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Picky ?

I am very picky an will pursue perfection till I pass from this life. No accusations from me friend. I’m not a bench rest shooter yet I live in the panhandle of Texas where a normal shot on a varmit is 800 plus yards with mirage an wind so bad its enough to frustrate the best of shooters.

My truck gun is a .338 lapua mag with a leupold mk4 16X . A no contour shilen bull barrel with. Harris bipod an a McMillan stock. 11 degree recessed crown an badger mounts on the Remington 700 action. Canjar set trigger completes my rig I was “picky” about.

Then an only then do I get to my selection of components for rolling my own fodder to feed that rifle. I would think over the years I have paid lots of coin to Sinclair, Brownells, Midway and Creedmore.

I’m very picky in all my endeavors from dinner to dwellings to what I drive.

My work involves precision measurement an exotic materials. A lack of attention to detail can be deadly.

Picky is a way of life per se..... :o)

If anything I own can be improved with a little extra effort I will do so.

Stay safe, hope yer well !

I am very picky an will pursue perfection till I pass from this life. No accusations from me friend.

I've got no problems with that, although I'd call myself a "practical perfectionist". In my working life, I've found that 90% of a job takes just 10% of the time. It's up to my boss to decide if perfection is needed, and it usually isn't.

At home, for myself, family, and a few friends, I will spend endless time to get a computer or weapon as perfect as I can make it. They all say, "that's amazing, why don't you do that for a living?" Of course, nobody is willing to pay $80 an hour (the going rate for just about any kind of custom one-on-one labor) when they have no idea what I actually did, or why it took so long to do it.

I still get a chuckle reading the Ruger Mark x sites with everyone moaning about how it's impossible to get it to function reliably with low power/subsonic ammo. Heck, the first time out of the box, I had 100% failure-to-feed with RWS subsonic ammo. $200 of Volquartsen parts, a bunch of Nanolube, and two weeks of studying sources of drag and friction gave me a handgun that now functions reliably with every kind of creampuff .22 ammo I can find.

It's not rocket science, it's experience, study and analysis, and a willingness to bust your ass to get the job done. OTOH, maybe that is the definition of rocket science. :)

Meanwhile, a final photo from last week, where I finally took my CZ 452 in .17HM2 to the range for first tests with the Timney trigger, and mounting the scope on the CZ 455. These are tough rifles to photograph, because it is so hard to show how gorgeous the wood really is.