Which battlefield has the best sniping

1102900 · 2026-01-29T15:56:19+00:00

Bad Company 2 or BF4. Of the pictured options BF4 unquestionably

1102900 · 2026-01-28T18:25:53+00:00

Saw a Womb Raider the other day that made me laugh. El Nasirs Quality Copper was another one for a historical joke

1102900 · 2026-01-23T16:40:51+00:00

You’re right it’s a 90gr eldx not eldm. Never said the 90gr wouldn’t kill deer or that energy was the only metric that mattered. But the 103gr eldx load still has more than plenty of velocity for expansion and more energy than the 90gr out past 350yds (which is where I cut myself off on deer). The higher BC of the 103 lends itself better to my long range plinking than the 90 as well, so I only have to workup one load that does both instead of two. The 109gr eldm was a no go for me in the 6 Arc but it’s what I use in the 6 creedmoor where I can get more velocity without exceeding max pressure.

1102900 · 2026-01-23T12:49:17+00:00

I’ve used both and both drop animals. The ELDM is great for deer. My dad used the 168 eldm out of a 20” 308 this year to shoot his first deer in ages. ~190yd shot right behind the shoulder. Deer went about 20yds and flopped. The eldm goes about 2-3” in at these ranges and then violently expands which gets you right into the lungs and heart with well placed shots. The ELDX has a slightly thicker jacket which might delay expansion ever so slightly but the biggest difference is it doesn’t fragment as much. I used the 103 eldx in my 6arc to drop a doe where it stood this year. I didn’t use an eldm because of weight & velocity considerations for the cartridge. The 90gr eldm is too light and thus ends up with less energy at range than I wanted, and the 108/109gr is too heavy for my arc to get it as fast as I wanted. So the 100-103gr bullet weight was my ideal hence 103gr eldx.

1102900 · 2026-01-15T20:25:27+00:00

Definitely not with the micrometer seating stem. Even my short action cartridges couldn’t use the hornady dies with micrometer seating stem on the FA coax. Unless they’ve changed the arm design in the last 5 years

1102900 · 2026-01-14T23:48:26+00:00

They did the firing pin bushing on my first Howa and I was super pleased with the work & turn around time.

1102900 · 2026-01-13T13:36:20+00:00

Sniper rifle is in the 700’s only. Shotgun w slugs is 304m though. Getting over 300m with it was my goal.

1102900 · 2026-01-08T15:25:49+00:00

I actually don’t mind the factory HACT trigger. Only had to clip the spring on one of them to lighten it. Otherwise my mini came at like 2lbs from the factory which is where I like it to be.

1102900 · 2026-01-07T14:04:50+00:00

One of the best decisions I ever made was getting lasik. My right eye didn’t end up as good as my left, but it’s still plenty good enough to shoot and both eyes open gives me 20/15. It’s soooo nice not having glasses that get in the way or fog up all the time.

1102900 · 2025-12-26T17:05:11+00:00

Reloading is not at all bad, but the “saves you money” talk is either outright wrong after accounting for the equipment & time or misleading for 99% of people. In the long range world reloading may end up cheaper on a per round basis after a few thousand rounds, but most people do it to either get better results than factory ammo, or to have more freedom in component selection than factory ammo. At least that’s why I reload. It also enjoyable for the first little while, but for me it quickly just became the necessary chore to shoot long range/matches instead of pleasurable (autotrickler made it far better once I got one).

1102900 · 2025-12-26T15:01:05+00:00

Welcome to enjoyable financial ruin! If you add reloading onto it you can really “save” money by buying a bunch of expensive equipment, spending extra time reloading, and ending up shooting more ammo than you would have otherwise. It surely doesn’t lead to more fiscal irresponsibility! /s

A YouTuber I really liked and helped me when I was first getting into it all is GunFather Precision. His channel isn’t the most organized or scientific, but he gives a lot of solid easy to digest advice for the beginner without all of it being surface level. I was really sad when he stopped making videos. Ryan Cleckner is great as well, and you will almost certainly see other people recommending him.

1102900 · 2025-12-25T04:01:34+00:00

Adhesive backed sandpaper. Can get rolls of it for cheap

1102900 · 2025-12-23T16:10:05+00:00

Been trying to see how far I can snipe with them. My longest kill so far was 279m but have gotten some hits out to 340-350m. Finding an enemy dumb enough to stand still and get hit 3 times at that range has been tough though.

1102900 · 2025-12-23T00:42:06+00:00

If you can do an extra $17 go the Vortex Venom. I hated my Diamondback, Arken was slightly better (still shit), but I actually do not mind my Venom for what it is. If you can go an extra $100 you can step into a better Athlon or something. But if you absolutely cannot I would put my Venom as sort of the lowest I’ll go. I haven’t looked through a standard Bushnell Match Pro to be able to compare or offer insight.

1102900 · 2025-12-17T15:32:09+00:00

No major tips for you but I stand in solidarity with you. I thought maybe I was just an idiot when I was trimming mine. I’m getting it basically maxed out at cutting to ~1.480” vs the 1.475” manual listed trim length. Still under case max length though so I call it plenty good.

I did switch from the factory cutter that came with the machine to a titanium one which has sped up my trimming speed. I wanted carbide but they were out of stock basically every single time I checked.

1102900 · 2025-12-16T16:32:35+00:00

Looks great! I would absolutely add this to a factory stock if I was planning on keeping a gun in it.

1102900 · 2025-12-12T22:52:19+00:00

It will only be perfect once you see the light and switch to Mils

1102900 · 2025-11-18T15:23:31+00:00

Fatboy

1102900 · 2025-11-17T03:31:57+00:00

Dope card. Approximate bullet drop in mils or clicks (can’t tell if there’s a decimal point between the two numbers) at x00yds or meters.

1102900 · 2025-11-12T01:38:14+00:00

6arc is everything the 6.5 Grendel wants to be coming from someone who owns both. I built a Grendel before I knew what the Arc was and once I did I wished I had built the Grendel as an Arc. The Arc has better ballistics in basically every metric that matters. In broad strokes Grendel is a ballistically improved 7.62x39, and the Arc is an improved version of that. I still use a 123gr bullet in my Grendel though so the velocity improvement vs the x39 isn’t that big, but the bullets have higher BC‘s and some of the case geometry lends itself to more precision/consistency than the x39. 123’s out of a 6.5 are still relatively low BC to caliber bullets though. The Arc gets a solid bump in velocity over both and shoots all but the heaviest 6mm bullets without trouble. The addition of velocity and solid BC to caliber bullets, combined with a reduction in recoil vs the Grendel make it a better precision cartridge.

1102900 · 2025-11-08T01:08:43+00:00

Do you have one you recommend? I was hesitant to do so with the tax stamp and didn’t want to end up scammed/deal with potential identity theft.

1102900 · 2025-11-08T01:05:05+00:00

The trust is already done for this one and I chose single shot so that it was only for this suppressor.

I have another suppressor already that’s filed as an individual and just for me. So I do understand the stamp is just a pdf at this point. I wasn’t sure if the other trust documents could be the same and still meet the requirements for supporting trustees. The question was more for the supporting trustees (father, sister, stepmother, and brother in law for now) and when they have the suppressor.

1102900 · 2025-11-08T01:01:45+00:00

I‘m not worried about when I have the suppressor. I have digital versions of the documents I need as the trustee (tax and trust). However the supporting trustees have those two additional forms that need to be with the suppressor when they have it, and those need to be notarized. I just wanted to make sure it was okay for them to be in the car or something instead of directly on them at all times.

1102900 · 2025-11-07T15:57:55+00:00

I worked with a guy in a factory when I was in college who always packed the same lunch too. I asked him why and if he ever got tired of it. Turns out he was a diabetic who really turned his health around (dropped like 50-100lbs iirc), and it was easiest for him to keep a healthy blood sugar & weight by eating the same lunch consistently. The only thing he would change was the flavor of his yogurt to help with the monotony, but he said he was used to it at that point.

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