{"id":1506,"date":"2008-08-28T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2008-08-28T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T16:13:21","slug":"17-hmr-no-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":".17 HMR = No Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I Burned Fossil Fuel for Nothing<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here is a bummer for you. I went to Bass and got me a sling, scope rings, and a rifle bag. And it looks like the rings and sling may have to go back.<\/p>\n<p>The scope I bought has a 42mm objective lens. I bought rings that were supposed to work with a lens that size. But when I put them on the rifle, the scope rested on the barrel. DOH.<\/p>\n<p>I just checked the Burris page. Guess what? Burris uses bigger lenses than other makers. How they can do that while still calling it 42mm is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>Now my head hurts.<\/p>\n<p>I assume they mean 42mm is bigger than the lens on a competitor&#8217;s product with the same specs. And maybe the thick barrel is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I took the sling out of the bag and noticed something funny. It only has one swivel. What the hell? The gun has two studs. Do I attach the sling to the one stud with a cable tie? I happen to have a swivel I&#8217;m not using, but I&#8217;m not totally sure the sling can be opened up and inserted in it. Guess I&#8217;ll figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t even sell Eezox. It&#8217;s a weird store. In some ways, they seem almost ashamed of their shooting products. At least I enjoyed the giant saltwater aquarium. I always stand by it for a while and imagine myself killing all the fish.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope there is nothing wrong with the bag.<\/p>\n<p><b>More<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cheer yourself up by reading about the <i>other<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/moxie.nu\/?p=1678#respond'target='_blank'>President Jefferson.<\/a> Moxie met him at a fundraiser held by Jackie Treehorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Burned Fossil Fuel for Nothing Here is a bummer for you. I went to Bass and got me a sling, scope rings, and a rifle bag. And it looks like the rings and sling may have to go back. The scope I bought has a 42mm objective lens. I bought rings that were supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-hunting-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}