Recent content by FlyFishn1

Very interesting. Thank you. I have heard, also, that 1:7, as you allude to in a different way, can "over-spin" bullets. One example is some soft point bullets actually disintegrating in the barrel from the centrifugal force encountered at the higher RPM. The evidence of it is lack of a hole in...

Can you detail your 1st AR a bit more? I am curious if you ever did any analysis on the poor performance with the 55gr rounds? You say when you dumbed down the loads to bring the veolocities down "it could group". Did you intend to say "it could NOT group"? At what range did you do your testing...

Just a quick aside - I'm looking in to the 30cal chamberings down the road as an upgrade to get more flexibility with rounds that will reach out further, but that is way down the road. I like the .308 Winchester/7.62x51 and .300 Winchester Magnum (standard, not short), but as a next step I...

Out of curiosity - what would be the effective/useful range of 5.56 with a 16" 1:7 twist barrel? That is what I have so I am curious on what to expect. That wasn't picked for "long range", per se, but I wanted the faster twist rate in an attempt to get better round stability. I am just not sure...

All, I am studying some options for my AR's for lights and have some questions. The main handguards I am working with are M-LOK on the sides and bottom, Picatinny only on top. I believe my old one is 4 way Picatinny, I'll have to check it when I get a chance. The light options I've seen are...

Interesting thread. I read a few pages back you got a Palmetto variant of one type or another. Can you elaborate on the model? I was looking hard at the low end of their range as they were around the $450 mark last I looked. My local dealer can't get them so I went researching other options...

I am familiar with what you're talking about. Though, I don't know of any boats like that around. Flat bottom jon boats aren't common where we are.

To answer a few questions/give some more input to various things in one post - - We can't easily get an ATV there, no road access so equipment like that would have to come by boat. If we absolutely had to - skid steer, excavator, what ever for a major task that is possible - we have a local...

Oddly enough I was just coming back around to the thread here with an idea. I do, actually, have a winch. It is a 4500lb Superwinch ATV winch with wireless remote. It is my "go to" for utility work including pulling boats out of the water and flipping them for off-season. We rig in all kinds...

That's a thought. However, the fire danger there is often times very high during the season we'd be there. And if it isn't it is rainy for a good period of time = hard to get anything to burn. We could move the brush - which is what I've done - and pile it. But that doesn't get down to the...

This kind of parallels my thread on wall tents. There is a spot I am wanting to set up a tent of sorts on private property where I have considered building a hard shed in the past - and still am. However, that will be down the road. I am considering using, essentially, a large wall tent in that...

Thanks for mentioning them. I had not heard of them before. Interesting options. As you state - their Flex Bow series are not traditional "wall tents". Those are very similar to the cabin tents we have now, just canvas instead of the nylon tent material. I don't see any of their options that...

Ah yes. Ratchet straps. Whoever invented those is a life saver. Off topic, but I think the most off the wall (no pun intended) use for one Ive come up with was on a boat trip around our lake. We've had a place on a lake for generations - a sizable lake. I was out on a day trip exploring. There...

Interesting idea. If you have pictures I would be interested to see what you all have come up with using that construction method. I agree - if you insulate like you describe that would be pretty warm in the winter time. Several years ago now I went with a buddy of mine and some others on a...

I ran flatbed semis a while back and a high percentage of loads I ran were tarped. We also had curtainside trailers in our fleet. If what you are referring to as "truckers tarps" are the same thick vinyl and fabric material we used (tarps and curtains were all the same material - we patched them...