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spife7980 · Dec 13, 2024

I don’t think the Grendel is going anywhere but I doubt it continues to grow more with the advent of the arc cases which are basically the same thing.
If you have a mini action you aren’t doing anything with, chamber it up in Grendel, it’s a fine cartridge and probably the best out of a small frame ar imo.

cplnorton · Dec 13, 2024

This is what an original set looks like that were taken off a 1977 M40A1 build. If you need any measurements let me know. But there is some slight variance in these.

I also think I might have a set of the PTG's too. They work great for the repo stock set, or at least the set I have does.

lariat · Dec 13, 2024

Russia ‘close to agreeing deal with Syria rebels to keep military bases’

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So Russia is negotiating with the extremists the US has been supporting to keep their naval base.

EddieNFL · Dec 13, 2024

XTR said:
Newer model, on mine the seat was a board.

Mine was stamped metal. Circa 1960.

Dad set the legs in concrete so we wouldn’t hurt ourselves turning it over. Allowed for more height and longer launches.

spife7980 · Dec 13, 2024

Usually a barrel nut uses a barrel that’s the same outside shank diameter as the tenon threads major pitch. That way its a straight line and a nut can be easily made to fit.

The issue is compounded with your ruger American using a 1.1” barrel and you are using a 1.2” barrel. So it has to step up to a full diameter shoulder instead of just continuing straight forward from the threads.
It’s ugly but should work.
It’s also exactly what I would expect for a new chambered barrel being under 200 bucks.

Bravo6niner · Dec 13, 2024

EddieNFL · Dec 13, 2024

Our DIL will be induced later today. Our third grandson, five total.

Lawless · Dec 13, 2024

Jscb1b said:
Have you thought about volunteering for something? Homeless shelter, food line or the like.

I am involved in a couple of things

mtrmn · Dec 13, 2024

Praying for peace for you. Know that there are MANY like you at this time of year. Shorter days, many of them cloudy, stormy and dark. All those who've lost loved ones during the holidays.

diggler1833 · Dec 13, 2024

I have a set of the Henckels (made in Germany) stuff. It was given to us as a wedding gift. It still looks and works great 11 years later.

Mrhyne · Dec 13, 2024

I have a KMW Sentinel Stock for sale with a KMW ARCA installed. 800$ shipped

The Stock will take up to an MTU contour barrel and has been slightly modified to take Bighorn TL2, Surgeon 591, Impact 737, bighorn TL3

smithjd · Dec 13, 2024

I have the VP9L OR. It is topped with a Trijicon SRO, which makes the slide length a moot point. It is boringly accurate, reliable, and easy to shoot well. Surprisingly, I find the longer slide makes AIWB carry more comfortable for me than shorter / smaller guns. Using a JC Custom Kydex.

A friend has the newer match long slide. That seems a bit too long, unless the extra sight radius is what you are looking for.

Lawless · Dec 13, 2024

He rode it last night some and did great. I am picking him up early from school today to ride some more

Grandkids Rule!

Sniperstud · Dec 13, 2024

I've been using Surefire for several years. I have a 7.62RC2 and a 300SPS. As stated elsewhere, The RC2 is quiet enough. I use it on 6mm up to 300WM. Nothing is going to be movie quiet with supers. It was a disappointment on a 300BO, where the goal was to be movie quiet with subs. I bought the 300SPS because it was designed to be quiet with 300BO subs. It does a wonderful job. The bonus is that it is noticeably quieter on everything up to 300WM than the RC2. I used it in a school, put on by Mark and Frank, a couple of years ago, and Frank even commented on how good it sounded. I haven't seen the Ti version, but if I ever buy another Surefire, it'll be the 300SPS.

Mrhyne · Dec 13, 2024

i have a leupold Mk5 7-35 PR2 reticle for sale 1800$ shipped.

Trades

Sig 10k rangefinders gen 2

5-25 PR1mil non illuminated
5-25 PR1mil Illuminated
5-25 PR2 mil
5-25 PR2 Mil FDE

spife7980 · Dec 13, 2024

gng4life said:
Do you bring your phone on every stage and refer to it as you are shooting? Or just write it down? or memorize it?

I have a dry erase dope card that Velcro/bungies around the scope

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Used to just write it in the back of my hand with a pen.

But yeah, I keep my phone in my pocket and I’ve looked at it when I realize I have the wrong rifle or stage selected before.

Lawless · Dec 13, 2024

This may sound trite.

I am not a person who suffers from any kind of depression or anything like that, but this time of the year is an annual foray into a funk for me. Growing up, this time of year was dealing with adults who couldn’t be counted on to keep theirselves together. A 2 week bender usually complete with fights and crying and sometimes aunts, uncles and deputies trying to help put things back to some semblance of functional.

When I was young, first married it was terrible and terrifying. I didn’t even know I was in a funk and most definitely didn’t understand why. It put a strain on my beautiful young wife, she helped me tremendously though. It is not as evident now, I swallow it better. My grandson has certainly helped me to enjoy things better.

I gave him his first dirt bike yesterday and I am getting him early from preschool today so he can ride more. I enjoy him and his love of this season….

But still I struggle. I really really struggle and it is very hard to admit it or talk about it. My sister obviously understands and she suffers as well. We talk some but we are not good for each other this time of the year.

I don’t like this. I don’t wallow in it but I can’t seem to ever really beat it either. I have forgiven them, I truly have so I would appreciate y’all praying for me to be able to let go. Release whatever demons hang out in my head and cause me sleepless nights and bad moods. My wife is on it and really helping me and maybe knowing that others “know” and are praying will help too. God has a plan and I am who I am because of what I experienced, I don’t second guess Him. I accept it all, I just want peace.

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Shag carpet in hippie vans

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texastonk · Dec 13, 2024

ITS PHRIDAY!

Conqueror · Dec 13, 2024

Glad to see they are being proactive about taking care of all purchasers.

texastonk · Dec 13, 2024

Blue Sky Country said:
"You know when you come to me tired like you are, I will always walk to you, slowly, and bring you a cup of water, like right now..."
-Hazizah, to me, as she placed one of her beautiful kaftans over me. 2007.

And now presenting one of the greatest scores for an epic film ever composed in the history of cinema. An ode and a raise of a glass to travelers everywhere bound for wherever they are bound. May those trails be clear, the chuck wagons always stocked, and your cartridge belts full for whatever comes over these hills yonder.

LARRY MCMURTRY'S LONESOME DOVE. PART II OF THE 'TEXAS' AND 'COMANCHE MOON' TRILOGY.

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LLANO ESTACADO (THE STAKED PLAINS), TEXAS, 1860

In the folklore of the Old West, the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail has become the very icon of the bravery, absolute prowess in battle and in the saddle, and ingenuity of the Texan Cowboy. Straddling over a thousand miles of rough and inhospitable terrain from the Staked Plains to the Badlands of the Dakotas, the Goodnight-Loving Trail would become the lifeline of a fledgling United States as a global industrial power in the late 19th century.

However, it's beginnings was hardly glorious. In the wake of the great Comanche warpath into the Southwest from 1842 to 1859 that had seen thousands of lives brutally taken and entire societies massacred and burned to ashes, the Staked Plains was the Land of Death. No Anglo, Mexican, or any Native tribesman other than Comanche dared to venture into it's bleak expanse. In these wastelands, a new breed of bandits was forming that would become even more dreaded than their predecessors. Called "Comancheros", or "those who followed the way of the Comanche", they were a hodgepodge of Army deserters, cutthroat criminals, escaped prisoners, Mexican banditos, and former partakers of the grisly human scalp trade of the Southwest, their brutality towards anything in their path would be horrific and their deeds only discussed in whispers, but the treasures they amassed would also be sought after by the most daring adventurers. One of these treasures would be a vast herd of over 1500 cattle, which had originally been taken from Mexican settlements during the first Comanche attacks, but as the wasteland of war grew, they became almost wild, wandering the long grass prairies deep inside Comanchero territory. The Mexicans called it "abuela's, or "grandmother's" herds, a nod to their origins from south of Laredo, but no one wanted to be the few who ventured into the Staked Plains and never returned.

That would soon change. On a pitch black night of the summer new moon in 1860, a band of 200 Texans slowly made their way into the Land of Death of the Comancheros. The group was comprised of Texas Rangers from various county commands, other Texas militiamen from the newly formed State Guard in anticipation of Texas becoming a member of the Confederate States, and privateers seeking prospects of adventure and answering the calls to rescue numerous hostages that have been taken by the bandits. They were led by a young rancher named Charles Goodnight, who had taken a break from his service as a frontier ranger to try his hand in the new and fledgling ranching industry. Dismounting their horses, they quietly plodded across the rare stream and snaked their way through the grass, stopping occasionally to check their approach. Soon, they found their mark in the darkness. A row of muffled campfires shining like beacons up ahead, and the raucous clattering of liquor bottles against stone. A hushed order went down the row and the Texans swiftly mounted their horses, checked their Colt revolvers, and in mechanical precision, arranged into a line of battle 100 yards long.

For the members of the bandit camp, it had been another uneventful night. The scofflaws, after having inspected the ropes that bound their captives in makeshift stockades, had started drinking early and as the dawn approached, even the guards that they posted along the edge of their camp looking out into the black expanse had let their carbines and muskets fall to ground as they stumbled about, cursing and singing profane tunes. In defiance of their leader about keeping their fires low as to maintain as low profile as possible, the Comancheros piled wood and grass onto the blazes and lit up the prairie in a great hue of orange and crimson. Perhaps a few of them had seen the glint of polished metal revolver barrels far in the distance, or heard the clinking of tackle as riders advanced at a trot, then at full gallop, but if they had tried to sound the alarm, it was already too late. Suddenly, cries of "ATAQUE!" and "DIOS MIO!" came from the drunken guards celebrating at the fires in front of the camp. Other bandits, groggily rising from inebriated slumber, desperately tried to get to their rifles. But the Texans were already upon them. Advancing in a single unbroken line, the riders clad in buckskins and State Guard gray slammed into the bandit camp like a sledgehammer. The night was pierced by flashes from revolvers and the great resounding booms of heavy caliber slug guns. The few Comancheros who had managed to grab their rifles fell where they stood, their bodies pierced by .36 caliber balls. Others tried to extract themselves from their sleeping bags, only to be shot by the Texans as they galloped through the camp. By morning, almost all of the bandits who had been at the camp at the start of the raid had been killed, others shot down as they threw up their muskets in surrender as the rules of civilized warfare did not apply to cutthroat killers and the Texans, having been time and time again ravaged by the attacks of the Comancheros, were in no mood to take prisoners or march them back to the settlements to stand trial for their crimes. Over 40 hostages, including Mexican children and members of the Lipan Apache tribe, who were staunch allies of the Texans against the Comanche, were recovered alive. Over 1000 cattle were also recovered that night, and it would mark the beginning of the legendary Goodnight-Loving ranching enterprise that would thrive over the next 8 years even as arduous years of war came and went in the East and the nation recovered from it's bloodshed to become an industrial and economic powerhouse of the rapidly changing world.

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