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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Here’s the thing- DOGE isn’t firing “unproductive” people. They’re firing as many people as they can with 0 thought behind it. Elon is just a really fucking weird dude who wants to remain relevant at all costs.
You deserve an award for that insightful post - an award for the dumbest comment on SH. How do you know the metrics that are being applied to the firing process? I bet you have NO idea. Your last comment is even worse than your first. The least cutting edge, relevant thing Musk is doing is DOGE.

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I have heard from more than one news source that he was actually fired but the MSM is throwing it out there that he "resigned" in brave defiance.

Not 100% positive but worth a little more research to confirm or deny.
"they" are usually given the option to resign or be fired. It doesn't absolve them of any future criminal prosecution, it just looks better on their resume and is quicker with no avenue to appeal a termination.

We all kinda knew this...ATF monitoring

You know what’s a 4th violation ? All the f ing tag readers. That record and store where you go.

Gov and private ones.

And another thing. It’s bs for .gov to pay someone to do things that are illegal for .gov to do

This. ^^^^^

Most people are completely unaware of how many plate readers are imbedded into and networked out of traffic signal sensors, those mobile highway depts signs, LE vehicle dash mounts, etc. Constantly updating a real-time data base of locations, movements and patterns. Supposed to be used for Amber Alerts, stolen vehicle and BOLO type support but just like most tools justified to assist public safety, it can be (and is) used for targeted surveillance of individuals or groups that have broken no laws at all.

Just like most of the Patriot Act, a lot of the "safety tools" have become a tool of government fuckery.

Good .223 DMR/MPVO Optic These Days?

I won't say that I'm a scope connoisseur of any sort, but I am kind of a scope freak. The optic is the most important part of the rig for me. I was also in the market for a shorter, lighter, practical scope for out to 800 on steel.

I'm no Leupold fan boy and haven't owned one in decades, but something came over me one night while drunk shopping and I decided to grab a 2.5-10 Mark 4HD. The turrets have a little mush to them, but they're accurate and repeatable. The reticle is a bit simplistic, but the center aiming dot is fine enough and it works well enough for dialing elevation and holding wind.

Now for the good. The glass is phenomenal. I had my heart set on getting a Mark 5, but the compulsion faded after getting the Mark 4 and I saved myself over $1k. You won't miss the parallax adjustment. Leupold put some kind of voodoo into the Mark 4. The depth of field is nothing short of amazing parallax shift has not been a problem at all.

I have or have had all of the scopes mentioned so far. My favorite scope to get behind was the 2.-10 Gen 2 PST. Now it's the Mark 4. I really can't speak highly enough of it for the price. The biggest downside is that you only get one rev on the elevation turret, but 9 mils has been enough for me.

Be aware that there's talk of Leupold changing the glass in the Mark 4. If you want one, I'd get it sooner than later.
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As an update to my first post, I see what you’re showing in your pictures.

Something I noticed is that you are not running the JP one piece gas rings. Is there a reason for that?

Also, regarding the gun not chambering a round, do you feel that the bcg isn’t coming far enough back to pick up the round from the magazine?

If so, does it lock back on an empty mag?
The JP one piece gas Rings or Garbage!

I stopped running them about 2 years ago and have switched to SpringCo Gas rings, I never really had any issues until I started running short barrels with exstended gas systems. Some of my Custom Builds started to become finicky with failure to feed and failure to extract for no apparent reason with random factory ammo.

I'm extremely methodical with my custom builds and one of the steps I take on all of them is the seal the gas systems.

I first noticed it with a couple of my custom 6.5 Creedmoor builds that would just dribble the case out of the ejection port with the AGB wide opened, I initially thought it was due to weak Extractor Springs but after replacing them with new SpringCo E-Springs I was met with the same results.

During the same time frame I was having the exact same issues but with more failures on a 14.5" 6ARC with Intermediate Gas System.

Since I couldn't immediately detect the cause of these failures, I assumed it was a bad lot of factory ammo.

During one of my range session I pulled the gas rings from some random builds that i was performing barrel break-in on that had the standard 3 piece gas rings, I installed them on the 6.5CM and 6ARC builds that had the complete JP Bolts.

The 3 piece rings sets immediately rectified all reliability issues. The lid on my Range Box was opened next to my daughters bench six feet away at about 4 O'clock to me and every single piece of brass both 6.5CM and 6ARC landed neatly inside. After shooting 10 round groups out of both rifles I then proceeded to walk around the range wandering around like an idiot because I couldn't find my damn brass.

when my daughter went to grab another box of ammo she yelled out, "Hey Sherlock! is this what you're looking ?" And held up a handful of brass and of course she had perfect timing when nobody was shooting so all the other range goers looked right at me and had a giggle...lol

Until about three years ago the majority of barrel manufacturers would run a larger sized Gas Port for reliability, which worked well but most of us had to resort to using adjustable gas blocks to calm down the gas.

Nowadays most quality Barrel manufacturers have put the R&D into their barrels to find the optimum size gas ports that don't require an adjustable gas block to efficiently run suppressed and unsuppressed.