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I haven't been seeing the quality of bucks I'm use to. Also last year I saw more Doe's without a Fawn than ever before. The last 3 years I've also noticed alot more predators. Watched a Bobcat try to run down a Fawn last year.

Anything I plan on shooting high volume gets Lapua brass. Primer pockets seem to get loose on Nosler or Norma too quickly.

^ The voice of reason. I'm working on or gathering parts for 6 builds right now. Anything that's worth doing is worth doing to excess!

Seems like a perfectly normal idea to me. Everyone needs more guns!

Honestly, I can't. I've been entrenched so deeply in the "don't give an inch" camp for so long, it's really hard to separate. Most of the objections I've seen and heard here are arguments I have made in the past. From my perspective, this thing IS going to be big, and it will be a major factor in the next election cycle. The "right", GOP, NRA and gun owners have always been on the defensive. The way I see it, if we're going to be defending 2A, we also have to own that space. We know the facts, laws, every bit of reasoning that goes into defending gun owner rights. If we are on the offensive, doing things that make sense, we have more credibility than the reactive crowd who has zero knowledge. In my opinion, we have way more power than they do when we flex our intellectual muscle and bring forth facts rather than emotion. But we can't step up to the table with an all or nothing proposal. Just to be clear, what I've proposed is an extension of what is already law. 18 year olds are already prohibited by state and federal law from buying a hand gun. Those who are challenging the ideas I've proposed, have never come out in support for lowering the legal age to buy hand guns. The idea that they are somehow defending their life or liberty with a rifle is beyond absurd. What I'm saying is that we either own the gun ownership rights debate and police it internally, or we will have some left-wing dip-**** force it on us under their uninformed ideology. And that's a VERY bad thing for us all. We have always been on the defensive and we always will be! This is a fight, and it always will be! The opposition is not going to give in or give up! They won't quit when the legal age to buy a long gun is 21. They won't quit when they have outlawed ar-15s,or semi autos, or handguns. They will quit when they have won, and taken away our guns completely! Look how far they have pushed in Chicago, and D.C. and they haven't quit and they haven't changed anything for the better. Mexico has outlawed guns it hasn't stopped people from killing people. This has to be all or nothing! If we give an inch anywhere the other side is not going to thank you for being willing to bend! They are going to mark it as a win and find another way to attack! By giving in on any level we will be adding precedence and sharpening the knife they intend to shove in our back! I for one am in favor of lowering the hand gun age back to 18. If they are a legal adult in good legal standing they should have the right to buy a handgun. You say you want to base this on facts and intelligent thought? Ok. Where are the results? Where has gun control worked? We have plenty of examples and no positive results. If you want to keep your guns the only way is to stand and fight and tell the other side they can't have them! If we want to do something about kids getting killed at school taking away one form of weapon won't do it! They will just find another way. Any one of these shooters could have just simply drove a car through a bunch of kids waiting for the bus. We have to go after the real cause of the problem, that's the little chit bags that are causing the problem. With the Florida shooters background he shouldn't have been able to pass a background check. He should have been in jail! He had been let off the hook time and time again until it bit us really hard. If we keep letting them off the hook they are going to keep bitting us!

Personally I would only use that barrel for a custom light weight 300 Wsm. The big magnums are alot more pleasant when they are in excess of 12lbs.

Humans have to have a place in the management of wildlife because we are the only predator on earth capable of managing any kind of balance. When this responsibility is left to nature there is no balance. Predator population will grow till they wipe out the prey then either move on , starve, or die of disease. I remember reading of the Walker party when they first moved into the Bradshaw's. They said the only wildlife that inhabited the area was Quail and Bobcats.

I probably killed 10 times more birds with my Daisy 880 than I've ever got with a shotgun. I wonder if Grandma ever knew why I was always so concerned when the bird feeders were getting low.

That's what I was told

The last two Chevy's I've bought had that top end tick and 200,000 miles later they still had it.

The absolute last person in the world I would want to infringe on is our men and women in the military. I talked a little about exemptions for those with parental backing and the training to be competent. I hope it goes beyond saying, that any member of the armed forces far exceed that. What I'm talking about are these deranged young men raised with no father, already have a history of dangerous behavior. To BeardownAZ, I really get where you are coming from. I've fought this fight for thirty years now. I understand that it feels like giving an inch will be a mile down the road. And you are right - it will if not done right. On the other hand, being the ones who proposed the inch, when it makes sense, creates future political clout that can't be achieved by just fighting everything. I think about Lewis and Clark, and their small team, pulling that giant boat up river into uncharted country. They suffered very few losses. Part of that was mile by mile making friends along the way rather than enemies. I know, a little off tangent, but the point I'm coming back around to is, like it or not, we're going to have to bend. We can choose how we bend, even propose it, if we're smart. If we choose not to bend, we'll get into areas we didn't want to go. Upping the age to buy a rifle without parental consent is a very small bend, IMO, and one we can say WE proposed. That creates political leverage down the road. The kind that makes anti-gunners lose their power and momentum, because they didn't propose it or make it happen. Just try and look at it from a perspective other than your own, and I hope you'll see what I"m getting at. You see looking at everyone in the country between the ages of 18 & 21 as guilty till proven innocent, a small bend? It's pissin on every thing this country is supposed to be! Other than the Florida shooting what other mass shooting was done by someone under 21 that purchased their own weapon anyway? I really can't remember any. The kid that did this had a lot of problems with the law, he made threats on social media. All that and he was able to pass a background check. We don't need more laws punishing the innocent! We need accountability for the ones failing to enforce the laws we have!

Savage 110 with the new accustock comes in lefty and 7-08 and it can be adjusted to fit her as she grows.

Try submoashooting.com I think I saw the 105 Berger's on there the other day.

Sinclair's has 12 count sample packs for under $10. I know I've seen some 105 and 115 Berger's on there.

I'm not 100% but I want to say 2.090

What velocities were you getting if you don't mind me asking. 3420 fps from the 80 gr Berger. A fire forming load with the 53 gr V-Max@ 3550 fps that shot within 1/2 of poi as the 80 gr Berger. Then a full power 53 gr v-max @ 4200 fps

Mine was a Savage model 11 vt, a heavy barrel model only available from Dick's sporting goods. I had just bought it for a cheap coyote killer and hadn't intended to build on it but when I sighted it in I discovered it had a bent barrel. Ratter than dealing with Savage I decided I should just fix it up the way I wanted it anyway. I ordered a m40 Bell & Carlson, and a Douglas air gauge 26" 1/7 twist rem varmint contour barrel. Rather than deal with the feeding issues mentioned above I ordered several Savage magazines intended for a 6.5 Creedmoor. The Creedmoor and 22-250 Ai have identical case taper and just a few degrees difference in shoulder angle. Just switched magazines when going from fire forming loads to AI loads and never had any issues. Don't remember how the rifle was throated but I know a 53gr V-Max could still be seated into the lands for fire forming. The pic I've attached is a 80 gr Berger VLD seated .005 off the lands next to a 55 gr Hornady factory 22-250 load.

My brother used mine on a Coues 2 years ago 596 yds dropped like struck by lightning.

I talked to someone at Sierra a few days ago they told me 1.240 on the 95 gr and said optimum twist would be 1 in 6.5 but a 7 twist would likely work. Don't know if you already have the action but I would really recommend building a 22-250 ai on a Savage model 10. The action has more room for the long bullets and you can avoid feeding issues when switching from fire forming loads to full Ackley loads. A 308 or 6.5 creed mag feeds the 22-250 ai perfectly. Pretty hard to make feed rails on a 700 feed both well with the huge difference in case taper. My last one was set up with a rem varmint contour Douglas air gauge 1 in 7 twist and was awesome with the 80 gr Berger vld. Rl-22 gave 3420 fps and sub 1/4 moa to 1000 yds. I would recommend using lapua brass to form, I had some problems with the Nosler primer pockets. I have a pair of 22-250 Ackley imp rifles in the shop right now, on the first one I didn't want to stop shooting long enough for it to cool off.

Haven't but it looks good, I started with blue dot cause I had some.

Looks nice but not sure about adding one to my G20 but I did see a service offered to machine the slide for it for $100. That's a great price for the machining. The model 40 comes ready for an optic. I got the RMR relatively cheap from Midway as the new ones were coming out. Best I can tell, this one is exactly the same, minus the battery being on the bottom. It is kind of a bummer having the battery on the bottom because there is not an on/off switch. So do you have to take it off to replace the battery? Does it return to zero? Im kicking around getting one for a FN 5.7 (which I still have to buy) and am researching which one to get. For the old style (what i have) yes you have to take it off. I do not know about return to zero as I have not had it long enough to have to replace the battery. I've had mine for just shy of 3 years and haven't had to change to battery yet.

Have the exact same set up. My favorite handgun ever. Good ammo is a bit hard to find but I'd rather load anyway. I've got all the stuff to reload but haven't really tackled it yet. What bullet do you load? I'm leaning towards the 180 XTP. The 180 XTP is all I've loaded. Lost most of my data in a fire but I want to say around 10 grs of blue dot gave me 1280 fps. I'm not the best pistol shot but I could put 10 in a 6" group at 50 yds with this load.

Have the exact same set up. My favorite handgun ever. Good ammo is a bit hard to find but I'd rather load anyway.

Looking for an optimum twist rate for the new .224 95 gr Sierra Matchking. Haven't been able to find it on Sierra's site but thinking 1 in 6.5" should do.

Just got off the phone with them, should have done that to start with but was expecting to sit on hold for ever. They answered right away and said 6.5 would be perfect and 7 would likely be fine.