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RWilke

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  1. I think you will find insufficient traction to be a problem. But good luck.
  2. The thing with midfoot strike minimalist shoes is that, unless you are pounding on your heels, you are giving up some traction. I have the Merrel Trail Glove and the Salomon Speedcross 3. Both are light; The Salomon's aren't zero offset, but I'm not sprinting through a stage on my midfoot, so that really doesn't factor. Looser ground calls for more aggressive tread patterns. The Merrels are fine for a hard packed dirt surface. I prefer the aggressive design of the Salomon's for looser surfaces and for the environment for which they were designed, mud and rain. I won't run on trails with the Merrels because of the traction issue. I run on the grass on the side of a road, where footing is more sure. Hope that helps.
  3. Are these ten shot groups, or three shot groups? If you were using 3 or even 5 shot groups the group location is not indicative of the central point of impact. You need to shoot at least a ten shot group. PMC 55 grain prints a 6.5" group at 200 yards from my BCM. So if I shot a three shot group to zero at 100 yards, that "zero" might be 1-3" off the actual point of zero. Move it out to 200 yards, shoot another three shot group, and I am compounding my errors to give an indication of zero that is way off reality. To illustrate, here is a 3 shot group of Wolf 62gr, courtesy of Molon, out of a precision AR: And here's a composite group of where this round will print on any given shot. See the room for error with small groups?
  4. I saw the vid on the single stage. He says the AR wasn't designed for the module type drop ins, but doesn't articulate why. They seem like the perfect solution to me.
  5. Take an AKM, an AR, a Sig 556, and a SCAR, field strip them all, throw the parts together in a bucket, shake it a bit. Fastest to assemble a gun and shoot it wins. Field strip an AR and put it in a box covered with a blanket. Shooting competition starts by assembling by feel only. Make 4 shooting stations, each out to 200 yards. Put them on a 2 mile course. Score is half shooting, half run time.
  6. They have a MILD steel core, not a hardened penetrator. When shot side by side with the 60 grain lead core silver bear and Barnaul loads, they penetrate mild and dent hardened steel LESS. My hardened steel targets don't get scratched. The intake manifolds and engine blocks have smaller craters on the 52 grain impacts. This is due to their lighter weight, lower MV, and soft core. The only AK ammo that endangers steel targets is the hardened steel core chinese 7.62x39.
  7. NO You show up to a match, drag the guns out, and everyone has to look! The questions start flowing and here come the explanations. Sterling just play dumb. It works for me! Yeah, my '74 is orange, so it's hard to hide. People around here have been smart enough recognize no AP 5.45 has been imported, and that I wouldn't blow my rare stash on a match if I had it. You'd think after years of surplus importation most numbskulls would have gotten the memo!
  8. The mild steel core stuff deforms steel less than the heavier lead core loads. 5.45 is academically less than .22" but break out the micrometer and the bullet passes.
  9. What is wrong with shooting a light 308 load with a rifle optimized for it, like with a shorter gas system? Seems it would be a lot cheaper than buying Lapua brass.
  10. Agreed on the polymer snap caps not doing much. I have a bag of spent cases on my dresser, and I slide one in behind my extractor before every dry fire practice. After about 20 hits the primer is pretty dented so I use another one. I don't know if this is better than a snap cap but it makes sense to me.
  11. I'd love to run up it, but down, not so much. We don't have any cool races like that here in TX.
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