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What would Skeeter do?

You got the weight in the buttstock to balance out that Bushmaster heavy barrel?

I like it. But then again I like the traditional look of the M-16 rifle.

I use 158-grain .357 bullets for buttstock weights.

I just pour them in, until the rifle balances just a smidgen ahead of the mag-well with the sling attached.

Then, I fill the remaining void in the tail of the butstock with a smooshed-up bag from the liquor store.

I never use any weight in the handguard. I know some folks go for those 18# AR's with a full triangle-weight in the butt, and two big hunks of lead in the handguard. That's not for me.

A few days ago, I built the rifle in the pic on a stripped M&P lower, and a Rock River parts kit with Geissele service-rifle trigger, all of which I had laying around since before the second-term Obamania.

The upper is a more-or-less shot out Bushmaster "CMP" barrel (4000+ rounds) and non-pinned Northern Competition quarter-by-quarter sight. Still shoots pretty good, but has some trouble staying on call in the 10-ring on the 600 yard target. I've got a second rifle that has the built Holliger upper that I'll use for this competition season. I've got another still-in-the-box built Holliger upper that I'll put on the M&P lower for my primary competition rifle for 2014.

I can still use the "shot-out" CMP upper to train for offhand and rapid-sitting this season.

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What would Skeeter do?

I don’t know what y’all did today – probably something mad like went to work and earned money.
Work is real slow for me this week.

Probably a good thing, since I woke up Monday morning with a back spasm that was so bad, I couldn’t reach my *** with my right hand.
Ended up wiping with my left hand. It wasn’t pretty.
Called the Pain People, and they said come on in. Shot me up with that stuff that killed a bunch of people last year, and out the door my skippy *** went.
Less than 48 hours later, pain all gone, except where they rammed the needles into my back and my ***.

Still no work, so off to the range for me. :-p

Fairfax 200 yards.
No sighters.

Just guessed at the dope because I’m shooting some moly’d SMK 69’s (boxes dated 1999) that I found in an ammo can at the bottom of my “arsenal.”
Running 26.0 grains N540 (also dated from the 90’s). Seems pretty hot if recoil is any indication. 4x-fired brass looks OK though.

Awfulhand really not too awful today.
Couldn’t scope the black part of the target much through the mirage at 200 yards.
Face of the target stapled over at least 20 rumpled and shot-up centers had more ridges and valleys than Appalachia.
We’ll fix those targets someday.
When the two shots appeared in the white I clicked-on some left.



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Two strings sitting rapid.
Mirage in the scope was worse when I lowered the scope for sitting position.
After first string, all I could see in the scope was a few holes that looked 12 o’clockish in the 10 ring and one of those high nines.
I didn’t touch the sights for a second string.
Something to be said for zeroing the rifle for 10 o’clock on the X-ring line, so that when I yank the trigger to 5 o’clock, I still come away from it with a 10 or a not-an-8 that I didn’t really deserve.



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300 without dope is always my nemesis (see first group in 9-ring).

Came left 1.25 minutes and up 0.25 minutes for second group (should have come up more and left less).



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600
Always has to be ONE that goes and ruins it.
Its that “shot-out” Bushmaster barrel. Yeah, that’s where that 7 came from. I’m sure of it.

First shot was that low 9.
I came up a half-minute, and didn’t touch the sights for the rest of the string, ‘cause the scope was useless after a few shots were on paper.
Just as well.
If I’d seen that 7, I couldn’t have kept my hands off my knob.

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What would Skeeter do?

Do you carry golf tees with you to the range? lol is that the barrel or the scope. It looks like you had fun, I couldnt make the 68gr's shoot well for me but my barrel isnt shot out, so I never tried the 69's. Looks like you had fun!!!

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Its a highpower range.

We routinely use golf tees to mark targets.

So yes, I always have golf tees, value disks, shot-spotters of various sizes, and pasters, and staplers, and target faces and such.

Sometimes I even have a glue bucket.

Stranger things?

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What would Skeeter do?

Hmm... golf tees are a good idea. I think I'm gonna try that.