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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Hey, anybody go through Indian Head in the late '80s? Y'all remember Brianna (sp.)? She kept mostly to the 1st floor (Navy) in the student barracks but she worked the club as well.

Okinawa, 1980ish. Barracks shakedown 0400 on a Sunday. Girls climbing out windows and hiding in lockers. Squadron commander had two daughters aged 16 and 18, as I recall. Both were snagged and forever after known as spit and swallow.

To their credit, they didn’t rat out their boyfriends.

Suppressor for Precision 16” .223

I'd look at either one of the CAT cans or one of the Ops inc style cans.
I have a Polonium K on my 14.5" AR and it works fine for the money. Quieter and less backpressure would be cool but hopefully the new BRT gas tube and heavier buffer/spring tame it down a bit. Personally i avoid muzzle devices. I dont play suppressor musical chairs that often either so I dont have to waste money on muzzle devices for every rifle. I will just stick to 5/8 and 1/2" muzzle threads on everything going forward.

Maggie’s THE "NOM NOM NOM" THREAD

"Hawaiian" Inspired BBQ Sauce :

One small bottle of your favorite standard BBQ sauce, I had Stubbs original it's mildly tangy a little black pepper heat to it. It's gtg on it's own.

1 tablespoon of soy sauce (add more later and watch for excess salt flavor).
1 Can of crushed pineapple juice and all. (short-medium can not 12oz).
1 Teaspoon of plain mustard.
1 Tablespoon of brown sugar. ( add more later if desired).
1/2 normal sized onion diced small, 1/3 texas sized onion).
1/4 stick of butter (made with Texas sea salt harvested by the light of the pale blue moon).

Butter and onions in pan first, they should be browned some.
Soy, pineapple juice and brown sugar in next, stir and heat on low to medium to dissolve sugar.
Pineapple next , no particular justification for that, stirr a lot.

Add remainder of ingredients stir and heat till slightly bubbly. Done.

Was a crowd pleaser. I would not serve it with beef, too sweet.

Remembering Operation Red Wings

Was the drone video made available to the public?

Couldn’t find it anywhere.
Not drone video and no. Videos of the enemy stripping gear off our dead SOF guys is typically not released to the public.

Edit:
Here you go as far as “public”. There’s more tapes and longer footage that was recovered later.
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SOLD Sold

Lightly used on various platforms, ALWAYS has held zero and has printed .2-.3 MOA groups @ 100yd consistently. Has sat in my safe for awhile and it's time to go. I am selling a few items that aren't getting used.

NO TRADES

As far as I can tell this thing is near flawless I don't see any scratches ring marks and glass looks unmarked as well (maybe slightly dusty) see pics.
It comes with everything from the factory and a brand new MK machining mag lever.

$1050 obo shipped and insured

PP FF (absolutely no comments) Venmo (same no comments) or PP regular and you pay the 3.5% fee. Zelle, check, money order etc.

Check my feedback I'm known to give super accurate descriptions of scopes but I'm not perfect. Please PM me if you want to buy or ask questions, don't get scammed by the fake profiles.

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Savage 110 Scout vs Ruger American Ranch in 450 Bushmaster

The 450BM is a short range thumper in my eyes and the factory stock would work just fine for me and my intended use for the American Ranch in 450BM if I was were buy one. I’d go 350legend first.
Why the 350 ? I know that the 450 can do more meat damage but if I want to shoot subsonic then I would need the 450. Or, is hunting with subsonic rounds at 200 yds an exercise in futility?
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Short Barrel Ranch Rifle Cartridge Choice

Edit to actually respond to OP - 18" 6 Creedmoor on a tikka shoots factory sig 107 SMKs around 2790. 108 ELDm is in the same ballpark. I bought a few cases of the sig stuff at around $1.35 ea and it has done great. Probably wouldn't be my first choice for terminal performance though, the 108 ELDm or 103 ELDx would probably do a better job but are not on sale as cheap typically.

The minimum barrel length to get 100% powder burn out of a 6.5CM is 21", and the smaller Creedmoor calibers like .25cal, 6mm and 22 cal will need longer barrels. If you want to go shorter than 21", the 308Win will be best if you want maximum energy on target and are okay with a bit of recoil. If you want low recoil and okay with less energy on target, then .223.

100% Powder burn in my opinion is the most under discussed topic in rifle shooting at the moment. If you are not burning 100% of the powder, you are just creating additional recoil for absolutely no benefit. At the same time you have lower accuracy potential and fouling up suppressors more than need be.

Companies are constantly following what the market wants, not needs. Hence the reason you see so many sub 24" magnum rifles out there.

If my 18" 6 Creed only burns 95% of the power and that means 2 grains of powder didn't fully burn, why should I care? It's shooting 0.270+ g7 BC bullets faster than a bigger bore and same/similar case will, with less recoil, plenty adequate precision, and more than adequate terminal performance. I'll take that every day over extra recoil, lesser external ballistics, and a quickload profile that says all my powder burned.

Surefire ICAR

I reached out to new frontier after reading through this thread, the 6.8 receivers are not discontinued and they do plan on making more in the future. No ETA or anything but it could be a faster and more affordable way to get a mid frame built depending on how PSA and surefire sell them
Hmmm. Just got an alert that the blem C-6.8 lowers are available, and only $43. But the uppers don't exist anywhere, even the product page is 404 on NFA's website.

Edit: nvm I didn't read the page correctly, their G4 G2 uppers work for both 6.8 pattern and 5.56, and are the replacement for the dedicated C-6.8 uppers.
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