Recent content by kopfjaeger01

I've had my SXP camp/field combo for over three years now. I've put about 10,000 rounds through it with no issues. I like the ability to have the 18" hd barrel and the 26" field barrel. I've put slugs, buckshot, and all sorts of others through it. I really like mine. I paid $400 for it. Well...

It's a lot of hardware to launch a 5.56 projectile. Can be finicky. I have hundreds of thousands of rounds through every variant of the SAW (249, Mk46, para, etc.). Ohio Ordnance Works is a great company run by a true patriot and great family. I have one of their very first semi BARs. Quality...

I've had the camp/field combo for 3 years and really like it. I have over 9000 rounds through it shooting clays and hunting through the field barrel. I have many hundreds of slugs and 00 buck through the 18" barrel. It's been rock solid so far. The only thing I had to after the first couple...

Thanks for all the responses! Sounds like I'll just get used to cleaning more often.

So I recently started reloading 38 special. I'm using 3.4gr of titegroup under 158gr lead swc. When I shoot them I get a big puff of smoke. Gun is filthy after 50 rounds and so are my hands. Accuracy is good and everything functions fine. To ensure its the bullets causing this, I loaded 4.0 gr...

Oh boy, I've got some good Hackathorn stories from early 90's. He taught some courses to the group I was with in the Marine Corps. Clint was always a class act.

In my over 30 years of instruction, I taught techniques and considerations to students. Only when working with a particular unit, would tactics be taught. Even then, techniques and considerations were covered. The unit needs to develop and implement their own tactics. But as anyone who has ever...

Been a while since I played with one, but looks like Mag-58 non-disintegrating belt. If you have a 308 cartridge, slide it in, if the little clip in the back drops in and secures just above the rim, it's for the old MAG58. Won't work in M240s or modern MAG58s as the feed systems are now set up...

Former USMC 8541 from the 80's and 90's, here. The RTE shop at quantico put these things together, masterful fellas. Why Winchester bottom metal and floor plates? Not exactly sure, but if memory serves, it was very thick and sturdy. Only the best at the time went on these things. I'm not sure...

Quick change barrels for the M2 came out of a deficiency in training. The myths abound with the old M2 abound. Headspace and timing became some sort of taboo topic and people didn't understand it. Old timers forgot to pass on knowledge and others were to scared learn. Plus the Army was blowing...

I have to say that Savage makes a great bolt gun. I am a former USMC 8541, and LEO SWAT sniper. I have shot some of the best rifles out there with the best optics available, and am thoroughly impressed with My Savage 11VT. Most platforms I worked with in the past were based on Rem 700 actions...