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

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Never thought I'd see the day when this would be cheaper than IMR blah, blah, blah, blah, Varget, or Reloader blah, blah.....anywho....tried some of this stuff years ago with some Berger 73 grn. pills in my service rifle. Holy guacamole it shot like a laser beam! I reckon I'll have to revisit that recipe again....:sneaky:
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The lessons of stoicism and keeping one's cool and sharp thinking even during conflict is a lesson that is more valuable than gold to a man who wants to be successful and able to take care of business when he's required to. Because once one loses control of their bearings and emotional solid footing, they already opened all of their vulnerabilities up and lost the confrontation.

This is the USS Housatonic (comm. 1861)

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11 guns. One 12 pounder on each end. 100 pounder Parrott rifle, 2x 24 pounder naval howitzers. 2x 30 pounder rifles. 3x 32 pounder smoothbores. One 11 inch smoothbore. 2 carbon arc searchlights of 20,000 - 50,000 lumen powered by onboard turbine generator. Blockade enforcer. Pomp and show and intimidation.

This is the CSS Neuse (comm. 1863)

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Blockade smasher. 2x 160mm Brooke rifles. But it's real firepower is it's forward ramming wedge, which can cut a frigate in half at full acceleration, and the elite squads of Whitworth Sharpshooters who sailed with the crew. And as their namesake implies, all of the men in these squads were equipped with the .451 caliber Whitworth hexagonal bore match rifle, fitted with 2-8x power Malcolm scopes, max range 1400 yards, and can silence an entire gun deck on a capital ship within minutes by taking out their crews one by one. Officers would not even dare poke their heads above deck to issue orders, such was the lethality of Southern marksmen. And all Albemarle class vessels were built to use contact torpedoes, ie., percussion detonated warheads extended on a long underwater pole and rammed into the enemy's hull like a captive bolt device. Albemarle class fast torpedo interceptors like the Neuse were credited with over 30 capital ship kills from 1862 to 1865.

The USS Housatonic was sunk in 1864 by something even smaller and deadlier than the Neuse, although it's valiant crew also sacrificed themselves due to the explosion being much bigger than the torpedo's engineers who rigged it's ramming pole calculated it to be. CSS Hunley, always remembered, never forgotten, retrieved in 2005, and is now also in a museum.
 
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Your going to hate it, all the new generators have the O2 sensors and are a pain in the ass to get them far enough away from a structure to run. The older ones are way better as usual.
Definitely. Do the research to bypass that sensor and then bypass that sensor. Now. Before it stops running when you actually need the the thing to run.
 
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