Recent content by Defc0n

I carried an M4 almost all 4 years I was in the Marine Infantry. So did many others. Not sure what units you guys are talking about but (at least with my company) you were the exception if you carried an M16A4 instead of an M4. Still went through boot camp with the old M16A2 with no rail...

Thanks for your responses. Yes, it is for pistol reloading. I'm probably just going to use them for plinking, so wont start, and probably never will get near, a max charge for powder. I just wanted to verify that I can use the powder charges listed. Should have figured OAL may differ just due...

Hopefully a simple question here... I think I remember reading somewhere that reloading data for jacketed HP bullets can be interchanged with jacketed round nose bullets, as long as everything else remains the same (OAL, powder charge, etc). I've got some round nose bullets lying around but...

I only single shoot the rifle, so magazine length isn't really a concern for me. I went back and actually rechecked max COL and I was a bit off (my memory never has been fantastic). Using a dummy round loaded long and closing the bolt down on it gives me a COL of 3.910" (seems long, but probably...

I will preface this with the fact that I'm shooting all of these rounds out of a stock Remington 700 (XCR II). So I've been reloading some 338 RUM rounds using the recommended overall length as suggested by my reloading manuals and have not been getting the accuracy that I would hope for...

I honestly don't clean my revolvers that much, maybe every 2-3 range trips. I'll probably shoot 100-200 rounds per trip. I'll also shoot 357 and 38 special and have never had a 357 round stick due to a carbon ring or dirty cylinder so I could probably go even longer between cleanings. There...

Some local agencies around here have a choice between which one they carry in their car, AR or pump-action. The individual officer is allowed to choose which one they want, and as long as they qualify on that particular weapon, they can bring it with them on patrol. Other agencies have...

I'm not an expert on law but wouldn't the fact that he set this up to catch the person, or in this case shoot him (and killing him), meet the legal requirement for premeditation that a murder charge would need? Shooting someone in a spur of the moment home invasion is one thing, but he planned...

Shot the Tavor a decent bit not to long ago, like the previous replies mentioned it doesn't have the best trigger. Also shot an RFB and didn't like that trigger all that much either. If you want something compact though, the tavor is pretty hard to beat, well balanced, easy to manipulate with...

Oakley Flak jacket glasses with their new(ish) prizm lenses. Meets military specifications for impact resistance and you can always just switch lenses out for a more casual look. The prizm lenses actually do work pretty well at increasing contrast, which is somewhat helpful when shooting at long...

Left handed right eye dominant here. It really depends on what I'm shooting as to how I'm going to shoot as far as closing one eye. I found that shooting from the right shoulder using the dominant eye is pretty easy, especially since that's just how I learned to shoot. When using my pistols I...

FN Five-Seven (chambered in 5.7x28 of course) was the first gun that I owned personally. Spent many years firing them (obviously not my own) before I decided to start my own collection though. Have had it for a few years now, still one of my favorites to take to the range.

The method I use is usually boresight at 50 yards to get on paper. Fire a shot (at 50 yards), adjust the scope after that shot to get it closer to center. Move out to 100 yards and fire a shot, adjust the scope again, then fire a confirmation shot to make sure I'm in the ballpark. 3 shots and...

Being left eye dominant it would probably be easiest to just see if using your left eye to look through the sights solves the problem. I'm left handed but right eye dominant and just learned how to shoot right handed so I could use my right eye. To help us (military) focus on using both eyes...

Actually just shot up my first batch of 223 reloads using H335 under a 55gr FMJ bullet. Using the starting charge in the Lyman manual they still had sufficient power to cycle just fine and were accurate enough to use as a cheap plinking round.