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AndrewDavis · Jun 25, 2025

Reduced to $575 shipped and insured

vh20 · Jun 25, 2025

Gunfighter14e2 said:
Yesterday I heard, the number was much, much higher & some were returned cut up, in plastic bags ??

Three Mossad spies executed in Iran in further blows to Israeli espionage network

Three men convicted of spying for Mossad spy agency have been executed in Iran’s West Azarbaijan province in a fresh blow to the regime

www.presstv.ir

That reads like it was written by Baghdad Bob (or, Tehran Tom?) himself.
Oh, wait -

Press TV - Wikipedia

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Also, “smuggled in a load of alcoholic drinks”. I thought alcohol was banned there? Why would you choose that?

oneshot86 · Jun 25, 2025

Right now is one of the times Id like to be a black guy so I could say...

Suck my chocolate sweaty balls

geistacwm · Jun 25, 2025

Pmed my dude.

68hoyt · Jun 25, 2025

I have had good luck with emails to ibi/ ultimatum as well

steve123 · Jun 25, 2025

Even now in my old age I wouldn't mind a higher quality BB gun. I've been tempted to buy this one, lol!
It uses a battery system and gets good reviews.
Barra 400E. https://barraairguns.com/cdn/shop/files/400e_polymer_001.jpg?v=1744401420&width=2000

55 years ago I started with a Daisy Field Master BB gun which was perfect for me at age 9.
Then a few years later a Crosman 760 multi pump but they were made better back then.
Then a German made Diana M27 youth sized barrel cocker pellet gun which was massively better made and much more precise!
I shot so much I broke all these but the Diana lasted 3-4 years vs a year or so for the others.

BB's bounce back because they are steel, depending on what they hit, and a kid I knew when I was a boy had his eye ruined by one coming back at him. Eye Pro is mandatory IMHO.

BB guns are typically 2-3 fpe whereas a youth pellet gun will be 6-8 fpe.

The pellet gun was the clear winner, the others just cheap toys if compared.

The really old Crosman 22 cal M140 pellet guns were decently made metal and wood multi pumps and they can be rebuilt. I had one that I won at a FT match which had just been fully rebuilt by Mike Baker out of Cottonwood AZ. I think this one would be good for the kid because one pump using a 14.3gr pellet is about 300 fps, and two is about 400 fps, then as he grows and he can handle pumping more it'll be about 700 fps at 8 pumps which will go right through a Cottontail rabbit 20 yards away.

The Benjamin and Sheridan multi's are similar.

I have a compressor so my grandson will likely end up with a cool little pcp and they have really neat ones nowadays. Wish I had one when I was a kid.

Actually I'm still a kid at heart so this year when my family goes on our annual camping trip I think I'll get one of these for us to play with at camp, along with some of my other pcp's of course, to shoot on steel and to do some hunting.
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mosin46 · Jun 25, 2025

don't want to offend the Muslim and Chinese practitioners,however.

diggler1833 · Jun 25, 2025

Basic user said:
I hear they're going to start threading them all now.

If they do, it would only help sales.

mosin46 · Jun 25, 2025

Gunfighter14e2 said:
Yesterday I heard, the number was much, much higher & some were returned cut up, in plastic bags ??

Three Mossad spies executed in Iran in further blows to Israeli espionage network

Three men convicted of spying for Mossad spy agency have been executed in Iran’s West Azarbaijan province in a fresh blow to the regime

www.presstv.ir

as it should be after washing all info out of them. we have several in prison for life from China AND Israel. only ? is were they really spies or just domestic opposition labeled spies so they could be executed. it is Iran,so...

SeanP · Jun 25, 2025

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AndrewDavis · Jun 25, 2025

SPF to Jsilva

straightshooter1 · Jun 25, 2025

Josh Umsted said:
Been reloading .308 for a year, upgrading rifle and reloading components one piece at a time, pursuing consistent 1 MOA accuracy. Have achieved good to great results on occasion, but the only thing consistent is that my loads consistently turn to shit the next day.

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Shot these two groups recently, thinking I had it. Ive thought that before. There were 20 shots total, the other two groups a little larger but still under 1”. SD 8. ES 12. 20 shots. Avg velocity velocity 2640.

That was the last of the Varget jug. New lot runs about 40fps faster. Tried that, then went down from 42.8 to 42.2gn. Velocity was all over the place. Avg was close to targeted 2740fps. Groups were shit.

Well, I have 100 Lapua cases and maybe 400 Federal cases. Federal isn’t all the same lot and hasn’t been sorted by volume or weight. Maybe the universe won’t let me get away with that and wants me to get more Lapua.

Today, it was Lapua brass, 42.2gn Varget, SMK 168, CCI 210, and a pile of shit. ES 50. SD 18. WTF?

Compared that to what I thought was a good load from a few months ago with Berger 168’s, left over from a match. It wasn’t good. Big groups and big numbers.

Rifle is Remington 700 action, Criterion 24” light varmint, MDT Oryx, Nightforce NX8 4-32.

Reloading equipment is old RCBS rockchucker, charge master light, Redding full length sizing die set to bump shoulder .002”, Forster ultra micrometer seating die, and a 21st century expander mandrel. I trim every time with a Lee deluxe trimmer, if for nothing else, to chamfer the inner neck. On Federal brass it leaves a weird flange around the mouth of the case, which was suspect, and couldn’t be cleaned up with a hand deburring tool. On Lapua brass, no noticeable flange or weirdness around the mouth.

Recently started trying to anneal by hand, rotating case necks under flame until too hot for my fingers. It’s probably inconsistent and may be doing more harm than good. Neck tension and seating force feel much more consistent since using mandrel, Forster seater and annealing.

I suspect the Rockchucker is inadequate, but can’t imagine it’s the main problem. Haven’t checked concentricity. Why buy a gauge only to tell me my process is fucked? I dunno. Had faith the new Chargemaster was accurate, but will need to check that, too. My other scale is a super old Rcbs digital, so not sure how much that will tell me, if anything.

Gonna get a few hundred more Lapua brass to eliminate that variable. Haven’t tried all the bullets or all the powders. Haven’t tried all the expander mandrels. .3065 worked better than .306”.

If there’s anything obvious I could be doing better, feel free to point it out. I’m thinking a few imperfections are adding up to a big imperfection. Then there’s the human factor. I’m not a perfect shot but want my rifle to shoot better than me, and it doesn’t.

Hmmmm??? Some numbers you've stated don't add up. If your new lot of Varget is giving you 40 fps faster than the 2640 fps you got with the old lot, that mean you'd be looking at 2680 fps. . . not 2740. Or, was this 2740 just a typo and you meant 2640?

If I understand you correctly, you had good results from Berger 168's and when you went to 168 SMK's you got "a pile of shit". This is not surprising, though the two bullets are the same weight, they're not the same design and will react to your load and barrel differently (especially if the 168 Berger you mention is their VLD). And if you're trying to measure and seat them with the same die settings, they're going to be sitting in the case very differently.

With a new lot of powder and a different bullet, you've simply got a very different ball game.

BTW: as previously mentioned, you annealing technique is actually doing nothing to you brass. You've got to get you're necks to where they just turn red for a second (as viewed in a darkened room), which indicates they've gotten to ~1,100°F (650°C). It's that temperature for a very short time that gets you the annealing done. You won't be able to do that holding the case with your fingers. But you can use a socket mounted in a drill and figure out the timing, though an inexpensive machine with a timer can produce pretty consistent results.

Basic user · Jun 25, 2025

diggler1833 said:
I think the Ruger or Salvage should generally work, especially if "cheap" is one of the main concerns.

You can alo find the less expensive Tikka models in .22-250 and .243 as well... although you may have to step up to a CTR to get it threaded from the factory.

I hear they're going to start threading them all now.

Marinevet1 · Jun 25, 2025

Prayers...........

Terry Cross · Jun 25, 2025

diggler1833 said:
I got to see one of those actions the other day in Matt's shop (I'm assuming this is one of Preston's).

That would be it.
Tell Matt I said Hi next time you see him.

diggler1833 said:
If you're inletting a Zealot for one,

In process

diggler1833 said:
I might be coming up with an idea. We were joking about some knucklehead showing up at regional F-Class matches with the most tactical thing out there...

Well, somebody's got to do it!

Jagerwerks · Jun 25, 2025

tiNdvenTFHwMdqKW · Jun 25, 2025

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I got sent home from school with note saying I wasn´t allowed to wear my Coors shirt anymore. Probably about the same age as this kid. I don't even think I knew what Coors meant. My dad had some giggles with that.

kthomas · Jun 25, 2025

BoilerUP said:
...y'all think we don't have a plan to attack every country in the world, including our allies?

Of course we do. The "empire managers" are deranged psychopaths.

kthomas · Jun 25, 2025

In my experience with PCP guns (I have 3 of them), it's not a matter of IF you are going to have a leak, it's WHEN.

A lot of these PCP rifles have dozens of o-rings, and they can be a pain in the ass to troubleshoot.

I have a Taipan Veteran that developed a leak a couple of years ago, spent hours and hours trying to diagnose it with no luck. Its still not operational, I guess I should send it off to a professional but it hasn't been a priority.

Airguns are awesome for shooting where it's not legal to do so with a firearm. But personally, I would pick a rimfire over an airgun 10 times out of 10 when legal to do so.

diggler1833 · Jun 25, 2025

secondofangle2 said:
I’d like to follow around some of the guys for a couple of days that get their panties all in knots about alleged violations of their hoity-toity “ethics”, to see if in general, they live their lives with such high standards when it comes to things like driving, financing, reading to your kids, brushing your teeth, running your business etc.

I'm actually pretty decent in all of those areas...

I'll screw it up in a second though if it involves stubbing my toe, being polite to a rude person, or muslims.

SquarePizza · Jun 25, 2025

I’m kinda sad Cuomo didn’t win. He was a shitbag and we all celebrated his fall from office, but the vindictive whore that replaced him is much worse. At least his brand of bullshit was most predictable.

This whore in office will green light this socialist to fund really fund all the sanctuary bullshit.

Im just glad I am far from the city.

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