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Seems the US Army is steering away from the 5.56 MM chambering in favor of the 6.8MM. Reasons given were "Improved lethalaty at longer range against targets wearing improved body armor, and a marked increase in accuracy at longer range. Sad to break the news to you .270 Win haters, but it's a ....

This question always devolves into the general concensus that it takes 3. I'll buck that trend and say the .243 win. It'll take pdogs with aplomb, though hi-count colony critters will bite you with barrel wear. It'll certainly put down elk with proper bullet selection and judicious shooting. That's ...

I use RL22 in my .270 Win under 160 grain Partitions. IIRC, velocity is 2850 fps. Not counting my 30BR (RL7 BTW), one of the best groups I've shot in my life was with that combo.

Mike

He' gone.

Christmas morning, 1977. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. There was a TV on the wall.... in 3 months never turned on. On Christmas day our Senior Drill Instructor gave us the choice of going out for more drill, or watching TV. To a man we opted for TV. THE SDI said, "Okay, assume the posit...

Simple answer....the longer your bullet stays in the barrel, the higher it's going to hit.

Mike

I've carried a Kahr PM9 for almost 20 years. Never been "made", and never had to use it....And I can hit with it, (with the exception of one rattlesnake).
It was a really, really small rattler.

Case in point. a couple years back I mixed a 50/50 mix of Dawn dish soap and water. Excellent lube for aluminum. (Hint to self....clean vise well afterwards or it'll rust to heck and back). I almost got written up by an auditor because I hadn't labeled the contents of my spray bottle.

My sense of adventure ended yeas ago after weekly safety audits by auditors that never built something more complicated than a ham sandwich in their life.

I likey that tool!

Pure stuff makes an excellent machining coolant also. One particular snooty German (goes without saying) machine is designed specifically for it. I'm in the middle of a pretty decent sized milling/boring job in AT5 aluminum. I've gone through a gallon of 99%ISO in the last four days. Unfortunatly, ...

Alec...Sorry to hear this.

Mike

Wambli, in our toolroom we often clean molds with ISO. Back years ago we used 70/30 and still had problems with rust. We finally figured out the 30% "other stuff" was the problem. We switched to 99% ISO and that problem went away.

Mike

While I'm not a fan of something that splatters upon impact, I'm a huge fan of something that does shortly thereafter. I've never shot a single thing in my life that cared one little bit that its' second lung was undamaged while its' first was shredded to hamburger. But that's just me.

Mike

There REALLY needs to be a "Like" button.

Mike

I missed Wambli shooting his wifes vacuum. Please retell what you remember.......

Mike

JunkCollector...here's one you'll enjoy....... One morning ScooterTrash and I had been plugging pdogs at 500-600 yards routinely. We decided to move to a new dogtown we'd discovered a couple months before that we'd not yet shot. As we opened the gate, right there was a newer dogtown full of fat pdog...

My wife and I were watching a movie in the basement one Sunday afternoon. She went upstairs to get a soda (middle level of three levels). She came back downstairs, grabbed the cat and locked herself in the basement library, saying "There's something big and black laying outside our bedroom door...

IMO...it depends. I've had days that center-punching an upright pdog at 700 with a .223 Rem rifle was a no-brainer. OTOH, I've had days when either the wind or mirage was so bad that hitting one at 300 was far more luck than skill. So...one day 700 = almost boredom. The next, 300 is a problem. While...

Bullsi, that's a lot in a short period of time. Any one of those situations would crunch most people, let alone coming in waves. Tip of the hat to you, sir.

Mike

Being a machinist, I've gotta agree with CPJ. I do a lot of CNC work and also a lot of manual machining. If your goal is more than "one off" items, CNC wins hands-down. The week before last I was tasked with making 6 identical small parts with very tight tolerances. Our CNC was tied up so ...

My pronghorn rifle is a 6mm Rem (.243 on mild steroids) with a healthy dose of H4350 under a 95 grain NBT. Launches at 3250 FPS. I've dead-dropped pronghorn a quarter mile away with it. Just a tip.

Mike

After a second look at your pics, I'd call the heat cracking you are seeing as "mild". No worries.

Mike

I have a Mod 70 Heavy Varmint in .223 Rem (bought used) that I use as a pdog rifle. I have no idea how many rounds went through it when I bought it. But I know I put at least 14,000 through it myself. It was a very reliable pdog slayer out to 500-600 yards. I also own a HawkEye borescope, and saw mu...

I read some years back that many ER surgeons consider the 22LR wound is often the most difficult to "fix". Zee's observation that the bullet "zig-zagged" upon entry was their common comment. While a .45 ACP FMJ may blow a hole straight through you, that gave the Doc(s) a limited ...