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I haven't bought or even shopped for rifles in quite a few years. Kinda disappointed in what I'm seeing online for really nice rifles. I want nice walnut, cut checkered blued steel for an MD residency graduation gift.

What I was looking for was a Cooper, Kimber (select/super America), Nosler, etc. It appears Cooper has been sold and I don't see any wood stocks listed on Kimber and Nosler websites. I guess there's Weatherby, but really want nicer than Winchester, Remington, Ruger type rifles. What am I missing? I know there's got to be choices out there, I'm just not seeing them

Caliber will probably be 7mm to 30 cal. Not specifically tied to an exact cartridge other than needing to be mainstream and not for the gun nuts like me.

Budget is $1500-2500.

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1) Leupold Freedom 1-4X scope new in sealed box with pig plex reticle. $285 shipped.

2) Leupold silver Vari X 2.5-8x pistol scope. Used with minor ring marks at the bottom of the tube. Just returned from Leupold for cleaning and adjustment and just a general once over. $475 shipped.

3) Leupold VX 3i 4.5-14x 50mm matte. Standard duplex reticle 1inch tube. Excellent condition. $550 shipped.

First “l’ll take it” wins!

Saw one for sale yesterday at a shop north of here by quite a ways..

It was in awfully darn good shape for its age.. its a 1903 production.

Chambered was in 25/20. It once carried a Uinertal scope on top. but all is there is the rear base and where it was drilled an tapped for the front bases.

Anyone who's in that game have an idea of what a decent price is for a lever action like that?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Cheers
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Included in this package are 3 Cuddeback CuddeLink L Series Trail Cameras and 1 Cuddeback CuddeLink L-Series Cell Home . All are in perfect working order and were only used for a few weeks but one of the straps that secure the camera to the tree has two holes from screws but does not affect function. All original packaging is included as well. If you have any questions or would like more pictures please don't hesitate to shoot me a message.
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I just picked up a couple lbs. of Staball6.5. Has anyone tried this for .280 Remington, especially in the 139/140 grain bullet class? I would love to hear how it worked.

Anyone tried any these with 300 grain pills ?
What’s your opinion?

7 browning invector plus midas extended 12ga choke tubes in excellent condition with wrench and case. Chokes included are Diffusion, Skeet, IC, Light Mod, Mod, Imp Mod and Full. $250 shipped for the lot.

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For Sale:- Nosler, Sierra - .270, .308 bullets


1) Nosler Accubond .270 140gr. (87 bullets)
- pulled from loaded ammunition

Compare to: $1.14/bullet + tax + shipping

$65 shipped insured USA


2) Nosler Ballistic Tips 165gr. (91 bullets)
- factory new, open boxes

Compare to: $0.72/bullet + tax + shipping

$50 shipped insured USA


3) Sierra GameCharger 165gr. (200 bullets)
- factory new bulk packed

Compare to: $0.52/bullet + tax + shipping

$80 shipped insured USA


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For Sale - Charles May Custom Knife - The BobWhite

- As New, Unused, Never Sharpened
- D2 steel
- dyed spalted maple scales
- mosaic pins
- ~7" overall length
- 3" blade
- 4" handle
- custom leather EDC sheath

$275 shipped insured USA

Not interested in trades...Thanks.
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I’m offering for sale my Ruger GP100 .357 mag revolver. The model no. is KGP160. It has a 6” barrel.
It was manufactured in 1988 and purchased new by me. It has seen very little use over the years, I’m sure less than 100 rounds fired. It comes all original its original box with papers.
I’m asking $850 shipped to the lower 48.

The Digifuture in Its Parts
May 7, 2024Deep Thought, Politics, Uncategorized
How time flies, said Fred with scintillating originality. When I was a young lad in rural Virginia in the mid-Sixties, the only thing digital was the local drive-in movie, known colloquially as the Finger bowl. Now the world runneth over with bits and bytes and screens and all. Regarding which:

Much of the unpleasantness of life springs from the need to identify ourselves. To this end we have driver’s licenses, passports, ID , and credit cards.

None of this is really necessary. Let us assume hypothetically that face recognition is infallible. It isn’t, quite, but let us pretend. We would then not need a driver’s license: The cop would scan your face and your license, if any, would pop up on his screen. No passport either: Coming into America the camera would scan your face and all your passport info would pop up. To fly, you would not need a ticket or need to check in: The system would scan your face and know you had a ticket for UAL 3325 to Chengdu

Actually face recognition is not quite perfect, so to get admission to the CIA’s murder records you might need an additional scan of iris or fingerprints, which would leave no doubt. This latter is now used at air ports: “Put your fingers on the glass….”

All of these technologies are well known and work in practice. China uses face recognition, in which it is the world leader, for practically everything.

Making ID-less life run smoothly and efficiently would require considerable programming but no new technology. Government could have a record for every citizen with everything from passport to medical records, each being accessible only to entities needing them. For example, a hospital could see your med recs but not your driver’s license or credit-card transactions. Things of this sort are already done in various countries. They just haven’t been glued together, except largely in China.

The convenience would make this a fairly easy sell to the public. No fumbling with cards, proof of insurance, redundant medical tests. In priciple people fear surveillance, but in practice they will go with convenience every time.

Now, the digital dollar. It is coming. Officials of the government and of the Federal Reserve seem to talk out of both sides of their mouths, but they are considering it, as are the central banks of over a hundred countries. It will probably be introduced gradually, maybe first for transactions between banks, then as an option for the public. But it is coming. Watch. The aim, probably not stated, will be to go cashless, as China has said it wants to do, with transactions made by cellphone, as is already almost universal in China. It will be convenient.

The digidollar software necessarily will also make a record of every transaction: time, place, amount, and to whom made. This sounds shocking, but isn’t much different from records made by credit-card companies and banks. Somehow this sounds less ominous than the feds having them, though it can get them if it wants.

Some interesting effects will flow from cashlessness. Robbery will become difficult. If I put a gun to your head and demand your money, you will probably give me your dough, phone to phone, rather than have your head blown off. But the system will make a record of who I am, the time, place, and amount, which is not optimal for those in the robbery business. When you report the crime, the system will take the money back out of my phone, give it to you, and close my account. I will not be able to open a new account because doing so involves face recognition and I will be blacklisted–and therefore unable, in any way, to get money in a cashless world.

The drug problem would end in about three days. AI routines would have no problem noticing multiple sales in known drug markets of fifty dollars, or whatever a hit of coke or fentanyl costs. It would be easy to check the identity of the recipients with police records of known dealers. There would be no need to arrest them. Just block their accounts and put a note on their screens telling them that if they want access to money again, they need to come into the police station.

All in good fun. But government could–would–use the same techniques to track and control people it didn’t like, such as people name Fred who say not nice things about said government.

There is little doubt that Washington would use the digidollar for purposes of social control, potentially aabsolute. “Washington” of course means Google, Facebook, the media, Wikipedia, and all the other de facto parts of government. Already people and websites that say bad things have their credit cards cancelled, find themselves delisted by Google, banned by Facebook, erased from the Wikipedia, and ejected from YouTube. There is much of this, though I suspect that most of the public is unaware of it.

The digidollar would provide a censoric meat axe that would–will–strike fear into dissidents. What remedy would there be? The victim would have to depend on friends even to eat while any drawn-out appeal went on. This sounds, I know. like right-wing paranoia. How it would be used and to what extent I don’t know, but recent history is not encouraging, and the mere possibility would argue for obedience.

Note that we live in a wired world. We all have cell phones. Mine is an iPhone, which has Siri as digital assistant. She is a good listener. She can be half a room away, or in my pocket, or in a noisy restaurant but when I say, “Hey Siri, what time is it?” she almost always understands. Those who have iPhones but do not use Siri have no way of knowing whether the microphone is on. Presumably, likewise with Android.

The Alexa boxes in our house understand both English and Spanish well and sometimes rooms away. I don’t know what policies Apple and Amazon have towrd eavesdropping, whether they do this when the feds want it, but they assuredly can. The bottom line is that millions of homes host high-grade listening devices inserted with the best of motives–making music available–just as password managers, also with the best of motives, extract our passwords. In grade school I was taught that sharing is a good thing. I wonder.

OK, that’s it for today. A tentacle is coming out of my Alexa box and seems to be reaching for my throat. Maybe it was something I said.



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I Lost my Posi Lock adjustment Weather Cap FROM one of my Burris U.S.A. Made Scopes.
It looks like a adjustment cap on the scope but is 1/4 the size. Black color. (matte) but gloss will work.
If anybody has a extra one, or one they don't need , please P.M. Me.

Thanks, Dirty Harry

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I’m offering for sale my 1979 Ruger Standard 22 auto pistol. I purchased it new about 1979 or 80. It has been responsible for several enjoyable plinking sessions over the years. It has excellent blueing still with only a couple wear spots as pictured. It will come with original box, original and walnut grips, and a size 6 Uncle Mikes sidekick holster. I’m asking $700 shipped to lower 48.

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Hello All,

BREVEX No. 15 joins my collection of Brevex Magnum Mausers - a Roy Dunlap Custom.

The listing didn't give a lot of details about this rifle. But, I recognized it as a Brevex Action. Since I have a background in Long Range High Power Rifle Competition, I knew this rifle was for built for such. The 30-378 caliber should be a screamer. It will be arriving next week and I can't wait to get it in hand to test it. I will top it with a 20x Unertl, and a set of Palma iron sights. It will then be ready for "any-rifle-any-sights" and "any-rifle-iron-sights" competition.

As always, your comments are welcome. (pictures: first the rifle - and the 15 collected)


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WANT TO BUY: Rear sight assembly for a S & W M/29-2 4". Pics and asking price to: [email protected]. Thanks.

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This man goes to confession and says, “Forgive me father for I have sinned. The priest asks if he would like to confess his sins and the man replies that he used the “F-word” over the weekend. The priest says, “Oh okay, just say three Hail Marys and try to watch your language. The man replies that he would like to confess as to why he said the “F-word”. The priest sighs and tells him to continue. Well father I played golf on Sunday with my buddies instead of going. The priest says, “And you got upset over that and The man replied, “No, that wasn’t why I swore. On the first tee I duck-hooked my drive weil left into the trees. The priest said, “And that’s when you swore.” The man replied, a little testily because of the constant interruptions, “No, it wasn’t. When I walked up the fairway, I noticed my ball got a lucky bounce and i had a clear shot to the green. However, before I could hit the ball,

a squirrel ran by and grabbed my ball and scurried up a tree.The priest asked, “Is that when you said the ‘F. word’?” The man replied, “No, because an eagle then flew by and caught the squire in its shard aloes new flew away.” The priest let out a breath and queried, “Is that when you swore?” The man replied, “No, because the eagle flew over the areen and the dying squirrel let go of my golf bal and it landed within 5 inches of the hole.” The priest screamed, “Don’t tell me you missed thee f….ing putt!”

I have a blue Ruger MKII grip frame, bolt & a couple magazines for sale, $250 OBO shipped

Also available 1 SS 6 7/8” slab side barrel $75 shipped & 1 in the white 5 1/2” bull barrel $40 shipped
For clarification ☝🏼these are just barrels, removed from the receiver (it has the serial number)