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1 hour ago, Northcountryman said:
Gotcha , so I probably haven’t seen it cuz I haven’t been presented with shooting conditions Where it’s been an issue , correct ? Where is the parallax adjustment on a scope ? Is it same as the mag adjustment knob?
58 minutes ago, Northcountryman said:Coriolis effect on bullets ? Is that like an aim adjustment Due to earths rotation or something ?
Correct, you likely haven’t been presented with shooting conditions where it’s been an issue. The parallax adjustment (which focuses the target to be in focus/same optical plane as the reticle) is either a twist ring on the objective lense or a twist knob on the reticle adjustment turrets opposite the windage.
Yes that is Coriolis effect, long distance snipers also need to factor in spin drift of the bullet itself too. I am a shooting and ballistics junkie.
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19 minutes ago, Northcountryman said:
How much of an issue is parallax, anyway? Ive never noticed that using any of my scopes over the years. Evidently, parallax is evident when, peering through the scope, the reticle appears to "float" on its target; moreover, the floating worsens as the diatnt to target increases, yes? IDK, Maybe I've been lucky cuz I've never experienced this. Is it more prevalent with cheaper scopes , perhaps, or independent of scope quality?
In practical terms, the parallax becomes a factor the longer the distance (beyond the scope parallax setting) and the smaller the target. Hunting deer (large target) in the Northeast woods (shots typically less than 100 yards) it is a non-issue with parallax fixed scopes. I don't think you have been lucky, just not in conditions where it would be a factor. Take that same rifle out west and hunt deer (or antelope which are smaller) on the open plains with shots 300+ yards and it may very well be an issue. Shooting woodchucks at 200-600+ yards it is a real issue, hence those scopes have parallax adjustment. Fundamentally, independent of scope quality since it is physics.
If you really want to go down a rabbit hole of long-distance shooting factors Google Coriolis effect on bullets.
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3 hours ago, onlybrowning said:
VX-3i isn’t low end in my opinion. In fact it was Leupold’s flagship line for a long time. I can’t speak on Vortex, but I can tell you I’ve been very happy with all the Vari-X III, VX-III, VX3, and VX3i’s that I’ve had.
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Completely agree. The Leupold V3 line is not low end in the scope world; it is a high quality scope. IMO, when you are in the high quality scope market, the costs go up exponentially to the gain. That is, it costs more and more for smaller and smaller gains. The law of diminishing returns. Also IMO, those small differences, in the high quality scope market, are not going to be discernable or make a material difference.
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26 minutes ago, wolc123 said:
It may not protect as many others as you think. I have heard that the vaccine does not prevent you from getting Covid, or transmitting it to others. It just prevents you from getting sick from it, about 85 % of the time. At least that would free up some hospital capacity for those who do get sick, from Covid and other issues.
It protects way many more than you think. What you have heard about the vaccine is the science behind all virus vaccines; no short coming here. The vaccine is 94-95% proven effective. The goal of this vaccine and any vaccine is to stop and prevent epidemics and pandemics.
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1 hour ago, outdoorstom said:
It all depends on what scientists you want to believe. Fauci? I’ll pass.
It's actually not a matter of which scientist(s) you want to believe. There are many quack scientists out there. It's a matter of the body of evidence. Objectively research hydroxychloroquine and COVID and you will find that the overwhelming evidence of the highest quality shows no benefit. If you do not want to get the vaccine, that is fine, but don't base that decision on misinformation.
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2 hours ago, Versatile_Hunter said:
You're not getting the vaccine because you have hydroxycholoroquine? In Feb 2021? Even your ordinary Trumpist wouldn't endorse this nonsense.
38 minutes ago, Jeremy K said:Doctors are still testing and some are seeing it's benefits , CNN won't tell you that though ,the media was just as bad for this virus as the democrats were.
So you think this "study" of 100 patients in a single NJ hospital, with a finding of "could", not does, not did, not would, not will, is more substantial than all the data the FDA looked at across the entire country?
This is fake news. Hydroxychoroquine has been proven to not be effective.
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32 minutes ago, Northcountryman said:
I agree, kinda sucks we owe the French though for helpin us out during the Revoilution, right lol
We liberated them in WWI & WWII, I'd say that debt has been paid in full with interest.
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6 hours ago, BowmanMike said:
I live better here? By what criteria? There are good and bad things about both places. This America is best attitude makes people look pretty stupid. There is a whole world out there.
Just like Americans think English is the hardest language to learn. That makes me laugh,because that would make sense when English is the language everybody learns,haha.
Try learning Finnish,or German for that matter.
Every country has room for improvement in my mind,but of course that depends on your perspective,like everything else.
14 minutes ago, phantom said:Do you understand the history of this country it was started because people did not want big government stepping on there necks telling them what to do or what to think.
...and if it wasn't for America half this world would speak German, the other half Japanese, and no one would be free. America has done more for humanity and the world then any country in history. I think the America is best attitude and pride is justified.
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1 hour ago, suburbanfarmer said:
IMHO , its never wise to stand your ground with a cellphone when some one is coming towards you with a gun. If they had walked away the outcome would have been different. I know woulda coulda shoulda ...right
Bad blood or not was shoveling snow something to lose 3 humans over? Absolutely not. But then we live in crazy times.
Be safe all of you out there
New adage for our modern times. "Don't bring a cellphone to a gunfight!"
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3 hours ago, BowmanMike said:
I was just thinking about that governement control. When i was first over here i thought how great it was that there is so little regulation. The longer i live here i realize that a lot of the government regulations in Germany are there for a good reason and actually benefit the country. Of course there are things that overreach and i disagree with. But that is a democracy,where things are adopted to fit the times.
One example is zoning. In germany everything is zoned,you can not build a house in the middle of the woods unless it is zoned for building. How restrictive,right? What that does though is keep sprawl to a minimum and so it is easier to run the sewer,electric and gas lines. It also makes the villages more compact. The one i grew up in has about 5000 residents. There are two banks,a butcher,a couple of bakeries,some grocery stores and a couple of restaurants there. From the village center you can walk in any direction and within 10 mins you are in the woods or fields,no houses. So now i think zoning makes sense. It restricts personal freedom but benefits all. I am cool with that. It seems like the right approach if you want to live together.
...and you think NY doesn't have similar zoning laws? The difference between Germany and NY is not zoning laws. It is blood lust for more tax revenue and corruption. One can always get a variance on zoning laws, provided it increases tax revenue and you pay off the right politicians!
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3 minutes ago, suburbanfarmer said:
I dont know if you have the seen the actual footage, the guy point blank shot the woman and man. Came back with an AR and shot them again.
Seems he was mentally disturbed to commit suicide after that. But a tragic incident for sure.
The Chicago incidents will never make the news due to race card and most homicides are not involving legal guns.
We also don't know the history, if any. This could have been a long brewing feud that escalated to this. The MSM certainly will not go into depth as it serves their gun control agenda to make this look like nothing more than a murder over snow.
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29 minutes ago, suburbanfarmer said:
Anyone heard of this?
Guessing it will be used as a starting point for a new law.
Agree, snow removed from the street for a parking spot should not be put on someone else's property.
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3 hours ago, Chef said:
So do you hold Trump just as acceptable for his lack of doing anything ?
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI'm not playing politics and won't take this bait. I called out Cuomo on what he did and didn't do with this pandemic. You are free to do the same with Trump. I have, on here, said Trump deserves no credit for the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. This was done without Project Warp Speed funding. I will give Trump credit for setting up Project Warp Speed and the Moderna vaccine which was a result. I'll also give Trump credit for sending the 2 hospital ships and converting the Javits center to serve as a medical facility. These are non-partisan objective facts. Based on this I would not say Trump had a lack of doing anything. Trump certainly failed in his messaging and non-alignment with the experts, like CDC/Fauci, but so has Cuomo. That is the pathologic ego of both of them.
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31 minutes ago, diplomat019 said:
Yeah, so we agree that the whole parade he has been on is silly. We agree on almost everything you just wrote.
Back to my original point. Do you disagree with my original statement? NY was the first state to get blasted with covid and other states had the opportunity to see what worked and didn't work before it spread to them. I'll use Florida and nursing homes for an example. They saw the disaster that unfolded here with nursing homes and they were able to not make the same mistake.
I try not to get too caught up in the politics of it all. Its nonsense that people can trash the president for doing/ not doing certain things, but this was a brand new virus that nobody had a real clue about. The same is to be said about cuomo. I haven't voted for cuomo, but to say he knew all the right answers when this was here isn't fair either. If the virus wen to florida first who knows what it potentially could have looked like, while NY got to sit back and make decisions based off their failures.
And the experts statement was about the vaccination distribution rollout. Not about how our health experts handled the virus since march. yes or no?
I wrote a lot . sorry lol
I do agree NY was the first state to get blasted with covid and other states had the opportunity to see what worked and didn't work before it spread to them. However, a good deal of what Cuomo did was just common sense wrong, like refusing to utilize Fed resources/help. I think our difference is how much blame/responsibility to assign. Regarding vaccination distribution rollout, I offer the following question for consideration. Who do you think has a plan in place for a response to a potential biological weapons attack, NYS or the Fed? That would be part of the Fed national defense. However, (correctly) due to the laws of our Republic, states have rights, and the Fed cannot go in unless the Governor explicitly asks for the help. So, it is very reasonable that the vaccination distribution rollout calamity is also his ego making the decision by refusing Fed help on this. From Day 1, he was going to refuse all Fed help because he did not want DJT to get any credit for helping/rescuing NY. HIs vanity and ego wouldn't let anyone but himself be the shining star...he was doing what was best for his political career and NOT NY or NYers.
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3 hours ago, phantom said:
SO IS AOC WHO SAID TED CRUZZ WANTED TO KILL HER WITH OUT ANY PROOF BUT SHE IS STILL ON TWITTER .
UNDERSTAND NOW .
AOC Owes Ted Cruz an Apology for Saying He Almost Had Her Murdered, Rep. Chip Roy Says (yahoo.com)
...and what Maxine Watters says is even worse!!!!
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3 hours ago, diplomat019 said:
The cuomo victory lap is a joke.
But to be fair..... NY was the test dummy. Other states saw what worked and didn't work here and then were able to do it differently. With that being said Cuomo shouldn't be totally vilified. He was taking the advice of professionals and making decisions based off that. Protocols changed as time went on. I dont think he should be totally crucified but I sure as heck dont think he should be touted as the guy who did it right either.
1 hour ago, Bigfoot 327 said:To be fair. Cuomo wasn't following the advice of health officials. That's why 9 senior officials in the NYS Dept of Health have quit since last Summer. To be fair, the health department had a max vaccination plan, which Cuomo disregarded in favor of what you have. To be fair, Cuomo did NOT use the resources at the Javits Center or the hospital ship. One of my sons was assigned to the Javits Center (Army nurse) and his talents were hardly used. Cuomo's policy of returning Covid positive seniors to nursing homes killed thousands more than reported-and they covered it up. Yes, mistakes were made. It would be refreshing if he would man up and admit that mistakes were made.
diplomat019, I disagree. Cuomo is 100% accountable. He is the Governor and the buck stops there. You can't own the successes and blame the Fed for your failures; that is not leadership. He didn't use the help sent by the Fed because of who it came from, that's politics. He didn't listen to the experts and now is trying to say they weren't experts; that's ego. He politicized this the whole way, for his own gain/gratification, and NYers suffered.
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10 hours ago, Nomad said:
Sister and brother in law are at their winter home in FLA. they have to get up at 6 Am and log on ,to try and get an appointment. It like trying to get concert tickets to a popular act , by the time you pick your date and time and try to lock it in it’s gone .
They say anyone not comfortable on computers ( older folks ) are sol .
Excellent analogy and spot on. Let's hope the Corona virus doesn't do a comeback tour.
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10 hours ago, Fletch said:
lol like yea China never had a bad intention.....
Can you elaborate what bad intention China had? They certainly were not cooperative or forthcoming with information, but that is not intention.
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6 hours ago, Bigfoot 327 said:
Wife and I received our second Covid-19 vaccinations today. Here in Florida there are many different options and some do not require an appointment. Our county Lake, has three different vaccination sites. Some require appointments, some are first come first served. That's what we did, todays line of cars was over a mile long. National Guard (and a few cops) were directing traffic. We joined the back of the line at 6:28 AM and left at 9:20. In other counties there are over 300 Publix Pharmacies administering shots- but not in our county. The state has a new system where you register and you are placed in a queue, eventually they will call and set up an appointment.
BTW, a friend of my sisters flew from North Palm Beach to Buffalo to get her vaccine. She volunteers at a hospital there each Summer so the hospital offered it to her.......
Can you have the FL governor call Cuomo and explain how he got all this done, without killing those in nursing homes, and without 2 military hospital ships and a convention center turned into a hospital, instead of writing a self-promotional book about how self-proclaimed great he is?
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On 2/1/2021 at 9:08 PM, Biz-R-OWorld said:
The World Health Organization has changed its guidance on whether pregnant women can safely take a COVID-19 vaccine.
The organization previously warned pregnant women against receiving the Moderna vaccine, originally saying the vaccine was "currently not recommended" for pregnant women unless they are at high risk of exposure.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProOn 2/1/2021 at 9:11 PM, phantom said:Some times I wonder if these people just flip a coin in the air to make decisions .
No coin flip and guidances can and should change based on evolving evidence/science; especially regarding pregnancy. Most all vaccines and medications are "not recommended' in pregnancy. Vaccines/medications when the pre-clinical/animal data shows no pregnancy issue and there is no human data, than it will be "not recommended". If pre-clinical/animal data or human data shows a problem, than it will be "contraindicated". If human data shows it is safe in pregnancy/no problem, than it will be "recommended".
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1 hour ago, ApexerER said:
Hmm, you worry about being shot, stabbed, kicked, burned, punched, spit on, verbally assaulted, rocks, bricks, and frozen water bottles thrown at you while cooking meal for your patrons?
55 minutes ago, Northcountryman said:If he does, then I'd say he cooks for a pretty tough clientele !! lol
Maybe he is being hired as caterer to a mostly peaceful protest with mostly peaceful protestors!!!!
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Thanks for posting this. Interestingly missing in this is the underlying impetus for the Sullivan Law of 1911. Like the Federalist Papers are necessary to understand and properly interpret 2A, the NY newspapers of the time are needed to understand the Sullivan Law of 1911. Spoiler Alert it was aimed at Italian immigrants! It's primary purpose was to discriminate and prevent Italians from owning firearms. Appreciate the Irish predominated in law enforcement and politics at that time. If this were any other demographic (than white european) and topic (than guns), the law would be struck down.
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7. You lean a loaded firearm against a motor vehicle.
A firearm leaning against a motor vehicle is considered being on a motor vehicle and thus illegal.
This is a ridiculous law which I have been guilty of. True story, I was hunting with friends on a new piece of property we got permission for. The neighbor had always hunted this property illegally and without the permission of the property owner and we were told to kick him off the property. The day before opener we went to the property to familiarize ourselves. The neighbor quickly came over to inform us that we were trespassing and he would be hunting the property. We advised him that we had written permission, and a crew going in, but he could also hunt the property. He then told us he would hunt a different property as there would be too many people. Opening day (next day) we all agree to meet at the trucks for lunch, which are in the middle of the property not visible from the road. We arrive at the trucks at lunch to find a DECO waiting for us. He immediately demands that we all produce our licenses and tags. I proceed to lay my rifle on top of a tonneau cover and he goes ballistic screaming at me about #7 and giving me the riot act about it. I had to lean it against a tree. We find out from him that they received a call of illegal hunting on the property. Wonder who called that in????
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2 hours ago, DoubleDose said:
Unfortunately, I feel this will be the norm until our political leaders in power (both sides) unequivocally condemn and bipartisan vocally and publicly support the forceful stopping of it, rather than being silent for the votes.
1 hour ago, Northcountryman said:I liked everything you said in your previous post, but have to mildly disagree on one minor point: I truly feel that rioting and violence IS FULLY condemned---consistently and vociferously-- by the right ; the same cannot be said about the left, however.
No disagreement between us. You point out one side being there already, I didn't imply they weren't. I said "political leaders in power" which is the Dem/Left for Fed and State! So I am calling them out for being partisan silent. Rioting, arson, looting, and violence should never be a partisan political position of silence or acceptability on either side. As long as BOTH sides don't condemn it, then it is acceptable behavior. This should also be called exactly what it is, a riot, not a mostly peaceful protest, the line was crossed. Let me use an analogy for our unethical dimwit politicians to get the point across. A couple goes on a date. Everything is amicable and leads to heavy foreplay. Unfortunately, the date ends with a non-consensual violent rape. Do we call this rape or a mostly peaceful date?!!!!
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FWIW, I own 10 scopes, all Leupold. Forget the Diamondback, it is a budget lower quality scope. The Viper and VX-3HD are not really comparable; due to the different objective lense size and top magnification. The difference between 2.5-4X on the low power setting is not meaningful. Based on the specs of these three, your budget, and knowing what else is out there, I would get this:
https://www.natchezss.com/leupold-vx-3i-rifle-scope-3-5-10x40mm-1-tube-sfp-cds-duplex-reticle-matte-black.html