/k/ tourist here. Need some help buying a good rifle.Just found out my (gay) state of Virginia is effectively banning "Assault" rifles as of July 1st but it looks like I have one last opportunity to buy a decent rifle. Right now I have a shitty PSA but I definitely want something better. It doesn't have to be top-of-line since I shoot maybe 1-3 times a year right now.Doing my own research, it looks like BCM and Daniel Defense are the top contenders for my ~$1200 price point. Specifically, BCM MK2 or the DD V7.
>>65152391with you current skill level you might not even notice a difference from your PSA. just get whichever one you think is cooler, they'll both work fine.
>>65152047Buy the Brownells Daniel Defense Block II or upper, drop a PRI BCG into it, and put a birdcage on it (pinned and welded of course), then throw it on your PSA lower.Buy a LaRue MBT-2S while you're at it.
>>65152414Stop talking
>>65152047Skip buying a full rifle, buy multiple lower receivers now so you're not limited to one AR15 forever. Then go out and over time buy the parts you need for whatever configuration you want to assemble.
>>65153218I should have specified, I'm just looking for an upper.
When was the last time heads of state or generals actually fought in battle alongside their troops?Last person I can remember is Napoleon
>>65150987Heads of state and generals aside, I read an opinion that western armies have a decent track record of officer attrition not being humorously lower than enlistedmen.
>>65150987Patton was commanding a Stuart when he landed in Africa. His tank even put a hole into a captured Renault FT of the same model he piloted in WWI.
dont remember his name but an american general was killed in normandy because someone had the brilliant idea to use B17s as CAS
>>65151892He relaxed.
>>65152018You're thinking of Lesley McNair, who was one of leading figures of the US Army's modernization programs early in the war. He wasn't even in-country to cexercise command, but was there as an observer, and partly as a deception to fool the Germans into thinking that he was in command of US forces in Normandy.
There is nothing more elegant than a practiced rifleman working a bolt. To efficiently and accurately use a bolt action rifle, one must become a master of their weapon -- physically and mentally.Guns should have never progressed past the age of magazine-fed, bolt action rifles. I'm glad we all agree.
>>65148601that looks like absolute dogshit my man. someone has terrible taste.
>wanted a Savage Scout>Savage discontinued it in favor of some shit they still haven't released yet
What 6.5 Sneedmoor bolt-action would you guys recommend for a first-time bolt-action owner? I'm tired of looking at my polymer slop ARs, I want my rifle innawood build.
Savage PCS keeps calling me. It just looks fun.
I have unpainted aluminum talley scope rings on my all black tikka because that's what was available locally but I am tempted to replace them with black talley rings, also I could lose a few mm by going from mediums to lowsShould I do it
>habe energy shielding tech>Works very well to catch shrapnel but quickly overloads under precise hits>Has at most 1 hour worth of juice before needing to recharge>It energy when active is easily detectable so when you activate it you can say bye to stealthAssuming you can get one to any infantry man, how would tactics and strategies change?Vehicle version suck much more power and arent gonna be able to stop a tank hit regardless
>>65152539>Has at most 1 hour worth of juice before needing to rechargeUseless except for a sentry in an established post. But being able to survive a sniper shot while looking around would be extremely useful. >shoot the webp guyI agree
>>65152986Kreuger was based.
>>65152539would make protecting a principal much easier
>>65153002>Useless except for a sentry in an established postwhat are you on? 1 hour isn't very long but it's long enough to significantly reduce casualties in the initial assault on an enemy position. It would be invaluable in the opening phase of a trench assault
>>65152539>quickly overloads under precise hitsNo it doesn't. Well, I know you're just going to reply with some schizobabble about your personal definition of "precise" that's only true in your head, so don't bother.
Has anyone here ordered anything from this place? What was your experience?
>>65150682Didn't they just finally start accepting CC payment like 1-2 years ago? IIRC it was money order only, maybe check. They're a seriously crazy time capsule of a company and operated nearly the same way they had since the 60s up until very recently. IIRC the daughter helped improve a bit and that's why you can pay with a card. Not sure if they still go silent for like a month anymore like I've heard happen to some people's orders lol.
>>65151316Website says no cc.
>>65151333Oh lol then maybe it was checks they finally started accepting. /msg/ might know more.
If you're fighting a counter-insurgency against guerillas, who flash in and out of civilian posturing at the drop of a hat, isn't dropping the odd cunt inevitable? If governments have a problem with this shouldn't they, instead of prosecuting their own soldiers, not get involved in such wars?
>>65073393They had artillery
>>65076705>>65076759if you just compare actual incident rates/actual affirmed deaths and not even faggy "UN estimated preventable casualties" the British occupations of India, Malaysia, Kenya were all keystone cop level shitshows compared to even the most worse parts of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan turning an area into a parking lot after the 5th ambush
>>65072913>If you're fighting a counter-insurgency against guerillas, who flash in and out of civilian posturing at the drop of a hat, isn't dropping the odd cunt inevitable?The ideal way to deal with this would be two-fold. You forgive your own troops for accidentally killing civvies in situations where they reasonably thought the civvie was a combatant, and you publicly execute your own troops that intentionally killed/raped civvies just for the hell of it.
The only way to win one is to not get involved in one.
>>65152722You can't win if you don't play anon.
>the C-Consciousness has teleported (You) back to April 26, 1986 to a secluded spot in the forests just outside Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR>near (You) is a dead drop containing your favorite kit from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games/Call of Duty 4's sniper mission, uniform, body armor, headgear, weapons, ammo everything>(You)r mission - stop the creation of The Zone by preventing the Chernobyl disaster>it's 9AM, the work day is just getting started, you have 14 hours before Dyatlov's graveyard shift starts and the safety test begins, get to workWhat do you do?
>14 hoursI track down and eliminate the CIA SOG team tasked with surveillance of the final Duga array tests and lay them on the steps of the Pripyat militia building like my cat lays out field mice for me in the morningsthe reactor test, being part of the final testing stage for the Duga array, will be postponed
I dislike how the show made Dyatloff look like a cunt. From what i read he was fairly normal in temperament rather than being an ass for the sake of it.
>>65149140That's because it got hit by a Earthquake THEN a Tsunami. It's a miracle the Fukushima reactor was still standing.
>>65110522Tell the local KGB that Dyatlov called Gorby a faggot
>call Yugoslavian intelligence services>let them know about the flaw and impending test>have Yugoslavia's nuclear program ask the Soviets for an "export upgrade" for the RMBK to fix the issue to be considered for Yugoslavia's program>Soviets develop a fix and implement it as an "upgrade" domesticallyCan't do it in 14 hours but I don't see why it wouldn't work
>control F>no patch threadWe can’t let this part of /k/ culture die Trade, create, and sell your patches!Post good design ideas and maybe a patch store will make them.>Where can I buy that sweet patch/ find patches?https://patchfeed.com/patch-seller-list/>Classic Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/cXZTGafD (2016)>other listsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
any good sources for a nice greenland patch? nothing memey, literally just a greenland flag.t. deploying there soon
>>65151967Yeah the FBI is notorious for selling Lana Del Ray themed patches on /k/.
>>65152136I thought the feds were pushing gooner patches instead.
>>65151967Tell the feds to come back so I can have my two fucking patches they never shipped me.
>>65128706>Vanta-black brimstone "COEXIST" shit changed to be made of based symbolsI kek'd way harder than I should've. Lack of cross aside, a solid design.
post planes
>>65151682these lil fuckers were so small it isn't funnygnat is a very accurate name
I only own a shotgun at this moment. Pic related is the rifle that im interested in buying. Thoughts?
This is a horrible thread.
>>65148852Just buy a dot. A holosun with a reptilla mount. No QD nonsense. For 1100 you could piece a pretty good gun out. >>65148939>>65148904Good advice.
>>65149276>Everyone's first rifle should be a beater.>Everyone's first rifle should be a waste of money that runs the risk of failing to do its actual job besides punching paper Don't listen to this retard, get something reliable and within your budget unless you're really stretching your dollar to drop a grand on an AR. "Buy once, cry once."
>>65152725"reliability" is a meme. if your gun works it works and if it doesn't work you'll find out within your first magazines worth of shooting and you can fix it or rma it. real life isn't like a video game where your gun has a random % chance of failing every time you shoot it.
No matter what you buy, you are going to make the wrong choice. Pack it in boys, he's hopeless.
If he'd had a single Ukrainian drone squad and a hundred FPV drones, could he have won Waterloo?
>>65146911Dumbest fucking thing I heard. You think you're going to use a muzzle loader cannon like an ad hoc AA gun?
>>65146876he would have obliterated the top staff officers of the british-prussian army in a coordinated attack simultaneously and then launch an all out attack, would've probably led to a total rout. add an ammo wagon explosion and he's basically got this.
>>65146876The only historical battles a couple of hundred FPVs could change would be naval engagements.Imagine it's the age of sail, the ships of the line are getting into formation and one side has all their masts and rudders blown off from10x cannon range.
>>65146876Easily, a bird’s eye view of the battlefield and drone carried messages would have allowed him an extraordinary tactical advantage. It would be a slaughter.
What is the win condition for Waterloo? Simply causing the British/Coalition forces to retreat, beating the Coalition & Prussians, or something else?Ignoring decapitation strikes, you could argue that utilizing a blitz of drones on Maitland and the center line during the final march of the Imperial Guard could have caused the line to collapse. Had that happened instead of the opposite there is reasonable claims that Wellington might have sounded a retreat. While the Prussians were already engaged piecemeal, if the French could fully pivot to engage the Prussians + seeing the British retreat, it would have likely demoralized them enough when the other events of the weekend were taken into account. Honestly if you just use the drones to hit the ammunition depots for the Coalition artillery + the heavy guns, the battle is technically won within the first two hours IMO. No counterbattery fire and Napoleon can simply fire with impunity. Infantry can adopt more anti-cavalry formations or advance in more cohesive units, French cavalry covers the flanks, artillery pounds the British infantry.>Or you begin the battle at dawn without waiting for the ground to dry, destroy British artillery stores w/ drones & hit their camp, and leeroy jenkins the Imperial Guard straight up into them like Austerlitz. That being said by this point I doubt Napoleon could win politically, he had no allies anymore, and even Spain & Italy would potentially march against him. He was surrounded, literally.
Could you build a mech with a similar titanium "bathtub" armor like the one from the A-10? It's extremely light at just 1200lbs (540kg).
Dumb stupid gay just put a robotic arm on a tank.
>>65152541>>65152546This right here proves why mechs are unfeasible. That thing would be taken out by mere rifle fire and it's slower than a light jog.
>>65152541I liked the part where is pushed over a teetering stack of un-mortared concrete blocks like it was a feat
>>65152608chinese concrete blocks no less
>Thinly veiled implessive thread
>2038, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan>be me>Royalist Partisan>not a lot of guns, most informants don’t have one>Yakuza-sold milsurp, sporting long guns, old Arisakas (including obrezes), and Chang’s loot>suddenly the local CIA nigger tells us there’s a weapons drop>the AC in the 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser is off to save fuel, it’s a warm and humid summer night>Commander cracks IR chemlights in a clearing while we pull security innawoods>I point my Arisaka into the forest as it sings the symphony of insects and amphibians>Hear an engine>It’s loud>VERY loud>it screeches as the dark object flies low over the trees>the whine of the engine turns into a low whoosh>as fast as it came, it leftComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65146648I've though about buying one of these as a range toy, but I just didn't like the weird butt plate recoil thing. it doesn't seem necessary at all for a 9mm
>>65151041Get the classic model, then. It also looks cooler in my opinion.
>>65150966I was going to lament ivan not releasing that slide, even though it's unsafe, then remembered I'm a dev (albeit a shitty one) and can just recreate it for myself.>>65151297I was going to suggest that but didn't want to put in the effort of finding a meme pic to go with it. Shimming the ts stock open is also an option, some people like the springs, I have both kinds and prefer the classic.
>>65148108I was thinking WWIII more than a proxy war but I should’ve mentioned that. America does not care if they are implicated and Green Berets can only help so much.
>>65149197These things (suppressed or not) were dropped in pretty sizable quantities over occupied France, the SOE must’ve had fewer scruples.
How the fuck are HIMARS with ball bearings able to take out tanks?
>>65150929I dont care who is in office. They both turned their back on Ukraine when it was needed most and anything else given is paltry offering to appease their supporters. >Trumper brokered deal with Ukraine for $100m (admittedly tiny amount but this was before the invasion)>Biden pauses the deal because of his negation deals with PutinIf Trump paused a Biden aid package so he could talk to Putin without escalation risks people would assume he is a Russian agent.Every administration has fumbled Ukraine. Its okay to hate Orange Hitler and also admit the officials before him did not do their part either. You could instead make personal donations to Ukraine to ensure you are doing the right thing.
>>65150974>actually, you're pro Russia if you send more arms to kill Russians and NorksSatire or chronic MAGAtard. Call it.>>65151008Obama thought you could appease a nuclear armed dictator. Turns out you can't. Biden had to do it because Republicans and thier retard base were so full of actual paid Russian shills (see Dim Tool and Tenet Media) that it had a tangible impact on the American Presidential Election (Biden being a dementia patient and Kamala being a literal who tier candidate also didn't help). Trump just does it because he sees what Putin does in Russia and wants to run this country the same way. We're fast tracking our way from plutocracy to oligarchy at record pace. >alsoYou guys are free to stop being retarded cuckolds whenever you want btw. Freewill is an amazing thing.
>>65152273>FreewillIs a religious-philosophical concept, not a scientific one, and it will remain such until we have some understanding of consciousness. A real understanding, not just being able to determine fishes are sapient, that's basic bitch stuff
>>65152273It's not appeasement, it's strategically letting both sides duke it out.During World War 2 we made the mistake of interrupting our enemies while they were in the midst of destroying each other. That's not a mistake we can afford to make again.
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Picked up a $200 Circassian Walnut blank for $30. Now I need a rifle to complete my 'Project: Ultimat Safari Gun'Could be a CZ, could be a Ruger, could be a Winchester.Definately a boltgun. What chamber would you pick? I have a soft spot for .375 Weatherby, it will chamber .375 H&H and still take handloads. Not favoring belted magnums though, and could be a .338-300 PRC. What other modern centerfire cartridge would you consider for your Ultimate Safari Rifle?>triple factor Captcha, really?
Pretty sure I have posted about an Ml1 Garand in 9.3x62 before. I know there are Garands that have been custom chambered and even a double barrel Garand?
Here is a really nice side-by-side comparison of a $1500 CZ550 Safari Magnum vs. a $15,000 Holland and Holland Safari Express rifle.https://youtu.be/QVoXJmq2Q9M?si=sanAVLzSg0ve7h_zNormally, these jokers are absolute turkeys, this guy is more on par with USOG, the only gun tuber worth a damn. I do question is assertion that a 0.50" bbl difference will result in 50 to 100fps difference in bullet velocity. I feel that is about 2x too high. But, he obviously knows the rifles and is out on my league with his Holland and Holland. At this point, and for years now, I am all in for the CZ550.
>>65148011>Wtf, shipping exceptionI'll get over it.
>>65103982This link also has a nice little .22 mag slide. I'll get 3 or 4 of those just to keep my spare .22 mags with the rifle they go to.
Tiny brain.
