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I was out shooting in the country yesterday with a co-worker. Just helping him sight in his ruger pr 6.5 Creedmoor.

He started complaining about back pains. It progressed to the point he had to lay down in the back of my 4runner. I kept shooting, but would check on him.

Eventually it got bad enough he was laying outside on a hard rifle case to try and get relief. It wasn't long before he said we needed to pack up and go. I started breaking everything down, which wasn't going to be a short process, but he called out.

I went over to him and he had his hands in front of his chest like a passing mantis. He was pale white, cold, covered in sweat, heart rate elevated, and shallow breathing. He was coherent, so I asked about his symptoms, I was worried he was having a heart attack at first, but he said he wasn't and the answers to my questions pointed to something else. I was worried he was going into shock and that it might cause a heart attack though.

Called an ambulance and while I'm on the phone with the 911 operator I notice a pair of dirt bikes coming down the hill. They were about to round a corner that would drop the right into a firing lane someone was using. I yelled as loud as I could at the shooters, "HEY! THERE ARE BIKES COMING DOWN THERE! STOP SHOOTING!". Somehow they heard me from 60 yards away, over gun fire, and stopped shooting.

Ambulance arrived, got him into it, and off he went. Turns out he's fine. It's a case of kidney stones. Boy, I hope I never get them.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
I was out shooting in the country yesterday with a co-worker. Just helping him sight in his ruger pr 6.5 Creedmoor.

He started complaining about back pains. It progressed to the point he had to lay down in the back of my 4runner. I kept shooting, but would check on him.

Eventually it got bad enough he was laying outside on a hard rifle case to try and get relief. It wasn't long before he said we needed to pack up and go. I started breaking everything down, which wasn't going to be a short process, but he called out.

I went over to him and he had his hands in front of his chest like a passing mantis. He was pale white, cold, covered in sweat, heart rate elevated, and shallow breathing. He was coherent, so I asked about his symptoms, I was worried he was having a heart attack at first, but he said he wasn't and the answers to my questions pointed to something else. I was worried he was going into shock and that it might cause a heart attack though.

Called an ambulance and while I'm on the phone with the 911 operator I notice a pair of dirt bikes coming down the hill. They were about to round a corner that would drop the right into a firing lane someone was using. I yelled as loud as I could at the shooters, "HEY! THERE ARE BIKES COMING DOWN THERE! STOP SHOOTING!". Somehow they heard me from 60 yards away, over gun fire, and stopped shooting.

Ambulance arrived, got him into it, and off he went. Turns out he's fine. It's a case of kidney stones. Boy, I hope I never get them.
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Very glad it wasn’t a heart attack and that nobody got shot. Stones can be absolutely horrible!!! I thought I was having a friggin aortic dissection during one experience.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
I was out shooting in the country yesterday with a co-worker. Just helping him sight in his ruger pr 6.5 Creedmoor.

He started complaining about back pains. It progressed to the point he had to lay down in the back of my 4runner. I kept shooting, but would check on him.

Eventually it got bad enough he was laying outside on a hard rifle case to try and get relief. It wasn't long before he said we needed to pack up and go. I started breaking everything down, which wasn't going to be a short process, but he called out.

I went over to him and he had his hands in front of his chest like a passing mantis. He was pale white, cold, covered in sweat, heart rate elevated, and shallow breathing. He was coherent, so I asked about his symptoms, I was worried he was having a heart attack at first, but he said he wasn't and the answers to my questions pointed to something else. I was worried he was going into shock and that it might cause a heart attack though.

Called an ambulance and while I'm on the phone with the 911 operator I notice a pair of dirt bikes coming down the hill. They were about to round a corner that would drop the right into a firing lane someone was using. I yelled as loud as I could at the shooters, "HEY! THERE ARE BIKES COMING DOWN THERE! STOP SHOOTING!". Somehow they heard me from 60 yards away, over gun fire, and stopped shooting.

Ambulance arrived, got him into it, and off he went. Turns out he's fine. It's a case of kidney stones. Boy, I hope I never get them.
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We were on a motorcycle trip in CO with friends on the way to Joe Cocker's farm / ranch for a concert one day. My buddy started getting pains from kidney stones. A condition he has suffered from for years.

We were both two up and neither of our wives could operate the bikes.

Long story short...nearest town was Paonia, and I got him there where a doctor catheterized him and helped remediate the issue. (We missed the concert.) Turned out that the doctor was originally from the same town in Indiana, (Warsaw), as they were both from before moving to FL.

Small and strange world.
 
I‘ve been wanting a different scope on my MZ for a couple years now and recently purchased this Swarovski Z3 on the exchange. I had a VX1 2-7x33 Shotgun/MZ scope on this gun for about 13 years and have just grown to dislike the heavy duplex reticle, otherwise it’s been great. The Swarovski is just slightly bigger being a 3-9x36 so it has a few advantages over the VX1 while still maintaining a compact profile. (1” tubes on both scopes mentioned).

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Jsega51 said:
I‘ve been wanting a different scope on my MZ for a couple years now and recently purchased this Swarovski Z3 on the exchange. I had a VX1 2-7x33 Shotgun/MZ scope on this gun for about 13 years now and have just grown to dislike the heavy duplex reticle, otherwise it’s been great. The Swarovski is just slightly bigger being a 3-9x36 so it has a few advantages over the VX1 while still maintaining a compact profile. (1” tubes on both scopes mentioned).

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Nice. I'm actually looking into a leupold mark v for a 300 win mag hunting rifle. Just not sure yet... there are so many options
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
Nice. I'm actually looking into a leupold mark v for a 300 win mag hunting rifle. Just not sure yet... there are so many options
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I have a lot of Leupold scopes on my rifles, I really like the VX5 on my .270 and because of the illuminated reticle I was thinking going with an IR for the MZ but this Swaro popped up and intrigued me quite a bit, it has a 4A reticle in it. I sent the same pic to a friend and he told me that he just got a Leupold VXR and he’s really impressed, so there‘s another endorsement to chase that Mark V down!
 
Alexei604 said:
Any push button safety, like for me, is not safety. And i doubt that one more rotating part makes your trigger pull smoother and lighter
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It's another Forced Reset Trigger.

A few companies currently in legal battles over the BATF rewording "a single function of the trigger" to consider them 'Machine Guns' the way they did with bump stocks.
 
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