Long Range Shooting Rifle Options

any word on your approval?

My can arrived USPS today and my lazy carrier tried to leave a note in my mailbox saying i wasnt around for signature but i chased her to my neighbors house and said hey, ring the damn doorbell next time a signature is required. id post pics but i dont know how. its a sweet setup, can go from 9" with 8 baffles down to 7" with 6 baffles if you need more compact, in a blind etc. Banish 30 from silencer central.

 

if anyone is looking for a solid chassis and can wait a few weeks, Aero is unloading some blem solus competitions in various colors/lengths for $520ish

https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/solus-17-competition-chassis-lagoon-blue-anodized-blem

 

I've posted this in the other gun thread but I basically have a standing open invite to anyone that wants to join me for a day at my favorite range around mid-eastern TN. Rifle out to 1k yards and plenty of options for dynamic shooting in the pistol & carbine bays. Some decent .22 stuff available as well.

 

As far as cleaning routines for your 6.5, the last time I took my 6.5 CM AR-10 out, my buddies and I ran it suppressed for almost 200 rounds. The boomer RSO asked me how hot we were gonna get that suppressor as the mirage was visible from 30 feet away. I just shrugged lol. But the only difference I noticed all day was the initial transition from cold bore. After that, it was still holding 1.2-1.5 moa 5 shot groups at 1k yards when we did our part and I'm convinced the gun was capable of more but we're all still amateur enough to allow wind & technique to play a significant part (on a perfect windless day, I've been able to repeatedly hold .8-.9 moa groups but that day I think 1.1 was about the best we managed with the wind). Point is that barrel and action were fucking hot and filthy by the end of the day but still holding the same accuracy as when we started.

I probably fall into the overcleaning category, simply because it's therapeutic to me. So my guns usually get cleaned after every range trip, thus I haven't given myself many opportunities to evaluate performance without cleaning. But that last range day with the 6.5 was kind of an exception and I was impressed with the guns performance. My only guns that often see that round count or more in a single day are my pistols or my primary AR-15 and those obviously aren't being evaluated for accuracy at 1k yards.

TL;DR: My 6.5 gas gun ran a couple hundred rounds in a row, at distance, suppressed with no drop in performance so I'm guessing most of these bolt guns are perfectly fine with a minimal cleaning regimen.

 

I think I am going to buy my wolf hunting permit, and see if I can help the moose population, by, culling one or two of their killers. Ski

That was one I was looking at as well. how was your transaction with silencer central, how long from add to cart, through the system, to you? Did you get the standard 30 or the gold? Ski

 

i have zero complaints from the transaction process. timing, is probably a month from when you click buy to when your forms are submitted. you e-fill a bunch of stuff, then they mail you some fingerprint cards and an ink pad, you mail those back, then you digitally sign on the ATF website. then you wait for ATF. after approval, it was about 3 weeks ( for me, two holidays in that period) before they sent me a tracking number letting me know it was in the mail. Banish 30 standard, not the gold.

 

I just ordered the same. filled out all my paperwork, and digitally signed. Going to go to the sheriff dept to get my prints so, I know they are done right. Then send those in. How long was it start to finish for you? 6 months? Thanks for the info! Ski

 

A month from buying to submitting and waiting 3 weeks after it’s approved sounds like some 2010 quality service to me.

 

Thanks for all of the into fellas, I’ll start out with Hornady 140 eldm since they are reasonably priced and plentiful.

Can’t wait to throw a scope on it and get it to the range.

 

I think he means one month from buying, to Silencer Central submitting to the atf. The retailer (Silencer Central) has to send your self service fingerprint cards (dont mess up, the feds are looking to deny this, and make you keep waiting) to you, or you go down to the local leo station and get them to do it for you, so you know it is done right, and send back to them, then send in your passport type photo to them, then they contact you to go over everything, to make sure everything is ok, then they submit to the atf... Then the real wait begins. Ski

 

I love my First Focal Plane Burris Signature HD, with the Creedmoor reticle. It is based on 140gr projectiles for bdc, windage hold overs. Do a lot of research on scopes, buy once cry once. Just say no to Vortex. Ski

 

Or use Silencer Shop and do your fingerprints on their kiosk at your local gun shop and have it all done faster.

 

One week of the 3 is sending certified mail to my local sheriff letting them know of the transfer. The other two weeks, well, Christmas and new years happened in there and I don't blame people for taking time off.

The first month could be improved on by me for sure, I think they can move faster.

 

From buy to can in my hand total was just under 9 months. 7 months in ATF hell.

 

I think I want to get comfortable on a simpler, cheaper fixed power scope for now. I hear lots of good things about the SWFA 10x scope, and it’s under $300. Figure I’ll step up to a Razor or Cronus down the road.

 

I am lusting after the Burris PH with built in heads up display, and bluetooth for ballistics. then no more math... range the target, look at the HU display, dial to the range, shoot. Ski

 

Yes, 7 months from start to in hand.

Any of you guys in southern Michigan or northern ohio......downriver guns has the silencer shop kiosk in store and he has to have probably 100k in silencers in stock.

Small store/range but a heck of an inventory

 

The razor HD line by vortex is nice. I had one about a year and a half ago. I think it was the gen 2 with an ebr7c reticle. I liked it. And for like 2k it had really nice glass. I did eventually sell it for something nicer but i just about bought a used one the other day for a good price. Missed it. The cheaper ones I’ve seen a lot of tracking issues though, and obviously the glass is a little less quality. I just recently made the switch to a simpler reticle and got rid of my Christmas tree ones. Anymore I dial 99% of the time with very little holds, and the Christmas trees were in the way and you miss a lot of bullet trace. I feel like more companies should be looking at the “less is more”. Some of those reticles have so much shit in them it’s like a whole encyclopedia crammed in the lens.

 

Yep Eurooptic, picked it up for $1100. Around $500 off, so a great deal. I can’t tell if they are discontinuing them or coming out with a new model. It’s weird that Sako would be discontinuing it as it’s such a nice rifle. I did a lot of research on it and literally couldn’t find anything negative about it. Can’t wait to get it to the range.

 

I am the same way, less is more (better), for me. I just want to gather the data, work my dope, range, dial, and squeeze. I dont want hold overs or giant reticles with too much clutter. The Burris 6.5 reticle I am talking about, has enough info but, not too cluttered, for me. Being an illuminated reticle, it is and was very nice, for late evening hunts, and shooting situations. The illuminated portion is just the center tiny crosshair. It is fabulous for me.

I am hoping Burris updates the PH to include illuminated center crosshair, at some point. Ski