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Pardon my French, but that's fuqun disgraceful. Show the animals some basic human respect and decency; put some targets up if you want to plink with a 22lr at 160m.

This "A single selected group doesn't tell the story" Let's see 3 consecutive five shot groups on the same piece of paper.

Rough location?

Just googled that, too. Looks to be exactly what L/R should have made - he's basically attacking the market gap that the demise of old defender left. On the 'new defender' - my most telling assessment is that you can't stand on the bonnet. Wtf?

Wasn't even aware of this, just read the top gear pages on it. It does look like all their other stuff. (Which all looks the same - I wonder if they only have one design artist?!) Some of the features sound quite good, but I'm not sure I understand who it's aimed at - the same crowd as the current stuff, with an extra marketing vibe of being potentially more adventurous, but never actually used that way? I think it'll be quite a while before we see one full of hay bales, fence posts or barbed wire; or somewhere harsh doing UN-type 'real' - especially as they describe the old as 'analogue' against this being 'digital' - Good luck fixing that in South Sudan!😂 That said, the marketing plays to my weak mind, I think I'd have one before one of their other models.

Just did some fag packet maths I paid £1086 for my GMT2 in 1990. Inflation alone makes that the equivalent of £2,400 today (a significantly better value proposition than today's models!!) The same 5 digit watch today, secondhand, goes for anywhere between 4 and 7 thousand (the latter, more chrono24 'wishful thinking' than reality, I suspect) So, inflation adjusted, a theoretical 'profit' of between £1,600 and £4,600 (for a 30 year investment of, at today's value, £2,400).... .

Ha! Yes - I think the investment angle for the 'normal' models is that they are a toy that doesn't actively depreciate - unlike all the other toys!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/07/coronavirus-britain-sandwich-pandemic-lunchtime?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Samsung_Notes I hasten to add; I'm not a 'Guardian Reader'; it's just that the app is free!😂

Bizarrely, I was just reading an article describing how the UK sandwich market has collapsed - the sandwich being an office workers way of virtue-signalling how terribly busy they were; too busy to eat properly... and, working from home, they're realising it was all virtue-signal pish. I've become convinced that most watches below the sort-of 'Patek-level', less for anomalies like milsubs and comex, aren't really realisable investments. By the time they're sold, , by the time you factor in inflation and sale charges, the real gain is marginal. And even at the Patek level, the value is actually rather 'emperor's new clothes' On the modern rolex side; if the market ever cottons on to a 6 digit having no manufacturing or quality difference to a Steinhart ... it's more like a symbol for having been rinsed by a Swiss con artist for a mass produced watch. So, personally, I like the idea of toolwatches for ' heroes and adventurers' , when I bought my 1st GMT, waaay back, when I was at Sandhurst, that's exactly what they were. But now? I stopped believing😂 And that's why.... I only find watches I still perceive as being 'toolwatches' - such as this Seamaster - titanium, legible fat hands, loads of lume - interesting.

😂 No? This; the 4 digit, 5 digit, 6 digit trajectory:

😂 no. The type of people rolex market to today has changed since my youth, and I no longer identify with the brand - it's now more middle and far Eastern 'bling' than 'heroes and adventurers'; I've had 2 GMTs and 1 Sub over the years. No longer. - actually bought this when I sold my last GMT as being a truer manifestation of -toolwatch'.

Sounds perfect! Thanks

I've got a bizarre hankering after a workhorse side by side hammer 12b, but something made to modern standards - does such a thing exist in UK?

..and this is how it does for accuracy when worn 24/7   

I bought this in 2017, as the best existing practical alternative to an Omega SM300; the lineage is, to my eye, obvious.Unmatched legibility and at such a practical weight that I've even worn it when twice, in recent years, training for and completing, the Devizes Westminster Canoe Race.But now having a having a downsize, so selling:Sword hand Titanium Seamaster (2231.50) rebuilt by Omega at last service (2016) with everything new (incl case) except face and movement.So, at that time, almost a NOS watch.With titanium bracelet and both silver and black bezel inserts, box, last Omega service receipt (showing rebuild items) and purchase receipt (from Swiss Watch Co in London dated 2017) as well as receipt for second bezel.Watch and bracelet in excellent condition. Black bezel insert has a scratchThese pics chosen as 'attention grabbers. More detailed pics if any interest.My preference would be a face to face sale (Warminster, UK) or by cleared bank transfer in advance. (Although, happy to consider any other equally 'bulletproof' suggestions, such as via mutual friends on here)£sold(I believe that's a fair price. If you genuinely believe I have the price wrong, open to rational and reasoned offers.)Thank you.

I would stand correction, but most mg barrels are hammer forged, which does all sorts of advantageous things (for mgs) to the metal - it isn't autofrettage, but some of the effects are similar , but I agree, I would think that once they're really hot, it's about erosion: mechanical and gas wash My most marked hot barrel memory was seeing a minimi barrel thrown on snow at about -5degC melt straight down through a foot of snow and start the vegetation beneath smoking!

And, from that, the solution, for single shot is going to lie in either going for greater material elasticity or pre-stressing (?) - but since autofrettaged barrels would have to be supplied ready chambered, the commercial single shot solution would most likely lie with elasticity (youngs modulus, as per edi) rather than thermal coefficient (?)

Understood, but at single shot, surely it's all over too quickly for conductive materials to have time to 'do their thing' - aren't we talking about, effectively, dealing with a sort of surface-level hoop-stress shock load?

Just idle and thinking: At target bolt rifle (as opposed to machine gun) rates of fire and heating; I'm struggling to see how thermal expansion rates, or thermal coefficients are even in the game - for target, it's all over by the time the barrel warms through; wouldn't this have to be all about the properties of the surface itself? Other than lining the barrel, the only thing that pops into mind is pre-stressing the surface - a la autofrettage

Sort of how what I got from what you wrote - stretch rather than crack to which the answer may or may not be hardness I've not read more widely though, are they claiming that 'firecracking' is the primary contributor to erosion In cold barrels and addressing that is how they've doubled barrel life?

I'm a bit odd (I could put a full stop there, I suppose) - I like a mod to be as compact as possible, but making as much use of intelligent gas flow to maximise noise reduction efficiency. When mods were first 'in' every man Jack with an rfd seemed to start knocking out mods that were just variations on washer stacks - and some were appallingly noisy. So my tip would be, understand what you're trying to do with the gas flow; then make the smallest mod you can to achieve a desired dB rating.

Yeah, but that goes back to you can kill a moose with 22lr, but that doesn't make it the best choice ( unless you're a Newfie!). I think the self-preservation aspect of standing on the ground, face-to-face encounters with driven boar probably puts a different assessment of stopping power in mind too! (I do wonder on the helo boar vids, how many of the brassed-up boar get up a wander-off wounded after the camera has rapidly moved on. ) .

thinking on again... Yup, if you treat the 3" offset as parallel and mantronically dial it out as a constant at all ranges: Taking it as 7.5 cm and 0.1mrad clicks 100 dial 7 right 200 dial 4 right 300 2 or 3 right 400 2 right 750 1 right Beyond that, ignore Yup, neater 👍 But I suppose that means, you must zero on the parallel line - ie say POI 3" left at 100m, or you'd start chasing your tail

Thinking on; that only resolves the situation if you always use the app - the left to right crossover is happening - that's simple geometry - the app being used as you suggest is allowing a virtual 'infinity' far collimation. Without it, and just dialling elevation, the crossover will happen in relation to whatever distance the real collimation distance is