I accidentally made something like a DMR, but it's a manual action.

I pragmatically made a practical manual action DMR:

Since the 60s or 70s, they've been designed around semi-autos for quick follow-up shots and accurate target suppression, but they can also be pushed into a frontline combat role instead of just support. They're practical from 50 out to 600 yard combat rifles with good 1-2 MOA accuracy.

But the Savage Impulse is weird, even though it's a manual action: it can do that with its straight-pull action and a good LPVO. The Context also semi auto are harder to come by within civil market within jurisdiction and this is pragmatically what you can get for a high capacity practical rifle that is also ambi. Me shooting with old stock which I hated with a passion for lots of reasons:

https://youtu.be/ZY0nwc53SzM?si=AZJTkMcNaI9Qpav0

https://youtube.com/shorts/90YSZTualeo?si=zG2CsFGv9G3_zrOQ

The At One stock makes the rifle way easier to handle, with better balance and a chunkier front end for me to grip. It's much more pointable and can be shot from the shoulder easily.

Apparently, Boyds has a taller comb for cheek rise, but I didn't realize I needed to order it, and I'm annoyed it doesn't just come standard with the At One because it cost a bloody $100 usd to order it.

I just sanded the barrel channel a bit, wrapping sandpaper around the barrel and moving it back and forth to give it more free float room by thickness of the sandpaper. It was a little tight and it seems good now with that technique, but otherwise it dropped right in.

The optic is a PA Slx 1-8x24ffp ACSS raptor, and the loads I've handloaded line up with the reticle with this optic height of 2.23". I'm not wanting to lower it either because my head position and where the butt lands in my shoulder pocket feel comfortable. The bolt throw is long on the rifle, and when prone, I need enough length of pull to feel comfortable, which is why the optic is mounted so far back: it only has 3.2" eye relief.

This so good with this rifle omfg 😍

I have Savage Impulse Predator and with the LPVO being 3.2" of eye relief I have to mount it pretty far back to be within eye box.

I found this catcher on Amazon Canada (hence why no ar) and realized it was adjustable: I barely have enough pic rail to attach the basket and have it function with the rifle ejection aera.

The Savage Impulse when you run it full chat flings cases like 10ft behind you and makes it difficult to find them. I dont have a lot of money for brass or to loose brass so this is like godsent to me. I can run rifle a mag or two without thinking about it. Apparently the mesh heat resistant which is good cause frankly this Impulse when you have a Lee Enfield nut behind it screams out rounds at a crazy rate.

I'll be testing it here soon but at home with empty resized ones it was being functional.

Um, rifle match Aug 22th and frick the bloody pricing of factory ammo in Canada is the basic jisit. This is less than 12 hours of production with a Lee Hand press, I think? I lost track exactly? Aaahhh. Heeelllppp (sarcasm).

Also trying to match load to reticle...

Mary now my emotional support dog being autistic/adhd and cPTSD um.

I love football as an adult OL and don't know where to put it 😅. I just hate being mortal and been dealing with a bad left shoulder though. I'm kinda also addicted to this gold colorway, I haven't tried it yet but 🥵. I kkiiinnnddddaa free spirit oddball at practice in that way 😅.

Also hoping everyone still actively playing is having the same experience as a mod for this sub. My Facebook feed algorithm has been sharing posts of youth players starting their season.

Also, I'm autistic/ADHD and not sure how many of us are doing it, but yeah.

I'm not really looking for advice since I have pros for that, but my left shoulder keeps getting minorly injured during my adult season, and it's even messing with my ability to shoot rifles.

I guess rehab will be an off-season thing, but it just sucks because I've grown to love being an OL, and losing playing time isn't great when the adult season isn't as intense, only 2 or 3 days a week compared to 5 days a week within high school.

I've been dabbling in goaltending lately, waiting for playoffs for my football team, hoping my shoulder holds up for that at least 🫠.

I mean she is extremely sweet but needs a smart tag 2 tracker cause its lot like Doug from UP with seeing small animals.

Frist foster dog I took in of course had to be perfect to me...

I feel like trying to explain this often is like I am two headed dragon since this field is new and emerging, I kinda trying to explain what happen in simple dumb down terms pragmatically to me with chronic pain syndrome:

So it's a bit complicated, but new research interlinks ADHD can cause chronic pain in depth, and stimulants can dramatically help, along with other meds like pramipexole. As someone who is AuADHD: I have to wave said study data in doctors' faces and find a new doctor who actually listens and works with their patients.

Please give me Vyvanse and pramipexole to fix my chronic pain based on study data because everything else they've tried has failed or been mismanaged.

Now I can go pew pew with guns without my back being in 8/10 pain afterwards taking Vyvanse and pramipexole, and it's resolving a really severe disability I've had since 2019.

I am also not making up things, Dr. S Kasahara has lead in depth studys within this field and has a whole mini study review on neurodivergent chronic pain management:

Source: Frontiers https://share.google/tuis5a8bWDtwjhr40

I am autistic as hell, we tend to hyperfocus on topics of interest.

I've been diving into football helmet engineering, reading things like Karen Taylor's doctoral thesis on detached liners in football helmets for her kinetics doctorate at the University of Ottawa.

It's a bit dry, and it's lab rats messing around with engineering that isn't used in modern helmets, so it's hard to connect it to anything outside of the fact that detached inner liners, when they're independent from the outer shell, make impact mitigation more effective.

I did equipment under my old high school coach for a season which was joyous to me.

My brain is bored though right now without an outlet for it.

Youtube of shooting here:

**Shooting rifle: click here**

Context:

So, a total stranger literally gave me this rifle in 2018 in a gun shop parking lot. I gave it to someone I won't name, and I'm guessing he might be dead by now, considering his age. He completely butchered the thing, even though I just wanted him to check it over since I was new to shooting and rifles. Then, a fabulous person named Annie Dubuc had to completely rebuild the back end of the stock from scratch because someone tried to take off the butt stock before the fore stock, which cracked the fore stock because there's a screw plate there that stops the buttstock screw from backing out (it probably be best to google smle butt screw plate).

Also, the original person I sent it to completely drilled out the original nose cap, so I have a random rifle nose cap on there that isn't original to the rifle, unfortunately. But this is the first time I've actually tried to group it properly.

There is a mythical thing about free floating Lee Enfields, dear lord Bloke on Ranch has beaten that to death and I dont wanna say more. Barrel is too light of a profile and its very whippy. SMLE/No.1 has a wild bedding system to depend out barrel harmonics and whip.

I don't do blade and leaf style sights; normally, I'm handling a 1943 Long Branch No.4 for Lee Enfield.

So frankly it normally just sits in my gun cabinet with me oiling stock every so often because I also realize its barrel condition is such that its extremely rare exception to surplus Lee Enfields within Canada.

I just didnt realize it had the potential of grouping till yesterday fully and the windage was actually zeroed when I tested it at 25yrds.

Its probably going to sit for a while just out of cost reasons for .30cal: granted handloads and seeing what it can do would interest me. But thats something long time away.

Hi, AuADHD adult amateur offensive tackle and obsessed with equipment particularly modern football helments.

I have done a season of equipment with former high school.

If your clueless about what to buy for helments can ask me and I'll tell you.

Personal collection is SpeedFlex SF Echo, Light Apache (top end one 3d printed shock absorbers), and VICIS Zero2 Trench.

I am kinda minorly injured right now and have a bit off unfortunately.

I am also goalie.

I wasn't expecting such a massive positive response to me sharing doing load development for my Savage Impulse Predator 308win.

I thought I might share me shooting then:

https://youtu.be/pE11GWiCbpc?si=AQ2epM3PqaEAj3n7

Reddit doesn't support video the best unfortunately.

This is my 1943 No.4 Lee-Enfield, it's a Long Branch production one which is a Canadian arms factory historically. There is actually a documentary on the factory from when it was running during ww2 here:

https://youtu.be/ZMTblZ7CZdI?si=\_Tb3a8g\_DgX3LLEE

Its a bit of a odd rifle since its Canadian marked but then also Italian commercial proof marks from 2012-2013 are also on it. I believe its part of the Italian Navy Lee-Enfields that where nato aid post war.

Canadian army used the no.4 officially from 1941 to 1955 till replacement with the C1 SLR (FN FAL) for frontline at least.

My goalie mask displays my military history background that went into firearms pragmatically.

For the record, I am Canadian, I have firearms license, I am firearm special interest and shooter. I am hoping to go to range tomorrow or soon to test these loads.

I am trying to develop something it likes and shoots well, while being more affordable. Canadian ammo price is insane for factory and trying to cope.

I have No.4, but not the battle dress etc. Etc.

I think the cost of a kit is vaguely 1k and that is the major barrier, I'd probably do Loyal Edmonton Regiment. I had a family member KIA battle of Rimini and I've been planing a lecture for a while after getting my goalie mask done here to explain it.

I've done a awful lot of reading though war diarys and stuff the last few months around it. I novelly been using ai tools of notebook lm to scan though sorces materials as well.

I just still haven't figured out scripting and recording it.

I was having imput often from my closest online buddy who is a retired US Army Sergeant: he was motormen, tanker, and armorer, combat veteran to Iraq. Incredibly storied individual and invaluable going though this sometimes.

How do you deal with your symptoms when you're trying to play sports?

Right now, the biggest thing affecting me with AuADHD is bad sleep, insomnia, and being super tired all the time.

Sometimes it's really hard for me to play as a goalie and a football player. I'm not great at taking care of myself for goalie stuff, like flexibility, because the fatigue makes it hard to even start things, and honestly, sometimes I just feel sick from it.

I'm going to talk to my psychiatrist about it at my next appointment.

I've wanted to talk about it, but I feel like most people look at me funny when I try to be open about it.

(Sleep issues are really common for ADHD and AuADHD, just so you know.)

Edit after sharing: I am slightly overwhelmed by volume of comments right at moment.

I wasn't sure what to expect, I thought this would backfire.

Edit edit:

I am recovering from severe miss management for years as well with my current psychiatrist I've had for vaguely few months, I've been focusing on crippling chronic muscular pain but Vyvanse and now slowly adding pramipexole has been a total 180, I've been regaining function with it (s Kasahara has study on this for adhd chronic pain). Next appointment will be sleep. I mean I talk with my current trusted doctor of pharmacy and he outright says he disagreed with my management historical with other psychiatrists reviewing it, so its not my opinion.

I am not trying to maybe seek advice since I have e.g. my own goalie coach who works with equipment as well and is master skate sharper or I am friends with local repairmen for sports equipment that deals with skates.

But, I seriously took a break for a while, now I come back and my arch pain is so wicked it literally causes me to lose focus not being able to track the puck in stance.

Did heat molding again, I have eee sizing so forced to wear custom. I dont know, I never have had a pain free experience with custom by True and not sure why. Most speak highly of them.