Recent content by The Annoyed Man

M14/m1a

Slightly off-topic.... but I find it interesting that access to your shooting position is from the front of the bench, rather than behind it. I've never seen a bench like that. Is that unique to that range, or is it a particularly European thing?

Celtic, here you go: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=298021 We've both gotten better with those rifles since then. I was recently shooting 3/8" groups with the Remington, using 175 grain SMKs on 42.5 grains of Varget. Also, a minor correction... I originally reported the 700 as...

What is "fairly far distances" to you? A lot of people talk about sub-MOA. Almost any rifle will put together a sub-MOA group on a perfect day with the perfect load.... ....once. And then it will frustrate the hell out of the owner for the next 10 years. If you want to do it with...

At a 1,000 yards? I don't think so. Even so, I own and really like my ARs, but if I had to choose between them, and my M1A Loaded, I don't know... it would be a really hard choice. The AR is easy and lighter, and good for small to man-sized game. The M1A will cover a broader range of targets...

Thank you everyone for your replies so far. To W.E.G., I will take your tool recommendations under advisement and start purchasing them as I can afford to. To rfwobbly, I'm pretty sure the seating die pushes on the ogive of the bullet, as it sometimes leaves a faintly discernible "ring" mark...

Thanks for the reply. I actually did start with the low end of the range on the 168s and checked for overpressure signs before loading up some medium and hotter loads, which I haven't shot yet. But I won't shoot the hotter 168 load until I'm satisfied that the medium load shows no signs of...

I took forever to set up all the gear I bought 6 months ago, but my son and I finally started rolling our own a week ago. Anyway, we started with .308 Winchester, and I had very good results with the low end load recommendation for 168 grain SMKs. I have a question regarding cartridge overall...

Just so you know, most of the rest of the country doesn't consider that "normal" (or constitutional, BTW). You have my sympathies. Remember the contempt your authorities treated you with the next time you vote. I love that quote by Suzanna Gratia Hupp, when she said:

It seems to me that the best home defense weapon for most people is the one with which they are the most familiar, most qualified, and therefore with which they are the most confident. Like I posted earlier, I own pistols, AR carbines, AR target rifles, a shotgun, and some accurized bolt rifles...

Another cogent response to the cop from LA was this one: Logic trumps emotion.

I've made two gun purchases using my Paypal card, but spreading the cost out over two cards each time. One of them was at a sporting goods store, so it could have been any kind of merchandise, and that purchase (about $500 of which went to Paypal) would have probably gotten through. The second...

Well, we have a 12 gauge Mossberg, and several AR15s, and each of those may be a better choice, but the gun on my dresser is a USP Compact in .40 S&W with an Insight M2 tactical light mounted on it, and the long guns are in the safe. If I were going to go for a long gun, I'd probably use my AR...

I did exactly the same thing a couple of days ago. I was intending to load up a Glock magazine with 9mm, and instead accidentally picked up my USP Compact .40 cal magazine and stuffed it with 9mm ammo. Both pistols were sitting next to one another on the same table. Then, I picked up the USPc...

I told him, politely, but firmly, "That's mine! Please leave it there. I'll be picking it up myself when I'm done." and then I suggested that he might want to ask first the next time he tried tried to do that to someone. He did apologize, and I didn't need to pursue it further. Some people are...