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Aqua Mark · Wednesday at 11:35 PM

Lots of good people in CA. Very sad situation. Deja Vu all over again. I fought some Malibu fires in the 80's, had a summer job with parks dept (Maint), which encompassed the MASH set, while going to college out there. I put on my uniform to get past the fire truck blockade, so I could help (foolish youth). I was on the roof in the park trying to keep things wet (impossible task). I got blown off the roof and we started to drive off and call it a loss but the wind changed, and I went back out to fight some more. Had a hard time breathing (simple scarf). Park had a 2" (or 3") hose with good water pressure. It was a fire storm, like 120 degree smoky little tornadoes. My '67 Ghia and Baja bug survived. Structures (office, horse corrals) also got spared, but the wood shed didn't make it. After the fire blew through, I tried to get all the embers near any structure. Checked in with others up and down the highway. We were very lucky that day. I also helped a family down the fwy 2 exits that had some retired thoroughbred horses, they made it too.

The MASH set over the hill burned to the ground. This was before they filmed the last episode. They had to re-write the script last minute. It was the most watched episode in TV history. (Insert Mr-Trivia Cliff Clavin pic here). This area has a rich history. Ronald Reagan owned this land, then 20th Century Fox, then the State of CA. Across the street was a different studio (Paramount). Now the Nat'l Park Service oversees it. Down the road, Bob Hope owned a ranch, now also park of the state park.

Emerson0311 · Wednesday at 11:34 PM

John T. said:
Naw....just coffee shop politics your hearing. "I know a guy who borrowed a wheel barrow from someone from Canada who said they had to wait 15 years for a cast for a broken leg."
I've lived here for over 65 yrs.... born and raised. I've worked outside my whole life on the tongs, and logging. Raised 3 kids and 6 grandkids.....noone in my family has ever had to wait for emergency aid or an elective procedure.
It is NOT free, it is hidden in our tax system, but it is affordable. There are waits, but they have developed in more recent years....probably more to do with 'newcomers' from out east and 'beyond', plus the socialist bleading heart mindset that overloads all of our social systems. It needs work....but it is more than affordable.
I am not bragging up ours and bashing yours. All of 'my people' are US citizens. Our ancestors settled during the 1600's, proudly fought in the Revolution and Civil War, and I fly a US flag beside the Maple Leaf in my yard for over 40 yrs, so I am NOT anti American, just adding some objectivity.

John, we and many others in the northern 1/2 of BC have no family doctor. Not even a walk-in clinic with any open appointments. Figure out that word salad eh? ERs are often closed here and in all the towns around due to staff shortages. Last time my wife got into a walking the “new Canadian” laughed at her and suggested cosmetic surgery. Your experience is very rare, maybe because you know your care providers personally.

I’m trying to be polite here, but after 35-ish years in the trades, I’m letting your BS off very lightly.

Modoc · Wednesday at 11:31 PM

GreenGO Juan said:
Hey cali, controlled burns. Give them a try. Get off your save the planet high horse. The planet will fucking kill you.

They fuck those up regularly too

cypriss32 · Wednesday at 11:30 PM

What chassis matches the Havik hit chassis?

anon · Wednesday at 11:30 PM

Better shooting through chemistry.

A fixed amount of work happens when a fixed mass is accelerated to a fixed velocity. On a pressure to time plot, it is the area under the curve. The shape of that curve is important.

The magic sauce is in achieving the pressure quickly, sustaining it as the bullet accelerates down the barrel, and completing the burn while the bullet is still in the barrel.

I have memory of a range on hwy 225 in Pasadena or Deer Park when I was younger. I had gone there some with my father and last time was probably 50 years ago. I would swear it was an Olin refinery/processing plant of some sort there, and the range was out front. I don't know what product they made there. But the range did have Winchester ammo.

If there is not a reliable domestic supply of innovative and appropriate propellants for shooting, anything good is only by luck.

edit: I meant to post this in the other larger thread, so, I duped it there.

Dirty D · Wednesday at 11:29 PM

168BTHPM said:
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It’s cute

Hotcoffee4all · Wednesday at 11:22 PM

PM inbound

Mauser48 · Wednesday at 11:07 PM

farrar86 said:
So if I were to send my elite sand atx off to be cerakoted black....

Pog · Wednesday at 11:06 PM

Awesome place to shoot

farrar86 · Wednesday at 11:04 PM

So if I were to send my elite sand atx off to be cerakoted black....

Blue Sky Country · Wednesday at 11:02 PM

The most badass thing on the Internet from the past week...

1. That MG42(or MG3) fits this guy exactly size-wise as a regular AR-15 would be to most other shooters.

2. In hypothetical combat, I don't know if it would be scarier to face him when he's got a full belt in that gun, or when he's out of ammo... Cuz you KNOW he'll be using that thing as a war club in the latter situation and that would pretty much be a one swing one enemy kill, every swing.

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ctressler · Wednesday at 11:01 PM

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Rock Chucker Supreme Press

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168BTHPM · Wednesday at 10:58 PM

Soulezoo · Wednesday at 10:54 PM

Wyoming is.... CLOSED. So it doesn't matter what it costs now!

State land behind my land in top picture. Sheep Mountain/Rockies with Lake Hattie in the bottom pic. 40 acres. The land is about $7k per acre. I bought in at $1500 an acre.
The Snowy Range and Medicine Bow National Forest is about 2 miles to the west of where I am standing for these pictures.

ctressler · Wednesday at 10:51 PM

Hickswr said:
Need a 50% off TBAC cert?

Need cash! Thanks for asking though.

wind gypsy · Wednesday at 10:50 PM

AleksanderSuave said:
We've totally never seen a company known for ARs try to milk the bolt action market. Who knows how this could possibly work out?

/S

https://www.larue.com/products/larue-siete/

Seekins?

ctressler · Wednesday at 10:50 PM

For Sale
Dillon BL550 Basic Loader - 15399
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$300 shipped

Kino · Wednesday at 10:42 PM

What Hide vendor has the best deal on these, PM me some info please!

kalashnikev · Wednesday at 10:42 PM

sloporsche said:
as free people or transferred as prisoners ?

US moves 11 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Oman

The move has left 15 detainees in the prison - the smallest number at any point in its history.

www.bbc.com

Efforts to resettle the group in Oman began years ago...

The men were cleared for transfer by federal national security review panels, which determined that doing so was "consistent with the national security interests of the United States", the Defense Department said.

AQ is a weapon created by the CIA to be used against our enemies- tracking? They are a Sunni Salafist/ Wahhabist group that is resourced and led from within the Gulf Terror Kingdoms. We used them against Russia in Afghanistan, Russia in the Balkans, Russia in Chechnya, the Brother Leader in Libya, President Doctor Bashar al Asad in Syria, etc... etc...

These guys are AQ from Yemen being released into Oman so that they can go into Yemen and "take their country back..." from the people that actually live there, who all support the Houthis- a Shia fighting group.

168BTHPM · Wednesday at 10:40 PM

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Gtscotty · Wednesday at 10:35 PM

st1650 said:
With todays high quality brass and modern actions, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of handloaders are shooting in the 65K -70Kpsi range and don’t even realize it.

Right? The reloading section is a constant parade of Bubba's extra-pissin'-hot loads and Snipers Hide 75ksi specials in tortured brass cases. But when discussion is on something actually designed for 80ksi with high strength steel in the right spots there seems to be a lot of "Oh lawdy, 80 thousands sure is a big numbah, don't know if I want to put my face next tuh that!"

tacoman69 said:
I doubt all these manuf are going to one off and make one super special action variant for their models that are chambered in 7bc.

I don't really see why they would have to, the bolt thrust from a .532 magnum at 65 ksi should be similar, or maybe a touch higher than the bolt thrust from a .473 case at 80ksi, pressure over the cross sectional area of the interior pressure vessel being the driver. That doesn't take into account that the high strength steel case is probably taking a higher proportion of the load as compared to a brass case when locked to the sidewalls under pressure, reducing thrust on the bolt itself.

I'm not really concerned about the safety of this cartridge, even in most existing modern actions. What bothers me is that the more videos I've seen, the more it seems like the reloading processes and products don't exist for it yet, and probably won't for a while, if ever. When they do, Federal seems to have a copyright of the name and a patent on some part of the case forming process that leads me to wonder if they might be the only real source for a while. Given their track record of component availability, I'd hate to be stuck trying to reload something I can only get from them.

Of course none of that is probably a concern for the Gunwerks crowd that the original release seems to be catering to.

wind gypsy · Wednesday at 10:35 PM

HD1911 said:
10 twist in a 300PRC eh?

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And an 8 in 6 creed. I don’t get it. But 7 RM gets an 8 twist.

Not sure if they or their barrel supplier is just limited on twist options?

Warpspeed · Wednesday at 10:35 PM

myronman3 said:
it was truly disgusting to see. i think that is the first time i thanked God that i was not born into that kind of situation; it absolutely RUINS people.
you get these people that do anything and everything to increase their financial wealth. what it does to them and their families....and they think they are winning.

So poor all they have is money.

remaction · Wednesday at 10:34 PM

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