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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    Like all Randalls that is a beautiful knife. But it's stainless, and the useless sawteeth just have you paying more to make the blade weaker. But if you enjoy it then that's all that matters. I still lust after a Randall Model 18 hollow handled knife...just because :)
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    Filipinos have a long history with blades of all kinds :) Finding a good cultural blade is the way to go, I agree, because they've already worked out what works over centuries of use, with the caveat that they know how to use their knives in the environment they were designed for. I have a pair...
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    Rifle Scopes New Army Reticle, Details Inside

    It's for ranging targets at unknown distances. Any stepped reticle feature like that is calibrated to some specific, consistent distance, often something like 16" vertically or 5-6'vertically. When looking at a target of that size you move the reticle across it until the target is within the...
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    That was a well written and (IMHO) quite accurate summary of the situation. I'll only add a couple things: Tools should be selected based on anticipated use. If I knew I was going into the wild to be self sufficient for a long time, and would have to do 18th century woodcraft, I would certainly...
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    If you have pre cut, pre split, "nice dry wood" why to you have to baton it at all?
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    So here's a dilemma that I'm sure most of us have faced-

    I have two Pythons. I love to look at them, and because of their worth I shoot them very little. I also have a beloved 1990's vintage Remington Varmint Synthetic in .308 , in the factory HS precision stock, which shoots very very tight groups with Federal Match .308. If I needed the money...
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    Skip the tanto. Even the old Cold Steel ones were prone to edge chipping and where very hard to resharpen. They're a fighting knife, not a utility knife. I completely agree with the recommendation of a Kabar. I grew up with one from a surplus store. It was Vietnam issue, all black with the...
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns What survival knife

    A high quality, flat ground, carbon steel bowie with a 10" blade is am amazing tool. It works better than any sawteeth and most axes. But it's not a small knife obviously, so one would carry a backup Swiss Army knife or something similar for light work. Daniel WInkler makes some fine knives...
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    Rifle Scopes New Army Reticle, Details Inside

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus
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    Why the Controversey over Creedmoor 6.5?

    I didn't say it was "preferred", merely implied that it was a concept. It's extremely dated information. I can't find the the book to quote from at the moment but I believe it was from this 1966 book: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15017013.John_S_Tompkins The book is about then new...
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    Rifle Scopes New Army Reticle, Details Inside

    I'm curious about your comment; why the dislike for Horus? I'm not making accusations just curious. I bought the Horus Vision ballistic software(which you have to run on a Windows compact device) just before Horus sort of almost-but-not-quite disappeared. More recently they seem to be coming...
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    Why the Controversey over Creedmoor 6.5?

    Never having shot at anything that can shoot back I can only offer this: - I've read that military policy is more concerned with wounding than killing. A wounded soldier takes 2 additional soldiers to drag him back to the medic, so that's 3 out of action. But that's the military. - at ranges...
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    Rifle Scopes S&B 5-25 PMII Still a Good Choice?

    It's not a cheap scope. At that price are you asserting there aren't scopes of equal quality that don't tunnel?
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    Mils at 100 Meters?

    This is the first I've heard of 0.499" I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just saying it never came up in math, algebra, or calculus. After thinking about it a moment it makes sense to me mathematically. However in the real world it's sufficiently accurate to say "round up if it's greater...
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    Mils at 100 Meters?

    To be fair, not all reticles are in mils, some are in minutes. But, and here's the value add: don't use a reticle that's in inches and think "well the duplex part is about 3" wide at 100 yards. and I missed by about one reticles thickness so I need to adjust by 3" on the turrel" Think instead...
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    Mils at 100 Meters?

    And this is why, as an American, LOVE the metric system more than the Imperial system :)
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    Rifle Scopes S&B 5-25 PMII Still a Good Choice?

    Doesn't the 5-25 PM II have an issue with tunneling? 0:41
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    11 year old girl totes loaded AR 15 to council meeting

    Yep :( Back in the late 70's I wanted an AR. Stepdad (who had been in the Korean war, anw owned guns) didn't want it. Said "buy an M1 carbine or Mini 14" instead. Well a late 70's AR is worth over $2,000 now. A commercial carbine or Mini 14 from the same time, not so much.
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    11 year old girl totes loaded AR 15 to council meeting

    You didn't "tote" your shotgun into a courtroom, for no good reason. The bill under discussion had to do with granting concealed carry permissions to non Idaho residents while visiting Idaho. Bringing a loaded AR is no smarter than bringing a flame thrower; no positives, and if something bad...
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    11 year old girl totes loaded AR 15 to council meeting

    I agree. This is not productive. It's also so irrelevant to the topic which was at hand, a bill which would allow non resident firearms owners to conceal carry, that the only possible interpretation of this mans action is to want to gain attention for himself. Rifles and ARs were entirely not...
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