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Do you do something special to protect your ears? I've been double plugging - earplugs + muffs to reduce the chance of any more high frequency loss.
Do you wear IEM's to the range?
I don't know what other people do, but I generally wear foam plugs when I shoot subsonic pistols (under 1200fps) and plugs and muffs for everything else. Keep the plugs in all the time in case some buffo decided to crank one off on a cold range. I've also got some Peltor electronic muffs that I use sometimes at matches, but not as much as I thought I would. I've been doing this for more than forty-five years and my ears still test out good (if I keep the wax out ).
I don't use headphones/IEMs in any situation where there might be any other audio signal that I would have to act on. Blocking off your ears and/or distracting yourself has never struck me as very tactical behavior.
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I just committed to buy this. My second in a month.
I shot my P7 M8 yesterday and it was really nice. The gun is much more accurate than I can shoot. I would prefer to get one with the warning under the trigger gaurd but the price was right.
Seriously, PM me if you ever decide it's time for that beauty to leave your safe. It's gorgeous!
Nice compliment, thanks.
Here is the same gun only in nickel. This one has the '30s-blonde-Hollywood-moviestar good looks. When I sold it I was deep in "head-fi trading beads," if you know what I mean. I don't miss it at all - the photo is pr*n-ish enough, 'twas never a shooter, only a looker.
Very nice, ALPBM. How do those .308 folding stocks shoot compared to a fixed stock?
They shoot very well with the ACE folding stocks. I've tried both South African and Imbel folding stocks and both tend to play havoc with front and rear sights. With the ACE stocks you don't need to get a Para Lower. They bolt right on the standard lower. The ACE stocks work great for my needs and they add to the US made parts count. You just need the Para bolt carrier with the captured recoil springs.
Medium, light, and heavy tactical precision rifles. Top is the medium; a Remington 700 Tactical (left-hand) with 26 inch tube. Its internal box magazine has been custom lengthened to hold its preferred fodder of 175gr Sierra Match Kings seated to be 0.010 off the lands when chambered. Its scoped with a Leupold Long Range Tactical 4.5-14x50mm (30mm tube) and mil-dot reticle; note the extended scope leveler. Trigger has been replaced with a Timney that breaks like a glass rod at 2.5#. Shooting sling is pretty standard but of a synthetic material that is much more stable than leather; no rattle swivels. It wears a VAIS comp. I can shoot this gun into 0.375 at 100 yds.
Middle is the light; a AR-15 HBAR (stainless) in .223Rem, free-floating 24 tube with another VAIS. Its wearing a Leupold 4.5-14x50mm thats built on a 1 inch tube with standard turrets. It has a lighted mil-dot reticle for low light use and is fitted with a crisp JP Performance trigger. Standard load here is a Hornady 60grain VMax. This is a 0.50 gun for me.
Bottom is the heavy; a completely custom H. S. Precision left hand short action in .300WSM with 26 barrel and another VAIS. Its wearing a Leupold LRT 6.5-20x50mm (30mm tube) with mil-dot reticle and scope leveler. The trigger is a thing of beauty and art, breaking cleanly at 2.5#. With loads as first worked up, and the bullets must be seated well back from the lands to fit in the detachable magazines, this rifle shoots under 0.50 for me at 100 yards with 175gr Match Kings.
Awesome stuff. I really want to get a Remington LTR (just a 700P with a short barrel). I was originally going to get left-handed but can't get the LTR in LH, do you find having a left-handed rifle to be worth the extra hassle in terms of finding it and picking it over the easier to find (especcially used) right handed rifle?
At one point I had 21 Smith & Wesson revolvers but have sold off almost all of them since I don't really have anyone to leave them to and the prices they now fetch have just gone nuts.
I have lots of photos of them all. Here is a Model 27-2 .357, from 1975, a real classic.
I love the revolvers from that time. I have a Smith & Wesson 44mag 29-2 and a K-22 Masterpiece. Pa described them very well. IMO, those weapons were truly works of art and far superior in fit/finish to their current counterparts. Wouldn't part with them for the world. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but it would take a handsome sum of money to pry them away from me. I've got to get some decent shots of my collection when I find some spare time. Again, beautiful piece.
I was originally going to get left-handed but can't get the LTR in LH, do you find having a left-handed rifle to be worth the extra hassle in terms of finding it and picking it over the easier to find (especcially used) right handed rifle?
It's very important for left handed shooters to become practically familiar with shooting and operating right hand bolt guns. They are by far the most widely distributed and the most likely to "fall to hand" in a moment of need. That said, other than bolt rifles, all my other firearms are of the common right hand formats. And left handed Model 1911s, ARs, pump and auto shotguns have been and are made. Good firearms design is either ambidextrous for the controls or at least operable by a left handed shooter. Bolt rifles, however, are the one place where I really appreciate left handed design. You don't have a bolt handle right off your nose. You don't have to reach over the rifle to operate the bolt. You don't have to break shooting position each time you operate the bolt (and the #1 target identifier is motion). The safety and other controls on a left handed rifle is located in ergometric and intuitive positions. And you have the rare and not so subtle pleasure of occasionally handing you left handed bolt to a right handed person and seeing them suddenly realize what living left handed in a right handed world is all about.
I've shown you some left handed bolts firearms, some Remington 700s, an H. S. Precision, an old Kimber Model 82, and some Savage Striker (which are left hand bolt right side eject pistols for right handed shooters). Here are a few more:
The top two left hand bolt rifles are Browning A-Bolt Stalkers with BOSS factory tuning compensators on the muzzles, synthetic stocks, and 20 inch barrels. The top one is in .308Win with a Leupold 2.5-8x40 scope. It shoots at about one inch with most loads and is a fine and handy deer rifle for the woods. The other A-Bolt is in .243Win with a Leupold 4.5-14x50mm LRT. It is extremely accurate for its design and shoots under 0.5 inch. The design of the A-Bolt is with three front locking lugs on the bolt set out as an isosceles triangle (or a wide spread "A"). It's harder to get three lugs to mesh perfectly square than the usual 2 lugs of a Mauser design, and perfectly square meshing is one secret of consistent chambering and ignition for improved accuracy. These are my woods and walking around rifles.
The next two rifles are Sako long actions and wear Bell & Carlson's excellent composite stock in a camouflage pattern. Their factory triggers are lovely once you learn how to adjust them. The top Sako is a custom with 24" heavy fluted stainless barrel and VAIS comp in 7mm Rem Mag, all in hard black teflon powdercoat. It usually wears a Leupold LPS 3.5-15x50, but I removed that when the VAIS was fitted and still have some bedding work to do. The white on its stock is a drop table for its usual loads over range. The lower Sako is a .338Win Mag with 24 inch barrel and wears another 2.5-8x40 Leupold. These are my heavy hunting rifles.
The bottom rifle was my first left hand bolt over twenty years ago. I had wanted one for fifteen years previous to that after seeing a Mannlicher full stock carbine in a glass case at a Vienna hotel lobby. It is an Austrian Steyr Mannlicher Model M with 24 inch barrel in .30-06. It wears a Leupold 4.5-14x40 scope and has a nice piece of walnut in a faintly "european" profile for a stock. The Model M shoots well under an inch with factory ammunition. Many of these left hand bolt rifles were only made for a short time and are now made of "unobtainium". Getting them while they were availble was another application of the "strike while the iron is hot" rule.
As a last suggestion, don't get too short a barrel on your .308Win class rifles. The increased muzzle blast and recoil is fatiguing and the .308Win keeps developing velocity well beyond the usual 26 inch length of my barrels.
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Doing my duty . . . . the way I see it.
"The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what they know for certain that isn't true."
Mark Twain
Not one of my personal bests, but it is rather cool to be able to pick up my 'baby' .177cal and shoot 10 yards across the room from my chair anytime the fancy strikes
Steyer LP2 .177cal, 10 shots @ 10 yards (30feet), single hand, iron (open) sights.
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