>heavy? just lift some weights bro
>>64689439Booze cruisers are the most oppressed group.
>>64689318>SFABs were considerably less stupid> They were perfected GWOT fodder.They were 10 years too late, that's it. GWOT was already pretty much over in 2017
>>64688079We love solving problems of the previous war after the fact.
>>64689318senpai they became a thing a full fucking decade after the surge and all of four years before Kabul fell, basically when both sides knew what was going to happen in the endgame and were just pissing around waiting for it. they were a complete non-factor.
The lesson from Afghanistan should've been "We need a substitute standard battle rifle and heavier caliber squad automatic for austere conditions like this" with a max order of 60k rifles What actually happened "HURR DURR PKM OUTRANGE US WE NEED BIGGER BOOLET FOR EVERYBODY"
Around elves, relax yourselves.Previous thread: >>64677931>image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>with this handy script installed you'll occasionally hear what sounds like elves singing, but it's actually just Finnish
>>64689483>>64689620She also does the whole sells your data thing.Personalized ads at another level>Darlin' lets go pick up (insert paid promo here)
>>64686126I feel like some kind of elf-ear shaped cups would be a terrible idea to try and don/doff quickly. I would imagine Elves would really lean into ear-buds/ear plugs and probably have soft covers to help keep their ears from sticking out if its necessary.
>>64689663It's not like you really need to take earpro off quickly, electronic stuff you can just leave on even if you're out hunting.Also if they have anime elf ears that have some degree of mobility (ear wiggles) they can probably put them on pretty easily by just moving their ears into place when sliding them on.
>>64689681I just like to imagine Elves would prefer high quality gear and stuff better suited for them.
>>64686546East Tennessean here, how crowded is Northwest Tennessee? All the Californian transplants have crowded up and outbid everyone here, so I've been considering moving. Are there a lot of hills, mountains, and trees? I can't live without these things.
Merry Christmas you beautiful anons!If you haven't received your package, please submit an email to me and we will start tallying the late arrivals, and then sorting between folks who are likely to get theirs in the next few days vs those who the dreaded USPS has lost forever. We will be dispatching the Grinch Relief Corps (GRC) as needed to remedy. Send grinch relief applications to wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?si=--taGzS1BwZ1KnRTold thread>>64643227
>>64686555Huh, I was wondering where that pen went. I turned that myself a couple years ago. Should make another one of those. I'm glad you enjoyed the gifts anon.
Anyone who has not received their gift yet, please go ahead and submit your Grinch Relief Request to me at wendigohunter at protonmail dot comWe will be checking tracking, etc, then assigning to the GRC as needed!
For those who live in apartments, are there ever any issues receiving your packages from your complex’s mailroom?
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>>64686637uonaThereminvox on xitter
Gripen pilot, shareholder, and spokesperson says stealth is irrelavent 70's tech on major youtubers podcast
>>64676850>a-achually we don’t need stealth! Look at this war game were we shot down 1 billion F-22s and F-35s!Love this cope from the euromutts.
>>64685575Silence zigger
>>646772362/3 is a fraction.
>>64684958F-15EX is a jobs program to keep the St. Louis plant open.
>be sweden>no one buys my jetsFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
Solgw gets one fucking military contract and immediately does this shit
ur welcomehttps://unbrandedar.com/product/5-56-223-300blk-m16-enhanced-bolt-carrier-group-nitride-c158-bolt-w-billet-extractor/
>>64689461"sons of liberty"kek Americans really are spastics
>$500 for a bcgconsoomerism should be punishable by death
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64687465facial features look too different
>>64639246>Eh sorta wrong, the Spanish raised huge native armies b/c the Aztecs were so fuckin horrible.Nonsense. While Cortez mentions the fat cazique comlaining about Aztec spies, the vast majority of Aztec vassals remain neutral until Tenochtitlan fell or in one instance, Cortez engineered a coup of the local ruler to swing them to their side. Cortez' ally was the Tlaxcalans (emphatically not Aztec subjects, but an independent state), and that was it.The Aztecs were exceptionally belligerent, resembling Rome in this regard, but they were also fine with letting people be after defeating them. As long as they paid their tribute and maybe provided soldiers, they could keep their rulers, gods and so on. No resettlement, no forced labour. Again mirroring Rome.And domestically, the Aztecs also had fairly remarkably social mobility through military service. Which, hey, once again mirrors Rome!The Inca by contrast, had fuckall social mobility and were exceptionally happy to engage in forced resettlements and mass conscript labour. >>64668662Cocolitzli was a direct consequence of the collapse of living conditions through forced labour and the Spanish neglecting sanitary infrastructure. If the Spanish lose, the 1/3 drop to smallpox remains, but Cocolitzli basically never happens to a notable extent.
>>64687468Not at all, I'll do a detailed response later
>>64650798bodied that virgin pseud FREAK
>>64660172>genocidal white nationalisyeah high school can be really rough
>1990s>all sorts of different assault rifles, battle rifles, SMGs, PDWs>2020s>everything is an AR or an AKwhat happened?
>>64689204>>64686615The best designs were found. The end. This is what happens with all technologies, they get optimized until you reach close to optimal for any given function. Why make some new platform that will at best do the same but cost more?
Patents expired, faggots proliferated.
>>64689204They do, though.
>>64686615For the civilian sphere, its the death of milsurp. There may be interesting shit out there, but it isn't making it to American shores and much of it is just being destroyed outright at the end of its service life. To a secondary extent its the sanctions on China and Russia, a lot of the weird one-offs the Russians have made over the years could have been commercially successful if given access to the US market, and 800 dollar QBZs with pallets of bulk 5.8 would probably be an enticing beginners rifle. On the military side, the Fukuyama mind poison after the cold war made everybody too comfortable with not producing their own shit, and when everybody closes their arms factories then the potential for unusual domestic designs is murdered in the cradle and you can only really buy from a handful of sources, who are either making ARs, piston ARs, AKs or some SCAR clone. Regarding SMGs and battle rifles, they've just decline in relevance in general; so the market share only supports a handful of designs and so countries are conservative about what they buy.
>>64689218>>64689360>'h-hurr durr'Wrong.
Why was the Longbow in use for literally 300 years when it simply could not penetrate armor? I have watched several experiments with modern reproductions and never once has it achieved penetration of plate armor. In this latest one they can't even pen at point-blank range a late medieval brigandine and cheap Sallet helmet which was worn by poorfag troops. Rich nobles wore high-end bespoke plate made from tempered steel with every surface calculated to deflect blows and it would have zero chance against that. The amount of training that went into using the bow doesn't seem worth the results.https://youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo
>>64689612Why aren't they mentioned in the text then? Shouldn't all unarmored crusaders be killed by bows the moment the crusade started, leaving only the giga tanks triple wrapped in chainmail to be pincussioned remaining?
>>64684834The version England used was just an cargo cult copy with bad construction, inferior materials and poorly trained conscript troops. Marco Polo heard stories about the Yumi (itself a copy of a Chinese design) and tried to copy it. Not having access to bamboo they ended up making a poor quality bow that had to used on foot, England could not afford a professional warrior class so they could train men to ride a horse OR use a bow, not both. Even if they could have afforded more than a few days of training a year their technology was lacking as they couldn't make an asymmetric bow and didn't even know reverse archery stirrups existed. Even if they knew what reverse archery stirrups were not only did they lack the engineering need to make them they didn't have access to the horseradish tincture (whose only source was Japan) needed to properly cure the leather to the required level of elasticity. This means that without reverse archery stirrups magnifying the force even if they could make a Yumi it would not have it's maximum range and armor piercing ability. Recent advances in theoretical alternate archeology have proven that the myth of Agincourt is exactly that: None of the French knights were killed by English stone arrowheads but by crossbow bolts fired from Indian copies of Chinese crossbows, most likely acquired by Genoese traders via low quality export models dumped in India.
>>64689590Mail in general is attested to be vastly more effective in historical sources than what modern experimentation tries to show.
>>646896366/10, good start but >Stone arrowheadstoo blatant, call them soft iron and bowfags will stop reading and seetge
>>64689682Shit, i had meant to take that out during editing. That was supposed to be toned down, originally it also had 'reverse ratcheting archery stirrups'
>time to shoot a nice .280- ACK!Which cartridge has the worst name? My vote is .280 ackley improved, with an honorable mention to .30 super carry
>>64688281>plastic bullet>900 grainsi need to see this thing
>>64688281Jesus, the case is like an inch longer than an entire 3006 150gr round
>>64688635True, though 280 ai is the only AI round I’ve seen offered commercially
.22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer.577 Tyrannosaur.700 Nitro Express.300 Savage.338 Spectre.300 Whisper
>6.5 GRENDEL>.277 FURY>.350 LEGEND>.477 TYRANNOSAURCringe, cringe, cringe.Coincidentally the best cartridge name remains, possibly forever, the humble .45-70 Government
What’s the best gun for hunting polar bears?
>>64682879>>64682886>>64683013>>64683037The stock issues could have been solved by utilizing a polymer stock instead of the laminated wooden ones. But of course, count on the Canadian govt to fuck up even the simplest thing.
>>64682064>>64682326>>64682400Very good posts my fellow humans, if you let the bear in he will be your friend for the rest of your life.
>>64688412I agree with this poster he is very correct and definitely not a bear
>>64678265Rifle, M1917, in .30-06.
>>64683476They don't make them anymore. I looked.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
1943 m91/30 w bayonetta for $379 at my lgs. Anything to be wary of? Store assistant said usually wanted by 18yos who played COD ( Ironically, I had just finished WaW the previous night).
>>64689246no, talk em down to 300 or walk
>>64689246Matching numbers receiver, bolt, mag floorplate, buttplate Matching bayonetta would be idealNo import markCleaning rodNot Counterbored.
>>64689246i hate ww2 era mosins because their machining quality is garbage. it also doesnt help that the vast majority of them are from ww2 so of course people are going to say mosins are shit.get any pre war one or one especially not made in russia and they are smooth as butter.
>>64689653By beat up '43 izzy refurb is smooth as butter. Its as you say in a way though, the worst examples get the spotlight and then all others are equated to it. Unfortunate, but not the total end of discussion on Mosin quality.
Any hunters on /k/?I've got some serious hunting related questions as of recently.>cop in a european city>hardly have to deal with LIVE wild animals because they're usually just roadkill as part of traffic accident protocolling>until 3 weeks ago when some asshat ran over and crushed a deer's hind legs, then left it crippled and suffering on the road>traffic already backing up because of it>get dispatched to kill/move the wounded animal>sure thing, chief>it was a disaster, still feel bad weeks laterWe're not trained in delivering finishing shots to wounded animals and it's usually not necessary because there are enough hunters in the surrounding counties at any time - until there aren't. Buddy wanted to use her service pistol, I argued for the AR because my logic was "bigger caliber = instant kill, no suffering".Neither of us are hunters and therefore opted for a headshot, which was a bad idea because apparently a deer's brain is really small and the brain stem even moreso.We know hunters usually just aim for the heart, but we looked at the deer and it was just smooth fur everwhere with no real indication where the heart was. It was an adult animal so the heart must've been bigger but unlike with a human torso, it was just a mass of fur. No fucking idea where to safely aim for the heart here?First shot to where the brain SUPPOSEDLY was (Google...) left if violently threshing for 10 seconds before settling down, then it started those rasping breaths and turned it's bleeding head looking at us which was fucked up and honestly pretty sad. We opted to try once more, she aimed for where the brain was and again, spazzing around and more breathing.
>>64681190>It is a cruel joke of nature that some of the cutest animals are also the most deliciousSame goes with game as well. Squirrels taste like chicken, good pan fried. But those little bastards are pretty cute, too. And damn smart. If you ever start to feed them, they will hear every time your ass opens the door and they will be standing at the door when you come back.>>64681295If reality is anything like the guys I've worked with have claimed, I'm sure the first time one decides to try to kick you for no reason other than being retarded and skittish while you're fixing the fence (and they very well know you're there and who you are), you no longer have any of those feelings, lol.
>>64684792> But those little bastards are pretty cute, too. And damn smart. If you ever start to feed them, they will hear every time your ass opens the door and they will be standing at the door when you come back.Yup. There were squirrels in my yard that I used to feed. At first I started by putting out some nuts, then gradually, as they got more comfortable with me, this evolved to feeding them from the hand. I think on a few occasions they found their way in. Squirrels are bros.
>>64681135You'd have to try, usually airgun slugs are a bit smaller diameter with "driving bands" because too much rifling contact slows them down (which is pretty crucial in an airgun where 50 less fps is a lot less energy)
>>64677538This is /k/, a hive of scum and furriny. Fortunately, they are out due to gooning over Christmas. Unfortunately, they are awakening as we speak. The ground shakes. Trotting. Trots in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.
>>64677538Source: I've hunted a lot of big game and dispatched livestock. >I argued for the AR because my logic was "bigger caliber = instant kill, no suffering"This makes sense for a heart/lung shot on an animal. A problem that you might have encountered shot is the significant sight offset on an AR. If the crosshairs were right on the target, you could be 6cm off at point blank range. >Neither of us are hunters and therefore opted for a headshotThe best way is to shoot from the front. You draw imaginary lines between the eyes and the base of the opposite ears, making an X. X marks the spot. You want to angle your shot so the bullet travels into the neck and body of the animal. >it was just smooth fur everwhere with no real indication where the heart was.From the side, follow the centerline of the front leg up to the body. About 1/3 of the way up that line is the heart, between the front legs. If a deer is down on the ground, consider the actual angle your bullet will travel through the animal. >at short ranges you literally can't miss anyway. This is part of your problem. See what I mentioned above about sight offset - when I have to put an animal down, I use a .22lr with simple iron sites, because the sight offset is about 1cm. Under your circumstances, my choices would have been, in order:1) Close range (10-20cm, not contact) shot to the forehead using a pistol with iron sights, as described above. I would not take a brain shot from the side due to overpenetration concerns. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that "Japan's leadership is attempting to accelerate militarization," with reference to increased defense spending under the Sanae Takaichi administration. Amid escalating Japan-China tensions, he expressed Russia's firm support for China's position on the Taiwan issue, inferred that Russia would provide China with military assistance in bringing Taiwan back under China's control, and made veiled threats about the consequences of Japan interfering.>This appears to refer to Prime Minister Takaichi's parliamentary response regarding a Taiwan contingency potentially constituting a "survival-threatening situation," the Japanese government's proposal of a record-high defense budget for fiscal 2026, and considerations to revise the three non-nuclear principles. Lavrov pointed out that the "acceleration of militarization" under the Takaichi administration "will clearly have a negative impact on regional stability."Source:https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c5993ae64bfc1aa80ba17f8036e6546ea4030addI am under no delusion that Russia's much-diminished military could provide any meaningful aid to a Chinese marine invasion of Taiwan. Nor am I deluded enough to believe that this is anything more than lip service from Russia to China--probably directly requested by China--in relation to China's crashout over the Japanese PM stating that Japan would defend Taiwan from invasion as a matter of national self-preservation. However, I hope that statements like these from Russia convince Japanese that they have skin in the game, that it is better to kill Russians in Ukraine than in Hokkaido, and that Japan should start sending real military aid to Ukraine.
>>64689502too bad your leadership doesn't. i can't believe he called the japanese PM to chill out after what the chinese said about her. They won't let anyone else get nooks
>>64689475>>64689507>Germany is talking about the end of American hegemonyYeah, the guys who are tearing down their own nuclear power plants and now coal plants, the one who have sold out entirely to China because they can't afford electricity anymore?The US just sold Taiwan $11B in weapons in a new deal lol. Biggest ever in history. They also did B-52 formation flights with Japan and surged naval presence in the SCS. 69 ships in the 7th Fleet AOR. Follow actions, not words. Or is that all euros can do? Make strongly worded remarks?https://www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf-b-52s-japanese-fighters-chinese-threats/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-says-us-has-initiated-111-billion-arms-sale-procedure-2025-12-18/
>>64688809>It's every man for himself, and the only choice is to build nukes NOW.GOOD
>>64689475Germany isn’t on any high ground themselves considering Poland has a stronger military than they do. Maybe the Dems shouldn’t have put up Harris as their candidate and chose someone actually appealing
>>64689475>Germany talking about the end of US hegemonyAt this point even if the EU sticks around the European Union is going to be basically irrelevant on the geopolitcal stage by the end of the decade.
Previous: >>64578544Stamboulieh Law makes weekly videos on all the latest lawfare:https://youtube.com/@2alawYou've heard of FRTs, but what's a "super safety"?>uses the safety to force the reset of the trigger>allows for way more trigger options (you just have to trim two places)>invented by Tim Hoffman (https://hoffmantactical.com)>gifted to the world to freely 3D print>enterprising people now selling super safeties made of steel (recommend at least 4140)>cheaper than an FRT ($90-$150)>originally a 3-position cross-bolt safety>left is safe, right is semi, middle is super>3-position 90° super safety selectors are now availableComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64687504if money is no object, why not get an hk sp5 instead of a clone?
the shit i do for this hobby
>>64689170this is from scs?
>>64689189no?
>>64685048Yeah, actually there's other printed recievers that can FRT but yeah.>>64685084A drum and a bipod and a prone shooting position is all it takes to make a G3 useful with an FRT.You already had the Leber v2 if you wanted to keep the aesthetic - and it will work with the AP53 as well.If the Rare Breed can't work in a G3 or HK33 it will never work in a HK21 or HK23. It's fucking useless and who would bother making trips for it when there's a better competing product and 2 upcoming drop in's?
>>64674700my fav
>>64686796dual shielding
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