Robley

I am still running the holster and mag holders that came with the gun, and think that I would like to upgrade. A teklok belt loop would be one of the features I want. What would you guys suggest?

Is there a .22 conversion yet? I see the M&P guys get a .22 version /whine

I hate waiting for the mythical sub $1000, ready to 3 gun out of the box shotgun.

My mossberg 590 came with a heat shield, and I have fielded a couple disparaging questions about it, but it is very functional esp as I strong hand reload.

You want a shotgun that has chokes. I shoot a 590 and the IC is a real problem. Not getting enough pellets on target with a sticky texas star, or a poorly adjusted popper sucks. You end up trying to make up for it with bigger pellets and heavier dram equivilant loads, but what you really need, is a choke.

Yes I am setting the die at the top of the ram's stroke. It just seems to want to have the die sunk way down in the toolhead to be at a point where it moves the .330 gageline at all. I see that you are in fact sizing the neck after that, I like that better. I have to decap in station 1 though,so have a universal decapper set there. I wonder if I couldnt just remove the decapping pin from my sizing die and thus be able to place it after the trimmer/sizer. Would the neck expander ball still slip in decently without having the lead/slope of the decapping pin? I will have to look at that after work.

I am setting up a xl650 toolhead to process .223 brass. I am setting the trimmers sizing die to bump the shoulder a couple thousandths and find that puts the sizing die way down in the toolhead. The locking ring is clear up in the area where only a partial diameter of threads are available because of the chip clearance windows in the die. That makes getting the locking ring tight fairly difficult. Is this how yours ended up set? Another question I have is that if you decap and size in station 1 and then run it through the sizer/trimmer arent you tightening the neck again, and wont that make seating the bullet more difficult? It seems like it would work better to run a die with a neck expander after the casetrimmer/sizer.

Where do you find a chart of the reticle subtensions? I have looked but cant find it.

yes I was looking at objects inside 20 yards, and now that you mention it I see that the magnification effect appears less at greater distances. But what is the "chart" you refered to? And is 50 yards some standard of measurement for magnification? I had simply assumed that a 1x would look like any other reflex sight, ie NO magnification visible at close range.

Mine just showed up a half hour or so ago. Initial impressions are favorable, but it is NOT a true 1X. I would guess 1.1-1.2. You can still shoot it both eyes open though. Its an overcast day here, but max illumination seems very bright.

No, the JP has a 1.5" high centerline as well.

Ok I was looking at buying one of these to put on my Smith & Wesson MP-15 (the one with the magpul furniture). The problem I am seeing is that most of the mounts I have looked at have a 1.5" centerline (of scope) height over the rail which doesnt clear the mbus rear sight that came with the rifle and are a little less expensive (say a hundred). The only option I am seeing is the LaRue Lt 135 with a 1.93 centerline. For a gaming gun I dont NEED back up sights, but I would like to have them available. Would I be better off to spent that extra hundred dollars (plus or minus some) to get another back up sight (assuming I can figure out one that fits under a 1.5" scope center line), go without back up sights and just run a 1.5 " (and cheaper, say the armalite) mount, or just go ahead and get the LaRue? How are you guys mounting yours, and are they working with a backup sight setup? Yes mincing arround over $100 is stupid, but I dont want to have to purchase things twice and I want the setup to work right the first time.

Thanks guys. I suspected that the answer would be something like BPiatt gave (though I appreciate all of your comments). The other rifle thing I saw I needed to work on is field shooting / position shooting, and I know for sure the answer is the same. Thanks again, Robley

This last weekends Inland Empire 3 gun match showed me a whole list of things I needed to change or do differently. One of the things I was having trouble with was point of impact vs point of aim at short ranges due to scope height over bore. Close range upper panel hits required a guestimate hold over that I never felt very confident about. What is the best way to deal with that 1.5" or more offset? A couple guys said something about different zero's where the bullet trajectory was 0 (on the way up) at either 25 or 50 yards and back on again at about 220 (on the way down), but that still leaves you dealing with the scope offset over bore at close range and I dont see how any zero could change that. So what is the answer, an angle offset set of sights like the Jp's? Thanks in advance, Robley

I wont pretend to know much about this subject, but I did recently read something linking high glycemic index foods and obesity. That falls right in with the meats, and unprocessed foods direction of this discussion, but I did hear several references to potatoes in this discussion, and they have a very high glycemic index.