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You better believe they have very good ways to simulate this, though, so they do most of their testing in code. In other words, it's certainly continuing to get better over time.

Apparently the vehicle is indeed very light so I suppose that lets it get up to speed very quickly vs one with a warhead. It occurs to me now that the reason this was publicized was because it had to be; if the US Is sneakily shooting off ICBMs without warning everyone it could lead to some concerns by Russia, China.

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You don't. But it's still been done Pretty sure I shot some rifled slugs through my full choke last fall just playing around, though they say an improved cylinder gives best accuracy on those (which I suppose is still choked a bit). I just forgot to swap the choke.

Will know results tomorrow. I'm surprised it's not all a big state secret but here it is. They keep calling it hitting a bullet from a bullet but I think in many ways it's much harder (magnitudes greater speeds and distances for one thing). This truly is an incredibly difficult thing to do, but whether it fails tomorrow or not I do think it's an achievable goal. If this works I wouldn't be surprised to see China push back on THAAD even more. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/30/north-korea-eyed-as-us-readies-missile-defense-test.html Does anyone know why this thing uses kinetic energy? That requires truly hitting the other missile. If on the other hand the interceptor had a warhead it could tolerate far less accuracy; get in front of the incoming missile with perhaps dozens or hundreds of feet of slack in where it has to be and then set a blast, which the incoming missile is then moving toward.

Slugs or turkey loads out of a 12 gauge. I've not shot many rifles, though I'm sure most are not as brutal as that. It's just downright unpleasant shooting them. There are some youtube videos of people firing a double barrel shotgun's both barrels at the same time, though I am not thinking for the most part they are using target shot. I can tell you the most recoil my buddy has ever experienced. We went out earlier this month. He has not shot much and on my muzzle loader he has now learned the virtue of holding a rifle property. 8 stitches later, I have not checked the zero on the gun since to see if his head hitting the scope took it off.

I know we're supposed to pretend that religion plays no role in terrorism, but next time there is a bombing tell somebody who has not yet heard about it that a radical Amish did it and watch the look of surprise on their face.

Woke at 4, drove, got out there. Hunted for perhaps 5 minutes. Realized this time of year in that location is no good. The forest is like a jungle now. Hacked a trail wider so it will be in good shape for deer season and drove home.

I'm working my ass off trying to get some land so I can get chickens (among other things on the land). I'm want 3-4 chickens! And I am going to give them stupid names.

Email, but if they don't look like a total idiot I will give them my cell immediately as well. Often I will simply never respond to people who ask me about stuff i'm selling in a way that tells me they have a 0% chance of buying. For example emails that consist of only things like u still got that thing

I can predict with 100% certainty what all the comments are so I have not needed to click a single one.

I think many of us just don't talk to our wives about the gun purchases. They just kind of magically grow in the safe and we don't remember how it got there.

Very nice. Truly salable items.

YES! I HATE HATE HATE begging people to take my money. It's just a thing I have. I hate it. I've often gone into Gander and a nice little line is snaking around counters as a single person there cashes people out. To be frank Target suffers this problem and I will sometimes just leave my cart there if they are actively keeping cashiers low. They do it because they are too poor to hire more staff. I think it's a sign of a weak business. Walmart doesn't have this. I've seen long lines, but they seem to always try and aggressively shut them down or throw staff at them. Target, Gander don't seem to care how long people stand in line. When you have a business running into the millions in revenue each year you have to be stupid as hell to not pay an extra couple of $12/hour employees to help ensure your checkouts move through quickly and painlessly.

Just what I was gonna say. it's really a nice looking fox!

Yuck

Yep and this is why there's no doubt crossbows increase lethality and make achieving it much easier than with a vertical (faster arrows, too). How many people here can say they reliably get softball groups at 50 with their vertical? I will buy a crossbow at some point, but not for $1600

This has been in play for several years, OPEC losing its influence. Remember back in the day they essentially held world oil prices hostage. If prices got too low they cut production to ensure we were cranking lots of money/barrel to these crappy nations which give the world absolutely jack squat except for oil. Now OPEC is asking the US to cut back production. Fat chance. OPEC is done. As a bully their place in the world is over. They are still relevant, but they are now merely one seat at the table. Very few of these big oil producers sunk serious money into development of alternate industries so now as they struggle long term with "low" oil prices their economies will be permanently and negatively impacted. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/investing/opec-oil-u-s-supply/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

This guy worked at a store that sold guns, i was shocked it even was given a pilot.

Went out for first time ever, me and the other guy (Turkey hunting for years) saw nothing in some public land that was very lowly pressured. Another hunter who was there this morning also saw/heard nothing. I'll go out another 1-2 times, though. Absent some of the mosquitos it's an interesting time of year to hunt.

I'm going to illuminate my ignorance here, but what are outhouses used for in 2017? I assume these are properties without septic systems? Or just occasional use cottages...? Aren't there internal toilet systems you can use with tanks like an RV has or similar?

Sounds fair

I already mentioned the consequences and the post prior to yours between ours alluded to them as well: " By that time, the antlerless deer have gone mostly nocturnal after detecting the early archery hunting pressure." Gun hunters are in for a real treat five years from now when xbow numbers are through the roof and everything has hunkered down well and truly by the time gun season starts. Any hunters already challenged with high pressure areas (like some public land I go to) are going to absolutely love coming in after the entire area has been hammered for almost two months by not just bow but ever increasing numbers of xbow. The deer will be sure to run off nice and early. The reason the current model works is only because of the fact so many people are not into vertical bow: either too old, or too injured or too lazy to make it work (practice time). A newb can dial in a crossbow and be shooting 400 fps in an afternoon with excellent accuracy and that's only going to get even more accessible as xbow tech keeps improving. As for bow safety course mandate I don't see how that benefits a vertical bow hunter that now a crossbow hunter finally has to take the archery course. Just wait and see: when xbow numbers explode gun will demand their season overlap as well. Look at SteveD's post above mine and the likes it has. If xbow hunters think they're going to now have 10 weeks of hunting without having to compete with gun they're in for a sore surprise in several years when the gun hunters get ever sick of sloppy seconds and all the deer hiding all day long.

I met a bow hunter this past weekend who agrees with me and so many others that full inclusion is both inevitable and is also going to very negatively impact bow season. I remain shocked that gun-only hunters are not throwing up a huge stink (maybe the serious ones already use bow or crossbow anyway) because with more people using xbow and walking around the woods for 7 weeks, any area not totally under control of the gun hunter will suffer more pressure than ever before. Maybe it's just best if we have full inclusion to include gun as well, season starts in Oct 1 and you get one tag and DMP if appropriate. With the rapid advances in crossbow we're going to see tag constraints increasingly come into play due to higher harvesting rates. I know you xbow guys are upset that bow has another several weeks, but there will be unintended consequences.