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Luka · Jun 15, 2025

Hello.
Does anyone have any information?
338 LM Barrel Thread Pitch : 3/4x24 or 5/8x24?

Shootin25 · Jun 15, 2025

Pain92 said:
Those are nice looking man! I’d definitely be interested if you decide to go full swing

Thanks! Not sure it’ll ever be full swing, but definitely willing to make some on a limited basis for those who are interested. Have a few blanks cut.

This one is done besides Cerakote…
Kinda like it raw, but going to leave it up to him….

The beauty is making them specific so they don’t look “universal”…. Can be almost any size, with any hole pattern.

jbuck88 · Jun 15, 2025

I don't know about this, haven't looked and don't really care to either. However, the cost as stated probably includes a bunch of $ that was already going to be spent anyways. The military was going to be paid yesterday wether there was a parade or not. Same goes for the rest of the personal id guess.

jmp1 · Jun 15, 2025

Barneybdb said:
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That's a great wat to get protected and served.

mark5pt56 · Jun 15, 2025

Just saw this as I think I'm finally going to do a 16" .223 in the Screech Owl with an Origin action. But for you with the RAR.

https://jtacindustries.com/ruger-american/

Lange Carabine · Jun 15, 2025

dms416 · Jun 15, 2025

DemonicLemming said:
DD design always seemed like a complicated solution searching for a simple problem to fix.

Granted this off-shoot of the DD RIS (which has 6x larger bolts instead of 4x) is more time consuming to put on, it's not that bad.

I had the DDM4 (quad version of the MFR) rail on a Mk12 build and on a few other guns. The Mk12 especially never gave me any problems with torque/impact shift. Pretty handy rails in the long, long ago before keymod, mlok and all the other 1-off shit.

338LM_Sniper · Jun 15, 2025

This is a Hell of a Deal on a $3100 dollar ATACR.

This may be going on my AX50 if it doesn't sell soon so this may be your Last Chance.

spife7980 · Jun 15, 2025

GS455 said:
Yea, this is kinda where I'm at.

Now, if you’re going to reload heavier bullets in good brass a good 223 is awesome. It’s very much at the opposite end of cheap plinking fodder though.

GrantB · Jun 15, 2025

Maple One said:
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Said no bird ever, it should read I’ll pour it all out on the ground and eat 3 for your toy.

Yankee88 · Jun 15, 2025

ohiofarmer · Jun 15, 2025

To the top

Yankee88 · Jun 15, 2025

sirhrmechanic · Jun 15, 2025

kthomas said:
Israel is not a friend of the USA.

They are a leach that drags us into needless wars that are against US interests.

Fuck Israel and the Middle East.

Nations don't have friends. They have interests. -- Churchill.

We have interests. And some of them lie in Israel.

Sirhr

kthomas · Jun 15, 2025

sirhrmechanic said:
While folks endlessly bring up the Liberty...

Let's see... We should nuke Japan again over the Panay Incident.

Gas North Korea for the USS Pueblo.

Smart bomb China for the Hainan Island incident... Were they rammed our plane and then wouldn't give it back until they had dismantled it.

And certainly the Germans have not paid for the Lusitania yet... so we ought to firebomb dresden again.

Oh and let's not forget the Soviets shooting down KAL 007 and killing a US Congressman in the process (not that a Congressman was any great loss)

Then again The USS Vincennes shot down Iranian Flight 655...

The US Army Air Corps 'Accidentally' Bombed Switzerland about 75 times in WW2. Oops.

An FB111 Put a smart bomb through the window of the French Embassy in Tripoli in the '80s (I thought that showed some real style... since France would not let the US fly over its airspace to pummel Moammar's tents.)

Oh and I seem to remember we also put a smart bomb into the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Oops... I think we had to apologize for that one.

And there was that bad day in 1950 when USAF planes mistook a Soviet Airforce Base for a North Korean air force base... and blew the shit out of it. That was kind of a big oops...

And who can forget the time we dropped three H-bombs on Spain, which exploded 1000 pounds each of conventional explosives, scattering a shit ton of Plutonium all over a fishing village... There was that. (Not to mention dropping one in South Carolina.) One safety away from turning a big chunk of Spain into a new Gulf... (Gulf of LeMay?) Same with South Carolina. That would have sucked!

Then there was the time that a guy with a wrench and no dummy cord on the socket almost turned Arkansas into a smoking hole.... Oops.

So... endlessly braying on about the Liberty is just stupid. In the Fog of War... stuff happens. Israel had NO reason to deliberatly attack a US ship as it was looking for US Assistance in the Six Day war... and deliberately attacking the Liberty would have jeopardized getting aid from LBJ. Moreover, the Liberty was an old US "Henry Kaiser" Liberty ship and hundreds had been sold surplus after WW2. They were used as tramp steamers and military ships and fishing boats all over the world. It was a lightly-disguised Intelligence-gathering ship... and easily mistaken for a number of the same types of ships being used by Egypt and other navies... Liberty did not look like a state-of-the-art U.S. Ship and was believed to be a threat. The 'old beat up' look of Liberty was part of its 'spy trawler' cover.

So while tragic... there is no basis for endlessly beating up Israel for the Liberty. We've been just as careless, reckless and accident-prone as anyone else has. Weapons are a dangerous business. Weapons in and around war zones... are inherently at risk. As are their crews. Sucked for the folks killed on Liberty. They were no less casualties of the Cold War than hundreds of others who served and defended and were in the line of fire when/where the Cold War went hot. Or when shit happened.

Sirhr

Israel is not a friend of the USA.

They are a leach that drags us into needless wars that are against US interests.

Fuck Israel and the Middle East.

Longshot231 · Jun 15, 2025

sirhrmechanic · Jun 15, 2025

DarnYankeeUSMC said:
Dude is from Asheville. The land of Birkenstock, wypepl with dreads and smelling of patchouli. Camp fires, strumming guitar and folk songs on the Appalachian trail abound.

Back in the '80's that place was great! More available poon-tang than you could shake a stick at! Loved driving up there weekends. Spent a lot of time in the woods up there! Some really cool places. Just had to watch out for the pot farms put out by the locals. Place was like "Copperhead Road" in some areas.

I was there about 5 years ago and the place is a leftist shit-hole and the only poon tang was dude-on-dude and ugly unshaved-pit Army-boot-wearing Subaru drivers. No wonder they got flooded like Gomorrah.

Well, what are you gonna do...

Kiba · Jun 15, 2025

CStroud said:
Yeh so I got the medium bridge, but unsure if I want to cut it that far back now as all my barrels are 18”+. Decisions decisions.

I would keep it as is and start calling your rifle James William Bottomtooth III.

Short-bus · Jun 15, 2025

mvphilly said:
He should have went right for Waltz. Never mind the little fish.

Victims purpose could have been to send a message. I'm sure it sent a message through the rest of the party of what will happen if you don't toe the party line. They were the ones that didn't toe the line, and the world saw what happened to 'em. Doesn't matter if they were small fish in a big pond, the message was clear.

As for the suspect, he was either smuggled out of the country (not likely because living men can still talk), or he was liquidated, or he'll be found by LEO's on the DNC payroll and they'll do the liquidating when he resists. Either way, he'll never be given the opportunity to talk.

LRRPF52 · Jun 15, 2025

Mike Casselton said:
All of this reminds me of the average golfer. (AKA a hacker)

Golfer: Man, my game sucks ass. I can't keep my drive in the fairway.

Salesman: What you need is a new set of these clubs. They hit 25 yards further with a 6% increase in accuracy.

Golfer: You mean they'll help my game?

Salesman: Of course they can. And, with some (a lot of) range practice, you'll be hitting them right down the middle of the fairway.

Golfer: Fuck yeah. I'll take them!

Salesman: Don't forget these new shoes with orthotic soles, and you'll want these new spin regulated balls. They will steer themselves back to center with an off hit. And a $550.00 bag to carry them.

Golfer: Sold. Do you take Visa?

Like the golfing hack, the Army (brass) is trying to buy hits on the enemy with new equipment instead of taking the time, effort and money to actually teach troops how to hit where they aim. (If they are in fact aiming)

On top of that, there's the profit to companies and potential retirement jobs for those who get contracts awarded.

I'm not saying we need to go back to the A-1.
I do think having optics and suppressors is a huge benefit.

Not understanding how to use the supplied equipment is the issue...

I don’t even think US Army senior officers are thinking about hits on target when making decisions about small arms.

They already know that small arms play almost zero role in Full Scale Combat Operations, so they don’t really give a rip. If one of the lower self-esteemed Generals wants to whore himself out to some small arms company, they couldn’t care less as there aren’t any numbers that excite them after seeing where the meat actually is, both in terms of actual explosive ordnance delivery in-theater, as well as big money.

Small arms are just not something that matters to them in the big picture. As we see with the M7 and M250, it manifested as a total piece of trash this developmental cycle, and nobody in a decision-making capacity cares. So now Joe will have to embrace the suck some more, especially Mortar teams and Weapons Squad, along with RTOs.

It will be fun to watch how all the attachments deal with it when they show up with their M4A1s and SOPMOD carbines, like USAF, FOs, Combat Engineers, Drone Operators, K-9 Handlers, and other enablers.

The maneuver organization will have to supply ammo to attachments, so they’ll probably complain and say those guys need M7s too. USAF will tell them to pound sand, so they will have to provide 5.56 in the supply line either way.

SOCOM has already made it clear they want nothing to do with NGSW after the gross negligence and failures that plague the systems. This indicates it might last a few years until the obvious sinks in and it’s canned, or they continue to double-down on it as another set of weapons for limited combat arms use.

The ammo cost is going to kill live fire training though.

TurdFerguson · Jun 15, 2025

I counted it up its about 1320 rounds. They also have a packed case of 30 carbine in bandoleers with stripper clips.

Centurion123 · Jun 15, 2025

Looking dang good. How are you liking the mk8?

sirhrmechanic · Jun 15, 2025

kthomas said:
If you're talking about the USS Liberty, that was unequivocally a deliberate act by Israel.

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While folks endlessly bring up the Liberty...

Let's see... We should nuke Japan again over the Panay Incident.

Gas North Korea for the USS Pueblo.

Smart bomb China for the Hainan Island incident... Were they rammed our plane and then wouldn't give it back until they had dismantled it.

And certainly the Germans have not paid for the Lusitania yet... so we ought to firebomb dresden again.

Oh and let's not forget the Soviets shooting down KAL 007 and killing a US Congressman in the process (not that a Congressman was any great loss)

Then again The USS Vincennes shot down Iranian Flight 655...

The US Army Air Corps 'Accidentally' Bombed Switzerland about 75 times in WW2. Oops.

An FB111 Put a smart bomb through the window of the French Embassy in Tripoli in the '80s (I thought that showed some real style... since France would not let the US fly over its airspace to pummel Moammar's tents.)

Oh and I seem to remember we also put a smart bomb into the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Oops... I think we had to apologize for that one.

And there was that bad day in 1950 when USAF planes mistook a Soviet Airforce Base for a North Korean air force base... and blew the shit out of it. That was kind of a big oops...

And who can forget the time we dropped three H-bombs on Spain, which exploded 1000 pounds each of conventional explosives, scattering a shit ton of Plutonium all over a fishing village... There was that. (Not to mention dropping one in South Carolina.) One safety away from turning a big chunk of Spain into a new Gulf... (Gulf of LeMay?) Same with South Carolina. That would have sucked!

Then there was the time that a guy with a wrench and no dummy cord on the socket almost turned Arkansas into a smoking hole.... Oops.

So... endlessly braying on about the Liberty is just stupid. In the Fog of War... stuff happens. Israel had NO reason to deliberatly attack a US ship as it was looking for US Assistance in the Six Day war... and deliberately attacking the Liberty would have jeopardized getting aid from LBJ. Moreover, the Liberty was an old US "Henry Kaiser" Liberty ship and hundreds had been sold surplus after WW2. They were used as tramp steamers and military ships and fishing boats all over the world. It was a lightly-disguised Intelligence-gathering ship... and easily mistaken for a number of the same types of ships being used by Egypt and other navies... Liberty did not look like a state-of-the-art U.S. Ship and was believed to be a threat. The 'old beat up' look of Liberty was part of its 'spy trawler' cover.

So while tragic... there is no basis for endlessly beating up Israel for the Liberty. We've been just as careless, reckless and accident-prone as anyone else has. Weapons are a dangerous business. Weapons in and around war zones... are inherently at risk. As are their crews. Sucked for the folks killed on Liberty. They were no less casualties of the Cold War than hundreds of others who served and defended and were in the line of fire when/where the Cold War went hot. Or when shit happened.

Sirhr

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