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This is an early model Grizzly, made in Taiwan. It’s much better quality than the current Chinese crap. In quality, It is on par with the better Jet lathes. It was made probably in the 90’s but just sat unused. The ways and gears look brand new. We used it mainly for light cutting aluminum on our Legacy shooting benches. It is exceptionally tight, holds tolerances and runs smoothly.
Anyway, it’s in great condition and everything works as it should. Specs below.

Grizzly 1224
—220 single phase 1HP motor
—12” swing and 24” between centers
—Spindle bore is 1.642” really large for this size lathe
—Belt drive. Speeds are shown on pics
—Threads in Imperical and metric
—Incl 3 jaw and 4 jaw chucks and I have an additional adjust-try Bison chuck I’ll include. See details below
—mounted on a 1/2” plate steel custom stand that dampens any movement. It’s set up to allow a circulating fluid pump (pump not included.)
—Stand also has 10 gauge backsplash
—BXA tool post inc
—steady rest and follower rests incl
—no other tool attachments included

Local pick up in Waco, TX or I can palletize it and get it ready for freight pickup for a fair fee. Details of shipping can be discussed in IM.

it will also be listed on other forums

Bison chuck is an 8” and will need hard jaws. Those can be found on eBay with a bit of patience. Pics on that coming.

I have lots of positive seller feedback on accurateshooter, also as eloudamy.

Is she fat?

So the 50th is closing fast and I wanna do something nice as I doubt I'll see another half a century so....
Option 1) A big game hunt... Elk, Aoudad, fallow or axis deer. Gemsbok, or Scimitar Oryx. Those types of critters.
Option 2) A vudoo or a RimX and some nice glass.
Option 3) Hookers and blow (added at the suggestion of @Im2bent )

So what say you? I have about $8K (Edit: $12K) to play with.

Long before European Empires subjugated the Me and Africa the Ottomans and Islamic tribes did so . Ottoman Empire wreaked havoc in the Baltics and Western Europe ie Vienna 1529 and 1683 .
North Africa and non contiguous into Africa .
Flame suit on , Italy ie Roman Empire not only sat on a razors edge between Europe and Me , Africa but we're intermingled .
Islam , Ottomans and Italy not to mention , Persia , Greece , Troy ( on the peninsula that is a part of Turkey /Gallipoli subjugated the world . Subjugated for thousands of years .
Newsflash . This just in . White Europeans bad . Subjugated the World . Word .

Hey Guys,

I am selling one of my personal ENVY PRO JV kit chassis with the folder. Comes with all the internal and external weight kits as well as the folder. Excellent like-new condition as it was used as a display chassis in our showroom.

The chassis body is raw blast finish (like all my personal rifles lol) with anodized black buttstock.

The retail cost with the folder is $1410 + the lead time and shipping.

Get this today for $1000 shipped CON-US.

First "ill take it" via PM or post gets it.

VENMO or PayPal accepted.

No trades, please.

DM or email: [email protected]

We are going to do a small run of our aluminum picatiny rails for the A1 handguard. I'd like to get an idea of the quantity we need to make, so please post in this thread for how many you will want and we'll get them activated on our shopping cart for purchase later when they are ready.

This is a special run, based on demand... so we will only make as many as we have committed buyers for. If you don't hop in this thread and indicate how many you want, don't expect to just be able to come buy "extras" later, because this rail is for the SRS-A1 handguard, which has long since been discontinued.

The rails:



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Legit?

Please share what you know about social media platforms being out or down hard worldwide. Thx

good morning,

Im attending the Guardian Long range comp in December (can't wait). Since its my first match ill be flying too, Im looking for some guidance on a rifle case that I can fly with that's under the 62 inch mark but will still fit my PRS rifle. I've tried to do some hard digging but having trouble finding one that I don't have to pay extra money for oversized baggage. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

For anyone that HAS experience in this, I could really use your help, I'm out of ideas

Long story short.. I used the "sharpie method" of marking the projecticle to identify them at distance for a ladder test. Prior to the that I did an ocw test, the results are in the pic on the left page (disregard charge 30.7)

I then shot a ladder test @475 yards, the results are on the right.. looking at the comparable charges of 30.6~~31.4

(OCW first------- ladder after)
Min @ 30.6 went from- 2849 to 2803

Max @31.4 went from 2893 to 2855

In all identical charge weights from 30.6, 30.8, 31, 31.2, 31.4 the OCW shot prior to the ladder test was faster..

The ES is very similar in both circumstances and an almost exact parallel shift down in mv of roughly 50ish FPS.
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As a disclaimer, all the following are the same lot:
Berger 105s
Alpha OCD virgin
Cci 450s
Varget (newer lot, just opened)

I never took the chrono off my gun, the shots were taken in the exact same conditions less than 20mins apart. To the best of my ability, NOTHING CHANGED. The only thing I did was sharpie the projecticles... is it possible that the sharpie alone is the culprit of a 50fps drop in MV??

I have every intention of recreating this scenario as best that I can but until then I'm reaching out in hopes that someone can share any insight that might help.

China aint scurred now that theyve seen what a gigantic pussy Biden is. RIP Taiwan.

Bought an American Air Arms Evol mini 22. The most expensive rifle I own is now officially a pellet gun lol. Plenty of JSB diabolo jumbos in stock though! Look at these chrono numbers and the test target they sent.

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Born Oct 4th
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Un fucking believable

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Another American tradition bites the dust!

Selling my impact precision barreled action and spare barrel. Both barrels chambered in 6mm creedmoor. Barrel fitted and chambered by T&S customs, fluted and by area 419 with area 419 brake. Has roughly 600 rounds through it. Trigger is a Rifle Basix trigger.

It was actually chambered by Mike as one of his personal barrels while he worked at TS. The barrel is a Hawk Hill blank and it is the short freebore and factory ammo has to be set back to shoot out of it. The cerakote was done by @Sprayed99

spare barrel has 200 rounds through. Bartlein barrel, 1/7.5 twist and is stamped by red beard gunworks.

I got these in a trade but I’m looking towards other projects (6arc gas gun, hunting gear etc). Asking $2350 obo for everything. Thanks.

for those asking - yes I would consider selling the action separately but would need to bring it to my smith to have the barrel taken off (just added time/money etc) and would rather sell intact.

Hey, I'm new, but I have been wondering for a few months. Who is Maggie?

Selling Hawk Hill 6mm 7 twist 30” blank 1.250” straight

$360 shipped and will include a $100 off certificate from Hawk Hill.

PayPal FF only

Want to trade for Sig Kilo binos, I have a bunch of stuff listed. Maybe other stuff as well.

Might consider buying as well.

A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION


Pandora Papers reveal secret offshore financial system for global elites


Trove of secret files details opaque financial universe where global elite shield riches from taxes, probes and accountability


Oct. 3, 2021


A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and — in 14 cases involving current country leaders — citizens around the world.


The revelations include more than $100 million spent by King Abdullah II of Jordan on luxury homes in Malibu, Calif., and other locations; millions of dollars in property and cash secretly owned by the leaders of the Czech Republic, Kenya, Ecuador and other countries; and a waterfront home in Monaco acquired by a Russian woman who gained considerable wealth after she reportedly had a child with Russian President Vladimir Putin.


Other disclosures hit closer to home for U.S. officials and other Western leaders who frequently condemn smaller countries whose permissive banking systems have been exploited for decades by looters of assets and launderers of dirty money.


The files provide substantial new evidence, for example, that South Dakota now rivals notoriously opaque jurisdictions in Europe and the Caribbean in financial secrecy. Tens of millions of dollars from outside the United States are now sheltered by trust companies in Sioux Falls, some of it tied to people and companies accused of human rights abuses and other wrongdoing.


The details are contained in more than 11.9 million financial records that were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and examined by The Post and other partner news organizations. The files include private emails, secret spreadsheets, clandestine contracts and other records that unlock otherwise impenetrable financial schemes and identify the individuals behind them.


The trove, dubbed the Pandora Papers, exceeds the dimensions of the leak that was at the center of the Panama Papers investigation five years ago. That data was drawn from a single law firm, but the new material encompasses records from 14 separate financial-services entities operating in countries and territories including Switzerland, Singapore, Cyprus, Belize and the British Virgin Islands.


The files detail more than 29,000 offshore accounts, more than double the number identified in the Panama Papers. Among the account owners are more than 130 people listed as billionaires by Forbes magazine and more than 330 public officials in more than 90 countries and territories, twice the number found in the Panama documents.


Key questions to better understand the Pandora Papers


As a result, the Pandora Papers allow for the most comprehensive accounting to date of a parallel financial universe whose corrosive effects can span generations — draining significant sums from government treasuries, worsening wealth disparities, and shielding the riches of those who cheat and steal while impeding authorities and victims in their efforts to find or recover hidden assets.


“The offshore financial system is a problem that should concern every law-abiding person around the world,” said Sherine Ebadi, a former FBI officer who served as lead agent on dozens of financial-crimes cases.


Ebadi pointed to the role that offshore accounts and asset-shielding trusts play in drug trafficking, ransomware attacks, arms trading and other crimes. "These systems don't just allow tax cheats to avoid paying their fair share. They undermine the fabric of a good society,” said Ebadi, now an associate managing director at Kroll, a corporate investigations and consulting firm.


A trust is an agreement typically involving three parties: A settlor places something valuable in the care of a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary.


You may have heard of trusts like this: A wealthy grandparent might set one up with an uncle for a grandchild, giving the grandchild an allowance every month, rather than a lump-sum inheritance.


But not all trusts are as straightforward. Trusts are flexible. Each party to the trust might be an individual, a group of people, a company or a combination. The trust’s assets could be cash, shares of a company, real estate, artwork — any type of property. Each trust can have different rules for how it functions.


This flexibility can open the door to abuse. In some American states trust lawyers and companies, backed by lawmakers who supported industry-friendly laws, have designed elaborate trust structures that can shield assets from tax authorities, creditors and investigators.


One key feature is that assets held in a trust exist in a kind of limbo. The settlor has given them away. The trustee may own them under the law but has no right to use them. And the beneficiary has yet to receive them. If someone owes a debt, each of the three parties can argue that they do not control the assets.


Trusts can provide impenetrable secrecy. High-profile people can set up trusts to own shell companies in tax havens, obscuring the true extent of their property from tax authorities, criminal investigators and the public. Few jurisdictions require public registration of the people who ultimately control and benefit from trusts.


The Pandora Papers investigation — based on millions of documents from offshore financial firms — pierced that secrecy, revealing in unprecedented scope and detail how some criminals, politicians and wealthy people have shielded their assets by the use of trusts and other offshore instruments.


The Post is publishing eight articles, as well as video and audio pieces, based on material in the Pandora trove. Stories being published today focus on revelations about Abdullah and Putin. Stories tomorrow will more closely explore U.S. aspects of this system, including the harm caused by U.S. tax havens and how Americans accused of wrongdoing can escape financial consequences by using offshore entities. In subsequent days, stories will examine the looting of Asian artifacts, survey the hidden wealth of billionaires who appear in the files, and trace the impact of U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarchs.


These are part of a global package of stories based on the Pandora Papers — a project involving 150 news organizations in 117 countries and territories. The package includes reports by the BBC and the Guardian that reveal new details about foreign donors contributing millions to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. The ICIJ has collaborated with foreign partners on stories about a scandal-plagued Catholic order in Mexico, millions of dollars held offshore by members of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, as well as the secret holdings of leaders from Europe to Latin America.


Some political players of note mentioned in the Pandora Papers


The vast majority of the documents are marked with dates indicating they were created between 1996 and 2020, though some date to the 1970s. With many documents dated as recently as last year, the cache illuminates how the offshore system — a term from the time when remote islands were the principal havens for hiding cash — has endured the scandals and efforts at reform that followed prior investigations.


The records include dozens of memos and messages discussing ways to defeat new transparency laws, erect more-ironclad shelters for assets and, ironic as it may sound in this context, avoid being exposed by another leak.


Executives at a politically connected Panama City law firm, for example, mentioned in a 2016 email “numerous requests from clients to confirm the security of our information systems” after the Panama Papers stories, according to documents. The executives scrapped plans to convert paper records to digital storage, hoping to reassure wary clients.


Nevertheless, internal records from the Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee firm, known as “Alcogal,” represent one of the largest caches in the Pandora collection, exposing more high-profile clients than documents from the other 13 firms and accounting for some of the trove’s most significant revelations.


In a statement, Alcogal said, “We have always acted according to the law, and have cooperated in all respects with competent authorities.”


High stakes for leaders


The Panama Papers stories five years ago led to the resignations of the leaders of Iceland and Pakistan. There could be political stakes for some of those named in the Pandora documents.


Andrej Babis, the Czech prime minister, who is up for reelection this week, is a billionaire politician who has cast himself as a populist adversary of Europe’s elite. But the documents show that in 2009 he purchased a $22 million chateau near Cannes, France, with a cinema and two swimming pools, using shell companies that hid the identity of its new owner. Babis did not respond to requests for comment.


In Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta has cultivated the persona of a determined foe of corruption, saying in 2018 that “every public servant’s assets must be declared publicly.” But Pandora documents show that he and several close relatives set up at least seven entities offshore that hold money and real estate worth more than $30 million. Kenyatta did not respond to requests for comment.


Other world leaders linked to offshore accounts found in the Pandora trove include President Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro, President Sebastián Piñera of Chile and President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic. There are revelations about the offshore holdings of Sri Lankan power couple Thirukumar Nadesan and Nirupama Rajapaksa; and Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.


But the newly revealed details about offshore assets held by King Abdullah of Jordan, a long-standing U.S. ally, are particularly striking. Documents show that he used a constellation of shell companies to conceal purchases of luxury properties in California, London and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.


The disclosures come as Abdullah is facing political turmoil, including an alleged coup plot this year, in a kingdom that depends on billions of dollars in aid from the United States and other countries. DLA Piper, a law firm representing Abdullah, said that “any implication that there is something improper about [his] ownership of property through companies in offshore jurisdictions is categorically denied.”


The U.S. uber-rich


The Panama Papers leak was particularly revelatory about Russians’ use of the offshore system. One story reported that a Russian cellist, who had been friends with Putin since childhood, was secretly linked to offshore accounts holding up to $2 billion.


Putin called that leak a “provocation,” insinuating that U.S. intelligence agencies were involved as part of an effort to discredit the Russian financial system and punish the Russian leader by targeting his inner circle. U.S. officials denied the allegation.


This time, although Russians account for a disproportionately large share of those exposed in the Pandora files, the records are more wide-ranging, laying bare the hidden riches of U.S. adversaries and allies alike.


Those named in the trove are as varied as former British prime minister Tony Blair, Colombian pop star Shakira, members of China’s elite and figures in Saudi Arabia’s royal family.


The United States’ wealthiest citizens — including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post; Tesla founder Elon Musk; Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates; and billionaire investor Warren Buffett — do not appear in the documents.


Financial experts said the uber-rich in the United States tend to pay such low tax rates that they have less incentive to seek offshore havens. But their absence from the files also may mean that very wealthy Americans turn to different offshore jurisdictions — including the Cayman Islands — and different companies than those represented in the Pandora documents.


There are files pertaining to former president Donald Trump’s involvement in a Panama hotel project. But the Pandora documents do not appear to reveal significant new information about his finances.


Robert F. Smith, who is often described as the United States’ richest Black person, is perhaps the wealthiest American whose offshore holdings are detailed extensively. Smith agreed last year to pay a fine of $139 million and admitted hiding funds offshore and submitting false tax records as part of a non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department. The agreement calls for Smith to cooperate in a separate case against Robert T. Brockman, a Texas billionaire who backed Smith financially and has been charged with hiding $2 billion in income. Smith declined to comment for this story.


The files also help to illustrate how even respected U.S. institutions can become entangled in allegedly tainted transactions. The documents trace how an art trader accused by the Justice Department of trafficking in looted Cambodian antiquities used an offshore trust in transactions involving those items. The trader, Douglas Latchford, died last year, but relics that he or his associates moved remain on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and other museums.


Perhaps the most troubling revelations for the United States, however, center on its expanding complicity in the offshore economy. South Dakota, Nevada and other states have adopted financial secrecy laws that rival those of offshore jurisdictions. Records show leaders of foreign governments, their relatives and companies moving their private fortunes into U.S.-based trusts.


In 2019, for example, family members of the former vice president of the Dominican Republic, who once led one of the largest sugar producers in the country, finalized several trusts in South Dakota. The trusts held personal wealth and shares of the company, which has stood accused of human rights and labor abuses, including illegally bulldozing houses of impoverished families to expand plantations.


Greater concealment efforts


Despite the scandals and reforms triggered by previous revelations like those in the Panama Papers — which led to new transparency laws in the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens — the Pandora trove highlights the enduring demand for mechanisms to hide money and the continuing abundance of firms to provide them.


Trident Trust, a firm that operates in more than a dozen offshore jurisdictions, mounted an effort in 2016 to recruit account holders fleeing Mossack Fonseca, the Panama City law firm that collapsed after its internal records and client lists were exposed in the Panama Papers case, according to Pandora documents.


In a statement, Trident said it “does not discuss its clients with the media” but “is fully committed to compliance with all applicable regulations.”


Alcogal touts itself online as a “top tier” practice with high ethical standards. It was founded in 1985 by Jaime Alemán, who attended private high school and universities in the United States, served as Panama’s ambassador in Washington, and wrote a book titled “Honesty Is Priceless.”


The firm has become a major purveyor of services that help elite clients hide wealth offshore. Nearly half of the politicians whose names surfaced in the Pandora trove were clients of Alcogal, the documents show. Among them are former Panamanian presidents, the president of Ecuador, a leading candidate in next month’s Honduran election and Abdullah.


Despite international standards calling on firms to apply extra scrutiny when they take on politicians, government officials or those close to them as clients, intake forms show that Alcogal at times did not mark even country leaders as “politically exposed persons," or PEPs.


In its statement, Alcogal said it was inaccurate “to imply that we have not classified certain individuals as PEPs, where in fact we have." The firm declined to address specific cases. Overall, the company said, “We have always acted according to the law, and have cooperated in all respects with competent authorities.”


At times, financial advisers pushed Alcogal to do even more to protect the identities of their clients.


Jurg Wissmann, a Swiss lawyer who has represented Putin associates and used Alcogal to set up at least 150 companies in Belize and other tax havens, warned officers at Alcogal never to store any of his clients’ names on computer systems, according to documents.


“You are obliged to keep secrecy for our clients,” he wrote, “and to not make feasible at all a second Panama Papers story.” Wissman did not respond to requests for comment.w


Only a few of Wissmann’s clients are named in the Pandora documents.


About this project


Graphics by Kevin Schaul and Artur Galocha


Photos used in trust graphic illustrations from Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post; Salwan Georges/The Washington Post; Alamy; Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images and Tang Ch.


The Pandora Papers is an investigation based on more than 11.9 million documents revealing the flows of money, property and other assets concealed in the offshore financial system. The Washington Post and other news organizations exposed the involvement of political leaders, examined the growth of the industry within the United States and demonstrated how secrecy shields assets from governments, creditors and those abused or exploited by the wealthy and powerful. The trove of confidential information, the largest of its kind, was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which organized the investigation. Read more about this project.


Greg Miller is an investigative foreign correspondent based in London for The Washington Post and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of “The Apprentice,” a book on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race and the fallout under the Trump administration.


Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing reporter on the investigative team. For 25 years, Debbie has explored social issues, including affordable housing, education, voting rights and mental health care. At The Post, she has focused heavily on Washington, D.C., writing about development issues that affect poor neighborhoods.


Peter Whoriskey is a staff writer for The Washington Post whose investigative work focuses on corporate accountability and the economy.


Democracy Dies in Darkness


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Selling my basically new zco 527 with mpct2 reticle. Not a scratch or blemish on it. Absolutely immaculate, like new condition. Hate to sell but have to downgrade at this time. Will also come with American rifle company ARC medium (1.10”) height rings. Scope retails for $3980 and rings for $180. Asking $3600 shipped.

proof barrel
223
1/7 twist
M24
It has been cut down to 20 inches
I bought this on here from NGSUgrad09 before I realized it wouldn’t fit in my chassis.
He said it has between 180-200 rounds through it.
I haven’t even unpackaged it because it is of no use to me.
I paid $450.
selling for $420 shipped.
PayPal F&F only.