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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

What fight was this?
I gotta watch this!
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I took this Pic a few days after Kim Campbell flew her A-10 back to Al Jaber.
That's my buddy on the ground, they were in the process of repairing it until the depot team showed up and told them to box it up and send it home.
You used to be able to see it through the fence in the boneyard, fuselage on the ground and the wings laying next to it.

Hog hunting rifle choice

I may have posted in the wrong forum the first time…

Looking to do some hog hunting in for a day May/June at the Clinton House Plantation in SC. I am trying to decide which rifle to take or should I take both. I am planning to take an AR (mk12 clone 1:8 twist) to hunt with. Property allows 223/556. I'm reading hit or miss on the 556. Should I leave the AR and take a 3006, take both ect? I am assuming shots would be within 300 yards but need to call the outfitters to confirm.

If I go 556:
65 grain Sierra Game Kings
or
70 grain Hornady CX
or
Barnes TSX triple Shock 70 grains

Take the 3006
150 grain Hornady SST
or
165 Grain SBT Game Kings
or
180 grain Sierra Game King Game Changers
I'd go with a low recoil '06 load.
Faster recovery if a follow up shot is needed, more than adequate power.

Hog hunting rifle choice

Reloading your own I think is always better. Used to reload for my precision 308 bolt rifle but ARs bring new challenges. I’m (unfortunately or fortunately) at a point in my life where I value most my free time. Right now I can provide more for my family working than I can in my reloading room loading ammo. The Barnes factory ammo is “good enough” for what I’m trying to do on those weekends I can get away from work to do what I love.

Prayer Request Thread

Guys

Have some others on this and pls pray for a patient I had this last week and his family.
Cant share a name and guarantee you God knows.
Call him Eli’s Pt.

Close friend of my mom had her granddaughter go missing a couple days ago out in OR.
Apparently there are links on FB snd Instagram if you want to share around.

This is from her hometown AM radio

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Charter captain goes pirate in Florida

So it looks like he IS a stolen valor guy. Originally, the lawyer said he was a Ranger. Now he's saying he's a combat veteran. Any good lawyer would keep saying "Ranger" if it were true, because it sounds better.

Now he's saying he has a traumatic brain injury. How does that happen when you work in HR? Did he fall over drunk and hit his head, or was he actually in combat?

I covered this earlier.
You get the initial statement out tbere early. This creates two camps among the villagers. The veterans circle their wagons.
Now even if the initial statement was complete bullshit, you created 2 stories for the villagers to argue. Meanwhile you walk out the side door, and everyone forgets this happened as soon as the next story goes viral.
They will get or manufacture the next viral sensation, and everyone will forget all about this one.

Mk13 Geissele Trigger

Currently one in the B/S/T for $1600.
Hopefully it's one of the new-old-stock triggers that came directly from Geissele, and not one of the broken and unsafe triggers that came from DRMO. If it's a new-old-stock trigger from Geissele, then $1,600 is actually a really good deal. However, if it's a DRMO trigger, there's a reason that it was DRMO'd, and I wouldn't even pay $100 for it.

Tariff effects on imported optics

Yes, excellent point Todd. I also happen to like Acteryx and own some of their closing. Looked at where my jacket was mfg. - Bangladesh.

Or look at Winchester. Hard to think of a more American company. Except Winchester firearms are mfg. under license by FN Herstal a Belgian company. As you point out some "American" companies are owned by or subsidiaries of foreign companies. And certainly the ownership of U.S. publicly traded companies is not restricted to U.S. citizens, just as Americans own shares of foreign companies. Fidelity, Vanguard, etc. offer funds that specifically invest in foreign companies.

I own a BMX X5 that I understand was mfg. in Spartanburg South Carolina. Your Ford F150 may have been made in Mexico. Both cars probably use imported steel and chips that came from China. So I guess my BMW is an American car and your Ford is a Mexican car.

To bring this discussion back to optics, Steiner is a German company, but many of its scopes are made in Greeley, CO.

Finally, there is some ambiguity about what "made in America" even means. my understanding is that some companies whose scopes are "made in America" may assemble their scopes in the U.S., but many of the parts may have been mfg. in China and the glass may come from a factory in Japan.

To use another example - being able to advertise your watch as a Swiss watch, made in Switzerland or having a Swiss movement generally carries a lot of prestige in the watch world. However, a watch may be advertised as being made in Switzerland even if 49% of its parts were made elsewhere, so long as the watch is assembled in Switzerland.

Bottom line, the globalization of our economy has already occurred and the manufacturing and trade relationship between the U.S. and other countries is a lot more complicated than people think.

East Plano Islamic Center: 74 homes only member of Masque can purchase. Sharia Law etc

Yes they do, but those in some of those branches you point out are enabling these people to do what they do and are not, I repeat are not, looking out for the best interest of our country. I don’t know how many people I have seen in Europe begging us to not let what happened in their country happen to ours.

While we are warning Europe not to let what's happening to us happen to them.

Ironic.

Firearms Tisas B9R DS gen 2 with EPS, x300T, holster

Have this gently used B9R DS gen 2. Has the bull barrel now and improved trigger and rail. Comes with two mags, OEM case x300T, EPS Full Size 6moa and a level 2 retention holster from KT Mech in M81.

Approximately 800 rounds down the barrel, bought it for Limited Optics in USPSA but just not for me. Please let me know if you have any questions.

$950 to me

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