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>>17049
I wasn't able to find anything specific to .380 ACP.  On the face of it, the typical FMJ bullets in that caliber are so short and stubby that they are closer to spheres in their proportion than elongated cylinders, and even if you made them yaw 90 degrees on impact it would make little difference.  The article from the crazy Finns suggests that the spoon-point technique doesn't work very well unless the bullet is already on the edge of gyroscopic instability.  I don't know how that would work for a projectile that is basically a length of wire with fins at the rear.  Would any spoon-tip cuts near the point change its mass distribution or the drag on different sides of the point in a fluid medium sufficiently to make it turn sideways?

Years ago, I came into possession of some yellowed old copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine from the 1980s, in whiich Peter Kokalis and his merry band of miscreants were shooting gelatin blocks and opining about what was happening inside them in the moment between "bang" and when the block hits the ground and stops quivering.  One of the rounds they tested, I am almost certain, though I no longer have the magazines, having lost them some moves ago, was a weird-looking 9mm FMJ bullet that Kokalis claimed was an experimental product from Speer.  It weighed 124gr and was longer than average for a 9mm pistol bullet.  It also had an oddly shaped ogive, which I will attempt to repr

Does anyone sell a spring kit for the Rossi RP63?
>in b4 huegun
I got one just to scratch the itch for a 3" S&W 65, as the prices on the latter are crazy. The fit and finish aren't terrible and it shoots to the sights, at least with 158gr .38s. It sets off 100% of primers, including whatever Armscor and Magtech use, that get so many complaints. However, possibly not coincidentally, it has a trigger like one of those old Arrow brand staple guns.  It has to be every bit of twenty pounds and shooting thirty or forty rounds makes my hand cramp up.

People on the Taurus Armed forum say you can use the spring kits from Galloway Precision for the Taurus 856.  When asked directly GP says "no u dont idort."  wat do, guise?

>>17096
Multiple sources say the RP63 is mechanically identical to the 856 and the internal parts are interchangeable, though fitting is often required due to Braztech's opinions about the concept of "tolerances."  Rumor has it that Galloway Precision takes this position because the fit and finish of the internals of the Rossi revolvers is crap. They are filled with rough as-molded MIM, complete, in many cases, with mold flashing and sprues still attached, and the absolute minimum of filing and grinding to get the parts to more or less seat and maybe pass a function check--if they're doing function checks this shift.  You can install the spring kit but the gun may or may not work afterwards if you aren't polishing every surface where any moving part touches another.  The people at Taurus Armed who are reporting good results are all either advanced hobby gunsmiths or do gunsmithing for a living.  These guys can tell by looking which little ridge on the rebound slide is a casting flaw that has to be ground off and which is a camming surface necessary to reset the trigger.  If you don't have that level of knowledge, don't even try it.  You could send the $299 gun to a gunsmith and pay $450 for a trigger job, I guess.  Is it worth that much to you?

Yes.  I sometimes talk to myself here after I do research.  Maybe someone will see it and it'll be helpful.

I have done spring swaps in Ruger revolvers and it's not too bad.  I got a Turkish "Melik" Beretta 92F copy just to learn about Berettas, and learned how to tear it down do the last spring and pin.  I did a fluff and buff on the internals, and I put a spring kit in it.  The spring kit did not come with a trigger return spring so I made my own out of music wire from a hobby shop.  I learned a lot.  I got a Gen 3 Glock clone frame and I am trying to cobble together a Glock 34 clone.  It was a much simpler, cleaner design, far easier to work on than the Beretta 92 design, right up until I started getting random intermittent trigger reset failures.  What is happening is not obvious to me.  Maybe I'm not tall enough for this ride.

So I am not up to working on revolvers.  There's a whole new world of tiny springs and detents that can launch themselves when you take off the sideplate.  And I do not have the knowledge to know at a glance which surface features on internal parts like the rebound slide are artifacts of the manufacturing process that someone at the factory really should have swiped off with a file before putting in the gun, and which have to be there for it to work.

It's disappointing.  I didn't really expect a cheap South American fixed-sight revolver to shoot to the sights.  I was pleased enough at that to put black paint around the rear sight notch and

Does anyone have any recommendations for RMSc/Shield/SMS/Jpoint footprint optics?  I have decided to get an optic cut slide for a .22 pistol I shoot a lot.  It needs to be:

sufficiently low in mass that it will not prevent it from cycling, and exact figures about how much extra mass this design tolerates are hard to come by, so "lighter than most" is the only guideline here

not a bottom battery design 

green illumination rather than red if at all possible, I know it's a feature less common in RMSc

inexpensive without being complete trash, it's a .22 so I'm not paying three times what I paid for the gun for Gucci optics

multi-reticle would be nice, just to see if I like it, but I know it's even less common in RMSc than green illumination 

The particular slide I have on order actually has enough space fore and aft to mount a DeltaPoint Pro pattern optic. The hole pattern is the same and the recoil lugs are in the same places.  It would be physically possible, and also hilarious, to bolt on, for example, a Vortex Defender-XL. But DPP pattern sights are usually pretty hefty.

Bump for actual importance.

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>DEA/ATF/FBI/BLM/CoJCaLDS/USDA/Palantir/Disney/Walmart Security Concepts Director asks the last North American cigarette smoker for his ID and Vax Certificate
>2030, colorized

>>17003
Right. And... Wait which way do we want that to go again?

>>17005
>" " "we" " "
Of course the entire world wants to see the kikes destroyed. I suppose China & Russia can potentially manage to sabotage ((( their ))) doomsday weapons somehow? As this pic-related says >>16971
The world will be a much, much happier place without ((( them ))) here.

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Iran just shot down something likely a spy drone

>>17007
Who are the niggers?

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WTF I LOVE THE KIKE'S WAR ON IRAN NOW!

>>15839
Pulling this shit out when the officer asks for my drivers license and shooting the card at him

>>15896
At this point, I would expect them to realize it isn't a real gun, but shoot you anyway because throwing flimsy objects is still "AsSaUlT oN An OfFicEr"

>>16833
>trying to arm infantrymen with a 30mm semi-auto grenade launcher
>in 2026
Planning to send more than the minimum number of fleshbags to the frontline is the equivalent of practising bayonet charges in 1913. Sure, you might need it in some very specific situations, but this definitely shouldn't be your main tactic. I genuinely think the future is to swarm the area with ground & flying drones, break up enemy formations with artillery, and then just hunt them with suicide drones. And sadly, in such a battlefield you need to arm soldiers with gay PDWs at best, but even those would be only part of their loadout just in case, and you shouldn't expect them to use them.

>>16834
>Planning to send more than the minimum number of fleshbags to the frontline is the equivalent of practising bayonet charges in 1913
Frontline ? This is against civilians.

>>16833
6/10, needs moar blondes with pageboy hairdos wearing fetish armor.

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How is this plan working out so far

>>16394
I ran is selling oil in Yuan, so not too well. The blockade didn't seem to work out well either. I wonder if that's why he ended it so quickly. Reminds me of how the eggeater snake pretends to be a viper and strikes aggressively but pulls short so as not to reveal that it has no teeth.

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>>16322
Doesn't help it seems the DoorDash Grandma was also a previous paid witness to some Trump policy campaigns.
They keep making these blunders i can't understand, this is small mexican town politics-tier mistakes.

>>16357
>brutalist mega metropolises
I know Brutalism has been a meme term for a couple of years now but none of your pics relate to brutalism, in fact the first one is an example against it despite being practically the same in finished urban practice.
That is a take on the textile block architecture based on mesoamerican stone work, aka Neo-Mayan in american architecture terms. The great FLW was the modern "inventor" and IRL it would like these, obviously in a smaller form.

>>16364
>Lebanon negotiating
Lebanon is the case of their official government being a placeholder for the defacto power which is paramilitary groups who had all their previous backers disappear, them being the christian Phalangists and Egyptian interests, Assad's Syria and Soleimani's Quds, and who knows what else.
Whatever they sign is almost meaningless.

>>16396
That house feels like the mansion of a james bond villain, or the level of a videogame where you have to infiltrate/raid, you just need a PMC patrolling it, the big light focus on the top is very cool.

>>16396
Maybe I should have used megalithic instead but that might not be exactly correct either.

>>16397
It'll forever be the House on Haunted Hill for me, even though the exterior shots don't make a lot of sense in relation to the design and layout of the interior sets. You'd really have expected them to have used a second empire style house, like what the poster shows.

>>15831
>It's got to be something catastrophic because Trump would much rather fight wars by his quick in-and-out methods.
I think you're correct, Strelok.

>rather than be embroiled but neither Iran nor Israel is allowing him an easy bow out.
Heh, he knew the odds when he signed up to this deal. For all his faults, Trump is a consummate political-genius. The Devil will now call his shorts. And woe to us all however Jesus Christ is still in full control lol  :D

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>>15823

Here's what I mean:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Lai_Air_Base

When sources say "the US used an airfield," it could be abandoned, etc. When they say "...used a US airfield" where there is no suggestion that one existed previously, that's somewhat implying an easily constructed runway and facilities. This therefore implies that the "rescue" (and the obscene amount of lost materiel and possibly personnel) may have been a cover for the failed establishment of an in-country foothold. That would drastically change the dynamic of negotiating, politicking, further operations, and explain the IRGC being nearly open to negotiation (through the Pakis) to now saying we can go fuck ourselves.

>>15818
A burning pile of shit sprinkled with the bones of dead soldiers as a FOX News ticker underneath reads: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"

>>15821
Yes, F . Hopefully they will all migrate to Trashchan soon.

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Al-Udeiri base in Kuwait were hit,

>>15803
It's possible that deaths are being covered up.

It's also possible they simply ran like hell fast and cut material losses while evacuating everyone with a quickness.

>>15832
>And woe to us all however Jesus Christ is still in full control lol  :D
Watching and eating popcorn is not really "controlling the situation."

>>15236
I saved it https://archive.is/Z3FbQ

>>15235
Perhaps this is just my wildly overactive imagination. But what are the odds, supposing Trump's claim is real, of Iran's "gift" of 8 oil tankers to the USA being a trojan horse? What would be the logistics of secretly cramming oil tankers with shitloads of drones for a surprise attack behind enemy lines?

>>15238
LOL

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Dibs on last post

>>15240
Now I have dibs.

Oil has been down these last days. Did Iran let boats go through the strait?

>>14687
>Kent gives Trump the finger
Based. Rare to see.

>kike spouting lies
As expected. Personally, I'm rather offended that crypto kikes have absconded with based Celtic genes and flaunt them freely as if their own filthy rat turkic-gypsy blood could ever produce it.

>>14688
They are selectively allowing some, including their own (which are not being destroyed b/c "muh global economy").

>>14688
Its small correction. 
Only ships that can pass are
>Iranian
>Russian
>Chinese
>Indian but after bribing their way in
Everything else gets set ablaze.
Everyone thought China would be the most fucked in this scenario but the real loser is europe

>>14690
>Everyone thought China would be the most fucked in this scenario but the real loser is europe
^