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More handload Sciencing w/ .223 Remington.
I have experimented in the past with my Remington 700 Tac 9T 24” by seating factory 62gr Speer GD .010” deeper and removing the sealant around the case mouth. Gaining good results from 1.5” groups to .25” groups. 
I recently had the rifle cut and threaded to 18” by a friend of mine. Yesterday, I did some more science by pulling the 62gr GD bullets, pouring out the powder, resizing the case, cleaning up the case mouth, returning the powder, and seating Midway 55gr Dogtown FBHP bullets.
I did the same with Hornady 60gr V-Max bullets.
As a baseline, I took some Nosler 55gr BT loads I’d made for this rifle that I knew it liked.
Results!
The rifle seems to like 55gr bullets!
The 60gr V-Max, not as much but still serviceable at about half inch (need to measure it). I may try seating this bullet deeper.
Either way, they will all kill yotes. I have about 40 rounds of the Nosler loads left. I’ll run them out and when gone, switch to the Dogtown loads.
Also swapped optics on my boys AR from an EoTech to a Vortex Spark and changed the factory stock to one I had on the shelf. Zeroed it at 50 yrds.
And….got my new 16” LR-308 uppers gas block adjusted and sighted in at 100 with a 1-6x scope and 168gr ELD-Match.
(The rounds in the center are with my boys rifle at 50.)
The 60gr V-Max will be revisited.
Zee
6 ·
Clocks ticking. Time to get ready...
Wife was watching a show on Netflix about financial growth. Turning 55 this year and need to get better prepared for (hopefully) retirement. So I thought it was time to get out of leasing trucks while the getting is good. Needed to buy what will hopefully be my last.....
Traded for a '19 Ram with ultra low miles. It's a plain Jane with a V6, rubber floor mat, and that's about it. I thought about keeping my current lease. Once I have this '19 paid off in 5 years (or sooner), I will have saved $12,000 from that option. And no more truck payments!
(not keeping the cap)
Traded for a '19 Ram with ultra low miles. It's a plain Jane with a V6, rubber floor mat, and that's about it. I thought about keeping my current lease. Once I have this '19 paid off in 5 years (or sooner), I will have saved $12,000 from that option. And no more truck payments!
(not keeping the cap)
jbp-ohio
6 ·
Plane project.
As in the kind with wings. Just shortly before covid I had gotten into taking flying lessons thanks to my wife whom got me an introductory lesson as a birthday gift.
I started out in a Cessna 172 and was going for my private pilots license until finding out that I have a medical condition that would bar me from passing the physical done by an aviation Dr, but was informed by the FAA that I could self certify to get a Sport pilots license. Basically if you're healthy enough to drive a car, you're healthy enough to fly a light sport plane which only allows 1 passenger and no IFR or night flying.
So I started at an airport that's even closer to home because it was the only one with an instructor that had a Piper Cub that fit the category. I took enough lessons and logged enough hours that I was getting ready to do my solo flight and then covid screwed everything up. The pilot didn't want anything to do with sitting in a plane with another person.
With that I never continued my instruction but feel adequate in my skills so I always wanted to build an ultralight which requires no license of any kind, has an empty weight of no more than 254 lbs and no more than 5 gallons of fuel. I've been researching designs and all of the important aspects of small aircraft for about 3 years now and designed my own and finally got started on it. It obviously has a ways to go but I got this much done in a week. Still needs cross bracing and gussets but it's a fuselage.
My property butts up to a public park with a huge field that's going to become my private airport 😁
This complete build shouldn't even break 1k.
I started out in a Cessna 172 and was going for my private pilots license until finding out that I have a medical condition that would bar me from passing the physical done by an aviation Dr, but was informed by the FAA that I could self certify to get a Sport pilots license. Basically if you're healthy enough to drive a car, you're healthy enough to fly a light sport plane which only allows 1 passenger and no IFR or night flying.
So I started at an airport that's even closer to home because it was the only one with an instructor that had a Piper Cub that fit the category. I took enough lessons and logged enough hours that I was getting ready to do my solo flight and then covid screwed everything up. The pilot didn't want anything to do with sitting in a plane with another person.
With that I never continued my instruction but feel adequate in my skills so I always wanted to build an ultralight which requires no license of any kind, has an empty weight of no more than 254 lbs and no more than 5 gallons of fuel. I've been researching designs and all of the important aspects of small aircraft for about 3 years now and designed my own and finally got started on it. It obviously has a ways to go but I got this much done in a week. Still needs cross bracing and gussets but it's a fuselage.
My property butts up to a public park with a huge field that's going to become my private airport 😁
This complete build shouldn't even break 1k.
Justsomedude
7 ·
Re: Safe to carry a 1911 with hammer down?
If your weapons skills are so bad that you think walking around with an empty gun is the thing to do...perhaps you should consider something else entirely...a sharp stick perhaps...
Jayhawker
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