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I’m good on SUV’s, lol. Picked up a 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee late last year. I need to sell my 4Runners while people are still paying retarded prices for them, but I think I can likely get more once the tariffs hit.
Tesla Cybertrucks seem like they will be cutting prices and prices of used ones likely already cratered


With Tesla having issues selling new Cybertrucks, the automaker is reportedly not taking any as trade-ins. Many Cybertruck owners reported trying to trade-in the truck for a new vehicle and they were told that the automaker currently doesn’t accept its own vehicle as a trade-in.

Some owners who have had their trucks in service for extended periods of time are also trying to get Tesla to take the truck back, but the company is forcing them to go through the Lemon Law process.

It’s not surprising to see Tesla not wanting to take back used Cybertrucks as their prices are falling fast.

Used Cybertruck prices are down 55% year over year, 13% over the last three months, and 6% over the last month.

As Tesla doesn’t take the Cybertruck as a trade-in, other used car dealers are also reticent about buying the vehicle. They have been known to give low-ball offers to potential sellers as they wait to see where the price will stabilize.



Nashville school shooting

Being a girl and being athletic or playing "boys sports" does not mean they are sexually confused. Just means some one taught them how to fight and play hockey.

Also the toys that kids play with as well doesn't mean they're sexually confused. Hell, when I was a kid I would have loved having an Easy Bake Oven. I've also watched my two boys play mobile games on their tablets that were made for girls, but they played them because they were fun. We have our whole lives to be adults, but only a very short time to be a child. Adults needs to stop robbing children of their precious childhoods that they will NEVER get back.
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Rifle Scopes Tariff effects on imported optics

Agreed, I should have been more clear, I more meant my comment for the manufacturers, not the retailers/resellers. I'd imagine resellers are the ones impacted the worst. They get the angst from the consumer, and have to set prices to try to make sales, but the manufacturer gets their price increase regardless.

It's like eggs, perfect example egg companies get to blame the "bird flu" which is a real problem it just has not impacted supply as much as they'd like you to think based on prices. The largest egg distributor in the US, responsible for about 20% of the egg market, not only have they kept egg volume constant since 2021 but increasing their prices drove their profits up almost 1000% over that time. In fact in 2023 they were required to pay $20 million in a settlement that accused them of deceptive practices by conspiring to limit egg production.

When they asked the CEO about the high egg prices and their huge profits recently, he just said that consumers should blame the resellers because they don't set consumer pricing the resellers do.......these are the companies you are dealing with, they will never ever do the right thing for the average American unless it just happens to also increase profits. If they can use some excuse to increase prices blame free, they will do it every time, all the time.




Again, this is a bad analogy. Resellers in this industry, do not set the prices period. MSRP, map, what we have to pay the manufacturer for their product is all controlled by the manufacturer.

Paper Range Log

Out of curiosity, what items do you guys find the most useful in your log books?

I put a target in to try and keep track of cold bore shot to later shots, but I find myself hand writing most things. Round count, environmentals, load dev details.

I suppose that load dev details would be separate even from just a shooting log if you really wanted to classify stuff.
I’ve pretty much quit using the target pages where you mark your calls and shots. I don’t really track cold bore shots either. Mostly for me in a data book I keep load development pages, a velocity tracking page, DA range card pages with the DA broken down into different temps, and a round count page.

I also keep reference sheets in it such as a DA chart, wind rose and other wind reading tips, known target size sheets for milling, conversion charts, a rifle data sheet with maintenance log, notes pages, calculator, and a print out of the reticle I’m using with size data. I keep a multi-gun book so it’s arranged in dividers. I keep it all in a binder cover from triad tactical along with pencils and a sharpie, sewing tape measure, mil-dot master, range card placards, and a slope doper.

I want to develop a page for use when tracking groups but haven’t yet decided exactly how I want to go about doing it or if I actually need to do it. This is just how I’ve decided to start tracking everything and your use might be different than mine and mine might change again later on.

I basically just use it for reference info for shooting and reloading and as a backup to my Kestrel and AB app.

Nashville school shooting

The whole manifesto is eaten up with her reputation afterward. She wanted to be known, and not for being a racist, apparently. I guess child murderer falls into her sphere of morality on how she wanted to be remembered but racist did not. Somehow I do not think you or I are going to be able to understand her mind because we are not crazy, sick, and evil.

Those kids were just tools for her to use for notoriety. How does that even happen to a mind?

I don't believe that anyone is born evil. Just like I don't believe that anyone is born gay or born in the wrong body. You are taught that stuff over time. You put a bunch of random toddlers of all races and sexes in a room together and they will all get along and play together peacefully. Fast-forward to them being teenagers and put them in a room together and they'll wanna kill eachother. I'm no brain expert, but the mind is such a sensitive organ during the most important stages of childhood. And parents nowadays are so busy multitasking and not paying attention to their kids and their growing deviant behaviors that they may be expressing such as self-harm or torturing animals and it gets totally ignored until it's too late and the next thing you know their kid is on the news as the next school shooter. As a society of good people we need to stop blaming evil on the wrong things such as guns or violent video games and focus on the real causes. Starting off with bad parenting and putting kids on SSRIs at such young ages.
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CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE AND FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES

It isn't an issue, or shouldn't be. I question why you want large amounts of irreplaceable cash in your pocket on an everyday basis.
People like this ^^^^^^ are how shit like this gets passed. When they came for XXXXX I did nothing because it didn't effect me. When they came for YYYYYY I did nothing because it didn't effect me.......
Papers Please!!! Just fucking happened a couple years ago and there was people here bragging about having travel papers and a vax card. UnFucking Believable

The Greatest Archaeological and Technological Discovery of Mankind

Nope. Never happen.

We are an aggressive invader species, just like all species that survive for any period of time. I cannot imagine that, if there are other galactic civilizations, they would be any different. Survival requires it.

At our current population level, ultimate survival of the species may well depend upon expanding outward. Turning inward can only have a bitter end.
agree but our record doesn't look too good for the likelihood of surviving long enough to develop and master the tech needed.
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Garmin Foretrex 901 and the system

I did. They were going to look into the issue. I haven’t heard since. That was about 2 weeks ago
I got on tech support with Garmin this week and they confirmed that the DOF issue is because the 901 only accepts range input from the LRFs...Does not matter the make/model, will not update the DOF or use ANY environmentals from your LRF. Kind of a bummer, hopefully they update a FW to allow that data to flow in.