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    Loyalist Arms Baker Rifle

    SS: I have one that is almost brand new and will sell it to you if you are interested. Contact me via private message and we can work out the details. Scipio
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    Skagit county wa

    RH: Chelan County, Plain. Been focused on Biathlon over the winter and am now getting back on the forum. Got to shoot my flinters before it gets so dry that it becomes dangerous. A burning patch is an ugly thing in July around here.
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    Seating the ball

    Keith: How can someone produce enough friction by seating a ball to set off a charge of any type of black or smokeless powder? Yes, I have seen guys light up lint by compressing the air by hand in a air tight container but muzzle loaders have vent holes or nipples that let the air out. Not...
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    Trouble seeing sights in the woods

    rj: You want to be able to very quickly pick up the front sight and see the top of the blade clearly so your elevation holds. Sometimes a thicker front sight is in order so I would first figure out if the blade itself needs to be wider. Wider blade means easier to see clearly but too wide a...
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    TVM Jaegar

    Guys: Finally got some of the basic stuff worked out of my TVM Jaegar like load development and zeroing (filing down the front sight and opening up the notch in the rear sight) and have been doing a bit more shooting with it now that the fire danger is down. I have a bunch of MGM AR550 steel...
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    Lee pots

    CC: I have a Lee 10 pound bottom pour and was plagued with the thing dripping. When the thing starts to drip, get a screw driver and turn the rod a turn or two. It works well with me and stopped the dripping instantly. I have little use for Lee equipment but that little 10 pound pot has...
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    Cheek hold

    COEE: Probably because of two things. First, pulling the rifle into the shoulder will stabilize the rifle easier and more positively than pushing down on the stock with the cheek. And second, muzzle loaders tend to have curved stocks and a lot of drop so the shooter isn't able to EASILY put a...
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    Enough is Enough

    Zonie: Rog -- I hear some are paid but didn't know about you guys. Wouldn't bug me if you were. Scipio
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    Enough is Enough

    Eric: My exact thoughts. I am a mod for a modern day firearm site and I do tell the person why I banned them and for how long. Some return after their time and others move along. Rarely do any get banned permanently. Also, agree totally about the search feature here and even on the site I...
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    Offhand Practice

    Absolutely correct. Focus on sight picture through the entire shot. By doing so, the mind and body will try and keep the barrel pointed where the eyes tell them to point. What ever mental program a guy uses, the program must run until the shooter knows absolutely that the ball or bullet has...
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    Offhand Practice

    Gus: Culver could have been the fellow. The name 'Willis' or something like that comes up too for some reason. Had a great time there and it was really an education on the differences in individual weapons training and doctrine between the USMC and Army. You guys had quite the machine shop...
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    Offhand Practice

    Gus: I read some of the test reports you guys did on the 118 LR. Even got a chance to spend a day at your place in Quantico and got shown around. Can't remember the name of the OIC -- the same guy who served with Hathcock in Vietnam. Bulldog looking fellow. Talked with him for a while, got...
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    Offhand Practice

    A2: I have been competing in winter biathlon for about six years now. Those guys sure do get into that hip forward position, just like the women. They spent a whole lot of time and effort to develop that sort of off hand position. Also, their rifle designs are better for that position than...
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    Offhand Practice

    As I said, females are more able to get their hip out and pelvis angled up so as to support the elbow. If you can get into that standing position, you are pretty unique. And I read the caption for the photo. Note where they talk about muscles being needed to support the position. Bottom...
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    Offhand Practice

    A2: Another myth is bone to bone support. Stand up with your rifle and take a good standing position. Then tell me what bone is in contact with what bone. I would say that your non firing tricep is in contact with your lat or your lat and pectorals. Even if you scoot your hip way out front...
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    Offhand Practice

    Gus: Two things are key. First is 1975 and second -- hunting rifle. Even hunting rifles have come a long way since then and I don't know of many guys who hunt at 600 to 1000 yards, where any sort of 'cold bore' shift in zero may mean enough of a change that the shot may go outside a kill...
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    Offhand Practice

    CC: Roger -- got it. The shooter is having difficulty with a barrel heavy muzzle loader, both in seating the ball and in holding off hand. If I were their coach, I would go with a mechanical fix first. Two things. Get a barrel that is not so muzzle heavy that the shooter is struggling to...
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    Offhand Practice

    Sorry CC but you couldn't be more wrong -- at least in today's terms. Have seen enough JR female shooters doing quite well with heavy competitive AR-15's to know that such a statement is simply wrong. Was even wrong in the day of the M-1 and M-14. Having upper body strength is important...
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    Offhand Practice

    You mean they don't already know how to do a push up?
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    Offhand Practice

    Gus: If a guy's rifle will not hold a group because of barrel temp, he needs to buy a barrel that will. Easiest point you can make is the one you buy. No, won't get into it about score books. Used them, thought they were the gospel, and saw that they negatively impacted performance until a...
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