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Leatherwood Hi-Lux

Your rifle should be capable of holding at least one round in a ready-to-fire position in the chamber. Once that round has been fired, the case needs to be ejected out of the way so another round can be fed into the chamber. Where does the next round come from?
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The trigger is a small and highly crucial component of your rifle. You can’t reliably set off a round without some mechanism by which to do it!

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Believe it or not, the atmosphere has an effect on your shots - sometimes to a significant degree. 
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Adjustments made to your aim and your scope are often discussed in angular measurements such as MOA (and MIL, which we’ll talk about in a bit). Angular measurements are used for a very important reason
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If you point your rifle directly at the center of your target - and I mean the line of the bore pointing right at the center of that piece of paper - the bullet likely will not actually hit the center. Instead, it’ll hit a bit below the center, or very far below it depending on the distance to the target.
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An illuminated scope does not mean night vision or infrared or a flashlight. Instead, illumination means that there’s a small light inside the scope, set up to illuminate the reticle. 
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If you’ve ever asked, “Am I moving my point of view when I dial? What does impact L or U mean? What is being adjusted in there?,” then it’s time to learn about turrets.

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Sometimes, you will need to be able to focus your scope. In a scope, there are two types of focus - the eyepiece diopter and the parallax adjustment. 
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Is there a detriment to using steel cases instead of brass? Spoiler alert - sometimes, yes.

There’s actually a good handful of drawbacks, but I’ll phrase it by talking about what brass is better at

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Once you have your rifle in hand, you’ll need to know where to point it. Your sights are there to help you aim. Over the course of history, many types of sights have been made to fulfill different specific tasks.
The region of transitional ballistics is very temporary. Transitional ballistics apply in the moment when the bullet leaves the muzzle, as the expanding gasses rush out around it. It ends when the surrounding gasses have reduced in pressure to meet that of the normal atmosphere.
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A few scopes are built to sit much farther away. They have a much longer eye relief than is standard. For this very simple reason, they're called long eye relief scopes. Sometimes, you'll see that written as LER.
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