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[Hawkeye @Wiki_Collins]

@ritonoptics Already watching the local herd. Took this about 30 minutes ago.

It's also a good time to watch traffic, spot good bucks, and find game trails beaten down in the tall grass!

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"Yes, but what kind of American are you?

Ah, I see, the kind who makes homemade cast iron open faced Apple pie..."

And it's an old family recipe, I can't share it under pain of being haunted by my Grandmother! 😉

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Depends... (TM)

Historically, .270 and .30-30 have been used to take Elk, and do quite well with good shot placement. I think .30-06 and .45-70 and solid bump ups to decent ranged shots with excellent terminal performance, especially if you're from out of state. I'd also not go over 200-300 yard with those as well.

However, a long time elk hunter I recently talked to who specialized in long range (400-500 yards) who talked very highly of the .300, said 7mm would work but didn't hit with as much energy, and some people in their group used .336. I think there is likely good wisdom in that practical experience, as they hunt every year as locals.

So yo whit, yes, almost any reasonably sized cartridge could take an Elk, but some would require you to be closer and have a better shot, and some retain more energy at longer range but have greatly increased recoil as a result.

I mostly hunt deer, and I'm always shocked at how far an animal can run after a fatal shot, and tend toward heavy hitting rounds based on personal experience. There's a lot of people I hear hunting with .223 and .243 to and they do get deer, but you do hear about a lot of wounded deer as well.

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@harveyspistols To be fair, a capital choice for the aspiring pirate to be, as reloading a flintlock black powder pistol takes a minute or two in ideal circumstances. You save the biggest pistol for last the butt can double as a club! Arrgh me mateys!

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@harveyspistols I love a good old revolver, they still have a very valid place as they handle magnum loads well, as fun to shoot, and typically very accurate and reliable. My Ruger GP100 is one of my favorite guns.

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@Drakon_Fire286 95 tons of SPACE KARATE!

The Banshee BNC-3E isn't sub-optimal, it's just not a shooting mech. It's a running "FALCO-PUNCH!" in Atlas levels of armor. I have never enjoyed running a mech as much as a BNC-3E in full Kirk Fu mode!

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Hello Darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. 🎶

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@BasedBattletech My kids introduced an Uncle to BattleTech yesterday using Essentials Rifleman versus Centurion but swapped in the CN9-AH with the AC20. Apparently it lasted like three turns before the Rifleman fell...

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@brycefigueroa46 @BasedBattletech If LRMs are on the board in any decent number, pretty good. A couple LRMs 20s from even a single Archer have a fairly decent chance of sneaking through a couple head damage due to how they scatter. Had it happen to me from a Catapult just the other day.

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See, my experience is almost the opposite, and I've been in 5 states and visted dozens of gun stores and gunshows in all of them. I've found 3, in a in podunk town, two in Amsih country that focused more on hunting rifles and had anything like bolt actions or lever actions. The rest were rows of 800-2k AR-15s, Glocks, 5.56 and 9mm, maybe a couple boxed of 300blk as exorbitant prices, only EOTechs or Holosun sometimes Vortex optics, stacked with Magpul accessories, shelves of AR magazines, black tactical everything, and everything marked up about 20% from MSRP. I realize that only my own lived experiences, but that all a lot of stores or dealers offer because they think it it's the only things that sell.

We get some better variation in the local gunshow circuit, we still have tables of militaria, the all AR/tactical everything guys, some collectors lever actions, the obviously chinese made knife and optics tables, the Silver Traders, the medical stuff only tables, sketchy off brand body armor, the all things ammo or steel targets, and then the 'lets make a deal, tell you what, I hate it so will offer to 30% it's value, and then mark it up 20% it's value next show. And of course the Tazer table, pop corn table, gutter shield, and 3d printer trinkets table... But you can sometimes find collectible stuff walking around or deals worth pursuing, and that's what makes it fun!

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@Lutra_Gaming I need this for anti-clanner reasons...

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I think most people are going to skip his key take away, that the single round stoppages rate increased proportional to increases in caliber size, additional studies like the 2018 Boston Firearms Fatality study found calibers over .40 were 3-4times more likely to end in a fatality, often in a single round.

My personal take is that in terminal ballistics bullets do odd things, and you need a critical trifecta of shot placement, imparted energy and penetration, and resulting tissue/organ damage resulting in blood loss to result in incapacitation and death. Smaller rounds can do with with excellent placement or multiple rounds, but large caliber rounds can do so with a large margin for error on location and bad angle with better penetration and imparted energy.

That seems pretty common sense to me, and I like the best odds I can for EDC and hunting, so I tend toward larger energetic calibers to stack that deck in my favor, and understand there are several viable pathways to the same results! :)

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@infantrydort Hormuz Report is a South Asian account that has posted a lot of headlines recently, and most of them are completely contrary other OSINT sources. I take them with a giant grain of salt as they seem at best 'useful idiots', and more likely a Iran friendly propaganda account.

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Material science is a big part, fundamentally we haven't found massive innovations beyond wood, wool, steel, aluminum, plastic, various resins, transitors/silcon, tempered glass, etc, mostly since the 60-70s and so we're seeing a lot of parallel evolutionary conclusions all based in the same body of innovation before. Much of the time when you see a lack of quality it's due to poor QC/unskilled labor or purposefully using cheaper/lesser components to save money.

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I type up so many responses, then ask myself if I really think the person is capable of rational logical thought...

The I sigh and delete it. Case in point, today someone tried to indicate that WW1, WW2, the Marshall Plan, Cold War US troop deployments to Eastern Europe/Fulda Gap and US NATO spending issues were all solely for the benefit of the US and therefore Europe should in no way be grateful for our long and generous alliance, but instead mean tweets and talking how underdeveloped and unprotected Iceland is means we're no longer reliable allies. How do you even respond to such assertions? I dunno, because it's like completely somehow being ignorant of history and basic easily verifiable should be common knowledge facts, as you just can't reason with that level of unknowing....

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@ritonoptics And not to goober up their gun with a ton of gear, just the bare essential Rit(on) gear to help you hit that target easier while at the range practicing! 😉

A quality optic is one simple stock upgrade that can yield big dividends in practice and in the field.

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In tabletop, that's a Zombie mech. It's a damage sink capable of taking great damage, but it's armament is a bit soft for a true Assault mech, especially against competitors like the Atlas and Dire Wolf. It's still annoying as heck to remove as it can take an huge beating and keep coming!

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@asbdeyjkgdr @unusual_whales So here's the cool part. I'm quoting commonly known actual historical events. Hitchens's razor states that if you're claiming they didn't happen, since you're making that incredible claim, you are responsible for incredible evidence or else it can be dismissed without evidence.

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@forgedbyad I use most of them, I have a couple (Damascus steel) that are light duty as they are a bit fancy, and my hunting knife gets a workout every Fall, but most of my EDC knifes get used until they fall apart. I recently designed and commissioned this blade, gets used almost daily.