Waiting for this to change to: “you must be vaxxed AND a clean test.

many of you know i hurt my back a long time go and its time to get it repaired.
i am under care of a surgeon at this time and they prescribed me a non opioid pain reliever
gabapentin...
it blocks the nerve receptors for pain...
im on day 4 and man, i dont know if im tricking myself, but i believe not, man oh man i feel so much better, its unbelievable.
days ago, i was ready to be rolled out to pasture, NOW, I WANT TO GO DIG A BIG FUCKING HOLE IN THE PASTURE, I FUCKING SWEAR IT.

this gabapentin may also help some of you other broken studs out there


also,
can someone send me the covid vac card blanks

Tttttttt

Mcmillan Game Warden Stock for a Tikka T3/ T3x. Factory Sporter Contour and std. Factory single stack DBM (not CTR). Stainless hardware, and black speckle finish, LOP is 13 3/4". Could be opened up to take up to a Proof Sendero Contour. Stock is in like new condition. I bolted a barreled action into it, other than that its in pristine condition. This is an EDGE Fill stock, so its pretty light. About 28-29 OZ on my scale. $475 Shipped or would consider a trade with cash on my end on another Manners or Mcmillan with an ADJUSTBLE cheek Piece. May consider Tikka or R700 RH stocks. Also wouldn't mind a Nightforce SHV 3-10 with MOAR reticle.

In case anyone or their right minded friends need one

I had no idea this shit was going on. WOW.

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(Note: I copy/pasted because this is a paywall article & not sure how long available. I'm sending this out since John just had that unsavory experience through ebay & have always understood the way a company does business starts at the top.)

Natick resident David Steiner was puttering in his garage on a sunny Sunday morning when a neighbor walking a dog called out to him: “Hey, your fence has been tagged.”
Steiner, who with his wife, Ina, publishes a news website about the e-commerce industry from their home, thought his neighbor must be joking — who would be graffitiing his new white vinyl fence on their quiet, tree-lined street?
It was June of 2019, and he had no clue that the vandalism was just the start of a bizarre harassment campaign directed by senior executives at one of the country’s leading Internet companies, eBay. Ultimately, the events would shatter the Steiners’ peaceful suburban life, result in criminal charges against six eBay employees and a contractor, five of whom have pleaded guilty, and contribute to the departure of eBay’s chief executive.

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The abuse would culminate in the couple fearing for their lives as they were stalked in their own neighborhood by unknown perpetrators in a slow-moving black van.
But that Sunday, Steiner was simply surprised and dismayed to see the word “Fidomaster” spray-painted across his fence. He tried to clean up the mess before Ina, who was out paddle boarding, returned home but he failed. Ina recognized that the name matched an anonymous commenter on their newsletter, one who was particularly critical of eBay.

“This was very unnerving,” Ina recalled in an interview with the Globe this week. “It didn’t make any sense.”

Had the person who was Fidomaster painted their name on the fence? Or was someone accusing the Steiners of being Fidomaster? Or did the term have some other meaning? “I Googled right away to see if it was something kids might be saying,” Ina said.

In their first interview with the news media, the couple spoke to the Globe for several hours in the offices of attorney Rosemary Scapicchio, who is representing them in a civil lawsuit against eBay. They provided additional harrowing details of their experience beyond those disclosed in court documents, which include copies of e-mails and text messages of eBay employees that federal prosecutors say show how they conspired to terrorize the Steiners.

Natick couple stalked and harassed by eBay files suit - The Boston Globe​ Ina and David Steiner drew the ire of top eBay executives, including former CEO Devin Wenig, for publishing an o...

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The couple met in the mid-1980s in Western Massachusetts at what was then called North Adams State College and is now called the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. The two young students met at a party for a bandmate of David’s who was going away and immediately felt a connection and began dating. They married in 1988.

Around 1999, when eBay was still a young company and the World Wide Web was not the finely tuned commercial marketplace it is today, David decided to sell some of his video gear on the auction site. The couple also began haunting garage sales and yard sales to find collectible items they could sell online to make money. “We’d get up early, go through the classified ads, get your Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, and hit as many sales as we could,” Ina said.

They quickly realized that a growing throng of like-minded sellers was struggling to figure out how best to auction their items. The Steiners initially created a paper newsletter with tips and tricks to help other sellers, but realized after one issue that an online publication made more sense, even in 1999. Thus was born AuctionBytes, later changed to EcommerceBytes, and running the advertising-based publication is the couple’s full-time occupation.
For years, the publication thrived. Particularly while eBay was run by Meg Whitman, small sellers flourished and EcommerceBytes offered a wide variety of useful advice. One time, David explained to readers how he’d shipped a large item by Greyhound bus instead of a typical package delivery service, saving hundreds of dollars.
After Whitman left in 2007 and was replaced by former Bain & Co. consultant John Donahoe, eBay began to cater to larger sellers and established retailers, a trend that continued when Devin Wenig was promoted to CEO in 2015. The couple had pivoted their newsletter from how-to tips to reporting more on the changing strategy and new policies of the company. Their take on the new eBay was often, though hardly exclusively, critical.

Along with other participants in the scheme, Baugh was charged last year with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to commit witness tampering. He is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors said the 2019 campaign was sparked by complaints about articles in EcommerceBytes from eBay chief executive Wenig to his senior vice president and communications director, Steve Wymer. Wymer in turn complained to Baugh, who directed the team of eBay employees who worked for him to move against the Steiners, according to the federal criminal complaints.

The articles that drew the eBay executives’ ire included reports about the CEO’s salary and his comments on protecting e-sellers against fraud. Prosecutors revealed angry text messages about an April 10, 2019, article titled “eBay CEO Devin Wenig Earns 152 Times That of Employees,” as well as “eBay CEO Says Sellers Can Expect Greater Protections,” from May 31, 2019. Such articles generated reader comments that were highly critical of the company’s leadership and its treatment of smaller sellers, who felt left behind in favor of larger retailers.
From the Steiners’ point of view, not much happened for a few weeks after the graffiti. But on Aug. 8, 2019, they found their inboxes filling up with dozens of e-mail newsletters they hadn’t signed up for, ranging from Heather’s Irritable Bowel Syndrome News and The Satanic Temple to more disturbing fare featuring pornography and bondage. At the same time, a new Twitter account started bombarding Ina Steiner with expletive-laden taunts, she said.
She had occasionally had to deal with inappropriate comments on the website, she said. “If you’ve been on the Internet for a while, you learn that you don’t feed the trolls, don’t respond, don’t encourage them.”
Two days later, the phone rang. It was a taxidermy and animal parts shop in Arizona calling to ask about a purported order for the Steiners of a fetal pig. The Steiners’ delivery address didn’t match the billing address on the credit card used on the order, so the shop called to double check the order. Shaken, the Steiners canceled the order.
“I thought, here we go, from online to the real world,” Ina said. “It was really scary.”
The couple decided to call the Natick police, and an officer arrived at their house to take a report, they said. As the officer was leaving the house, he noticed a package by the front door. While David and the officer continued talking, Ina opened the package in the kitchen. Seeing bits of hair and skin, she screamed. Inside was a mask of a bloody pig face, like the one worn by a crazed killer in the “Saw” horror movie series. The officer added the details to his report.

The Twitter abuse continued to escalate and even more bizarre deliveries arrived, the couple said. One day it was a book for David called “Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Spouse.” Ina said she Googled the return address of another package, and when she discovered the sender was called Carolina Biological Supply Co., she feared they might need to call a hazmat team. A call to the company revealed the package was filled with live spiders and fly larvae; they turned it over to the police.
A few days later, a florist arrived with a sympathy wreath for David. The driver told the Steiners he had come from Central Square in Cambridge and was instructed to leave the $255 wreath by their back door without ringing the bell. Ina snapped a picture, more evidence for the police, and debriefed the delivery man.
“All of these small retailers, they were being weaponized to be used against us,” David said.
On Aug. 15, the campaign took a darker turn. Unbeknownst to the Steiners, a group of Baugh’s employees had flown to Boston, rented two vehicles, and checked into the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, according to federal documents. They initially planned to plant a tracking device on the Steiners’ car. Luckily, the Toyota Rav4 was locked in the garage and the eBay team retreated to the hotel, the documents allege.
But the next day the team returned. David Steiner was up on a ladder installing one of several new security cameras he’d purchased, while Ina handed him tools out of a second-floor window. Suddenly, Ina saw a dark-colored Dodge Caravan driving up their street. “Black van, New York plates,” she told David as the vehicle drove past.
“We felt in danger, we felt like targets,” Ina said.
The van took another pass by the house, as captured by one of the couple’s security cameras. Then, later in the day, David noticed the same van pull out to follow him while he was in his car with a friend.
“I can still feel how every hair on the back of my neck stood up,” David said, as the van followed him for several blocks.
The Steiners called the police again, and this time three cruisers rushed to their house. But they hadn’t been able to take down the entire license plate number of the van, and the police weren’t able to track down the vehicle. As the police milled about, “I just sat on my steps, sweating, feeling my heart pounding,” David said.
“Everything just faded away, it was surreal,” added Ina. “I was terrified.”
Thinking they might be physically attacked, the couple decided to sleep in different rooms. Ina put a laundry cart by her back door with a few baking sheets balanced on top. “We didn’t have a full alarm system,” she said. “This could at least warn us if someone broke in.”
That night, David was awake at about 4:30 a.m., too stressed to sleep. He heard a car slowly driving up the street. A black sedan pulled up in front of their house. David yelled for Ina to call 911 as a man got out of the car and took what looked like a large leather case out of the back seat. David began screaming at the man that he’d called the police.
“We thought he had a gun,” Ina recalled.
Instead, the eBay team had called for a prank pizza delivery at the Steiners’ house, according to federal prosecutors. The delivery man put the pizza boxes on the ground and left, the couple said. The police arrived, but the Steiners couldn’t get back to sleep.
The couple said they felt besieged and trapped in their own home. “You couldn’t shut the feeling of terror off, there’s just no off switch,” David said.
On Aug. 18, David became determined to break out and go to the grocery store. Again, a vehicle, a silver SUV, started following him. He called Ina. “I’m going to take them downtown,” he told her, planning to drive to the Natick Police Department.
The SUV followed at a distance. He pulled over and parked across the street from the police station. As the SUV slowly drove past, he propped Ina’s iPhone up on the steering wheel and photographed the stalkers. “I’m determined to take a picture this time, I just kept hitting the button,” he said.
With a full license plate number in hand from David’s pictures, the Natick police quickly started to unravel the conspiracy. The vehicle tracked back to an eBay contractor who was staying at the Ritz.
eBay’s team knew it was in trouble, according to their own messages obtained later by federal prosecutors. But on Aug. 21, even as a Natick police detective traveled to the Ritz to find the van renter, the stream of threatening tweets against the Steiners continued.
The Steiners cooperated with the investigation, which soon included FBI agents and federal prosecutors. For months, the couple weren’t sure what had really happened or who was behind the abuse, which stopped after a final burst of tweets on Sept. 6, 2019.
“It was a really long winter with the weight of all of this hanging over us,” David said. The couple have remained vigilant to outside threats. Ina no longer goes for long walks by herself and David still has trouble sleeping. The couple maintain a network of security cameras, including one in their car.
In June 2020, federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against six former eBay employees and a contractor. The company apologized to the Steiners, and in a lengthy statement said it had conducted its own investigation that had resulted in terminating all of the employees charged by the government plus communications chief Wymer, who has not been charged.
The investigation also found that former CEO Wenig had made “inappropriate communications” but did not have advance knowledge of the harassment and stalking. Wenig, who was not charged, was allowed to resign in September 2019 with a compensation package worth $57 million; the Steiner scandal was a “consideration” in his departure, the company has said.
Wenig’s lawyers, Martin G. Weinberg and Abbe D. Lowell, said in a statement to the Globe: “An independent investigation confirmed that Devin Wenig had nothing to do with and no knowledge of any of the activities alleged in Mr & Mrs Steiner’s Complaint. Although he is an inviting target as the former CEO, he did not know of, approve, or authorize the conduct and regrets what the Steiners experienced.”
Reading the criminal complaint in June 2020, the Steiners got a view for the first time of what had been going on inside eBay during their torment. “The vitriol towards us, where did it come from?” David asked.
“We didn’t even know these people,” Ina added. “We were helping their customers sell more. That should be a good thing.”
After the Steiners filed their civil lawsuit on July 21, eBay issued a new statement, again apologizing to the couple and saying the company would “do what is fair and appropriate to try to address what the Steiners went through.”
On July 28, one of the defendants in the criminal case, Philip Cooke, the former senior manager of Security Operations for eBay’s Global Security Team, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. It was the first sentencing of anyone involved in the case.
“Sometimes in the past two years, I haven’t been able to recognize myself,” David told the Globe on the day after Cooke was sentenced. “But I woke up feeling great today.”
The civil lawsuit is an attempt to get the fuller story and gain some compensation for the mental toll exacted by the company’s employees, the couple said. They also want to put other corporations on notice.
“The reason we’re suing is we don’t want it to happen to anybody else,” Ina said. “It has to be known what was done to us.”

Selling a great condition T3 Tactical in 223. I purchased it to use as a trainer but never had the time to compete so really no need for a trainer rifle lol. It has approximately 200 rounds through it. It is a tack driver as most Tikkas are. The stock has some scuffs from being used but other than that, it is in great shape. It is threaded 5/8x24 and has a dead air muzzle brake on it. These are no longer made so here’s a chance to snag one. Asking $900 shipped PP f&f, zelle, or Venmo. Your FFL must accept from an individual. Thanks

Well we finally had an offer accepted to buy our first house (wooooo) so to come up with some funds for closing costs I have to sell my brand used Three 60. I bought this new from Altus in their first shipment from Vudoo I believe in June. I have approx 800 rounds through the barrel and have only cleaned it with the Vudoo bore guide and Boretech rimfire blend. It is in perfect condition and shoots exactly how you would expect.

60 degree action
30moa base
22” MTU Bartlein barrel threaded 1/2x28TPI
Pale Brown Post 14 AICS AX chassis w/ 13” forend and Anarchy Outdoors thumbrest
RRS Aux plate
Sawtooth 9.27” Arca Rail for the forend
Gen 1 MDT Ckye Pod (PRS legs)
Wiebad mini stock pad
4 poly mags
Triggertech Diamond 2 stage gold (special edition from Black Friday)

I’m looking for 3750 shipped and insured to your FFL. Add 100 bucks if it has to ship from my FFL. PayPal F&F or add the 4% for G&S.

Just add a scope and ammo and you are ready to shoot! Scope, rings, and my AI are not included.

3 tours, 1 doing DA for almost every night for 8 months. I left without as much as a scratch to only find out years later that I did in fact break my jaw while over there when ejected from a vehicle and sent skidding across the road on the side of my helmet, into a ditch, where I promptly got up, started firing and then passed out for 2-3 minutes.

A metric ton of others weren't as lucky and it saddens me to this day, especially now, that we have literally nothing, down to a molecular level, to even show for it, or their sacrifices. It's insane. And this is coming from someone who thought the way the war was being 'run' even in 07-10 was so badly mishandled, that it could only have been that bad with 100% purpose of being that bad. We're at a level of insanity I never thought could be possible; its like something out of some B movie where you just roll your eyes and give 50 reasons as to why that could never have happened. Yet, here we are.

Seeing those pictures of those fat terrorist fucks walking around inside US installations carrying weapons that were just piled up waiting for someone to walk off with, and the images of billions of dollars in equipment and vehicles just sitting there just makes it surreal. We didn't even make an attempt to destroy or burn anything. We now have an updated picture, of a modern day version of the Vietnam airlift all over the internet. 20 years, and thats how it ends.

I can accept if we had fought and lost. I can accept if we just didn't have enough, or just got beat at the end or that we fought with everything we had and it just wasn't enough. But this? I can't even fathom it, let alone the complete faggots 'in charge' who somehow think that this is acceptable on any level and are 'surprised' by this. They're either totally retarded, or so full of shit that they don't even know what the truth actually is any longer.

However, there is a silver lining in all of this. And it's something that ironically, those who are at complete fault with all of this have probably not yet realized. The irony further trickles down with this realization in that they are the exact same muppets who want to label every single one of us as 'domestic terrorists' because we simply refuse to believe their relentless bullshit. What's been proven here is simple and indisputable; they do not have the means, intelligence, fortitude nor the cohesion to defeat ANY enemy that will simply fight to outlast them.

When you apply that to the 'stance' they have been trying to push on everyone since the election on how the most plausible threat to the United States is its own 'domestic terrorists', it becomes extremely obvious, and appropriate, to now look at just how badly they were beaten, on every level, by a bunch of uneducated tribal dumb shits with an average IQ of 70 who did one thing, and one thing only - continue to fight at all costs and not stop, no matter what disadvantages they were supposed to have and how easily they were to be defeated.

There's a SF manual I still have around somewhere that I remember something very specific from - all that an insurgency has to do to win, is to simply not lose.

Let all of that sink in and apply that to the next time these fucking idiots want to lecture you about how they want you to live your life under the threat of F15s and nuclear weapons.

**SOLD to beenjammin**

***ETA-shipped 23-AUG-2021***

This is for a GAP barreled action only.....AI AT chassis not included, but can be available for the right deal.

I have a GA Precision Hospitaller. 308 with a (Prague, OK) Surgeon 591 action, 24" Bartlein fluted MTU barrel, new Triggertech special(curved) trigger. New Area 419 hellfire brake. KMW Gen 2 bolt knob. M16 extractor I think, but not positive. Exactly 422 rds through it total......bought it with 412 rounds through it here years back, and fired 10rds to sight in a scope. Has sat since. Separately I have a Surgeon Scalpel .308 .20" fluted barrel I purchased here on the Hide a few years back. Stamped "scalpel" on the left side, and ".308" stamped on the right side. Original owner claimed 6-800 through it. I don't have the original built papers or a target sheet. BA does have a few nics, and such from moving around in the safe. Overall very good condition. This originally came with a legacy AICS chassis wrapped in multi-cam which has long been sold, and an AAC 51T brake which is available if buyer wants it. Also will include a 5rd AICS .308 magazine.

$1900 shipped insured for complete barreled action
$2200 shipped insured for complete barreled action and extra Surgeon Scalpel barrel
**Surgeon Scalpel barrel optional to barreled action buyer only at this time. If BA buyer elects not to purchase it, it will be available separately after sale**

Payment via DISCREET PP FF option or add 3 % for GS. I have plenty of feedback over on ARFCOM under same username for reference.
NO trades. Please ensure your FFL will accept a firearm package from a private citizen, or add $25 to ship from my FFL. PM with any questions.

I had another ad and that member is taking about half of them total so I actually still have a bunch left.

What you see is 3 different lots:
Far left: 23407 (1 full, 1 partial box, around 700) - SPF
Middle: 27931 (1 full, 1 partial box, around 900) - SOLD
Far right: by weight on the scale minus the can it should be holding just over 2500. I heard back from the guy I got these from and it is two different lots. He measured base to ogive on 20 of them to ensure they were consistent lot to lot before putting them in there. I measured a handful from all different depths of the can and it's consistent with what I was told.

$0.40 each and you cover shipping. I’ll get an exact count depending what you want.

Will trade for 105 or 109 Berger’s to try them out.

Razor scope in excellent condition, used twice. Basically a safe queen I need to liquidate.

No scratches, illuminated reticle works great.

Included:
Razor HD Gen II 4.5-27x56Riflescope w/ EBR-2C Ret. (MRAD, FFP)
Sunshade cap
Scope Mount Cantilever 34mm Extended Ring- 20MOA
Front and Rear Vortex end caps

$1550

Some other "poors" transport...

Gents,

Second owner of this rifle. I have never fired it. I bought it and it has been in my safe for a year. Here are the specs,

1. Surgeon SA, OK built.
2. KMW Sentinel, with IMB system and DBM.
3. Huber 2 Stage at 2#'s
4. 20" Bartlein or Kreiger, I cannot remember the maker of the barrel. 8 twist, contoured for the AEM-5 suppressor with AEM MB in 6.5. The barrel was profiled for me by Steve at ADCO firearms. I was told its a Heavy Palma, but I cannot confirm that as I didn't spec the build.
5. SAP spare round holder.
6. Optional USO 3.2-17x44 TPAL. H59, red illumination, internal bubble level. Seekins rings and AAD lens caps. Box included.
7. KMW Multicam Check pad.

Round count is at 707 per previous owner. Rifling looks like it was just cut at the manufacturer. A shit ton of life left in this barrel. Bi-pod is not available. Scope was mounted into the Seekins rings using the Badger Ordnance scope level. Its dead nuts. Yours for $2350 for the rifle sans anything to do with optics. $2950.00 for everything in the pics except the bipod. I'll cover 50% of the shipping. Shipped in a plastic rifle case and a cardboard box. Payment via Venmo, ApplePay, or possibly PayPal. Personal check or Certified Check acceptable too, but Nothing will ship for Ten (10) business days to allow for the later two forms of payment to clear the bank. I have 100 rounds of Factory Lapua 139's, dies, and 500 Berger 140's available to the buyer if they like, (extra). I can deal on those for the buyer.
Please PM your questions. To keep it simple, the first to post that they are taking it, gets it.
Thanks for looking.
ST42

###Edit### No trades at this time. I was wheeling and rolled my jeep. It needs a bit of work for my next trip

So I gave my oldest children a speech one night about “ how life is short, do what makes you happy for a career, skill trades are an honest career.......
My oldest son wrote a speech about my advice, won some contests and just before he was to have state essay “contest” the whole Covid shit shut everything down.
so now 1 year wiser, and seeing hard working people bust their ass to get by and dying suddenly.... I say go buy your rifles, shoot competitions, go have fun and die broke. Let your kids shoot competitions. Live life

Is this all inflationary driven now. ?

Just in this photo of the taliban in the presidential palace, you see M4s, a NV scope, ACOG, surefire light, ect.............
Pretty crazy what stuff we gave the Afghan troops that promptly got handed over or captured

Photo credit to AP

4 bags of (50) nosler seconds 6.5 prc brass. Still packaged.

I have over 800 of these and have found 6 bad out of the 400 I’ve prepped. Pretty good value for the money.


2 full boxes of (100) Berger 156 eol same lot #



$370 shipped for lot.


Not wanting to split anything at the moment.

paypal f&f no notes
Venmo
Pm to discuss other forms.

thanks
Pat

Hey all,
Got some more reloading stuff up for grabs. First up is an AREA 419 Master Funnel Kit. Only used the .338 adapter and it has lived in its box since the day I got it. Excellent condition and asking SPF shipped...

Little bit of gunk in the unused holes...



Next up is a Harvey hand depriming tool. Has the extra pin, wrench, and box. Asking <SOLD> shipped...


And last but not least is a Forester CO-AX press. Has all the factory bits down to the little magnets that hold the wrenches on the press. Comes with the both the "S" and the "LS" jaws (installed). Asking $SOLD shipped to your AO.


1st "I'll take it" followed by a PM gets it. PayPal F&F or add 3% for the fees. Have any questions just ask! Thanks for looking!

P.S. I will need an extra day or so to gather up suitable boxes for shipping. Don't want this stuff getting destroyed on its way to their new owners

Went to the range today and had my first slam fire. Round went through the chronograph about six inches from the center of the target, but shook me up nonetheless.

Fed srp 6 creed brass necked up to 6.5
Winchester (white box vintage) srp

Any ideas what the hell happened? Ive always used cci 41s in my gas guns but I'm out. Is this really the issue or can there be something else at play? Not cool.

I’ve got 2 MPA chassis up for sale. Both fit right hand Remington 700 short action or clones (I’ve had a rem 700, bergara rim fire, bighorn TL3 and Kelbly’s atlas all mounted without issue). Price is shipped CONUS. Payment via PayPal friends and family. Please leave firearm comments out of the memo.

First up is a BA Comp in sniper green. This is a folder and comes with the butt stock for a non-folding set up as well. Has the bag rider currently and also will ship with the weighted butt stock adapter. Wiebad stock pad, spigot mount, EFR mount and action screws included. Excellent condition with a few marks from normal use on stock and mag well. $975 shipped.

Next, BA light. This is a discontinued model, kind of a cross between the ultralight and hybrid. Has PVA markings on it. Weighs just a hair over 4 pounds on my cheap scale. It’s black in color and has seen more use with more scratches on the stock, the arca rail and mag well. Nothing to affect function, just cosmetic. I would call it good used condition. The foam on the cheek piece is torn, but I will include a wiebad stock pad to cover it. Spigot mount and action screws included. $500 shipped.

PM with questions.

18” Kukri profile Gen 1, trigger not included.
$1,300.00 shipped to your FFL.