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I picked up the stainless steel version of that for my son a week before he was born. I ordered it as soon as we found out we were having a boy.
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Silencer Central, if true Phuck them!

have no dog in this fight but have always believed that the companies that make suppressors are complicit in the NFA BS. in my limited knowledge,i see no reason that these are priced so high ie despite the gov rip off. there is no real open competition in the biz. if it was opened up like guns,ammo,scopes,mags competition would seem to be increased as a guy could have tried several,decided and posted what works best for him. when you have 4-500$s in something,dumping it when it is a POS is tough as is admitting it. look at scope numbers,prices and resulting wide open everywhere competition.
Exactly , without tax stamp costs , 300$ centerfire and 100$ rimfire suppresors would become quite common not to mention vendors offering them , massively cutting into SC market and overhead.

We have unregulated suppressors and so everyone can and does sell them there is no chance for such business model
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Vudoo closed the doors…

Seeing some chatter that Vudoo closed up shop

Four weeks, Six weeks, Eight weeks, a dollar
All who doubt the future of Vudoo, stand up and holler.

(Paraphrased high school cheer from the 1960’s

I hate to be a doubter, but it’s hard to be optimistic over this situation.

So, I've been following this Vudoo mess a few days now since it showed up on my radar. Wow, sure have learned a lot about how things ran at Vudoo between this and Mike's thread. Since, like everybody else, I couldn't seem to get a hold of the Vudoo people I contacted Three Sigma manufacturing, the company who basically builds the Vudoo action (not technically, they just make all the parts that matter but effectively the same thing.) What I learned from the CEO of Three Sigma is that he has been on the phone with Vudoo ownership within the day and that they are planning to continue selling Vudoo .22lr actions and rifles after the move to OK. Furthermore, as many know, Three Sigma also manufactures the same .22lr action for MPA for their Matrix Pro Rimfire rifle and that relationship is also ongoing.

Of course, Vudoo and MPA are Three Sigma's customers so he did not go further into their buisness relationship. I did ask if he ever intended to sell direct to the public and, unsurprisingly given they are a pretty large scale aerospace manufacturer, that is not a buisness model they are interested in. So, you can expect to continue to see Vudoo type .22lr actions come out of Three Sigmas shop and be sold through Vudoo and MPA.

Obviously, I am less than impressed with the way Vudoo seems to be handeling the move, their former employees, and their communications with their customers, especially those with currently ongoing orders. Their PR, if they didn't fire all those people, also evidently has a complete lack of basic google alerts as they are blowing up and have issued no response at all. I also don't love when "investors" show up anywhere as a general rule. However, I do not anticipate an extended time where you won't be able to buy these actions with the quality of manufacture the Three Sigma is putting in to them, a quality that, from what I have seen, has been maintained despite all the turbluance on the retail side.

SOLD Microtech Socom Elite $225

Microtech Socom Elite ,,glas breaker end
manual not automatic
Sent priority mail

Zelle,, shipping is included.add for insurance
check,,USPS money order held to clear



Features:

Stonewashed drop point blade.
Dual thumb stud openers.
Black aluminum handle with texured inlays.
Liner lock mechanism.
Stainless steel pocket clip.
Description:



As NIB


Taken out for pictures
Never used
Payment
Zelle,,check ,, USPS money order

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Silencer Central, if true Phuck them!

It costs a ton of money to lease the land, hire staff, build the building, outfit the building and train the staff and yet McDonald's still sells $8 Happy Meals. The neighboring county has a population of 60K people and there are 6 of them along with multiple other fast food establishments.

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February 23, 1996: William Bonin, who had once been an eldritch specter only known as the "Freeway Killer" and prowled the highways of the West Coast murdering 21+ men and boys whom he lured into his van offering free rides, water, and snacks, was finally taken to the "Train Station" by the California Department of Corrections at San Quentin Prison to board the long black train with a mournful whistle on a set of tracks with no beginning or end...

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It's hard to beat the mpx all around for me but the MP5 will always be king of the hill.
That's the inconvenient truth I'm reluctant to accept. Out of the box it needs an upgraded trigger, handguard, and optics rail just to be competitive with modern weapons. Call me one of the poors, but I just don't see $2,500.

I'm leaning towards the 8" Banshee. Maybe the new FE models will have solved issues from the previous generation, or maybe the SP5 clones are worth a look.

Many around here who took the jab now showing same.

"The scientific community has been left stunned after a group of leading scientists presented evidence..."

Well, a study of ten people that had a vaccine, five who felt symptoms the first time (fatigue, soreness, etc) vs five that didn't feel symptoms post vaccine. Measured skin temp and heart-rate (not even an EKG). Which scientist were stunned? Did they wear the halters to measure how much they were stunned?

I get it if the regular medical society suppresses the "truth". But really, if you are going to do a study.....do a real study and present the whole research paper - not just a 100-word abstract.
Remember that there were hot lots of the vax and saline placebo lots. Kinda impossible for any conclusive independent study of the vax side effects when only the vax makers knew where the hot lots were concentrated. The general public was the clinical trial.

.510 whisper vs .50 110 win

Came in for a break, I just finished 200, 510 Whisper pcs of brass ready to be sized.
I have a total of 300 completed.
Cost is about 53 to 63 cents each. And a few hours of time.
It's actually a relatively easy process.
Mechanize it and it goes faster.
Probably make close to a thousand pcs and be done with it.

Today too many new cartridges have been introduced, look at all the Hornady cases in 22, 6mm, 6 5mm, 30, etc, then Weatherby, then Federal, then Nosler, then Winchester

Many of them cover the same area, to ridiculous redundancy...especially in 30, and now 6.5.

You can not get brass for any of them at my local gun store.
I laugh at them, you can buy the rifle, but there is no ammo for it...let alone extra brass casings.

I make alot of brass cases for obsolete and cartridges that no brass is available for....which it most of them, 338 RCM, 350 Rem Mag, 35 Rem, 6mm ARC, 30 Rem, 351WSL, 401 WSL, 30 RAR, 8.6 Blackout, and a host of others including making hybrid cases for 308, 6.5CM, 358 Win, and 8.6 Blackout.

I heard Starline was 6 yrs behind in brass orders, they could easily make 510 Whisper brass, but they are years behind already.

Too many varieties of cases to make with limited resources to make them...so ya gotta do it yourself if you want to shoot most anything today.

I have just started testing the .510 Whisper, as I spent so much time getting the 8.6 Blackout to where it is a useful cartridge now with the 6.5 twist.

The 510 whisper is very useful, just as it is, its a pretty good design.
It will shoot long heavy bullets over 1000 grs in subs or 350 gr copper bullets to 2450 fps and 4700 ft/ lbs of energy for large game, or shoot clear through an elephant if desired.
The 50 bmg APITs will pop at muzzle velocities as low as 780 fps range, 100% at 100 yds, and are fun to shoot.
I shot more of those than any other bullet. ...double the speed and one starts to notice the recoil.

So today, if ya wait for others to make your brass, you'll have a long wait.


What brass are you using to convert?

I just bought a rem700 long action 338 a guy rebarreled to 510.

Night Vision Athlon Cronus CL35 640 - first impressions, first hunt

Another point to consider when we get to a certain quality level is - while to my eye the NOX had a "better" image, by the numbers its NETD is 50 mk netd whereas the Athlon is 25 mk.

It wouldn't surprise me, across a variety of temp ranges and scenarios, if there were times the Cronus was the preferred unit. If you haven't used thermal much, pardon the bunny trail, but it isn't a static performance. I'm blessed with a place in Texas where we get to do the thing, and it always amazes me when one night it is amazingly crisp and you can see the spots on a bobcat and the next night the humidity has it like you're looking at a cloud. With that said you will come to find that you have to adjust to the conditions - settings like the contrast, brightness, various palettes, etc etc - once you've got some real time behind a unit, you'll be surprised at how much you can refine it to your taste.

We have a Burris BTS50 that is one one of my sons guns. Pardon me for being "the poors", but I've done my best to outfit a rifle team between myself and 3 sons. We've had it 2.5 years and I've got a fair amount of time on that 400x300 sensor. They didn't publish the NETD on those so its probably a hair over 50 at least, or else they'd have advertised it was better. I said all that to say - a buddy bought a fancy new AGM 650, a $5500+ unit, and he had plenty of thermal experience but it was his first trip with that unit. The first couple nights, I was spotting and identifying as fast as he did. Once he got some time on the AGM it certainly improved and is great unit - I'm not disparaging it - I'm saying time to use and explore the menu across conditions can make a really significant difference,

I prefer my NOX, I prefer my Zeus, I prefer the Steiner but if the Burris is what's at hand, I don't fret. It has killed pigs and yotes out to 250ish yards with boring regularity.

Have I mentioned that the laser range finder is a huge benefit and major game changing aspect of the optic on the Athlon? I've got ~10 years of night vision and thermal under my belt and that is BY FAR the most significant upgrayyedd I've seen.

What did you do in the reloading room today?

Ask him what he'd charge to do another. I'm struggling with my 120 being very fussy where I put my 419 cup. After about 60 throws it starts to have issues.
I was having similar problems last winter.

This set up started out as a V2 AutoTrickler, as evidenced by the Stop/Start labels that I put on the scale cover back in 2019. This was before the V3 Bluetooth upgrade that came later.

Anyhow, to make a long story even longer, last fall my scale started acting weird once in awhile, usually in the middle of a long session that involved more than fifty charges being thrown.

It would begin to refuse to go back to zero between throws occasionally. Not plus or minus .02, but sometimes as much as .04 or .06 off of zero.

I’d stop the target weight, make sure there wasn’t powder where it shouldn’t be, fiddle around with the cup, re zero the scale and calibrate it.

Things would return to normal until the next hiccup. Eventually it began to happen more frequently.

I emailed Adam and went back and forth with him and Laura and we decided my power transformer was going bad, as evidenced by the craziness mid session and subsequent return to normal after screwing around with it for 10 minutes or so, allowing the transformer to cool off.

While I waited for the new transformer to get here from Canada, Laura suggested I try the transformer that originally came with the scale and it worked.

They also said they’d recently changed vendors for the transformers.

The original AFX transformer worked well enough until I got my official new vendor transformer from Canada.

You might want to try a transformer.
You’ll get it faster from C&E.

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SOLD KRG whiskey 3. Rem700 SA RH

Early generation. Comes with spigot mount and pic rail. A bit of heat rash on butt pad from being in drag bag. $750 obo shipped.

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