Recent content by klee

I am certainly no expert but if your reticle is solid and your turrets can return you to zero then you are good. The really expensive scopes generally have the better optical quality, are tougher towards abuse, have great customer service and superb reputations. There are good "cheaper" scopes...

We just got back from shooting a nightforce 5.5x22 and a premier reticle 3.5x15. At 15x on both scopes premier edged out the nightforce by just a little bit in clarity and brightness on a cloudy day. The difference was slight to very slight depending on your eyes. Both of us agreed on that...

Nice write up-you just caused me to add another gadget to the reloading table (a metplat trimmer), my wife thanks you, my credit card company thanks you, and my hunting buddy who borrows my reloading stuff thanks you. LOL:D. So how important is it to buy several boxes of bullets that are the...

Glad you liked the article, it was my first attempt at writing something to be published-it's is a long way from what my Geology department head said after reading my term paper 35 years ago, and I quote: "How in the hell did you get this far" Hey just to keep that fire lit, just get out in...

Hey Rick, Sorry it took so long to respond-just geared up with work after very long lay off. So I haven't had much spare time lately. Yeah I hunt with Chopper, we did an outrageous pheasant hunt a while back. His daughter and mine are like sisters and his Wife and mine are crazy good...

Enter Me In US Optics Rifle Scope Contest

Thanks for that info. I should have mentioned that the head stamp on the brass says: Lapua 7mm rem mag. But it makes sense that if norma made the brass for Lapua that the Lapua stamp would go on the brass. It could have been that Accuracy International made the brass for Lapua with the Lapua...

I recently purchased 140 cases of once fired Lapua 7mm rem mag belted brass. Lapua does not make this brass anymore. Does anyone know when Lapua stopped making this brass? I did many pages of google searching on the internet and found that Accuracy International went in with Lapua to make some...

Enter Me In The Holland Shooting Class Contest

This was a really good thread, I hope other people still check it out after it ages. There are a lot of great scopes out there, even ones below the $1k (like my brick sh.. house built 6x burris). My buddy has his Nightforce 5.5x22 on order (12 week wait!), I have my Premier 3.5x15 (waiting for...

You may be right. I emailed an associate who is an expert in optical systems and lense construction about my questions on resolution and depth of field. Unfortunately he never returned my email, to bad because I'm curious to what he would have said. Not that it matters, it is what you see...

here are are some pics of the Murphy Precision's picatinny base and rings in Titanium (0.825 ring height). I chose to go with stainless with a dark gun coat finish. Klee

bozo699- nice shooting, that is really impressive. I know this is a little off thread (like that never happens) but could you tell us about your load that you have worked up. Bullet make, case, powder, primer, barrel length or anything else you've done to get such good groups- I'm still...

There is are aspects of resolution that involve some trade offs. I'm not a lense expert but I know someone who probably knows as much about lenses and optical construction as any engineer out there and I might email him to see what he thinks. What I do know from my practical experience is you...

Cow elk, 630 yards, down hill, 15 mile/hr cross wind, 25" holdover, 7mm RM, 26" barrel,139 Hornady SP, 3400 FPS, 71 grains H4831 (compressed load) no pressure problems, Blew out the spine, one shot to drop, then one to the head at 2 yards