Excellent condition NX8 F1 2.5x20 that I’ve been running on a AR. Glass is clear and scope is in great condition Factory NF Tenabrex caps. Mil-XT reticle. Will be shipped in NF factory box.

$1550 shipped. PP F&F or add to cover fees.

15.99 you’re welcome

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, further pressuring households and likely sealing the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, with higher borrowing costs to follow.

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Consumer prices soared 9.1 percent compared with a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, the biggest yearly increase since 1981, and up from an 8.6 percent jump in May. On a monthly basis, prices rose 1.3 percent from May to June, another substantial increase, after prices had jumped 1 percent from April to May.

The ongoing price increases underscore the brutal impact that inflation has inflicted on many families, with the costs of necessities, in particular, rising much faster than average incomes. Lower-income and Black and Hispanic Americans have been hit especially hard, because a disproportionate share of their income goes toward such essentials as housing, transportation and food.

Some economists have held out hope that inflation might be reaching or nearing a short-term peak. Gas prices, for example, have fallen from the eye-watering $5 a gallon reached in mid-June to an average of $4.63 nationwide Wednesday — still far higher than a year ago but a drop that could help slow inflation for July and possibly August.

In addition, shipping costs and commodity prices have begun to fall. Pay increases have slowed. And surveys show that Americans’ expectations for inflation over the long run have eased — a trend that often points to more moderate price increases over time.

Still, the breadth of the price gains shows how rising costs have seeped into nearly every corner of the economy. Grocery prices have jumped 12.2 percent compared with a year ago, the steepest such climb since 1979. Rents have risen 5.8 percent, the most since 1986. New car prices have increased 11.4 percent from a year earlier. And airline fares, one of the few items to post a price decline in June, are nevertheless up 34 percent from a year earlier.

From May to June, the cost of dental services surged 1.9 percent, the biggest one-month increase since record-keeping began in 1995.

The relentless spike in inflation has diminished consumers’ confidence in the economy, sent President Joe Biden’s approval ratings tumbling and posed a major political threat to Democrats in the November congressional elections. Forty percent of adults said in a June AP-NORC poll that they thought tackling inflation should be a top government priority this year, up from just 14 percent who said so in December.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 pandemic recession, as Americans focused their spending on items for the home, like furniture, appliances and exercise equipment, supply chains became overwhelmed and prices for physical goods soared. But as consumer spending has gradually shifted away from goods and toward services like vacation travel, restaurants meals, movies, concerts and sporting events, some of the highest price increases have occurred in services.

Housing costs have also risen sharply. A shortage of houses for sale has kept prices high just as mortgage rates have also soared.

With many people priced out of the market for houses and looking instead to rent, demand for apartments has sent rental rates beyond affordable levels. The average cost of new leases has jumped 14 percent in the past year, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, to an average of $2,016 a month.

WATCH: What a mix of high inflation and low unemployment means for the U.S. economy

Rents as measured by the government’s inflation index have risen more slowly because they include all rents, including existing leases. But economists expect the rising expense of new leases to send the government’s inflation measure higher in coming months.

The persistence of high inflation has unnerved Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials, who are engaged in the fastest series of rate hikes since the late 1980s to try to slow the price spikes. The central bank is expected to raise its key short-term rate later this month by a hefty three-quarters of a point, as it did last month, with potentially more large rate hikes to follow.

Powell has stressed that the central bank wants to see “compelling evidence” that inflation is slowing before it would dial back its rate hikes. Such evidence would need to be a “series of declining monthly inflation readings,” Powell said at a news conference last month.

Many economists worry that the Fed’s drive to quell inflation will cause it to tighten credit too aggressively even while the economy, by some measures, is slowing. Much higher borrowing costs could trigger a recession, potentially by next year.

Consumers have started to pull back on spending, home sales are falling as mortgage rates rise and factory output slipped in May. Yet steadily robust job growth points to an economy that is still expanding, with little sign of an imminent recession.

Though inflation may slow later this year, it’s not clear by how much. Oil prices fell Tuesday to about $96 a barrel. And other commodities, including metals such as copper, have also become less expensive, mostly because of recession fears in both the United States and Europe.

With fewer ships stuck at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, America’s largest, shipping costs for international freight have fallen. Wholesale gas prices have fallen to about $3.40 a gallon, which suggests that retail prices could drop to as low as $4.20 by August, according to Omair Sharif, founder of Inflation Insights.

And wholesale used car prices are also falling, which point to declining used car prices in the coming months.

Inflation has spiked overseas as well. It reached 9.1 percent in the United Kingdom in May, the highest level in four decades, driven mostly by higher gas and food prices. Annual inflation in the eurozone’s 19 countries hit 8.6 percent in June, surging past the 8.1 percent recorded in May. Inflation is now at its highest level since recordkeeping for the euro began in 1997.

Man tries to kill woman in front of her kids and is shot dead by cops. Protest ensues during which the intended victim berates the protesters and is shouted down and insulted.

The scumbag's GoFundMe has racked in way more money then the actual victim's.

What are the Hide's preferred hot weather pants?

Not necessarily looking for tacticool...something I can wear while hiking or mowing or doing other work-type things when shorts aren't practical and its 95 degrees outside.

I have a pair of Columbia Flex ROC pants and they're okay for $40, but I'd like something that breathes/dries better.

This video has been in my Youtube "recommend to watch" sidebar for a few weeks now and while it sounded interesting, I avoided due to length. Well, it's one of the most interesting and captivating videos I've seen in awhile. Totally worth the time to watch. No pun intended.

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"WASHINGTON — The company that manufactures the gun an 18-year-old used to kill 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School markets its weapons to teenagers with advertising material featuring rapper Post Malone, the video game “Call of Duty” and the Netflix hit “Squid Game,” an advocacy group alleges in a federal complaint filed Friday.

The complaint, filed by the legal arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, says Daniel Defense is violating Federal Trade Commission rules by marketing assault weapons with violent and militaristic imagery that misleads consumers — especially young men — to believe they can use the weapons for combat-like missions.

“Daniel Defense preys on at-risk young men to sell an aggressive, hyper-masculine, and militaristic fantasy and, by extension, the very real weapons that make a perverted version of that fantasy possible,” the complaint says."

I don't know how to take this one. There seem to be some decent people on there but it looks like they're caving to the California crazy fucking nut bags. Does any of this bullshit have any impact on here?

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released Sunday.

The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School.

“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety," the report said.

The gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building — and it is “almost certain” that at least 100 shots came before any officer entered, according to the report, which laid out in damning detail numerous failures. Among them:

— The commander of a Border Patrol tactical team waited for a bullet-proof shield and working master key for the classroom, which may have not even been needed, before entering the classroom.

— No one assumed command despite scores of officers being on the scene.

— A Uvalde Police Department officer said he heard about 911 calls that had come inside from the classroom, and that his understanding was the officers on one side of the building knew there were victims trapped inside. Still, no one tried to breach the classroom.

The report — the most complete account yet of the hesitant and haphazard response to the May 24 massacre — was written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives. Swiftly, the findings set in motion at least one fallout: Lt. Mariano Pargas, a Uvalde Police Department officer who was the city's acting police chief during the massacre, was placed on administrative leave.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said an investigation would be launched to determine whether Pargas should have taken command of the scene. McLaughlin also said the city would now release all body camera footage Uvalde police that was taken during the shooting.

Family members of the victims in Uvalde received copies of the report Sunday before it was released to the public.

“It’s a joke. They’re a joke. They’ve got no business wearing a badge. None of them do,” Vincent Salazar, grandfather of 11-year-old Layla Salazer, said Sunday.

According to the report, 376 law enforcement officers massed at the school. The overwhelming majority of those who responded were federal and state law enforcement. That included nearly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91 state police officials.

“Other than the attacker, the Committee did not find any ‘villains’ in the course of its investigation,” the report said. “There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making.”

The report noted that many of the hundreds of law enforcement responders who rushed to the school were better trained and equipped than the school district police — which the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the state police force, previously faulted for not going into the room sooner.

“Everyone who came on the scene talked about this being chaotic,” said Texas state Rep. Burrows, a Republican who led the investigation.

Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Border Patrol did not immediately return requests for comment Sunday.


The report followed weeks of closed-door interviews with more than 40 people, including witnesses and law enforcement who were on the scene of the shooting.

Flowers that had been piled high in the city’s central square had been removed as of Sunday, leaving a few stuffed animals scattered around the fountains alongside photos of some of the children who were killed.

No single officer has received as much scrutiny since the shooting as Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who resigned from his newly appointed seat on the City Council after the shooting. Arredondo told the committee he treated the shooter as “barricaded subject," according to the report, and defended never treating the scene as an active-shooter situation because he did not have visual contact with the gunman.

Arredondo also tried to find a key for the classrooms, but no one ever bothered to see if the doors were locked, according to the report.

“Arredondo’s search for a key consumed his attention and wasted precious time, delaying the breach of the classrooms," the report read.

The report criticized as “lackadaisical” the approach of the hundreds of officers who surrounded the school and said that they should have recognized that Arredondo remaining in the school without reliable communication was “inconsistent” with him being the scene commander. The report concluded that some officers waited because they relied on bad information while others “had enough information to know better.”

A nearly 80-minute hallway surveillance video published by the Austin American-Statesman this week publicly showed for the first time a hesitant and haphazard tactical response, which the head of Texas’ state police has condemned as a failure and some Uvalde residents have blasted as cowardly.

Calls for police accountability have grown in Uvalde since the shooting. So far, only one officer from the scene of the deadliest school shooting in Texas history is known to be on leave.

The report is the result of one of several investigations into the shooting, including another led by the Justice Department. A report earlier this month by tactical expertsat Texas State University alleged that a Uvalde police officer had a chance to stop the gunman before he went inside the school armed with an AR-15.

But in an example of the conflicting statements and disputed accounts since the shooting, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin has said that never happened. That report had been done at the request of the Texas Department of Public Safety, which McLaughlin has increasingly criticized and accused of trying to minimize the role of its troopers during the massacre.

Steve McCraw, the head of Texas DPS, has called the police response an abject failure.

I have 8lb jugs of varget, h1000, and h4350. All are sealed. Selling because I've gone to alliant powders mainly. Face to Face, no shipping. Located at corner of TN/VA/NC. Prefer to trade for reloader 16, 23, or 26 but would sell for $350 each.

Went by HF and picked up a Apache 3800 case I am going to use for suppressors I have one and two are in jail I think three will easily fit in the 3800. They are about a 1/3 what a comparable Pelican case would cost.


Disclaimer.......

I would never compare a cheap Chinese optic to a Top tier rifle scope, but a hard plastic case with foam in it........FUCK IT!

Well what do we have here?

They really went all out letting us know it even happened.

Bad guy killed 3 and wounded 2 more before he was taken out.

Head. Swivel.



GREENWOOD, Ind. -- Police say a shooting at an Indiana mall killed 3 people and wounded two before a civilian shot, killed gunman.

The Census website claims that companies who refuse to turn over the information could face a fine of up to $5000?

There was a guy with a gun and they opened fire while disregarding the people in the background.


Most important thing to the cops.
From the article....
"No officers were injured, the department tweeted. "

The Dept is referring to the other people shot (most likely by cops) as "victims" since it helps the narrative that the bad guy (if he really was a bad guy) shot them all.

Just as NYC tried to do when cops opened fire on an armed guy on a busy street. NINE bystanders were wounded and the story was the bad guy did it. Until the medical records showed they were ALL hit by 9mm bullets and the bad guy was shooting a .45. Guess who had 9mm pistols in that instance? Had the bad guy been carrying a 9mm that day cops would have pinned every wounded person on him.

Anybody surprised?

Have a vudoo gen2 barreled action 18” kukri fluted barrel. Just barreled action. Has only 50 rounds of center x down the barrel. Basically brand new action. Need to get this sold. 1550 shipped. Not going any lower. Please don’t ask.

Instead of a bunch of cowards. Good work officer.

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Moving somewhere with a good 1,000+ yard range, figure it’s time to dive into both reloading and building the 6BRA PRS I’ve been meaning to.

Is the 737 action (steel) still the go to?

I’d go bartlein 400MODBB but their turn around time is…long, thinking PVA

Gain twist or left hand, best contour ?

Thinking jewel trigger and ether a MPA competition or that new KRG chassis when it comes out


Anything I’m missing here or should change?

Optics wise going to be a USO fdn.

Had a V2 and upgraded to V3 with Bluetooth
Area 419 upgrade as shown.
$350.00 shipped, all parts shown goes with it

Selling a Nightforce ATACR 4-16x42 with Mil XT reticle. Will come with box, paperwork and Vortex PMR 1.26 rings. Small scratch on top of elevation turret, glass is perfect. I will get some pictures posted later today. Asking $2000 shipped for scope and rings.

I’m a fan of the original RE games and the two remakes of the originals, but didn’t care for any of the Mika movies. The newest one outside of the Mila films was eh but better than the previous ones.

But this new series…

Fuck, could they get you to hate the main character (let alone most of the characters) any more? Absolutely terrible characters and holy shit could they be any more accommodating for every single progressive cliche.

I watched it to see what they did with the storyline, which was noting but overreaching fan service, but holy fuck that was terrible.

The story in the first three games was great. That’s all they literally have to follow if they want an easy trilogy but instead RE fans get this trash on top of ____ number of Mila films?

Its funny because RT shows it having a high score from critics but a terrible score from actual viewers.

Save yourselves.

I'm new to mandrels. If I just want to run the mandrel through virgin brass , or run through sized brass to get a little better and more consistent neck tension, can I just lube the mandrel amd what kind of lube? I've read so much about it all that I'm just confused now. Dry lube galling, ect...

I don't want to have to tumble it after