Ruger decided to make their busch league rifle with threaded barrels so I opted to try one in the name of practicality and science.

First impressions are:

Stock is an UBER piece of schit. The slightest flexing while the bipod is attached results in the plastic touching all sorts of schit I'd prefer it not touch.

Trigger is ok. But not as good as a Timney/Shilen/re-touched Remmy, etc IMO.

It does shoot UBER well with a variety of loads.

1" dots. Loads range from 1,000fps to 3,250fps.



These are sub-sonic 50gr V-Maxes and they appear to be wobbly. But still shot good enough.



50gr. V-Maxes clockin' 3,200ish.



Everything has been shot suppressed. Groups to the 300yd line have been well under MOA with two different loads. Neither of which have been developed for the rifle.

Overall? Not bad.




Travis

They are by far my favorite peasant pieces of scheit....and yours is canned. That makes it an uber piece of scheit.

I'll be sending you something more uber soon....

Thats pretty damned uber...

That's an uber place to hang a picture..

Missing a "GFY" sticker. Clearly not that UBER?

ETA: Or is the sticker on the other side?

I looked at that picture too. Can't decide who is wearing the 'leather' football helmet.

Is that a picture of your grandmother over the garage door. powdr

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth...

You know you want one...

I have the ultimate, consummate .223AI build with a 1 in 8 twist thanks to you. I am one of the 'cool' kids now�..

Exactamundo�..

That's the Patron Saint Cathy you stupid, godless fuggs.




Travis

I can always use more UBE when trying to go full UBER.

Sumbitch busted a paint can @ 500+ this afternoon. I UBE'd in my shorts.



Travis

I thought Cathy was spelled with a "K"��.

Ah yes, the Jewish version of a rifle build.

Mazel Tov, you cheap fugg.



Travis

It is.

In Israel.



Travis

Looks like she was a hell of a player back in the day.

Listen you fuggin' morons. My beloved mother gave me that picture because it's goddamm UBER.

The pawn shop wouldn't give me what I hoped I could get for the frame, so I opted to hang the portrait in my garage.

It was painted when she was in college and it's fuggin' UBER, and it keeps me safe when I reload or gunsmith when I'm really drunk.



Travis

Now we know...

She's the patron saint of 'Flave Precision...

Exactly.



Travis

The can costs 3 times as much as the rifle, doesn't it?

Glorious rifle, glorious can, glorious photo, glorious thread.

take the fuggen ruger sticker off the damn stock.

WHY?

This isn't about cost.

It's about being drunk.



Travis

Just scoped the wife's RAR .223 tonight. Was gonna be my truck gun but she quickly laid claim to it. Looking forward to shooting it tomorrow. Would be UBER cool if it shoots the same stuff I run through the AR (25gr Tac behind 68gr Hornady BTHP) acceptably well. Couldn't find any 75gr Amaxes yet so have a bunch of the 75gr BTHPs to try also.

Agree with you on the stock. Hope it shoots well in spite of it. Already emailed B&C encouraging them to pony up�

John

I put together a Hornet level load for my 223 Predator. 9.0gr Unique, 40gr VMax, 2700 fps, 35K psi, 56% load density.

It's solid sub-moa, most of th shots within .5 moa.

That would still be pretty loud though.

These Blue Dot loads are air gun quiet. Great for pitbulls...



Travis

When you purchased the 'Merican?

Dammit. All these reports on the 'Merican being a deal... Now Deflave and his momma have blessed one.

I need to be strong and not give in... But I saw one at the LGS in 7-08. If only that stock were not so schitty.

I bet it shoots everything well.



Travis

Everyone deserves at least one peasant rifle.



Travis

Pickin my .223 version up today. I am thinking it will handle the 75 BTHP's in the magazine, but not the A-Maxes.

the little redfield 2-7x fits pretty nicely on these rifles ...

That thing could curdle buttermilk.

I have the standard compact. Shoots just fine for a $350 rifle. Stock isn't pretty, but works. I can't see replacing it though. It would be easy to quickly turn a $350 budget rifle into a $600 budget rifle that doesn't shoot a bit better.

I shot the Gay Maxes with Trail Boss and they shot pretty well. But yeah, definitely too long for the mag.

I need one of those mag box extension things.



Travis

Yeah, I wouldn't put any more money into one.

I mainly bought this one just to have a bolt gun to try some sub-sonic stuff. The can was previously on my AR.

When I'm done with load work I'll probably sell it and rebarrel a real rifle to suit my needs.



Travis

yall, ive got the .223 in my hands now ... it aint nearly as sexy as the shawty. I'm gonna get it chopped.

It needs an "FM" sticker....

I have 3 of the RAR 223's. They all shoot the 75's extremely well. They all have their own load preference, but keeping 5 under an inch at 200 is common.

They're on the cheap side, but they shoot as well or better than any factory rifle I've ever owned.

There's no mechanical problem with the stock that 5 minutes with a round rasp won't fix.

As for esthetics, any rattle-can artist like Ingwe can work wonders, especially with the application of some Bondo beforehand.

Or a "I'm with stupid" sticker.

Give it the Israeli treatment.



Travis

I may order up a batch that reads "UBER"



Travis

I raspeded it before I shot it but it flexes so bad it still makes contact when using the S-version of the Harris.

I've never glued anything in the bottom to make them more rigid but I may try that with this one.



Travis

And rattle can artistry can be had relatively cheaply�..

"COCK" here.

GFY.

Vinny

This was plunking three under an inch at those distances yesterday.

69gr Sierra and CFE 223.

UBER combo.



Travis

In Helena.....

I don't want to cover up the stickers.



Travis

derby dude?



Travis

I'll order up a batch of COCK also.



Travis

'Gwe will work for Macnaughton

SWEET.

I've always wanted to say "Hold my Cock and watch this"

around the firepit.

Tape off and rattle can around!

Try some Unique for your reduced loads........laffin'

Hoarder...




Travis

It ain't no chicken/egg.

Can't gouge without the hoard...

Sonofabitch!



Travis

I just gouged my dad on a generator.

Eeeeasy money.



Travis

Would he be interested in a slightly used Epilady?

If only that were the case�

+/- 3" groups with everything I ran through it, mostly n the vertical. Firing pin hole definitely needs bushed. Cratered with everything, even mild loads and punched the primers on one of the heavier loads. Magazine box can't bind. Scope base holes cannot press on the barrel. Scope bases were torqued with Borka torque wrench as were rings, ring caps and action screws. The only thing I can figure may be the limber stock and semi-hard rest. Put a knit cap on top of the rest to soften things up but did not help any.

Any other ideas?

John

The stringing could be from fugged up levels of contact in the barrel channel.

But the piercing and cratering of primers would keep me from messing with it at all.

Send that mofo back to Ruger.



Travis

Thinking so�

John

I never fired mine without hogging out the barrel channel. One look at it and I was crackin' beers and filing away.

But like I said, you start messin' with it and you leave the "voided warranty" door open.

Mail that bitch.


Travis

Ruger, uber, ubed Hondo on this deal.



Travis

ugh, maybe I should shoot mine before I start circ....er ... chopping it.

Best take a rape whistle when you hit the range.

Ruger might be out to ube you as well.



Travis

I'm gonna turn the tables on this ruger. The ubee becomes the uber.

What about headspace? Lots of possibilities here.

Just out of curiosity, have you measured the distance to the lands with several bullets? The RAR's have pretty short throats, which can be a good thing.

Dipschitt�..We rattle can the stock, cover the Ruger stickers and add stiffness to it when the paint dries. The web spray further solidifies the stock, THEN you put a new 'UBER' sticker over the top of it all�.
Sheesh�.


Then you'll be fit to run with the best white trash around.

Always wear a jock. Always.

Thank me later...

I think I probably paid more for the .475 Turnbull brass & dies on the shelf here.

I did see a used .308 RAR Compact recently. It don't feel horrible. Might out-shoot my Kimber...

I could probably make some titanium inletting rods, to stiffen the forend. They'd be Uber priced

But wait - a better idea - I think Gorilla makes Gorilla camo Uber duct tape. That would also stiffen the stock...

Not bad for 'bout tree fiddy...




7-08


P

If you order a batch with "I'm with uber stupid" is that the same as saying "I'm with Obama?"

Don't have headspace gages but did check brass growth at the shoulder after firing. Almost no growth. Checked distance to lands with 68gr Hornady BTHP and 75gr both. Loaded both just to kiss the lands. Attempted the KFPRO method, but nothing came together. My AR put 10 of the same load in about 1 MOA. For sure though, I get higher velocities from the 18" Ruger than the 18" AR.

Firing pin hole is obviously oversized. Cratering even with loads pushing 68s at < 2700� Tempted to send to Gretan but should probably just send back to Ruger.


John

Haha...

Stiffness....

That's all I read.



Travis

These things are UBER whiskey-tango.

But at least I'm not one of those dipschitts that paid $700.00 for a Tikka.



Travis

Pfffftttt. I could have got you that for $1K.



Travis

That's racist.




Travis

I did a COCK + Sticker search on cafepress for 'slave.

Check out the results:

http://www.cafepress.com/+cock+bumper-stickers

Laughin' my ass off....




Travis

dyin' here...

Hard to yell "Diiiiiick" across the coulee.

"COOOOOCK", just rolls off the tongue.

That's what she said...



Travis

Got one the other day for one of our newest Eagle Scouts, as a present for making Eagle and Graduation present...

my first impression of the rifle, particularly the stock... it should be called the Ruger Mexican, instead of the Ruger American...

but so far it has shot fairly well...

And your point is what?

Travis;
I hope this finds you and yours well on this wet and stormy night - not to be confused with a dark and stormy night.....

Somehow because of all the Campfire coolaid being spread about the Ruger Americans I've ended up with one.

I should add the standard Canuck pricing and availability complaint here in that I found all of 3 dealers with one chambered in .223 in stock up here - just the plain vanilla RAR too, no shorty, no Predator.

Anyway, I've got a fair bit - 3lb maybe? - of WC845, and a fresh can each of Varget and RL15 along with enough small rifle primers and cleaned up once fired military cases to load something.

I've got a couple hundred 60gr HP that I was going to start with and intend to see if anyone up here has anything heavier, but am not holding my breath.

Anyway Travis, if you or anyone has any suggested loads for the �ber RAR with the powders I've got I'd love to hear them.

Thanks in advance and happy �ber Thursday to you and yours too.

Dwayne

Dwayne man!

Sorry to hear you're still stuck in Canada. With any luck I'll win the next election and you'll all end up part of the US regardless.

I'm thinking 26.0 grains of Vargay should be a good start (and possibly stop) point for your 60 grainers. Save the RL 15 for something non-peasant.

I'm only going to cruise the low-income areas of wildlife with this rifle. I don't want to kill anything high brow with the clunker.

See you in church,
Travis

Travis;
Thanks for the load suggestions, I'll give it a whirl for sure and see how it does.

I've shot a bit of the WC845 in the .30-30 so I know it burns and all that, so I'll try some of that over the chronograph with the 60 grainers too.

There are somewhere ensconced in my reloading room shelves, a box of 60gr Partusions and some sort of TSX's too - 53's I'd say without looking right now.

They might be tried out too just because.

Mainly I picked this thing up to shoot at far away rocks and to have a cheap to shoot/light recoiling/fun rifle for new shooters to try out.

I've got an ancient 1:14 .22-250AI with a 26" #4 Douglas Premium match barrel that shoots quite well, but a lot of new shooters find it's way to heavy for them and well frankly it is a pretty heavy coyote rifle all things considered.

On the low-income wildlife hunt though you've got me thinking as our family tries to shoot at least one "really local" mulie buck every fall.

Since I had to pay more for the rifle up here across the medicine line, do you think it'd be OK using a clunker in a sort of middle class/blue collar farming/vineyard sort of neighborhood?

Any suggestions on where I might search out the complete rules on the 'net?

Being a Canuck I don't want to offend anyone - naturally - and of course I'm sorry if I have....

As always I'll save you a seat near the back Travis.

Dwayne

I think if Flave Precision provided their services for "chopping" the .223 RAR down to a shawty, you would no longer think it was a clunker, but suddenly a sexy beast. youd need to ship a 12 pack with it though to be drankened prior to the beholder eyeballing it. i promise youll think the shawty is hot after youre drunk.

n8dawg6;
I do believe you're correct sir, but sadly Flave hasn't been elected President yet and that invisible, yet omnipotent medicine line keeps me from sending either clunkers or beer over to Havre.

The other thing that might prevent it is that our eldest daughter seems to think it might be hers - if I can get it to shoot OK first. Kids, eh?

All the best to you for the remainder of the week sir - may it be an �ber one indeed.

Dwayne

So you did order the "Sperm Dumpster" oval?

BC: Flave Precision may do well to open a Canadian office. it can be stocked with Molson

My morning is complete due to Dwayne's use of the word Uber.

I'm uber happy.



Travis

n8dawg6,

If Flave Precision opens a Canadian branch office, it should be stocked with Kokanee instead of Molson, in keeping with its peasant business model.

Kokanee is good beer!



( says the Irish Trailer trash�)

I think Flave Precision could use an experienced and talented Rattle Can Technician and Ballistician��

I shall prepare my resume' and get out my pocket calculator and bottle opener�.

Ingwe's resume..Like's to fart...NEXT!

Kokanee, haven't had that in a long time.

Haha! You like a beer with the word COCK in it.

That's fuggin' gross.



Travis

Only in a place like Canaduh could that be deemed good marketing.

"Eh, what'll make folks buy more of 'dis, eh?"

"Slap the word COCK on the bottle, eh?"


Travis

We require a six month internship before providing pay or benefits.

Welcome aboard.



Travis

Any beer in the first six months?

Oh yeah. There is always beer laying around the shop.

You'll have to steal it though. I ain't runnin' a soup kitchen.



Travis

PS- If you have a problem with theft, 'Flave Precision may not be a good fit for you.

I'm good. Sign me up.

I'd keep the Ensure handy Travis, he's likely to start fading by 11am.

Laughin' my ass off...

Totally uncalled for by the way. You're a cyber-bully.



Travis

on the one RAR I've played with, a good coat of spray paint would stiffen the stock a lot...

Thats what I thought, and my feeler got hurt.

Ingwe's resume..like's to fart...NEXT!

You'll feel better after a few 14 hour days.




Travis

As long as they don't involve work, Im retired.

Still waiting for the first time.

Nap time

Technical Question....

If you put an "L" sticker on your Ruger Mexican... would that make the Peasant Rifle, a PLeasant Rifle?

or you could put an "H" decal on the side instead, and it could be Your PHeasant Rifle?

Decisions Decisions...

and in keeping with the theme for Optics.....

a 5 x 20 X 50mm Tasco, from Mid South for $49.95....

or a 6.5 x 20 X 50 mm Tru Glo or Simmons from Natchez for $59.95??? ( with the Illuminated Reticle for Sure )

Quite evident the Picnic FireAnts haven't struck yet...

The women on the other shore are waiting patiently to see when that happens...

Best to use whatever glass you have laying around. The cheaper the better.

'Flave Precision does not endorse shooting pheasant with rifles when outside of a rez.



Travis

I mounted a $19.95 Tasco 4 Power on top of mine...

Got it on close out at KMart on the way home....

They threw in the Simmons rings for free... that saved me a Fast $4.99!

For some reason, a 3 x 9 Leupold refuse to mount on there...

but the Tasco 4 power went on there like a champ... looks pretty sporty too...

Some 40 grain Varmaggeddons, and I'm ready for Elk Season...

Two more comments:

Kokanee beats the hell out of no beer at all.

Travis, you're supposed to use the rasp on the INSIDE of the stock, though it won't hurt the outside much.

Inside? You'll never get the harmonics tuned that way.



Travis

I'd opt for an aluminum bedding block, which you can get for free from all the empty Ensure cans.


Flave precision, we ENSURE proper bedding!

Seems to be a lot of want here to stiffen the stock. I'm thinking those little blue pills will work for most of yus. But for the peasant rifle project (PRP) I really do dig the idea of use what's laying around and what's laying around up here in Canaduh is a lot of broken hockey sticks the ditches are littered with them. I'm thinking lag bolt a select chunk of hockey stick handle underneath the forearm. Not some kind of bad bubba show, show a little pride, countersink the bolts nicely inside the forearm lest they rub on the meddle and coz akerasy problems. Then hit the whole shebang with flat mat desert brown tacitcool krylon. Or spend a little more if you have it and get ingwe to do his magic for final finish of the PRP

Can someone translate Canuck please....

Just reverse the "re" at the end of a Canuk word to "er".... And refer to fluids by the Imperial Gallon. That'll solve many of your translation issues.

N.B. Try to avoid Canadian French Fries.

N.B. #2 When Canuks refer to "Timmy's", it's not about the kid from the Lassie show.

It means "Dwayne is all we really have to offer the world."



Travis

You're going to remind ingwe how old he is.

And that's mean.



Travis

He's napping and will forget about it by the time he awakes.

Hey, 'Flave, I found the perfect sticker for the stock of your stealthy UBER peasant rifle.

Stop Black Dick?

Suck Black Dick?

Super Black Dick?

Sizeable Black Dick?

Syphilitic Black Dick?

I give up...



Travis

Someone fixated on something??

Black Dick?

Ask bruinruin. He posted it.



Travis

I'm afraid it'll be a bit anti-climactic after your big build-up.

Sub-sonic loads + can + good accuracy = Silent But Deadly.

I gotta work on being more clever, like Northern Dave.

Ahhhh! Because of the can? I get it now.

Not sure why I thought it meant black dick. The stock is green!


Travis

That is weird. What do you see when look at this ink blot?



David

wageslave on a skateboard.



Travis

Seems legit...

David

Wageslave kinda' looks like a black weiner dog. Only smaller.

laffin.





GFY's.
I spilled my silo and broke my UBER black dick......
Tragedy.

BIG BLACK wiener dog.

Im awake now and all you younguns can GFYs...

What,no farting in their general direction?

Go back and catch another 20 zzzzzzzzzzzz's,you're slipping.

UBER wake up!



Travis

Do all those zzz's represent COCK?



Travis

Special permit only.




Are you really gonna sell the rifle?

I thought I was the Canuckian division of Flave Precision?

WTF????

R.

Probably.

Special pricing for rezidents.



Travis

Dude.

You are my sister company, but leave the marketing to me.



David

Whew! That's good news!

You mean a kool aide guy on fire and stepping on a wiener dog is not good marketing?
I'm so freakin busy up here its redonculous.

Don't worry...royalty cheque is in the mail...

R.

I've been lookin at Kathy's picture

I can't see her ubers......bet they were nice

I'd like to place an order

Big Cans (QTY. 2)
Patented Wrin-Killed Cast Bullets (whatevers rolling on the floor)
Hold the cock

Kool Aid Man may find his way onto this rifle.

And if it doo, the price just went up.




Travis

Who the fugg is Kathy?

Jesus fugg you fuggs drink too much.



Travis



Travis

Please direct all inquiries for 7x57s at Flave Precision to me...

I can fill two big cans. But it may take a week or two.



Travis

Don't gimme that schit....

I know there's plenty on the floor.

Cripes, have ingwe find them when he wakes up.

I also want an external bedded stock with a still shot/buttstock decal of Paris Hilton on top; you know, when she's flicking her bean.

It'd be the only shock and awe I could create at a PD shoot....

I do miss Paris Hilton.

I'm on it.



Travis

Ube..

We have Rob Ford too. pics please of the Paris muff creation if that one's a go I can't quite get my head around. .. er, never mind

I dreamt of Flave Precision last night�.and one client was trying to sell US a rifle. A model 20 from Howa, built in Belgium, in .229 Calibre. Said he had personally chronoed it at 10,000fps.


Reminded me of the stories I used to hear behind the gun counter�.




I used Flave's Visa card to buy the gun for 1.2 million�.

You do realize, the peasants are revolting.



Can you hog out a groove or 2 inside the channel to epoxy in a couple of carbon fiber rods? (chop a CF arrow shaft in haff)

Light weight stiffness.

You're uber welcome.

Whoa Dave!!! Slow down!!
Channel? Epoxy? Carbon what? Arrow Shaft...Ummm, we build rifles here, Dave, not bows...

Chop we can do...as well as stiffness, and hog, of course. We are uber all about stiffness.

CDN Flave Precision...we run on cheap beer and donuts...and stiffness.


R.

Well, if you're gonna go full peasant.....

You might have to dig through the junk drawer for the stiffness.

lol.



Rasp'er heap big plenty wide, fillet an aluminum tent pole (a broken one that you aren't sure why you still have) and glue the haff pipe in there.

Uber joe dirt.

If you think kokanee is cheap beer.... you're doing cheap wrong.

lol!

like Hillary "I'm flat broke"

Broker than steve forbes aint "flat broke"

lol!

WTF are you doing up this late in the day?



Travis

WTF are you? An astronaut?

Save the technical mumbo-jumbo for somebody that doesn't know what the they're doing.

At 'Flave Precision, we know how to make 'em stiff.


Travis

You believe this fuggin' guy?

Fuggin' Poland's rendition of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

I got his "carbon shaft" right here.



Travis

That hurt my feeling.

Sorry. Stress is high here @ 'Flave Precision right now.

All this POS intern does is schit his pants and nap all day.



Travis

Sorry, I didn't realize ingwe was working for you.




I was going to suggest heavy starch for the noodle.

But it rains in Montana, so...



Also, I'm very low on sleep so.... my ideas are very dull today, more so than usual.

�BER

����������ber

UE=�����������������

Not UBER, its �BER.

Umlaute, Umlaute...

My Polish friend is down in the dumps today.

He's not feeling Uber. He's the anti-uber. The diet coke of Uber.

'Flave Precision may do some high wind testing today. Gonna be UBER-licious.



Travis

That's what I said, Ewber.





I can't not be Uber.

I may be Uber lite today, but I'm not non Uber.

To be perfectly honest, I thought the thread title said "Pheasant rifle" and I was like "pfuk yes! I want a pheasant rifle really bad!"

And that's the only reason I Uber clicked this chit.

Call Shari when this happens in the future. Tell her she needs to put Ingwe down for his nap, he's getting fussy

An inability to read is essential to a Polish residency.



Travis

It is getting close to nap time here now. 12:05 so GFY


I went creek fishing yesterday, relatively short walk by comparison�it still wore my old ass out!


Caught some fish and has a ball though!

I didn't know ND was a Pollock�


I can 'tolerate' the gayness�but a Pollock�.

Uber facepalm...


Sigh....

As if the gay ice cream truck wasn't enough... now I'm polish too.

Well, I have the leopard thong to live down, you have polish gayness�.

Wasn't there a bible book of pollocks on another thread? Dave look for it, it may help

I suppose.

Well, I'm off to Wikipedia on my rainbow internet surfboard... to learn some polish stuff.

If I'm gonna be polish, I might as well learn something about Poland.

I'm not going to study up on the gayness, I heard what those guys do.

I also know the president really likes the gays.

So, I got that goin for me.

Learn how to make pierogies, and get back to me.

I love pierogies�.

Ummm... WTF did you think lives in Poland? The Chinese?



Travis

Don't address me in that tone of font.

I know how to do that. I watch my daughter.

She throws a stick of butter (from my fridge) into a frypan on the stove (my pan, my stove) and then she empties half a bag of those little tater pillow shapes into the pan and literally boils them in butter.

Then she eats em all and leaves the pan on the stove, fridge door open, butter splattered everywhere and she'll go sit in my spot on the couch and change the tv channel from fox news to the homo remodeling show on HDTV.....

That's how you make pierogies.

You forgot that some onions go in the butter, and Ive found if you sprinkle them ever so lightly with ground red pepper�its a good thing.

I usually smell heavy garlic odor in the air amongst the burned butter smell....

Every time she's tricked me into eating one of those things the same thing happens.


There's potato inside of them.



No meat.


All that damn work, to eat potatoes.

This thread needs a program I didn't see one at the door you guys lost me I've SAF never heard of a gay Polack peasant?! I'm sure there's gay Polacks and Polack peasants but gays move to the city and get rich this just don't add up at all.

WTH,is this the "Cooking channel" now?!

shhhh, I'm trying to study.

Ingwe made another funny!

Just go right to the chapter on cooking pierogies�..

Glad you found it!

flave is gonna Uber chit when he comes back from shooting wind and finds what we've done with his pheasant rifle thread.

"shooting wind" wtf?

how do you know if you hit it?

He will get over it. He's nearly impossible to please anyway�..

I think those girls are nice.

My feeling that flave hurt earlier with mean words, is happy feeling now.

there's gotta be a way to harness that energy. Maybe to drive steel fence posts? I'd hire her to build fence....

no, no, no...

Here's your fencer.

I'd hire her too.

Her jump rope is frayed.




Mathman

This is what polish homo ice cream truck driver men drink:

Holy fugg.

Polish blood mixed with Texas beer. You'll be a full blown idiot within the hour.



Travis

I've been to the cooler six times and rubbed one out...keep waiting for one of those things to fly out. Hope...I has it.

You think I won't?

So what's the easiest way to stiffen the RAR stock?

(besides rubbing it with a Glock)

LMAO.

Pretty certain your friends would appreciate your not doing that.


Travis

UBER fuggin' wind out there today. Holy fugg.





Travis

Holy ooober!

I mean UBER windy.



Travis

Wind really moves things around at the 5+. Sonofafuck!





Dave

Admit it, you shot it.

Wtf?

Is it dave or is it Travis?

I have no shame. Had I shot it, I'd own it.

Now go to bed before the clock hits 8 and you turn into a pumpkin.


Travis

Those Texas beers combining with that Pollock DNA? It's Travis, you piss drunk fugg.




Dave

This Texas beer is junk. I'm out, not so much as a buzz.









Travis

If my name were Dave, I'd call me Travis as well.




Travis

My name is dad.











Travis

Travis;
Greetings and salivations my southern friend, I trust things are - well �ber down there at 'Flave Precision and that this finds your family well too of course.

I thought I'd give you the short version of the report on what I believe is one of the first RPR's - Ruger Peasant Rifle - to make it north of the medicine line.

So to be clear to all here Travis, I DID NOT begin at the beginning with this rifle as I typically do. In an effort to see what it would do "out of the box", the only thing I did was reduce the trigger pull down to a bit over 3lbs - all it would let me - and mount a 6X Leupold that was laying about in the safe.

The fore end is pushing against the barrel with a modicum of enthusiasm and I really should have pulled out the rasp before shooting it - but did not.

Anyway it really doesn't love the only factory ammo that I found in the safe, the old white box 1988 vintage Olin 55gr ball. It chronographed out at 3320fps, but would only put 3 into 2�" at 100yds.

The load of 26gr of Varget with Remington primers and 60gr Mystery HP loaded to a COL of 2.272" so they'd fit in the magazine went into 1 1/16" and averaged 2910fps.

As mentioned I was playing with some WC845 I've got and a load of 22gr of it shot best going into 11/16" but only making 2700fps.

The really bright spot in the day however was some previous shooter donated about 180 once fired 5.56/.223 brass into the brass pail - along with a smattering of .308, 9mm and weird for up here .30 Carbine.

Oh, there were also five 7.5x55 Swiss brass in there too???


Anyway Travis, that's the RPR report from the northern front for this evening.

I'm going to take a rasp to the stock, perhaps even the inside as Mule Deer suggests, and see if I can locate some projectiles that have a known lineage rather than the Mystery 60gr HP.

The thing is begging for one of those magazine ends the 'Fire member is making too, as it doesn't appear I'm anywhere too close to the lands in order to fit the magazine.

Have a great weekend Travis and all the best to you and your fine family. �ber weekend I should have said - sorry.

Dwayne

http://youtu.be/953PkxFNiko

7X57 sucks so bad, a fella can't even give brass away, for free, shipping included...

That's right!

Damn!

Maybe if I threw in a 24 of Kokanee (Cockanee if you're Flave)?

R.

I'll take it.

I was looking at a sixer of the cock a knee at the store yesterday, I grabbed that shiner red bird instead. What a mistake.

Not only does grapefruit beer taste bad, it has uber bloating powers if you happen to grab a small bowl of ice cream with a tank fulla red bird.

Felt like the Hindenburg

Im headed to the Great White North in a few days. Im thinking Kokanee, Molson Golden, and Labatts�.

Dwayne,

It sounds as things are uber up north and congrats on the RPR!

I see you have Varget on hand and I tend to use a bit of it too. I bought my son a stainless compact RPR and am currently shooting up ammo loaded for other 223's gone bye (I tend to go through a few). I found a box of 50 in the closet that melded well with his chamber, so gave them a go. The rounds are loaded with the 55 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip over 25 grains of Varget. COAL is 2.255" and that's about .020" off the lands. His rifle typically keeps three well under MOA at 100 with this load. It really likes the 75 A-Max over Varget too. I think you'll find you can regulate jump with many bullets, as the three RPR's we have at the house have shortish throats. Anyway, good luck with the rifle!

Here's a nice pic of his rifle. I've been grabbing it first as of late. It came in handy dispatching one of our many resident groundhogs.

RPR is the screening test for syphilis.....FWIW (not much)

Gonna neck that 7x57 brass down to .270 Ingwe?

shortactionsmoker;
Thanks so much for the fine photo and load info sir, I do appreciate it very much.

Somewhere in the dim past I loaded a wee bit for a Mini 14 in .223- well and a Mini 30 too, but this is the first rifle in this chambering I've actually owned. Somehow the .22-250AI got the nod when I was considering a .224" centerfire.

As it stands now, even at our inflated Canuck pricing the somewhat homely rifle was a bargain and with all the Campfire Kool Aid being poured about how they shoot I poured a tall glass and drank deeply.

We're overrun in our part of BC lately with our resident breed of your groundhog's cousin, the Yellow Bellied Marmot - but of course in their infinite wisdom the government outlawed shooting them on Crown land decades back when they were more scarce.

The local vineyards, orchards and hay ranchers can legally shoot them on their land, but of course the marmots tend to overpopulate the areas where they don't get the treatment from the varminteers. Ah well, such is life I'm thinking.

Thanks again for the load data and shout out sir. All the best to you and yours this weekend.

Dwayne

Don't forget the moosehead. It's Canadian heineken

Dave;
Good morning to you sir, I hope this finds you and your fine family well. It's been too long since I've said hello to you, though I've been following your new shop's progress and wish you the best with it and the accompanying venture.

On the Moosehead comment, I think you're really on the money with your comparison to Heineken.

I don't take in a large quantity of suds typically and then only in summer, but don't mind a cold one when the outside temps here climb into the low 100's.

Anyway this year I've found that Moosehead is my current favorite - for my taste buds anyway Dave - and it's replaced Stella Artois for that position, but as I recall Heineken would be similar flavor too.

All the best to you and your fine family again Dave.

Dwayne

I tried to find and buy some Moosehead here last week. Nada!

ingwe;
Good day to you sir, I trust other than being without the product brewed in St. John since 1918 that you're all doing well.

As you likely already know, our liquor laws are silly beyond reason, so you might be able to find Moosehead everywhere in Alberta like you can here in BC - or you might not.....

Have a grand trip either way ingwe. I look forward to seeing some photos of your adventures.

All the best to you and yours this weekend sir.

Dwayne

We will be shopping for Moosehead in AB for sure�along with Cattle Boys BBQ sauce and some kind of candy bar my wife says is the best in the world. Hoping the Taber corn is ripe and ready! Its the best Ive ever had!

You can always tell a man who loves Moosehead....












By the Antler Marks on the inner thighs....

question for the 'fire: how many RARs is too many? already got 2, eyeballing a third

One.

damn

Anyone starts offering good stocks for them, and metal mags or bottom metal, and they'll be fun to build on.

Lmfao! Hahaha!

Good luck up nort ingwe.

Dwayne, it is always a blessing to be the recipient of your words, all is well here with my tribe, I hope the same is true for you and yours.

Dwayne man!

Spent all morning "buckin' bales" for some goddamm farmers. Farmers are a lot like Christians. Always askin' for somethin'. Present company excluded of course.

Mini-'flavette had fun though. She piloted the big rig while we policed up "stupid squares." Not a bad morning.




I've found that no matter what bullet I feed this thing, it shoots well.

But it is still a janky POS in my opinion. And I find the detachable mag annoying.

For those that haven't purchased one, this is what I'm referencing when I talk about the stock. UBER janky!



That video was with very mild back and forth from my dickbeater.

No flies on the rifle overall though. It shoots like a sumbitch.

Put another 50 through it and it was MOA all the way to the 500 this afternoon.

I hope your daughter likes it. If she doesn't, tell her tough schit and enjoy it anyway.


Travis

PS- Take my parenting advice with a grain of salt. My daughter doesn't like me much...

Are you losers fuggin 'joking? Isn't Moosehead part of the WIC program?

At least your beer choices coincide with the thread title.



Travis

Mmmm... Maybe.




Travis

Agreed.

GFY.



Travis

Travis;
Thanks for the stupid square report and accompanying photographic evidence of your daughter's displeasure with you. She looks absolutely mortified to be there sir.

If memory serves, my first time behind the wheel was either piloting a bale truck or a grain truck - can't recall which anymore.

It's good to see there's some timeless training methods amongst the farmers no matter which side of the medicine line they are found. That said Travis and as mentioned previously, Mom's roots are from a stone's throw north of Havre so maybe it's a genetic thing with me that I understand those folks.

My goodness I'm with you on the floopy stock too Travis, though I must admit I'm already cogitating a paint scheme for it...

Hey part of the reason I bought the rifle was that I had dies and brass for it already, so that's pretty typical of the symptomatic loonyism I suffer from.

What do you make of the 5 rounds of 7.5x55 Swiss brass I found in the batch Travis? Swiss subversives practicing here in the borderlands for an incursion southward?

Typically Swiss, they only needed 5 rounds to ensure zero on their rifles - likely 10 of them I'm guessing.....

Have a good Saturday evening Travis, it's always a pleasure exchanging pleasantries with you.

Dwayne

Dwayne man!

The mini-'flavette is a sweetheart, as long as she is in front of you. Watch your back with that one.... She has a smile that warms but she is cold as ice. Not kidding either. That girl is a little mean.

Not sure what to make of the 7.5 whatever, but I know I don't care for foreigners and anything labeled "Swiss" belongs in the trash. Unless of course she agrees with everything I say, then that rule might could be done away with.

I always buy donuts for the kiddos on Sunday morning, but right after that, I'll make my way to church.

See you there, friendo.



Travis

See the NBTE for counter argument.

Dave.

Anybody think of a decent way to stiffen up that stock? Outside of death or viagra??

You can epoxy arrow shafts or wooden towels or aluminum or WTF else you can find into the barrel channel. Guys have been doing that for a long time.

I'm not sure if it would be enough for the Ruger or not.



Travis

Wooden towels ?

I guess its true about how rough everything is in Montana....

David

Jeezus, a wooden focking towel.

I've been using stone towels. Wood towels sound so soft.

What's a towel?



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