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The rest of these pictures are from the photographer that was there for the match just to take pics. Top of the high angle tower. Nice fun run to the top just to hoist 40lb logs up it then shoot. Targets ontop of the high angle tower. 400ish to 900ish if I remember right. Secondary shooter was in the car after the tahoe were the primary shooter shot from. This was the best place the spotter could be in the car because the secondary shooter wasn't allowed to have his body outside the car. Tahoe full of brass :up: Aaron spotting for me (thank god he didn't shoot or else I'd have passed out and died from that muzzle brake) Shooting my targets before we moved to the car. [/URL] Lifting the logs into the 2.5 ton truck. 3 logs total. Buddy assist stage. Barb wire stage. Buddy assist stage. Camp site on Saturday night. Our very last stage. The barricade stage. Shooting from the truck once the logs were in.

  The dude that looks like he belongs on duck dynasty? long hair past his shoulders? bigger fellow in a gray down jacket?   Yuppppppppp. Thats Hill! was my RO.

what AW……… There is no AW here……. You had one to start with??…….. :)   I'm headed over wens man. no worries. I'll be cleaning it tomorrow (not the barrel though) and bringing 1,700 9mm 147's I finished today for you.    Dude, I regret ever letting that gun go. Man, it was awesome out there! Wish I still had it! Looks great sitting in my safe right now. I mean… what?….. theres no gun there…...   And I actually do need a new barrel. This ones getting on my nerves. It was all sorts of FUBAR the first 4 stages of the match. 1+2 minute hold on wind at 727 and we couldn't see the rounds trace or impact. So, we played with it in the 4 minutes I had to shoot. Ended up being 2 full mil's left on top of what I dialed. And there we were thinking I was just a crappy shooter the first day of the match. Thankfully we figured out it wasn't me. Ha. But, that really screwed us on points and brought us down on the finally rankings. Kicker is, we zeroed the day before the match officially started. So I know it was dead nuts on.

  No…… Because I just edited it. Ha.

Went to the Mammoth Sniper Challenge in Blakely, GA at Legion OTG Jan 7-11. Before I start going on this, keep in mind: -when I get to the rucking (running…) part I weighted my pack in at 75lbs before I left and had a 20lb gun. We had to ruck to every stage and campsite. Didn't go anywhere without walking there. -Each stage is 8 minutes long. You have that amount of time to both shoot your targets and get all the required events in the stage complete. Be it lifting the longs in the truck. pulling them up three flights of stairs, changing from the Tahoe to the car. Time was VERY limited. We get their wens night and its FREEZING. Literally 18 degrees and we didn't get a cabin. So, we scramble calling around trying to find a place to stay before the match starts friday so we don't die in the cold. Thankfully we found this amazing little farm 6 miles away with brand new cabins. White Oak Pastures. Let me tell ya, it was great. 150 year family history there and they did a great job with everything. All natural, range fed, all that stuff, it was there. We had to go into one of the pastures to our cabin tucked back in the woods and make sure the gate was locked because baby cows and chickens were roaming freely. It was what you'd think a farm was from the 1800's, legit. Anyways, so we registered Wednesday night for the range estimation, target detection and stalking on thursday morning. Went back to our cabin, unpacked a little, then went for some good local grub and drinks in the podunk town of Blakely, GA. Got back to the cabin and worked on our ghillies and gear a little for thursdays events, drank some more (best way to hydrate right?) and went to bed. Thursday: Stalking; we did great. Simply put. There was 20ish competitors and out of those we both passed. Only team to pass at that. 4 total passed including us. The closer you where to the guys looking for you in a spotting scope the better you did. I tied for 3rd and my buddy was 2nd. We were within I'd say 30-40 yards of each other. Now, the 1st place guy…….. in ACU's of all things, which SUCK. and I mean SUCKKKKKKK. So, he makes a ghille out of those right?… well, the area we did this in was starting in the woods, make it to tall grass thats about 100 yards long, and the graders are in cut grass past that 100ish yards, not even. This dude in ACU's crawled all the way to the edge of the grass probably not even 100 yards away and took his two shots and didnt get found. I mean, good luck on exfil buddy haha, but man that was impressive. Range estimation was great and simple. Target Detection was ran kinda crappy and wrong from how its suppose to be run, but whatever. It was a good day and we passed the stalk so thats all I cared about at that point. Friday: let the freezing cold fun begin! We stepped off at 7:30 in 28 degree weather. And I'll tell ya, I shoulda went down to a t-shirt and ditched the hoodie. 3.6 mile ruck run, timed, running over 11 burms for some of the bays as you go. They ranged from 10-20 feet tall. The last two I darn near crawled up. I still don't regret my choice to hydrate off Coors light though ;). We get to the first stage and here comes the problems. Not hitting a thing. And I mean we can't even see trace. Wasn't a good start. Actually lets get into the problems first. 1) I zeroed my gun after the events thursday and it was dead nuts on. So…… it might have fallen over leaning up against the wall that night, but there is no way it should have lost zero… well, it did. 2) Mikes PMII scope wouldn't allow my buddy to zero the gun. The internal slip ring wasn't set to allow him to go the .5mils down he needed to zero. And we didn't have the time to take the top turret apart and slip the internal disc. So, he played the "lets just factor that into the math as we go" game. 700 yards on the second stage, and man I wasn't hitting a thing still. Aaron kept making corrections and finally we just starting holding more and more and moreeeeee then some more to the right. initial wind call was 1.5 minutes right. NOPE. gun wasn't having that. ontop of that dial, I held two full MILS. yeah, big change huh? so we walked it on, got a couple hits and then after that stage we slipped my rings on the best possible guess we could have made to get it to what we figured zero was at that point. The last stage of the day was a buddy assist stage. Only allowed to touch hands and feet to the ground. NOTHING else. So people got creative. You'll see pics below, and some in further comments. Nothings in order with the pics so just take that for what it's worth. We did great at that stage. We both shot 3 of 4 targets pretty fast and were happy we made up for some points that were lost earlier in the day from figuring our guns out and making corrections to them. Sleep… what sleep? 28 degrees at night, wind, and all I brought was one poncho and it was suppose to rain. No liner for my sleeping bag so the cold wind at night went right under my hammock and kept me awake and violently shivering and shaking all night. 3 hours of sleep later, we started the next day. Saturday: First stage was the barb wire stage. Crawl on up, shoot the primary targets, crawl on down and shoot the secondary off the wood pile. Sounds simple right? Wrong. So cold my trigger finger wasn't happy about touching a freezing metal trigger. Didn't help much. But no excuses, so we pushed on. Didn't do so good on that stage. Trace was still hard to see at that point so making corrections was iffy at best. 3 people ripped their $600 down jackets on that barbed wire. They all had the exact same jacket, and let me tell ya, all were just as happy as the next it got tore up nice and good…. Moving along to the 2nd stage of the day, we had a nice ruck run to warm us up so that really helped. This stage we had to move a big steel sled with our rucks on it to a stake near the porch, shoot off a porch of the house for primary, move the sled to the 2.5 ton truck, climb in the truck with our gear above the stake in the truck so it was nice and up there to climb into it. Thankfully they had a rope you could lower yourself down the bed in. Then the secondary shooter takes his shots and boom, times called. The third stage was the high angle the video is off of. So thats pretty self explanatory. Primary shoots off the berm, both take all gear and run up 3 flights of stairs, hoist 2x 40lb logs up from the ground, primary has to hit one target before secondary can shoot (good to know what your target is and not look like an a$$ like myself) and then secondary shoots all the targets. Quick note on that stage. My buddy forgot to set his watch timer so we lost track of time. I didn't get a chance to engage my last target because he said move to soon, but whatever we hit all but that one target and did great. Remember, 8 minutes total per stage and we finished that in 5:30. Plenty of time…. Shoulda hit that last target. haha. Little ruck run back to a new camp site and we were done for the day. Bed at 6:30? yes please. My buddy remembered he had a spare poncho he never used the 1st night either so I lined my hammock with that to keep the cold wind out and what a difference! slept about 6 hours that night and felt amazing in the morning. Sunday fun day: two stages left, so lets do this! First stage, lift 3 massive longs into a 2.5 ton truck. Get your gear in there and shoot your targets. Primary then secondary like usual. We finished with 20 seconds left but didn't hit many targets. Hard stage for sure. Try hitting a ruler on a moving/falling apart truck bench at 400 something yards. The last stage we did amazing at. Move from 3 different barricades engaging your targets, then run back to the staging point and grab the secondaries grounded gun, run up and shoot the targets. Bonus stage: 12.5" suppressed rifle, H59 reticle, hold 2.8 mils and hit a 4" target at 418 yards. Aaron got a first round hit and I missed :angry:, but thats ok, he got us 5 bonus points for that and we already did good on the stage so heck yeah. He was the only one to do that too so we were happy! We seemed to always do good on the last stage every day. Darn near crushing it no problem…. if we could have only done that the entire match! Then we staged for the 5.2 mile ruck to the finish line. That was fun. Should have kept my phone in my ruck and not my pocket… Had to cross two streams, one being waist deep. Had to carry my cell the rest of that ruck. Only 3 something miles left but thats annoying to carry stuff when you're already carrying all that weight. Free hands are nice to say the least. Oh, did I mention if you don't pass the rucks you get dropped from the division and don't get to win anything fancy like we did? Yeah, motivation to pass, because the prizes rocked. http://youtu.be/S9bDiTyDVoY It was myself as the primary shooter and best friend growing up as the secondary shooter/spotter (couldn't have a better sniper buddy, trust me :D ). Rocking my Accuracy International AE MK3 and Aaron rocking my old Accuracy International AW that is now Mike's (Lawenforcementsales). Also, sporting Mikes company shirt because, well, Mikes a freakin awesome dude and let Aaron borrow his AW for this match. Can't thank him enough! This picture was also taken after the last 5.2 mile ruck run of the match at the finish line. We dropped out packs, took the pic, then proceeded to drink beer, smoke a cigar and take a shot of bourbon to celebrate an awesome match. This stage was designed so you have to throw three massive logs into the back of the truck, then climb in with all your gear before you can start. Shoot all your targets, get your secondary shooter to shoot theirs, and here is the kicker... If you don't get the three logs out of the truck before your time is up you loose your best shot per log that is still in the truck. So, you really needed to watch the clock on this one. My little camp site paradise while the sun was still out and I could eat my tasty maple sausage MRE. Little chicken pasta MRE anyone? Saturday nights camp site when we arrived before we set our hammocks up. Found some good trees so we were next to each other. High angle tower, waiting for our turn. Turned out to be t-shirt weather at high 30's that day. So hot from rucking, there was nothing more relaxing than being in a t-shirt and dry finally. Do you even Law Enforcement Sales bro? IF NOT YOU SHOULD! Staging for the ruck after the stage. We shot off this porch past the road into our targets. After the porch we climbed into this truck. Remember, above the stake on the side then lowering ourselves to the bottom. If your body was outside the bed your hits didn't count. So watch those feet! (definitely steeper than it looks, trust me. haha Barb wire stage. First nights camp site. If you're curious about the cooler, we were allowed a certain size cooler that was brought to us each night after we got to the camp site. 10x14x9. We put most our food in there. Some teams put gatorade or whatever in there but it had to be food and drink only. Another team figuring out what to do for the buddy assist stage. This dude…. he's a flippin machine. "I'm getting shin splints from going so slow, so I'm just going to run for a bit"…. ok, enjoy I'll be back here striding it out. haha. I was suckin, so I took a selfy. We finished 2nd on almost every ruck and 3rd on 2. For a lazy contractor that avoids going to work like the plague I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to still ruck run with that much weight for those distances from stage to stage. There is more in the comments below.

I've owned my YZ295 for 2 years now. Never changed a plug, and yes I check it often, never an issue with it. I've also spent LOTS of time getting the jetting correct. Because its a big bore there isn't just a factory spec on what to do with the motor. I have a coated piston in there which comes standard from Eric Gorr and he says they last 100ish hours. I'd normally change my top ends about every 60 hours before. I'm welllll past 100 hours now and it still looks new in there (the top end). So, I'm going to see how far I can push it and just do a total engine rebuild when its at its breaking point. I ride at LBL a couple times a month in the summer time with a buddy. If you get a bike and want to head up there, let me know. I'd be happy to haul our bikes up there for a good day of riding. Oh, oil changes, about every 2-3 rides. Never past 3 rides. Rode 4 times once on the same oil and it came out grey. Wasn't happy with that and felt really bad I did that to my motor. Cant get lax when it comes to that. Even 4 strokes need the oil changed every couple rides. Also, 4 strokes use oil filters, 2's don't. Little cost savings right there. I just throw in 75W Bel Ray gear oil and my motor is a happy camper. Another great thing if you can afford it, is run flats. Tubliss is what they are called. I just ran one in the rear to start, and I got to LBL one day and my tire was flat. Rode all day on a flat tire. was like having a tank track. didn't hurt the bike or rim what-so-ever. I was sold. Period. Hands down. end of report. I put on in the front tire the next day. Best $100 you can spend (per rim). And with you riding in the woods, and ever getting a flat its not very fun to push your bike out the entire way. haha. Jetting is seriously a big deal though. I used to get a lot of splooge out of my bike. Oil that wasn't burning from the premix and going through the pipe and collecting in the muffler packing. It used to pour out of my pipe when I got the bike. the guy before me said he hadn't had time to get the jetting right so it was left one me. I've gone through a couple things of muffler packing now trying to get it perfect, and when I did, MANNNNNN was there a difference in performance. jet, jet, and jet some more. get it right the first time and your bike with thank you for it years and years later when its still running right.

All you haters on 2 strokes in the woods over here. I ride a YZ250 with Eric Gorr 295 kit in it for woods riding, and only that. yes, it needs to be beat on and run hard, but I also baby it a lot and it does even better than my old YZ450. Hands down, I'll take a two stroke in the woods anyways. Period. I've never been a 4 stroke fan, and never will be. 2 strokes have bulletproof motors. They just run. Had a 99 CR125 with countless hours before I did a rebuild, took the top end apart and there was sand in there and everything. But it was still running strong. Another thing I'll not, clutchs on a two stroke are much more forgiving. At least on my bikes. YMMV. But man, to me I just see no downside to running a two stroke in the woods. Just beat on it a bit here and there and you'll be fine. Heres my baby: [URL=http://s95.photobucket.com/user/eat7thirdythree/media/image_zps8c1b31b8.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s95.photobucket.com/user/eat7thirdythree/media/image_zpsc00773ca.jpg.html][/URL]

He's a drive, but I recommend Mike Dresner (lawenforcementsales) in Oak Ridge.

  It was just the bigger guns that created the flute marks. smaller pistol caliber guns just left burn marks that came off when you tumble the brass. So, rifle sucked for reloaders, pistol was good to go.

My guess, they are super finicky. and on top of that they do wear down faster than the average bear. headspace does shrink and with the gun on full auto it shrinks much faster. rollers need to be changed to combat the headspace change, or just getting it right in the first place. not all barrels are pressed in equally, so right off the batt you're adjusting the headspace to make it right for that particular gun. also locking pieces wear, and can be a pain in the arse. the MP5K alone I think has 3 different angles for different loads being used, suppressed, non suppressed. Also, in the MP5 extractor springs need replacing often. I go through them pretty quick. They are cheap, but just another maintenance issue.   I love me a good roller lock gun. Ive had 3 MP5's, still own one and its my favorite gun i own. I'm all for them. But, for the average person thats a lot of work.    Much easier to throw an M4/AR15 together and just have it run right out of the gate with no worries about that stuff over time. 

  I have enough spare parts sitting here to complete one of these BCG's and the other carrier will just be a spare. $45… cant beat that! :)

  Lots of people have had good luck with the NiB BCG's. Don't get me wrong. I'm just not one of them. Even had someone join this forum just to message me and say they had the same problem and were glad they were not the only one, when they found my post on them googling or whatever. 

YUPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Never getting another one from them again, that's for sure.

Anyone else get there's? I got two right before they sold out. I sent off a text about them and when my buddy tried to get one they were gone. Sold out FAST. Glad I got my two :) I also got a $25 complete bolt. Wish I could have gotten more but one was the ordering limit. Will be nice to have some spares finally. The bolt is going to replace my crappy AIM surplus one what doesn't work though. Wish I could have gotten 2 more bolts.

Get the welder out. Screw it.

If you really need it done, mike Dresner in oak ridge. Goes by lawenforcementsales on here. Hands down. Wouldn't have a higher recommendation.

I always used Barrett mags and literally never had a problem with my gun. I loved those mags.

Oh yeah. I think I've used 1680, 322, 335, wc844 and a couple others in it. I MIGHT have my data laying around. I can check Monday when i get home. 322 was probably my favorite.

I've had a couple 6.8's from a bolt gun to gas guns. My last one I sold was a LWRC m6a3. I love that round. Loved reloading for it. But I got out of it because I could reload 308 cheaper so I just changed everything over to that. The round is amazing. I truly love it. My LWRC was a 14.7" and to me the perfect length. Still got great velocity through it. The bolt gun was nice because I could load up heavy rounds like the 140grainers. Anyways you'll like the round and can't go wrong with either barrel length. The round was designed to be shot from a short barrel anyways so that says a lot right there. Again only reason I got out of it was it was just cheaper to stick with all 308 bullets for my 300/221 and 308 and loading for both was considerably cheaper. I'm sure things have changed since I was in the game of 6.8 though. Hell I started in 2007 with that round. So it's been a bit.

Hey I got 4. Come on now. I'm going to have to move my clear bins for mags somewhere else to get these 4 ammo cans in there as it is :)

It's cool. Its Bush's fault. Says it right in there.

I use it in my bedroom. cheaper than buying another apple TV. I don't use it much, so don't know what kind of data it uses up. I guess I never checked. But it works good. super simple to use. I'd recommend one.

  Oh I do. ha. I've had a full row of .45 ACP up there. about 4,000 rounds maybe on just one side. the shelves sag to say the least…. but haven't broken yet :)

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Wet tumble for an hour to clean the brass before the sizing. then size once dry. then wet tumble again for 3 hours to take the lube off, clean inside, primer pockets and make the brass look brand new. then trim, anneal, and load :)