>>64755664
So there's no difference between Ho Chi Minh and Bernie?

test

>>64749124
poojeet hands typed this poast

>>64749126
>the simulation runners got bored
and ate a few bushels of mushrooms, and THEN ...


>>64749293
OKay. So, hear me out.

We run a crowdfund campaign, buy a few dozen of these, then gift tem to Ukie drone operators and have them fly some Baba Yagas over vatnik trenches and drop them.

>What is of this, Yuri?
>An wunderwaffles sekrit tech from czar monke, Boris?

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>>64749073
amogus

>>64755688
Your still banned. Try again in 72 hours.

>>64754791
i use it for durr and elk mostly

>>64754791
I do for hogz, it's just a magnum version of 308

>>64754925
>magnum version
>308
>+10%
>magmum
Really? You can get +10% from a good handload. That is not "magnum" level performance. Seriously, use better words.

>>64755173
Cope and seethe

>>64755704
Why? You are the deluded one.

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>>64746538
I can't decide between all the options, but my MP5SD, MK23, 80% 1911, and 870-SBS are certainly in the top 10 or 20
I guess the .50 is up there too

>>64746699
Checked and doubled, nice hand cannon

>>64754666
Good choice, Satan. Guess the Rolling Stones were right about being a man of wealth and taste.
>>64752440
What is it with manufacturerfags blatantly lying about their hot new cartridge being "JUSTASGUD" as another bigger and quite clearly more energetic cartridge of same or similar caliber?
>.357 SIG, it's JUSTASGUD as .357 Magnum!
Nope lol, not even close
>.460 Rowland, JUSTASGUD as .44 Magnum!
Nope lol, not even close
>10mm auto, it's JUSTASGUD as .357 magnum!
Kinda close but still slightly short, I'll grant that it's a wider boolet and just will make a wider hole tho. The JUSTASGUD aspect also wasn't pushed in marketing, just something I see people say.

>>64747979
The wilson combat 92's came directly from the Beretta USA factory. WC literally never touched them, they just worked together on a configuration. Unless you bought it direct from WC, there was no trigger work on them. They had line in the marketing that stated, "tightest frame to slide fit physically possible". Of course mine was looser than a clapped out M9. So needless to say they were HIGHLY overpriced. Is this how LTT guns are or does LTT actually assemble each one?

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>>64752455
also great for hunting and innawoods carry

>>64754637
Oh look, it's that lame-ass weak bait pic again

>>64722802
I remember the local hunt brothers' pizza actually put targets on the back of their pizza boxes for a while

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>>64722802
>Has no idea how moa works
>Owns no weapons
>Buys shit pizza because poorfag

>>64725993
>pizza makes you fat
Lmao, seething shitskin

>>64726039
>not being a fat sack of lard makes you a twink
Lmao stupid obese faggot

>>64740376
>nigger olives

Ewwwwww, go green or go home

>>64723652
I bring my Target bags to the range. It's a perfectly reasonable target, and each bag gives you two bullseyes.

>>64755475
>For adult level exposure, you have to be pretty careless for it to be a problem.

Even low levels of lead exposure should be avoided because it leads to negative personality changes. And when you get older, your brain starts to decline, and the last thing you want is to combine this brain decline with lead poisoning. You can offset this decline with peptides, medications and supplements but very very few people do this because they dont understand whats happening to them. Eventually the combination of lead poisoning and brain ageing will turn you into the boomer walrus that somehow seems to be stuck in 40 years ago.

Lead is a psychoactive drug, just like LSD, pot, hallucinogenics etc. People completely ignore this because they are not intentionally consuming lead to get high or whatever.

>>64755641
It's not like it flies around on its own, and it's not as hazardous as some people seem to think. All you need to do is avoid eating it, and that's pretty damn simple. Throw dirty patches in the trash. Black powder fouling contains little lead, it's mostly soot and other byproducts from the inefficient detonation of black powder. Dump it on the ground, pour it down the drain, it's fine. We're not talking organic lead here.

>>64755645
>organic lead is dangerous
>therefore we should ban all lead
brilliant logic there socrates

>>64754353
>Anyone here actually use D-Lead products, or any leadremovers in general?
Yes. I used a lead test and my entire house was contaminated. Light switches, door knobs, etc.
Since then ive been using a lot of lead remediation cleaner throughout my home, vehicles and in my workshop
>pets getting sick
>getting sick yourself
Would have to be grossly negligent, its just not good long term shit or if your wife is pregnant.

>>64755662
>People completely ignore this because they are not intentionally consuming lead to get high or whatever.
They also ignore it because the effect is so subtle and requires long-term exposure such that it is very difficult to detect. If someone smokes pot or drops acid they feel obvious effects in minutes. On the other hand, people can go their entire lives handling lead regularly while they and those around them never notice a thing. If fishermen, plumbers, roofers, electronics techs, tire guys, auto body men, stained glass artists, got high, sick, or dead the moment they touched lead then people would have a very different assessment of its risk.

We live in a world where thousands upon thousands of people are injured in gruesome auto wrecks yet they still think nothing of playing with their phone while driving. Those are obvious, immedidiate, consequnces yet people are not afraid. And here you think people should be worried about some imperceptible long-term personality shift which, if it even happens at all, could easily be confused with other signs of aging? Lol, no, most people don't worry about that.

>>64755477
>you want to get technical about it, use lukewarm water. Cold water closes the pores and temporarily traps anything in there during washing, making it less effective. If it's good enough for nuclear decon, it's good enough for lead decon.
>t. used to be a contamination worker


Did not know this, thank you

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>>64727248
I believe Temeraire made a reasonably good argument for the answer being "somewhere vaguely in the early industrial age".
By my own theory crafting, I have them being uniquely useful combat assets in at least some capacity right up until the first really effective purpose-built fighter planes come on to the scene, think late WWI/early interbellum-period, at minimum, possibly still being useful as primitive gunship-analogues until actual helicopter gunships are developed. This is for just your bog-standard fire-breathing big lizard, tamable and trainable but just a (very implessive) animal. Actually WWI fighters were admittedly kind of ass but an interbellum-era fighter would be a credible threat to that kind of dragon, not to mention you can build fighters a LOT faster than you can breed and raise dragons, so from that point forward dragons will inevitably be in decline. There are still some niche roles they could potentially fill, especially non-combat, which other anons have already covered.
It gets more complicated of course if you introduce things like magic usage, supernatural strength/durability/speed (especially if this gives your dragons really high max payload, because now you may be able to armour them way more than planes and/or carry more weapons), non-standard breath weapons, etc. In those cases, they could potentially remain combat-relevant even into the modern day, depending on the fine print.
Also, I'm using this thread as an excuse to post my favourite dragon. Post yours.

>>64755365
>just a (very implessive) animal
Impressive.

With this most recent achievement, fate has in a single stroke, marked the decline of the land army and spelled a new era of wondrous prosperity and peaceful global dominance for the dragon, which promises to firmly stand in sharp contrast to the historically bloody ascent of land-based powers and the cruel subjugation it brought to the humbler nations of the world. With the blessings of draconic sustainable bio-fuelled fire-breathing, draconic air travel and draconic scales and talons will be the instruments with which dragons affirm their noble stewardship of 20th century world politics and offers the non-terrestrial world a different option; an draconic alternative to the depredations of ground-bound leadership and the opportunity for a more equitable and dignified multidimensionalism.

>>64754734
in the world you are describing I think that assassination would be a very prominent part of both politics and warfare.
the "crew" of a dragon being the softest part of the weapons system would encourage dealing with them over the dragon.
if the number of people able to control a dragon is limited they are a very valid way of denying your enemy a key resource. so assassinations would have a larger impact than in IRL.
if you kill a king and he has an of age successor, the crown passes on. if the king is controlling dragons and he gets got you have dragons without a master and probably close to your court/capital.
even if the dragons don't go on a rampage. someone has to go and claim them and that someone might be from a different house shifting politics or even a different country.

>>64755410
>assassin war over control of a particularly desirable dragon lineage
I'd watch that in anime form

>>64751695
Armor isn't even the problem since the problems start way before armor becomes a factor. I think it's a given that dragon flight dynamics are powered by magic bullshit since anything resembling a dragon can't exist with or without armor scales. I doubt evolution could ever work out a single ton+ flight capable animal.
Fictional/mythological dragons all require materials surpassing normal biology for their bones and skin already so that same bullshittium material could be used for scales. I'm sure that even a space race budget equiv US vs China mech dragon race would be a disappointment.

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>>64731902
The concept has been tried multiple times at this point and it has failed to catch on. Pic related.

>plinking will be good fun with the naturally subsonic .45
Plinking with .45ACP sounds ok but it's >1.5x the price of 9mm and almost 10x the price of .22LR. Not a great choice for "plinking"

>get some .45 Super for killing deer or hogs, or mess around with round ball loadings for taking small game or for pest control
Hogs are dangerous, hunting them with handguns is not recommended because it is harder to hit moving targets accurately with a pistol than a rifle. As a method of defense that you can easily keep on you? Sure. But I wouldn't actively seek hogs with a pistol because a miss or non critical hit can mean severe injury.

>>64742365
I exclusively use ball or hardcast lead in pistol calibers. Pistols do not create enough energy to cause catastrophic tissue damage from fragmentation or raw energy transfer like rifles. Pistols suck for killing, because they are only lethal by either hitting CNS or heart, or by causing bleedout. CNS and heart are both inside bone/muscle armor. Ball/hardcast lead maximizes penetration, meaning it is more likely to reach CNS or heart. Bleed rate is primarily determined by the number of holes blood can leak out from. Ball/hardcast lead is most likely to completely penetrate and create both entry and exit wounds. This means there are 2 holes for blood to leak out of instead of just 1. Hollow points are meme bullets designed to reduce liability for police who have to worry about their department getting sued if they shoot someone they shouldn't, so they have special bullets that don't penetrate properly to reduce the chances of shooting a bystander on the other side of their target. The best pistol bullet is hardcast lead with a broad, sharp-edged meplat that can shatter bone and shear through tissue. Ball is the second best, as the round nose is more susceptible to deflection off of bone. Hollow points are the worst as the have the least pentrative ability.

>>64755543
I use hollow points in 357 mag. 357 is potent enough that you can expand a bullet and still get an exit wound if you use 158s. There is no downside to using hollow points in sufficiently powerful handguns.

>>64755623
>there is no downside
except the inherent high cost of hollow points, or when the hollow point fails to expand, or breaks apart.
this is why the 45 wins.

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>>64755633
What hollow point that isn't a frangible breaks apart in 357 mag? The only ones I have seen that do that are 110 grain bullets or all lead hollow points designed for 38 special. That's why I run 158s, or more specifically 154 grain HSTs. They pretty much always expand and even if they don't you are only a tenth of an inch smaller than a 45, but have significantly better barrier penetration. In the age of 3rd world's and leftists trying to run people over in their cars, that's pretty important.

>>64752799
9x19, 9x39, 9x39

One could hope anon

>>64751200
During the 30s and 40s the Soviet Union more or less did that, having ~.311 diameter 7.62x54mmR, 7.62x25mm and later on 7.62x39mm.

It has been said that they did this specifically so they could use the same tooling for pistol/SMG barrels as their rifle/MG barrels. Or even recycle worn rifle/MG barrels for SMGs. They do have similar twist rates so this is theoretically possible and maybe something along these lines might have happened in WW2 given a dire need for weapons and a shortage of everything. There is hearsay of this happening during the Siege of Leningrad but not much actual documentation that I can find.

Either way I don't think it was intentional. 7.62x54mmR was a holdover from the 1890s.
7.62x25mm was adapted from 7.63x25mm Mauser (soviets really liked the C96 and used them in large numbers during the interwar years).
7.62x39mm was cut adapted from 7.62x54mmR much the same way that 8x33mm was derived from 8x57mm Mauser.
Perhaps the thought of tooling cross-compatibility or recycling barrels was a bullet point on the list of reasons to keep the bore diameter the same, but the leading reason would have been convenience. There wasn't a strong reason to alter the exact bore diameter since it was close anyway and it allowed them to work with what they already knew for better or worse.

Later on when developing calibers like 9x18mm and 5.45x39mm it would not have made sense to restrict themselves to the same bore diameter across different weapon systems. They had their reasons for developing each of the above, and maintaining the same bore diameter across different calibers with different roles was just not important. That said, I think the thought remained in their heads. They designed a 5.45x18mm pistol cartridge for the PSM pistol alongside the AK-74, but it never saw much use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.45%C3%9718mm

>>64751200
>.308
>.311
I fail to believe .03 of an inch can make that much difference so why did they end up on their decision? Why not .310? Or .309?

>>64755594
IIRC they did it because they had purchased Winchester rifling machines in .311 caliber and were using them until they shit the bed in the 1970s.

wish you could buy them in US

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>>64753349
Type 80 was never fully adopted for whatever reason, just niche roless and at some point the type 67 was abandoned without replacement.
Now just recently they introduced a new 7.62 NATO GPMG so I suppose they're warmi g to the concept
Chinese machine gun situation is crazy in general really, they have like 4 different .50 HMGs

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>>64753091
Neat.
I'm curious if there's any relation between it and that weird 'QBZ-03' that you see cops and reservists with now and then.
Wikipedia says that the QBZ-03 'appears' to be derived from the Type 81/87 (with the 87 being a testbed design), but honestly they don't look alike at all.

>>64753063
>(2) Ensuring Accuracy Measures
>(3) Ensuring Part Strength Part
Most points seem reasonable and intelligent. Hard to say how significant these changes are compared to for example, a basic AK rifle.

>>64755523
The short stroke piston system and the BCG setup seem to be quite similar.

>>64755466
Used one for the first few years of my mil career, I'm good.

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>>64754910
you can also attach a swiftclip here if you wanted to use the front panel from a chest rig

>>64755460
I like your rig, easy to put on, not too deep, can easily attach hydration on the back or a backpack, all you'd really gain from the caf is an extra row of grenade size pouches on the mags and the small gp on the utility pouches. Probably not worth, maybe you could ghetto rig an extra pouch on your current setup.

Nice choice of optics

>>64755533
Axl advanced adapter

>>64755596
>$70 for swift clips and a Velcro backer
or $6 for swift clips and enough one wrap to keep a placard from bouncing

>>64754793
We didn’t get any from the museum but we got Soplica from the airport

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>>64755362
I have no idea how the people who waged a guerilla war terror campaign for the entire 20th century so quickly surrendered to self destruction and cuckery

>>64755559
The more people learn about the Irish the more people tend to hate them.

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>>64755563
I'm mostly Irish though. My family came to America during the famine. The Irish people, especially the diaspora, deserve more hate than they get. Some of the Palestinian/Libyan operations were bankrolled by wealthy Irishmen living in America. This is to say nothing about the natives that threw all that effort away in the last 30 years

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>>64755559
>the people who waged a guerilla war terror campaign for the entire 20th century
The only people still fighting after 1926 were literal Communists. Baffling to me that /k/ worships a bunch of fucks in bed with the NKVD.

Sorry your thread’s getting no traction bro.

I like Ron Spomer. Something about his channel is real comfy, and I share his autism for cartridge minutiae.

Good morning Saars

buy and ad nigger

Two questions, what would be the first steps to take to join the US military as a Brit? Ours is appallingly bad in morale, funding, structure and reputation. Secondly, this might sound retarded but can you choose to join the cavalry? Air cav "We Were Soldiers" stuff, fly in rather then ride in.

>>64754745
>what would be the first steps to take to join the US military as a Brit?
get a green card
>Secondly, this might sound retarded but can you choose to join the cavalry? Air cav "We Were Soldiers" stuff, fly in rather then ride in.
doesn't exist anymore, closest thing is the 101st airborne

>>64754758
>get a green card
Is the meta to get an American wife or will saying I want to move to join the military help?
>doesn't exist
That is tragic, what did they do with all the cool cowboy hats? Seriously though, there really isn't a dedicated type of soldier who travels in with helicopters? Is that just a general mode of travel now for all troops?

Can you guys please help understand what the post-service employment landscape is like for officers who join at an older age? I posted here a while back asking if it would be a mistake to join the army as an officer at 33 as I’m working at a university and struggling to advance. I see veterans with otherwise similar backgrounds to me getting accelerated career tracks because they are veterans but they all served right after college or right before. I’m really having a hard time figuring out if I can still get the same boost at this point or if that ship has sailed for me. FWIW I’m working in research, no PhD, a lot of this stuff is DoD funded. All of the department heads and supervisors are vets. All of the super high wage high skill employees under them are vets. All the people on the path to high level university leadership from here are vets.

>>64754763
Wife is by far the fastest, still looking for 2 years to get all the paperwork

>>64754006
Huh, that's surprising. Ever since they got buttfucked there's a trillion bharat bots trying to shift their incompetence to the Rafale

>>64754033
What do you gain from spreading this type of misinformation? Are you brown by any chance?

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>>64754929
I don't support ukraine, kek