kthomas said:

Sorry, I shouldn't have said large volume. Those were ill-chosen words on my end. I should've instead said fairly well known dealers.

Regardless, my point is that everyone has their favorite brands. From actions to triggers, to stocks and chassis, accessories, and especially optics. To the point of being excessively dogmatic about it.

Some people/dealers/"pros"/gunsmiths/[insert industry profession here] prefer NF. Some ZCO. Some Khales. Some TT. Some S&B. They all have their reasons, some reasons may have more merit than others.

As shooters we are pretty lucky to have the choices we do these days, it's hard to make a bad choice. If you have the opportunity to choose between a ZCO and modern Khales, there isn't really a bad choice there. Or any of the other top tier scope brands.

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And we/I sell them all all - Richard


P.S. I think I know who you are referring to.

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Maser said:

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Or this! LoL



Seriously though, they’re pretty sweet…taking ‘em out today if the rain holds off.



...and yes, she still gets her new kitchen. And redoing the butler’s pantry, guest bath, and re-doing the pool.

Weekend bump. This needs a new home.

So... last week we went to Colorado to visit our daughter who is stationed out there. We get on base and she says.."hey pops...there's a liquor store over yonder.." The prices were easily $20 to $30 less than what I see back home. I have never seen the Evan Williams around here, and just finished the other Macallan last night. I also bought a Jack Daniels single barrel-barrel proof. That puts the old No. 7 to shame. A great sipper and I managed to bring home a few pours to share with my best friend who agreed. While hiking in Castlewood, I never saw the rattlesnake until he moved, he was less than 2 feet from my left leg. I believe he didn't bite as a professional courtesy. Talk about spooky! A beautiful state with so much to do. Later, I ordered an old drink at a restaurant called a "Snakebite". As always, for the true aficionados....Randall and the classic Kukri....

Emerson0311 said:

An energetic nuclear exchange would serve the interests of most elites all over the world. It sure would make difficult domestic issues become irrelevant to most smooth brain westerners.

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They don’t want their precursor chemicals and opium shipping affected by disruptions to Karachi. Remember the Eurofags have been bailing out their banks with Afghan opium billions for decades now. Hardly any of that money stays in Afghanistan, and everyone in the European banking sector wants a piece of it.

Karachi is critical for that whole industry, both in imports of precursors and exports of completed product.

i had a mk 5hd 3.6-18, i sold it for a nx8 2.5-20.

i really liked everything about the leupold except the reticle choice. none of them worked for my brain. (.25 mil subtensions on the cch and pr2, tremor3 and h59 too busy, the others are not precise enough).

the mil-xt in the NF is a pretty balanced reticle.

i've read the line "but the nx8 has a tight eyebox" all over the internet, but it seems fine to me. then again i have a lot of time behind LPVOs soo...

Put the xm-3 up against the m24 this morning. Both fun as hell to shoot, both heavy as shit

ColinW said:

For a second there, i just assumed that was one of your condoms. My bad

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Too long…

mosin46 said:

i don't get our (Trump's) just not walking away from this mess. we have shafted many others far more deserving than the corrupt fucks in Ukraine. Z and crew have brought it on themselves (with us and UK), eg the allies that were real in SVN,the few friends we had in Afghanistan,the Montagnards,Rhodesia,So.Africa,the Kurds. the MIC and politicians have made their money,so WTF?

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Remember the corruption in Ukraine was largely led by ethnic Russians from Donnas placed into positions by Putin via his boyars like Yanukovych and all the moles. They were literally using Burisma to launder sex-trafficking profits, even though it’s an energy firm.

Ukraine voted to normalize trade with the Eurozone by 79% of the electorate, with the ethnic Russian dissenters mainly in Donbas region, who simply voted as directed by Putin.

Trump’s proposal for mineral deals with the US knocks out multiple birds with the same stone:

* Prevents Putin from attacking anymore as it threatens direct US interests, which means an end to the war for some time at least.
* Shifts reliance from any of these minerals currently being exported by China and other bad actors
* Will act as a platform from which to grow the Ukrainian economy without interference from within by Russian plants, so Ukraine could potentially rise like Poland did out of the Soviet ashes.
* Opens up the oil fields in Kharkiv and off Odessa’s coast to Ukrainian extraction and feeding into Europe, without needing Russia.

Baron23 said:

Every time I see this, I just want to give this little bitch a serious spanking.

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Perv…

I’ll just bet you do. Roar!

Bump

In the FAA it was called “ train to succeed”. If the Non certified individual ran out of training time without certification, they just issued more training hours. Go figure……

mosin46 said:

attack the event with Xi present? pretty much guarantees the 100% destruction of Ukraine plus some. wonder if Xi is going to try and get Putin's help with the tariff damage.

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Putin can’t offer Xi anything that China relies on from the US since Russia isn’t a value-added economy.

Russia extracts raw materials and sells them on the market, and is already leveraged with pipelines to supply some of China’s insatiable demand for oil/NG, but not aerospace systems, precursor chemicals for plastics, machinery, agriculture, soy, grains, resins, synthetics, pharmaceuticals, waste & scrap, Navigational/measuring/medical/control instruments, etc.

Imagine China’s airline industry without the US, or their food, medical, electronics, transportation, manufacturing, etc. Russia is in no place to fill the demand on any of these multi-billion dollar industries.

Russia is extremely poor and backwards in modern technology advances, and lacks the infrastructure to make any of this stuff.

Russia slashes airline engine production as domestic airliner production flounders

Russia is scrambling to substitute imported components in its indigenously produced aircraft with Russian-made components. But this is easier said than done. While Russia continues to produce fighter jets, Il-76 military transports, and helicopters, it is a shadow of what the Soviet Union once was.

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The US has China by the scrot and there isn’t anything they can do about it. Just the rules of the road.

I realize it’s two pages early but I am utterly compelled to inquire:
Is this still available ?

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What if my truck is lowered?

This is long overdue. Oh happy day.

clcustom1911 said:

Don't be thinking I don't have Bon Jovi cassettes floating around from the late 90's

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I have ones kicking around from the late 80’s lol

solocam said:

looking at loading 87g V-Max for .243. The Hornady manual has a max charge of 43.4g for H-4350, Quick Load has a max charge of 44.7. Which one do I trust?

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Hmmmm???

You really shouldn't try to start off with anyone's max charge weight. IMHO, it's best to use the lower of the high max numbers as a general guide and start testing well below that number. As mentioned, start with lower charges and work your way up and the best way to do that is run a pressure test. "Pressure test" where you load cartridges in increments of powder charge (just one cartridge each) like in .3 or .5 grs apart and go just beyond max load. As you fire each cartridge from low to high, you stop when you first get some pressure signs. That'll give you a good idea of the max charge for that powder in your gun. And if you're chronoing the velocities, you can tune the QL powder data to match what you got and be able to use QL more effectively for that lot of powder.

ZCOklahoma said:

I dialed the wrong number and asked for Richard. Got sent dic pics. Alcohol makes me forget.

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Unfortunately, you'll have a long memory of it