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The goat fuckers are exporting their sick practices to other countries too weak or too afraid to do something about it. BTW, it happens here as well.

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One of the premises behind the storyline of Cowboy Bebop is that no governments or state run military forces and law enforcement were interested in protecting innocent people from all the pirates and other lowlifes operating with impunity, so a privateer mercenary group was formed by a team of former private security, space truckers, and cargo ship mechanics who are proficient with weapons and knew intimately about just how things operate in the wastelands. The 'Cowboys' hunted down and terminated scumbags with extreme prejudice and later expanded their venture by posting and offering bounties on other wanted scum and letting other privateers with an adventurous streak take a shot at the bounty game.

If something like that is to start now, there will be a lot of folks who will eagerly join and do the needful to protect innocents everywhere, anywhere. Born too late to tame the actual Wild West, born too soon to be a space trucker... But bounty hunting has no time periods and is appropriate anywhere...

Older NightForce NXS 5.5-22x56mm vs. New Arken

I helped a friend mount 2 scopes today. I was taking an Arken off his 6.5cm, replacing it with a NF NX8. And the plan was to put his arken on a 300wm.
I mounted his arken originally, a few years ago. Everything was torqued and meticulously mounted. I go to take the arken off today and the rear ring base screws were not even hand tight. WTF?! The front ring base screws were still torqued.

In looking at the arken base clamp, it was cracked in half, causing the screws to be loose. I have never seen a base clamp break. Cheap ass shit. I don’t own any arken, and I never will.

I would take an old NXS over an arken any day. I’d call NF and see if they can put a zero stop in your scope. They still offer NXS scopes

Insurance on long gun ship

What’s a felony? Driving through certain states with a rifle in the car?

Ever hear of the FOPA (Firearms Owners Protection Act) of 1986? You should read up on it a little.

As long as the firearm is in a locked and secured case, including magazines and ammunition, federal law allows you to drive through any state.

I was more referring to an unlawful transfer without a dealer. I don’t know what states are in play with the OP, but that’s a problem in some places.

I’m not talking about just driving around with a rifle.

XM-3 on CMP, what’s the story behind these?

For the GB auction listing for XM3 S6550263, look at photos 36-44. The XM3 kit comes with the original takeoff barrel, which still has the original sniper paint on it that matches the sniper paint on the rifle. I've never seen something like this before, it's very unique and it might be the reason why someone chose it out of the pile at the CMP and took it home. I've never seen a loose USMC used XM3 barrel before.

IBA wanted to charge the Marines something like $2,500 to rebuild/rebarrel each USMC XM3, but the Marines thought that price was far too high and turned them down. This could have been an XM3 sent back to IBA as a test piece for rebuilding/rebarreling before the Corps declined to rebuild/rebarrel any other XM3's. Since the barrel tag says that it was removed from the rifle in 2014, this wouldn't be a recent rebarrel job. This is what makes the most sense to me.

Chris Wray's FBI buried substantiated intel showing China's plot to get Biden elected in 2020

The COVID outbreak itself was the deployment of the very weapon to get multiple and multinational deep state organs more power and control, as well as quell the Hong Kong situation which was turning into a full on boog at the eve of the outbreak. Nobody will ever forget the terror campaign that Chinese state actors put on in the first months of the outbreak, with choreographed scenes of people "vomiting blood", "hemorrhaging", and "dropping dead" on the streets and buses as if COVID was a highly contagious hemorrhagic virus. All fake as revealed later, and all of that to instill fear across the world and get full lockdowns pushed. There had been utterly no doubt since April 2020 that the Chicoms were meddling in the upcoming US elections. For themselves it was a grand scale test of their new nationwide social credit system and app-verification process for the use of all public services, and they WANTED us to be absorbed into it as well and the best way to do that would be through Biden, the weakest link in our leadership.

They may not want to control our domain and land directly, at least not at the moment, but the Chinese ultranationalists' vision for a new hi tech Chinese hegemony would be a vast entity like the Imperium from Warhammer or the brutal Combine from Half Life. A central bureaucracy controlling a spiderweb of satellite entities, each one still retaining their own cultures and ethnicities, but in total obedience to the ruling core and expanding the web by using these satellites to conduct more assimilations and acquisitions elsewhere. To them we would be just another hive making up their vast spiderweb. If we had surrendered our telecom and Internet infrastructure to Huawei under their promises of a "more secure and centralized provider", and our energy grid to the solar farms that they were trying to expand into here and Canada, we would have become part of the Combine. Swaths of the world under the Belt and Road Initiative like multiple Central Asian countries, Morocco, Algeria, parts of Italy etc are already completely reliant on Huawei to provide cell phone and Internet service.

Insurance on long gun ship

USPS with insurance. They wont loose it. Once the insurance is over like $500 they put it in a separate area thats locked. Shit always goes missing from UPS and Fedex. USPS employees are feds or contractors trying to become feds. Much less likely to fuck with your shit. Postal inspectors don't fuck around.

It will also be the cheapest option for your FFL to ship it. I bet $10K insurance would be less than $200 shipped.

You should lookup the new rules for shipping guns without an FFL. Its a pain in the dick. You are better off telling them its not a gun and just shipping to an FFL than declaring. I used to mail a ton of guns via USPS. Its not worth the bullshit anymore. Easier to drop off to my FFL and let her deal with it.


It is very easy through USPS for long guns. Just say it is going to an FFL and they should pack it right up. Some are ignorant. Just pull up the regs and they comply nicely.
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XM-3 on CMP, what’s the story behind these?

@USMCSGT0331 is S6550263 on your list? It wasn’t one of the CMP ones sold, but looks like it is one of the USMC XM3’s. Likely one of the rifles sold outside the auctions?

Yes, that serial number is on the USMC list, so that is definitely a real USMC used XM3 sniper rifle. And holy shit, that seller's prices for stuff is literally retarded!

48th highest XM3 serial number (the list starts at line 2, since line 1 is the title line):

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Long gong

Our experiments with different distances has been five stages:
100 Meters 3, 2, 1"
200 Meter Large 8, 6, 4"
200 Meter Small 6, 4, 3"
300 Meter Large 10, 8, 6"
300 Meter Small 8, 6, 4"

What I'd like to find are rectangular targets but hanging in a vertical orientation. D_M and another have horizontal sets, but the "luck" factor we'd like to minimize is elevation change from velocity.
I've always been skeptical of the whole long gong concept for exactly this reason. As much as people like to shoot long range, I feel like you'd be better of excepting the limitations of 22lr and just limit to 200 meters.

I think you could maybe reduce the smallest target on the 200m small set, but otherwise those first 3 stages all sound good.

EDIT: actually, playing around with WEZ in the AB Quantum app, a 2" target at 200m is just as difficult as a 4" one at 300m. So 3" is probably about right.