AHPP

Aye. Thanks. That's what SIG in the states said. £4.10 for the phone call and worth every penny for the pleasure of talking to American customer service. Thought I'd still check on here. Haven't been on for a while.

I’ve got a Sig Kilo 200 rangefinder. Bought second hand on here. Worked fine for years. Now the display isn’t showing fully. Cuts half the numbers off. New battery didn’t fix it.
What’s the craic with getting one of these repaired? Couldn’t find a UK Sig shopfront. How best to go about it?

24 minutes ago, brown dog said:

Yup, always used to be some darts-player-physique type saying that about military shooting too  - best thing is to offer them to suit-up in 30 or 40 pounds of kit, do a quick bleep test or run 200m and then show that skill whilst someone tries to kill them, maybe?

I was going to say similar. Then I was going to say that actually the civilians would still wipe the floor with them with kit and running etc but of course the prospect of your target exploding etc would level the playing field. Then I came to my senses and remembered that absolutely anything done by the public sector can be done ten times better by absolutely anyone else. 

Coincidentally, I just looked at facebook and there’s a video of a fat copper, on duty, singing karaoke in a gay bar. People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to go mincing on their behalf. 

This is why I’ve gone off AI. Options used to be that you could have a rifle or not have a rifle and life was simpler. You couldn’t fvck with stuff because it was glued together. It was a product that you didn’t need to think too hard about. Now there’s a choice for the bloody cheekpiece. Just unnecessary. 

1 hour ago, No i deer said:

Oh I see..

I thought you were after a simple alternative rather than that tripod contraption thing which is clumsy and taking the fun out of PRS.

I’m going to use it to hit frying pans at 400m with a .22 in my own sweet time. 

19 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Or possibly weight and pinch in all three legs by laying a loop of rucksack strap over the top of the tripod and letting it sit in a ring about half way down the legs. 
Constructive discussion. Very much appreciated. 

Just tried it. Helps massively. Sticks in place and accepts fine adjustment. Also keeps your swimming bag off the ground. 
 

8 minutes ago, ds1 said:

If you use a rucksack too you can weight the front stick with it - or just rest it on the bottom of the stick 

Or possibly weight and pinch in all three legs by laying a loop of rucksack strap over the top of the tripod and letting it sit in a ring about half way down the legs. 
Constructive discussion. Very much appreciated. 

8 minutes ago, ds1 said:

AHPP, when you make a stick tripod as per picture it’s really just a rest for the sandbag. The rifle will recoil / bounce but it’s not hard mounted as with a tripod saddle mount etc. With that in mind you don’t need the stick tripod to have fine vertical adjustment- you can adjust them down by splaying the legs more but not up again - you loose the tension from the binding that you have when stressed into a lower position. I would tend to go for 2 legs back.
 

Try something like a big rubber band from a hoover motor. If you can get it over the sticks tight- 2 or 3 times you might have something with enough tension that you could use and vary the height on. You need both tension and elasticity.

Many thanks. Bicycle inner tubes are my usual cordage for this sort of thing but I couldn’t find one yesterday. Had to make do with bailer twine applied to scout association standards.
I’m not expecting fine adjustment (I steer rifles from the back anyway). The problem I had was accidentally weighting a a stick above the tie and levering it off the ground. I imagine that problem will diminish on grass/soil as opposed to carpet. 

3 hours ago, No i deer said:

Try double sticks wit a rope attached at the V. Stand on the rope and lean into the sticks and the rope will steady the sticks like a 3rd leg

Different thing. I’m talking about a kneeling height tripod so you can have the forend on the tripod and brace your elbow on your knee to support the back of the gun. A much more deliberately built position than double, double and string or even quad sticks. 

Is there a tried and true broomhandling technique? I’ve been fiddling with it off and on all evening but no way I found of tying it and splaying it is especially better than other ways. You think you’ve got it then one leg will spazz out.
Central leg forward then rear legs like deer sticks worked least badly most of the time but most photos I’ve found online exhibit the wigwam style.

I'm with John. Use what you like but you have to carry it all day and get it on and off the stage in a given time. There was or is a competition around a quarry somewhere south west ish (Wiltshire?) that works like that.

My mate, Neil is convinced a system used in some motorcycle racing disciplines would work for shooting competitions; a contractual option to buy any other racer's setup for a fixed fee. I'm not as convinced. I think it would stifle the innovation of people building their own stuff if they're just going to be forced to sell it.

If AI keep development going in this direction, they'll be making guns as good as DTA in maybe only twenty or thirty years.

Grove Smallarms and Kings Lynn St Michaels have good ranges in East Anglia too.

I've got a mil spec buffer FDE Magpul STR buttstock. I want to replace it with a CAR (not a waffle). Will also swap my FDE Magpul MIAD grip (with compartment cap, without spare backstraps) for a bog standard or MOE grip and even include some FDE rubber rail ladders so you have a colour matched set. Happy to do swaps, or buy/sell with different people. Will need the new stuff before I let the old stuff go though.

And if anyone has any rail covers for an old school big cheese grater quadrail, those gratefully received too. Not ladders. More comfortable ones.

Private messages please.

Did you check if it's 20 or 28 tpi?

I'd have come down for that but I'm afraid I lost all enthusiasm when I read the coronabollocks policy. Likewise if CSR is going to be the same buggerabout.