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The men over at sofrep made a good post today... https://sofrep.com/news/memorial-day-the-sacrifice-of-so-many-tomorrows-gave-us-our-today/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=GIibZaVqTUPDGw2TCJN2dMnfcKe1RL_-0Zca51LUK8I%3D.HVS3Ca Memorial Day: The Sacrifice of So Many Tomorrows Gave us our Today by Sean Spoonts 8 hours ago The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington National Cemetery. On this Memorial Day, America is at peace. At least outside its borders. While we maintain a military presence still in the Middle East and Africa,(and now Ukraine to some extent) there are no large-scale offensive actions being conducted by US conventional forces for the first time in more than 20 years. Memorial Day is a national holiday that most people spend at the beach or at cookouts with family and friends, but for service members and their families, it tends to be a bit more solemn. Not depressing and sad, but it is the day when we tend to recall most keenly those we have served with and were killed either in combat or in the training and operational “mishaps” that happen just because you can’t make serving in the military perfectly safe no matter what you do and still have it be a military. As we see in Ukraine presently, war is about smashing things to pieces and killing people and the practice of how to do that sort of thing can be dangerous all by itself. A report recently found that between 2006 and 2020, more than 5600 service members have perished in training accidents. Any civilian occupation killing this many people would have OSHA and the government all over them to make it safer. As it happens though, the military is exempt from the legal requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, it just couldn’t function while subject to it. Since the beginning of our country, this experiment in self-government, more than 1 million Americans have perished in defending it in places all over the world, in the skies, on the seas, and even beneath the waves. Somehow, our country has been able to produce citizen-soldiers equal to anything ever produced by the British Empire or the Romans. Soldiers are made, not born. The raw materials are important. In Ukraine, we see the difference between an army of conscripts driven like cattle into a fight versus a civil population taking up arms to fight for its very existence. The Ukrainians think they have something worth defending in their country and Americans in uniform tend to think the same thing about this country. In spite of all its problems and internal strife, we have to build walls and fences to keep people from coming in, and not from escaping to someplace more free with more opportunity. We make good soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen because America as an ideal is the last, best hope of mankind on the planet. Much is made of what is called “The Greatest Generation” or those Americans who came through the Great Depression and went directly into a World War in 1941 to defeat the Nationalist Socialism of Nazi Germany only to find it had to then hold the line against the Internationalist Socialism of the Soviet Union, North Korea, and China for some 50 years. This generation knew what it was fighting for and what the cost of losing would mean to this country, but I would submit that there may have been a generation even greater. Those men and even women who fought in the American Revolution. They grew up under the rule of an absolute monarchy, in which the king or queen held all the human rights under Heaven for themselves and only doled out little pieces to their subjects who still only acted in furtherance of the ruler’s desires. If the Sovereign decided he needed more from you in taxes, you had no choice but to hand over your money. If they decided to lead the country into war, you were compelled to fight, no matter what your feelings were. And you were free to live, think, speak and worship God only as long as the ruler approved of what you were doing. His signature at the bottom of a piece of paper was enough to send you to the hangman. When these American Colonists decided to fight for independence they were not fighting for their country, but for the mere idea of what it might be. They died on battlefields like Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, and Breed’s Hill for a kind of freedom they would never know themselves. They died for future Americans they hoped someday would be born in a free country of their own. Those soldiers of the Revolution gave up all their tomorrows so that we could have our today nearly 250 years later. Today is Memorial Day when we give solemn remembrance and gratitude to those Americans who lost their lives preserving our freedom and liberty for us and future generations. Enjoy your day, have fun and maybe marvel a bit that we still produce Americans willing to give up the luxury and soft living this rich country of ours can provide for the privation and sacrifice that goes with military service. Because it is worth defending with our lives.

Increases pressure on the extractor, so it doesn't drop the casing mid-way out of the chamber.

We all have our roles, brother... After you shot it, I was up next, and those people were skeered when they saw what you had to do. I had to show them that it really wasn't that bad... I'm not sure if you're the Yin and I'm the Yang, but we work well together...

Give it hell, man - it'll run now.

Yep - they did get Best Ranger 2022 up there. It's in 3 parts. On Fox Nation now.

Nice knowing ya, Ricky!!!

Ran a round-count per stage finally, just to see what happened. I'm happy with it. 48-target course. 43 rounds remaining, 57 rounds expended on 48 targets. I got to shoot at 47 targets. For the record, I hit that fucking coyote, pulled the trigger right after the buzzer. You're allowed up to 0.30 seconds after the beep, and it counts. My shot was a 90.55 seconds - @JBMatt specifically asked them what my last-shot time was - I didn't make the +0.30 buffer, but he was looking out for me... We shoot 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, so that's the way my mags are organized in the mag pouch. Stg 4 was 10 targets, 9 rounds remaining. Threw one away somewhere. Stg 5 was 8 targets, 12 rounds remaining - got out of that one as clean as possible. Stg 1 was 12 targets, 6 rounds remaining. I knew the 2 I missed, when I missed them, and followed up right away with hits. Stg 2 was 10 targets, 7 rounds remaining. On this stage, I didn't hear the spotters telling me I hit the 3rd target, after moving to the new position. I shot that bastard multiple times... HE is the one that needed to be REALLY DEAD... So, I cleaned all those stages, and round-count was low. Barely threw any away. I timed out on the TIMED STAGE, Stage 3, which is the most important stage to clean, and I didn't. 8 possible targets, I hit 6 (7, but not in time), 9 rounds remaining. So, 11 shots went out, 7 hits, only 6 hits counted in the 90-second time limit. By far, I fucked up that stage badly. Oh well, there's always next month...

Milled AKs are damn nice - great gun, man!

I salute all of them. Well said, brother.

This is Kim.... His pregame did him well.. The booty play got him all fired up... PREGAME RULES!! he just let that coyote get in his head and dang turkey.

This is Kim.... saw the whole shoot... he was on fire... Until damn coyote he let in his head.

I'll pull my mag-round count and get it in here. I was on fire for the first 4 stages...

I actually said that, too, no kidding... On the position before that, I hit the two, smacked the coyote, then shot the wrong target when I swung to that fatass turkey - HIT THE HELL out of that blue target about 15 yards to THE RIGHT OF THE TURKEY, and as soon as that thing was swinging, I called "WRONG TARGET, WHERE'S THAT FUCKING TURKEY?!!?"... If they're gonna run an animal stage again, they better bring back "2 small sharks..." That's gonna just COMPLETE it for me...

Match pics from Kimmy!!!

We start in Sqd 4, so on Stage 4. Then shot 5, 1, 2, 3. Stage 3 was our last stage, but also the Timed Tie-Breaker. Here's how they said the Coyote was positioned in the shoot instructions... HERE is how that little BASTARD was out on the ground - HUGE swing in target acquisition, throughout this stage. I lost the little fucker coyote with the magnification. I rolled magnification back to find him, rolled up to shoot him - and it cost me a huge amount of time on that stage - and I timed out...

That will happen anywhere you go - you do know that "first pages of threads" are probably on pinned topics, correct? And, this place has been around since 2009...

Thank ya @JBMatt!!! What a damn good day - we BOTH crushed it. I was a Zombie for the first 4 stages - no thought, just move, acquire target, shoot, move to the next target. I'll get a round count after bit. I didn't miss very many at all, and I shot that poor fucker down in the wash bend FOUR TIMES... I figured he needed extra attention anyway. THAT FUCKING COYOTE!!!

Their 18" SPR barrels are still in stock, Wylde chamber, 1:7 twist. You can't beat that barrel for $275, or even higher than that.

There's some very decent Junk in his Trunk...

That's the truth... When Ron shows up with a gang-locker full of SBRs and suppressors in the back of his truck - and the beer cooler is JUST as big... You know it's gonna be a party...

That little hooker on the left is sexy as hell! They're both badass! You're putting together some great hardware, man, keep it up...

Yep, here I am, blabbing off at the mouth, 2 days prior... But, they finally sent us the match stages 2 days prior! Again! That just means that the dudes with range memberships will be out there "practicing" the stages on Friday - before the match. Oh well. We're in a Stacked-Ass Squad again! Damn, do we have some amazing shooters that like to beat us up in Sqd 4! I take that two ways - #1, we're fun to hang out with, and #2 - we don't slouch, and will fuk you up if you slip up... This is usually a post-shoot writeup, but they gave us the info earlier this time, other than Friday night at 10pm, when you need to print all the stage info and make your dope corrections, and run out in the morning - and try to kick @JBMatt's ass. Oh, I've been coming close, nipping at his heels - he feels the heat. Last month, if that 250 3" and 4" targets hadn't fucked me up, he'd a been a VICTIM... He was GLAD I missed those, on my last stage, and he came running up after I shot and said, "You know what this means, right? We TIED." Uh huh - I was one "smack" away from kicking your ass again, brother... Here's what we need to do this month... Click 'em a few times, and they get big enough to read. Click away. @JBMatt, I'm an inch off your ass and closing... and you know it. Don't fuk it up, brother...

Depends on what distance you're shooting... Perspective... Go hit the Intro Section and tell us about yourself.