How Was Your Christmas EditionOld: >>64674136Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhT8aI9-X5I
Handgun groups are pretty terrible right now. I think the biggest issue is that my firing hand is doing a lot of work and I’m having a hard time building my grip with the support hand. I feel like this is being caused, not wholly but to a significant degree, by not having enough physical space to accommodate my support hand.I am using the biggest back strap that came with my Glock 47 and I wrapped the whole grip with hockey tape to create more surface area but I’m not sure what else to do from here.
>>64688310how big are your fucking handsWatch ben stoeger videos and dry fire, helped me a ton
>>64688310Are you a gorilla? Floaty thumbs grip is best grip do that.
>>64688256Gangle's cool. She ran that Spudsys like a navy seal
>>64688330Replace the brace and free your soul
when i was growing up my parents would only let me have a zip .22
>>64688047Was it for .gov handouts for families with fingerless kids?
When I was growing up we had to walk 2 miles to the range, one way, in the snow. All these spoiled millenials these days don't know how good they have it.
>>64688047Liar.
Hey anons, I’ve started getting interested in weapons, militaria, and artillery. But I have no idea how to study or research this topic. Does any anon know or have resources for that? I always look at /k/ threads, or some messages in militaria channels on Telegram, and I get completely jealous of people’s knowledge. They can identify weapons by name, know about calibers, understand military history, etc… I wish I could have the background to join those conversations.
wikipedia my nigga
>>646879761. >>646879802. Strategic Studies Institute publications - The Bear Went Over the Mountain, etc3. Field Manuals are public 4. Commandant's Reading List5. Unironically, play Arma or Wargame for baseline.6. Go to the range / play airsoft / laarp in the woodsMore importantly though, understand why you want all this knowledge. You become a bitter useless weeb when you learn and don't apply. Unless you are going into the military, starting a defense tech company or a PMC, maybe your time is better spent elsewhere. The other point is that there is just too much - an aircraft weeb and a navy weeb won't necessarily have much overlap with a tacticool and a HAM weeb or range weeb with a HEMA weeb, etc. Decide your weeb class.
>>64687976Concept starts with a name. Saw some weapon in movie and games? Imfdb the media.Read document, put new names in notes.Search database again with those names, note down the new document if can't finish in one sitting.Analysis detail by asking question about how these concepts are linked in the component and big picture, before and after. Do it a few time, realize there is too much to read and the rest feel like a grind.order and map the notes to organize what you have.Distill patterns and principles as you realize they are just different appreances of the same thing, different combination of the same building blocksAsking more basic and fundamental questions like a designer would, if you are the engineer type. Ultimately like the notes we make, something has to be done with the new knowledge, mostly an advantage for a competition prize and a role to be fulfilled.Database you can use are dtic, internet archive, science journal, then google and library search. Im too weak to dig through national archive.The document include field manual, handbook, report, memoir\vignette, some autist's blog and some cadet's thesis who tries to graduate academy. Don't read stuff from an active military staff, all garbage of the month.Hopefully you don't end up as pdf horder like me.
>>64688029>>64687980thanks.>>64688029>maybe your time is better spent elsewhere.Thanks for the advice, but honestly, I just like the subject. I don't think I need a purpose or anything like that. I just have an interest in militaria and want to learn more.>The other point is that there is just too much - an aircraft weeb and a navy weeb won't necessarily have much overlap with a tacticool and a HAM weeb or range weeb with a HEMA weeb, etc. Decide your weeb class.I want to be a jack-of-all-trades weeb :D
>>64688326What stupid questions do you have now OP? Honestly asking stupid questions is how you learn.Why does a heli kill a tank?Why does an IFV get killed by a tank, but the Bradley sometimes doesn't?Why did the Tomcat get discontinued?Why do you still need ground troops when drones win wars?
is there a way to make it work?
>>64687630bolt shells do use rocket propulsion so they don't need long barrels
>>64687639That is what they say but they use propellant all the same.This is just a oversight of the artists who do for the rule of cool, but if they have casings they have propellent
>>64687649i know. i also think they added casings because of gyrojet's poor muzzle velocity irl
>>64687661They added casings because it looks and sounds cool. Same reason reason the bullets are rocket propelled, the gyro jet sucked nigger balls, but it sounds badass
>>64686950shotgun would have too much spread, and could cause colateral casualties
We have nuclear powered subs.Why dont we have nuclear powered surface ships besides carriers? Also, how much supplies are flown in for carriers out at sea? Is it a constant stream of helis just carrying supplies? Where does the supplies come from? The pacific is pretty fucking far from America.
>>64686567>Also, how much supplies are flown in for carriers out at sea?why ignore subs? those need supplies, too.
>>64686644those are USN problems due to pork barreling.French Navy just uses civilian reactors on their SSN. French CVN then gets SSN reactors.
>>64686611>so they overengineered itNot exactly. Rickover was legendarily conservative with his approach to design. When the Navy decided that it wanted a nuclear carrier, he insisted that they build it just like a conventional one...but with reactors instead of boilers. Conventional carriers had 8 boilers, so Enterprise got 8 reactors.As it turned out, this wasn't a great idea for a variety of reasons, so the Nimitz class got a pair of A4W's instead.> I bet the motherfucker would have hit 60 knotsDon't back that bet with money unless it's money that you want to lose. Memes aside, she made about the same amount of power as a Kitty Hawk and had a far heavier displacement. Nimitz makes almost as much shaft horsepower and displaces less. The sea stories of Enterprise doing amazing things are just that...sea stories. She was fast, but not significantly faster than what came before or after. When Westinghouse designed the A2W, they did so with the knowledge that 8 of them would be going into a carrier as a one-for-one replacement for existing boilers and that's what they designed for.>know the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale?>a fairy tale begins with, "once upon a time...">a sea story begins with, "this ain't no bullshit..."
>>64686575>Enterprise with SCANFAR antennas and the funky ECM hat
This might be too vague and childish a question but if they ever iron out that "fusion reactor in a cargo container" type design, would it be seen in smaller ships because it's not as hazardous as a fission reactor?I do grasp the outside of how open ended and asinine this question is (what if they invent magic?) because they don't have fusion reactors at all yet, but what also crosses my mind is how, say, an iPhone has an unspeakably complex and powerful CPU in it and they spam them by the millions to be operated by coons. Since there's no nasty uranium or giant lead shields involved could some plausible future reactor, say, get stuffed in every Burke sized ship?
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
>>64688074It all ends soon enough. >>64688186Current gen robots don't look like humans though. Unless we are talking about different things here.>>64688207That's what you would want to focus on? A cock?Kinda gay anon.
>>64688236Not just any cock, my cock specifically, you telling me you don't get turned on by just watching yourself jerking off in a mirror?
>>64688258>you telling me you don't get turned on by just watching yourself jerking off in a mirror?Yes
>>64688283Lmao, learn to love yourself anon
>>64688305No, and stop being a faggot.
- 1x Type 003- 1x Type 076- 1x Type 055- 7x Type 052D- 4x Type 054A- 2x Type 054B
>>64687667genuine question but will they even find enough people that want to be sailors or will they too start some form of conscription?
Meanwhile, America cancels entire classes. Forcing its aging ships to pick up the slack as roles go unfulfilled. But I'm sure the totally real "battleships" will turn things around.
>>64688056I assume life is cheap enough in China to get enough volunteers. I mean if my country was doing this I'd sign up, only as a officer, in an instant.
>>64687667do you include the Type 056 Algeria is building locally?
>>64688092America is currently at peaceThere is no "slack" to pick up beyond training
>Basedmade edition
For field dressing deer I’ve used a basic fixed blade and a gut hook blade. Could have used a small saw, but didn’t have one. Any recommendations for this particular task? I like the idea of a dedicated set to bring out when hunting along with the gambrel hanger, but have a decent collection of utilitarian knives.
>>64685835Skill issue.
>>64686507The “Mora Hunting Set” has interested me. For saw there is the Casstrom, or any folding saw brand out there. A dual purpose saw like a Silky would be nice if you wanted to start a fire.
>>64686507I use a wire saw and a Victorinox flexible boning knife, the kind that butchers and chefs use. They aren't anything fancy but are very practical. They cost about $35, the grip has a fine texture on it that works great even if your hands are dirty or bloody, they are very sanitary.>>64687850silky saws are awesome for general purpose outdoors stuff, bushcraft, etc. I've never tried to use one on bone though, I'm not sure how well they would work for that given the style of teeth they have. Perhaps they work great?
>>64686507>Could have used a small saw,Actual pro-tip:Don't use a saw on animal carcasses.Use a cleaver or a hatchet.Saws create bone dust, meat contaminated with bone dust rots and spoils prematurely.
>If a known conman hadn't made up a fairy tale branch of Christianity we wouldn't have the most elegant and innovative small arms designs known to manI think about this a lot
>>64688255>If browning was some religion other than Mormon he wouldn't have made those awesome designsThat sounds like a nonsensical conclusion. How on earth did you arrive at it?
>>64688285me retarded :)
>>64688285In theory if John Browning (the father) wasn't Mormon he might not have had like 20+ kids or whatever he had, which means John Moses Browning might have never even been born in the first place since I think his mother was Brownings secondary wife or something.
>>64688301Effective birth control didn't exist during JMB's day, so it doesn't really matter what religion his parents were; pretty much everybody had tons of kids back then.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>64686975Put my Gehendra back together..
>>64686688Yes, I can find tons of GP11, but not much luck with GP90
>>64686975>Any New Year resolutions regarding your surp?Finish restoring my Kar98b (just needs a properly sized band spring and bayonet lug pin), take all of my surps out shooting more, and reload more for my more obscure calibers (.50-70 Gov't, 11mm Mauser, .30-40 Krag).
>>64687784Oh I thought of one. I want to learn making paper cartridges for transition era muzzle/breach loaders.
>>64686975Sell off my last piece of surp not in 308.
I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
>>64686704Yeah well I do have a few semi autos myself. The point is even with a limited pool of buyers and taxes out the ass they don't cost more than a few hundred. Non-FA rated less than that
>>64676719Until literally the last couple years, NFA ownership has been purposefully made difficult.Traditionally, you'd be physically mailing fingerprints and forms, maybe being denied a CLEO signature because fuck you, perhaps forming a corporation to get around that, and then after all that the ATF would sit on your paperwork for a year specifically to discourage you.While wipes are *suppressor components*, only to be replaced by the factory.If you are enough of an enthusiast to navigate and push through all that, that shit better be heirloom grade.If it had been a 4473 and $200 at the register the whole time, January would be only be moderately interesting.3d printed titanium is likely to remain expensive."Oil filter adapters", "freeze plugs in a tube", and "solvent trap" type suppressors are likely to be quite affordable.Personally, I'm hoping SHOT '26 is absolutely bonkers.
>>64684773kek
>>64687147>3d printed titanium is likely to remain expensive.>"Oil filter adapters", "freeze plugs in a tube", and "solvent trap" type suppressors are likely to be quite affordable.Jesus Christ there are suppressors between titanium and oil filter thoughJust look at some Euro catalogues
>>64688022>Jesus Christ there are suppressors between titanium and oil filter thoughAnd their price is likely to run between those of the titanium and the oil filters, was this really so complex I had to type it out for you?
Why did US GI's love to smoke cigarettes so much?
>ITT zoomer faggots absolutely assblasted by the chad smoker
>>64684593I’m not a soldier but it does improve focus and calm (obviously other things can too). Plus if you are likely to die from combat or something else who cares about cancer risks.
>Why did US GI's love to smoke cigarettes so much?Because they subconsciously wanted to suck dick, simple as
>>64688040i bet you dont even know how to smoke
>>64687767Three different ships, anon, in two fleets.
>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
>>64688212Counter point, which name is best?.257 Roberts.257 Weatherby.25-06 AI.425 Westley Richards
>>64688241>which name is best?
>>64688281>no cases are availableNot really a thing.
>>64688281That is a thick rim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1De13ZnrNI
>>64684229>She's slept with everyone you can think of>except meBitch.
>>64682933Where do you think you are?
>>64687321When they went to pay did they demand the cashier ring up each item individually to prevent electronic infetterance?
>>64688096Unfortunately she's not average, she's young and not fat which places her a bit above average. Semi-clothed is just a bonus.
>>64688299>young and not fat which places her a bit above averageA sad commentary.
mogged
>>64686530All that just to upsell alcohol and name brand clothing.
>>64672813fpbp
>>64672813>>did nothing with it>>retreated into their borders>>stayed medieval until 19th century>CringeIt might be much worse and sadder in some ways.>be Cheng Ho, muslim eunuch admiral for the second Ming emperor>command a fleet on several epic journeys to the Middle East and Africa>conduct rocket assault of Mogadishu, slap down a king in the Malabar Straits, bring home a giraffe>on 1624 mission, the Forbidden City burns down in lightning fire, fleet recalled after political shift>Squadron D was sent around the Horn of Africa where the encounter the European Fra Mauro, >(speculative) the squadron circumnavigates the globe, returning via the Pacific>Confucians now in power are outraged at the confirmation of the Buddhist view of the world (spherical, egg-yolk) instead of flat>outlaw multimasted ships, burn the fleet and execute the shipwrights of Shanghai>stagnate for 400 years
>>64672813>>64672878>did nothing with it>retreated into their borders>stayed medieval until 19th century>refuses to elaborate
History of China in a nutshell...
