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boundary marker?

Its a shame, there used to be a lot of good info in there. I wish they would put it back to the way it used to be.

My youngest graduates in 3 years. I hate the valley. We were thinking about Show Low area, but I'm open to other places. We have kicked around Idaho, Montana, and maybe even Texas. Work isn't an issue as I work from home 1/2 of the time and travel North America the rest. The only hitch is being somewhat close to an airport. My question is, if you could move anywhere in the US, where would you go, and why?

Update. So we checked out the Boise area in June last year. The climate was amazing. Nice and warm in the day, almost cold at night. we headed north towards Idaho city one day, and didn't like it too much. The next day we headed out the other direction and ended up all the way to lake fork. Almost dint come home. If there was an airport in the area we would have come home and packed. We checked out the downtown area in Boise and that's where it went south. The historic houses were amazing, minus the California driven real estate prices, and the fact we were the oldest people around. Nothing but Cali millennial's. Still not opposed to the outskirts northwest of Boise. A trip to Montana is in order soon. I'd like to go in the dead of summer, and winter to get a feel for it. More than likely we will end up somewhere around Show low or Prescott, but I feel we owe it to ourselves to look around before we make a final decision. One thing that is for sure, we will not be in the valley more then a few more years.

I got sea sick when I went. Threw up all down the side of the boat. Started catching sharks immediately after. Chumming works! I took Dramamine before and it didn't help. Still had a great time anyway.

I have tons of em. I miss the old ones that had the little glass bottle of Tabasco.

Good advice: Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain

glycerin is water soluble and should rinse out, but I wouldn't risk it.

Gonna go out tomorrow and look. At the very least it will get my lazy @ss finally out and doing something this year.

someone needs to revive the popcorn thread before this one gets out of hand.

Gotta include pants hanging off your a$$ and skinny jeans.

I bet he shoots a 6.5 creedmoor too.

What metro unit?

I lake I can't afford

If they are that upset about it they should return to their country.

Thanks for the info.

No problems with my 2500 yet. I do have less then 500 miles on it tho.

I've never had an issue with any of the Rams I've had with the Hemi, as far as reliability and mileage is concerned. Going off road in a stock half ton(not including the Rebel) sucks. The factory tires are a joke and the ground clearance is horrible. The beds are also too small to really carry anything.

Is there an online map that shows where claims are? I'd like to dig around a bit, but I would want to make sure I'm not on someone's land or claim.

Doing some load development over the weekend and had a little too hot of a load. Scared the $h!t out me. Lots of smoke hanging around for a while. I needed a mallet to get the bolt open. After cleaning everything the rifle looks fine. I made a dummy round to check chambering and cycling and everything looks ok. Is there anything else I should look for, or just eliminate that load and try again?

Average velocity with 43.5 was 2800. Barrel length is 22". Rifle is a Ruger American. Shell picture below. Primers felt good going in. I've never had an issue with them before. I am using CCI #200 large rifle primers. I use Norma and Lapua for my magnum rifles, and Hornady for standards. I've never had an issue until now. I have tried H4350, V100, and superformance with Berger VLD 130's Hornady SST 140's, and the 143 ELDX. I had great results with 40.5 grains of V100 with the SST. Average speed is 2605. Highest was 2614, lowest 2598. Below is a 5 shot group at 100 yards of my bipod in the wind. I should just be happy with these results, but I like to play.

Thanks for the info guys. I worked up to this load, as mentioned before I did not have pressure signs prior to this load. I can't remember off the top of my head but I'm a few thousands off the lands. I agree starting out this high would be stupid at best. This isn't being built for long range big game. I'm aware of the rounds limitations. This is for my wife to hunt javi's and not have to lug around her 7mm.

6.5 creedmoor Hornady case, Hornady 143gn eldx with 44 grains of v100. 43.5 grains showed no pressure signs averaging 2850fps. The primer fell out when I got the bolt open.