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  1. I have a ar in 6.5mm cm and 6mm cm the 6mm cm with a berger 105 gr is hard to beat
  2. I know I saw this somewhere but I can't remember where. On rifle and pistol the round count assumes two rounds on paper, just verifying. Thank you
  3. If you go to the precision rifle series website they have thirteen matches that they have approved for the precision rifle series which you can also participate in. On the Snipers Hide in the tactical rifle competition section they have every other long range tactical or long range precision, whichever you want to call it, that is currently available. You have to be fairly quick because alot of the matches fill up within an hour after registration opens. Some of these matches will have shots from 50 - 800 yards. Other will go out to 1000 yards. These are the sites that the competitors in this discipline use.
  4. I have a number of the Harris and Atlas bipods. The Atlas bipod has a number of distinct advantages to long range tactical shooting. 1. Makes it easier to load the bipod. 2. It swivels and has a tention adjustment on the swivel, makes it easier to track moving targets. 3. Legs can not forward and back, this has many advantages. Such as reducing the height below the minmum retractable movement on the legs. When I am shooting off a fence I put one leg forward and one leg to the back which give a very stable shooting position, etc. 4. The unit cants from the swivel position so it is easy to keep your scope vertical. 5. It is built extremely well, I actually broke the leg off of a Harris bipod on one of my heavier rifles. I use the Harris bipods on my 223 AR platforms. I use the Atlas on my AR10 platform and on my bolt guns.
  5. MILS and MOA In 1995 I quit shooting for about 15 years. When I came back to shooting in 2009 instead of shooting IPSC I decided to shoot longe range tactical. I started out with a scope that had MOA turret and retical, which is also called true MOA which is 1.047 inches at 100 yards. I then switched to another MOA scope which was actually in IPH or inch per hundred yards. Now all the scopes I use are MIL Turret, MIL Retical in first focal plane. The first thing to think about is that when you are doing hold overs and hold unders using the retical the more deliniations you have to deal with allows for grater error, and take longer. At 1000 yards my 6.5 mm CM with a 28" barrel shooting 140 gr factory ammo is 9.6 mils of elevation, with MOA it is 33.1 minutes of elevation. As you can see it takes alot more of them to get there. The same is true when you are dialing your DOPE, you are going to be into the second turn on the elevation turret. This is sometimes confusing if you don't have a second turn indicator . With MILS even with a factory .308 your normally still in the first revelution on the turret. Also, when you are shooting moving targets at 500 yards with a 5 mile an hour target my lead would be 3.2 mils. With MOA it would be 11 minutes. Again, because you are further across on the retical which increases the liklihood of error. Although you can range with TMOA, MOA and MIL it is easier to range with MIL. I look at my retical as basically a ruler. You need to decide which system is going to be the easiest for you to use. The link above is one of the better explanations of MIL and MOA that I have seen. It is on the US Optics website.
  6. Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.
  7. This will be my first time shooting the Iron Man and I have a question. What size shot do most of the people run for this match? Thanks!
  8. I don't have any prejudices against the AKDAL. As things go with me, I will probably end up with one. But without having reliable magazines it is just not an immediate choice. Ever since I have owned my R&R Saiga I have just had a lot of fun shooting it. Especially since I got the 20 round mags. As a matter of fact, I like it so much that I ordered a second one today. I am one of those individuals that like to have a back up for all of my firearms.
  9. I can't see Mag changes being any easier or faster than with the R&R Saiga and their mag well with the extended release. My Saiga mag changes are actually faster than my AR mag changes. I fired up the CNC and here are some pictures of a holder that I made to go my Safariland belt system. I used it in three or four matches so far and it works extremely well.
  10. I have a couple of M2 Benelli's set up for tactical and a couple set up for open class. I purchased a Saiga with all the modifications from Robert at R&R about 6 months ago. I shot it at the SMM 3-G and the USPSA Multi Gun Nationals. The shotgun runs flawlessly. I had the ten and twelve round magazines. I recently purchased a twenty round magazine. I had some issues, so I changed the recoil spring to an 18 lb. and the twenty round magazine functions flawlessly as well. The bottom line is that the R&R Saiga is just a lot of fun to shoot. There is almost no recoil, I am shooting 1530 fps, 1 oz slugs and its like shooting 1150 fps low recoil slugs. Reloading is as easy as sticking a magazine in. R&R does a nice job, there are only four original Saiga parts left on the shotgun, and those are modified. One thing I don't like about the Akdal is that it has a composite lower receiver. I saw an individual shooting an Akdal at the USPSA Multi Gun Nationls, it had seroius function problems. Each magazine that the competitor used, the shotgun had a number of malfunctions. I also noticed that the members of team Firebird that I saw were shooting a Saiga. I also agree that with time plus scoring and very few penalty targets and as far as I was concerned there were no difficult shots at the Multi Gun Nationals, with getting rid of the power factor there is not much advantage in shooting open, except it is just a lot of fun. There are definitely some elements missing in the DVC, like accuracy and power. I also had a hard time with buying a Russian firearm. My R&R Saiga was my first. As it has been said, there is not much else on the market that is comparable at the moment. The Saiga does take minimal maintenance to keep it operational and you do have to shoot a high quality shot shell. Other than that there is not much you need to do. Probably the main reason that more Saigas are not used in competition is the initial purchase price for a customized unit. Most of the time I don't look at what the pro or full time shooters are using because 9 out of 10 times it has been given to them by their sponsors. So make your own decision and have a lot of fun.
  11. Does anybody know how it works if you're ROing and shooting?
  12. I am not a wanna be sniper, long range tactical is just a lot of fun. In the matches that I have been to, I finished high enough that I have won guns and other neat stuff. It's the only sport where you get to shoot at night and from helicopter platforms and many other unique shooting situations. I like all the shooting sports and participate in most of them.
  13. If you are going to use it for tactical competition I would go with first focal plane, mil turret and retical.
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