Recent content by rwleonard

I think the idea behind the OCW method is to find a load that will be reasonably well behaved over a wide range of conditions. If your current load does what you want it to, under the conditions you want it done in, then there is no reason to go srewing around with your load. Rick

Thanks for the review, very interesting. I look forward to reading more about the Newcons. I find my ground hog shooting limited by my ability to range a 'hog standing in the middle of a fairly flat fied. Maybe these are the answer? Rick

I bought a surveyor's tripod and 5/8" nut at Home Depot. I epoxied the nut into the bottom of the benchtop that I had been clamping into my workmate. This tripod is a bit different. It looks like a big, heavy-duty camera tripod with half-size survey-type legs attached to a center elevation...

I feel your pain there Wildcat. I would already have a BR Pivot if it didn't cost so much. I was telling my g-hog shootin' buddy last night that its a lot more fun spending money on guns than support gear, but sometimes you gotta do it. Thanks for the links, TAC, I'll check those out...

Any recommendations or warnings on selecting a portable bench? I am looking at the BR Pivot and Coyote Jake models,but am open to ideas. Thanks, Rick

My ground hog partner has a set. They are just OK. They won't range 'hogs much past 450 yards under the best of conditions. Rick

Hey Zing', I got the joke. Nice group 'n' chuck. Rick

[ QUOTE ] Probably will take all the fun out of everything... Dan [/ QUOTE ] That's what archers probably said when black powder came along! Rick

You could get a drag-bag and wear it instead of the ruck. Rick

Reading the article on the XP3 reminded me of the question one of the Sierra tech's is fond of asking callers: "At what point in the animal's death did the bullet fail?" Rick

I don't like having the thickened area on the bottom portion of the vertical crosshair. I would want to use the reticle for LR varmints and I would worry that it would cover too much critter at longer ranges. Rick

I remember shooting a 6-round group with my 308 several years ago. On three of the shots I saw the reticle track straight back toward me,on the other three, the rife torqued and the scope went black. I got two distinct groups, each about .3 MOA but nearly an inch apart, all horizontal. A 308...

Glad to hear it. I plan to try the same thing, only with a an aluminum base plate on a tripod. I have a Leupold compact 25x with a mil-dot reticle. I am going to mount my Bushnell Elite 1500 next to it and see if I can "regulate" them well enough to aim the laser with the scope. Rick

I think I understand what he is desribing. If, when you elevate or depress the muzzle, the level does not rotate around its longitudinal axis, you will induce cant in the level, which if you try to "correct" induces cant in the rifle. Hey, maybe you could just mark on the level how much a...

I would like to see something like the Swaro in a variable-power spotting scope (say, 15-30 or there abouts)with a 1/8 MOA dot and some way to "zero" it. But that's just me. Rick