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Will we ever get another one of these or will all wars be 24/7/365 slaughterfests going forward?
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>>64684050
>>64687472
Liberal =/= leftist.

Ancient warlords with the attitude of 'war good' that you're talking about, and a culture of seasonal war and raiding, were literally more liberal than modern western governments and societies.
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>>64687493
Yeah he has to he retarded to not understand 19th/20th century Britain wasn't one of thr most Liberal societies on earth, it was the modern conception of liberties fucking birthplace
Tommy didn't think Hanz was evil though. Meanwhile in the thirty years war people slaughtered each other if you answered the wrong type of Christian, so much respect for one's enemies even when they were almost the exact same people
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>>64678693
Umm actually neither side had metal helmets yet. The germans had covered pickelhaubes and maybe youd see a french cuirassier Helmet among the french troops (also covered with cloth)
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>>64683936
Nice Larp. At least check your "German".
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>>64678711
Maybe during the kike wars engineered to exterminate as many people as possible, but now its soulless brown golem hordes vs soulless brown golem hordes

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Why don't modern rifles have a cleaning rod along the barrel anymore with a cleaning kit in the stock/grip?

Seems like a pretty inelegant solution to give the soldier these separate maintenance packages when it all could be mounted on the gun, easily and quickly accessed when needed, and never misplaced/lost.
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>>64686512
If your get a stuck case or a barrel obstruction in the middle of a firefight you can't just ask the enemy to stop shooting so you can clear the jam.
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>>64686662
>>mortar clearing
>rim shears off
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How often am I supposed to clean a rifle barrel anyways
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>answer my stupid question
>NOT THOSE ANSWERS, GIVE ME THE ANSWER I WANT TO HEAR

Why don't you just tell us what you want us to say OP? We're probably not going to say it, but you might feel better if you get it off your chest.
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>>64686900
>making up highly-inprobable circumstances to justify his retardation

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Thoughts about Baofeng radios?
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>>64687817
Nice thumbnail. VSWR matters for HF when you're squeezing every single watt for all it's worth. It's not as important for VHF/UHF when you're operating on FM. Let me break it down.

>Antenna at 10' high
>50w
>max range 5 miles

>Antenna at 10' high
>350w
>max range 5 miles

>Antenna at 60' high
>5w
>max range 15 miles


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>>64687817
Also, keep in mind, I can talk to the international space station with a baofeng and 5 watts, using the rubber duck, but holding it sideways. That's 250 miles up in the sky. More power isn't what you need on uhf/vhf, it's height. Now, you can argue for extremely high gain antennas being useful (even required) for proper tv reception back in the day. Especially when you want to eliminate noise from outside sources by using a very directional antenna. But it doesn't matter what antenna you put on the roof of your truck, I can sit on top of my house and get better reception with the rubber duck, send and receive. More gain helps to a point with omnidirectional antennas, usually, but even then you don't want too flat of a radiation pattern either.
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>>64687039
>You need an amplifier and an antenna to get range
You don't need an amplifier to get more range out of your handheld. The difference between 5w and 50w isn't very significant when your maximum range is under 100 miles. Keep in mind people use qrp rigs on 10 meters to talk 2,000 miles away. All while using less power than your handheld.

Antenna (height and build)>power every time.
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>>64687863
>>64687877
You do this every radio thread. Yet, I never argue with strangers. If your goal is to wear the Baofeng crown, have it. I sure af don't want it. But assuming you have the most RF knowledge and experience on /k/ is presumptive, at best.
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>>64685710
Thanks, I need to get more crayons to settle down with and chew on this.

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38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not. And after all the changes in service rifle cartridges, I refuse to believe 9 mm is still the best pistol round. Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry because they cost more money because nobody is interested in them because they cost more. Like a perpetual motion machine.
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>>64685424
Can’t you run regular 380 with moon clips in a 9mm chambered revolver anyway?
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>>64686182
454 in an Alaskan is a fun time. Get a good rhythm and you can shoot pretty rapidly
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>>64685460
Feel like the north sky marshal should get a mention. No I don’t own one. Wouldn’t turn one down if I came across it and had the cash though..
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>>64686366
I would assume so. there shouldn't be any more difference between 9mm and .380 on moonclips in a 9mm cylinder than you'd run into with .38s in a .357 cylinder, which is none at all.
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>>64685299
>I hate how handgun calibers are low effort 100 years old status quo
Technologies hit plateaus sometimes.

>38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not.
To what end? .38 Special is practically a legacy cartridge, yeah, it's longer than it needs to be, but that's because it's a cartridge from 1898 and was first loaded with blackpowder, where it needed that extra volume. This later allowed for the .357 Magnum cartridge's development.

You're looking at a whole bunch of economic and cultural inertia, there's no good reason to make a shorter .38 Special because all of the guns and tooling already exist, and nobody is going to spend more money on getting in on a hypothetically slightly better variant when it's cheaper and more practical to either stick with the older type guns and ammo, or go for something more modern than a revolver anyway.

>Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry
Probably because 5.7mm is dubious as a pistol cartridge, and even less viable from shorter barrels, meaning you can't do subcompacts akin to a 9mm Glock 26 or M&P Shield.
.30SC is too much of a sidegrade from 9mm Luger to most people to be worth bothering with, particularly when 9mm Luger is going to perform better and be less loud.

>>64685339
>.38 Super

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How Was Your Christmas Edition

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Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhT8aI9-X5I
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>>64687868
Don't post in /hg/ ever again.
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Hypothetical question let's say you heard a joke about a woman going on a fishing boat with a bunch of guys and all she caught was a red snapper would you assume the joke implies she was gang raped?
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Does anyone have a photo of a 20" pencil barrel with triangle handguard and a magpul stock? It's on linoleum flooring
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>>64687996
No
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>>64687996
No and I did catch a 38" redfish last weekend since we're on the topic

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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.
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wikipedia my nigga
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>>64687976
1. >>64687980
2. Strategic Studies Institute publications - The Bear Went Over the Mountain, etc
3. Field Manuals are public
4. Commandant's Reading List
5. Unironically, play Arma or Wargame for baseline.
6. Go to the range / play airsoft / laarp in the woods

More 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.

USSOCOM Replaces EOTech Sights With EOTech Sights
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Eotrash
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>>64687948
Combat proven, unlike whatever trash you put on your rifle
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>>64687952
An elcan and T2? You serious?
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>>64687979
Post a selfie you consoomer tripfag. I want to laugh at you.
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>>64687979
>elcan
peak gunsooming. elcans are cool for cloning or whatever but there are much better sights for less money. you could have gotten a nightforce scope for the price of an elcan, but nooooo elcan is the "kino vibes expensive sight" and thats why you bought it

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i wanna turn this cheap PA15 my coworker sold me into a commando style build from black ops 1 like picrel. has anyone here done this before?
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>>64685923
Post source of this ruling
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>>64686007
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/504/505.html
Scalia also shits on constructive possession in his opinion, still cucking out on MGs though, he must have had an investment collection.
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>>64686100
Thanks, I'll give that a read. I'm probably going off outdated knowledge because the "once a rifle, always a rifle" concept was drilled into my head all the way back in ~2008 which is before this case was heard.
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>>64686129
"Once a rifle, always a rifle" is an atf determination, not a law (chevron removed the weight of that even more). SC ruling is that you actually have to construct an SBR for it to be one (constructive possession only applies if you have no other use for the parts than making a title 2 firearm, Scalia says that constructive posssession is irrelevant except for suppressors because congress passed an amendment relating to suppressor kits, and MGs because they're special or something), part of constructing the SBR is making it in such a way that it is intended to be fired from the shoulder. Like that other anon said, probably needs a test case, but assuming that you don't use the firearm in a crime the atf will probably decline prosecution is you surrender the firearm. I really think the ATF doesn't want anything that challenges the status quo going to trial unless there's other crimes attached to it. I've had unregistered title 2 firearms seized from me in two different states and ATF declined prosecution both times as long as I consented to the destruction of the firearms. They were SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors, maybe they would be harsher with MGs or DDs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygP7OdULxo

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>>64687694
they love haitians in quebec, they will do just fine there
>>64687635
I'm surprised they haven't added these to the ban list already. It actually seems like a pretty nice gun, too bad they are so expensive. I like Berettas.
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>>64687835
I have no interest in organizing or communicating with anyone, I am part of the problem and have a bad case of "I got mine". I will only allow nubile young breeders into my compound
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>>64687955
gay
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>>64687922
This. If you need a poorfag arsenal just get:
M98 Mauser from intersurplus
SKS
Maverick 88
Some .22
There all done.
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Hush stock came with this floppy silicone spacer thing, I spanked the wife with it and she really liked it

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?
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>>64676719
John and Barry have 7 other employees, 500 grand of machine tool loans, and $35,000 in monthly business bills.
They only sell 300 silencers a month.

Do the math on wyat those silencers need to be priced at.
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>>64686704
Yeah 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
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>>64676719
Until 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.
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>>64684773
kek
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>>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 though
Just look at some Euro catalogues

you are telling the Americans had cool looking AR battle rifle with wooden furniture that shoots big bollets and they decided to adopt the shitter version that shoots smaller bollets. were the Americans retarded?
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>>64687382
By your logic, anything less than a 4" bore wooden cannon is inferior.
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>>64687480
>It's also way too light for a full power catridge.
compensators are thing, they existed since a long ass time ago, even the BAR get to have one

>Completely unvontrollable in full auto
not a single battlerifle at that time was controllable in full auto except the FAL when it use the rhodesian compensator. the BAR was also controllable when using it low RPM firemode and even then it was still pushing quite a bit

>>64687382
generals are always retarded and always make stupid decision that get fixed with time, if you want a recent exemple look at the USMC MTV and IMTV bulletproof vest, as absolute horrid piece of shit that only truck drivers liked, it quickly got discarded and instead they kept using the interceptor until the SPC finished its trials
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>>64687382
Should have been the XM7
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There's not enough reason to pick it over the M14.
Only argument would be reduced muzzle climb, which the e2 did basically that.
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>>64687502
Wtf are you on about? The USMC is using Gen 3 IMTVs, the SPCs never saw widespread adoption

Lets settle this once and for all /k/.
Using the charging handle to reload is better than using the bolt release on the AR-15, to always ensure a properly seated round, correct? Using the charging handle doesnt take that much more time either.
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>>64686846
Please explain why the bolt release is less reliable at properly seating a round.
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No guns.
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>>64686846
>This post was typed by nogunz hands
Use the bolt release faggot, the buffer spring is stronger than you anyhow, it'll always chamber without you groping it like a fag
Shit post
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>>64687789
Technically, the BCG isnt completely maxed out in rearward travel when it gets caught by the bolt catch. So, if you pull it back when It is locked back, you'll get a little bit more spring compression which translates to more forward momentum. More forward momentum means less of a chance of hanging up on dirt and debris and failing to chamber the round.
I said technically because its basically bullshit and doesnt matter unless you are in the shit and have little option of performing remedial action. If you are worried at all about failure of going into battery, you should spend time tending to your magazine feed lips (if they need it) and of course making sure your gun is clean and oiled with operable parts.
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>>64686846
The opposite of this is true. You're much more likely to ride the charging handle or just fail to release at its apex and induce a malfunction than you would be if you just used the bolt release. You have no idea how many "professionals" I've seen induce a double feed by fucking with the charging handle instead of just using the gun as designed. Literally the only time you should touch the charging handle is to lock the bolt to the rear when the weapon is clear or to do remedial action if the rifle malfunctions.
>>64687789
He can't. It's not. It's orders of magnitude more reliable, especially under stress or in confined spaces.

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Post M1911s
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>>64685184
Hey bud why does your 1911 look so weird?
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>>64686664
He said 'post' M1911
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>>64687332
I mean it's alittle different when you are in a quiet country breakfast place in a small town where everyone knows eachother. That kind of thing wouldn't go over well.
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>>64687410
>are in a quiet country breakfast place in a small town where everyone knows eachother
How I met Col. Jeff Cooper. But i didn't bother him at his lunch. 100% sure he and his boys were packing and registering every detail for threat.
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>>64682991
An ass like that really makes you realize just how much you've taken for granted in this life.
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>>64687421
if you think her ass is nice you need to hook up with hotter girls man.
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>>64687953
I think he meant the antithisis of this; meaning that bland, and even misshapen, ass shows how you haven't appriciated the good things you actually do have in your life.

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>blocks your path
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>>64685861
> class of nineteen 1st Class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s, and operated by them during the Pacific War, where all but one were lost

Sucks to be them
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>unblocks path


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