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Maggie’s THE "NOM NOM NOM" THREAD

Snuby642
Good eats @Smokeshot

Skirt 🥩 steak has the best flavor of all beef in my opinion.

These days increasingly harder to get hold of.

When I was a young boy in Kansas I pointed it out to my dad that it was on sale.
Over 5 decades later I still remember his response, "it's tough, chewy and only Mexican's know how to cook it".

Then we moved to Texas. Lol

Hard core skirt steak cooks showed me how to cook it straight on the coals of a good fire by fanning off the ash and laying it strait on quickly about 2 minutes per side .

That is my favorite way to cook it .
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When does the winning start?

E. Bryant
Charmingmander said:
Lot of people still haven't figured out we've been had and that the government with Trump's help is moving us even closer to the dystopian future we have feared for decades. He does what his masters want. Not what the people want.
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Yep. It doesn't take much critical thinking to understand how one goes from JD Vance to Peter Thiel to Palintar to universal surveillance with "no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the American regime" (Vance's own words).

But conservatives are the ones who voluntarily bent over for government surveillance and LE overreach during the war on terror, and I'm confident they'll do it again.
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Aero Solus stock barrel change is absolute war

Rubicon Precision
Schütze said:
My best guess is that you aren’t using a viper barrel vice?
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Correct. I’m using one I made in 2008 that uses raw aluminum half bushings.

And I agree, a vee vise is not a good choice for removing factory barrels. Everyone tries to put some sort of material between the vise and barrel when clean, dry raw aluminum works awesome and doesn’t hurt any finishes. It may transfer a little aluminum color over to a parkerized or cerakoted barrel, but it wipes right off with any gun oil. I think other issues are people’s vises aren’t mounted to something that absolutely won’t move and are wasting a lot of energy flexing their bench, etc. And finally, they’re probably crushing the receiver over the threads by over tightening their receiver wrench. Tikkas are great since they have a nice flat. There’s no need to go more than just snug on the wrench.
Edit: One more thing, the vise needs to be right up against the receiver so you’re not wasting energy flexing the barrel.
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Solus or Origin for first custom build?

dk17hmr
Rob01 said:
Trigger hanger is preferred? I would never buy an action that had one. Whenever you see people having trigger issues always seems to be a trigger hanger action a majority of the times.
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Ok.

I haven't had an issue with a trigger that could be tied to a hanger. But only have a couple actions with them. So I guess I don't have enough experience to have an opinion on weather they are preferred (which I didn't actually say)

I put a Bix n Andy in my Solus when I first got it, and it didn't work properly so I assumed it was the hanger interface. I tried the same trigger in a couple of my Rem 700s and one of my Origins and it did the same thing, fire when the safety was pushed forward. I sent it back, allegedly it was rebuild, tested and sent back to me. It did exactly the same thing on multiple actions again. It's in a ziplock bag on my bench as a reminder to buy trigger techs.
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Bedding question

XP1K
mtwarych said:
I had a Ruger ultra-lite 257Roberts that I was having accuracy problems with. I know, what did I expect, right?

Anyway, I did the bedding and the rifle was better but not as good as I liked. All I wanted out of the rifle was something near 1MOA. It is a hunting rifle and 1MOA was more than good enough for 300yds or less.

After becoming disgusted with the rifle, I needed to ask for ideas for what could be wrong with the rifle. a forum member told me about how Rugers are very torque sensitive.

I followed the procedure of tightning the trigger guard screw to 10lbs torque and then started torquing the lug screw.

I was told to start around 25 foot pounds on the lug screw and shoot a group.

It worked. My 257 Roberts requires a torque of 15 ft lbs for the rear guard screw and 45 foot lbs for the lug screw.

Maybe checking your rifle's manufacture's torque specifications? Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree?
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most of the time I always end up at or around 55-60 in-lbs on my 700's. I have played with the torque on a few of them and different torque values will yield different results.

I haven't tried that yet with this one. Thanks for bringing that up.
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When does the winning start?

168BTHPM
Terry Cross said:
I.C.E. has been operating their Alexandria Staging Facility at England Airpark, about 2,000 yards from my shop.
It serves as a major hub for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, particularly for deportation flights. Almost all of the deportations flying out of here are via four 737 contract birds chartered and crewed by the Geo Group which also supplies the personnel to run the main facility. They have already been really busy.

Tuesday I was coming through the back side of the airpark within sight of that facility. I noticed two C-17s from McChord AFB parked up on the civil air side. No biggie as that is not unusual to see Mil traffic coming through unrelated to ICE. But this afternoon, I saw crew unloading personal gear at both birds like they might be prepping to depart. Again, no biggie.

About an hour later I drive back through to find both C-17s with rear ramps down, several ICE buses, ICE personnel and groups of detainees being deported with their minimal personal belongings. I stopped to take phone pics so I could quiz a couple of buddies that are still connected there.


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Here is what I was told.
The Geo Group is continuing to run four 737s with Geo Group contractors running 5 teams, 7 days a week.

In addition (here is where I was happily surprised) Military, ICE personnel and 40 US Air Marshalls TDY are running two C-130s, multiple C-17s and even occasional C-5As if the size of the load and the destination airfield can warrant it.

I had heard varying reports of Yes this was happening as well as reports of No Way are they going to use Mil assets for this job.

Considering the massive numbers of illegals being scooped up and pushed into the system by ICE across the US, there was zero chance the existing contractors could have the band width to move them out of country any time soon. So I am feeling pretty good that additional resources are being brought on line to sustain the push.

Not seeing much if anything about this in the news but they are at least trying to make things happen in spite of all the squealing and crying by the socialist public and the commie officials.
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They should let some of those reporters from CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and Al Jazira imbed with them as they deliver those loads. Then have a snafu at the destination and leave the reporters there too.
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Maggie’s What are you drinking right now!?

91Eunozs
ColbyLang said:
Only Luxardo for me at home. They’re worth the $20
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Yup, same for me for proper mixed drinks like an Old Fasioned. These cheap(ish) dark cherries from Costco are surprisingly good in mixed drinks too, but I only use Luxardo in my Old Fashioned’s.

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Regular maraschino cherries are better for whiskey sours though, IMHO.
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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

EddieNFL
Dirty D said:
The MOAB was tested at Eglin but produced at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant.

Fun fact: every weekday in the town of McAlester you will hear a distant explosion right at noon. The ammo plant has to dispose of expired ordnance on pretty much a daily basis in their blast pit.
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That’s why I said original. Developed and tested at Eglin. Had friends on the team. Was miles away from range 70 and the building shook.

The terrain in the pic looks like that around the HERD facility.
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