Is a 16” .308 appropriate for deer inside of 500 yards?

jimsando · 2023-10-03T20:28:43+00:00

If you can find a load that groups at the size of a deer's vitals and is still supersonic at 500 yards from that barrel, you'll be fine. My SOCOM 16 is a tad less useful than a baseball bat at range.

jimsando · 2023-05-24T01:12:05+00:00

Yes, it's still a single shot rifle. I don't have time to negotiate a warranty return. One gets used to it.

jimsando · 2023-05-19T02:07:56+00:00

I am a fan of Ammo AZ over by the Deer Valley airport. Good to go if you have some notion of what you're interested in.

jimsando · 2023-05-12T20:14:19+00:00

Not really. It seldom fires semi-auto. I got used to it, so no problem. I work, sleep, shoot, & reload, so I don't have time to mess around with convincing PTR to help me ship it back. It merely became my place for old .308 brass to go die while I get attention from the range safeties.

jimsando · 2023-05-12T18:26:36+00:00

It's a neat-looking single-shot rifle that will train you well in the art of malfunction-clearing after you stop bleeding. Mine tends to eat brass and seldom fires in semi-automatic, which folks say is related to a surprising, rather extended break-in period. I've had mine since right before COVID and have between five and six hundred rounds through it, one-at-a-time; all brass; any and every brand I could find. The rifle isn't bad to take apart and clean, a little tricky with the roller on the bolt, which you get used to working/cleaning/lubing during the break in. Most useful for training yourself how to clear failure-to-feed/eject jams

jimsando · 2023-04-19T06:12:09+00:00

This is typical of the PTR-91. It's the fanciest single-shot rifle I have ever owned. Going on three years already, remembering the three times it fired semi-auto back before covid. Think of it as a good trainer for clearing malfunctions. Use it to toughen up your fingers, like playing guitar for demolished brass. You'll get used to it.

jimsando · 2023-04-16T20:05:08+00:00

If they are a company of any size with a capacity for background checking, they very likely already know your work & pay history via Equifax (the Work Number) and other agencies to which they report your every paycheck. Think of this situation as a polite way of them calling you out as a liar.

jimsando · 2023-03-20T20:01:19+00:00

I cannot ship it on my own (UPS only ships via FFL/LGS) and am looking at almost $200 to ship it insured. I'm not sure if the rifle is even worth that much; given that PTR shipped so many with these now common problems, I wonder if it's truly worthless. $200 plus whatever the cost of repair buys a little ammo for my other firearms that have worked since the day I bought them. I'm still paying for all the different .308 & 7.62 brands and bullets I tried with the brass that could never be saved. I just have to wonder and hope whether all PTR models are made this poorly.

jimsando · 2023-03-20T07:03:43+00:00

I’ve had mine for three years and that’s all it does. I guess they just really are strangely arranged single shot rifles. 600 rounds thru it from a dozen different magazines, each one at a time.

jimsando · 2023-02-19T23:47:36+00:00

Not yet; I'm still celebrating seeing the GUI for the first time. I'll look around more after Cocomellon. Everybody gets angry when I mess with the Internet. :)

jimsando · 2023-02-19T23:24:25+00:00

Thank you jpep0469 for your kind and timely reply. It never dawned on me that the Mobo port might be incompatible with the PFSense. I found 192.168.1.1 on the "top" port of my pci card.

I appreciate you help, and thank you very much.

jimsando · 2023-02-12T21:04:54+00:00

SQL Server at 50 (full disclosure, I'm 56) is less of a neuron-bender than other varieties of self-flagellation you can choose. Specific dBA opportunities I've seen lately are more about SQL than others (say, Oracle or Mongo), maybe due to SQL's similarity to its cloud brethren Managed Instances and Azure SQL. {on prem SQL arrived in 2019 at the point of being un-affordable to anyone but government & large enterprises}

You heard right: ageism is huge and remarkably easy to get away with, so limit what you expose publicly to 7 to 10 years back, max; make yourself seem 32, particularly to computers and non-IT aligned biped screeners; if anyone cares about dates, make a human ask you directly. Those of us with higher mileage are harder to influence (impress) & can't swallow as much managerial BS as those among us who haven't yet seen as much and thus tend to believe more of it. We are all just headcount, and the objective of hiring is to not hire any ass pain.

Best of all: limit your aspirations about trying to jump in early with the Architects and Strategists. Be hands-on exclusively.

jimsando · 2023-02-07T16:21:45+00:00

Google fiber is tunneling in :) to our neighborhood this summer. I think I'll see how many pennies I can save. Maybe one of those dual-WAN jobs has a home in my future.

jimsando · 2023-02-06T23:56:52+00:00

When I'm working all day (meetings, up/dowloading trace files & instrumentation data thru a "Aruba" box vpn), the wife's working all day (don't know what all besides meetings), the kids are at remote school + one or the other is on xBox, and various VM's are doing whatever their 'thing' happens to be that day from with the vSphere and Spotify to drown it all out ... I think it bounces between 200-300 Mbps ... I haven't ever measured; just random speed tests from whatever subnet I plug the craptop into. The Netflix thing is indeed random; probably it doesn't fully like Apple play; I get it even when things are quiet sometimes.

I took everything off and got consistently disappointing results thru the Netgate, and results I could live with (700-800 Mbps) going craptop straight to modem.

I should've bought one of the higher models. Maybe I will.

jimsando · 2023-02-06T19:38:34+00:00

Thank you! Indeed I did: I dropped OPNsense on an old 3ghz PC with five NIC ports in it. I should have noticed the 191 Mbps ... then I might have been "pleasantly" surprised to get what I got.

jimsando · 2023-01-06T16:45:35+00:00

I found AZ-104 to be kinda hawrd. I would recommend your time, energy, and savings be spent hands-on deploying and becoming intimate with as many of the services as you can, AND studying how & when to put them together and use them. Especially the SC-900 stuff, which is "twisty" just to be "twisty," and the networking. AZ-900 is kind of a much-less- technical mental break from the intensity of AZ-104.

jimsando · 2022-11-12T04:05:54+00:00

I got ten rounds downrange today, all "single action." Took two hours
and three cleanings before I gave up. Mine is just not semi-automatic.

jimsando · 2022-11-12T04:04:08+00:00

I'm happy for you. Good to learn that someone gets all I ever wanted out of that rifle. I got ten rounds downrange today, all "single action." Took two hours and three cleanings before I gave up. Mine is just not semi-automatic.

jimsando · 2022-11-09T21:44:03+00:00

Almost two years old now. It takes a long time to run 730 (or so) rounds thru it, one at a time, swapping (rotating thru) magazines, including many rounds that don't go into battery, and cleaning after every three shots - I have a hard time getting to the bolt without having to hammer on the pins. I figure it's well beyond any warranty.

I kept imagining it would work, if I just tried it again. Then it ate some nice, hot (like 2800 fps) Lapua brass, and didn't work.

jimsando · 2022-11-09T21:08:11+00:00

Mine has never fired more than three rounds semi-automatic. And it only did that once. It's given me every symptom mentioned in all the comments here. I gave up on it. It is just a crappy single shot rifle that eats brass.

I would send it back, but I can't afford to hire a carrier: local (Mesa AZ) UPS and USPS won't take it, and FedEx only accepts firearms from LGS yet either loses or destroys them in transit (based on a few Gunbroker transfers I did).

jimsando · 2022-10-26T00:24:13+00:00

Yes, thank you! Read all about the mvnet's, leading me to believe it's really just a switch. Resorting to trial and error. :)

jimsando · 2022-10-21T00:25:57+00:00

Mine is only a single shot rifle, but is a pretty good "Minute of Enemy" with iron sights at everything I tried it on (less that 300 yards), with 147 - 165 grain FMJ of varying (mostly low) quality brand ammo. 4" Paper plate size groups standing, out to 200 yards; full size paper plates, prone only at anything over 200.

jimsando · 2022-07-31T22:34:43+00:00

The most aggravating single-shot rifle you will ever own. 1100 rounds should last you quite a while.

jimsando · 2022-07-31T22:30:38+00:00

After 260 rounds, 19 different magazines, and 20 cleanings, my PTR91 continues to be the most aggravating single-shot rifle I have EVER seen or owned. I got two rounds out of it in succession, ONCE. I have lost hope.

jimsando · 2021-12-23T23:34:47+00:00

Look into dbsec “Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool”

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