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Schmidt & Bender Awarded the PSR Contract
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<blockquote data-quote="Boss Hoss" data-source="post: 522649" data-attributes="member: 5060"><p>Sorry but it is evident that you have never handled the equipment we are discussing----to put it in simplest terms the USO could be used to pound a Loopy into scrap then put back on the rifle and used.</p><p></p><p>It has been 8 years ago (still hurts thinking about it) but was in the shooting tower we built and the steps you can see are steep. Long story short is about 9:00 after sitting for a few hours fired off a few rounds from my 16 in SR-25 which had a SN3 on it. After shooting at the 300 yd target decided that breakfast was in order. The rifle had an empty chamber and maybe 10 in the magazine. Opened the door and with my favorite slick bottom Red Wing Irish Setters stepped onto the first step. Problem was that the morning dew had been dripping off the roof and it was as slick as glass. </p><p></p><p>Going down the stairs it is easier to just hold onto the barrel going down the stairs—as you can see there is no guard rail (we put one in a few years later) my foot slipped out from under me and I fell on my back and skidded down the stairs pictured. The rifle fell down to the next to last step and the ocular hit first after falling 7 feet----bottom line it did not even hurt the hard anodizing on the knurling and as God as my witness did not change the zero. </p><p></p><p>After writhing in pain and making sure I did not break or rip anything which took about 5 minutes I literally crawled up the stairs to see if I had ruined my scope which I was sure that I had. Fired 3 more shots into a clover at 100 and went up to the house and took a handful of Advil and had the Dr (actually a dentist) put some antibiotic on the stair rash the likes of which you have never seen took 3 months for the bruises to go away!</p><p></p><p>The half moon cut the ocular made when it hit is still in that stair to this day. Now—tell me how tough the Loopy is??? The other pics are the hunting configuration scopes USO builds for me. I have had all of my scopes built the same for a number of years now and the one in the pic is on my favorite rifle.</p><p><a href="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/e3244081.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_e3244081.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/RAM3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_RAM3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/Pig1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_Pig1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/USOWarp72.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_USOWarp72.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boss Hoss, post: 522649, member: 5060"] Sorry but it is evident that you have never handled the equipment we are discussing----to put it in simplest terms the USO could be used to pound a Loopy into scrap then put back on the rifle and used. It has been 8 years ago (still hurts thinking about it) but was in the shooting tower we built and the steps you can see are steep. Long story short is about 9:00 after sitting for a few hours fired off a few rounds from my 16 in SR-25 which had a SN3 on it. After shooting at the 300 yd target decided that breakfast was in order. The rifle had an empty chamber and maybe 10 in the magazine. Opened the door and with my favorite slick bottom Red Wing Irish Setters stepped onto the first step. Problem was that the morning dew had been dripping off the roof and it was as slick as glass. Going down the stairs it is easier to just hold onto the barrel going down the stairs—as you can see there is no guard rail (we put one in a few years later) my foot slipped out from under me and I fell on my back and skidded down the stairs pictured. The rifle fell down to the next to last step and the ocular hit first after falling 7 feet----bottom line it did not even hurt the hard anodizing on the knurling and as God as my witness did not change the zero. After writhing in pain and making sure I did not break or rip anything which took about 5 minutes I literally crawled up the stairs to see if I had ruined my scope which I was sure that I had. Fired 3 more shots into a clover at 100 and went up to the house and took a handful of Advil and had the Dr (actually a dentist) put some antibiotic on the stair rash the likes of which you have never seen took 3 months for the bruises to go away! The half moon cut the ocular made when it hit is still in that stair to this day. Now—tell me how tough the Loopy is??? The other pics are the hunting configuration scopes USO builds for me. I have had all of my scopes built the same for a number of years now and the one in the pic is on my favorite rifle. [URL=http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/e3244081.jpg][IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_e3244081.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/RAM3.jpg][IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_RAM3.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/Pig1.jpg][IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_Pig1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/USOWarp72.jpg][IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z306/meyerdw/th_USOWarp72.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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