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Night Vision Considering a new thermal scope

I’ve had my pulsar trail XP50 for 5 or 6 years now without any wandering zero issues or anything like that. In all honesty it does everything I need it to do but I’m considering getting something new mainly for a warranty and LRF would be nice too. I live in PA and use it for coyote hunting most of which is closer range but we do setup in some big open fields so 400+ can happen.

My buddy just got a Rico RH35 for the 3k price they’re currently at and it seems like a great scope but I only looked through it briefly. I also like that LRF can be added so say $3800 for that unit with LRF. I don’t want to downgrade from my pulsar but it’s an old design so I’d think even both being 640 units the Rico should have a better image? There’s also the Rico GH50R for around $5500 and the super yoter LRF for around 5k. I don’t mind spending good money on good shit but I’m a bargain shopper too. What’s a noticeable and worthwhile upgrade over the RH35 and what would I need to spend for that substantial improvement? Thanks guys.

Crossed Gas Tube Experiment

Does anyone remember an experiment done a number of years ago, where someone (I believe an FFL07) bolted/clamped two identical AR-15s together, then crossed the gas tubes? The handguards were removed and two custom made gas tubes were used so that rifle "L" would cycle the BCG in rifle "R" when "L" was fired, and vice versa. This was done to see if bore pressure was required to cycle the BCG after the bolt unlocked, similar to a blow-back PCC, or if the gas delivered solely through the gas tube was sufficient.

Optics WTS Tangent Theta 5-25 GEN2 XR *SOLD*

Trying to standardize my scopes. Already have a new TT with a GEN3XR inbound.

The windage knob has a slight rub mark on the very edge. Other than that the scope is in excellent condition.

*** SOLD ***

I have spuhr mounts and badger rings if you want to make a package deal.

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Trades: + or - cash
Tangent Theta 5-25 with a Gen3XR or Gen3 XR Fine
ZCO 4-20 with a Tremor 3
or 5-27 with a Tremor 5

Movie Theater Seven Samurai

DVR'd this a few weeks ago because I have not seen it in ages.

Seeing so much more this time than I ever did... Kurosawa was a genius.

I know, inspired by John Ford, Frank Capra and others... But he also took huge inspration from his family roots and Japanese tradition and legend.

And all those movies where the 'one central character' goes out and recruits a band to go and right a wrong (From The Magnificent Seven to Uncommon Valor to Predator and Star Wars... can trace their roots to the story line.

Such a fun story to watch...

In troubled times, we need good escapism and a hope that in bad times, good folks will rise up and protect the weak, instead of exploiting them.

Sirhr

1-8 LVPO or 2-10 MVPO for ar15?

I built an 18" Wydel lightweight AR15. I want some ideas for rifle scopes. Thank you.
I reload 223, so I can shoot bulk 55gr or 75gr boat tail hollow point.
I work 5 days a week, live in midtown, and don't have the luxury to hunt (maybe once a year).

Usages:
Mid-range training (lower cost on ammunition, may build 6.5 Creedmoor after I know how to shoot 500-800 yards)
Still capable of shooting at 25 yards. (I shoot with 2 eyes open, so 2x-3x magnification is kind of OK)
Lightweight.
No need to be super accurate, but still on the 16-18" target (500 yards - 800 yards if I can).
SHTF bug out
Focus on midrange, not CQB (CQB is 50/50 died)


Concerns:

with 24mm objectives LPVO leans, the parallax error is OK within 500 yards, but too big for 700-800 yards.
2 inches parallax error + 1 moa accuracy + slight windage error = miss in 700 yards
Should I go with Primary arms PLX 1-8x LPVO (17 ounces)?
Then I can shoot fast at close range, still capable of 500 yards, but not consistently accurate beyond 500 yards.
55gr 223 can be 500 yards of practical accuracy. 75gr 223 can be accurate at 700 yards with an 18" barrel theoretically.

https://www.lelandwest.com/parallax...onid=DE50D88AAD89F39CE0F45F8437D245DB.cfusion
Range
(yards)
Error
(mm)
Error
(mil)
Error
(inches)
Error
(moa)
100​
4.000​
0.044​
0.157​
0.150​
200​
4.000​
0.022​
0.157​
0.075​
300​
12.000​
0.044​
0.472​
0.150​
400​
20.000​
0.055​
0.787​
0.188​
500​
28.000​
0.061​
1.102​
0.211​
600​
36.000​
0.066​
1.417​
0.226​
700​
44.000​
0.069​
1.732​
0.236​
800​
52.000​
0.071​
2.047​
0.244​
900​
60.000​
0.073​
2.362​
0.251​
1000​
68.000​
0.074​
2.677​
0.256​


MVPO has 2-10x magnification, parallax adjustment, and weight of around 20 ounces. The focal plane doesn't matter, not sure about the reticle.
Then I can still practice midrange shooting with decent accuracy. But the 25-yard shooting will be slower than PLX 1-8x LPVO.

Searched the following scopes:
Night force NXS 2.5-10 44mm (21 ounces)
Primary arm Glx 2.5-10 44 mm (22 ounces)
Vortex PST 2.5-10 32mm (17 ounces, lightweight, but discontinued)

Optics Nightforce and zco for sale

Nightforce atacr 7-35 mil-r sold to

dyecocker1

Idts dry erase turret sticker
Tenerbrex caps
Sunshade
For additional $150 in hawkins heavy tactical mount

Zero compromise 5-27 mpact3x $3400
Idts dry erase turret sticker
Sunshade
Tenerbrex caps
For additional $150 in hawkins heavy tactical rings
Located in NY but will ship.

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Driver shot after hitting pedestrian.

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Did they leave their son at the scene after killing the driver and stealing his truck?

I can understand the rage shoot a driver that just killed you son. But why steal his vehicle and flee?

Accessories Bipods and Stocks FS

What’s up hiders!? I am cleaning out some stuff that I haven’t been using and has just been sitting in my work room.

Magpul Hunter Stock for Ruger American SA (has all spacers etc, an m-lol sling stud,1 mag, has been krylon painted but is FDE naturally): SOLD

Remington 700 SPS Stock, Hogue Overmold for SA (drilled for Karsten cheek rest): $85 shipped

Harris Bipod, swivel model 6”-9” with atlas leg adapters (has been krylon painted): $120 shipped

Magpul Bipod 6”-9” with mlok attachment (has been krylon painted): $80 shipped

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Accuracy international problems

long story short, bought a axmc here in Canada in 300 win mag, works fine, but when I got a 308 barrel and bolt assemble that’s where it went downhill. The barrel had major scratching in the chamber that was scratching my brass pretty deep, and the bottom of my brass was getting major swipe marks on base (using dummy rounds, gun was never fired). So I sent it back to the Ai dealer in Canada and they said they will polish the barrel and that Ai won’t replace it, the scratch marks were pretty deep and I don’t think a barrel like that should have left the factory and I don’t feel like a simple polish is good enough. Regarding the other issues they said their gunsmith polished the ejector and extractor and that the gun is in working order, but said that there is still a very very small ejector mark on the brass still with factory loads. To me that isn’t acceptable, to me there should be zero with factory ammo. I told them if there is an ejector mark on factory ammo I know I’ll get pressure sings and ruined brass with reloads before I even get to a standard acceptable velocity, and in typical fashion I got the political answer I knew they would give and they said it the rifles aren’t warrantied for reloads. I told them that’s such a BS answer and that everybody knows this system that the owner should be able to make good reloaded ammo with acceptable reloads and that I might not be able to if there is already ejector marks on factory loads they test fired, and I didn’t pay over 11k(Canadian) to get the short end of the stick and get an Ai that I can’t use to it’s full potential, and them tell me “it’s meant for factory ammo”. So I said if that’s how you want to play it then I expect there to be ZERO ejector marks on factory loads you test fire and you fix that.
so what do you guys think? And also, what is your guys opinions on the polishing of the ejector and extractor, is that an acceptable thing to do for an Ai?

side note, we deal will Ai directly in England, and the swipe marks were there on dummy rounds with Lapua brass too.

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Geissele Mid Range Gas Gun for the low price of $6,500

Posting this bargain for discussion, also- do any of you secret squirrels know the status of the MRGG/MRGG-S program, like any idea on when a winner will be chosen?

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What is Decivilization?

I’ll just place this here without any personal commentary, specifically for @wade2big…😁

“The Biden administration, with assent from California politicos, bureaucrats, Indian tribes, and green activists, is partnering with the state to destroy four major dams on Northern California’s Klamath River. Their ostensible idea is to facilitate better salmon runs, in part due to concessions to Native American lobbyists.

The government brags that the dismantling will mark the greatest destruction of dams in history—as if 1984-like regress is progress. Note: this will likely start a trend. So expect to see more dam busting in our future, especially in the Pacific Northwest where dams, hydroelectric power, flood control, and irrigation created the region’s 20th-century prosperity.

Such radical environmentalism might make sense if California was underpopulated, enjoying a budget surplus, blessed with excess water capacity, exporting electricity, and not subject to wild cycles of drought and flooding.

But the reality is that blowing up dams is about the worst policy the state could adopt given present realities of a water-short, 41-million-person state that each night imports huge amounts of electricity, suffers from alternating droughts and floods, and enjoys beautiful man-made recreation lakes for millions of middle and lower-middle class residents in its northern and eastern mountain ranges.

The state downplays these concerns, claiming the dams are of little value for flood control or for ensuring water supplies, and provide a mere 70-80,000 homes electricity, etc. etc., while the region’s surrounding population seems clearly opposed to the destructions.

So the Klamath nihilist project is a sort of mammoth California Water Project in reverse. It will jump-start a larger process of undoing the century of dam, reservoir, and aqueduct building that made viable the California anomaly of two-thirds of the population living where one-third of the precipitation falls.

In another Orwellian twist, over half of the money needed to blow up the dams will come from a California water bond once passed by voters on the misinformation and disinformation that it would likely go to building more dams for water storage. Or as NPR gleefully put it, the cost is covered, “with another $250 million from a California voter-approved water bond.”In California, a water bond translates into destroying water projects.

Dam busting is but a tiny part of a larger decivilization project wrought by elites who experiment on the middle class as if they were white rats in a university lab, with the proviso that the architects of chaos never assume they will never experience the blowback themselves.

Have you noticed who suffered from the lockdowns? Amazon, or mom-and-pop stores? Did Dr. Fauci worry about the millions who lost two years of their schooling and have never caught up? Did the criminologist at Harvard or Stanford who dreamed up critical legal theory or emasculating the police ever live in the inner city?

So what do defunding the police, outlawing clean-burning natural gas heaters and cooktops, allowing the homeless to take over the streets of major American cities, where storm drains send untreated feces and urine out to the nearby bay, destroying the southern border, and ceding on Saturday night entire swaths of the inner American city to Wild West shootouts, in which both the shooter and shot are never prosecuted, have in common?

Nihilism.

Ask yourself: who is more likely to be prosecuted: a criminal in nocturnal Chicago on a Saturday night who murders a bystander or a bystander who marched peacefully on January 6 and never entered the Capitol?

What drives this decivilizational impulse?

The age-old banes of Western civilization: affluence and leisure that convince postmodern societies that all the hard work of earlier civilization—ensuring fertility, security, plentiful food, clean water for urban use and irrigation for food production, public health that requires clean and safe streets—function as if on automatic pilot. The 1950s gave us safe water treatment plants, the 2020s gave us the new green idea of hosing feces-strewn runoff from the sidewalks to the storm drains to the oceans.

Our best and brightest must assume that our ancestors were never starving, facing constant epidemics, short of clean water, or without security at night, and so sacrificed to build and invest and ensure that their progenies might have what they did not.

The architects of decivilization are the supposed elites who come out of our purported top schools, with allegedly impressive alphabetic degrees after their names. A Pete Buttigieg is a good example of their pomposity and incompetence, as he lectures us about racist freeway clover-leaf ramps, but cannot deal with an imploding air travel industry, near-miss jet collisions, precivilizational violence on subways, blocked ports, and cargo ships stacked out to the horizon.

In other words, they are the academic“scientists” and “experts” who craft our homeless policies, defund our police, decriminalize shoplifting and carjacking, ban natural gas, and dream up mass lockdowns and quarantines (“follow the science”).

But they themselves prove quite unimpressive characters—with little or no common sense, questionable aptitude, but plenty of hubris.

In other words, our experts are those who subsidized gain-of-function viral research in Wuhan under the auspices of the People’s Liberation Army, insisted that herd immunity is of negligible value in battling COVID, planned the skedaddle from Afghanistan, bragged about their California high-speed-rail future, gave us modern monetary theory that pooh-poohed $31 trillion in aggregate debt, and laughed at broken-windows theories as they turned the subways and rails of a once safe New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles into something out of the era of the 1870s train robberies.

A final note to this epidemic of decivilization.

Have you noticed that our elites never apologize, never concede, never express remorse? A John Kerry wants to take away gas hot water heaters, but not Gulfstreams. Gavin Newsom would put you in jail for “not following the science” if you did not wear a mask in a park but had no problem dining while maskless with lobbyist contributors at the tony French Laundry.

If Bay Area scientists don’t believe in dams, then why do they not cut off the vast water transfers via the California aqueduct and the Hetch Hetchy lines into the San Francisco-San Jose 8-million-person corridor?

Jack Smith may well put military veteran and Trump-aid Walt Nauta in prison for claiming “I don’t know” when asked about the movement of presidential papers at Mar-a-Lago, but he would never indict an admitted liar like former CIA Director Brennan or former interim FBI Director McCabe.

So decivilization is also a synonym for a bankrupt elite who believes the floodwaters they unleash will never drown themselves.”

By: Victor Davis Hanson​