To me she was done in Nov of 2008. Some friends say the F/F event on 9/11, yet others say it started dying in Dallas with JFK.

Yes, I did a search and THIS thread came up. In it, QuikClot was mentioned but all I see it offered in are some pretty large strips. I would like to know if the BleedStop powder is good for small wounds. Fucked up and managed to run a blade about an inch deep into the soft tissue between my thumb and index finger. Ended up with a cut about an inch wide / deep. Didn’t have much on hand here if it had been any worse.

I will be putting together a better first aid kit for my home and vehicle.

Keeping it. It’s off to the gunsmith for barrel chambering.

I haven’t made it out to shoot it yet. I am not the original owner. Was told it has 500ish rounds through it. Vudoo 360 with 22” Bartlein MTU. Threaded. Decided to stick with my other Vudoo. Will come with a brand new 27” Mullerworks 13 twist 1.250 barrel blank, 1 mag, and an Area 419 bolt knob.

Received a new Vortex Viper 5-25x50 FFP scope a few days ago withMIL type reticule

I am truly impressed by this scope:
The optics are outstanding
The 10mils per turn are great and clicks very distinct and secure
The reticule is easy to use and not over done like some. No screen door effect with complicated background
The size and weight of this scope are perfect for either an SPR, hunting or DMR rifle

I heard one complaint of eye box so I went through my normal set up on my rifle. Getting perfect placement of scope front to back for best eye relief
Set reticle for sharpest image on highest power
Then adjust focus for distance

I found the eye box good in size and easy to use. I found nothing wrong in this area at all

Ran the tall target test and adjustments were accurate and repeatable

I am very impressed by this scope and just super happy it’s in the price point it is.

I will use this scope a bunch and report back but so far I like it a lot

Up for sale is my brand new, never been loaded on Forester CoAx press, 9-3/4” Inline Fab Stand, Short Roller Handle, long roller Handle and factory Handle.
Never been used, mounted to stand and decided i didnt need it and my nexus and RCBS presses all in the room to do the same jobs.
Package deal $500 shipped

Located in Port Lavaca Tx

For the life of me- I couldn't figure out which forum to post this in, but I settled on the Armory (mods are welcome to move it if I was mistaken). But I wanted to talk about the SubSafe product briefly and give full disclosure that I have zero interest in the sales/success of the product.

Anywho- the SubSafe was kind of a game changer (at least for me) over the past year with having a sub at the ready in the cooler during a match. I'd place it along the same lines of the "bino bandit" product of something that you might not have known that existed but ended up being awesome. Do your own homework of course but dang if this hasn't been clutch over the past year for me to have in my cooler during matches for a quick lunch.

-LD



-LD

Marsoc M110 K1 clone. All kac parts minus the stripped upper which is an SR25 cartel upper. KAC sandcutter BCG and dual ejector bolt, KAC micro sights, 10 KAC mags, KAC bore guide, KAC cleaning kit, TIS sling, Dewey MK11 cleaning rod with male end, su279 optic. M110 manual, USMC gunbook, MK11 issued deployment case and foam. QDC CQB suppressor not for sale. No trades

13.5k

5 total AW 308 mags
1 used
2 used for 1 range session
2 brand new

90 shipped each or 430 for the lot
Potential trades: ARC mags, LRI followers, 105 hybrids, quality CZ457 barrel

Consolidating thread​

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Vortex Razor Gen III Mrad 6-36. Second owner, optically perfect. Sunshade missing, vortex can send you a free one. Light ring marks. Original box, newer turrets. $1985 shipped for a quick sale cross posted SPF​

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Watched "First Blood" in the theater almost 42 years ago.

Now in 1982, when it came out... if we dial back another 42 years...

42 years earlier...

Gone with The Wind had been in theaters for more than a year.

Pearl Harbor was more than a year away.

The Battle of Britain was happening.

Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union by Hitler) was a year away.

Dunkirk is evacuated.

Auschwitz is opened.

The Blitz of London occurs.

Want to feel old?

Think about that...

Sirhr

Atlas bipod with rrs arca or pic clamp

Solid unit not abused
Works perfect just dont use it
PayPal friends or cover the fees
Apple Pay or zelle
Free shipping with ins
Shops same day as payment unless it’s sunday
No trades

250 shipped

Most likely just lairs like all the others that said they were going to leave.

Am I throwing good money after bad by considering a switch to SRP 308 win brass? Large rifle primers seem to be unobtanium, and my supply is dwindling. SR primers aren’t exactly cheap, but availability seems to have normalized. I have a pretty good supply of LRP 308 win cases, but am thinking I should reserve my LR primers for long action cartridges like 30-06 and 270 win. Anyone regret going to SR primers for 308, or even 6.5 creedmoor?

Will one over the Mississippi happen, before Nov?

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SOLD

AMP MKII Annealer. Has Aztec program and was used for approximately 680 pieces of brass. Perfect Condition, comes in original box include hat and cables and shell holder.

let me know if you have any questions

$1200 Shipped and insured

Buying a lathe and want some barrel stock to practice on. Also learning to cerakote so a few shot out barrels would be handy to practice on. Located in Northeast Kansas

Thanks!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “High-end” rifle works flawlessly, runs like a sewing machine, eats everything, but ejects rounds at 0130-0200 regardless of gas block setting. Is this a problem? Or who cares as long as it runs perfectly otherwise?

THE WHOLE NINE YARDS:

So… took an all-factory Noveske N4 G3 rifle and made it better, faster, stronger.

Put on Form-1 SBR.

Removed factory 13.7” with P/W Flaming Pig, replaced with 14.5” Proof CF “Wylde” coupled with the new JP D2 52-position (!!!) adjustable gas block.

Replaced 15” NSR3 rail with 13.5” NSR3 rail.

Replaced all lower parts with $400 in V7 Titanium bits — ‘cuz everyone needs an $80 safety selector and $100 ejection port cover.

Replaced buffer tube with V7 Lithium Aluminum tube, ‘cuz why not?

Replaced factory trigger with SSA-X.

Replaced Noveske BCG with JP Chromed LMOS.

Replaced Noveske buffer with JP SCS.

Cerakoted entire rifle in Gen2 HIR-265 (IR signature-reducing coating for NODs fun) — upper, lower, handrail, buffer tube, shiny bits like door cover and takedown pins, etc.

Added HUX flash hider and 7.62 Ti (pre-Flow) can.

Popped an FDE ATACR 1-8 with offset RMR-06 in C1 mount on top and called it a day.

Will take pics soon for posterity.

Anyhoo… with all that said, we finished the rifle on the Thursday before I took it to CR2’s Light Fighter course the very next day. First order of business was to get the gas system perfectly adjusted. The HUX can doesn’t have much backpressure at all, and the gun will never really be shot unsuppressed, but we did try it both with and without — zero difference.

JP’s new D2 AGBs have 52 positions for adjustment. Their instructions say to close it off entirely, then back-out 12 clicks, or roughly one full turn, and start there. They say the gun probably will NOT cycle at 12 clicks, and they were correct. They say to adjust in 3-click increments, which we did. After the first adjustment (15-clicks), the gun ejected, but just barely at about 0100. Went another 3 clicks and it was better, about 0130-0200. At this point I figured additional adjustment would push angle of eject toward the Orthodox Religious Dogma-Approved 0300-0400 angle, but no matter how may clicks we dialed-in, the pattern didn’t change — again, with or without the can.

Given this behavior, I figured the best position was at 18-21 clicks, since it cycled just fine with everything from cheap 223 Wolf Gold as well as 855A1 and 262 Mod 1C and the much maligned AAC 77g OTM 556.

Took it to the 3-day LF course the very next day and it never gave the slightest hiccup all weekend, nailing IPSC steel at >650 yards like a Rock Star.

Shoots like Chantilly Whipped Cream — soft and smooth.

But that eject angle…

Assume it’s more related to the LMOS/SCS than the gas system?

Aside from the angle, is there any reason to mess with it? It’s just absolute perfection otherwise and I hesitate to pfutz with it by playing Rifle Jenga.

Court ruled game wardens were pulling unconstitutional shenanigans when going onto private property without a warrant to place trail cameras, etc to surveil hunter activities.

Good article

FN balista 338 lapua unfired - bought a few years ago and never fired it. Comes with the box and all the stuff it came with new. Willing to ship to an FFL of your choosing at buyers expense. $6000

Running a rcbs matchmaster micrometer seating die (223). My load is right on the verge of being compressed. You can hear a kernel or two of powder when seating.

Out of my last batch of 100 rounds , about 70 rounds are right at my desired seating depth. Another 20 rounds or so, at within .001”, and then I got a handful that are .002-.003” seated too deep.

I am measuring these using a comparator and measuring cbto. My stem is not touching the meplat.

Who do some of these rounds seat deeper than others?

I use the same press, and when I fl size, they are all dead nuts on.

What do you consider acceptable tolerance for seating depth?

I can’t tell if the woman behind this video is real or if she’s going undercover as an ardent gender activist (I think/hope the latter). What I can tell you is that she was able to find several men at Georgia State University in Atlanta (Motto: “Truth shall overcome”) who were willing to contemplate favorably donating their testicles to a “trans man” (i.e., mentally ill woman). Egypt lasted 3,000 years, and Rome and Byzantium both had thousand-year runs, but we in America seem to have reached the end stage in a mere 60 years. Talk about efficiency.
Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as a night school for technology and commerce and was initially affiliated with Georgia Tech. Then, in 1947, it was affiliated with the University of Georgia. With that background and over 50,000 students, it’s a real institution, not some fly-by-night place that hands out phony diplomas. Having said that, I’m now wondering what’s really going on at Georgia State University.
In this video, seven men (including one so-called “trans woman”) don’t run screaming in horror at the idea of giving up the family jewels to help mentally ill women pretend to be men. Instead, they’re open-minded to the point of agreeing to the idea. Only one man was initially taken aback, but then he, too, fell into line.

INSANE: College students are so brainwashed by gender ideology that they're willing to donate their own t*sticles to a trans person to "fight toxic masculinity."

@Simply_Shula pic.twitter.com/BDLRq6zhwN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024

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I understand that seven people out of 50,000 is an infinitesimally small sampling (or, more accurately, seven men out of the approximately 22,000 men who fill about 40% of the spots on campus compared to women). But wouldn’t you think that in the years before America went crazy, the number of men agreeing to this lunacy, or even contemplating it, would have been zero?
And before you discount those seven men and what they mean, consider that just a few decades ago, gay relationships were viewed unfavorably across America. Then, people began to change their minds, but they viewed same-sex marriage unfavorably. By 2015, though, America was suddenly told that same-sex marriage is in the Constitution (it was hiding behind abortion). And now, we’re inundated with the idea that something called “gender identity” is infinitely fluid and that bizarre surgeries and dangerous drugs can magically create a whole new you.
So, today, seven...tomorrow, a whole world that is testicle free (or at least has half as many testicles).


THE UPSIDE TO THIS INSANITY IS THE FACT THAT THESE "MEN" WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SIRE ANY OFFSPRING!
SIGN THEM UP! A BUCK PER NUT!

I thought this might be an interesting conversation. The US military (USA/USAF/USN/USMC) all have very rich traditions and depending on their job might have some special allowances not afforded to other branches in the same service.

To start the discussion off- I was a Cavalry Scout in another life. We had some traditions with our 'Stetsons' which for everyone else is the "cowboy hat" you might recall. Whelp- there's some variance on in the Cavalry branch on who is 'authorized' to wear a Stetson (it's not an official US Army headgear) but there is a nuance to the 'cord' around that hat. Typical enlisted will have a Cavalry Stetson with a gold colored "hat band" ending with 'acorns' on either end of the cord. One of the 'honors' is the way that cord is 'looped' in the front in what is called a 'combat knot' in the Cavalry (a distinction which is supposed to be 'earned'). Officers will have a similar band but their's are a 'black & gold color' with the 'combat knots' following the same rules.

Should there be an Infantry component attached to a CAV troop- they'd be identified by a blue cord and again- 'combat knots' being something needing to be 'earned'.

It may come across as silly here in 2024 but one of the most revered Cavalry traditions that bucks Army uniform regulations is the addition of 'spurs'. As I understand it- this tradition goes back 200 years or so because it comes to horsemanship and for a young Cavalry trooper- the addition of spurs to their boots would only exacerbate their mastery of riding their horse. Additionally, the metal required to produce spurs was rather expensive about 200 years ago and to prioritize which cavalrymen would be provided spurs was dependent on them demonstrating their abilities in that profession.

Fast forward to modern day. The spur tradition still carries on in the US Cavalry but is broken down into two categories. First off- there's 'gold' spurs (which are typically made of brass). To 'earn' those spurs, there's some variance, but typically it mirrors the same requirements of performing Cavalry duties and engaging the 'enemey' the same way that the infantry earns their 'CIB'.

The other type/color of spurs is silver, and those are earned by completing what's called a 'spur ride'. This also has some semblance to what the infantry has for their 'EIB' requirements. In my case, we had a mortar platoon (11C) that went through a partially shared effort during my Spur Ride. I completed/satisfied the requirements for both but was only authorized to wear silver spurs as the EIB was only allowed to be worn by the 11 series MOS's regardless if we met or exceeded the requirements.

So I've got the Stetson w/ 'combat knots', earned my gold spurs during deployment and afterwards was one of the select few to complete the spur ride earning the silver spurs and also meeting the EIB requirements too.

Anyone else have similar stories?

-LD

@karagias do you think that CdG barrels with coned breeches could be backward compatible with Savage or other actions that do not have coned bolts? Looking at the drawings the coned cut is so small down at the web of the case. What are your thoughts?