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I doubt if Leupold uses better aluminum, the truth is probably just the opposite. 6061 or 6063 aluminum is pretty common in industry because they are light, machine pretty easily, and are cheap, they are also about the weakest aluminums on the market. 7075 T6 aluminum is widely used in...

By MOLLE do you mean Kydex? MOLLE is an attachment system. I don't like Kydex in cold weather, I've had it shatter very easily in really cold weather. Nylon sheaths are OK but they cut easily. I've tried them all over the years and have returned to leather, for my uses it's the best choice...

Yup, it's obvious to me that quite a few people find it fun to speculate. I suspect that how you define what works well is relative. I'm sure that the conflicting expert advice that the OP has received has done absolutely nothing to help find a good powder so good luck.

You will find that in the .308 there is a big difference between what works well in a 16" barrel as opposed to longer lengths, that 16" is sort of a tipping point. I've done a lot of work, along with a couple of other people, on barrel lengths of 16 1/4", 18", and 22" using .308 Winchester...

While I like the IMR powders that I mentioned those powders worked best with the heavier bullets, for the 130 gr MK319 Mod 0 ammo they used a ball powder of some kind. I did have good luck with IMR 3031 with the 110gr Vmax) and heavier bullets up to 168gr.

Actually the commercial market does make a special cartridge designed for 16" barreled .308/ 7.62x51mm rifles, it's made by Federal and they call it their T762TNB1 ammo. This ammunition is a copy of the military's MK319 Mod 0 cartridge which was developed for the SCAR 17 rifle. The standard...

I shoot a M1A SOCOM with a 16 1/4" barrel, the best powders I've found for the 150gr and heavier bullets have been IMR 3031 and IMR 4166.

Laws don't stop anybody from committing a crime, they are just rules that dictate how they will be punished after they've been convicted of a crime. Yes, an Indiana resident could use a lifetime permit to avoid a background check for up to 5 years after the date of issuance, assuming that the...

I thought that this is why they made the front movable. I don't see why it's such a major concern but if it's all that important then the only thing that I can think of off-hand is cant. Maybe the front sight blade is slightly canted or maybe the grip is such that the pistol cants a little...

Then I'd assume that since there would be no real sense of urgency you'd take your time and use the new weapon correctly. If you read my post carefully I asked under what circumstances you'd need to switch guns during a self defense situation, I specified a self defense situation because under...

Under what circumstances would the average person be using a gun other than their regular gun that they've practiced with for self defense?

I suspect that you wont get flamed but you wont get very many responses either because I doubt that many will disagree with you - in my opinion you've stated the obvious.

GI parts aren't any better, it was the MilSpec inspection process that made the difference. Today's manufacturing capabilities are much better than they were in past years but the parts are not being inspected in a uniform manner, for the modern M1A rifle, no inspectors are being trained in an...

It means that the IMR powder produced more consistent pressures that were slightly less than the other powder. Whether that means that it was a more accurate load is hard to say, it could be since the pressures and resulting velocities would be more consistent (better standard deviation) if...

Actually yes, the rifle was designed to be used with a scope but unfortunately most scope mounts are poorly designed for this rifle. I don't mean to be insulting but honestly you need to have a little mechanical know-how to install these mounts properly. Most people just crank all the screws...

You are seeing the place where the case has expanded fully in to the chamber. As you increased the powder charge the pressure increased. At the lowest powder charge the case has not expanded completely in to the shape of the chamber (the shoulder angles or in to contact with the bolt face)...

I've owned several of these rifles over the years starting in 1975 and I currently have three of them. My experience has been that accuracy has been consistent over the years but remember that these are replicas of a military battle rifle and not a precision target rifle (although you can buy...

It takes a lot of case capacity for a .30 caliber to be an overbore cartridge. The 30-06 is about the smallest overbore rifle cartridge that I know of but that gives you an idea of the kind of physical sizes the bullet diameter must be to case volume.

After looking at my post I realized that I made a huge mistake, the value that would determine overbore would be any number over 900 not .9. Overbore is simply the volume of the case (in grains of water weight) divided by the area of the bore. You've already got the volume of the case and to...

There is no universally accepted definition for overbore but some define overbore as being when the ratio of case volume to bore area is 0.9 or greater. Based on that definition it would be pretty hard to find a production pistol for an overbore cartridge. I'm sure that there are wildcats that...