Drones. SECDEF just an initiative to procure and deploy. American made small drones into any battle space. Look at UMAC and KTOS.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dro...ent=safari&dlnr=1&sei=ICRxaNq3MsmjkPIP7tDs8Q0

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VargmatII said:

I had a Razor 1-10x for about 1.5 years. It is not a bad scope for what it is, but there are a few things that eventually made me sell it.

1, the semi transperant center dot and segmented cirkle is very detrimental to me. I found it very hard to use for precision shooting.
A solid black reticle is so much better.

2, the optical performance on the top of the magnification range is just to much for it to handle. Contrast really suffers along with the eyebox. Several much cheaper 2-10x, 2.5-10x and similar are so much better in this regard. But they dont have that sweet 1x, which is fantastic in the Razor by the way.

3, the turrets. Even if they are capped and not something you are supposed to twist and turn on a daily basis, they are still pretty mediocre.

A few months ago I switched to a Nightforce NX8 1-8x and it is so much better in every way. Maybe you should have a look at that?

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In an odd way, I felt a bit relieved when I saw this. For a while, I thought that I might be crazy. When shopping for an LPVO, I watched all of the videos from guys that I considered to be the least shillish and tried the PA PLXc, touted as being the best LPVO out now, the ATACR, Eotech, etc. I spent an insane, to me, amount of money looking for the perfect LPVO for me. Some I was able to return because just looking through them and getting some hands on time immediately told me they weren't for me and I didn't even mount them. Others, I sold at a loss.

What I landed on is the NX8. I initially avoided it because of all of the negative reviews. I only tried it because I ran out of options. It was the only thing left to try. Yes, it has some downsides, but as a total package, in terms of robustness of build, glass quality, features and price, it was a winner for me.

I think that LPVO tech really reached its limits at 8x. Going 10x is pushing it. You just can't get around the physics. If you really want to make yourself sick, take that $1500+ FFP 1-8x LPVO you bought, run a few thousand rounds through it and get used to it. Become one with it. Then grab another similar rig with something like a SFP Credo 1-6 and start running drills with it. Everything is just easier.

All the rage right now is more power and FFP, but I think LPVOs peaked at the SFP 6x. Man, if Nightforce had just taken their little 1-4x NXS and advanced it to a 1-6 instead of doing the NX8, they would have knocked it out of the park.

I'll tell you what almost had me hitting the add to cart button is the limited run 1-6 Razor with the etched reticle. I may still. What keeps me from doing it is that Ive grown to love the form factor of my NX8. A smidgen bigger than a TA11 and only 26 ounces, including the scope, Nightforce mount and piggyback dot.

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jmcarrol said:

they sure are pricey

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nothing about a 338 Laupa is cheap. But that did shock me a little.

Word to the wise cat lovers:
Never go pheasant hunting in the upper Midwest with local yokles. Their animosity towards feral cats (and raptors) is legendary. I guess that's sort of a farmer/animal control thing, but I have stories...

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Ms. Freya is my OSHA safety supervisor and makes sure I store all my chemicals and powder properly in the reloading room.

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I also have a reloading helper, although she's more of a process supervisor than a storage inspector.



I found her abandoned at only a couple weeks old taped up inside a paper grocery bag and left near the house. Once again, people suck. She's 10 now.

Here's how big she was when I found her. Not sure how long she had been inside the bag.

Just sayin'...

steve123 said:

Most of those Crypto's I bought at the recent crash went up, but faltered, and I sold them at a decent enough profit. I made around 20% off a relatively small investment of $8000. Then took all those funds and layered into XRP when it was lower at times so I have quite a bit now, as well as a fair amount of Bitcoin/BTC. XRP hit $2.42 today and BTC went to $104,000-ish so I've been pulling in some embarrassingly high profits(for me that is).

Wouldn't be surprised if XRP went to high 2.50's in the next few weeks. If XRP acquires Circle it could break the $3.40 record and then it'll likely go parabolic possibly 3x=ing what I have now before years end.
If not I'll have my stop loss set in case of bad news, let XRP settle, then buy in again. Why?? because Ripple/XRP is 1000 times faster and 1000 times cheaper than SWIFT is at digital funds transfer and more and more institutions are adopting it day by day.

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From the time of this post above XRP went down again below my buy-in so these funds were stagnant for months. Long story short I missed some great opportunities to sell and rebuy at a lower price. I learned that exchange companies will manipulate the price dips to go hugely below what the lowest price should logically be to set off everyone's stop losses thus triggering sell fees every time it happens. So I would either set my stop losses lower or since I'm constantly watching the market I mostly quit using the stop loss feature.

Right now XRP crypto is going nutz! I kept buying more on the dips and now enjoying the rips. It went from $1.96 in early April when I bought some and is at $2.83 now(!!!correction it went up to $2.96 in the last 10 minutes!!!). However my combined buy-in altogether is in the low 2's.

Not only that but Silver is almost $39 an ounce. I quit buying Gold for the most part because it's already high, this vs silver which could double this year or next. I'm already $10 up per ounce.

It sucks when things are down!!!, and so victorious when they are up!!!

It’s a PIA to build a 1-10 compared to none 1 power scopes. I don’t see a good cheap 1-10 coming out by anyone soon. You can find bad quality 1-10’s from China but they all seem to suck right now

The Razor 1-10 is a great scope.

If your looking for cheaper try the PST 2-10

It is either in MRAD or MOA

TheBigCountry said:

that’s not very Christian of you Howie. WWJD?

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Pretty sure manger-man would have had no problem bull-whipping the shiznitt out of someone who dumped a box of kittens on a freeway.

Sirhr

DocRDS said:

Apologies for the double: I know this isn't a big Harry Potter crowd, but the aforementioned "Olivander" was originally Minerva (I had Harry Potter aged kids at the time) and I always told my fam, the cat[wand] chooses you, not the other way around. When they called and said she was a he and did we still want to adopt, I told them, it didn't matter--the cat chose us! Thus he was renamed Olivander....

He still doesn't GAF!

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Awesome cat name for exactly the reason you state... the cat chooses you!

Sirhr

64-2 circa 1981... Don't want to date myself too, but let's just say I'm only 1 year older than this gun. This was originally my grandfather's gun.

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Seed tick said:

I need some advice. I adopted a lab pup around Christmas. He is 8 months old and is already 70 plus pounds. He is a handful and smart. I don’t know shit about training a dog properly. My wife about shits when I talk about sending him off for some basic training. I think it’s necessary. Thoughts?

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Most areas have training classes and groups that you can join for training. Doing the training (at least initially) WITH your dog will have a ton of benefits. Not the least of which you will both understand each other.

For 'advanced' training if you are, for example, going to train as a gundog or for retrieving, etc.. then there are places that will be a great finishing school.

But for the initial training, ask at your vet or animal shelter who has dog training classes. Also go online and find a 'breed group' for your dog. And ask there about trainers in your area. There are a lot of folks out there who do classes and they are often very inexpensive.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Sirhr

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Lawless said:

Just sent more money to the IRS

Post something to console my grief.

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Gunfighter14e2 said:

Sorry, I'm not believing anything that comes out of his mouth ever again,...not that I ever trusted much anyway.

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Yes total bullshit.
They just think we are all too stupid to see through all this bullshit. We pay for NATO, therefore we pay for those weapons.

Trump better straighten up. He's crashing.

It's looking more and more like someone has something on him.
Once he has totally lost our support they will eat him alive.

Just sent more money to the IRS

Post something to console my grief.