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<blockquote data-quote="BankWalker284Magnum" data-source="post: 3067350" data-attributes="member: 128010"><p>I'm a retired FF & I'm 50 years old. I've been reloading both rifle and shotgun ammo since I was 15 and 11 years old, respectively. I live down in south Alabama, RTR,. Around here I have to hunt a place to shoot 400 yards. They cut 2 tracks of timber this past year so I can actually set up on one track, shoot across a huge bottom on another track of land atw across to the 3rd track of land. That will get me out to a smooth ½ mile. I reload for each of my Browning BarII Safari Grade 7mm Magnum & 270 Winchester. I have an Illuminated Burris with windage and elevation dials on my 7mm & a plane Zeiss on my 270. B4 I swapped gun/scope combos, I had printed a dope card for my hand loads that went with my 270. I was shooting 140 Nosler Partions and 129 Barnes LRX bullets. Either load would shoot sub ¾" groups at a hundred yards. Anyway, I could hit a 5 gallon bucket at 880 yards. I was excited about that and was also proud of being able to do that with ammo i built and a factory built automatic rifle. I started out shooting at a 55 gallon drum BTW. I picked up numerous bullets off the ground just shy of my target while i was fine tuning my distance and stuff. I had to drive about 2½ miles to get to my target which was only 880 yards away. That was very aggravating. Most of the bullets i recovered could have been reloaded again, figuratively speaking of course. They just had tiny deformations on the tips and you could see the rifling marks. Regardless of all that crap I just typed I wanted to say that you guys amaze me with the wealth of knowledge y'all have. Here, around home, within a 50 mile radius, I don't know of anyone that is more intelligent or knowledgeable about guns, reloading shotgun or rifle ammo, than myself. I've never met another human that could remotely shoot with me. I site in 20 or 30 rifles a year and always end up mounting 5-10 scopes a year for friends, family, neighbors, etc. I've never charged a dime for any of it. I'm good at it and I enjoy it. I'm not arrogant. That's just the simple truth. Now beyond doubt there's at least 100 people that will read this that will be more knowledgeable and or better with a rifle or shotgun than I am. I just wanted to say again that you guys are truly amazing. I wish I could plug a USB port into some of y'all's heads and transfer some of that knowledge into my head. Seriously, y'all make me feel ignorant. I love it. Please don't put your collective feet on my throat too badlyfor this post. I'm just an ignorant redneck and self taught reloader that learned by trial and error way long ago before a home computer was even thought about. Much less the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BankWalker284Magnum, post: 3067350, member: 128010"] I'm a retired FF & I'm 50 years old. I've been reloading both rifle and shotgun ammo since I was 15 and 11 years old, respectively. I live down in south Alabama, RTR,. Around here I have to hunt a place to shoot 400 yards. They cut 2 tracks of timber this past year so I can actually set up on one track, shoot across a huge bottom on another track of land atw across to the 3rd track of land. That will get me out to a smooth ½ mile. I reload for each of my Browning BarII Safari Grade 7mm Magnum & 270 Winchester. I have an Illuminated Burris with windage and elevation dials on my 7mm & a plane Zeiss on my 270. B4 I swapped gun/scope combos, I had printed a dope card for my hand loads that went with my 270. I was shooting 140 Nosler Partions and 129 Barnes LRX bullets. Either load would shoot sub ¾" groups at a hundred yards. Anyway, I could hit a 5 gallon bucket at 880 yards. I was excited about that and was also proud of being able to do that with ammo i built and a factory built automatic rifle. I started out shooting at a 55 gallon drum BTW. I picked up numerous bullets off the ground just shy of my target while i was fine tuning my distance and stuff. I had to drive about 2½ miles to get to my target which was only 880 yards away. That was very aggravating. Most of the bullets i recovered could have been reloaded again, figuratively speaking of course. They just had tiny deformations on the tips and you could see the rifling marks. Regardless of all that crap I just typed I wanted to say that you guys amaze me with the wealth of knowledge y'all have. Here, around home, within a 50 mile radius, I don't know of anyone that is more intelligent or knowledgeable about guns, reloading shotgun or rifle ammo, than myself. I've never met another human that could remotely shoot with me. I site in 20 or 30 rifles a year and always end up mounting 5-10 scopes a year for friends, family, neighbors, etc. I've never charged a dime for any of it. I'm good at it and I enjoy it. I'm not arrogant. That's just the simple truth. Now beyond doubt there's at least 100 people that will read this that will be more knowledgeable and or better with a rifle or shotgun than I am. I just wanted to say again that you guys are truly amazing. I wish I could plug a USB port into some of y'all's heads and transfer some of that knowledge into my head. Seriously, y'all make me feel ignorant. I love it. Please don't put your collective feet on my throat too badlyfor this post. I'm just an ignorant redneck and self taught reloader that learned by trial and error way long ago before a home computer was even thought about. Much less the internet. [/QUOTE]
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