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I decided to order my first silencer. I chose rimfire to start. Problem: I only have one threaded rimfire weapon. Can anyone recommend a smith in the general area of Marion County, Florida? It's between Gainesville and Orlando.

This question is related to pistols in a way, but it makes more sense to ask in a rifle subforum. I got a Zastava M92 pistol. It comes with one OEM plastic magazine. Are these magazines trustworthy? Anyone heard of problems? This will be a vehicle gun, so it needs to be reliable.

I have a Ruger Charger in .22 LR. I bought the takedown model. I stuck a red dot in it. I thought it would be fun to have while roaming around the farm. Having done all this, I then read that the takedown model has accuracy issues because the barrel doesn't always align the same way when it is...

I got a Ruger Charger, which is a 10/22 with a short barrel. It only has one sling stud. Does anyone here know how to go about putting a two-point sling on this gun? It does not have a brace yet. It has a rail on top and a short rail at the rear.

I got very good results shooting Hornady ELD Match 147-grain 6.5 Creedmoor ammo today. I saw some available online, and I was hoping to load up, but I wanted to wait until I had tried some I already had. By the time I was able to shoot, the ammo online had been snapped up. I can still get...

Does anyone here know the correct ring height for a Tikka T3x in 6.5 Creedmoor? I have one on the way. Will probably put a 50mm scope on it.

I'm making 9mm semiwadcutters. I am not able to jam the bullets into the casings deeply enough to cover the lube grooves because they are very long. Wax is accumulating on the crimping die very quickly, and I have to clean the cartridges after they're finished. I think I'm all done with...

I have been working on a 9mm semiwadcutter load. Today I got back to it. I put 5.6 grains of BE-86 in Starline brass, and I used 125-grain Missouri Bullet semiwadcutters. I'm using Winchester small pistol primers. I am now happy with my average velocity (1134), but several of the cases I shot...

Today I went to Bass Pro and picked up the thousand large rifle primers I had ordered. I figured I was all ready to start making rifle ammo for the first time. I want to make some accurate stuff. I bought 140-grain Nosler Accubond bullets. I thought maybe I could produce hunting cartridges that...

I'm loading 125-grain 9mm semiwadcutters from Missouri Bullet. The powder is BE-86. The primers are Winchester small pistol. The closest published load I could find was for cast 125-grain round nose bullets, so I went with that, changing the OAL somewhat to accommodate the longer...

I posted the information in this post a couple of days ago, but it vanished, so I am trying again. I shot my AR-15 at 50 yards, coming in at around 7/8" or about 1.5 MOA for 12 rounds. I moved to 100 rounds and shot from the ground, and I got about 2.5 MOA. I built a prone shooting platform and...

I bought a Vortex PST Gen II Viper 6x24 for my Ruger Precision Rifle. Or at least I thought I did. I accidentally bought a Gen I. I turned around and bought a Gen II. I know I sound like a cork-sniffer, but I showed up for my first long-range class with all the wrong stuff, and when my teacher...

I shot my AR-15 a while back, with a scope that was mounted wrong, supported on a flimsy Home Depot table. I got something like 1.5 MOA at 50 yards, and then it started to rain, so I had to quit. I put a better scope on the gun, and I got a shooting mat and learned how to use it. I learned...

My Ruger Precision Rifle arrived. I got the scope set up and installed, and I attached a bipod. Question: is it normal for these things to have rough edges around the holes in the handguards? Mine reminds me of a cheese grater. I could deburr it, but I'd have to get someone to redo the...

Yesterday I cleared out some ground so I would have a 100-yard shooting lane free from weeds. While I was getting ready to put down a tarp and my mat, it occurred to me that it might be smart to build a wooden platform for prone shooting. It would give me a little elevation above the weeds, and...

My Ruger PR should be in my hands later this week. I want to be ready. Is there any reason this thing won't be ready to go, right out of the box? Some guns have flaws pretty much everyone fixes as soon as they get them. For example, I got rid of my mil-spec AR-15 trigger right away. I have all...

The other day, I was shooting with a pro doing my spotting. The ballistic coefficient on my ammo box was 0.462. After a few shots, he told me to change it to 0.420 in my ballistic calculator. How did he know to do that?

Now that I know a tiny bit about long range shooting, I am upgrading the brand-new duplex scope on my AR-15 to MIL-dot. I don't expect it to be a competition gun, but I should be able to decimate small targets up to several hundred yards, which would have been pretty hard with a duplex reticle...

I want to get a Kestrel. I used one this weekend, on loan from the place where I shot. Is there a particular model I should pick? I see some models are limited to 3 guns. That would be annoying, but I guess it's not terrible. It looks like the 5700 Elite is not great unless you blow an extra...

Took my first PRS course over the weekend. I had to lug a bunch of stuff up and down stairs in my hands and a plastic bag from Target. I had a rolling toolbox, but it wasn't very good for stairs. I need a shooting mat and a good range bag. I'm not planning to wander around Alaska for a month...