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The Gay Tiger is tempting me from shooting straight with 6BR.

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Dead Eye Dick said:
This is a very old picture. (With my 7TCU which was, in those days the money gun, shot more clean scores than all the rest of our handguns combined). Getting back to the subject at hand, The way I shot, as the handgun recoiled, my elbow took all the recoil. Until I switched to the TCU, I had to wear an elbow brace.

(Not that fat anymore either. And we totally rebuilt that range, had it looking very nice, then lost the blasted lease :(. ).



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Fun times back then!

In my mid 60's now I look back at all the different types of rifle and pistol matches I've tried with a great big smile!
It's weird how fun shooting steel is, especially knocking them off a stand, or getting that falling back flat reaction, like in Field Target airgun matches.

The last few years we started a airgun Silhouette match off bucket and shooting sticks. Not easy hitting a 1/5th scale chicken at 80Y with a pellet going 811 fps having a G1 BC of .032.
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lonegunman762x51 said:
So, these secret underground bases hide the illegal immigrants who do not want to be deported? I'd think these bases would be a lot nicer for $21 trillion dollars. Maybe nice carpet and high quality tile, some of those golden coffins like King Tut and maybe a decent game room and indoor shooting range.
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Tucker did an interview with a woman who had this as one of her claims. the attitude of the elites to build themselves places to hide when their policies come to fruition is easy to believe. the fact that this kind of work can be done and kept secret is a long stretch for me. even Tucker said in the interview that who knew of blue collar guys who knew some about it. again,hard to know the truth.
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BurtG said:
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an obvious candidate for execution. won't happen because of his age and color for 2. he will become a ward of the state for a few years. will receive room,board,med care,counselling. also,"education" from the state and from older criminals. in a few years his record will be expunged and he will be released to do the same again.
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Accuracy International Picture Thread

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hafejd30 said:
Fritz at Black Canyon Customs. They do conversions

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Yeh I knew they were the ones doing the most recent conversions that I had heard about. I may just slap a poor mans AI together and put a Zeus in an atx chassis. Even with the extra bolt and 2 barrels I'd likely be cheaper than buying another atxc.
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New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

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vanrichten said:
Using a Tactix 8 Solar Elite, isn't that supposed to include the Elite AB license? In ABQ it is showing that my App Level is Pro and the tactix 8 - 51mm is Ultralight. So I can only sync 5 profiles.

ETA : Even more annoying. The watch shows as having the Elite license on the devices screen but in the app settings screen it shows Ultralight.

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This depends on the watch, but your app level is Pro so their is nothing to upgrade. Some Tactix 8s are Ultralite, and some are Elite. If this one is the Elite SKU PART NUMBER010-03407-10 then use the in app support function so we can see the logs and what the watch itself is reporting as.
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13.7 INCH VS 14.5INCH AR RANGE AND BALLISTICS

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sharpshooter82 said:
Looking at getting either a 13.7inch or 14.5 inch with a short can max overall length under 17 inches. Rifle is going to used for ranges between 0-400 yards. Im in the UK so the having to adhere to the min 16inch barrel length does not apply. After some research the 13.7 inch barrel has 66fps (62gr ss109) less then a 14.5inch barrel. At 500 yards the difference is 48fps. Will the 66fps more velocity from the 14.5inch barrel going to make much difference for range and accuracy ?
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I wholly understand what you're looking for. I am of shorter stature and prefer an AR that is easier to manipulate.

I do a good bit of shooting out to 400 yards. There was a time when I had one each of an 11.5, 12.5, 13.9, 14.5 and 16" barrels. I also shoot a lot of m855 and various 77gr loadings.

I haven't done any formal testing, but something I have noticed is that differences in performance among the differing barrel lengths did not become meaningful until the differences in velocity approached 300 feet per second. Put more plainly, when starting with an 11.5" barrel and increased barrel length and took note of performance increases, I did not see a meaningful increase in performance until I got to a 16" barrel where the velocity increase amounted to about 300 fps. I now run two setups. An 11.5 and a 16".

I run the 11.5" barrel with a YHM Fat Cat suppressor. The Fat Cat is one of the shortest suppressors you can get for a 5.56 and my setup measures just over 15".

If your decision is one of choosing between a 13.7 and 14.5, go 13.7. The difference in velocity is negligible. I just don't think you're going to meet your length goal with a 13.7.

If you decide to go shorter, consider the 12.5 rather than the 11.5. From a performance perspective, the 11.5 is fine, but even I feel a bit cramped by the limited space on the handguard. The extra space you get with a 12.5 is very noticeable..

You can also do a bit of velocity loss mitigation by going with a "fast" barrel. Some barrels typically get more velocity than others. For me, I've had good luck with Criterion barrels. Proof barrels run pretty fast as well.

I don't know what your budget is, but check out the Cobalt kinetics direct thread suppressor. It is very light, fairly short and performs very well. It is also pretty expensive. I like my Fat Cat. It's very short and performs very well. In terms of sound mitigation, it is one of the best I've heardThe downside is that it is gassy. A method of gas regulation was necessary.

As for m855, I do hear a lot of people say that they don't get good performance with it, but I've found it to be more than adequate for shooting steel out to 400. I shot the following groups at 100 yards with my 11.5 using a 3.5x ACOG. The target dots are 2" in diameter.

The group on the left was shot with Winchester m855 and the one on the right was with PMC m855. These are pretty typical of what I get with each respective ammunition.
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India vs Pakistan

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LRI said:
Ever listen to an Annie Jacobson interview regarding nukes? It's sobering. I grew up on SAC bases and my ol man worked on Minute Man silos as a facility manager in the 80s and 90s. I was so ignorant to the evil that exists in the holes I used to drive tractors by as a kid working on a farm in the summer.

Annie was asked about a nuke attack from, say, North Korea along the southern California coast. If one were to detonate near the San Onofre nuclear power station located right on the northern end of Camp Pendleton, it would aerosolize enough radioactive material to make the entire west coast of the US uninhabitable from the ocean to the continental divide in Colorado.
For approximately 500 years.

Nuclear weapons have no business being anywhere on this planet. Period. If countries want to slaughter one another, that is fine. Do it the conventional way so the rest of us don't have to live off Pedialight while living in caves.
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that is so right. nuc exchange anywhere is going to make things bad everywhere. the wind does blow around ya know. once they are used somewhere,i fear that the door will be opened for their use else/everywhere. i don't see any way to get them banned or removed world wide either. if memory serves,the agreements we had with,at least Russia,were dumped by George the 2nd and Trump in 1st term. NK is a loose cannon only under Chinese or Russian control maybe. Israel has about 300 i have read,another fanatic loose cannon. Iran is a question mark. some say they are working on it,some deny that. truth there,like everywhere these days,is hard to know.
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Rocks

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Makinchips208 said:
Old boss got into cutting rocks up. He bought an actual rock cutting saw, looked like a chop saw to me, had a diamond blade.
Not sure why a tile saw wouldn’t cut a rock, may be limited on the depth of cut?
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I tried my metal cutting chop saw using a diamond masonry blade and it doesn't work well for harder rock, like that malapai for example (landscaping project), and cutting dry/no water it produces enough heat to turn the cutting area into molten lava so it takes too long.

I scrapped that project because I didn't want to spend the money on a water fed tile or rock cutting saw. I almost should buy one because I have enough of these rocks on my property, once cut into blocks, to build a small house with them, lol.
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Night Vision Drones: Changing of the Guard

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With a 9db gain antenna the signal will reach the drone better, but doesn’t the drone need to talk back to the controller?
That antenna will make the signal transmit further but will it receive the signal any better from the drone if its further away?
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Short answer, YES, it is 9db gain in both directions.

My truck antennae are "bumps" (on the roof). I also use fox fury lander for taller grass.
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