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X-Bolt 300WM. New set up for an up-and-coming New Mexico gemsbok oryx hunt with @cole.tac . Having some accuracy issues with the platform. If you swipe you can see my group at 400 yards. It’s not very consistent. The labradar was reading 3160 muzzle velocity. Sig Sauer Elite Hunter with the 180 grain Nosler e-tip. Hitting low on the plate on the initial dope check. Put the muzzle velocity on the box into the calculator, 2960, and started hitting center around impact. That’s weird.

Using @sigsauerinc 30mm rings. They are a cast ring with a recoil lug made out of sheet metal. They don’t sit on the picatinny rail properly; they look crooked. The clamping mechanism doesn’t seat on the Picatinny correctly either. This could be an issue for accuracy absolutely. I ordered some Badger Ordnance rings that will come in on Monday and I will have to get this gun zeroed and dope checked again. Going to clean out the copper fouling and run a fresh zero on Monday. I wouldn’t recommend buying these 30 mm rings for anything super precision. The Sig Sauer Rings look like hot garbage. They don’t even seat onto the Picatinny.

Not too worried about the barrel or the ammo. Will perform a barrel break in a little bit more thoroughly before copper fouling cleaning and the re-zero.

Need to have this all buttoned up and consistent at 400 in a 5-inch kill box.

#Gemsbokoryx #oryx https://www.instagram.com/p/CR825r9rLCH/?utm_medium=tumblr

xxdarkside13xx

Just my experience, but the Badger rings are well worth the added expense. Warne and Weaver HD (if they even make those anymore) are good too.

Rings are tricky sometimes... especially on harder recoiling rifles and handguns. I've got a set of Ruger high rings on my .44mag SBH Hunter (the Hunter series has a rib for mounting ruger rings, and I went with high rings so I could retain my factory sights) and even torqued to their recommended specifications, they still allow a scope to walk in the rings under recoil.

I've also got a Leupold MK4 LR/T 4.5-14x40, 30mm tube, mounted on my Remington 700 Long Range in 300RUM, using Warne HD rings and a steel Weaver one piece picatinny base. It's been flawless, but I still check it before every range trophy with it to make sure everything is tight.

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Reblog if youre an “essential employee” like me and what you do.

I work Retail/grocery.

Bank teller

Maintenance

Medical.

Diesel mechanic

brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2

Gas station clerk.

uncle-beanbag

Tfw you have no good job

kasaron

Cad.

celtic--bear

Warehouse/shipping

xxdarkside13xx

Maintenance Electrician in a paper converting plant.

therevenantrising-deactivated20

Hope everyone is enjoying sleeping in and working from home.

It's business as usual over here.

xxdarkside13xx

Me too.

ltwilliammowett

Pirate Flags (Jolly Roger)

( Flag Edward Englands († 1720))

The Jolly Roger or “the pirate flag”, often also skull flag, is the black flag of pirate ships. It is also called Black Jack, in reference to the British Union Jack. The origin of the name Jolly Roger is unknown. Some believe it is a corruption of the Indian pirate Ali Rajah, whose name was pronounced by the British Olly Roger, but it may also derive from the French joli rouge (pretty red), as the first pirates hoisted a blood-red flag as a sign that they would all kill if the crew of the booty ship did not surrender immediately. It is said that Calico Jack Rackham

(Flag Calico Jack Rackhams (* 1682; † 1720))

used a black flag with a skull for the first time (variant with crossed cutlasses), but this is not certain. The classic motif of the Jolly Roger, a skull with two crossed bones, was first used by the Breton pirate Emanuel Wynne around 1700.

(Flag Emanuel Wynnes (late 17th century, early 18th century))

The flag of Henry Every, who sailed for the last time in 1696, is depicted with a skull in profile, bandana and earring, over crossed bones.

( Flag Henry Every (* 1653; † 1696))

However, neither a skull in profile nor bandana or earring can be found elsewhere on flags or other heraldic symbols of the time. And although earrings, especially made of gold, were not uncommon among sailors (the wearer hoped that he would be paid a Christian funeral from the proceeds of the earring), it was not until the late 19th century that bandana and earring became popular details of artistic pirate depictions, starting with the illustrated stories Howard Pyles (1853-1911).

On “Blackbeard” Edward Thatch’s flag is a skeleton holding an hourglass and a spear in its hands, with a bleeding heart next to it. This means that the soul now belongs to death (skeleton). The hourglass is supposed to show the victims that their time has expired. The spear promises a quick end, the bleeding heart a particularly cruel/painful death.

(Flag Blackbeards (* 1680; † 1718) )

The skull with the crossed bones and the hourglass were - taken from older Vanitas and Memento Mori representations - widely used motifs in cemeteries. A proof can be found in the graphic cycle “The four stages of cruelty” by William Hogarth, published in 1751: On the third picture the skull motive with the crossed bones is found, which decorates a grave.

In 1724 Jolly Roger was first mentioned in Captain Charles Johnson’s biographical collection A General History of the Pyrates.

Other Flags are:

(Flag Thomas Tews († 1695))

(Flag Stede Bonnets (* 1688; † 1718))

(Flag Bartholomew Roberts (* 1682; † 1722) his first flag)

(Roberts second flag)

The blood-red flag (guess)

There is an assumption that before the Jolly Roger a blood-red flag was used as a pirate symbol. This is supported by the fact that, until piracy arose in the 16th and 17th centuries, the red flag was considered a quarantine flag and had the meaning “Attention, we may have a disease on board that will kill anyone who approaches us”. And the pirates wanted to be deadly on approach. In addition, the quarantine flag received a swallowtail in almost every seafaring nation in the 17th century, according to the thesis, in order to rule out confusion with pirates. In any case, the British navy prohibited the flying of exclusively red flags in the Arabian Sea, ships with such flags were treated as pirates; therefore the flags of Bahrain and Qatar still have their jagged shape today. In 1694, the Admiralty had ordered British buccaneers to fly the red flag. When the war against Spain ended in 1714, many of the then superfluous buccaneers went into business for themselves and hijacked British ships on their own account while retaining their red flag. According to other sources, the early pirates carried two flags, one of which they hoisted as needed: the red flag was the sign of not taking prisoners (i.e. killing them all) and the black flag of taking prisoners for ransom. Therefore, the red flag was even more feared than the normal black flag, so joli rouge was a euphemism.

Asian pirate flags

The Jolly Roger, on the other hand, was unknown to East Asian pirates. Around 1810 there were six large groups of pirates in the South China Sea who marked their ships with red and black, but also white, green, blue and yellow flags.

A. Konstam, R. M. Kean, Pirates. Predators of the Sea (New York 2007)

www. cosmosmith.com/jolly_roger. html

xxdarkside13xx

Fun fact- on "Robert's second flag", the "ABH" and "AMH" are abbreviations for "A Bahamian's Head" and "A Martiniquean's Head".

villar-perosa

Suppressed bullpup boltgun from Germany, feeding from 9mm Luger magazines. Barrel goes through the grip.

tendie-defender

The magwell is in the stock. It took a while to notice where. That is nice. Was this made before or after the war?

boxesofoldphotos

Alfred (2) View at Nullbrook More from this lot

stripesandrockers

Whenever I see old pictures like these, I always wonder, who is this? Did he survive the war? Why does the family not hold onto these pictures? Makes me kind of sad.

reluctantpaladin

For the past couple of years I have found myself attracted to the boxes of old photos that you find in many antique stores, @stripesandrockers . I wonder the same things when I look at the faces in those old pictures. What were their hopes and dreams? Is there no one left who cares that these memories.now live.in a box among strangers?

I even found myself occasionally buying an old picture or two. Like, “Hey, friend. Why don’t you come home with my family for a while.”

stripesandrockers

I’ve done that with a handful of old pictures, too, @reluctantpaladin. It’s a bit of a heart breaker to see these pictures for sale, as what? Decorations? Sometimes whole albums of family photos, and no family to love them. I want to track down their families and hand them back, you know?

enrique262

One thing about having an old family is that I understand what’s happening, and really, it’s heartbreaking: The last person whom personally knew the people in these photos passed away, and so they become a burden to their family as they no longer have any emotional connections to it, possibly even forgetting who that was in those pictures.

When an aunt died, she had a whole lot of photos only dad recognized, the rest of us having no clue who the people in there were, but at least they got saved because of him, although it makes it a matter of time before those people are forgotten for good.

Such is the nature of life.

xxdarkside13xx

Along these same lines.....

Back on memorial day, my dad called me first thing in the morning. For years now, my grandmother (89yo) has been saying about going to visit her father's home place. The way she talked it was like hours away. I told my dad once years ago that we should take her down there before she got too bad and couldn't remember, so we'd have some clue of where it was. Memorial day morning my dad hits me with, "hey, remember you said you wanted to take gram to her family home.....".

So we went. Turns out it's only like 25 miles south of my home, just off a road that shares my grandmother's maiden name.

We found the barn on the old farm. There were people there so we stopped and talked to them, and asked if we could get some pictures of the barn. They were super, super cool about it, and explained that they had bought it from one of my grandmother's nephews about 25 years ago. They've since finished the inside and they use it as a family cottage.

After that we found a cemetery containing not just the graves of my grandmother's grandparents, but her GREAT grandparents, her GREAT, GREAT grandparents, and numerous great aunts and uncles, aunts and uncles, and cousins. Not just her relatives though..... my grandparents four and five generations back.

If we wouldn't have gone down there that day, who knows when we would've made it down, and who knows if we'd ever have an idea of where this stuff was at. Its spurred me to take on a little bit of a project. I'm going to start with my moms side and go back as far as I can. Who was who, married to who, children, grandchildren, where they were born, where they're buried, where they lived and what they did in life. Then I'm gonna do my dads side. Then I'm gonna start documenting the younger generations. So when my kids are 40, they're not wondering who they came from.

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thivus

wearing this enables pvp mode

pumpqinking

Okay but also please don’t do this. POC and LGBT people and all immigrants will not read the hat, they’ll see it from a distance, instantly feel unsafe and uncomfortable, and you’ll have put some really bad feelings into whatever space you’re in. They won’t check the phrase, they’ll avoid you and you’ll ruin their day.

andrew-jackedson

celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725

“POC and LGBT will not read” yeah that’s the problem. Y’all gotta learn to read lmao.

not-saltrat88

If some “poc” wants act all faggy and be scared of a little red hat then that is quite clearly their own issue. Just ask Jussie

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