mikegideon

I agree to a point. This really is about them trying to handle disasters better in the future. It's still the government, and they're always gonna suck at what they do. Still, with a Katrina sized event, they're the only ones that can step in. Not suggesting you cooperate. Just suggesting that their motivation may not be as scary as it looks.

We need to try this thing at night. Since there's lots of capacity left over in a car sized battery, it would be pretty easy to rig some kind of bright LED light.

That looks better than I expected. BTW... your windage was off a little

Santa is welcome in my house, but has to bring his own beer. I'm much better at picking my own Christmas presents than he ever was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9NkQldeu0

They're available, just not on a country boy budget.

One more thing... we have less than $300 in this rig. The camera and TV were scrounged. Not sure you could get much of a spotting scope for that anyway. That's one reason why we did an NTSC video link instead of a Wifi setup.

The problem with the air is more of a dust/moisture content thing. I havent seen the video screen yet. Hopefully, Okey will take a picture or two. When I talked to him earlier, he mentoned burning the targets . Like I said, it's pretty windy out there.

I'm thinking there's too much crap in the air, even without mirage. I have a 60x spotting scope, but it's a HUGE pain in the butt. You can see the bullet impacts on a whte steel target through the scope. Just not enough contrast for paper.

It's working at 600 and 700. They need to tweak the antenna, and today ain't the day. Cold and windy. In fact, too windy to shoot past 600.

Excuse the crummy pics. Introducing the OkeyCam 7000 This is a home made wireless target cam for long range shooting. It runs off a motorcycle or car battery. It uses a plain old camcorder camera, and a 2.4 Ghz wireless digital link. The goal was to design something that has at least a 1000 yard range with good battery life. The transmitter puts out less than a watt, and runs on 12 volts. The camera runs on 7 volts, so there's an on-board voltage regulator. The system draws a little less than an amp, so battery life estimate is simply the amp hour rating of the battery. Everything was done to permit fairly rough handling, but it's obviously not bullet proof. It will last until somebody puts a 6mm hole in it . Back at the shack, there's a high gain receive antenna, the receiver, and a wall mounted flat TV. Since the transmitter is fairly low power, we needed lots of antenna gain. I think the guys are going to test it today. we cobbled the system together and tested it at 100 yards before the conversion to DC power. It had lots of headroom, and should perform well without adding any more antenna gain. Last time I was out there, the antenna wasn't dead on the berms. I wanted to go out for the tests, but am in ammo hell right now. Anyway... that's my story. We'll see how it works.

Yep. These best threads always have the same result. Nobody (usually) mentions Highpoint or the Ring of Fire brands. Everything else has a shot at being the best. There is one truth. If the gun jams or runs out of ammo, and you have to resort to pistol whippin', a 1911 is the best .

I'm inclined to think you're right, Mac. I aslo believe that a ban would force some of them to change their source, and they WILL find another source. Meanwhile, here in the Peoples' Republic, lots of good folks are going to have to put up with more crap.

Yep. They already said "Merry Christmas" and everything. Looks like it may be on again now.

I had a bunch of questions too. It's helpful to get face to face with Mark and fire away. He was very patient with all my dumb questions. It's also real helpful to have the actual safes in front of you. What I'm sayin'... set up a time and visit the store.

Prison???

No

I just can't imagine them not catching that when it happened. The gas tube was barely sticking into the barrel nut. I don't know if tightening the QC will fix that kind of stupid.

Geez, how could they make that mistake?

You mean BTHP, like a Matchking? Sierra sez no. Requires a minimum of 1:8. They fly real well in my 1:8. Haven tried them in one of my 1:9 carbines, but really don't see the point with Eotech and Aimpoint sights.

I heard a similar story, but the guy just shot off his own pinky

Actually, I think we listen to the Mexican government way too much.

Really? I didn't read the article. This may win the cheesey journalism of the year award.

This didn't really haapen. Virginia Tech is a gun free zone. It must have been a stray bullet from another part of town

Don't know. I think everybody with a brain figured Obama would jump on the gun control band wagon. so, if you think you might ever need one or two, you better get them now.