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    What’s the BEST bourbon?

    Travellers #40. What a great bottle ! Maybe not for a connoisseurs tastes, but a smooth, warm caramel; light in the mouth with no lingering aftertaste or heat, just simple well behaved flavour.
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    Maggie’s Who has Starlink?

    I've got three in use and getting another. One is the larger and more expensive commercial setup. I'm happy with all of them. I tried to extend with the mesh system about 300 ft as well. Put one of the nodes outside about halfway point. I could never get that to work well and ended up...
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    Bath county VA?

    The Greenbrier was home to "Greek Island", the congressional relocation bunker. It was hidden in plain sight but was not really a big secret. The big blast doors were unloaded from railcars and trucked thru WSS for all to see. My grandfathers business excavated the hole for the bunker, and...
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    Bath county VA?

    Gotta make your own excitement in these parts. Hunting, fishing, ATV, UTV in warmer months. Skiing in the winter at Snowshoe; but we haven't had a good snow in years. This winter has been the mildest I remember, and the grass already needs mowed. There is plenty of public land, the...
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    Chinese Balloon

    I'd be in more trouble flying an unregistered drone than China is for this spy balloon !!
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    Sat phone recommendations

    I've used Iridium and Inmarsat in remote parts of Canada. Iridium is much better. Their system is low orbit so latency is way less than Inmarsat. Both require a good view of the sky, but Inmarsat only has a couple satellites visible at any time, kinda like XM radio. Iridium has way more...
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    Hunting & Fishing Official Hog Hunting Thread

    Instead of SHOT this year, our group is headed to way SW Georgia near Donalsonville to hunt hogs on a friends peanut farm. We all hunt and shoot a lot, but never been hog hunting We are taking mostly ARs in 5.56, some thermals (Trijicon REAP IR 60mm, SIG E3 2-12), and some NV (PVS30, Knights...
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    SOLD MAWL DA

    I'd like to buy it, PM sent
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    Just Announced - Leica Geovid Pro 8x32 & 10x32

    They are shipping, got mine from EuroOptic yesterday. No time to study the ballistics app yet, but it was reliably ranging trees and cows at 1500m in overcast daylight. Compact and comfortable for sure
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    Drilling out pinned muzzle device

    I've simply heated the muzzle device to glowing cherry red with an acetylene torch concentrated on the pin, and turned it off with a wrench. It may damage a few threads around the pin but there is plenty left undamaged.
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    Firearms SOLD New Defiance Ruckus XM Switch Barrel Setup 6.5 prc. 6.5 creedmoor. Manners prs1t

    I've researched the switch barrel feature with no success. Would you explain the barrel switch process please ? Thanks in advance.
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    Anyone know anything about .mil tent AC units and .mil generators?

    Any generator you buy on gov.planet will have no, or bad batteries. Its is normal that they must be jump started. The might also need oil, filters and belts, which are all available at NAPA. TMs and such are on steelsoldiers 2 of the 6 ECUs I got were charged, part of demilling them is to...
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    Anyone know anything about .mil tent AC units and .mil generators?

    gov.planet auction site. I bought 6 of them 3 ton Nordic Air GL0383ZAADWYX11 ECU
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    Anyone know anything about .mil tent AC units and .mil generators?

    Both the 1040s are running from a 300 gal tank using the AUX fuel connection, so I don't have a good ideal of real fuel use. I think the TM estimates 0.64 gph. The on board tank will last about 14 hrs so that seems about right. My ECUs came with a cable that has the proper 4 pin military plug...