My AR .308 works best with 168 grain, but YMMV.
Haven't been able to shoot the new one yet, but I hope it does too because that's most of what I have stocked up.
Sorry, I meant to include the quotes around "this pandemic".
People say "this pandemic" all the time and it is the most fucking annoying phrase of 2020 at this point.
It means a widespread disease across the entire world. That's it. It doesn't mean the stupid fucking reaction to it.
This season worked out just fine and it still would have been just fine without the hysteria and cancellations and virtue signaling and dumb masks and altered schedules and empty stadiums, too... ESPECIALLY the dumbass cancellations due to "contact tracing" where no one was actually sick, they just happened to be near someone who may or may not have been.
This country has lost its fucking mind over politics - and the reaction to this "pandemic" is almost entirely politics based - and all of you dumbfucks who predicted doom and gloom in CFB should be using the "success" of this season (really, normality) as evidence for you to question your newfound religion rather than pointing at the handful of asinine cancellations and modifications as proof that you were right all along.
Anyone who was against playing CFB this season was 100% wrong and should admit as much.
I'll finally break my silence in this thread to laugh at those commercials. Freaking hilarious.
The person taking the picture with the iPad slays me every time.
And the one last night duding the title game throwing the "house signs" in the trash was pretty good, too. My 13 yo had to explain the "sitting in a chair and exhaling" gag and then he pointed out that I do it all the time. Little shit.
Alright, so I pulled the trigger and ordered one of these last night from a seller on Amazon.
https://www.atncorp.com/thermal-monocular-ots-hd-640-2-5x-25x
Seems like the price has come down a tiny bit from the fall now that it's after Christmas and the model is discontinued.
I figure a monocular is a better starting point and more practical and versatile than a rifle scope for general usage and if I decide I like it and see opportunities to shoot after dark on my place, I can go ahead and get a rifle scope later. I'm sure this will likely happen within a week, but I trying to be methodical here LOL.
Thank you for the recommendation. As mentioned above, I'm probably just going regular glass on the new .308 and will go NV on the 5.56.
And hell, now it's time to get a can, too, I guess.
My little brother knows more than I do and he was trying to steer me away from Vortex, FWIW.
I hadn't considered night vision but I guess that is probably a logical place to consider since I already comparable guns already with regular daylight scopes. Thank you for the suggestion.
I have tended to cheap out in the past on scopes (I think the most I've ever paid for one was ~$500 , so I was wanting to get something a little nicer this time around. If you suggest that's overkill, I'm fine with a lower end suggestion but now I'm intrigued by the night vision idea.
Any recommendations for glass for my new AR-10 in .308? Planning just to have it on hand for pigs on the farm mostly under 100 yards.
Thinking about this one (, but I'm not an optics guy so I'm open to suggestions from someone who knows more than me.
https://www.trijicon.com/products/product-family/trijicon-accupower-RS27
I’ve tried from time to time to engage in political discussions in the CR and it always boils down eventually to me getting called a racist or homophobe (hate that word) because I don’t toe the line and profess the pieties. I finally just gave up. It’s impossible to gave good faith conversations with must of them. They can be nasty.
And yes, it bleeds over.
Mrs CL got me a great Christmas present.
Turns out I need to do a better job of getting it stable on the spit but it still turned out pretty good and the flavor is amazing.
Going to try a tri-tip this weekend.
Search hard enough and you could probably find a LH O/U for $1500, but it would be hard to find something without issues.
I'd recommend buying a quality used RH Beretta or Browning (Citori) for $1500 and then spending another $500 to have the stock bent to more cast-on (left handed). Slightly more than you want to spend but probably better value in the long run. Then again, you might be able to find something new LH for $2,000 from Cole or Joel Etchen.
That said, there are plenty of LH 12 gauge automatics out there right around your price range:
https://www.gunbroker.com/Semi-Auto-Shotguns/search?Keywords=left-handed&Sort=13
Was behind my garage this morning moving stuff around and found these two guys waiting out the cold weather. Didn’t disturb them - hopefully the sun comes up and they get warm enough to move somewhere else later today.