LiveLife
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I use them, even though I have multi-section cleaning rods.
I also want to add cable pull-through bore cleaning kits. Allows for chamber pull through to muzzle to protect crown and compact cleaning kits to toss in the range bags.
Gun gadgets that you can't believe you lived without?
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I also want to add cable pull-through bore cleaning kits. Allows for chamber pull through to muzzle to protect crown and compact cleaning kits to toss in the range bags.
RMH
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My reloading press
Demi-human
maybe likes firearms a little bit…
If you like Walkers muffs, try their Razor VX3 in-ear buds. They have a higher decibel reduction and much better directional awareness. They allow four different equalizer setting and will give “super hearing” turned all the way up, while still protecting hearing from damage.
I wear mine every day. Under hats and hoods even. When they die, after about two years like the last ones, I’ll spend another $150 and buy them again. They really are worth every penny.
And not just because I like listening to streaming radio, podcasts and local radio while I work, and still hear conversations, and also answering phone calls…they make me look cool too.
I wear mine every day. Under hats and hoods even. When they die, after about two years like the last ones, I’ll spend another $150 and buy them again. They really are worth every penny.
And not just because I like listening to streaming radio, podcasts and local radio while I work, and still hear conversations, and also answering phone calls…they make me look cool too.
Birchwood Casey H pattern steel target stands. A couple of 1x2 wood uprights and a big piece of cardboard and you can attach several targets.
Not so much shooting-related as hunting but two things I’ve found tremendously useful - Havalon knife with the replaceable scalpel blades for skinning deer and the Wyoming Saw with the bone and tree blades.
Not so much shooting-related as hunting but two things I’ve found tremendously useful - Havalon knife with the replaceable scalpel blades for skinning deer and the Wyoming Saw with the bone and tree blades.
earlthegoat2
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Stainless steel firearms.
I would second the previous posts about gunsmithing tool kits with the precisely sized bits. Makes it easy to work with the screws on guns without worrying about slipping and scratching something. Mine is a Wheeler set and I have another small set.
The electronic ear muffs are good, but I would also add the pistol bags Midway sells. They are single pistol bags that have pockets and mag slots so you can keep your pistol, manual, mags, and other bits all together for each pistol I own. Not much of a gadget, but useful.
Honorable mention to a basic spotting scope and binoculars. You don't expensive ones, but they are very useful.
The electronic ear muffs are good, but I would also add the pistol bags Midway sells. They are single pistol bags that have pockets and mag slots so you can keep your pistol, manual, mags, and other bits all together for each pistol I own. Not much of a gadget, but useful.
Honorable mention to a basic spotting scope and binoculars. You don't expensive ones, but they are very useful.
borrowedtime69
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Self repairing reactive targets. I think they've improved my distance estimation and follow-up shooting.
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Robbins290
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I could never get mine to work, AT ALL. and I had iron worker arms at the time. No matter how hard I smashed that against an object, only 2 things would happen. 1) nothing or 2) loaded round came out of the holder, bullet still intact.
md7
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Optics. Big help as eye sight has worsened and those old irons get tougher to use
Steel targets. Lots of fun to me
Steel targets. Lots of fun to me
Anchorite
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You weren’t doing it right. It’s all in the wrist. (sarcasm font on, of course)
Deus Machina
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Not entirely wrong, though. I'm still 135 pounds and never had an issue with it. A few sharp whacks against an endgrain block always worked for me.
You need velocity at the head, not really power. So the method is a shorter swing from the arm, and swiveling at the wrist so it makes an arc, not like you're trying to pound in a six-inch nail.
wiscoaster
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Fired brass collection box:
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Fits perfectly in my range case; carries 2-3 boxes of ammo to the range, and empty casings home afterwards. Can't live without it.
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Fits perfectly in my range case; carries 2-3 boxes of ammo to the range, and empty casings home afterwards. Can't live without it.
Internet forums. I can remember trying to find info on guns I was working on or loads for a specific odd ball. Now a few clicks and I have more info than I can deal with. And electronic ear mu pro. I started using them several year ago. when shooting idpa I could not hear range commands with regular plugs or muffs. Now I use them for all shooting and hunting.
Deus Machina
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Took golf in college. I needed one more credit and the choice was another two hours a day studying, or going out and hitting things with a stick. Apparently I've got a talent but I never picked it up further.^ I think we have a golf player.
That's a good way to put it, though. Think of a kinetic puller as a little golf club, not a hammer. Works great for me.
Or my habit of really cranking on the cap is going to crack that eventually, but that's why my rounds don't come free.
entropy
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Work smart not hard.
This.^^^^^
Reloading presses & dies. I'd shoot a lot less rifle and pistol, and would have quit Trap without them.
Legionnaire
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Ah yes. Remember rec.guns?
Starter52
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Neoprene rubber grips for magnum revolvers.
If you like Walkers muffs, try their Razor VX3 in-ear buds. They have a higher decibel reduction and much better directional awareness. They allow four different equalizer setting and will give “super hearing” turned all the way up, while still protecting hearing from damage.
I wear mine every day. Under hats and hoods even. When they die, after about two years like the last ones, I’ll spend another $150 and buy them again. They really are worth every penny.
And not just because I like listening to streaming radio, podcasts and local radio while I work, and still hear conversations, and also answering phone calls…they make me look cool too.
I had a pair, they went dead in 15 months. Nope, Never again. Kind of expensive to throw them away after a year or two due to a dead battery. What a scam. Next ones had replaceable batteries.
Demi-human
maybe likes firearms a little bit…
I know this is just my particular use scenario, but let’s look at those months.
8-10 hours a day, let’s use eight. My V2s were only lasting eight hours toward the end.
8hrs*five days*4weeks*15 months of use you got=2,400 hrs of protected hearing.
$149.99(@ MidwayUSA)/2,400 hrs= $.063
Six cents an hour to not be more deaf than I am already.
And I use mine while shooting after, and sometimes before, work too.
Mine, as stated, lasted longer than that, too.
They literally kept me sane, they days I could wear them, while my ears were so sensitive during terrible infections. My kids laughing was painful, these kept everything to a hush.
But I am sorry. I know that doesn’t help for your bad experience. I wish they had been better for you because I like them so much.
luzyfuerza
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Steel targets.
Gongs, plates, silhouettes. For rifles and handguns.
Gongs, plates, silhouettes. For rifles and handguns.
Corpral_Agarn
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timer for sure!
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