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An interesting Forgotten Weapons episode

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US Infantry have no mission set in China. Maybe SOF elements securing airfields in Pacific and some dismounts pulling perimeter security for Air Defense units. USAF and USMC already do that organically within AD units though.

Air power is where it’s at, and modern tactical combat aircraft are now strategic assets, as long as they’re actually modern and not some imitation garbage.

Because of the reach of modern long range weapons, the skirmish area is so far away from any ground combatants, as to relegate legacy force structures to no real mission set.

Carrier battle groups have multiple layers of early warning and defense, so they can adjust their stand-off ranges appropriately.

USMC artillery is adjusting to a new force modernization posture where they get sling-loaded from island-to-island under cover of F-35Cs and F-35Bs, which can perform more strike-centric missions that are typically USAF and USN territory.

US Army is going more to really long range missiles, and that’s the biggest segment of the new Army defense budget. Army is at the bottom of the priority list, as it should be. I was pleasantly surprised to see that emphasis in the new budget, not retard programs like MBTs and legacy artillery or silly tracked armored vehicles that are nothing but targets on the modern battlefield.

The world has not yet seen how 5th Gen systems perform with the leash totally taken off. There have been a lot of smaller strike missions in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, with Stealth ISR conducted within Iran’s airspace as if they owned the place.

Bump it up!!!

SONIC SAAMI said:

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that is seriously shut up and take my money

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Got this at about 12,500' up Engineer's Pass in Colorado last summer. Matches my manganese ironspot brick patio.

Aftermath said:

I'd be using a chronograph and re-evaluate.

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Velocity would be a possible issue if the test was done at longer ranges. Test simply compares the point of impact change compared to the scope adjustment. No matter if is a 22creed or 22 pellet gun that test would be the same if you get the drift

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oldrifleman said:

Is the velocity of the round the same old gun to new?

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Not really a velocity issue. Simply shifting the point of aim at 100yrds and it’s not lining up

Slight improvement today, cold bore was the same as yesterday @ 10 O'clock. I sure wish I didn't have that one round on the first group target. I'm pretty sure it was the first shot of the string

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130 lb, socially repressed pacifists playing “knock out”? What could go wrong?

W54/XM-388 said:

Kind of like the fictional Elbonians when they started getting bombed their GDP went way up because of the scrap metal value from parts of exploded bombs.

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Some countries we bomb into a new technological era, actually elevating them.

UKDslayer said:

Except God made a covenant never to flood the earth again. However He did promise to turn lakes and rivers into blood as well as have an astroid wormwood hit, and fry 1/3.

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could well be. no matter your metaphysics,an asteroid hit or a huge geothermal event look kinda likely. planet has always been a bit unstable and it is a space bound target.

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They always work as tomato/bean stakes

Be funny to see one of these idiots do it to a 300lb sista

I guarantee the shoes, ear rings and wig would be gone in about 5 sec and he would be wishing he'd picked anyone else

Mudburner said:

What can you do with an old barrel? Just a suggestion...

I have taken pieces of old worn out mg barrels (example: Yugo AK/RPK which are not chrome lined) that are cut up and sold here in the US as scrap... and slice it in half lengthwise, hammer it flat, and make some sort of knife out of it. It is VERY hard steel. Just a suggestion.

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Actually, that's a cool-ass suggestion. I have a blacksmith right down the street.

Oh yeah, uh…

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Hairball said:

Most truck forums don’t recommend them. Yes, they breathe better but more crap gets past them.

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A while back I gutted the airbox and lightly filtered a 3.8. There’s no question that with better intake along with smoother exhaust, the results are noticeably better. However, this was primarily in Florida and up the midsection. No really high dust environments.