I have some coyotes in my land and they need to go. I’ve never hunted coyotes at night before and am wondering if I should go with a helmet mounted or handheld thermal scanner. I would imagine helmet mounted is more convenient but handheld is far cheaper. However, I do believe in buy once cry once.

Edit: I’m in West Virginia and the terrain is mostly mountainous forest but I have a couple of good sized fields I would hunt that are about 300 yards long.

Experienced night hunters, which do you prefer and why?

I have an AR I built using Seekins upper receiver and triangle handguard that bolts to the upper not the barrel nut. 24” lilja 223 barrel. Shooting prone off a bipod it’s sighted in. Then when I transition to shooting off barricades using a bag I’m hitting .4-.5 mils low at 100 yards. I tested moving the bipod back to where the rifle rests on the bag and it was shooting around .3 mils low from prone.

This was very repeatable between myself and another accomplished shooter so I don’t think it’s shooter error. We played with pressure and free recoil with no improvement. We were shooting bolt guns as well and did not experience this shift.

Double checked I don’t see anything loose and the barrel, gas tube, gas block are not contacting the handguard. Accuracy was excellent in all positions.

Anyone have some advice, tips, tricks ect.

Supposedly, they aren't keeping the data from this program.

Checking to see if anyone owns a newer Jeep Gladiator? I am needing a truck bed and like the idea of the Jeep ability too. I am not needing to really pull anything or do any major off roading

I am looking at a 2023 V6 Overland Edition. Curious if there is anything to be aware of.

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Felt the explosion as did everyone in a 10 mile radius, but rumor mill saying an explosion at the train depot left at least one dead and other cars on fire. My tinfoil hat is screwed on tight, but I’m hoping this isn’t related to the railroad strike stuff/sabotage etc… early reports said earthquake, then possibly the explosion set off the sensors.

In 2023, I intend to build 4 AR-15s, and I would like a little help planning out the parts I'm going to have to buy, as well as the strategy for each gun. Three of the rifles will be in 556, including one that will be a Recce/SPR, and one that will be an SBR, while the fourth will be in 6mm. I've thought about 6.5 Grendel but I think 6mm Arc has everything that I'd want anyways. So two SPR/Recce rifles (one in 556, one in 6mm arc), an SBR, and a regular general-purpose do-it-all rifle.

I'm really new to guns so I don't fully know what I'm doing, so forgive me if these Frankenstein builds look jarring, gaudy, or cringe; I'm learning as I go along. I'm open to suggestions, parts lists, advice, recommendations, and inspiration for how I should approach or strategize a build. I'm just offering what I'm thinking will go into my own builds, feel free to offer your own builds so I can study them and possibly incorporate them into my own planning.

Rifle 1: 556 16" General Purpose / Do-it-all
Uses: Home Defense, Target shooting, Survival/Camping
Total Budget: $2800 (not including optic)
Optic: Acog, Red Dot
Frame/Handguard/Receiver: Radian Builder Kit $1200
Featured Parts: Radian Vertex Trigger $250, Proof 16" Barrel $900, LMT BCG $450, JP Gas System $100, Stock $50

Rifle 2: 556 12.5" Short Barrel Rifle
Uses: Home Defense, CQB Training, Survival/Camping
Total Budget: $2800 (not including optic)
Optic: Aimpoint T2 Red Dot, Eotech Magnifier
Frame/Handguard/Receiver: Radian Builder Kit $1200
Featured Parts: Geissele SD3G Trigger $250, Daniel Defense 12.5" Barrel $400, JP BCG $400, Superlative Gas System $100, Maxim Defense Stock $500

Rifle 3: 556 18" Recce Rifle
Uses: Target Shooting, Survival/Camping
Total Budget: $3400 (not including optic)
Optic: Khales K18i LPVO
Frame/Handguard/Receiver: Noveske Lower + Noveske Complete SPR Upper ($2200)
Featured Parts: Triggertech Trigger $250, RCA BCG $200, Magpul PRS Lite stock $100

Rifle 4: 6mm Arc 20" SPR
Uses: Long Range, Hunting
Total Budget: $3200 (not including optic)
Optic: Vortex or Nightforce Scope
Frame/Handguard/Receiver: Radian Builder Kit $1200
Featured Parts: Timney Talon Trigger $250, 20" Shilen Barrel $600, Sionics BCG $200, Seekins Gas system $100, Magpul PRS stock $250

*Not included in builds are my compensator (which I haven't decided yet), lower parts kits, furniture, buffer tubes, and buffer.

And the blender blades won.

Went to rummage in my tools to find something, and somehow the blades to the wife’s Ninja blender fell into the tool box. (Looking back at the crime scene, it looks like the damn cat knocked the blender over on top of the garage fridge, which made the blades fall into the toolbox which is right next to it).

When I went to stick my paw in, I felt a weird sensation then red everywhere.

Damn blade went damn near all the way through my thumb, and I barely felt it. After 10 minutes of it bleeding through numerous towels, we ran up to the nearest urgent care, who then referred me to a different urgent care.

There I had to get XRays to make sure I didn’t do damage to the nerves or whatnot, a tetanus shot, then stitches to close the over inch long laceration running through my thumb.

So yeah. Don’t get complacent and start rummaging around in your tool box without looking at what your doing.

I took two rifles out to the range today and I had deep cleaned both with Barnes CR-10. I cleaned them and bore scoped them until I could not find any copper fouling. A R700 with factory varmint barrel in .243 Win with about 1,000 rounds on it shooting 100 grain Privi Partisan (cheap plinking ammo) The other rifle is a stock Tikka Tac A1 308 Win shooting 160 grain Hammer Target hand loads, around 800 rounds on it.

Both rifles needed 6 rounds down the barrel until they started grouping, the first groups were 1.5"-2" and then both printed 4 shot groups just under .5" at 100 yds.
I do not deep clean very often but both barrels were copper fouled heavily. I use Hoppes #9 for routine cleaning and it usually takes just one fouler to get back to normal.

I was just curious what others see when shooting after a deep clean.

What's your experience with shooting a barrel back in after a deep clean?

Im looking for a good competition rifle that can shoot up to 500 yards with factory ammo, sub MOA. I have a Savage model 110 FCP in 308 and it shoots great! But i have a 6mm BR that doesn't shoot that good and its hard to find ammo for that rifle. I was looking to get something chambered in 6.5 creed. What are your thoughts? And what rifles do you recommend that are under $1000? I Was looking into the bergara b14 hmr, but still undecided.

- Defiance Deviant Action AW cut - nitrided - (Remington SA footprint = Defiance Medium action) - 250 rounds

- Defiance Deviant Mag Bolt (250 rounds) nitrided. Bolt knob has 2 scratches.

- Defiance Deviant Standard Bolt (0.308 bolt face size) nitrided - Brand new - never used

- Hawk Hill 4 groove 26" 1:7.5 twist 6.5 PRC Freebore 0.130 chambered by Altus (250 total rounds shot). The 153 LRHT Bergers work awesome.

- 2x MDT WSM Mags (7 round) + Area 419 extensions (allows 10 round 6.5 PRC)

-$200 for barrel alone

-$1,500 for 6.5 PRC barreled action - shipped to FFL

-$350 for standard bolt (after barrel/barreled action sell)

-$1,800 for barreled action and both bolts - shipped to FFL

- $2,000 shipped for everything. I also have some MDT and AICS 0.308 mags available if the buyer needs some.

Looked through every bit set I have and can’t seem to find this one.

Selling a like new Nf ATACR F1 7-25x56 Mil-XT in factory box with everything. Only owner purchsased brand new 10/13.

$2750 shipped for scope

$2850 with new NF ultralight Xtreme duty rings

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I ran across an excellent article comparing what is happening in Canada to the US. I think it's well written and well worth the read.

The likelihood is vanishingly small that any Wyoming crime victim would find themselves staring down the twin barrels of a “Smith & Methson,” says a Wyoming a gunsmith and former law enforcement officer.

“It looks like it’s probably a hand grenade waiting to happen,” Brian Dimoff, owner of Gold Spur Outfitters LLC in Laramie, told Cowboy State Daily.

He was referencing photos of a sketchy homemade firearm seized by police and dubbed a “Smith & Methson” model, which has become somewhat of an Internet laughingstock and social media meme among firearms enthusiasts.

The weapon’s design reflects some ingenuity, Dimoff said, but crooks in Wyoming and elsewhere have far easier ways of getting firearms than trying to build their own.

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Photos Courtesy Meskwaki Nation (Iowa) Police Department

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Sketchy Weapon’s History

Photos have been circulating online depicting a weapon that could perhaps best be described as a poorly conceived steampunk nightmare.

The gun is real.

It was seized earlier this year from a suspected meth dealer in Iowa, according to reports from the Meskwaki Nation Police Department. The suspect had a prior felony conviction and was therefore prohibited from owning firearms.

That didn’t stop him from building his own from scratch, according to reports, and officers in Iowa dubbed it the “Smith & Methson.”

That’s a play on Smith & Wesson, a firearms manufacturer probably best known for its revolvers, the most iconic of which could be the Model 29 .44 magnum. That was the weapon of choice for Clint Eastwood’s surly, cynical and quick-on-the trigger character in the “Dirty Harry” movie series.

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Photo Courtesy Meskwaki Nation (Iowa) Police Department

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But firing the “Smith & Methson” probably wouldn’t have made its shooter’s day, Dimoff said.

“What he created would have been a gas jet pointing back toward himself,” he said.

That’s because the breech is completely open. There’s no fully enclosed firing chamber as there would be in a properly constructed firearm, he said. And without that, the explosive force of the pressure and gasses meant to propel projectiles down a firearm’s barrel could just as easily launch backward and outward, instead of forward.

The weapon appears to chamber 410 bore shotgun shells. That the smallest commercial shotgun ammunition, but it can still pack a wallop.

And in some firearms, the 410 bore is interchangeable with .45 Colt cartridges – such as in the “Judge” revolver made by Taurus.

However, the metal in the “Smith & Methson” looks too flimsy to handle a 410 bore discharge, much less the far higher pressures of a .45 Colt round, Dimoff said.

“The cops did him a favor when they took that from him,” he said. “He would have ended up seriously injuring or even killing himself with it.”

No box, guy who had it before did a number on the turret screw. Glass is clean no scratchs or dings. 650 shipped and insured.
Paypal friends and family or venmo

Being bored, I decided to start a new thread (since there was one for motorcycles, so only fair). Show us what you drive.
Had to give up bikes, but, couldn't get out of the dirt.
Box Stock (basically) 2022 Polaris RZR XP 1000 Premium
ETA: I'm tired of F'n politics!!

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I bought this stock and cannot get comfortable behind it. My intentions were to use it with my coyote rifle from a tripod, but I find my KRG chassis more comfortable.

This is a Manners EH1-TK with the mini chassis and factory trigger guard (not included). This stock is finished in the now discontinued Elite Tac Arctic Camo. I’ve wanted to love it but it just doesn’t fit. The looks are killer. I received this stock in March, and it was originally inletted for a bartlein 2b. I sent it back and had them open it up for a proof sendero barrel, as manners “forgot” to install the sling studs.

The LOP is 13.5” ish. It has a 1” but pad.

$850 shipped to you with the Area 419 Arca rail.

PP friends & family, money order, cashiers check,

Thanks for looking

Musk released internal documents to prove there was cooperation and collusion between social media, DNC, and the democrat party, to suppress the Laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. Prediction: like the Russian hoax, nothing of any significance happens. Dems are laughing up their sleeves at this, since it worked, and got them elected, and they still have all the players in place to ensure it goes nowhere, again.

It's too late for voting, Patriots.

Dude sold me a Trijicon SRO over 2 weeks ago and hasn’t shipped it yet. Looked like a newer member but had some activity on here. Even asked for a pic with his username and the SRO which he sent. Figured he would be a stand up guy like 99.9% of the forum but no such luck yet. Maybe he’ll return my money or send the SRO but I’m not counting on it. I’d advise you all to stay away from him

Yes I used paypal FF and I know what I was getting into. No big deal I’ve done plenty of deals on here it was just a matter of time before I got taken by someone

Like the ad states, I have an unfired Nighthawk Custom government length 1911 single stack in 10mm.

Custom Hillbilly 223 Factory Cerakote and Railscales grips.

Will come with complete Nighthawk Custom bag, paperwork & Surefire X300 WML.

Test fire page included.

$3500 shipped to your FFL

Payment accepted are wire, Venmo, Apple Pay, etc

No trades.

Rob from Arizona
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Manners PRS2 w/ mini chassis (Remington 700 SA or clone...fit my Impact action with trigger hanger no problem) in Highland camo. Heavy palma barrel channel, fits m24/sendero, etc. 2 flush cups on the left side. Predrilled for arca rail. Pic rail and action screws included. $1,050 TYD. No trades.