First movie I’ve been excited to see in a while. The first one was solid.

SNB said:

1.Kyiv not Kiev.

2.

Institute for the Study of War

The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has been steadily declining since November 2024, in part due to successful Ukrainian counterattacks in eastern Ukraine.

www.understandingwar.org

The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has been steadily declining since November 2024, in part due to successful Ukrainian counterattacks in eastern Ukraine. The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported on April 5 that Russian forces advanced 143 square kilometers in Ukraine in March 2025 as Ukrainian forces conducted successful tactical counterattacks in the Pokrovsk direction.[1] The UK MoD reported that the rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has decreased each month since November 2024, as Russian forces seized roughly 730 square kilometers in November 2024, 393 square kilometers in December 2024, 326 square kilometers in January 2025, and 195 square kilometers in February 2025.[2]

You should especially like this point, as supporters of renaming - restoring historical names
3.Moscovites not Russian.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/11/7392946/

Zelenskyy responds to petition on renaming Russia to Muscovy​

"This name was used in European and some Asian languages. This name also appears on many historical maps of the 16th-19th centuries, which were produced in Europe before and after the renaming of the Muscovite Empire to the Russian Empire," the petition says.

The author of the appeal emphasises that "Russia has existed for only 301 years"— since 22 October 1721, when Muscovian Tsar Peter I proclaimed the Muscovy Kingdom to be the "Russian Empire".

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Bwaaaahahaha. The exclamation of "We're winning because they are kicking our ass a little slower" is pure comedic gold.

So, when is your next election?

Kiev Kyiv, meh no body cares.

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We are getting new disks to address trickle inconsistencies (which I haven't personally experienced), and some additional updates to the bulk hopper are WIP. Consider the usual turnaround time for testers to test, feed back, then try a revision to verify - I would guess mid-May to finalize the design and end of May to have a limited pilot qty available via two planned distributors.

Full disclosure, I have just run through another 300 rds today, with two different powders, without issue. Other testers are still experiencing hiccups and my impression is the creator wants those sorted before going commercial.

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To add to this, the test group is actively finding and quashing the normal kinds of issues you find when a product first encounters the public. Testing with more powders in different environments, nailing down quality of life stuff, giving feedback on the user interface, etc etc.

Hopefully it leads to a smoother rollout when PP decides it's ready!

Wonder how much kidneys go for these days?

6.5SH said:

Other "weird history" item, he's wearing Levi's.

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levi's were common on the team's

SilentStalkr said:

Ok ok, so why no brush in and out? I used to be a one way only pass kind of guy and unscrew the brush after it exists muzzle and so on. However, after watching people like Erik Cortina run his in an out at 100mph, I don’t see why it’s a big deal? Thoughts? I always thought it was a little silly because it’s barrel steel and it’s hard for me to believe that a nylon brush with a brass collar coming out or riding back over the muzzle is going to do anything. Brass is much softer than barrel steel. I mean it flings copper jacketed lead out of it as thousands of feet per second. Is coming backwards over the muzzle really going to do anything?

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I use Parker Hale jags with wrapped patches, and also nylon brushes, and I run them in both directions. With the jag/patch, I stop the stroke when the tip of the jag has exited the muzzle, but before the entire wrapped patch has exited (ie. half-way out the muzzle). If you let the whole thing exit, the patch may try to ball-up at the muzzle on the return stroke and be excessively hard to return.
With a brush, you pretty much have to let it completely exit, because if you don't, the bristles have to reverse direction within the bore and that causes difficulty. I let the brush exit, then slowly let it re-center itself in the muzzle on the return stroke before bringing it back to the chamber end. I can't see how you could possibly do any damage to the crown if you are gentle (as above) when you are transiting through it in either direction. I DO, however, always finish the final stroke of either patch or brush on the way OUT of the barrel to push any dislodged debris out with it, and I finish up with dry patches in the same one-way direction to push everything out the muzzle. I have not experienced any premature loss of barrel life using these techniques, and I believe that going in both directions does a better job of scrubbing the bore clean.

True up day! Added some 3D thumb shelves right after this today.

Californio said:

This is my 5th GGF's daughter, first born child, sister to my 4th GGF. Fuck Canada for what they did to my family.

Mary Shirley McGuire Chapter of the DAR, Plano Texas: History

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OK, so what I hear you saying is, "The British" kidnapped your family, held them in what is now "Canada"; then "The British" released your family (again, in Canada) and many of your ancestors died miserably due to this and the season.

And for this, all Canadians are bad? So tell me, how much have you paid out in the reparations for all the slavery in the world, let alone in the U.S. of A.? Not only that, but have you apologized to the Japanese yet? If not, why not?

Bullfrog08 said:

You're in my area. They have built Spin Pizzas all over the place close to the city, Lee's Summit, Prairie Village, KC . You don't have to travel to Columbia to get it. Maybe you meant Shakespeare's pizza on the MU campus?

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She's at UCM, not Columbia. She said there were too many retarded liberals at that campus....she makes me so proud. Lees summit is still at least 45min from me, and that's if I drive fast too. They used to have one in Liberty, but that one closed.

I will take both of these. PM inbound.

LRRPF52 said:

1. Got rid of Panama’s secret Belt and Road Initiative pact with China. That is huge.
2. Reset the military with solid leadership focused entirely on lethality and survivability.
3. Pro-US energy policy
4. Reset trade relationships
5. Secured the US border
6. Laken Riley Act.
7. Deporting violent, child rapist, sex-trafficking, worst illegals
8. Promoting over $1.8 Trillion in US investments from private firms
9. 10,000 new US jobs in the first month of his WH
10. Back-pay to US service members who were kicked out for not getting injected with experimental mRNA.
11. Ended the Green New Deal trash agreements from Obama and Biden.
12. Getting Russia and Ukraine to the peace negotiating table.
13. Ending surgical and chemical mutilation of children as part of the demonic tranny movement.
14. Ban on tranny males from competing in women’s sports.
15. DOGE chasing down Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government
16. Reforming the Federal Bureaucracy
17. Ending DEI trash
18. Ordered and end to anti-Christian bias, censorship, pardoned 23 pro-life activists

There are a ton of things he’s done that are very difficult to even keep up with.

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add to the list ..signed Executive order . ELIMINATING 10 Federal REGULATIONS, FOR EACH NEW REGULATION ISSUED .
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Bullfrog08 said:

This is why I don't do potlucks, food at work, food gifts, family holiday food, etc. I'm 100% sure the health department has never visited your home!

Now, I do some work in food manufacturing facilities and I'm no oblivious to some of the nasty shit I see. Picking food off the floor, when I drop it doesn't bother me. Something about your dog/cat licking their butthole and then licking your hands, and then your hands all over your food, are thoughts I can't handle. It also didn't help having a vengeful ex-wife who prepared food in a particular way for the people she hated at her job.

I only eat food prepared by certain people or those regulated by the health department! NEVER by old people with pets!

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Wait, you trust the health department?

Dogsniper said:

I’m getting 3103 with a 22” Ackley with 75s

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Fantastic. Mine is a match rifle that I use in Tac class. .223 up to 77grn and .308 up to 178grn only and a max of 3000fps for the .223 so I am fine where I am at.

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The Kimber Advance Tactical!! I started on one of those and still have it collecting dust in my safe.

My experience with over gassed was the bcg was moving rearward so soon the extractor was almost tearing the rim off the case. It would get the occasional feed the next round, before the first was ejected. Installed an AGB and a heavier buffer and it was much better with little to no marks on the case rim at all. Most likely too large of a gas port from the manufacturer.... to make sure it would eject.... I have no idea if these problems can be pinned down to a single item or several mis-matched ones.... With my 308AR I have an AGB, heavier buffer and spring. Runs perfectly and the case rims on the brass looks like it came out of a bolt gun. I assume the bolt lock time is in the "happy zone".

Time for a new meme: Bye Letitia!

Tanner Garrett said:

Still available?

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Yes still have 3 of them. Updated what’s left and price.

45-90 said:

You are welcome to your opinion...as am I

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Both valid sir

This is an older thread, but keep in mind that you could have problems no matter what you get. Everyone turns out a turd once in a while. Criterion makes good barrels. In that price range, you should also check out the offerings from Geissele as well.

What matter is that the manufacturer stands behind their product.

A few thoughts. My background on the subject:

• Past owner of a .223 Tikka T3x Varmint upgraded with MDT 20MOA rail, LSS-XL chassis, ARCA rail, Anarchy Outfdoors bolt handle.
• Currently VERY pleased with Terminus Apollo-based custom .223 with Bartlein 1:7 barrel and TriggerTech Diamond in MDT ACC chassis. Current optic is Vortex gen-3 Razor 6-36x56 on 20MOA rail.
• I also have a .223 bolt and barrel for my Defiance Deviant-based rifle, but since I built the Apollo-based rifle with much help from a prize table cert and Black Friday sales, those bits have gone unused (the Defiance usually wears 6BR or 6.5CM barrels).

Thoughts:

• It sounds like you plan to use this bolt-action .223 as I use mine: as a cheaper-to-run alternative to larger-caliber rifles. My .223 is set up exactly the same as my 6BR/6.5CM - same barrel length/contour, chassis, trigger, and optic; only difference is the bolt throw which is not "a thing" for me.
  • So - with that said - you DO NOT need to push the envelope with velocity and bullet weight, or hot-rodded .223 variants. Why bother? Of course, if you want to play with such, fine, but that's not what you said.
  • I regularly shoot to 1000 with Hornady 75 ELDMs running about 2850fps. I can easily get more velocity, but this bullet with 22.8 grains of N135 and CCI 450 primer gives a relatively inexpensive load that is fairly gentle on the barrel and brass and is as accurate as any load for any caliber I've ever messed with.
  • This load's trajectory is nearly identical to my 6BR out to 700ish yards.
  • I tried 80-grain bullets. Pfft. Don't need 'em and they didn't perform as well as the 75s at ANY range.
  • I damn sure don't need to pay $100 a jug more for Varget to push more-expensive Berger bullets to suborbital speed.
  • The 75 ELDM load shoots to same POI whether my Rugged Alaskan suppressor is installed or not.
• If you want the short-throw action, Southern Precision Rifles carries Terminus and Zermatt. Pick one.
• Like Rob said - 90-degree bolts aren't going to be a problem with any reasonable / reasonably-mounted optic.
• Unasked but worth mentioning: don't fall for fudd lore of needing the optic mounted practically touching the barrel. I run 1.26" rings on all my bolt rifles; it's far better to raise the adjustable comb to where you need it than need to lower it and cannot.
• I have TriggerTech Diamonds in all but one of my bolt rifles. I like the Diamond because it adjusts down to 4 ounces; after six+ years of PRS-style and other competition, I have settled on an 8-ounce pull weight. Many people find this too light; if you are one of these, there are less expensive TT options (or other brands).
• EuroOptic is running a 25%-ish sale on a variety of MDT chassis right now, fwiw. You can also often find good deals on them in the PX here on SH.

Good luck.

earthquake said:

Civil War was terrible imho.

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And this one is similar, looks promising in the trailer but the film was a fail.