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I just came back from the range with my rifle, a 308 winchester. My impact (average over several three shot groups) was unexpectedly about 1MOA low at 300 yards. I usually shoot this exact rifle at this very range, but it's been a while since I took it out. The rifle is zeroed at 60-70 F with...

... or white spirit, I can't quite place it I was helping a relative clear out her old house and I stuck my gloved hands into a jar of "LEATHER GREASE for shoes and saddles". My leather gloves now look and feel great but they smell extremely "chemical". I've kept them out on the balcony for a...

Hi, This April I'm crossing the Atlantic to go to a wedding in the san francisco/yosemite area. My fiancee and I will stay in California for about a week. I realize that CA might be almost as firearm unfriendly as my home country, but I'd love to spend some time at a rental range. Do you know...

Hello there, I absolutely love the Youtube channel Forgotten Weapons and i quite enjoy MilitaryArmsChannel. What I'd love as well is a hunting oriented channel with stuff like wildlife knowledge, kill shots (not for the gore, but for the buck fever), gear reviews and some cooking or even...

Why does the AR-15 design have steel barrel extension with the lugs in it, rather than just having the lugs machined right in the barrel? Plenty of other designs have the lugs machined in the barrel. The obvious answer would be that the lugs on the ar-15 are too deep, in the sense that the...

My old mauser 98 has a wonderfully light bolt lift. This makes it easier to cycle (when oiled) than newer rifles with shorter receivers and heavier bolt lift, even though the newer rifle designs don't require the user to pull the bolt as far back when cycling. Most short action rifles such as...

Hello, I've never fired an ar-15 (legal obstructions on this side of the puddle) but I have a great interest in all kinds of firearm designs. Does the ar-15 have any way of venting off excess gas? I have a rifle quite similar to the m1a or m14 type rifles. When the gas piston has moved...

Hello, I have a nice mauser rifle that I'm not really using. I also have a little brother who is about to be old enough to get his own rifle. I am kinda skinny endowed with long reaching arms, whilst my brother is of a stubbier build, and his arms are really shorter than mine. This really...

Hello, I'm letting myself daydream about one day getting a nice break open side-by-side or over-and-under rifle with two sets of barrels, one set being 12 or 20 guage, the other being a big bore with enough punch for cape Buffalo (at least .375). I don't do a lot of shotgunning (at all)...

I've got a nice chinese m1a style rifle outside of the US. The stock is kind of ugly, worn and fat, and I'd like a new and lightweight stock that's slimmer in my hands. For this reason, I want to order a Springfield armory synthetic stock. I know they're not the most tactical or the stiffest...

Hello, I have a somewhat embarrassing problem. When I unload my bolt action rifles with hinged floor plates, at least 20% of the time, I drop a cartridge into the mud/snow/water. Is there a way to do this that just works? There are so many sleight of hand tricks in this hobby so I'm hoping...

I see more and more manufacturers offering rifles in .300 BLK, and no increase in offerings in 6.8 or other abnormal ar-15 calibres. Is there any reliable way of quantifying how successful the 300 BLK is in reality? Is there any data on the amount of ammo sold, or the amount of rifles sold...

Hello fellow Highroaders, This dear little rifle is gravely ill, due to the ignorant owners' habit of frequent dry firing. Any information on how to disassemble and reassemble the bolt, and on how to replace or repair the firing pin, would be much appreciated...

Hello, I'm going on a week-long trip to DC next week. I'd love to do some shopping while in the US (I'm Swedish), and although I do realize that Washington DC probably isn't the most hunting and shooting oriented part of the country, that's where I'm going and that's where I'll do any...

Hello, I'm writing an essay on the 2nd amendment. I have two other threads on the subject, but I hit into another question that is hard to google. The question is kind of "soft", and I expect to find an answer here. It seems as though the right to carry-laws changed dramatically from...

So I'm writing an essay on the 2nd amendment and some related topics. I have another thread regarding a completely different question. I figured this question deserved a thread of its own. When were the last openly racist gun laws repealed? Could blacks and coloreds bear arms in any state...

Hello, I'm doing a course of sorts and I am currently working on my final essay. Being in Sweden the second amendment isn't exactly home ground, and while writing this I've had a few questions popping up that I couldn't handle with Google. Before the NFA of 1934, what restrictions were...

Hello, My dad just purchased an old sako bolt action rifle. The seller sold him the rifle together with a barrel of another caliber that had been fitted to the rifle by a qualified gunsmith. The seller had had the other barrel mounted but sold the rifle with the original barrel mounted. The...

Hello, My grandfather (paternal) died before I was born. He was not much of a big game hunter but frequently used a Savage model 4M Deluxe to take out varmint and pigeons. My father inherited that rifle but he hasn't used it much the last ten years and now I'm getting it. I have a feeling the...

Hello, I'm thinking of going through a custom project involving a folding stock. I could make the folding mechanism by myself but if would save me a lot of time if there where folding mechanisms availible online. If I go through I will make a folder for my bolt action rifle, so the stock must...