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TWR, congrats on the half! Wish I could get back to running. I really liked it, but never ran more than a few miles a day. Mentally I'd like to try a half at some point, but about every time I get decent training going in running we get a bunch of fire/ems pages and my program goes right out the window again...

Wife did a half ironman... wanted to do a full, but the half finish, 3 minutes short of the cutoff in her early 40s cured her of that desire and went back to shorter ones... olympics I think they were and then duathlons for me since I swim to the bottom faster than a brick...

Thanks, I picked this up kinda late in life but even at 230 lbs I enjoy it. Early morning and late night runs are what it took for me. My daughter decided to run after me and this was our goal.

Sorry for the hijack.

The range
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A flyer in each group that was my fault but it is what it is.
This was shot with the Noveske light weight barrel, I loaded a 20 round mag and shot 10 on each target. No cooling in between just shot as soon as the crosshairs settled down. The first flyer on the left target was shot 8, I thought I was doing better on the second but after the second flyer it all went South due to me, not the barrel heating up or the wind or any other excuse. Don't judge Noveske for my shooting.

I've done much worse. Flyers can really screw you up mentally also. Judging by the first group, it looks like the rifle wants to shoot.

FWIW, I could not get TAC and 77gr Noslers to work together. Never did get better than 1 MOA.


Current Rankings:

Optics:
1) wareagle700: 1.246 MOA
2) TWR: 2.308 MOA

Iron Sights:
1) wareagle700: 167-0x (3.320 MOA)

SMK's are more accurate but NCC's kill better which is more important to me. TAC got me great velocity but I've wanted to try RL15, use it in everything else.

I might have to give this a whirl. I've only shot my AR at paper a couple times, but it quickly showed that it could really put 3 shots in a tight, usually sub-moa group. 10 shots twice is gonna hurt my ego about that rifle, I'm afraid.

I don't have a clue what to try for ammo. I've never loaded anything specific for it, but have a bunch of ball ammo in 2-3 different brands I could try.

We'll see if time allows it.

I've got a more suitable target AR but shooting from a bipod has never been my favorite way of shooting. I need to do it again. Challenging one's own ability, is the only way to get better.

Bipods take some getting used to to produce accuracy, if the feet are non slip. Forward tension on the stock IIRC, and must be very repeatable tension.

I"m getting the itch to dig the sling and jacket back out. Maybe I'll cheat and try to shred the range and get away with it this weekend somehow or another...

RE the ammo question... federal gold medal match in 69s is never shabby.
HSM with 69s is an accuracy load, basically 25 varget in LC case and primer, but BR4 is better primer than what HSM used to use.. all at 2.250... if none of those shoot there is generally a gun issue.

Hey, at least I got the range shredded Friday evening! That was a good start to the weekend. Then came work at inlaws, fire calls, EMS calls, and this morning loosing a mother to a CPR call on Mothers Day...

I have to put a fence up sometime this weekend around the impact berm anyway, so I'm thinking, ain't gonna get around to shooting yet... ugh...

Need to go look for targets though mabye...

We are expecting more rain this week, had over 10" since last week. When it quits, I'm gonna shoot some more, maybe the wind will be below 15-20 next time.

Wish it would rain here. We could use some. They have told us since last week,we could get 10 inches by today... haven't had a drop yet... go figure. Now its all this week, and we could get 10...

We're getting rain every day Jeff. Hopefully it'll push over to you.

Finally got half an inch or so this morning, right about the time we had a wreck call to go to. Lucky no pin ins... but had some issues getting a gal onto a backboard and out of the back seat, deaf to top it all off and no one told me that when I got there... Don't think anything serious but had some serious back pain so you never know.

You can tell it rained though... enough of the other departments got wreck pages during the same storm!

Think I"ll drip my other tree tonight too... that way it'll rain some more. LOL.

Jeff

Rain?

We had 5 inches of snow Saturday night / Sunday morning.

Snow wouldn't hurt my feelings.... I've been in 2 house fires lately, and its getting that time of the year that if we go to a wreck with a pin in, I"m dripping wet UNDER my gear, much less outside...

Only.... 5 more months of this... except 4 of those 5 could be flat miserable.

Have friends in AK. Spencer married a gal from there, its been colder down here around Thanksgiving a few times than it was in ANC. She wants heat. And sun. So they are coming around 4 July this year...

I'll let you know how much she likes heat when they are done. LOL. At least I'll be able to get them bowfishing this trip!

Bad thing about snow is it means slick roads, and it brings up the accident count around here... especially for the kalifornian and Texas drivers.

Colt Match Target
M4 Carbine
MT6400C

Leupold Compact 2-7 power (set on 7 power)

Timney Skeletonized trigger.

Ammo: Sierra 60gr.HP/26.0 gr. Varget

Results..

Target #1 = 1.273"
Target #2 = 1.376"

Average = 1.3245"

Rifle and setup..




Range..









Target




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Didn't you get the memo that button chrome lined barrels wont shoot?

Nice!


Current Rankings:

Optics:

1) wareagle700: 1.246 MOA
2) BGunn: 1.265 MOA
3) TWR: 2.308 MOA

Iron Sights:
1) wareagle700: 167-0x (3.320 MOA)

I measured to the wrong hole first time, I think I'm at 1.2650 after correction..


L O L poop happens !!

The Range




One of the guns



Best Target shot by Noveske barrel with Hornady COTS 55VMAX.



Best Target shot by DD Light Weight barrel Horn COTS 55VMAX



The DD upper wears a nice 1.5-6 Victory HT, the Noveske a 1-6 VX6. The reticle is thicker, however I am disappointed in the Noveske barrel. I am putting a 3.5-10 on it and will reshoot with 55VMAX. I like the balance of the 18 inch barrel but not 2 inch groups at 100 yards. Here are some other Noveske barrel groups.



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Best group DD Upper with LW barrel 1.25 inches. I measured it with calipers as well. A cheap chrome barrel out shoots a $500 SS wonder. Will send pictures when I mount the other scope and try again.

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