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Then the heavy bullets will do better in your rifle. In the AR15 world 40-55g shooters use 1x12. The 62-77g shooters use 1x7. That’s why so many AR15s are sold with a 1x9 barrel. It’s a good middle of the road choice.

Cz “in the USA” sells 223 guns in 1x9 and 1x12 twist. The 1x12 twist will stabilize 55-40 grain bullets the best. The 1x9 will favor 55-79 grain if it’s newer then 10 years old it’s probably a 1x9

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Yes, land ownership was the key on my dad’s side. My wife’s hobby is building family trees and she is really good at it. But the trail almost always goes cold when someone doesn’t own land. My mom’s side went cold in the 1800s also. My wife said my dad’s side was easy to track because we were a first son lineage mostly and the fact there is a book called the rise and fall of the Aubrey Family. My ancestors are such failures that an entire book was published. 😂 We had 14,000 acres in Virginia and lost it all.

Sounds like a sore time. My friend talked me into walking the Appalachian trail when I was like 18. I made it about 75 miles and I realized it wasn’t for me.

No not technically. Turks and Caicos was British if i remember correctly. So not sure if that counts. I have looked into it a few times but the US dollar doesn’t go far over there. So whenever we are looking at long out of country trips we normally end up in South/ Central America. One day I will end up over there for a Castle tour. My ancestral home is Abercynrig in Brecknockshire Wales.( though my line of Aubrey sold it to an Aubrey cousin in the late 1500s) so I will go there for sure to see it before I die. But when I looked into it years ago the home wasn’t open for tours. So eventually I’d like to get a hold of the owners and email them to see if I can set it up. Its not like I know the owners but I’m hoping they would be kind enough to at least let me see the outside of the place if I can show my ancestral paperwork. From the paperwork I have that area of wales was given to a man named Sir Reginald Aubrey. He was born in Normandy but his grandson son was born there in Wales in 1095 and the Aubrey family lived there until the 1500s when my line sold it to a cousin (still Aubrey tho). And in 1632 a man named John Aubrey was born in Virginia making him the first Aubrey born in America. I haven’t found documentation but I’m assuming by the the fact Reginald Aubrey Senior was born in Normandy in 1030 and his grandson was born in Abercynrig in 1095 that my family played apart in the 1066 invasion and got that land as payment of sorts. (Just a guess) but I have to seen the place before I die.

The things that got me was the darkness of the desert. Away from the light pollution of the cities your eyes will slowly adjust to the point where when you look up you feel like your floating in space. The second most eerie thing is the loneliness is bone chilling. Some of the dirt state roads we drove for a 5-6 hours and never saw another person or mad made object. Out at my farm it’s about a mile to my neighbors and you feel alone. But you can see the lights or hear a chainsaw running and you know that humans are close by. The isolation is almost panic inducing

Thanks you all for the kind words. I honestly can’t believe I have few over this part of the world a 100 times and never drove through them. Seems to be that we find our way to the resorts or big cities and completely forget about the 20 or so fly over states we bypassed to get there. I won’t to outfit a van to have a little more comfortable trip. The wife and I our planing a Canadian trip next year (with a surprise moose hunt that the wife doesn’t know of yet) and I’m not sure if I want to do it in a truck.

From there went north through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and back to North Carolina. Had a great time in the vast interior.

Stopped by a gas station in Louisiana to fuel up and found a mint Ruger number 3 in .223 Stopped by a gas station in Louisiana to fuel up and found a mint Ruger number 3 in .223 Rode through Mississippi, good chicken restaurant in Biloxi, nothing else good about here

The petrified forest. Stone trees as far as the eye can see. stopped into Texas for some BBQ

The Painted desert is completely covered in 2000 year old rock art.

Honestly Moab was so beautiful that i forgot to take many pictures. Rolling from high desert to low desert we rode through the Canyon Lands.

turning off the paved road we explored the vast Moab desert and the Sand dunes National Park