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ISR against cartel targets???

Legalize everything. Take the money out of it. Ban nar can. This will never happen because the money flows both ways.
While I agree with your general premise, that cannot be done until there is absolutely no welfare system in place for them (other than individuals trying to help)- otherwise it would finish us off financially faster that the last administration

Society has to be ready to completely look the other way as these people rot and die in their neighborhoods, and there are negative secondary effects.

If we were just talking cocaine, pot and maybe heroin it wouldn't be near as risky - it would still wreak havoc on society eventually. But with Fentanyl, Tranq and these synthetics - a brick into a local water supply would kill millions in a few days. ~2mg fatal dose.

6.5 CM 140 Grain Berger Hybrids-Reloading oddities

As said above, your seating pressure is too high. This is coupled with your seating stem inside the die not being an optimal fit for your desired bullet.

It usually occurs when the interference ("neck tension") is too tight, you're running a compressed charge, or maybe there's an oddity in the brass/missed step in case prep.

Instead of pin gages, I use a mandrel as the last step of brass prep before priming and charging. That is one way to control the amount of interference fit between the bullet and case. VLD seating stems are also a great tool to swap into your dies as the geometry is better suited for longer target bullets (even hybrids).

I'd bet that if you were to add the mandrel and swap the stem - that you'll see 90-100% of that ring removed (as long as you aren't running a really compressed load).

Which to try first DNT 7-35 or the Bushnell Match Pro ED 5-30?

Zero stop on the DNT is a simple set with the two screws but you can’t really set it to go under 0. Clicks are nice but a little bit of a hollow feel to them. Probably from the knob design itself.

The Match Pro knobs are nice too. Easy to use and nice clicks and it’s locking which I like. The zero stop is easy to set under the knob.

Both are decent scopes honestly but the glass is a little better in the DNT so all comes down to what you want. The Bushnell does have more CA but it’s workable. Bushnell is more money even with LE/mil discount and $200 more without it so depends on your budget also.

I sold my other Strike Eagle but have one arriving tomorrow so I can give you a little side by side glass between it and the DNT also as you have a SE already so you have a reference point.
I’m curious about the SE vs DNT also. I might have to pull my SE off a 10/22 to make weight on my centerfire.
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ISR against cartel targets???

Judas priest, if I had a slide show of every time some said “that will never happened” on this forum and IT DID HAPPEN.

How did people of this demographic become such “negative Nancys”? Seriously you all put Karen’s to shame. The same group that lectures the left on grabbing your bootstraps and “cowboy up”. The same demographic that says “can do, will do” !!!!

I am so sick of the “can’t do, won’t do” attitude.

For mold to grow and thrive you need several environmental elements. Start picking away those elements and suddenly mold either doesn’t grow or stops growing.

The US needs to make doing business across our border a hostile environment. We need to pick away at every aspect of what it takes for the cartels in Mexico to get their product here. We then need to pick away at the very cartels themselves.

Do we stop every bit? No probably not, but do we make it so the cartels break up and they don’t have the power and control that they have today in Mexico and across our own border. I believe we can do that. I would call that victory!

BUT FIRST we need a “can do will do” mindset. Without that, we might as well open the border and announce defeat. Which is pretty much what we’ve been doing until NOW.
I frequently remind folks that the cross-border drug trade isn’t one sided. It isn’t a multi-billion dollar industry, just because it ships drugs across our border. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry due to a multi-billion dollar APPETITE, inside our border. There is some serious levels of consumption in the USA, and those people are every level: from school teachers, to attorneys and judges, to physicians, to engineers and pilots, and air traffic controllers. There’s no serious “ war on drugs” as long as so many people are enslaved. It’s not only the wired posturing people on skid row, it is a significant number of the expletives right around you, from county office clerks to your surgeon, LEO, and fire, teachers, and politicians at all levels. , …billions of dollars worth of American noses. Look around your work. Somebody is using. Might only be one, but it’s there.

ISR against cartel targets???

While strikes on cartels might reduce their capability and make some positive PR , its a game of whack a mole as long as demand keeps growing , Hunter Biden and other junkes are not going anywhere . Maybe Mexicans lose their grip but others step into their shoes ,likely ever more sophisticated players.

War on drugs has been on going since 1971 ,CIA hopped on the drug trafficking into US already in the 60's .Anyone who thinks they are not into drug trafficking today is delusional .Probably flew out drugs from Afghanistan on every flight they had , then comes Taliban and whole shit gets shut down like in 2 years.

Given Panama is in sights again , lets not forget US installed & supported ,drug lord Noriega ran it for a while.