SONIC SAAMI said:

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You’re just jealous cause I got nice pretty wood and a better pick up truck.

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SONIC SAAMI said:

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You’re just jealous cause I got nice pretty wood and a better pick up truck.

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If I’m jealous of anything, it would be that you are driving around my old stomping grounds. I miss picking a random dirt road, and driving deep into the mountains or desert, across what would be half a state in some places. Practiced medicine in Lakeview for 10 years. Retired there, for a while, then moved to Texas. Still go back to hunt Elk near Prairie City. The guy with the big load, is standing next to his buddy’s truck, and has already loaded his own truck, the same way. He’s in his 70’s , and spent much of his life logging around NE California. Tree faller. They cut what people ask for, and in that area around Mt Lassen, they dont want lodge pole.

matthias said:

What is the cutoff? That is my point, is it 21 genes? Or 21million genes? I have yet to see a non philosophical answer.
It's nifty what they are doing and this is a great way to get the ball rolling with the public. The ceo has stated each de-extinction is paired with a conservation effort. I think its red wolves in north Carolina?
Does it matter if it is a restoration,restomod, or original? When does it cross over to a real dire wolf? Or is it something completely new?

I kinda want a woolly mouse with tusks.

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What’s the cutoff? Well, let’s think about it. And, let’s use the human/chimpanzee example. There’s roughly 1% variation between humans and chimps. What’s the variability between humans? SUBSTANTIALLY LESS than 1%.

That can almost certainly be extrapolated to wolves as well. What’s the variation within the grey wolf genome? How about the dire wolf genome? In both cases, the variation within a genome is substantially less than the variation between genomes. So, are the genomes of these pups (grey wolf + 20 changes) closer to grey wolf genomes, or dire wolf genomes (grey wolf + ~30 million changes)?

Yes, their outward appearance resembles the dire wolf archeological evidence. But, they are circus attractions. The physical embodiment of the “dinosaurs” (Dino-amphibian chimeras) from Jurassic Park.

Don’t let the hype and media fool you. This would be a very different discussion if the headline said “Scientists study ancient Dire Wolf DNA and use the discoveries to create a really big Grey Wolf.”

This is what they did, of course.

How well it meters is a big reason I like 8208 so much. For most of my 223 loads it's not compressed like varget is. Although I tend to use 8208 for 55g. I tend to use varget in my bolt action with heavey bullets. I like 8208 for ar15 mag length rounds with 77 smk.

Frank Green said:

You got your order confirmation correct? Just making sure.

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Yes sir I did. Thanks for checking. We did it off a pm because I thought I missed it

dpw4x4 said:

I have mine mine in

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You got your order confirmation correct? Just making sure.

Stevo86 said:

Info sent!

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got it!

I saw someone in another thread mentioned they weren’t happy with the cam pressure needed to close the bolt. I am going to wait and see what my clearances are like with the 90 and my optic setup before I rush out and drop $500+ on a new bolt to save 15 degrees.

Sorry about the delay, updated the ad now to show sold.

I'm all for it, full speed ahead!

Next I want to see Deinosuchus all over Florida. That place needs to get cleaned up.

The only "ethical" guardrail I see is that we need to have a strict prohibition on using it to bring back Russians after we finally get to the point of extinction.

I use a 2 MOA red dot on my Rimfire. I find it helps quite a bit. I use my left eye for the dot and right for the scope. My level is also on the left, although with both eyes open I “see” it in the lower left quadrant of my scope reticle. FOV at higher magnification is limiting on small targets. Factor in 700yds of open featureless field with 1-2MOA targets and it works. For $60, it adds points to my finishes. I hope my competitors think it’s dumb though.

LBEdgin said:

Do you have any left?

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Yes 12 boxes

BTT

sirhrmechanic said:

Meet the archetype of the vax-pushing scum… hidden in agency after agency like a mole… moved to CIA after the election was lost…

This is the modern Dr. Mengele. And should be tried as such:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/exclusive-senior-cia-official-who-facilitated-bidens-military-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-fired/

She has been “tracked” and in the news for 5 years…. How many lives did she ruin? How many of our soldiers and their families did she kill?

When will she be arrested and tried for genocide?

Inquiring minds want to know….

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Are we sure that started life as a “she”?

My Calypso works great with Vector X, I don’t see any mention for Vector X, if I will do the firmware upgrade can I loose the capability to connect Vector X and Calypso ?

Darryle said:

Unless you control it from seed stock to table or raise it and process it/have it processed, there is little you can do.

I get the whole health lifestyle, everything will kill you, the water you drink to the air you breathe, we are slowly killing ourselves, directly or indirectly.

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ironpony52 said:

So my Grandma that ate SPAM multiple times a week and lived to 90 would have lived to 150 if she didn't ? Oh and she smoked unfiltered Camel cigarettes from the age of 12.

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There was a guy that had a cow fall through his roof and land on him while he was sleeping, another was asleep in his bed when a sinkhole opened up below him and he was never found, a young couple and their child were traveling on the interstate during a storm. He stopped at a gas station to wait for better driving conditions and a tree fell on the car killing all of them, a friends sister was on her way home after work when a tree fell on her and killed her, a friend was a health nut and a distance runner that ran miles every day. He died at work from a heart attack at the age of 48.
It would be a shame to miss out on some tasty foods and have some tragedy befall you.















Don't get me wrong. Eating McDonald's and tasty cakes is not a good idea for a dietary lifestyle. Eating quality food is going to better in the long term but if I eat a frosted honey bun or some Krispy Kreme donuts it ain't going to kill me. Doctors kill 250,000 people a year in this country a second place to heart disease.
I was raised eating eggs, bacon, sausage and toast for breakfast and not Captain Crunch with sugar added. Lunch was usually leftovers from the night before or something else home cooked. Supper was always a meat and vegetables and some times a pasta dish with a salad and homemade bread. I've continued that into adulthood and raised my children that way.
Moderation is the key.

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JoshPutman said:

You'd probably get better pizza at a gas station.

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ive had some excellently decent gas station pizza in my time.

ToddM said:

Did no one learn from Kimber.......what do you think the same guy is going to do running another gun company.....

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No. People that buy Kimbers do not shoot guns. They polish guns. Kimbers work great for that.

Cascade Hemi said:

So that's a yes?

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Knock yourself out... I just don't recommend it. LOL!

matthias said:

Clarification on my end, I was not commenting about "should this be going on" I was trying to determine what the cutoff for determining if a GMO dire wolf is a dire wolf.

The philosophical questions around the creation of the creatures is a really difficult to to answer.

the base of the issue as I see it is , we have been modifying living things for as long as people have been around. Plants and animals alike have been permanently and in some cases strangely changed. Is the laboratory just the scary part? Or if they had bred 20 generations of gey wolf to turn into direwolf like creatures would that be better?

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Yup... there were no wild poodles or border collies or Great Danes... all created by mankind. From a base animal... given how long it's been going on... possibly dire wolves were among those animals! 10-12K years ago, we had proto cities and certainly civilizations...

Gregor Mendel only Proved what was going on. But "Artificial Selection" has been going on intentionally and unintentionally for almost as long as we have been the alpha species. Carl Sagan did a great segment on this in the brilliant 1980 Cosmos series...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

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Definitely a good thing to throw into any arguments! What's the difference between gene splicing and someone breeding dozens of generations of dogs to create a Wiener-dog selected to catch rats! Guess one argument is that it takes time and contemplation (and a need?) to breed a wiener dog. But science can do it in weeks or months. Making it 'easy' to do. This was part of what many scientists warned about (and Crichton popularized)... was that the folks "Standing on the shoulders of giants" never went through the struggles, contemplation, effort, work and 'time to reflect' that their predecessors went through. They simply pick up a tool and say "Hey, I can use this to do X or Y." There is no reflection on the 'should' vs. the 'can.'

No easy answers... But the questions should be asked. Because the risks of some of this, long term, is apocalyptic. Or not?

We're still due a supervolcano, a massive bleed-out virus, or a giant meteor. So the cosmos is going to reset itself eventually. Maybe we should just concentrate on having fun, doing good works and trying to leave our little corner of the planet better than we found it.

Or, screw it! Let's shoot shit!

Cheers,

Sirhr

Rockdoc173 said:

This seems like a screamin deal. The Matrix Pro is like $1600 by itself, but they went with the CDG to boot. I just finished a 7PRC using a CDG and I dig it. If I didn’t have a 260 prefit on order SJA, I would definitely be thinking hard about this one.

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This was $3k when you posted this correct?

1. Practice would do more good for a beginner than strapping more stuff to a rifle. Especially if you will be shoving the rifle through props.

2. No ideas as I don’t use a rifle mounted LRF.