John Connor
“Yeah, OK Slim, cool. ‘Bye now,” I said. I like to keep calls brief, ya know? But before I could punch the “Dump Caller” key he blurted, “Wait! I’ve been crankin’ this sucker all over the target! I’m 7" low and 3" left. How many clicks will get me to zero?” I asked Slim whether his adjustments were 1/2", 1/4" or maybe 1/8" and his shooting distance.
“The adjustments are just in clicks,” he said, “and I’m about 50, maybe 75 yards out. Is that important?” Sigh. Someday I’ll write a book called Ballistic Moronics.
As you all know, I ain’t no genius. But in a flash, I knew if his adjustments were 1/2", he would need 28 clicks elevation at 50 yards, or 19 clicks at 75 — and if his ‘scope had 1/8" adjustments, he would need 112 clicks at 50 or 75 at 75 yards. His windage adjustments took another full second.
No Abacus Needed
I just consulted my AccuScope chart. I’ve used several sighting-in references, and this is the coolest, handiest, fastest one I’ve found.
AccuScope is a 9"x4" weather-treated sandwich card with a slider in the middle. One version covers 1/4" and 1/2" adjustable scopes and a second version covers precision 1/8" glass. Simple, complete instructions lead you through measuring your offset from zero horizontally and vertically, sliding the center card to display those measurements, and then reading the number of clicks shown directly under your shooting distance, which is graduated from 25 to 200 yards.
Both versions of the AccuScope chart break your offset measurements into the appropriate fractions of an inch, and even include a handy ruler for field use on non-gridded targets – or for guys like Slim, who tend to be ruler-less as well as clueless. AccuScope saves time, ammo and “field frustration.” They’re $9.95 each and well worth it.
AccuScope
P.O. Box 633, Ankeny, IA 50021
www.accuscopeusa.com,
email: info@accuscopeusa.com
Clint Smith
Always being one who colors outside the lines, I have enjoyed over-the-top colors and images on my personal stuff to include my rifle stocks. Nothing drives the tactical guys more nuts more than a loud paint job on a tactical rifle stock, and boy did I find just the guy to do it!
The Mad Gini is just as Steve Martin used to say a “wild and crazy guy” and, brothers, this guy can paint. Jason Titus, aka the Mad Gini, is a graduate of Art Institute of Seattle. His specialty is airbrush painting and his designs are self generated in what I would call a very creative and imaginative mind. Working over the last dozen years he is well recognized and desired by what use to be called “biker trash,” which today means the ilk of investment bankers, our digital camouflage computer programmers and the like. He is the sole artist and painter in his shop. He thinks it up, creates it and paints it himself.
I commissioned Jason to do a stock for my .308 Remington 700 LTR and, being attached to skulls (yeah, I know — weird), all I told him was camouflage of a fashion with skulls and the Mad Gini went to work. The result was not only an excellent working field camouflage, but a very cool collection of skulls, eyes and crosswire images that probably doesn’t make the rifle shoot better but it puts a grin on my face — my rifle, my grins, baby.
Jason works in skulls, flames, scallops, murals and graphics and your concept or idea or his based on your requirements. If you’re tired of the same old black, green, tan crud-painted stock, this is the guy to contact double quick. And you better hurry because he is starting to paint all of my stocks, and you’ll be on the waiting list. If you want cool paint job on a rifle stock pegging most people’s Weird-O-Meter, the Mad Gini is your man.
OK, I’m weird, point noted. Skulls aren’t for everybody,
but you can think up your own design.
The Mad Gini
6090 Crater Lake Ave.
Central Point, Oregon 97502
(541) 210-7525
www.madgini.com
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