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Our lazy worthless cats are about middle aged so they have a while to go but I’m going to be an absolute train wreck when we have to put them down.
We have 2 now.

Socket was one of several I adopted who were stray kittens found when I was a Snapon dealer.

Banjo is 11 and BabyK is 12, both rode home on my truck after finding them at a customer.

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

Fuck that. What the fuck is tuna doing anywhere near a pizza? Fucking Minnesota
What do you expect from people who saw Tim Walz, and thought... " Let's make this guy our leader!". Tuna should be mandatory on every pizza in Minnesota forever.

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

We need to send an army of psychologists to New Mexica, Minnesota, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Something has gone really wrong in those states.

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This map is trash. I love pizza and not a single time have I ever seen tuna even offered on a pizza.

Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

My GS starts kindergarten next Thursday. I am just in a whirlwind, cannot believe he is going to be 6 in December and is starting school. Plan is to let him do k-2 or so before homeschool. The elementary school property backs up to our land on the other side of one holler. It is not far from us on the road either. Has a great reputation as unwoke. There is a thriving homeschool network here too which we’ll join at some point.

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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

You are totally right…

It was “The Last Temptation of Christ.” With Willem Dafoe!


Never saw the Gibson one.

Had a mind fart there! Thanks for the correction!!!

Cheers, Sirhr
I knew something was wrong when you said it didn’t impress you.

The Passion would definitely impress anyone.
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Night Vision Looking to purchase first thermal clip on

In a theoretical world, I agree that you could get a mount and hand guard that, together, push things over the limit, but that’s theoretical, and it would be unreasonable to point the finger at Wilcox in such a situation, while failing to point the finger at the abortion on an off-brand hand guard that made such misalignment possible.

The amount of inconsistency in a Wilcox flip mount is nowhere near enough to warrant any of the concerns that are being talked about. If it were, robust hand guard scrutiny would be equally important in every such discussion, and that doesn’t happen.

Can you check those military manuals? I’m on vacation and unable to check, but my recollection is that they reference optical centerline (we’re all in agreement there), but don’t mention “straight” as you say. Can you check for us?
***edit*** the LWTS and Skeetir-X manuals are available online and mention no such thing. https://www.x20.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LWTS-user-guide.pdf

https://device.report/m/fe893f428cb9e70fbd1dc303f6260d84cb6c87f0a365dea2928d68e12378b8c1.pdf

Regardless, the frequent discussion about the Wilcox mounts makes people who haven’t owned/used them think that there’s something drastically wrong, and that they’re going to be plagued by troubles (that for some reason haven’t affected the SEALs, Delta operators, etc.). This is incorrect, silly, and should stop.

I’ve owned more real clip-ons than I can recall and over a dozen Wilcox flip mounts, shared across dozens of rifles. I’m also FAR more picky than most end users/customers regarding the precision of the system. If a problem existed, I’m the guy who would have encountered it, and I’m also the guy who would have noticed it. I have yet to encounter anything resembling a problem related to alignment consistency.

Someone considering buying one thermal with one Wilcox mount doesn’t need to be scared off by theoretical worst case boogeyman problems that none of us thermal veterans have experienced.

Curiosity Test.. Brake VS No Brake and Expander VS No Expander

I wouldn't take any conclusions from this.

Run the exact same test again, change up the order in which you fired them from the first time. Even doing this just one more time, you'll likely see that the results will be different.

Ideally you would also be blind to which sample you are shooting to prevent your personal influence (someone else knows which is which) but that's a little difficult given you can see if a brake is attached or not.

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Thanks BowChamp for the good advice. I was going to wait until I get a spare pin before modifying the tip. Skip the wait, going to modify my existing pin, turn the pin back to the right spot, then start the spring weight testing. Should keep me enjoyably busy for the rest of the summer.
BC, as of yesterday afternoon, I'll have firing pins within another week.

MB