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Ben firing his Ruger 10/22 stainless.
It produces a muzzle sound signature similar in
decibels to a fart inside a Victorian hoop dress.
Pretty quiet. |
Tony
firing his FAL battle rifle. This is one bad-ass
rifle, to say the least. I call it my
"sniper-support" weapon. See errata... |
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The FAL is a 7.62mm NATO-caliber rifle.
That's .308 Winchester to some folks.
...by the way, 7.62mm NATO
chambers are not the same as .308 Winchester. Close,
but not the same. Never fire the former in the
latter. But you can fire the latter in the former.
Got that? Good. See
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My
FAL sports optics of a Springfield
Armory Government Model 10X scope with a
mil-dot illuminated target tracking green reticle
on a 30mm main tube. Hands free, unlimited
rangefinding capability with 7.62mm (.308) 168 gr.
match ammo. It rocks, man. |
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It also has GG&G Sniper
Grade Aluminum Scope Rings ($100 just for the
rings, man...) |
It
also has a Falcon Industries ERGO
PSG-1 Tactical grip. Great grip, by the way... |
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Shooting at my 2"-thick steel
gong...the muzzle brake is actually effective,
although a 12.5-lb. rifle doesn't need much
muzzle-braking... |
Tami
firing the Beretta Cougar 9mm pistol. |
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Tony violating a golden rule of
sporting more than 3 brand logos at one time... |
Tony
sighting in Ben's new Tikka T3 rifle. Awesome
rifle! Smooth as silk, 4-lb. crisp trigger, right
from the factory! |
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Ben's Tikka T3 will have a nice
Leupold VX-2 scope on it in time for deer season this
fall. Putting a Tasco on it is just temporary, so
Ben could fire the weapon. Mounting a Tasco on it is
kind of like putting training wheels on a Corvette. |
The
Tikka is chambered in the classic .30-06. It fired
0.4" 3-shot groups that were touching each
other at 50 yards. Can't wait to run this rifle
out to 300 yards when it gets a nice scope put on
it. |
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Ben did get the first 3 shots out of
the rifle, then I helped sight it in. |
Ben
and I bore-sighted the T3 on Friday night from my
living room in a portable bench-vice. We used a 3'
x 6' projection of interior light on a garage from
a neighbor's house a block away. |
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...if you were walking your dog down
Mulberry Street in Duluth late last Friday night, it
might have looked creepy to see what we were doing. |
...two
guys with a high-powered rifle aimed out a tiny
opening in the curtains on a quiet street. With
red LED lights lighting the scope mount... |
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Tony in the dirt with the FAL rifle. |
You
can see the FAL is also customized with a DSA Arms
SA58
Extreme Duty Scope Mount. |
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The FAL is what I call a "big
man's rifle," even though it looks small in my
hands. |
Most people heft this rifle and say,
"Damn, it is big, dude." It is big. And
heavy. |
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Ben firing the FAL. |
Note
the brass deflection marks on the rear of the
receiver ejection port. It throws spent brass
pretty violently, which is always good. |
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Click here for a close-up
photo of the brass marks on the ejection port. |
An
experiment with filters on the digital image. |
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See the page that describes
the FAL battle rifle. |
Ben
had issues with his Zircon TriScanner Pro stud
sensor. It needed to die. |
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The Zircon TriScanner Pro stud sensor
was put out its misery for the crime of detecting
phantom studs and generally just stinking up the
place. |
It
probably works just as good now as when it was
intact. |
