
Specifically 80 gr bts.
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I thought they were the 70s. I have 90 grain Accubonds loaded for that 243, I didn't have the nerve to try the 87 Vmax.
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Well, at least I know your not a rookie!!! 😂😂
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I like most here shoot several different guns and check zero every year. Many only gets shot a couple times a year and rarely comes out of safe. Always reminds me why I like each particular rifle
"If you got it, you got it!" In memory of Pops, gone but never forgotten
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I killed a buck this morning, using a rifle that has only been used to kill game since 2012.
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That's awesome. You still have 10 rounds outta that box of ammo for the next decade.....
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Yes, and I like the linear compensator. I have an APA Gen II Micro-Bastard which is damn near ear shattering. Lol, I have the same brake. Nobody around me likes the crack of the APA, but if they shoot my rifle they always ask where the recoil is.
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I fire a cold barrel shot from a rest at a 200 yard target about once a week. Stuff happens and it's good to catch it before missing a shot or worse wounding something that gets away.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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Campfire Tracker
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When I go to Colorado on my annual elk pilgrimage, I’ll check zero on my .300 Weatherby at the local range just for grins and ring some steel at 300 and 400 yards. Maybe 500 if I’m feeling froggy. I keep two separate boxes of ammo. One is hunting loads in new brass and the other is identical loads in previously fired brass. The hunting box has 3 empties from previous 3 hunts, so I guess I’m good to go for a while. Practice box needs a few more loads, but I have plenty of RL26 of the same lot to replenish it. Just a little short on 168 gr TTSX. I haven’t touched a dial on the scope since I switched powders.
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
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