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[Wat_Tyler]

Got an email about "a stash of" G33/40 Mausers for sale. These are Czech rifles made from 1940 to 1942 and they have some interesting features which set them apart from regular K98s.


The biggest difference was several thousand dollars.


Oh, and the "stash" was one . . . .


Je pense que non . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.nysun.com/article/a-sec...wsletter&utm_campaign=Weekend Sun 2025-08-16

A Second Chance or a Risk to Public Safety? Department of Justice Moves To Restore Gun Rights to Some Felons​

Nearly 30 years ago, a woman wrote a bad check. Another man falsified food stamp documents. Others inflated tax deductions. All paid their dues — yet still face a lifetime ban on gun ownership.

Now, the Trump administration is pushing to change that.

The Department of Justice’s proposed rule would allow certain nonviolent felons to petition for the restoration of their gun rights — marking the most significant shift in federal firearms policy in decades. The move has stirred praise, criticism, and constitutional debate, reigniting questions over redemption, public safety, and the limits of the Second Amendment.

The proposal, published in July, would establish a legal process by which individuals with nonviolent felony convictions could petition to have their gun rights restored, provided they demonstrate rehabilitation, a clean post-conviction record, and no history of violent behavior.

“For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms — a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion—irrespective of whether they actually pose a threat,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a statement. “No longer.”


And so on . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The all new GL10 LA (long action) may look like your standard AR-10, and it's even the same size - but its patent pending design packs a MUCH. BIGGER. PUNCH! Introducing the first caliber of the series, the 6.5 PRC. Solid, accurate, and able to go the distance... you can't afford to hunt without it!




This is an interesting idea. They offer this rifle in .30-'06, of all things. That makes for a lot of possibilities.


Of course, no image. Thanks, Manglement.

 

[Rebel5soul]

I'm wondering how many of these 'wildcat's' will still be around in 20 years?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The Ultimate Trophy Magnet​

The 6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge from Hornady® brings home trophies — whether on the range or in the field. The big brother of the 6.5 Creedmoor, the 6.5 PRC offers a 200+ fps velocity advantage in a compact magnum cartridge. Built to deliver long, heavy, high‑performance bullets, it provides repeatable accuracy, low recoil and performance well beyond 1,000 yards.



Being as the origin of this one isn't on some guy's reloading table/bench and that the bullet gurus made it, I reckon it might just well have legs.

 

[LLCox]

 

[LLCox]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He was doing pretty well until #7. If you're going to praise the Garand heritage gas system, why not go ahead with a M14/M1A and get the real deal in a cartridge which knocks piss outta all kinds of stuff.


Video will trigger:

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Who knew? Reloadable 7.62 by 39 ammo can be had for a couple of cents per round more than one-and-done steel case. I would make feeding the AK a cheaper proposition.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Wat_Tyler]

Life's easy to live for someone unscrupulous, cunning as a crow, corrupt, back-biting, forward, & brash; But for someone who's constantly scrupulous, cautious, observant, sincere, pure in his livelihood, clean in his pursuits, it's hard.

~ Dhammapada




I recall someone saying to me, 'Anger is fear under pressure.' I've found it to be true. Behind anger fear is always lurking.

~ Unknown




A man of word and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

~ Unknown

 

[Rebel5soul]

The Ultimate Trophy Magnet​

The 6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge from Hornady® brings home trophies — whether on the range or in the field. The big brother of the 6.5 Creedmoor, the 6.5 PRC offers a 200+ fps velocity advantage in a compact magnum cartridge. Built to deliver long, heavy, high‑performance bullets, it provides repeatable accuracy, low recoil and performance well beyond 1,000 yards.



Being as the origin of this one isn't on some guy's reloading table/bench and that the bullet gurus made it, I reckon it might just well have legs.

I can make the same argument for the 6.5x55 Swede and it has a MUCH longer track record.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I can make the same argument for the 6.5x55 Swede and it has a MUCH longer track record.

Which I like, but it's medium-powered.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I had no time to Hate –
Because
The Grave would hinder me –
And Life was not so
Ample I
Could finish – Enmity –

Nor had I time to Love –
But since
Some Industry must be –
The little Toil of Love –
I thought
Be large enough for Me –

~ Emily Dickinson

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily

How the Ivy League Broke America​

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
By David Brooks


Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from the late 19th century until sometime in the 1950s, the superior person was the Well-Bred Man. Such a man was born into one of the old WASP families that dominated the elite social circles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City; the Main Line, outside Philadelphia; Beacon Hill, in Boston. He was molded at a prep school like Groton or Choate, and came of age at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In those days, you didn’t have to be brilliant or hardworking to get into Harvard, but it really helped if you were “clubbable”—good-looking, athletic, graceful, casually elegant, Episcopalian, and white. It really helped, too, if your dad had gone there.

Once on campus, studying was frowned upon. Those who cared about academics—the “grinds”—were social outcasts. But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the Porcellian at Harvard. These clubs provided the well-placed few with the connections that would help them ascend to white-shoe law firms, to prestigious banks, to the State Department, perhaps even to the White House. (From 1901 to 1921, every American president went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.) People living according to this social ideal valued not academic accomplishment but refined manners, prudent judgment, and the habit of command. This was the age of social privilege.


And then a small group of college administrators decided to blow it all up. The most important of them was James Conant, the president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953. Conant looked around and concluded that American democracy was being undermined by a “hereditary aristocracy of wealth.” American capitalism, he argued, was turning into “industrial feudalism,” in which a few ultrarich families had too much corporate power. Conant did not believe the United States could rise to the challenges of the 20th century if it was led by the heirs of a few incestuously interconnected Mayflower families.

So Conant and others set out to get rid of admissions criteria based on bloodlines and breeding and replace them with criteria centered on brainpower. His system was predicated on the idea that the highest human trait is intelligence, and that intelligence is revealed through academic achievement.

By shifting admissions criteria in this way, he hoped to realize Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a natural aristocracy of talent, culling the smartest people from all ranks of society. Conant wanted to create a nation with more social mobility and less class conflict. He presided during a time, roughly the middle third of the 20th century, when people had lavish faith in social-engineering projects and central planning—in using scientific means to, say, run the Soviet economy, or build new cities like Brasília, or construct a system of efficiency-maximizing roadways that would have cut through Greenwich Village.


And so on . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily

How the Ivy League Broke America​

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
By David Brooks


Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from the late 19th century until sometime in the 1950s, the superior person was the Well-Bred Man. Such a man was born into one of the old WASP families that dominated the elite social circles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City; the Main Line, outside Philadelphia; Beacon Hill, in Boston. He was molded at a prep school like Groton or Choate, and came of age at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In those days, you didn’t have to be brilliant or hardworking to get into Harvard, but it really helped if you were “clubbable”—good-looking, athletic, graceful, casually elegant, Episcopalian, and white. It really helped, too, if your dad had gone there.

Once on campus, studying was frowned upon. Those who cared about academics—the “grinds”—were social outcasts. But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the Porcellian at Harvard. These clubs provided the well-placed few with the connections that would help them ascend to white-shoe law firms, to prestigious banks, to the State Department, perhaps even to the White House. (From 1901 to 1921, every American president went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.) People living according to this social ideal valued not academic accomplishment but refined manners, prudent judgment, and the habit of command. This was the age of social privilege.


And then a small group of college administrators decided to blow it all up. The most important of them was James Conant, the president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953. Conant looked around and concluded that American democracy was being undermined by a “hereditary aristocracy of wealth.” American capitalism, he argued, was turning into “industrial feudalism,” in which a few ultrarich families had too much corporate power. Conant did not believe the United States could rise to the challenges of the 20th century if it was led by the heirs of a few incestuously interconnected Mayflower families.

So Conant and others set out to get rid of admissions criteria based on bloodlines and breeding and replace them with criteria centered on brainpower. His system was predicated on the idea that the highest human trait is intelligence, and that intelligence is revealed through academic achievement.

By shifting admissions criteria in this way, he hoped to realize Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a natural aristocracy of talent, culling the smartest people from all ranks of society. Conant wanted to create a nation with more social mobility and less class conflict. He presided during a time, roughly the middle third of the 20th century, when people had lavish faith in social-engineering projects and central planning—in using scientific means to, say, run the Soviet economy, or build new cities like Brasília, or construct a system of efficiency-maximizing roadways that would have cut through Greenwich Village.


And so on . . . .

And then the new crowd decided to base admissions on DEI criteria. So instead of the 'best and brightest' we got the 'cripples and clowns.'

 

[HisArpy]

And then the new crowd decided to base admissions on DEI criteria. So instead of the 'best and brightest' we got the 'cripples and clowns.'

Every village needs an idiot. These days they're called ivy league college grads.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Every village needs an idiot. These days they're called ivy league college grads.

The companies that used to hire them on auto-pilot now subject them to rigorous screening.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand.

~ Steely Dan

 

[HisArpy]

The companies that used to hire them on auto-pilot now subject them to rigorous screening.

They're still hiring them anyway.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

In a camp such as this (what the world is becoming), one draws one's menials from a small and brackish pool.​

~ E. B. Farnum