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armorpl8chikn
Sandhog308 said:
We have this weather every year in Arkansas. We can go from burn bans to flood warnings in a second. Expecting 8.5 more inches ‘tween now and Saturday. Had numerous tornado sightings also.
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I was gonna comment on this as well.
This "news flash" is not "news".
It seems like every week we get a new "doom" article. I just want the weather. No propaganda necessary.
If you think there's a tornado coming, warn me. Thanks for the heads up. Simple, concise, we are done.
At this point, all i want to see, is what they are trying to distract me from seeing.
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Vortex RazorHD Gen III 6-36x56 vs NF ATACR 7-35x56

rothgyr
CSTactical said:
The Gen III was never Sub $2k officially as that is less than dealer’s cost, Scott at LO programmed many to believe that. But…

Some people did get free ones at matches and flip them or some people grabbed 50% off certificates on the prize tables.

All the above happened at a large scale and devalued the Gen III unfortunately, which is a fantastic scope under $3k.

Now Scott seems to be on the run and Vortex’s sales are hurting, IMO the best thing to do is not repeat lines like this, “ The Gen III was awesome at sub $2K but now with their crazy price increase I don’t know. ”

Their MAP pricing never changed, their MSRP to calculate discounts has.
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When it launched, it was standard to get one for $2100. Rare is the guy that's buying Nightforce, vortex, Leupold, USO, etc for regular pricing. Everyone knows what the mil/leo or cert prices are. The used prices on all of these is reflected.

On launch, every video on it talked about it being a $2k tangent. It was suddenly stupid to buy an $1800 xtr pro, $1900 FDN, $1800 mk5, $2700 atacr, $3200 kahles, etc., because *for the price* the g3 out performed everything. Yes, MSRP was $4k, but only chumps at Cabela's we're buying moa ones at MSRP.

MSRP hike puts it where it should have been all along. I'm keeping my atacr, because I like the reticle and controls (and color).

The group think and hype around the g3 were real, and it threw a wrench in the
market share.
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Tariff effects on imported optics

Mr.BR
Keeper22 said:
I am ignorant to the particulars of the tariffs as a whole, but reading and talking to a few reps there are work around to diminish the tariffs, such as assembling the end product in the the USA. That's supposed to be one of the benefits to the tariffs,. It's scary times, our economy is still struggling but we have to do something.
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They already do what i dub Kia tarif mod.

In the past Korean car imports were subject to hefty tarrifs in EU , the importers had storage and a dismantling facility directly at the port. Complete cars rolled of the ship , and workers at the port dismantled some of the trim, wheels and in some cases even doors , then cars were shipped to a distribution hub that resembled them and off they went onto the market tarif free. But is already something done by many US brands. Optics were in some cases subject to hefty US tarrifs even predating this.

But end of the day your 2800$ vortex made in Japan, drops off the ship at 7-800$ so you can quickly rack up enough added value to skirt some tarrifs.
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Ruger Precision Rimfire

flyfisher117
Man the reviews on these little turds is all over the place.

If I could do it again I would skip the RPRR and go straight to CZ. That being said for what I paid for the rifle on sale I'm happy enough. Soon enough I'll start a dedicated nrl22 build and retire the RPRR to a loaner/squirrel rifle. Until then I'll keep rocking the mediocrity.

Most of my misses I can't blame on the gun, but there are times where I question it.
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Trump is back…the “Now What” thread

BCP
Malum Prohibitum said:
The tariff is paid by the business doing the importing. So for example, when Apple imports its iPhones and MacBooks and so on, Apple would pay a tariff to the US government. This then becomes a cost of the goods sold.

It affects prices every bit as much as a rise in the price of raw materials. Whether the consumer pays it or not is a little more complicated, but the cost will be mostly passed on to the consumer.




The hope is that Apple will decide that the cost of importing iPhones with the tariff is too great and open up factories in the US with captive workers who commit suicide by jumping out of windows . . .

Is that a likely outcome? We'll see.

The hope is also that other countries will lower their own tariffs to our US produced goods. Again, is that a likely outcome? We'll see. In the case of China, I am not sure it matters much. The reason for the huge trade imbalance is that there is not much domestic demand in China. They manufacture for export. They would be selling domestically to their own citizens if the demand was there. Lowering tariffs on US goods is not likely to spur a huge amount of demand in China for US goods.

So is lowering of Chinese tariffs on US goods even a desired outcome?

Then there is currency manipulation, failure to protect US intellectual property rights, etc. Maybe the tariffs will result in favorable outcomes on some of those issues.
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If you read the fine print his tariffs aren't really that big of a deal because there's lots of exemptions, the mexican->usa stuff is largely exempt. The democrat media driven hysteria is the bigger issue.
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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

168BTHPM
The D said:
There has to be a few times that he wants to feel like a real boy instead of some backwater sex toy. Right?
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You know, for being the only wad boy in the gay porn industry that cleans up with just your bare hands, you talk a lot of shit.












Carry on.
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Vortex RazorHD Gen III 6-36x56 vs NF ATACR 7-35x56

jbuck88
0V3RC10CK3D said:
Also deciding between these two optics. Razor at 2700 and NF at 2500. Thoughts? Any ideas why the Razor fell off in PRS?
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CSTactical said:
Well it does matter when consumers want a price that's better than what a dealer gets it for which has happened hundreds of times to me personally. There's no way a dealer can stay in business by selling items to customer's for hundred's of dollars less than what they pay.
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I 100% get and understand what you are saying. I have friends who fell victim to Scott. However I was trying to respond to why the g3 might have fell off in PRS.
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Let's talk about youth packages and training

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buckleboy said:
This. I got the Savage Rascal for my boy and appreciated it for the more realistic bolt, and the fact that it is single fed. He did not shoot it as much as I would like, but we still enjoyed it.
Once I receive my RimX, I’ll probably say the Bergara in an MDT TIMBR is “his” rifle to shoot.
We plink in the backyard for fun.
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The only thing I didn’t/don’t like about the rascal is that the extractor is savage reliable.
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Area419 - The ULTIMATE TEST - 2025 Big Boy Precision Optic Shootout

koshkin
CSTactical said:
Good thing this was done remotely, I was feeling kind of bad and just thought it was allergies last night but I’m in bad shape this morning. At minimum, it’s the flu, but I need to get tested for Covid.
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I suppose when I said that your body will be OK, but your mind will never be the same, I underestimated the power of the internet...

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Trump is back…the “Now What” thread

Mr.BR
theLBC said:
i don't know the details, but i did read that the tariff rates may include vat fees that are not reported as tariffs, but are an additional tax on imports.
when i lived in the uk, people would get mad at me if I didn't load up on duty free goods when i traveled back and forth.
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VAT is taxed on all products imported or not, Trump tarif scale is some black magic . closest to those numbers are trade deficits with each country

Honestly you would not want to onshore most of cheap shit made in asia.
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