Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Garand Thumb" channel.

  1. Garand thumb: makes serious reviews Also Garand thumb: saves Ron Jeremy from child Hitler/Macaulay Culkin.
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  2. Imagine being born deaf and finally getting hearing aids then realizing that farts made noise.
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  3.  @Dagreat12d  The FDA is taking 55 years to release the data, I'm waiting those 55 years.
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  4. You'll need them to kill off the German company and become a sole US company. Also, military weapons designed in Germany will still be stuck there due to patent issues.
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  5. Taking iPhones to airsoft fields makes up 95% of the "admin pouches" market.
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  6. @DV8 *** The long distance thing ticks me off precisely because the big issue with 5.56 was the failures to stop in Somalia where the fighting occurred at street distances. Where if you tag someone and they don't immediately go down, they might still get a shot on you. Someone is 500 yards away? I don't care if the 5.56 FMJ is acting like a .22 WMR at that point, I don't think someone with a .22 lodged in their body is going to have an easy time aiming those 500 yard shots at me.
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  7. When it's just cheaper to let the burglar walk away.
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  8. Contact rear
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  9. "If I shoot that mask, will you die?" "It would be extremely painful."
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  10. The MP7 found niche real uses while the P90 is a "cool guy" gun from a bygone era.
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  11. And the Vatican is letting a lot of things slide these days...
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  12.  @jerrycanne6981  did they carry them on the pants belt or the hat belt?
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  13. Then Tommy broke the cage and he got it.
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  14. No dice. Russian sanctions still in effect and Russia might prefer to give them away as foreign aid.
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  15.  @Harshhaze  yeah, you try and fill in the paperwork to get a captured AK into the US as a war trophy in the 21st century. As if the average CO is anything but a paternal autocrat who believes the peasants shouldn't be armed.
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  16. I'm sure the SWAT guys would appreciate the simping but they can't read.
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  17. That lip smacking tho 💦
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  18.  Brian Zhang  I mean, yeah if you ignore the different bolt carrier design, gas system design, receiver, etc.
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  19.  @Tkcb2799  The AK charging handle is centered on the rifle while the SCAR one is shifted forward. Putting it on the other side may actually be worse because you used to have a slick side and now there's a snag point.
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  20.  @AEGISDEFENSE  "he bought a factory" And how much have you seen of it? Out if the top of my head he had AK parts and the means to assemble them. He also got AR parts in the deal and sold them off. It wasn't a "factory" in the same way it wasn't an AR factory.
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  21. Type 1A/B receivers were stamped, Type 2A/B and 3A/B were milled and Type 4A/B were stamped again. So no, gen 1 wasn't milled.
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  22. gilbert martinez *6mm Caseless
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  23. Silenced UMP + SPAS 12
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  24.  @brendenlogue  Many PSA products are not reliable out of the box, either requiring the use of the warranty or the user to understand and diagnose the system to fix it.
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  25.  @captainflappinjacks597  Actual headline from the other day: 'Azov visits Israel, "Mariupol is our Masada"'
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  26. So, your dad gave you a mask, locked you in a portapotty and tossed a CS grenade inside?
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  27. Stop eating MREs.
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  28.  @stells1337  Anything can handle steel with an adjustable gas block.
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  29. I read this comment like someone was describing Waygu beef to me.
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  30.  @StreetRocketJoe  The AK-50 has been years in the making. It's clearly a side project. Plus he has shown that he gets a lot of help on that one.
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  31.  @gratefulguy4130  Overrunning? Overextending.
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  32. Literally happened to me yesterday.
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  33. People were used to 7.62x39 making through and through holes. You either died in combat or had a high chance of healing. With 5.45 the wounded who survived the fight suffered enough internal damage to die later. Mind that in the Libyan civil war when 5.56 weapons and M855 arrived into the scene, people also started spreading the rumor that the green tip meant poison because they were used to 7.62x39 M43 equivalents.
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  34. How is a brick of a 185-230 grain projectile going to minimize collateral?
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  35.  @sakosan547  >modern doctrine and threats >going back to 7.62 Germoney pls
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  36. Real shit?
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  37. ​ @CaptRaptor01 the jab has to be directed at a proper target - dude mentioned central Europe, not America.
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  38.  @CaptRaptor01  That's like asking if the US Army is trained to surrender. Because the joke is usually that the French surrender. "Does the US Army get trained to surrender [like the French does]?" Do you understand how context works and how you can't retroactively add missing information to a joke?
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  39.  @WarNoob755  Anything that puts people down "overpenetrates". The real collateral comes from missing entirely. Some materials indeed get penetrated easier with higher velocity, but often the larger the mass of a bullet the bigger and more dangerous the fragments are, and anyone who's seen the cinder block tests from channels like Paul Harrell knows that often 9mm required more shots to crack a block. There's always a give and take depending on what type of object you're hitting and you won't know beforehand what you're going to hit.
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  40.  @granola661  lmao nobody's forcing anyone, but you need to pick between military and civil service. Okay, that's still force. What happens if you don't show up to either? I love guns. I just hate governments telling me what to do. I love how you assume I'm American, but fine I'll play the role of American. Why would 7% of people in the military be shameful? If anything, the number is too high.
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  41. I have, no joke, seen at least 6-7 claims of proof existing of the Lucas videos being sped up that I replied to asking for said proof and never got an answer. I have no horse on this race so if Lucas is speeding up his videos, too bad. But nobody ever points to the evidence.
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  42. Mind that I'm retrieving this information from the top of my head so it could be out of date - the rounded lug bolts require a matching rounded lug barrel extension so it's not a part you can get that's interchangeable with other AR parts. You can get spare E3 bolts - they're not always easy to come by as said above my comment - but they will not fit your AR. I don't know of any "enhanced" bolt with rounded lugs that offers that option and a matching barrel extension, they could exist so anyone feel free to correct me. The Sig MCX has rounded corners, though. They call it "tapered lug bolt" on their website.
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  43. These ain't apocalypse ready.
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  44.  @georgeASD  That's a misguided comment. First, it was actually designed for military use. The AR-10 was made for military service, but it was not picked up by many countries so the design was repurposed for the new lightweight caliber rifle that would replace the M14. The AR-15s, before the M16 was even adopted, was sent to the jungle in Southeast Asia where it was praised for its reliability. You're misusing the term tolerance. The problems at the beginning were caused by lack of chroming of parts, which lead to M16s to get pitting in the humid environment. AR-15s designed as Stoner intended did not have this problem. The ammunition was also changed, which was overcharging the gas system and causing the rifle to cycle too fast. All firearms need regular cleaning.
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  45. Alright, I'll say it. It's the sphincter loosening up in anticipation. There.
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  46.  @uummmnocoolnames  They do, but depends on the design. For example the British PLCE belt rig and bergen were designed to be part of the same system, so the bergen hangs high enough that it doesn't sit on your battle belt pouches.
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  47.  @w4rpf1nnlad  Yeah, they did. The USSR was selling their war ships to Pepsi to pay off debt and Gorbachev did a Pizza Hut and Louis Vuitton commercial. Sorry, but that is a clear win of ideologies when corporations can disarm the Communists and then pay them to promote capitalist services and goods.
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  48.  @sickbassix  "you are critisizing Finland" - no, I criticized the use of government force to make people join the military against their will. I don't care how well off you are if you don't respect natural human rights.
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  49.  @MARKSMAN108  people have been saying that for decades and as a result we've seen tuition skyrocket and the value of the degrees drop. You got people with degrees working at Starbucks. Please don't tell people to go into debt they have no guarentee of paying off because it's "fun".
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  50.  @ACGBLR  Not every semi has reciprocating charging handles. But that Sean Palmisano guy is a douche. He couldn't even understand why the SCAR was short stroking on steel case.
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  51. The UN conspiracy is older than the viewers of this channel at this point. Several years waiting, the blue helmets never materialized.
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  52. DementedDoom they don't let us? I thought this was America!
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  53. There's dual stack 1911s. It's not that 45 is too wide, it's that the 1911 has a metal frame around the mag and then requires plastic or wood grips around the metal which makes it very thick. 2011-style raceguns work around that by having a frame without a grip/magwell, and you bolt a separate grip/magwell piece to the frame. Instead of having to wrap your hand around a grip/magwell/magazine/magwell/grip combo you only have grip/magazine/grip.
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  54.  @michaelholts1598  boojahideen must liberate kalifornistan from the commie invaders
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  55. It's not hunting, it's pest extermination. Hogs will destroy crops and fences won't keep them out.
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  56.  @w_stew8912  The thing that usually defines "domestic" is the source of the bolts, trunnions, etc. If you buy kits from abroad (essentially made on equipment that dates back to the Cold War) and manufacture the receiver and barrel in the US, people usually refer to them by country of origin. What people call "true" domestic AKs essentially had to start from scratch rather than just refurbish Soviet equipment. This lead to issues due to early attempts with cast trunnions/bolts as domestic producers did not want to invest in forging. There were also US made milled trunnions and receivers but those were on the expensive side back then. Jim Fuller used those, if I'm remembering correctly.
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  57. No. It's clearly trenches outside Ukrainian areas of control.
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  58.  @w4rpf1nnlad  If the opinion is very positive, it shouldn't be mandatory. Nothing is free. You're still paying for it. Amazing, so because the state dangles a few benefits over your head, people can be convinced to give up their bodily autonomy and their lives to the military. It's almost like those benefits are a "poisoned gift" like we saw in my country.
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  59.  @w4rpf1nnlad  Cultural victory is still victory. AHAHAHA oh wow you have no argument so you act like a boomer. Ok boomer, I don't think the state has the right to enslave people. That's all. You putting words on my mouth has no relevance and only makes you look bad.
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  60.  @Leo___________  "conscription, as every other gov run thing, is great when done right" - no, it isn't. Conscription is still a denial of a citizen's rights. "You have citizen soldiers, and thus almost every man has some kind of insight in the military." - And there's a huge downside to it. It makes people more willing to be subservient to the state. "You learn discipline, valuable skills, get in shape, meet people from all walks of life and form frindships sometimes lasting a lifetime." - same as if you get a job and a gym membership. Or if you just enroll a karate class. Is the government necessary to force people to have the "correct" life experience? "glue that binds society together" - so you purposefully weaken your fighting force by forcing it to carry the burden of people who should have never been anywhere near a military base, start the precedent of the state being able to force people to fight and die in wars they didn't want to take part on?
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  61.  @sickbassix  "so many things we do in our life (Yes I bet even you) We do because it's mandatory" - two wrongs don't make a right. "Generally speaking big societies don't really function unless there are set rules and values to life by" - so because we need rules, that justifies violating freedom and bodily autonomy by forcing people to join the military? "Nothing wrong with some mandatory civil or military service" - Yes, there are many things wrong. The most important to me is how forcing people to join the military is fascist bullshit. Why should the government have so much control over people? "Or at least force a bunch of millenials to stop being on their phone 24/7 and stop that becoming-an-influencer-dream dead in it's tracks (for the good of mankind)." - millennials are getting to their 35s now. Gen Z are in college right now. If you wanted to shape millennials you're way too late on that. Also, it's not the government's responsibility to be our mother. "If you really find that governments shouldn't make anything mandatory, I think you need to close your internet account now" - I pay for it. "Winter is comming my friend, did you pick enough berries and gather enough firewood?" - lmao and the government then steals my berries and firewood. All the comforts in life I have were purchased from someone else. I work for my things. The government doesn't gift us the things we need.
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  62.  @sickbassix  Look, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. The state shouldn't be fucking forcing people to do things against their will. Not only is it immoral, you're only sandbagging yourself with people a professional military would reject. My view points are completely irrelevant to my background. Call me a citizen of the world, a rootless cosmopolitan, whatever the fuck. Why would profiling me serve a purpose in the conversation.
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  63.  @zibingotaeam3716  "You could snag one in Austria and rebuild it in the US" - just don't get caught because you just imported an ebil a-salt veapon without torching the receiver.
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  64. At least love yourself and get the Onhunt instead of the NC Star.
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  65. Well, they wouldn't replace the SAW for this, so the problem remains.
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  66. ​ @Matt-xc6sp  and HK would need to explain to the German government what would be the civilian purpose of a 4.6mm pistol. The MR556 is sold in the US with a stainless steel barrel because HK justified the sale by saying it was a target shooting rifle.
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  67. By bringing better performance pound for pound.
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  68.  @CaptRaptor01  Why would a French person subscribe to the French surrender myth? If you ever joke about that in front of a Frenchman, he'll give you a history lesson on how many wars they succeeded at.
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  69. Not what happened at all. It was EA which was getting sued for using the Little Bird and Humvee tradmarks in Battlefield. And at the same time Medal of Honor Warfighter had the controversy where they licensed real brands and the game journos accused them of selling guns to children (game was rated M for Mature but w/e). Then Activision out of nowhere stated they wouldn't give weapon manufacturers a penny. To score points over EA.
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  70.  @TheInfantry98  tbh there's civilian ranges more dangerous than military training. But iit could be argued that if one needs body armor to go to the range, one should find a new range.
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  71.  @calholli  Hand out rifles are precisely what PSA is good for. If someone didn't care enough to come packing and wants to leech off me, I give that person the PSA fully expecting that he might not live through the troubles.
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  72.  @almostontimehero5415  Muffs add bulk but they're also typically connected to comms.
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  73. Russian engineering, outsourced to China. Engineering is one of those sectors where you're shafted in Russia. The oligarchs hate engineers. They know smart people can take advantage of them, so they stifle their engineers by outsourcing everything. They hire foreign companies to maintain their oil and gas, they import European and Asian products and slap Russian labels on them.
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  74.  @sakosan547  Nowadays they sell "3+" rating steel plates that stop 7.62 black tip at 2,800 fps for 90 freaking bucks a piece. At 500m the 7.62 is traveling at what, 1,750 feet per second give or take? The 5.56 doesn't cut it but 7.62 won't either. The DMR actually makes sense because you put a Designated Marksman behind that rifle.
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  75. Yes. The "night vision" in NODs is near visible (cheap IR illuminators for security caneras have a dull red glow because of how they spill into visible). Thermal uses IR, but it's beyond the NV and why it picks up emissions without the need for ambient light or illuminators.
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  76.  @granola661  bragging about the fact that the government denies males free will by forcing them to join the military? Uh-oh.
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  77.  @granola661  "I assumed because of your overly libertarian beliefs." - and you were wrong. What does that tell you? "you will gain the stigma of a pussy" - because people were brainwashed by the state into thinking that way. Come on... "Our army is our insurance of independence from foreign powers" - so because other foreign powers force their men to join the military, you have to do the same. It's almost like the practice was wrong in the first place, so you need two wrongs to make a right. If people see it as a positive, trust the government, etc... then why does it have to be mandatory?
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  78. It's a modded high flow valve with heavy bolt.
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  79.  @YZER19  What do you mean? The German government scrutinizes HK's dealings all the time. The first HK 416s delivered to SEALs were made from a mix of German and American parts because they couldn't manufacture them in America yet and couldn't legally export them from Germany either. They only obtained approval to make 416s in the US later because it was a military contract. The civilian MR556s have to have full auto denial features to reduce compatibility with 416 parts and a stainless steel barrel rather than chrome lined, thus not making them military weapons.
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  80.  @jasminebebe3455  Not necessarily. Under NODs some BDUs look like white pijamas because you barely see the pattern, the spectrum emitted by the differently colored fabric is very close so all the colors blur together. NODs don't just amplify ambient light but also make some of the IR spectrum visible so unless a particular camo was designed to work under IR it might not.
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  81.  @darlsbarkley3493  Technically correct. The best kind of correct.
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  82. I'd wait for the HIMARS to arrive first.
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  83. I heard about the movie because I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan and I found out his character was named Trent Reznik in Trent Reznor's honor so of course I had to watch it. Also at one point people started posting memes about Christian Bale's body transformations over the years so it got a little more exposure.
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  84. I actually assumed 77gr Mk262.
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  85. This is precious considering how Russians are not only getting whatever is available on Aliexpress/Taobao, but also scavenging uniforms from Ukrainians.
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  86. I once came across a video that was an Australian kid reviewing his gel blaster (airsoft alternative because the Ausfailia government is against that too) and he used the Garand Thumb format to structure his review.
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  87.  @Harshhaze  You can't bring in the receiver because of the 1989 import ban and you can't bring in the barrel because of the 2005 machine gun barrel ban. Even if you somehow get to capture an AK, manage to smuggle it out of the disposal pile without anyone saying anything, stripping it to its parts kit, mailing it back home and then building it from a flat... That's still only 1 AK out of every 100 that gets smuggled rather than destroyed on site and in the end it's gonna be a 74 that you can't get 7n6 for. I mean I get that you can get 5.45 ammo from other manufacturers but the whole magic of 74s was the 7n6 spam cans. You went through all the trouble of smuggling a weapon under the nose of the military when you could have just paid for a 7.62 AK.
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  88.  @MARKSMAN108  what did the government programs, loans and subsidies do? Increase the demand for college. Demand picks up, so do prices. What happens when the caliber of student entering college declines? Due to the fact that it has become more accessible, demand picks up - and so do prices. I agree that degrees are useful. But 51% of employed college grads are in a job that doesn't require a degree. A person entering the workforce while others are enrolling college has a few extra years of income and obviously no student loans debt, which is a huge advantage over the college graduate who can't get a job with his degree. I enlisted (and was rejected so never actually served lol just to make that clear) and I'm a college student. So I have a little of experience on both sides and let me tell you that college is nothing like the military. It's much easier to connect with people outside college, people take as little responsibility as they can, they abuse their freedoms (and don't learn from the mistakes) and I don't see people maturing at all - if anything I've seen people regress. I'm not saying college is stupid because of the cost. I am saying that it's an investment that people will have trouble paying off if they don't make the right choices. I'm not ignorant for suggesting that people should make sound financial decisions. If anything, reducing the demand for college will make prices drop and make college great again. I'm not saying "don't go to college" I am saying: "consider your options". You on the other hand, you're almost treating college as the default option, almost in a "just go for it and see how it goes" way. We're asking 17-18 year olds to make this choice...
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  89.  @Tkcb2799  It's not about blocking. It's about keeping the right side slick because a right handed user will have the right side of the weapon as the "outside" of the weapon for 99% of the time. If you keep your light in the left side because that's where your left thumb is, but then put the charging handle on the right side, you just increased the "width" of the weapon for no reason. Plus your left side will be the "inside" and your own arm will somewhat protect stuff from getting bumped.
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  90.  @shinobi-no-bueno  "keep ar15s" who exactly made that deal and who is able to guarantee it will not ne broken?
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  91.  Great White  Dugan Ashley (from Carnik Con) said he witnessed an insurgent take a burst of 7.62 from the coaxial on an Abrams to the gut, he went down, got up and ran away.
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  92. For when you're under sniper fire in Bosnia after your husband bombed the shit out of the region.
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  93. A +p+ will cause the petals to expand faster unless the bullet design was specifically strengthened for those velocities. A normal modern JHP has barely any energy to punch into a second person. A few extra hundred ft/s of velocity will not make it go through more people, especially if that velocity induces more drag.
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  94. They could just refuse to go into Ukraine.
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  95. This isn't a USP Match.
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  96. Is that a GMR patch? Or did they steal their logo just like the valor? Ba-du-tiss
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  97. Hamzat22 airsoft??? Pftt... It's MILSIM, bruh!
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  98. "it's an FMJ round which meant that it doesn't expand and it goes straight through without dumping the velocity energy into the muscles" - I mean in gel tests you can see that 9mm FMJ is a pretty good yawer. The problem with 9mm is the problem with all pistol rounds - you get no remote wounding effects. Energy dump means nothing with pistol calibers, because the energy is spent moving tissue out of the way. It just springs back into place. Rifles actually put so much energy into tissue, it rips it apart.
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  99. ​ @slushypuppies  Fleet yaw. Bullets come out the muzzle with a small amount of "wobble" which settles. The wobble reduces the chances of hitting point forward. However, at a distance bullets affected by drop may still point slightly upwards due to the rifle being angled up to compensate for distance.
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  100.  @WindowsPlaysFPS  I still think it's an unrealistic expectation. If the S truly HTF in 5 years, and you weren't going to spent the money on solar panels and underground fuel tanks, you still had 5 years of enjoyment of a great piece in a relatively safe world and the money isn't going matter from that point forward.
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  101. Yooo GT and Hop upload right as I get home from work, time to enjoy Sunday
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  102. The only way to win is to not to ever sit up.
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  103. Argh I hadn't thought of this shit in years but it's the third time I've seen The Game mentioned in the past two weeks.
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  104.  @ImNoBSING  "I do not mean you are far left." - Then what? Why does the far left matter? "I mean the service is in that good popularity" - Then it doesn't need to be mandatory. "The mindset is that if you do not care to put effort for your country's security, you do not deserve it either." - Okay. Does Finland allow for a person to provide for their own security? "once you get out of school and start working, it is quite hard to detach from that life. Being mandatory, it opens up for more people." - Sounds like an excuse to me. "But you do understand that training everybody to use a gun" - Using a gun is something that needs to be continuously trained. "basic tactics will make the country quite hard to conquer in the long run?" - Basic tactics will get you killed. Want to make the country hard to conquer? Train the populace to be terrorists. Make the enemy soldier suffer 20 casualties per day from suicide, like the Americans in the Middle East. Make them bleed a trillion dollars. You use basic tactics against an army, you get cut down by mortars and machine gun fire quick. "Also, do you think paid mercenaries would stick around when the real war against a large country like Russia was coming?" - You think Russia doesn't have the manpower to push through conscripts in a conventional battle? All a conventional battle would do is delay the advance until the Americans arrive. "If you mix today's peacekeeping with neo-colonizing, you are little lost" - No, you are. It's all moneyed interest. Aid and peacekeeping is leverage. "They are just killing crazy fundamentalists, doing good." - Doing good? The wars have never been good. If killing fundamentalists worked then how come the Middle East is a mess? Why does killing them only create more? You say your country sends troops to keep them fresh, to test gear and tactics. You have money, they have nothing. You have pipes, they walk miles for fresh water. Sending people to war for sport, to "test" them. And say it doesn't matter that you're killing because the people you kill are wrong. Are you sure you're not the fundamentalist?
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  105.  @ImNoBSING  The only people who are offended are the ones who come at me and keep saying "No, we love being ordered around by the state!". You were the one who felt the need to tell me how much people love it. And I said, if you people love it so much it shouldn't be enforced by law. "Nicely bounced one argument as an excuse. And you did not have a job and all sorts of things to do when you were 18 years old? It is a fact that business usually goes before bush." - I don't even understand what this means because you structure your sentences in the stereotypical nordic fashion. What job? You're saying you had a job so you need mandatory service so that you can be in the military without losing your job? I don't understand what you mean. "But time-tested solution is to kill rats" - How humanitarian. "they exist because they have no good goverment or military forces to keep the region in check" - It's often the military that causes trouble. "Maybe not your foes, but many, many other peoples foes and that is why they are not liked, and thus are being killed." - How many Finish conscripts were sent to fight ISIS? "You also seem to preach ethics of bodily autonomy while totally neglecting national independency" - If you put national independency above bodily autonomy then you've paved the way for tyrants. Are you seriously arguing that people shouldn't have rights because of national independence? All the national independence will not be worth a damn in a country where the state has a claim over your body. "For our country conscription is the right choice" - Again, you claim people love to serve. So why is it the right choice? You don't need to make it mandatory. "Either stop deflecting someone elses responsibilities or study why Finland has chosen conscription.." - I'm not deflecting anything. I have picked liberty. You have picked allegiance to a state that sees you as its property.
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  106. I heard years ago it's a GI bill trap. Sad they just run the grift rather than improve their reputation.
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  107. I believe he's running 8mm BBs too because they seem to hit the targets pretty hard.
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  108. Night vision augments ambient light and uses a near visible spectrum so you not only get visible light amplified, you also amplify light that would normally not be visible. For example, security cameras sometimes have a dull red glow, this is an IR emitter that "spills" into the visible range. So you're getting your vision augmented. Thermal vision uses a part of the IR spectrum where temperature of objects influences radiant emissions. Objects cool down through conduction, convection and radiation. You see that radiation. So in simple terms, with "NODs"/"NVGs you cannot see light that is not there, so in a basement or a really dense forest the lack of ambient light (moon, stars) will hide the enemy. You may need to betray your position with an IR illuminator. Thermal gives you Predator vision. All humans not blocking their thermal signature are an emitter of radiation, so it works even in a basement or a dense forest.
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  109.  @ricksanchez9669  I know. I'm just pointing out that the reason that most hunting is done with JHP or soft points is because many cartridges and bullet designs cannot be relied on to yaw appropriately at the right depth to get that stretch cavity with FMJ. JHPs and soft points have remote wounding effects, and sometimes you even see the effect with deer that get shot in the thorax, their hind legs start off running but the front legs are paralyzed from the hit. So the reasoning with hunting can't be applied to humans and defensive pistol ammo. The reason regarding hunting has much more validity. With defensive pistol ammo, the added bleeding is a bonus but we've all been trying to search for the mythical stopping power through the scientific method and we simply can't find it.
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  110.  @ricksanchez9669  The "how fast" changes every single time that particular bullet in a particular caliber is used. Therefore stopping power is mythical, it's the unicorn we have been searching for decades. Someone shot in the chest multiple times with .40 can still have enough fight in him to shoot back, while someone shot in the pinky finger with a .22lr can drop instantly to the ground in pain. Does that mean .22lr has more stopping power?
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  111.  @ricksanchez9669  I'm not talking about exceptions. Each and every individual bullet is its own case with wildly different outcomes. That's not exception but the rule. If bodies do weird things, then stopping power is a myth. Please don't argue this with me, argue with the people who have been studying wound ballistics and pretty much say the same thing - there's no quantifiable metric for stopping power. If there are odds to be stacked, you don't have stopping power.
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  112. If I recall correctly someone asked the ATF to clarify their position.
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  113. 😤😤😤 I am going to call the Ghost of Kiyiyiyiyv to put an end to this nonsense
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  114.  @Ghost-hs6qq  It's a joke based on other comments.
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  115. "Why is there an ammo shortage? Because I shot it all!" - Rick Taylor, 2013
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  116. It's viable if you carry FMJ or those extreme rounds that look like a Phillips head. Hollow points in 380 underpenetrate.
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  117.  erozpl01  I have heard about the issues with German military weapons not being approved to manufacture in the US but the "look it up" is extremely hard. The only "source" I get is the "HK doesn't hate you" article at TFB and every other search result are pages and pages of HKpro forum threads where 80% of the people posting are relaying bad information. If there was a definitive source I'd love to get it because then I could just link it to all the smartasses saying "HK should just start manufactuing in the US, nobody's stopping them!".
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  118.  @Paulx589  "if you get hit once, you'll likely get hit multiple times" - preferable to get those in the gut/legs/arms than in the lungs and heart
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  119. Would be fun for civilian rifles, not much use in 5.56. A slightly heavier bullet and regaining velocity lost from the 20" barrel days would be great, but wouldn't do much to justify the cost. Sending a 140gr flying ashtray of a steel core... now that's interesting.
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  120. Vltor emod stock gang
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  121. The DoD ordered conversion kits for M240s so they'll take the Sig 6.8x51.
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  122.  @TubeSteakTaco  insulation has a critical radius due to the fact that by adding material you increase surface area faster than you increase the linear thickness of said surface, meaning that until that criteria is met adding "insulation" material actually increases heat transfer until you reach critical radius and thus the lower heat conductivity of the material starts acting as resistance. TL;DR - don't worry about it
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  123. Combat units will be issued 6.8x51 M5s and M250s. There's a contract for conversion kits for M240s to use 6.8. They're going single caliber in those units, let's see how it pans out.
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  124. Any woman that runs is a THOT, any woman that stands still is a WELL TRAINED THOT
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  125. RIP
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  126. Because it's totally contextual. Mind that most people think of shooting as one hour in a ventilated range where you shoot paper targets. If you take a dive to prone on a 2 gun match or handle steel targets you're gonna ingest lead that the "average" shooter wouldn't come in contact with.
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  127.  @The_Gun_Room  If you're in a dense and humid jungle you might want to use the environment as your armor instead of sweating to death inside a carrier. If the only cover around is boulders hundreds of yards apart you might want to wear it.
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  128. @Nicholas Rodriguez That's great. But in doubt, I'd rather trust people who have had that happen to them and learned the hard way, because it tells me those who haven't had it happen to them are people who still have a chance it will happen to them. I wouldn't put attachments on the left side because of the snag potential, I'd be going against my own rationale by sticking the charging handle there. I'd rather deal with the fact that it's uncomfortable but at least it's on the same side as the light so I'm conscious of it, than have to worry about two areas of the rifle being snag points.
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  129. "Garand Thumb FULL MOVIE 2020 HD1080p"
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  130. Underrated.
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  131. Last I checked you can't link to places that sell them or show how to modify existing magazines to 30 (there's places where 30 round magazines are blocked/pinned).
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  132. The AK's dust cover makes it hard to place optics. Your options are a side mounted rail that wraps around the left side, replacing the rear sight with a rail section, having a hinged rail over the dust cover, or putting the optic on the handguard.
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  133. Saving up inventory slots for more quest related items. Smart.
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  134. Sig claims better energy retention than Creedmoor and a 12,000 round barrel life. Sure, that's the brochure claims so we'll see. I'll gladly trade barrel life for performance. 6mm ARC is interesting but doesn't fit the requirements, 6.5 Grendel needs too much barrel to be relevant as a modern military cartridge.
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  135. 10:46 it's worse in videogames because they make the center dot to be like 4-5 MOA and surrounded by a ring that although "thinner" is only about 10 MOA, so you get a really big dot with a smear around it. Don't remember the NVG stuff but I think they do get that right.
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  136. 6.5 Grendel doesn't cut it. Not enough power, the range argument doesn't involve actual military needs such as being effective with a FMJ round (rather than hollow points 6.5 Grendel users can shoot) or penetrating cover, versatility doesn't matter because most soldiers only get issued one round to maintain zero, the short barrel won't have the needed energy. It's a good round. It's not perfect in any way.
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  137. Ukrainian troops are already taking pictures in the border. Kiev offensive failed, Kharkiv offensive failed, encirclement failed... How are their chances so low?
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  138. "Grab SKS, go innawoods." - words to live by
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  139.  @mikebillman8089  it's a M. Night Shymalan joke...
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  140. Barra Barra from the BHD soundtrack
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  141. The AK5 is a licensed copy of the FNC.
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  142. Because mercury based primers made the brass brittle, non-mercury primers used to be "corrosive" (what you typically find in surplus ammo) and the best alternative for decades were lead azide/lead styphanate. There are lead-free, non-mercury and non-corrosive primers but they're more expensive (and less shelf-stable I think).
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  143. "To me its saying your not getting dirty enough, aka your just in a perfect range lol " - The AR is well sealed against the elements so if you managed to drag it through the dirt so hard you're causing stoppages you should pop the receiver open and deal with whatever has sneaked into the rifle rather than treating it like a UK cuck compliant AR. Because if you managed to do that you might as well cause a blockage on the trigger mechanism which can't go away by pressing the forward assist. As for the gun getting dirty from shooting the AR has been tested to handle thousands of rounds until it needs the bolt wiped or it won't close by itself. We're talking about multiple combat loads worth of ammo.
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  144. Pit Vipers
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  145. 55gr out of a 20" barrel sure does nuke people, the barrel twist isn't very important as long as the accuracy is good. When the bullet comes out the muzzle there's something called "fleet yaw" where no matter how stable or unstable the bullet is, it yaws up and down until it settles into a more stable precession. The 62gr out of 1:7 performs fine when conditions allow but again, the fleet yaw can make you unlucky. The M855 is a very yaw sensitive bullet and the three piece construction makes it even more inconsistent. The 62gr M855A1 was designed to be yaw insensitive, so in gel tests it usually penetrates one inch and then yaws violently independently of the angle at impact.
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  146.  @kevinfitzpatrick5949  armor tech at this point is cheap enough that while large armies may not be able to field it, insurgencies and rogue states can import it from China
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  147. Same.
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  148. It wasn't canister, it was HE.
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  149.  @oldhollywoodbriar  If there's a blast, it's not canister. There's also no 125mm canister round, they have a flechette round that either requires a T-90 to use the airburst or has to use a mechanical time fuze. It's just not realistic to be driving around with a flechette round loaded with a time fuze set for close range.
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  150. Look for Gorka jackets.
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  151. Dangerously based.
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  152. If you have people to do shit in the woods give it a try, if not there could be survival classes near you. The point isn't learning everything in one class, just go do stuff while under supervision so that you don't get lost. The best way to learn is by doing but take care to not go way too deep where you can get lost and freeze. There's military survival manuals, boy scouts manuals, there's books written by former special forces for civilians. Learn knots. There's a channel called Corporal's Corner with tons of info but the most recent videos have very complex shelter builds so you can sort by oldest and just pick what interests you. Survival Lilly has good videos too but again skip the complex shelter build videos. Alfie Aesthetics has less uploads but great videos on building fires, star navigation, etc.
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  153. Which is why it's so pathetic. The meme republics were actually used to war, while the regular Russian army was completely unprepared. They had zero drone doctrine and many units had to write down their own on the fly with no support from superior officers. Ukraine also baited Russia into converting quadcopters used for recon into drone drop drones. Problem is, attack drones go down more frequently than recon drones, which mean the glorious Puccia artillery lost significant long range spotting assets.
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  154. The powder was crumbled baguette.
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  155. I won't have to, because I can just send another fiver to the Ukrainian charities buying drones. The footage is gnarly.
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  156. Consider that if you also need to be going in and out of vehicles while wearing your equipment the chest rig is obviously easier to sit with rather than having pouches hanging off your ass. I'm a big fan of belts but they need to be paired with a ruck that won't interfere.
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  157.  @brendenlogue  I believe that. I know of three people who had front sight blocks incorrectly installed which caused the weapons to be undergassed. I talked to an outright PSA shill who ended up admitting that one may need to fix one or two things out of the box and that he only used PSA for parts and built the rifles himself to skip the hassle of incorrect builds. He also admitted to having sent back two uppers for being off spec. I've probably come across a hundred people who never had any issues with PSA and I don't know about their success stories, but it's still uncomfortable to think that a company is essentially skipping QC and saving the money by assuming most shooters don't put enough rounds through their weapons to see a problem. And then I see people advocating for their rifles, or just the parts, as a way to save money and if something is off just activate the warranty. If everyone did that, they'd go out of business. The people paying for the cheap parts are the Americans who sadly are not educated enough about the weapon system to realize there might be problems. Unfortunately my cynicism just sees an exploitative business model where some bean counter came up with a formula to make money off people who might not know any better.
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  158. On their US website HK said to pronounce as "Coke" because Americans trying to pronounce Koch would end up saying cock.
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  159.  USN1985dos  This is cope. The DPR/LPR took massive casualties. The new army formations have poor equipment. They're Russians, not Donbabweans.
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  160. I don't even know what that means. The lead does whatever you want, when the dies apply force to form the bullet, the lead acts like toothpaste. It just fills the void. Undersize? Pressing it makes it bulge out and get wider. Oversize? Pressing the lead will thin it out. Yugo M67 and 7.62x39 8m3 also feature voids so it's just a question of not inserting enough lead volume to fill it. It's by design, not accident.
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  161.  @michaelholts1598  yeah I just mentioned the 2011 as a design workaround. Didn't know about skinny grips, though.
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  162. And you get the tracks digging into the trench action.
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  163. Lmao did you just blow over from California?
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  164. Yes.
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  165. Them upgrading body armor is the best case scenario. They'll either be more fatigued, or carrying less ammo. Easy. Your worry should be them dropping the armor and making use of their higher mobility.
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  166. Issuing 5.56 AP rounds as standard would be a nightmare. That's a lot of tungsten being tossed into the dirt. They want to use cheaper steel.
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  167. There's a video online of a coroner in Mexico (?) showing a real body of some cartel guy shot by a Black Talon.
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  168. Reminds me of that guy who went on Joe Rogan like two weeks ago and one of his friends was almost declared brain dead from the shanghai shivers in a NJ hospital but turns out he had a stroke and was dehydrated.
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  169. You either have to buy land or find a good spot in BLM land where you can shoot.
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  170.  @BigSmitty1  I answered your question, why are you rolling your eyes?
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  171.  @BigSmitty1  No worries, have fun if you find a spot.
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  172. +Sam Hyde they probably ship from the factory with carry handles too, and putting an ACOG doesn't change the designation. Also, how can you get away with so many mass shootings, you madman?
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  173. Twist rate is irrelevant. You'd need a twist rate so tight it would be threading rather than rifling to make it stable in tissue. Whenever it goes into tissue, it's already massively unstable.
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  174. Ironic considering that early Hk416s had issues with suppression and HK had to add a front vent on the gas block to bleed off excess pressure. Imagine being one of the MR556 owners who had to drill their gas block because you thought piston drive would solve suppressor woes.
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  175.  @calholli  "Getting that rifle up and running for $400 or less is such a huge savings that I don't mind needing to do a little extra work" - The issue is that those savings come from all the people who don't know any better. PSA is skipping QC and passing those savings down to you, because they know that in the firearms business there's a huge portion of sales that go to people that only shoot their stuff at the 4th of July BBQ or something like that. "If I could buy vehicles in parts kits like this, I would" - And that's exactly why you can't. Everyone would return their cars and the manufacturer would go out of business trying to keep everyone satisfied. PSA gets by on most customers not being knowledgeable enough to even understand they have a lemon or actually shoot enough to figure out it has flaws.
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  176.  @colby1398  "Military usually uses the cheapest shit they can get that meets spec" - Which is why PSA gets all the contracts. Oh wait. Also, the Marines - of all branches - went HK. Go figure that one out.
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  177.  @user-cq6km9vq2m  "Anyone with any real gun knowledge knows that department /agency purchases are done by back channel buddy connections, and not outright bids" - That still doesn't answer the question of how many departments issue or approve PSA. I'm sorry, but are all the small town PDs in cahoots with Sig and S&W?
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  178.  @calholli  Religious beliefs about what? You pointed to an example and your own example bought PSAs to use as essentially drop guns while he keeps the good stuff to himself. Don't lay this on me now. "PSA is BOOMING by the way, and it's not because their stuff doesn't work" - Sure. It's in spite of. "or just buy the anderson for cheap" - Why would I?
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  179.  @calholli  What truth or evidence? You're asking me to spend money on a product I don't need. There's no truth or evidence on a hypothetical. I don't need to purchase that product. Believe what bad things? That I get what I pay for? It's you who's saying that's bad. And that's the problem with you people, you can't be content with what you have so you need to come to the internet to play this game where you claim that you got more than what you paid for, even though you freely admit that the company is essentially passing the savings down to you by skipping QC. He bought 25 rifles because it's gives him the minimum viable product for the money, while if he "invested" in high dollar items he'd have less available. However, they're still handout rifles by your own account. The definition of nothing to write home about. What feeling? I can link you pictures of a comparison between an Aero and Anderson lower. The Anderson is clearly a much rougher product. Verifiable, tangible evidence of differences in how the rifles are manufactured. I don't have 2500 dollar rifles. You're punching air. What lying eyes? You can clearly see or even feel with your fingers the difference between a low tier and a good budget rifle. You have a direct personal experience fixing what PSA doesn't bother to fix in their complete rifles. That's great. That's not an endorsement.
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  180.  @calholli  At this point you have to be kidding me. If I run my finger over the inside of one of the pin holes, and I look at my finger tip and it's all cut, there's a burr in there. The manufacturer didn't care that the burr could interfere with how a pin works and shipped the part out the door. I'm not talking about "feel" as some kind of esoteric quality, I'm talking about actually putting my hands on a product and finding out that the manufacturer uses their mills like drunken monkeys without even needing calipers or gauges. I don't care how dented your truck is. There's difference between cosmetic damage, and the manufacturer pumping stuff out the door. A dented fender doesn't impact how well the vehicle runs, but the manufacturer having a misaligned engine mount and hammering it to fit is shameful. You insist on talking about cosmetic damage (that you caused, at least for the analogy pretend the dealer kicked your car body panels before selling it to you) but the insides are machined with the same carelessness too. I'm not looking at gaps in the doors, I'm looking at gaps in the exhaust and leaking coolant. Again, it's not about "fit and finish", it's "there's critical dimensions here that are not up to spec and you people don't care enough to reject this in a QC step".
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  181.  @calholli  Okay. But you understand that after something is in violation of milspec, I can't trust the rest of the product to meet milspec. It's not my job to do QC for subpar products and then wait for a return. You might think you're smart for beating the market, but the fact is that even PSA shills will freely admit to have sent product back. If everyone did their due diligence with PSA, they'd have a rise in costs because dealing with returns is more expensive than QC. Nobody said anything about spending 5x the price. You people are a riot because you refuse to accept that a slight increase in price gets you "name brand" quality and accuse everyone of paying 5x for an AR.
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  182.  @WarNoob755  How don't I understand? Most modern hollow points barely have any energy after exiting the back of a torso. They're typically found inside the clothes of the person shot or just a few feet away from the body. The statistical likelihood of hitting an innocent bystander with a through and through is negligible. You're vastly much more likely to simply miss, and hit a bystander with a full power bullet.
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  183.  @WarNoob755  Yes. Anything that puts people down is usually designed to make it through a vital organ even after an oblique shot or if it has to penetrate an outstretched arm before entering the torso. So if you shoot someone square in the chest, it exits out the back very often.
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  184.  @WarNoob755  I see what you're doing. You're trying to narrow the definition of overpenetration to the point where your original argument doesn't matter. If the majority of modern ammunition can't kill someone after going through a person and by your own definition doesn't "overpenetrate", then your original post is absolutely meaningless. You don't have to worry about overpenetration after all, so why the hell did you bring it up? Some of you people, I swear...
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  185.  @WarNoob755  The one you made up?
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  186.  @WarNoob755  Glad to know that everyone discussing overpenetration was lying, then.
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  187. 3d print the tools that assist the bending.
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  188. Short range, depends on frequencies, all it takes is for someone to put receiver antennas on drones and triangulate the handheld jammer to sling a mortar round straight down his head.
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  189. The military unironically spent more money on bringing the M-14 back than they would have just buying SCAR-Hs as DMR weapons.
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  190.  @firebug3256  they won't. Uncle Sam will keep Colt around for DoD contracts and to give retired generals cushy jobs.
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  191. ​ @DocMitchell69  and they get those foreign contracts because that's how US foreign military aid works. We'll give you money and you buy from us. Just like the German government and the EU will never let HK go bankrupt even though they're up to their neck in debt.
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  192. Missing entirely is a much more common occurence than through and throughs. 400 million guns if not more out there, almost a million estimated defensive gun uses, and despite a hostile media that would love to show how dangerous guns are... this story of a through and through never comes up in the news.
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  193. The XM8 was a underhanded move. It was never going to replace the M4 because H&K had won the contract for the OICW and there was an attempt to use the 5.56 rifle part of the OICW to get the M8 in service. As soon as Colt made some noise everyone realized that some officers were trying to press a new rifle into service without trials being conducted. It would have been literally illegal to do that. This time, the armed forces actually asked for it rather than it being slipped under the radar.
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  194.  @janelane9281  funny, while the FUDDS in America rolled over and accepted the "sporting purpose" bullshit HK was one of the few companies to contest it.
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  195. It's level III though
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  196.  @theiviachine  That's level IIIA. These are the rifle-rated FRAS plates. From what I gathered it's not true level III because it's not rated for M80 ball, but it's rated against SS109 5.56 and 7.62x39. If the video gave you the impression that a IIIA vest would protect you from 7n6, that's because the plate rating was not clear at all. A person wearing pistol soft body armor will not be protected from 7n6. You need a rifle rated plate to stop 7n6.
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  197.  @UnfollowYourDreams  If you got that argument from Beau of the Fifth Column, you should stop listening to a man convicted of human trafficking.
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  198.  @UnfollowYourDreams  They don't stand on their own. Thinking about them for 30 seconds is enough to debunk them. His bad reputation as an habitual liar, scammer and grifter is just the cherry on top. He didn't help refugees cross the border. He helped hotels get cheap labor while the "refugees" had their documents seized and ripped so they couldn't flee their working conditions. He didn't help people in need. He exploited them. Know the difference.
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  199. Yeah. And if you train with cheap 55gr 223 which save on powder loads, you're not using the full power M193 55gr. This has always existed.
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  200. All the peace deals are Russia's way of gathering strength to strike back. Budapest Memorandum, broken. Minsk II, broken the day after it was signed by the assault on Debaltseve. Zelensky tried to make peace. He was elected as a Russian-speaking moderate after people got tired of Poroshenko. He actually cancelled Ukrainian weapons programs and restricted the rules of engagement in Donbas. Ukrainian troops complained that they'd get shelled, and their own president was asking them to not shell the enemy back.
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  201. Asserting dominance.
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  202. Real talk, if you straight up swaged your own bullets would anyone realize you were even defying the law?
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  203.  @ldklldkl1713  Not really. Casting and plating lead bullets is pretty easy. Swaging requires a press and some dies but it's not complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dF5h9--EI video for the bullet casting and plating
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  204. @Brooke B I understand that but there's probably more people in America who know about arm braces than about Alex Zedra or Tu Lam. It's such an inconsequential thing but it's still weird how there have to be marketing people and game design people running the show to appeal to gun enthusiasts and then they just allow the art department to use the wrong reference material.
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  205. Consider the following: you're allowed to change your shooting style depending on what you're trying to do. When you're trying to shoot for speed at targets 20 yards away with a rifle you don't need to apply all of the fundamentals at the same time for the sake of faster recoil recovery.
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  206. Anything that reliably stops people comes out the back.
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  207. 6.5 Grendel doesn't cut it.
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  208. Okay boomer.
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  209. Different kinds of slaying going on.
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  210. "anemic" - entry wound: https://i0.wp.com/cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gunshot-leg-1.png?w=920&ssl=1 Exit wound: https://i0.wp.com/cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gunshot-leg-4.png?w=822&ssl=1
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  211. Because McCauley Culkin is baby Hitler?
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  212. 5.56 doesn't need 2500 fps to yaw, it needs it to rupture the jacket. The biggest problem with 5.56 was M855 which is inherently inconsistent. Mk 262 also features an empty bullet nose, and M855A1 was designed for consistent yaw with a steel tip for the best of both worlds.
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  213. M855A1 is the standard round. If you've fired M855 in service in the last few years, they were getting rid of old stock because I've heard of people using M855A1 in combat since 2011 when it was introduced.
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  214. Nobody was getting sued over guns, it was the Little Bird helicopter and Humvee that triggered the lawsuits. And it was EA with their Battlefield series being sued. Activision made it political by getting involved when nobody was suing them, and making a statement.
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  215.  @ImNoBSING  Yeah but the far-left opposes it for the wrong reasons, they don't actually care about bodily autonomy. I don't know what's even the point of saying that, you think that the far-left agreeing with one of my opinions it means I'll be ashamed to have it? No. If most want to serve, it's not necessary to make it mandatory. Training after conscription... You can't be ready for the boxing ring by showing up to a boxing gym for a couple of weeks. I wouldn't bet money on a boxer who only does remedial training so I don't get the logic of betting national defense on people who just got out of a refresher course. Unless we admit that national defense isn't that big of a concern... Peacekeeping missions? More like neo-colonialism.
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  216. SERE instructor and then he changed to TACP.
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  217.  @wiannieuwoudt  Yes: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape.
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  218. Basically, you could take all the features of other rifles that have arguably outpaced KAC and make your perfect rifle, I'd wish you could cram the SR-15 bolt and gas system in it.
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  219. Air Force
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  220. The PSL is more of an oversized Kalashnikov design.
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  221. Just get knox gelatin powder and check the back alleys behind clothing stores for mannequins they tossed out.
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  222. Watch your mouth, my boy Tito still got shooters out there.
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  223. Sir, this is a Wendy's.
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  224.  @nameredacted1242  You can't import them because they were manufactured in Russia. Did you forget the sanctions?
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  225. Probably not because he's active duty.
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  226. I'm not even concerned with the depth, how the hell didn't he rip his starfish with such a freaking blunt nose?
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  227.  @slowlydying6967  glad to help!
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  228.  @HaloDude557  Drugs don't matter that much when a 5.56 tears everything apart inside the chest. The issue is, M855 suffers from fleet yaw at close range.
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  229.  @ricksanchez9669  Most hunting is done with rifle calibers, though. Always remember that rifle JHPs and soft points will cause added tearing that handgun rounds won't.
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  230.  @HaloDude557  Let me rephrase. M855 is one of the rounds that suffers the most from the effects fleet yaw.
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  231.  @HaloDude557  For you. Either way it doesn't matter. Despite the rollout being a mess that killed it, 6.8 SPC was designed to have very little sensitivity to fleet yaw. M855A1 was designed to be insensitive to fleet yaw. We know that M855 has huge performance inconsistencies compared to M193 and M855A1. I don't have to convince you, the people who made the decisions already were convinced and the real world results seem to support their decision.
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  232.  @HaloDude557  I don't care. The claim has been proven. I owe you nothing and the more you latch onto me the less I'm interested in spoon feeding you.
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  233.  @HaloDude557  You're being evasive about your disbelief.
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  234. @Eric Nunya 14.5 is good enough, especially at close range. The issue is that the angle at which the bullet enters. Zero degrees? Zips straight through. Three degrees? The bullet damn near explodes. M855A1 fixes this by having a one inch neck and then near-instant fragmentation independently of angle.
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  235. @Eric Nunya Not true either, because one of the goals of M855A1 was not deviating from the ballistic drop compensation reticles on ACOGs. The early batches had signs of overpressure, and there's rumors that this was due to primers. The issue has been resolved. At this point you're denying reality. There's actual published scientific studies investigating the fleet yaw issue. If velocity were the issue, the USMC would not have developed Mk318. If velocity were the issue, the problem wouldn't be so apparent at close range, where the bullet strikes at the highest velocity of its trajectory. If velocity were the issue, then 6.8 SPC wouldn't have been brought up as a potential replacement due to the fact that it's slower. Another hint, the reason 6.8 SPC was 6.8 was because it was one of the calibers least affected by fleet yaw. Go figure.
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  236. @Eric Nunya I don't need to post links stating that the sun rises in the East every day. It's not my fault you're not aware of basic facts and public knowledge that's been available for almost 15 years. You have also provided no links proving that the issue with M855 was due to velocity (especially since the M16A4 did not solve it) so I don't even understand why you're suddenly asking for sources.
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  237. @Eric Nunya "The powder burns faster and creates more pressure" - It also means less velocity gain down the barrel. You know who loads .223 with fast powder? Tula. Their velocities are actually lower. Higher peak pressure, but also falls down quicker which results in lower total work done by the gasses. The "area under the curve", if you've ever taken calculus. "meaning its terminal effects are not yaw dependant" - So like I said, it eliminates the fleet yaw issue from M855. Thanks for proving my point. "This is a quote from an authoritative source" - I probably have read it anyway. It should probably also state that it's meant to match the BDC on sights. I'm right, and your source backs me up. They said that the terminal effects are more consistent. This is due to fleet yaw making M855 inconsistent. Not velocity.
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  238. The Army Laboratories tested this, it's the same.
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  239.  @storytimedavidcollins2897  First of all, that's wrong. The original design was 1/14 because that was the .224" barrel blank availability at the time. That was the barely stable twist rate. With the economies of scale, it was no longer necessary to depend on commercial availability and 1/12 barrels were manufactured to fully stabilize 55gr. One in twelve is not the "barely stable" twist rate. There's no verifiable evidence that 1/12 twist rates deal more damage, and it wouldn't make sense because upon entering tissue, no bullet is stable. The stability is completely out of the window and there's no "more" or "less" stable. It's critically unstable due to tissue being a thousand times denser than air.
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  240.  @storytimedavidcollins2897  Shooting Russians in the 1981 sandbox, and purposefully misspelling the names from everyone you mentioned. Yeah.
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  241. Artillery and mortars.
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  242. You can't buy the government issued ones unless someone swipes one for you.
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  243. This war clearly shows Russia is not competent enough to carry out those psyops.
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  244. But the FA was added by Fudds. There was no reason found to add them, but Army officers thought "oh crap you could push the charging handle on older rifles we need to add something to make soldiers feel confident". Sure, the "old theory" that the FA isn't needed is like 5 minutes older than the theory stating it needs it. Big whoop.
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  245. Khyber pass guns are not made for full power ammunition, they use their own crummy propellant.
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  246. That's riddiculous. These videos are watched on the toilet so no diapers involved.
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  247.  @JohnBrowningsGhost  Bimetal jacket bullets do. But you can usually pay for a new barrel with the savings alone.
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  248. I loved their ballistics episode 2-3 years ago, gonna check it out
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  249.  @pieterveenders9793  That's what I said. I was explaining why it shouldn't happen. I understand that through text you can't tell the intent but I was contradicting a post regarding civilian sales in the US.
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  250.  @airborne22away  Doesn't matter who owns it, HK has to be registered as a company in Germany and many of their weapons were patented in Germany.
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  251. The trees and rocks are your body armor. But seriously you have a limited weight "budget" and carrying armor means less water or food to make up for it. The plan is not getting in a fight and if you do get in a fight to break contact.
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  252. First of all, there's a multitude of AK specs. Second, tolerance stacking does exist in the AR parts world.
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  253. Because if they put another grip you'd complain that you'd have to change it.
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  254. You're joking, right? Suppressors are becoming more and more common. "Subsonic applications" lmao
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  255. No, pistol ammo AP bans are based on material rather than performance. There's non-AP 9mm which penetrates 3A armor because it's not made of banned materials.
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  256. C&C Red Alert Soviet March.
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  257. ​@Cram Butcher Okay. What concept? The US Army in WWI was already doing the "you're gonna get one round so choose it wisely" thing so the machine gun round (30-06) was used on rifles.
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  258. Oh no, a harder to use rifle with less ammunition.
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  259. Because FMJ just keeps on chugging while in the real world JHPs are usually found a few feet away from the perp. The issue is that when you design something not to exit, now you're shooting some dude with his arms in front (because he's holding a gun or something) and the bullet has to go through skin, arm muscle, skin, clothes, skin again, pectoral muscle, rib and now the heart or artery wall - which is a pretty tough and chewy material. The bullet probably got stopped by the rib and if it did go through, it probably stopped short of the heart. With just a few extra inches you prevent what happened in the FBI Miami shootout where a guy with a bullet an inch from his heart kept fighting.
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  260. What the fuck I didn't even know it was Tucker Carlson in the shoulder thing that goes up clip.
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  261. Yeah I want 5.56 Magnum.
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  262. M855A1 was a bespoke custom bullet. Three part, three-metallic case construction seems easier.
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  263. I guess you don't own a signed photo of Ryan Gosling either. It's from Carnik Con (Dugan Ashley).
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  264. It's a replica of a system used in a real event. It's not just a movie themed review of a generic M-14.
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  265. 300 BLK has its uses but it's garbage as a main infantry round. I'm sorry but why does everyone bring up Blackout? It's 5.56 necked up to 30-cal. It's fat and slow. Literally a step backwards.
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  266. "I promise I won't get Steve a gun for Christmas." "Merry Wednesday, son!"
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  267. Like if you ever got your AR500 plates in the mail and had to ask mommy to rub cream all over your chaffing from wearing them in the airsoft field. Subscribe to Daddy Garand if you ever had to ask your airsoft bros to do the same to your groin after wearing your drop leg straps real high like Chris Costa told you to on that DVD you pirated.
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  268. Seems easier to make. A normal cartridge is actually a difficult production process that we've mastered after doing it for over a century, but it's not for the faint of heart or the smooth brained. A flat sheet of brass is punched and cupped, the cup is drawn and ironed in several stages, with annealing and washing stages in between because working the metal actually hardens it and it's necessary to soften it up. Then in the end you have a thick base and thin walls, with the brass done with the cold working at the right spot to give the base the necessary strength. An automated lathe cuts the extractor groove and the mouth of the case is annealed so that the front of the case is soft while the base retains the hardness. With this new case, you run steel bar stock through the automated lathe, shove a brass tube in the base, then press an aluminum washer to lock them together. Done.
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  269.  @Alen725  I didn't overcomplicate. Brass case manufacturing is complex and you can watch videos on youtube of how many steps it takes to draw a cup into a finished cartridge. Making brass tubes is easy. Steel case ammo has been used by many armies and it's actually cheaper than brass. The locking seems simple enough, it's a washer. It's not an assumption. By your logic modular products are "harder" to manufacture even though modularity greatly improves manufacturing abilities.
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  270. If anything, the torso target gives green tip a greater chance to shine. Unfortunately the M855 fleet yaw issue is totally dependent on random chance, so I've never seen someone film a gel test of a M855 failure. The only one I've seen was a photo on a published study.
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  271.  @jlucmonag5712  Grads are manually aimed, take time to set up, they rock like a boat when firing so the rockets land wherever, and take 20 minutes to reload. Not to mention that the HIMARS has double the range. In the time it takes to stop a BM-21 and start the process to aim it at the intended target, an HIMARS can just drive to a position, stop, fire, and move out. The rocket pods also take 5 minutes to reload. Given an infinite supply of rockets, a single HIMARS could destroy an infinite amount of Grads by simply staying out of range, firing, and moving. It would only have to stop due to maintenance.
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  272. Live Action Role Play
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  273. Ruble is not backed by gold, the oil business is currently on the rise due to price hikes but they're selling at a discount, they don't have the infrastructure to sell to Asia to replace the European market, they need to build pipelines. You've been fooled by all the tricks of an autocratic gas station country. Meanwhile their central bank accepts a 14-17% decrease in GDP this year.
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  274. The corrosive salts are water soluble. Hose it down, dunk it on a plastic tub, fire up your hexamine tablets and drip a canteen cup of hot water, whatever. Then clean as you'd clean a regular rifle.
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  275.  @ck933  The sharps isn't rounded from what I can see in pictures, it has angled cuts in the edge facing away from the locking lug.
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  276.  @ck933  But it doesn't. Rounded corners avoid stress concentration areas. It has asymmetric lugs from what I've seen, but that's a different mechanical effect.
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  277.  @ck933  Doesn't have the same mechanical effect. I'm not looking at the product description, I'm looking at the physical shape - it's not any more "rounded" than a normal AR bolt lug. They can type anything they want on the product description, but it still fits a normal barrel extension, right? I mean, I do have a degree in mechanical engineering but that's absolutely unrelated. I'm looking at a picture of a Relia-bolt and a normal bolt. The lugs have the same fillet where they meet the round edge of the bolt face. Even the normal AR bolt has a slight roundedness, it's just very minor. Nobody needs to go to college to tell shapes apart. Why does someone need an engineering degree to tell apart a c^nt hair of a fillet with an abrupt change and an actual rounded bolt lug. Is this it? I'm the last sane person in the world in 2021? Sharps Relia-bolt has the same lug cross section as normal AR bolt, fits normal barrel extension. How is the mechanical effect "the same" as a product that DOESN'T fit normal extension lugs? Can you look at a picture for me? Instead of arguing about product descriptions? Create a new tab, search for a front facing picture of the Sharps Relia-Bolt. Create a new tab, search for a front facing picture of a normal AR bolt. Tell me the fillet at the base of the lug is different.
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  278. /// ⚠️⚠️⚠️ POLICE ASSAULT IS IN PROGRESS ⚠️⚠️⚠️ ///
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  279. Do not diss Bukhanka-chan.
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  280. It literally wouldn't make sense. Putting a fat bullet on a small casing is not going to cut it.
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  281. AR15 dot com on youtube has a video called "7n6 for the bourgeois" where they test 6.5's yaw in gel.
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  282. Funny, because more countries are adopting it. The UK adopted an AR-10 as their designated marksman rifle and the Kiwis got a LMT.
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  283. Dude moved to Texas with the crew and it's 99% private land out there so he doesn't want to lose access to their range. Sad but true.
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  284. Subcompact 9mms are comfortable to carry but suck to fight with.
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  285.  @bryanw4582  don't the new ones have a photosensor to register the flash?
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  286. @Nicholas Rodriguez Cool story.
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  287. @Nicholas Rodriguez You're right. I've changed my comment to reflect my change of mind. 308 sucks? Cool story bro.
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  288. The Heat DVD stays on during sex.
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  289. Most modern reciprocating charging handles are not in one-piece with the bolt. The robustness argument works with the AK where the charging handle is literally forged into the bolt body.
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  290.  @MARKSMAN108  ok coomer
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  291.  @chubascov.  those are what are commonly called "transferable" machine guns. No more can be added to the registry save for very exceptional circumstances. New machine guns can be made but they are known as "dealer samples" and they're non-transferable. A dealer can only sell it to another dealer or government agency.
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  292. Making proper AKs requires a massive investment that would take decades to pay off, and force them to sell at a higher price point than most are willing to pay.
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  293. That's not necessarily true. Modern testing requires defeating the autoglass barrier and the two sheet steel panel barrier.
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  294.  @HaloDude557  Someone doesn't cease to be a threat just because you might have to shoot through your own window to prevent a carjacking.
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  295.  @HaloDude557  You have no duty to retreat if the retreat would cause you injury. If you can get shot while driving away, you do not have a duty to drive away. Also, this is not my problem because one should simply not live in duty to retreat states. You try and explain to my family that I had to die because the law says the window is a magical forcefield.
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  296.  @HaloDude557  Absolutely irrelevant. If turning your back to the aggressor creates a situation where you can get shot in the back, there's no duty to retreat. Again, assuming there's duty to retreat. Some states allow the victim to stand their ground. It's justifiable. Is there a legitimate threat? That's all it takes. Unless there's political pressure to charge you, the case is closed right there.
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  297.  @HaloDude557  No, your comments are irrelevant. You're understanding the process backwards. It's the state that has to prove you committed a crime. If you shoot someone who was a threat to your life on a state that doesn't have duty to retreat, what crime have you committed? Start from there. If you're going by "need", you're trying to engage in a process where people are guilty until proven innocent. If we're going by "need", most times you don't "need" to resist against an assailant. Imagine if you had to prove that an armed assailant attacking you was a threat... Imagine if the state could say that a gun to your head doesn't prove you were going to die. How can I make it more clear to you that if we go by your logic, most self-defense would be deemed illegal? You're doing the same thing as anti-gunners. Why do you need a gun? That's the backwards way of looking at it. It's not you who has to justify why you "need" a gun. You have a legal right to own them. Start from there. Otherwise it would be like in some countries, where to prove that you're in danger of being assassinated to justify getting a carry license, you need to have an attempt on your life first. Obviously this doesn't help if you die on the first try. Driving away, unless you have a bullet-resistant headrest, can end up with a bullet in the base of your skull. You don't know what "circumstantial" is so don't use five dollar words to wow me. "Fear of bodily injury or dead needs to be reasonable and justified" - Typically an assailant with a weapon does that for you already. "Being scared someone might shoot you in the back at 200 yards" - Not even a Tesla can launch that fast, and I don't have a Tesla. You really gonna argue a car can do 200 yards from a standstill in the quarter second it takes to pull a trigger? "through a vehicle body moving 60+ mph" - Your car does 0-60 in a quarter second? You could get in contact with the Guinness World Records.
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  298.  @HaloDude557  Even George Zimmerman wasn't meant to go to court. He only got the murder charge due to public pressure. For you to go to court, the DA needs to think he has a case. If it's clear cut self-defense, the DA isn't going to waste his time. He wants convictions. And if you read your comment, it does make it seem you're saying even a cop has to prove his innocence in court. No, he doesn't. If there's a sketchy OIS, or you've been involved in an unusual amount of OIS, there will be an internal investigation but that's it. Most officers don't go to court over a shooting.
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  299. Lightweight AR-10 simply makes more sense.
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  300. Steel expands less than brass. You're not helping it "expand correctly", you're reducing the friction you get from the extra fouling that settles in the chamber walls due to the steel case. However, you do want some friction between case and chamber wall. At the moment of firing, brass will press against the chamber walls which reduces load on the bolt lugs. Is the bolt rifle compromised a great deal? Probably not. But I wouldn't do this for 5 minutes. A quality rifle should not have trouble extracting steel. The issue is being tuned for hotter brass ammo, thus making it undergassed.
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  301. But those are short-ranged cartridges with a rainbow trajectory. They were replaced by smaller caliber precisely because they were inferior. This is treading on full rifle power. This isn't going back to basics. This blows 7.92x33 out of the water and eats 7.62x39 for breakfast.
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  302. Yeah just call people who don't care about you and beg for them to recognize your rights. Also, it's moot point. Mute is when someone can't speak.
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  303.  @joeclaridy  Kinda? The rifle is mostly sealed if kept on safe, and something getting inside if on firing position is a known point of failure. On the other hand, the AK has a pretty good carrier to bolt weight ratio and it's usually overgassed so it can power through stuff others can't.
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  304. Bruh
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  305. Look for "Smersh SVD".
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  306. If you have one of these, you are the source of ammo.
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  307. They can't import because there's an assault weapons import ban. They can't make them in the US because the design is partially owned by the German government.
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  308. Used to be SERE instructor and now is JTAC I think?
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  309. No, he was a SERE instructor and then became a JTAC I believe.
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  310.  @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527  Takes them less time to create a new bot account than manually reporting. Machines are better than us at this, all we can do is wait for yt to get off their ass.
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  311.  @dcrose001  It's not. The XM250 is the one.
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  312. They have extremely low church attendance. Mind the USSR was atheist. While religion never died off, most people don't care.
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  313.  @CougarRidgeFarm  SAPI is not the same as ESAPI. Which isn't the same as XSAPI, but nobody wears those anyway. You're wrong. The guy running Hoplite wouldn't risk his neck selling ESAPIs considering he's running for governor.
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  314.  @megaconda07  What? So you're required to wear plates but only infantry gets issued?
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  315. Energy dump theories were disproven in the 80s and 90s. Bullets designed for energy dump was precisely what lead to the abysmal track record 9mm used to have.
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  316.  @azrael3030  lel obscure calibers are more likely to sit on the shelves than 45
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  317. Not missing anything, that is correct. They're usually designed so that can be fired while folded but that's simply so that you can fire in an emergency, such as while leaving a vehicle, and not causing a stoppage by blocking the brass with the stock or something.
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  318. They can't be hacked when using custom firmware. They can get the command signal overwhelmed by jamming, which forces the drone to land. However this is also dependent on the frequencies being used/jammed.
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  319. Stalin actually lived in Vienna for some time.
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  320. .460 Rowland exists, you peasant.
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  321. It's not meant to cover the chest, it's meant to cover the vitals.
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  322. So anyone with a M1A or AR-10 could have done the same? Take your meds.
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  323. Right, just hoping we freeze and threatning us with nukes.
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  324.  @DaleGribbleMD  Don't deflect, nobody said it was Russia who had to keep us warm. They hoped we'd freeze. God gave us a mild winter and a polar vortex that stayed inside Russia's borders. Hilarious.
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  325. Tuning fork effect when the bolt slams into the barrel and the vibrations reach the flash hider.
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  326. If you want to shoot steel get something tuned for steel. Depending on the conditions steel case rifle ammo can have insufficient port pressure, that's a result of the cost cutting measures. If you want to shoot improper spec ammo, you have to make sure you're tuned for the "improper spec". So yes, something tuned for brass deserves the brass.
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  327. So that's what all the hoopla abput the Nintendo Switch about.
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  328.  @iplaygames8090  "some advances" you can watch the footage, they're literally throwing themselves at the Ukrainian defenses to wear them out, make them run out of ammo, force them to expose firing positions. Yeah, if you literally don't care about casualties you can advance.
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  329.  @iplaygames8090  They overran half the country because Ukraine traded land for time. The USSR was also overran at the start of Op Barbarossa. Spoiler alert, the side being aided by the US clawed back the territory and won.
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  330. But Ukraine purposefully used the videos for psyop. By releasing so much drone drop footage they taunted the Russians into converting recon quadcopters into attack drones, which degraded Russian artillery effectiveness. There's a lot of complaints on telegram from Russian soldiers who are losing artillery spotting to drones being sent to drop nades and ending up shot at or taken down with EW.
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  331. I just think he's saying that he's not trying to do the historical side of things.
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  332. Blaming reddit when it's all over IG and was discussed to death on /k/ is peak irony.
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  333. Helmets work well, though. There's documented occurrences of helmets not even rated to stop rifle rounds protect the wearer from a rifle round. People really overstate the energy from pistol rounds. The energy of a 9mm is essentially a moderately trained boxer's punch. Even .44 Mag doesn't beat Rocky Marciano's 950 ft lbf punch. Plus at the point where the energy would really cause damage the helmet itself is dislodged and the straps tensioned, which is going to diminish the actual head or spine injury. There's a reason hard helmets are a thing in construction sites - they work.
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  334. You can tune an AR to be reliable with steel that's not overgassed with brass.
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  335. This ritual isn't necessary on other magazines, so you could hardly call it user error. They're also not 100 years old because they don't follow the original 1911 single stack pattern.
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  336. If you lost count to how many people you saw offing themselves after being wounded by a Ukrainian drone, hit that like button.
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  337. @Nicholas Rodriguez I don't know someone who owns one, I listened to a review that included Maj. Weston Amaya's thoughts on the matter. Former SF. That's the person you're calling a kid.
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  338. HK themselves prefer Americans say Coke rather than accidentally saying cock half the time.
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  339.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  F-15s and F-16s have landed with wings ripped near the root. Lifting bodies are a magical thing.
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  340.  @echodelta2172  keyword is "former" so he could have been deployed in 1991 when 7 A-10s were shot down and 13 written off as losses due to battle damage and had to be pulled out of missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard.
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  341. Can't get around the 26" OAL if you're doing a 9mm.
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  342. "Energy dump" is a flawed theory from the 80s/early 90s projectile design, and was responsible for 9mm failing to stop people. The majority of the energy is used to dislodge tissue radially, which springs back into position after the bullet passes through. This energy is wasted as it causes no injury to the target unlike rifle rounds.
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  343.  @danialyousaf6456  the heavier the mass of a bullet typically the more dangerous it is
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  344.  @danialyousaf6456  What? Flat faced rounds actually help at barrier penetration and the heavier something is typically the deeper it goes because of momentum.
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  345. Because the focus was firepower at the fireteam level while the conventional wisdom was machine gun at the squad level. Rifle platoon still got a weapons squad with two MG teams to give them medium machine gun capabilities. When this was decided it made a lot more sense. The 5.56 belt fed was technically not a "belt fed MG" but a "belt fed automatic weapon" and the user was an automatic rifleman, not a machine gunner.
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  346. Yeah but Bushmaster won the court case over the M4 tradmark in 2005. It's incredibly hard to enforce trademarks in videogames. It was political because EA/Dice were being sued over the Battlefield series, not Activision.
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  347.  @basketofdeplorables4253  Most energy delivered by a bullet is wasted. Only a small fraction of a bullet's frontal area crushes tissue, the rest of the energy is used to push tissue aside. At handgun power levels, the tissue pushed aside springs back into place with no injury.
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  348.  @vlogfriendsutopia  Not really. By enlarging the caliber you actually waste more area at the cost of recoil, lower capacity, etc. Knowing that one is more accurate and faster with the smaller caliber, you get more effective working area on target, sooner.
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  349.  @vlogfriendsutopia  "if 45 ACP does between 1.5 to 2 times the damage of 9mm" - It doesn't. "you can shoot it as quickly and accurately because you've trained with it" - If you can shoot larger calibers that well, you can shoot 9mm like it's .22LR. Why would you become such a good shooter with a larger caliber but then somehow not be able to use 9mm proficiently? "Since we've established that it does in fact do at least 1.5x damage" - But we didn't. "In my personal experience, most people I know who are proficient with handguns can fire two 45s faster than 3 9mms" - And why is that? Why are they so slow with 9mm?
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  350. ​ @vlogfriendsutopia  First of all, you're calculating a cylinder volume when we all damn well know that only a fraction of the frontal surface area is used to crush tissue. Most of that "volume" is not wound volume and the tissue will spring back without injury. Second, you're using the diameter calculated from petal to petal. If anything, you should be using an average diameter because you didn't subtract the volume in the gaps between petals. Your calculations are inherently invalid because you're overstating the effects of expansion by calculating a much larger area, and also ignoring the inherent inefficiency of bullets at crushing tissue. Your wound cavity figures are wrong and even if they were correct, they don't translate to reality. I'd ask you to fix your numbers just for the mental exercise, because even if you got them right it would still not be as accurate as simply filling the cavity with fluid and pouring it back out to measure the actual cavity volume rather than assume a 100% crush efficiency and no springback.
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  351.  @vlogfriendsutopia  If the measurements are inherently flawed, the conclusion is not valid.
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  352.  @vlogfriendsutopia  The conclusion isn't valid because it still hinges on the bullet using 100% of its frontal area surface to crush tissue. We know most of the frontal surface is wasted by redirecting tissue rather than crushing. I didn't "request" the average diameter. I told you that even if you used it, the logic is still flawed because neither bullet can use the full frontal surface area. Coroners and surgeons pretty much agree that unless they can recover the bullet and measure it, they can't tell which caliber made which wound. You can use all the maths you want, but they don't reflect the real world.
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  353.  @vlogfriendsutopia  I do trust published studies that confirm that most of the frontal surface area is wasted pushing tissue aside. Wadcutter projectiles use more frontal area. What's why they're "wadcutters". They're known for making it easier to score on paper targets because they cut a cleaner hole rather than a star shaped rip. How many people are carrying them? Deer aren't people. Look at rifle ammunition made for deer, it's often made to stop after 25-26" of penetration in gel. .32ACP fails the FBI requirements with most ammo. If anything, .32 Super Carry is meant to be similar to 9mm. But .32 ACP was meant for older technology pistols and a world where our average stature was lower. There was also no abundance of cars and windshields for cover in the urban environment. Though a sales failure, the Colt Monitor in 30-06 was advertised to law enforcement agencies to be used against criminals on wheels as the thick gauge metal on cars helped protect occupants against small calibers. Though cars are of lighter construction these days, they're still a tough barrier for .32 ACP. Your except confirms that expanding ammunition crushes more tissue, not that it crushes the full frontal area worth of tissue.
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  354.  @vlogfriendsutopia  "unexpanded projectiles crush a path the size of the base of the projectile" - Then almost an inch of diameter of area generating a crush cavity should make holes that let you see daylight through the torso, and chest seals should be worthless at saving people considering the volume in that cavity. I've only seen daylight from gunshot wounds in hands and feet. Unexpanded projectiles are known for "icepick" wounds smaller than the caliber. "Deer and human are actually much more similar than you think; deer and humans are actually in the same class of animal in terms of hunting" - And yet bullets meant for hunting and tactical applications are different. Curious. "deer die faster from a full pass through, thus requiring the deeper penetration that you see" - This directly contradicts your assertion. Self-defense handgun ammunition and tactical loads for rifle ammunition are also meant for torso passthroughs - but shallower penetration than deer. Are you saying that deer and humans are not similar? Curious. "I actually have carried Wadcutters before" - That's great. Almost nobody does it. "actually proves the point that projectile size does make a difference" - Cool of you to ignore that I clarified that a .30 Super Carry, if it performs like it does on paper, is a .32 projectile that should perform almost on par with 9mm despite the projectile diameter difference. .32 ACP, despite being of the same diameter as .30 Super Carry, simply performs worse because nowadays we expect to have to shoot into people who are larger, more muscular, and ingest more stimulants such as sugar and caffeine. This means having to potentially shoot through the heart or even into the spine to stop someone. "all handgun rounds do NOT perform the same" - There's a difference between "performing the same" and advertising 50% improvements.
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  355. The F-35 is demonstrably competent, please stop reading Forbes articles by known brainlet David Axe.
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  356. Why? It's going to weigh the enemy down. It's either going to fatigue them, or force them to carry less ammo. Easy fight.
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  357.  @Series-ux3yc  the US changed to lead free ammunition with the M855A1.
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  358. No. If anything that would be unconstitutional for creating a two-class system where military personnel has more rights than citizens.
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  359. You don't need a long action and a long barrel to get the performance.
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  360.  @secrityforcemarine  If you don't give it the added pressure, velocities drop.
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  361.  @secrityforcemarine  Not at all. 6.5 Creedmoor gets ~2700 fps with a 143gr bullet out of a ~28 inch barrel. This gets 2800 out of a 13 inch barrel. You more more FPS, almost the same bullet weight, with half the barrel length. There is a great difference.
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  362.  @secrityforcemarine  So is it the bullet or the cartridge? Because even if the bullet had worse ballistics, it would still come out with more energy. The fact that it has good ballistics is why civilian 277 Fury beats Creedmoor. Military 6.8 is even hotter. SOCOM already uses 6.5 Creedmoor. In 7.62x51 NATO weapons that got converted. Anything that shoots 7.62 NATO can be converted to this, so it doesn't matter.
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  363.  @secrityforcemarine  No point is being missed. The new round outperforms existing rounds. Any change is going to be costly no matter what it is, so might as well go big on performance.
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  364.  @secrityforcemarine  The civilian Fury ammo has a 25% increase in performance over Creedmoor, the military ammo is even hotter. You can't mod existing weapons for a low price. The results aren't nearly the same.
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  365.  @secrityforcemarine  You're not talking to a wall, you're talking to someone dealing with the facts. Any change in weapon will cost billions, so might as well go big. 6.5 CM needs a 24" barrel to get even close to Fury performance out of 16".
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  366.  @secrityforcemarine  Doesn't matter, still loses to civilian Sig Fury. The mil load would only make it worse for CM.
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  367.  @secrityforcemarine  Glad we have people who can't even spell "glad" question everything. I'm sure you ask the real questions.
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  368.  @secrityforcemarine  Your point that large hunting cartridges which require 20" barrels are better than modern military tech?
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  369.  @secrityforcemarine  Okay, so you have even lower performance than advertised. Anything else?
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  370.  @secrityforcemarine  If you've done the research, surely you're making billions off government contracts by selling them hunting weapons.
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  371.  @secrityforcemarine  You're here too claiming you're better at researching than the military.
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  372. If steel case is off spec, it's off spec. Stoner designed the rifle for the original gas tube length, with the original ammo. Not for cheap ammo.
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  373.  @theshootingbench9116  That's not true. Should a "tier one" weapon be able to handle anything from squib loads to Project Eldest Son loads? Should it be able to run corroded ammo? How is it a manufacturer's responsibility to overgas their own systems so it works on cheaply loaded ammo with the wrong pressure curve? Hey, instead of a 12 position gas block, how about the ammo manufacturer increases the price by 1 cpr and loads it right? Who are you to bring up milspecs when you're the one insisting on shooting off spec ammo on high dollar firearms?
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  374.  @bboness713  Not without nukes, which is the big no-no. How did people in sandals and turbans resist US occupation for 20 years? They're defeating the giant country because the giant country is mostly unpopulated, with the vast majority living in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The giant country's military shoved the money down their pockets instead of spending it where needed. The giant country is giant, and thus can't commit too much military force to Ukraine without leaving the rest of the country unmanned. They have claimed territory in the past that many countries would enjoy retaking. The giant country's military is fighting for a measly paycheck, the smaller country is fighting for survival. Hypersonics are a meme. Their hypersonic missile launched in the conflict is a Iskander missile launched from the air in a fighter jet rather than a stationary ground launcher vehicle, so it can go faster. Meanwhile the US was flying manned hypersonic aircraft in the 60s. The reason it didn't end in 5 minutes is because using their only trump card would mean destruction of Russia. A loose cannon with nukes and the willing to use it upsets the balance of MAD. Anyone who shows the willingness to use nukes must be destroyed immediately to prevent them from using them again. That's how the world works.
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  375.  @electric_crickets  I comment a lot because I'm based and my opinions are correct and cool. If you know who I can get in contact with so I can get paid, shoot me a message.
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  376. So SOCOM required a reciprocating charging handle, and their own boys didn't want it? Yeah, sounds about right for a govt organization.
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  377. Facts.
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  378.  @hayden8491  I thought this was common knowledge. Apparently only /k/ knows about it?
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  379. The DoD wants to do 6.8x51 conversions on M240s. Those won't be replaced.
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  380. Years ago they said the 6.8 round would have the EPR construction (M855A1). Not sure what they're doing now.
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  381. Create a rip through the space-time continuum.
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  382.  @ifell3  just tell the bear to attack the other guys
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  383. Sig is mostly USA now.
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  384. If they got the barrels from the same place that's making them for the government, it's cheaper to pull a barrel out of the production line than create a separate production line to make commercial barrels. To be fair "commercial" barrels are more common now that other brands got into the game and they have no reason to manufacture those profiles.
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  385.  @JohnCBobcat  I'm not talking about Rem/Bushmaster but the AR market in general. Because of your last sentence.
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  386. They aren't sent money. They're sent old stockpiles of gear that are presumed to be valued at X dollars, and the media reports it as "Ukraine receving X dollars worth of aid". But they're not, it's like trying to "evaluate" your car's worth with the price as it came off the lot two decades ago.
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  387.  @DaleGribbleMD  They didn't invest into FTX. FTX volunteered to handle crypto donations to Ukraine. All in all, they received 60 million USD worth of crypto from private individuals across the globe. Not governments, just personal donations. It was never "laundered" anywhere. The FTX debacle is being investigated and SBF stole money, but we know he took it and used it to buy property for example. It's completely unrelated to the private donations Ukraine got.
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  388. 9:48 what the hell was that?
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  389. Thank you Gangster88232, very cool.
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  390.  @bandit8436  there was an AR trigger system that used the hammer as a secondary sear, which would catch on a notch milled into the bolt and allow for closed semi and open FA for the old Colt LMGs - I think HK planned to use it on the M27 but that plan was scrapped.
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  391.  13R^D  Shawn (aka Sean Palmisano) is a chode. He got the 17 to malfunctionby using steel cased ammo, I am sure he did not get issued steel case in the service. He also lied about training Keanu Reeves and backstabbed Taran Butler, which shows he's just another "brovet" trying to milk his former military status for fame and money.
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  392.  13R^D  you deleted your reply. Did you notice that the video got taken down because of Sean Palmisano's lies?
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  393. "My dad taught me a few things too"
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  394.  @BoJack-pp8fn  And do you realize that I can laugh at one thing and not the other?
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  395. Or because their intended use is indoors and they never thought about a use case where they would need the range?
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  396.  @tasjan9190  Plenty of people also crossed the Atlantic on steam boat. We have airliners now. Just because things were done in inconvenient ways in the past doesn't mean you have to inconvenience yourself today. The people who cleared rooms with 20" barrel rifles did not have a choice. People buying their own equipment do.
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  397.  @tasjan9190  So people buy short rifles for the intended use of home defense where they will only fire at close range to look cool. What they should do is instead copy guns issued to Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't know, seems to me that copying issued guns that might not be useful in your home is more about looking cool than buying short rifles. Fun fact, the dusting off of the M14s cost more money than just adopting new 7.62 NATO rifles. Just pointing out the idiocy of whoever was in charge of that blunder. The SF guys ditched the 16 because they already had 5.56 weapons and saw no need to keep it, bucko. I'm not sure what the SF in Afghanistan has to do with civilians and home defense my bucko but I think trying to copy them is about looking cool despite one's actual needs. Bucko.
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  398.  @tasjan9190  Whoa whoa whoa you started accusing people of buying things to look cool and now you're advocating for GWOT LARP.
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  399.  @tasjan9190  You called BS on people getting short rifles for short range fights. That's the trend you observed. GWOT is "Global War on Terrorism". It's the well-established term for the conflicts that have happened in the past few decades without trying them to a specific country like Iraq or Afghanistan. Almost nobody seriously uses 7.5" ARs. Most people get 11.5 and above. Who the hell convinced whom? Brands make more money sticking with the same barrel lengths and profiles. Shorter lengths require different production lines due to the incompatibility of the hardware that supports said lengths. The money you'd theoretically save by making more barrels out of the same bar stock you lose to the the different profiles, handguards, gas blocks, etc. Basically your opinion hinges on you having zero experience in management. 3x MSRP? AR parts got cheaper with time, not more expensive. And you're clearing corners in Fallujah and shooting across hills in Afghanistan. Oh wait. You're not. You're also on the internet promoting your own tacticool ideas.
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  400. AKs are expensive to produce when you're not a state-backed factory using machines paid for decades ago. Modern manufacturing has made the AK somewhat of a relic. Hence the attempt to use cast trunnions and bolts to drive costs down.
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  401. Why 300 BLK? It's 5.56 necked up to 30 cal. It's another short and fat round, a step back in technology to the 7.92x33 Kurz days.
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  402. The SCAR program was a mess (such as requesting in the design a reciprocating charging handle that the users didn't care much for) and what we figured out was that minor gains for high cost didn't make sense in the 5.56 weapon, the 7.62 was nice enough to keep. Caliber and rifle have to be new. A new rifle in 5.56 won't beat the M4, a new caliber in the M4 will not beat 5.56. This is not the SCAR program. It's a leap ahead.
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  403.  @DaveSmith-cp5kj  I said what I thought about the SCAR program and why a 5.56 rifle would not cut it. We can reductio ad absurdum all day long but that's not what I was replying to.
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  404. The other way around. There's a ton of 3-5 min "infomercial" videos that don't gain traction. The banter and characters keep viewers engaged, which in turn gets the video promoted by the algorithm while the truncated information videos are only watched by people who searched for them.
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  405. Barra Barra by Rachid Taha
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  406. It's true, I was there. I was the round in the chamber.
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  407. Because almost nobody standardized around bullpups so you're the odd one out if you get one. I'm not big into bullpups but from what I understand the hassle free solution is the Tavor, and I've heard from people I trust that those typically do not make it through classes. That's just what I've heard because there's people who swear by them.
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  408. @@chadtheboris The people going "acktwually it's funny and it makes sense" fit the description better.
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  409. "doesn’t use the PCC standard Glock mags" - Aesthetics > functionality. Mags that angle back look bad on PCCs. Kidding aside, making mags is how many companies stay in business after the first runs are sold and sales dry up. If I'm investing in a new ecosystem I'd rather keep that company alive than give more money to Gaston.
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  410. Drones didn't render anything obsolete.
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  411.  @bro26mohw  half the original parts were swapped anyway so it wouldn't matter how old the original rifle was - if they were buying new weapons they'd have bought SR-25s from Knight's.
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  412. Stop being a schizo. By that logic the air force is also developing the NGAD air superiority fighter... to shoot down civilian Cessnas? "Hurr durr the wars from the past ended so there's no point in developing anything" by that logic we should still be using coal and steam power. Why try new things?
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  413. *6mm caseless
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  414. Usually harder lead has higher antimony content - which is lower on the periodic table than lead, so it's a hair less dense than pure lead.
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  415. It's not about testing. Pistol rounds cannot have steel cores. AK pistols and people having big mouths lead to it becoming pistol ammo.
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  416.  @GamePath  Okay. People used the legal definition of "pistol" to have "AK pistols", now you can't come around and tell the government "no fair!". It gets fired out of pistols, that gave the government the opening to consider it pistol ammo. The time to fight it is long gone, and fortunately when it was about to happen to M855 people complained enough to stop it. It's too late to complain now.
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  417. That would lead to faster wear or fractures. Dimensional or geometric errors would lead to stoppages.
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  418.  @vendomnu  and be someone famous
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  419. Just taking photos of modded Glocks as a whole. We get it, it's a custom slide, gold plated barrel with heavy stippling and a gouged out trigger guard. Seen it before.
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  420.  @chadthunderkoch9540  Bro, what? He's implying that although the review is not being "paid" in money, it's being paid by letting him keep the rifle. Shipping and paperwork doesn't matter, receiving compensation for a review does.
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  421. If it spins freely it can start to twist the strap.
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  422.  @JCH5391  More like a twizzler. There are limited rotation QD points, which supposedly would be the best of both worlds.
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  423. Under lockdown. 28 US Marines riding on black Ford Raptors.
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  424. Textron and GE.
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  425. That was WW3, the Nazis came back but America was too concerned with the 1973 oil crisis.
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  426. Kit Rose ahah it happens.
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  427. Like if you bring rappelling harnesses to all your airsoft games not to break safety rules and go down elevator shafts, but because you like how the leg straps have a push up effect on your glutes.
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  428. HK made the HK 33/41/93 and the G41, Century made the C-93.
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  429. Yeah in Ukraine they're using AI to identify corpses by matching them to Vkontakte pictures. This will eventually be used on the living too.
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  430. Nobody claimed that. 6.8 SPC was dropped from SOCOM testing in around 2007, that's when they stopped ammo acquisitions.
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  431. 🎵 "AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST OF MEEEEEE" 🎶
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  432. We had copies of CS 1.5 or something (before 1.6) that would run off usb sticks because we didn't have admin privileges to install programs.
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  433.  @myratsalad  Hm, Maxxpros were designed to let the occupants survive blasts...
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  434. "world war 2... on Earth"
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  435. 🚨🚨🚨FEDPOST ALERT🚨🚨🚨 How about you start? Instead of posting comments on YT?
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  436. It was a SOCOM program to replace the M60. It "makes sense" to scrap M240s and just use Mk 48s but things are not that simple. It's like a company, all the servers run Linux and people at the office use Windows. You ask why not change to Linux in the office, it's because they need to use software not available on Linux. The fact of the matter is that you'd need to have a program to replace M240s and you can't just say the Mk 48 autonatically wins because it "makes sense". It might actually not. There's M240 based weapons like the coaxial on the M1 Abrams and it's the vehicle mounted MG on a ton of them. The receivers have double the life of the Mk 48.
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  437.  @shapshooter7769  Even if you could get a contract just to replace infantry MGs, it would have to be open to any manufacturer who wished to compete. Someone else could win the bid with a new machine gun and the Mk. 48 lose.
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  438. In the real world they typically pop out the back like a zit or are found in the perp's clothes. Modern rounds are pretty good at preventing collateral damage - the peril is missing entirely and hitting a bystander.
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  439.  @DaleGribbleMD  I wasn't. But continue to wait for the Blue Helmets, dawg.
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  440.  @clunkerdunker6321  Funniest part is how while they still have the white vehicles and blue helmets for the peacekeeping missions, a lot of the contingents sent are full bore combat units still riding around in military color vehicles and their helmets. Particularly in Africa.
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  441.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  The secret is letting others get suckered into buying first gen. If a product can't survive the first gen issues, it probably didn't deserve to exist.
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  442.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  Like I said, if they had one shot to fake it till they made it with the second or third gen, and they blew it... It deserved to die off.
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  443.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  If you can't monetize your teething problems you're pretty bad at your first run. If your product could succeed, it would be better in the hands of a company that knows what they're doing.
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  444. Underrated comment.
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  445. If you flip it upside down and make the bolt carrier also the fixed firing pin, sure.
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  446. He's in the military...
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  447. Well PETA would complain if they shot the worms.
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  448. I'm Rick James, bitch.
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  449. He's using the low pressure ammo.
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  450.  @cahsahhhhhhhn  F-15s have not lost in air-to-air, but have lost to SAMs.
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  451.  @hoocares939  lol reminds me of this video of the lunk alarm going off at planet fitness https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5FYSrgMBd/?igshid=iibzpch8j5kb
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  452. Just wiped out tomato town
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  453. He's a convicted human trafficker.
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  454.  @NostalgicLink  Are you gonna pay for those better fences? We're not talking about the perimeter of your average white picket fence suburban home. We're talking large swaths of land. "don't create environments where "pests" naturally thrive" - Oh so stop farming altogether? Sure bud. But the food doesn't come from the grocery store. "Do you also shoot dogs and cats who roam from house to house and produce litter after litter every spring because the neighbors take pity and leave shitty kibbles out for them?" - Dogs and cats have a symbiotic relationship with humans, I feel embarrassed that I have to be explain 6th grade biology to people on youtube comments. There's a big fucking difference between domestic and wild animals and the types of nuisances they cause, a cat isn't going to ruin crops. Also, we control the population of pets by neutering them. "Or, does your cognitive dissonance tell you dogs and cats shouldn't be shot, but hogs are fine?" - You don't even know what cognitive dissonance means, you're using it incorrectly. Also, for it to be cognitive dissonance cats/dogs would have to be comparable to hogs. They're not. As mentioned above, animals can form pairings that are mutually beneficial that get ingrained into their biology. You can't have a wolf as a pet like you would a dog. We don't share the long history of bonding and selective pressure we do with the dog. Dogs can read human emotion and communication better than chimpanzees or bonobos. There is a factual, objective and scientific difference between a dog and a wild animal like hog. There's also no benefits to killing dogs for food or to protect livestock/crops. If anything, we use dogs to protect our livestock. "Hell, by your thinking, why not start taking out the homeless? The homeless stain otherwise nice locations and laws aren't strict enough to keep them out." - Do you have an actual point or you simply argue from bad faith?
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  455.  @NostalgicLink  "I'm fully aware of the amount of land being used primarily to feed animals being taken advantage of around the world. And, yes, I'm solely going to pay to fix the situation, since that's what you're trying to insinuate I aught to do." - Stop being a child. Fences are expensive. You're demanding of others to pay for something you're not willing to contribute to. Either stop making unreasonable demands or pay up. "Yeah, I definitely said we should just stop farming altogether. You're an idiot." - Yeah, you said that humans can't create environments that attract the hogs. This means no farming, bucko. "Cats might not be able to ruin crops, but they can cause problems. I had to lay down anti-cat spikes in my small garden to keep them from digging up the soil and chewing up leaves to clean their teeth." - I'm gonna pretend I didn't just read the implication that the damage caused to your garden by cats is as serious as the damage caused to crops by hogs. "Every now and then he tries to round up the females to have them neutered, but more show up every year anyway" - The fact that you can do that to cats only drives my point further home. Hogs will straight up gore you. "You believe cats and dogs have the right to live even when they can be pests, likely because of your relationship or understanding of the normality of the relationship, but not all other animals, even though all other animals are trying to live just the same as cats and dogs." - Yes, this is called basic biology. Is the shark disgusting because it doesn't kill the remora? "I do know what cognitive dissonance is, I am using it correctly" - You're not. Cognitive dissonance requires a state of dissonance. If someone is confident about their beliefs without suffering the stress of trying to balance them, they do not suffer from cognitive dissonance. "Cats and dogs are comparable to hogs, in many ways." - Two things being "comparable" doesn't make them equivalent. "Notably, as I've described, they're all animals that are just trying to live" - So is a mosquito. If you want to remove the "animal" qualifier even black mold is just trying to live. Even things that aren't technically alive, like viruses, are "trying to live" by holding onto hosts and replicating their genetic information. A criminal breaking into my home is an animal trying to live. It's not an excuse. "You're okay with killing one but not the other, despite their similar desires to not die." - See example above. Oh no, the mosquito doesn't want to die. Fuck him. He's gonna die because his bite is inconvenient to me and also they spread diseases in some countries. Even a rapist has the desire not to die. The desire to not die is not an excuse. At one point actions have to have consequences and the culprit can't say "noooo you can't harm me because I wish to not die". "You're also okay with killing hogs as they are a nuisance, but not the homeless." - The homeless aren't out there absolutely targeting our food supply nor are they multiplying because of their invasive nature you sick fuck. If a homeless guy tries to jump you with a knife then sure, it would be wise to defend yourself. "Have you attempted to bond with a hog? Have their been studies attempting to do so?" - How about you try first and nobody steps in to help you if it goes wrong? "Have humans historically attempted that? No, they did so with cats and dogs" - BUDDY DO YOU KNOW WHERE DOMESTICATED PIGS COME FROM? I MEAN I WAS ONLY HALF JOKING WHEN I SAID YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BIOLOGY BUT YOU REALLY OUT HERE ADMITTING YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT DOMESTICATED PIGS WERE BRED OUT OF WILD BOAR 10,000 YEARS AGO "There are plenty of people who take pigs as pets though. Why's that?" - Because they were bred for it, and are not wild animals? What you're doing is like saying wolves are suitable pets because dogs exist. "When a homeless guy does nothing but bother you for change every time you go to the store, offering you nothing in return but his gratitude, do you think "he's not as useful as a cat or a dog, so why don't we just eliminate him?" No, you don't, because you were shaped to know that would be wrong, and you should know that it's similarly wrong to just eliminate hogs." - And also because there's a big fucking difference between giving up a dollar once a week and entire farms getting wrecked? Even the health concerns with dirty needles or human excrement in cities due to homelessness isn't as big of a deal as wild pigs being a vector for swine flu or possibly carrying pathogens that can wipe out deer populations.
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  456.  @NostalgicLink  "I'm not going to waste my time reading the rest." - Awww but you didn't read the part where I explained to you that DOMESTIC PIGS WERE BRED FROM WILD BOAR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. "You're a lost cause who'll eventually die off and be replaced by others who understand how wrong you are." - No. "Within 100 years, the vast majority of people will look back on us with disdain just as we look back on those who once thought the genocide, slavery, segregation, etc. of our own species was ever okay." - No.
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  457.  @NostalgicLink  did you just censor words with umlauts?
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  458. Moving in and out of vehicles.
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  459. Well you could get a .22 WMR AR if you can justify it by getting into shooting competitions, but expect it to be a hassle.
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  460. You can. How much you're betting that yt will trottle views and withhold your earnings? Actually, you'll be too broke to bet.
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  461. If you go deaf from your own gun firing you won't be able to tell either.
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  462. One of those "gotta learn to follow the rules before you're allowed to break them" type of situations.
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  463. Russia invaded in 2014. They also fired Grads from inside Russian territory at Ukrainian cities. The LPR and DPR "free" people? They were force conscripted into being bullet sponges for the Russian army.
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  464. Crypto has public ledgers. I bet you never went ahead and actually looked at the FTX accounts. Random youtubers can track all of Logan Paul's crypto and NFT scams to see where each transaction goes, but you've never seen any evidence of FTX laundering being tied to Ukraine. You were told there is. You've never seen it. Because there's no proof. You're fed lies masquerading as news and think you're enlightened.
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  465.  @Critter145  The FTX claims started a month or two before the twitter files. Not my fault you can't read a calendar.
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  466. Images of the Leopard 2 being repaired already surfaced.
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  467. To be fair they used M4s like SAWs. Most guns will either start to choke or have the handguard catch fire when abused like that.
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  468. When you're on the receiving end, the bullets impacting near you suppress you a lot more than the faint pops from hundreds of yards away.
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  469.  @pontiacmaniac2  It's still on youtube lol /watch?v=ntLR34ozSdY
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  470. Barrel length doesn't add accuracy and properly designed suppressors have very negligeable effects on velocity. Once the gasses enter the first expansion chamber they expand on all diections rather than just pushing the bullet and there will be a slight gap between baffle and bullet that allows gasses to vent past.
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  471.  @RSBDeprecated  No, it doesn't. Stiffness and harmonics have an extremely significant effect on accuracy. Barrel length, not so much. "Not only does additional barrel increase velocity meaning less time subjected to environmental forces" - Depending where you make the cut we could be talking about a 100/200 feet per second difference which translates into a 0.04 second difference even if you go from 2800fps to 2600fps. Also, if you're shooting from the same barrel with every shot (one would hope so) the time to target will be consistent and so the effects will also be consistent until the wind changes drastically. Air pressure will not drop drastically unless you're going to take a shot from a huge cliff and then base jump to the bottom and keep shooting. "it also adds to the stability of the bullet due to the rifleing" - lower velocity does mean slower rotation, but the fact is that 1:7 twist is meant for the longer tracer rounds so there's some leeway.
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  472. Because the rifling is pounded into shape rather than cut. That aligns the grain on the metal and by working it cold it work-hardens the material.
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  473.  @w_stew8912  Brandon didn't have domestic AKs.
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  474.  @skulldozer1462  "MoDuLaRiTy" isn't a big deal because nobody is swapping parts in the field, the point of the chassis was that it prevents the M14s accracy issues by eliminating the old stock. But the problem is that the chassis had to be torqued in a specific way to tune the harmonics, when they got shipped out armorers they were not told they couldn't disassemble the rifles so when they got overseas the armorers stripped them to clean them. Womp womp. Torquing it back together turned 1 MOA rifles into 3 MOA.
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  475. It's the Bill of Rights not the Bill of Needs.
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  476.  @aaronbone4572  Why would they want a heavier round than 5.56 that's much slower?
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  477. The rights still belong to Remington unless somehow the deal with Magpul expired.
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  478. Non-fragmenting 5.56 also does this, in fact Brass Fetcher used to have a video of M856 tracer and it damn near tore the block in half as it yawed. Must be privated, last I checked. I don't know the final design but all XM5 candidates had to use a specific 6.8 projectile independent of what cartridge they chose and it years ago the rumor was that it had to be EPR construction. The 7.62x51 EPR bullet (the one on M80A1) is such a good performer it can be loaded on a 300 BLK case and still fragment at 1700 fps. The Spear has nothing to learn from 7n6 because Uncle Sam designed something even better a decade ago.
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  479.  @Manco65  the 1/14 twist was because at the time nobody made .224 bullets for military use, so the barrel blanks were all rifled to stabilize 40-45gr bullets, 50gr max. The military did a 55gr which stabilized, but in arctic conditions the colder air made the bullet unstable. This means keyholing. The bullet is going sideways. You can't even hit what you're aiming at because it just does random flips in the air. Since the military was going to adopt it, it made sense to have factory produced 1/12 barrels. When the stories of 5.56 wounds started circulating, people assumed incorrectly that bullets were hitting bodies sideways and attributed it to 1/14 not understanding that with the bullets flying sideways, they wouldn't have hit anyone except by accident.
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  480.  @BigSmitty1  Yes, Bureau of Land Management land. Federal land where you can shoot.
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